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COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse than Delta
Pfizer’s chief executive, Albert Bourla, made a bold promise in June. Standing next to US President Joe Biden at a…
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Senate Debates Uncertain Future of U.S. Spaceflight
The risk of collisions in space, the fate of the United States in orbit after the space station retires and…
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COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People
Tanya Lewis: Hi, and welcome to COVID, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series. Josh Fischman: This is your fast-track update…
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Golden mussels are devastating South American rivers. The Amazon may be next
On a stuffy summer day, Maria Cristina Dreher Mansur peers into the brownish water of Lake Guaíba in the southern…
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Pandemic Economic Recovery Could Worsen Climate Change Health Impacts
Pandemic recovery plans that invest in or subsidize fossil fuels will increase the spread of infectious diseases globally by contributing…
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How Airborne Microplastics Affect Climate Change
Microplastics—minuscule bits of bottles, bags, synthetic fibers and other plastic waste that have broken up in the environment—are influencing Earth’s…
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Four Success Stories in Gene Therapy
After numerous setbacks at the turn of the century, gene therapy is treating diseases ranging from neuromuscular disorders to cancer…
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How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse?
Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60 -Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Ask anyone what an elephant sounds like. And…
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Will Giving COVID Booster Shots Make It Harder to Vaccinate the Rest of the World?
As people in the U.S. and other wealthy countries begin lining up for COVID vaccine booster shots, most of those…
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Disabled Astronauts Blaze New Space Trails
Mona Minkara is a bioengineer at Northeastern University, where she leads a laboratory focused on applying computational modeling to pulmonary…
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