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Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:30:00 GMT A new experiment at the world’s most powerful particle collider sheds light on an enduring cosmic mystery -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Study on Weed Killers and Monarch Butterflies Spurs Ecological Flap Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:45:00 GMT Some scientists question museum data analysis that suggests Roundup is not responsible for the insects’ decline -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Asteroid's Bumpiness Threatens U.S. Plan to Return a Sample to Earth Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:00:00 GMT NASA mission finds asteroid Bennu littered with big boulders and spraying out particles -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Big Religion May Have Gotten Too Much Credit for the Evolution of Modern Society Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:00:00 GMT Contrary to a popular hypothesis, pro-social religions didn’t kick-start complex social systems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Researchers Write about Brain-Machine Interfaces, How Eels Shock, and What Shark Bites Have to Do with Rebuilding Broken Bodies  Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:00:00 GMT -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com An Impossible Scenario: Scientists Watch as Heat Moves at the Speed of Sound Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:45:00 GMT A rare phenomenon seen in just a handful of materials at forbidding temperatures has been detected within “warm” graphite—a finding that could aid future microelectronics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Do Science. 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The resulting interference... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com The Cuban "Sonic Attack" and Journalistic Ethics Mon, 18 Mar 2019 16:00:00 GMT A session at a recent scientific meeting exposed the dangers not of mythical high-tech weapons but of the heedless rush to sensationalize -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Huge Meteor Explosion a Wake-Up Call for Planetary Defense Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:00:00 GMT Detonating over the Bering Sea, the blast was as powerful as a nuclear bomb -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Are We Measuring Research Success Wrong? Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:00:00 GMT Universities tout how much they spend, but it’s no virtue if that spending is inefficient -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com The Great Hunger and the Randomness of the World Sun, 17 Mar 2019 19:00:00 GMT A science journalist walking through Lower Manhattan ponders the meaning of the Irish Hunger Memorial -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com The Science of Innovation Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:00:00 GMT Lessons from the physics of complexity can help organizations achieve breakthroughs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Whose Job Is It to Help Build Public Trust in Science? Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:00:00 GMT Scientists, research institutions and science writers all have roles to play -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Soap-Bubble Pioneer Is First Woman to Win Prestigious Math Prize Wed, 20 Mar 2019 13:00:00 GMT Abel-prize winner Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck built bridges between analysis, geometry and physics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Sing Solo for Higher Fidelity Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:30:00 GMT By tracking duetting choir singers, researchers found that when an individual singer's pitch drifts off tune their partner’s tend to too. Christopher Intagliata reports.  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Four Laws That Could Stem the Rising Threat of Mass Shootings Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:15:00 GMT Pro-gun advocates claim new laws will not make us safer. But here is evidence the right laws will do exactly that -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com First Baby Monkey Born Using Sperm from Frozen Testicles Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:15:00 GMT Researchers hope that the procedure could be used to restore fertility to human boys undergoing cancer treatment -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:15:00 GMT In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Is NASA's Golden Age of Space Telescopes Ending? Mon, 18 Mar 2019 17:30:00 GMT For the second year in a row, the White House is seeking to cancel one of the space agency’s top-priority astrophysics projects, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Best-Yet Measurements Deepen Cosmological Crisis Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:00:00 GMT The latest disagreement over the universe’s expansion rate suggests researchers may be on the threshold of revolutionary discoveries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com 'Oumuamua, Our First Interstellar Visitor, May Have Been a Comet After All Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:45:00 GMT New research flags jets of water vapor—rather than alien technology—as the source of the mysterious object’s anomalous motions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Science Should Be More Helpful to New Parents Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:00:00 GMT We need paid leave so young researchers can start families without abandoning STEM careers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Coral Reefugees: Certain Corals Could "Outrun" Climate Change Tue, 19 Mar 2019 10:45:00 GMT New evidence suggests that corals once sought refuge from warming waters by migrating -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com