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Topic: Science (page 36)

Pro-choice and pro-life activists demonstrate in front of the the US Supreme Court during the 47th annual March for Life on January 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Will Supreme Court rule against science?

Sarah CM Roberts
Ben Shapiro and Trish Regan (Michael S. Schwartz/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

Conservatives: COVID-19 not a big deal

Matthew Rozsa
(Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)

Silicon Valley’s quest to prolong life

Dan Falk - Undark
(Erik Isakson / Getty Images)

Scanning the sky for stars, not drones

Sarah Sax - Undark
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Forrest Galante films a crocodile in June 2016. (Mark Romanov & Forrest Galante / Barcroft Images / Getty Images)

Colonial science lives on

Andrew J Wight - Undark
Janelle Monae, from left, Taraji P. Henson, and Octavia Spencer pose with Katherine Johnson, seated, backstage at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

7 lessons from Katherine Johnson's life

Della Dumbaugh - The Conversation
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

AOC schools Ted Cruz about science

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
Advertising billboards on Oxford Circus underground station, London, England, circa 1960. (Harvey Meston/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

The corporate manipulation of science

Christie Aschwanden - Undark
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Charcoal Toothpaste (Getty Images)

The charcoal "health" trend needs to die

Nicole Karlis
(Laura Olivas/Getty Images)

Sense of smell without olfactory bulbs?

Thiago Arzua - Massive Science
Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team/Salon)

Why a nearby comet keeps changing colors

Nicole Karlis
The IceCube Laboratory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, in Antarctica, hosts the computers collecting raw data. Due to satellite bandwidth allocations, the first level of reconstruction and event filtering happens in near real time in this lab. Only events selected as interesting for physics studies are sent to UW–Madison, where they are prepared for used by any member of the IceCube Collaboration. (Felipe Pedreros/IceCube/NSF)

Weird neutrinos are baffling physicists

Nicole Karlis
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An illustration shows a man exhaling smoke from an electronic cigarette in Washington, DC on October 2, 2018. - In just three years, the electronic cigarette manufacturer Juul has swallowed the American market with its vaporettes in the shape of a USB key. Its success represents a public health dilemma for health authorities in the United States and elsewhere. (Photo by EVA HAMBACH / AFP) (Photo credit should read EVA HAMBACH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images)

The corporate art of deception

Keith A. Spencer
(Getty/Totojang)

Scientific misconduct is on the rise

Bhavya Singh - Massive Science
A walking Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium freycineti) crawls across the seafloor in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. While this shark isn't the newly discovered species, it is one of the nine separate but closely related species of shark that can all walk. (Getty Images/Ethan Daniels/Stocktrek Images)

Sharks are learning to walk

Nicole Karlis
Neanderthal skull (shutterstock)

Studying the past to change our present

Elizabeth Sawchuk, Mary Prendergast - The Conversation
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A pantry is filled with gluten-free food products (Washington Post/Getty Images)

The mystery of celiac disease

Nicole Karlis
Woman eating pizza and drinking wine in front of the refrigerator during the night (Getty Images)

The psychology behind better habits

Ashlie D. Stevens
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket is seen as it launches with the NASA Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) onboard, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The ICESat-2 mission will measure the changing height of Earth's ice. (NASA/Bill Ingalls/Getty Images)

Satellites: sentinels of a grim future

Jon Gertner - Undark
Cosmic Crisp apples, a new variety and the first-ever bred in Washington state, sit on the tree ready to be picked at an orchard in Wapato, Wash. The Cosmic Crisp, available beginning Dec. 1, is expected to be a game changer in the apple industry. Already, growers have planted 12 million Cosmic Crisp apple trees, a sign of confidence in the new variety. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

The Cosmic Crisp apple is not the future

Keith A. Spencer
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This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

Shira Tarlo
"What Science Is and How It Really Works" by James C. Zimring (Cambridge University Press/Getty Images)

Why science is a social construct

James C. Zimring
A man calling himself Henry Hemp inhales marijuana using a vaporizer pen at HempCon medical marijuana show (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Weed vapes may not be as safe as thought

Nicole Karlis
Female Red-backed shrike perched on the twig (Getty Images)

Birds are shrinking. Here's why

Nicole Karlis
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