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Climate Destroyers Go to Jail, Martian Travel Guide, Bee Interiority, and More
Fiction Power on Trial In a future where people hold the perpetrators of the climate crisis to account, what has…
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England food strategy ducks big questions on health and environment
A major policy paper fails to address big health and environmental issues it was supposed to tackle, such as how…
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Stress Management Helped Wolves Become Dogs
The wolf relatives of modern-day dogs began the evolutionary process of becoming humans’ best friends more than 10,000 years ago.…
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Pancreatic cancer vaccine: What to know about early promising results
A personalised mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer has produced promising results in a small initial trial involving people whose cancers…
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Monkeypox DNA hints virus has been spreading outside Africa for years
Genome sequencing confirms that monkeypox cases outside Africa are all related and suggests the virus responsible may have been circulating…
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Mass Shootings Leave Lasting Psychological Wounds
By now the sight of grieving, sobbing family members, terrified children and devastated communities is all too familiar from the…
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Meerkats are Getting Climate Sick
Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Climate change. It’s the culprit behind an increase in…
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Discrimination Is Breaking People’s Hearts
Shantaquilette Carter-Williams was on the gym treadmill when she first felt an odd flutter in her heart. “I remember stopping…
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Cutting air pollution could boost crop yields by up to 28 per cent
Analysis of air pollution and crop health via satellite imagery suggests that limiting emissions of nitrogen dioxide, a potent greenhouse…
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Brazil’s space research institute, a source of national pride, is struggling for survival
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6596.Download PDF Carefully stowed away in a locker, Evlyn…
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