Super-Quiz for Science

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Environmental Science News

Coral Reef Microbes Point to New Way to Assess Ecosystem Health Apr. 16, 2024 — A new study shows that ocean acidification is changing the mix of microbes in coral reef systems, which can be ... Read More

Science and Religion

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Science: Heat Waves?

Their president, Engineer S. E. Dibble, touched upon the heat of the future in a manner coolly prophetic: “It is no more improbable to broadcast heat waves than it was to broadcast sound ... Read More

The New York Times Magazine

Illustrations by Tara Booth The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether there is inherent value in human life more than any other kind of life. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Lessons from the ... Read More

Forgotten Snapshots: Rediscovering the Past Through Photography

Collected here are reminders of humanity’s strength, sources of nostalgia, and moments of unity. Whether it be moments of vic ... Read More

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Apples and oranges, ... Scientists on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter have transformed data collected during two recent flybys of Io into animations that highlight two of the Jovian moon's most ... Read More

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April 11 (UPI) -- SpaceX launched its second national security mission of 2024 on Thursday with a Falcon 9 rocket lifting the U.S. Space Force ... The White House Office of Science and Technology ... Read More

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S. These three slinky predators are ... Read More

Smart News Science

The technology could make clouds reflect more sunlight, cooling the Earth below. But even the scientists leading the study say letting go of fossil fuels is a much-preferred response to climate ... Read More

Political Science News

U.S. Political Partisanship Affects First Impressions of Faces Nov. 9, 2022 — In an experimental study, participants' first impressions of photos of strangers' faces were strongly influenced by ... Read More

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