SCIENCE
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Does Sleep Training Work? | Scientific American
In countries like the U.S. and U.K., “training” a baby to sleep through the night is practically a rite of…
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Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths
November 29, 2024 5 min read Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths Physicists have described a system that requires…
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Your Friends Shape Your Microbiome—and So Do Their Friends
November 27, 2024 3 min read Your Friends Shape Your Microbiome—and So Do Their Friends Analysis of nearly 2,000 people…
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RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees the CDC, FDA and NIH. Here’s What That Means for Public Health
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week by catching…
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Mathematicians’ Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful…
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RFK, Jr., Is a Bad Prescription for U.S. Public Health
Remember ivermectin, the antiparasitic drug that right-wing media figures wrongly touted as a cure for COVID? How about hydroxychloroquine, the…
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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
A half-century ago humanity sent its first postcard to the stars, carried by a narrow beam of radio waves. It…
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Are Alternate Timelines Real? Quantum Physics Explains
As memes go, it wasn’t particularly viral. But for a couple of hours on the morning of November 6, the…
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What Trump Can—And Probably Can’t—Do to Reverse U.S. Climate Policy
November 8, 2024 5 min read What Trump Can—And Probably Can’t—Do to Reverse U.S. Climate Policy The new president-elect can…
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Rainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water Demands
November 7, 2024 5 min read Rainwater Could Help Satisfy AI’s Water Demands A few dozen ChatGPT queries cost a…
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