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Trump’s Racist Rants against Immigrants Hide under the Language of Eugenics Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that criminality, poverty and a host of other ills were all genetically inherited

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Why Trump and Vance Are Spewing Eugenics

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugenics, deeply dishonest scientism that falsely claims that criminality...

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Electric School Buses Are a Climate and Health Win with Staying Power Support from the Biden-Harris administration has boosted the already burgeoning electric school bus industry, and those gains should last no matter who wins the election

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The Future Looks Bright for Electric School Buses

Support from the Biden-Harris administration has boosted the already burgeoning electric school bus industry, and those gains should last no matter...

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Human Origins Look Ever More Tangled with Gene and Fossil Discoveries Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

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Humanity’s Origins Paint Our Ancestors as Lovers, Not Fighters

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans combining with vanished species like Neandertals

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When Will This Exploding Star Blow Its Top? The famous exploding star T Coronae Borealis is due to detonate any day now, but it’s running a little late

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We’re Overdue for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Naked-Eye Nova

The famous exploding star T Coronae Borealis is due to detonate any day now, but it’s running a little late

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Why Hurricane Milton Caused So Many Tornadoes As Hurricane Milton barreled across Florida, it triggered dozens of tornadoes. Here’s how that process occurs

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Why Hurricane Milton Caused So Many Tornadoes

As Hurricane Milton barreled across Florida, it triggered dozens of tornadoes. Here’s how that process occurs

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Sixty Years Later, and Thalidomide Is Still With Us Decades after FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey stopped thalidomide from going on the market in the U.S., the legacy of the drug persists

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Sixty Years Later, and Thalidomide Is Still With Us

Decades after FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey stopped thalidomide from going on the market in the U.S., the legacy of the drug persists

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FEMA Spent Nearly Half Its Disaster Budget in Just 8 Days with Hurricane Helene Without more funding, FEMA may be forced to restrict spending and suspend rebuilding projects

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FEMA Spent Nearly Half Its Disaster Budget in Just 8 Days

Without more funding, FEMA may be forced to restrict spending and suspend rebuilding projects

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2024 Election Will Define America’s Stance on Immigration, with Consequences for Science and Technology Both presidential candidates would restrict immigration but Donald Trump would try to implement an extreme anti-immigrant agenda

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2024 Election Will Define America’s Stance on Immigration, with Consequences for Science and Technology

Both presidential candidates would restrict immigration but Donald Trump would try to implement an extreme anti-immigrant agenda

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2024 Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein shapes and functions— and for creating entirely new ones that can improve health and the environment

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2024 Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein ...

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Hurricane Milton Will Turn Helene’s Debris into Lethal Projectiles in Florida Florida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfall

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Hurricane Milton Will Turn Helene’s Debris into Lethal Projectiles in Florida

Florida is scrambling to clear storm-damaged areas before Hurricane Milton makes landfall

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Chemistry Nobel Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering how to predict the shape of proteins, crucial to understanding their function, and for creating entirely novel proteins that can clean the environment, block viruses, and more

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2024 Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Cracking the Secret Code of Proteins

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to biochemist David Baker, and Google DeepMind scientists Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, for predicting protein ...

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Whooping Cough Is Spreading, and You Might Need a Vaccine Booster Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is on the rise after a lull at the beginning of the COVID pandemic

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Whooping Cough Is Spreading Again after Years of Relative Quiet

Whooping cough, also known as pertussis, is on the rise after a lull at the beginning of the COVID pandemic

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A Century-Old Question Is Still Revealing Answers in Fundamental Math Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago

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A Century-Old Question Is Still Revealing Answers in Fundamental Math

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago

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How Rwanda Is Containing a Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak Rwanda’s health minister says authorities are tracing every potential contact of the index case in the country’s outbreak of Marburg virus disease to reduce the risk of wider spread

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How Rwanda Is Containing a Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak

Rwanda’s health minister says authorities are tracing every potential contact of the index case in the country’s outbreak of Marburg virus dise...

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Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft

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Europe’s Hera Mission Launches to Visit an Asteroid Smacked by NASA

Hera will arrive in 2026 at Dimorphos, an asteroid deliberately struck by NASA’s DART spacecraft

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What Trump or Harris Would Mean for Health Care Access and Affordability Both Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differ

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How Health Care Affordability and Access Could Change under Harris or Trump

Both Trump and Harris pledge to make drug prices affordable and health care accessible. Here’s how their policies differ

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Hurricane Milton Spins toward Florida as a Category 5 Storm Parts of Florida still recovering from Hurricane Helene will face their second major storm in just two weeks

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Hurricane Milton Slams into Florida, the Second Disastrous Storm in Two Weeks

Hurricane Milton hit Florida as a major storm, bringing devastating storm surge and rainfall to the state

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Hurricane Milton Spins toward Florida as a Category 5 Storm Parts of Florida still recovering from Hurricane Helene will face their second major storm in just two weeks

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Hurricane Milton Slams into Florida, the Second Disastrous Storm in Two Weeks

Hurricane Milton hit Florida as a major storm, bringing devastating storm surge and rainfall to the state

Scientific American 1 year ago

Hurricane Milton Spins toward Florida as a Category 5 Storm Parts of Florida still recovering from Hurricane Helene will face their second major storm in just two weeks

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Hurricane Milton Slams into Florida, the Second Disastrous Storm in Two Weeks

Hurricane Milton hit Florida as a major storm, bringing devastating storm surge and rainfall to the state

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Comb Jelly with Two Butts Is Actually Two Individuals Fused Together Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

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‘Franken-Jelly’ with Two Butts Is Actually Two Individuals Fused Together

Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”