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Scientists Must Consider the Risk of Racist Misappropriation of Research
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Overturning Roe v Wade would be a disaster for public health
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Emphysema missed among Black men in US due to race-adjusted lung tests
Poorly supported assumptions about typical levels of lung function among Black men in the US are leading medics to miss...
What We Know about Mass School Shootings–and Shooters–in the U.S.
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. When the Columbine...
Red salamander found in Panamanian forest is a new species
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Florida Lab to Mimic Category 6 Hurricanes with 200-Mile-per-Hour Wind
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Two newly described Amazon fish species are on the brink of extinction
New varieties of South American darter fish were documented in Brazil’s Apuí region. But deforestation in the area means they...
Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase
Editor’s Note (5/25/22): This article is being republished in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., that killed...
Alien life: Pairs of giant planets may make their star systems ultra-habitable
Simulations of more than 140,000 possible planetary systems show that pairs of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn may make...
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