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Election Science Stakes: Climate Oct 28, 2020

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Scientific American’s associate editor for sustainability Andrea Thompson talks about how climate science and policy will be affected by this election.

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Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health Oct 27, 2020

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Scientific American’s senior medicine editor Josh Fischman talks about issues in medicine and public health that will be affected by this election.

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Election 2020: The Stakes for Science Oct 26, 2020

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Scientific American’s editor in chief sets up this week’s series of podcasts about how this election could affect science, technology and medicine.

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Why Some Easter Island Statues Are Where They Are Oct 25, 2020

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Many of the statues not along the coast are in places that featured a resource vital to the communities that lived and worked there.

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Acorn Woodpeckers Fight Long, Bloody Territorial Wars Oct 23, 2020

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More than 40 of the birds, in coalitions of three or four, may fight for days over oak trees in which to store their acorns.

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Funky Cheese Rinds Release an Influential Stench Oct 22, 2020

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The volatile compounds released by microbial communities on cheese rinds shape and shift a cheese’s microbiome. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Dinosaur Asteroid Hit Worst-Case Place Oct 21, 2020

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The mass-extinction asteroid happened to strike an area where the rock contained a lot of organic matter and sent soot into the stratosphere, where it could block sunlight for years.

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River Ecosystem Restoration Can Mean Just Add Water Oct 20, 2020

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Planners returned water to the dry bed of Arizona’s Santa Cruz River in 2019, and various species began showing up on the same day.

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3,000-Year-Old Orbs Provide a Glimpse of Ancient Sport Oct 18, 2020

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Researchers say three ancient leather balls, dug up from the tombs of horsemen in northwestern China, are the oldest such specimens from Europe or Asia. Christopher Intagliata reports.

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Humans Make Wild Animals Less Wary Oct 16, 2020

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From mammals to mollusks, animals living among humans lose their antipredator behaviors.

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