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Topic: Science (page 31)

Flames rise near homes during the Blue Ridge Fire on October 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, California. Strong Santa Ana Winds gusting to more than 90 miles per hour have driven the Blue Ridge Fire and Silverado Fire across thousands of acres, grounding firefighting aircraft, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, and gravely injuring two firefighters. More than 8,200 wildfires have burned across a record 4 million-plus acres so far this year, more than double the previous record. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Scientists urge US to skip the fireworks

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Coronavirus and blood cells (Getty Images)

Mast cells and the mystery of long COVID

Temma Ehrenfeld - Undark
DNA in a speech bubble (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Have we hit peak DNA?

Olga Mecking
Young Woman Swimming With Nurse Sharks (Getty Images/Zoe Esteban)

Sharks are having a PR crisis

Melissa Cristina Marquez
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Comparison of craniums, with the Harbin "Dragon Man" skull on the right. (Kai Geng)

The "Dragon Man" skeptics, explained

Nicole Karlis
A burned residence smolders during the Bear fire, part of the North Lightning Complex fires, in unincorporated Butte County, California on September 09, 2020. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

New book debunks myths about wildfires

Tara Lohan - The Revelator
Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
Petrified tree trunks beside the rio Manati near Iquitos, Peru (iStock/Getty Images)

Secrets of Peru's petrified forest

Herb Meyer, Deborah Woodcock - The Conversation
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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion with a rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in its center. In October 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars some 130 million light-years away. (Getty/NASA)

A 967-year-old astronomy mystery solved

Nicole Karlis
(Leonardo Carrato/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Study warns of severe drying for Amazon

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Radio transmission to the Milky way galaxy and star dusts in deep space (Getty Images)

No more "mystery of missing matter"

Emmanuel Fonseca - The Conversation
Paper illustration of human hands and coronavirus in a lab (Getty Images)

Why labs work with deadly viruses

Jerry Malayer - The Conversation
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Cars and vehicles are caught in a traffic jam on the Quai des Tuileries in central Paris. (Getty/Francois Guillot)

Why are left-hand turns so bad?

Vikash V. Gayah - The Conversation
New eruption of the Etna volcano in Sicily. (Marco Restivo/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Earth has a 27-million-year "pulse"

Nicole Karlis
Summer meadow full of colorful flowers and butterflies flying around. (Getty Images)

How butterflies get drunk

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/Nils Jacobi)

Why do cats knead with their paws?

Julia Albright - The Conversation
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Diver swims with a whale (Getty Images/Orla)

Can a human really be eaten by a whale?

Nicole Karlis
A QAnon supporter holds a sign during a protest at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem on May 2, 2020. (Getty Images)

The rhetoric of cults is all around us

Nicole Karlis
Fractals of Romanesco broccoli and fern leaves (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

This is your brain on nature

Thomas Nail
(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Does Ockham's Razor still work?

Luke Shors, Amit Chandra
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Planet Venus (Albert Klein/Getty Images)

Why NASA just greenlit two Venus probes

Nicole Karlis
Different ways of thinking processing (Getty Images)

Is autism just a "language" difference?

Matthew Rozsa
Black Hole (Getty Images)

Is this what dark matter is?

Nicole Karlis
Picture taken from the Apollo XI Lunar Module (LM) showing the flag of the United States and the footprints of astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin on the surface of the moon, 21 July 1969. (- / NASA / AFP)

Science more polarized than ever

Liv Grjebine - The Conversation
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