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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
133Science
Literacy Reform Now Depends on Classroom Implementation
Literacy Reform Now Depends on Classroom Implementation For a decade, the battle cry across state legislatures was simple: pass the science of reading law. Teacher training mandates, curriculum overhauls, and early...
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134Science
Landslide risk maps reveal socioeconomic inequality
Landslide risk maps reveal socioeconomic inequality Landslides follow gravity, water, and the geometry of slopes. They are not mysterious events. Yet the tool that could save lives — a detailed map of where they will...
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135Science
Citizen scientists bury underpants to test global soil health
Citizen scientists bury underpants to test global soil health A Playful Test With Serious Soil Science The experiment sounds like a prank: bury a pair of cotton underpants in the ground, wait two months, dig them up,...
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136Science
Nuclear Oversight Faces Independence Crisis
Nuclear Oversight Faces Independence Crisis The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, long considered a global reference point for atomic oversight, now faces a challenge that has little to do with reactor safety and...
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137Science
C4 grasses thrive with rising CO2 during drought
C4 grasses thrive with rising CO2 during drought For decades, the scientific community operated on a simple assumption: certain grasses, known as C4 plants, were largely indifferent to rising carbon dioxide levels....
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138Science
Green crabs rebranded from pest to New England delicacy
Green crabs rebranded from pest to New England delicacy For generations, the European green crab has been the ocean's unwanted guest along New England's shores. The creature arrived centuries ago, hidden in the ballast...
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139Science
COVID Summer Wave Explained by Four Predictable Factors
COVID Summer Wave Explained by Four Predictable Factors The simplest explanation for a summer COVID 19 surge is almost always the wrong one. When temperatures climb and cases rise with them, the public tends to reach...
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140Science
Quantum states live in Hilbert space
Quantum states live in Hilbert space In the mid 1920s, physics faced a remarkable dilemma. Two brilliant minds, working almost simultaneously, had produced two radically different descriptions of the same microscopic...
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141Science
SSRIs healing power remains scientifically unexplained
SSRIs healing power remains scientifically unexplained Every year, millions of people begin a medication whose healing power remains scientifically unexplained. They take it for a condition no laboratory test can...
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142Science
The Rise and Fall of Britains Scientific Civil Service
The Rise and Fall of Britains Scientific Civil Service When Government Labs Were Europe's Powerhouses In the early 1980s, a BBC film crew boarded a Westland Sea King helicopter with a young woman named Susan James. She...
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143Science
Optical Tornadoes Created with Liquid Crystals
Optical Tornadoes Created with Liquid Crystals For years, scientists seeking to make light twist like a whirlwind relied on increasingly complicated machinery. They carved intricate patterns into surfaces at the...
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144Science
Monkeys Turn to Hunting When Fruit Runs Low
Monkeys Turn to Hunting When Fruit Runs Low A Hunger Driven Shift in the Canopy Most people picture monkeys eating fruit, leaves, or snatching a tourist's snack. Few imagine them stalking lizards or swallowing snakes...
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