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**Science, Quickly**

Tune in every week for quick, fascinating new developments and dives in the world of science.

Latest Episodes:

Your Phone Could Be Used to Prosecute for Getting an Abortion: Here's How May 20, 2022

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Technology editor Sophie Bushwick breaks down the precedent for using your phone to monitor personal health data.

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If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California? May 19, 2022

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A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western U.S.

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How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30 May 16, 2022

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

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How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole May 12, 2022

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It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

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Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution May 10, 2022

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Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today.

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The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade May 06, 2022

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A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status.

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Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29 May 02, 2022

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Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds Apr 25, 2022

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As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get.

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Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark-Matter-Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath and Survive Apr 20, 2022

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A research team finds seven tiny dwarf galaxies stripped of their dark matter that nonetheless persisted despite the theft.

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Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28 Apr 15, 2022

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