Science, Quickly

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For Some Parents, Hiding a Dead Body Shows How Much You Care Oct 28, 2021

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Over millions of years of evolution, some beetles have learned to dampen the stench of decay to help their young thrive.

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Date of the Vikings' First Atlantic Crossing Revealed by Rays from Space Oct 25, 2021

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By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021.

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COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People Oct 22, 2021

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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 Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse? Oct 20, 2021

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New research using a camera that can “see" sound” shows some elephants can produce high-pitched buzzing with their lips.

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Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2021

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Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.

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The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding the Universe [Sponsored] Oct 14, 2021

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Ewine van Dishoeck received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics in 2018 for elucidating the life cycle of interstellar clouds and the formation of stars and planets. What other mysteries of space are left to be uncovered?

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A Canary in an Ice-Rich, Slumping Rock Glacier in Alaska Oct 13, 2021

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Here’s what we can learn about climate change and infrastructure from Denali National Park’s only road.

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COVID Quickly, Episode 16: Vaccines Protect Pregnancies and a New Antiviral Pill Oct 08, 2021

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The Mystery of Water Drops That Skate Across Oil at Impossible Speeds Oct 05, 2021

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The speed of these self-propelling droplets on a hot-oil surface seemed to defy physics until researchers broke out the super-slow-motion camera.