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Science

Six ways the 2020 census will change your life

From land use to health care access, the count is about more than voting districts.

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COVID-19

President Trump’s COVID-19 treatment includes an experimental antibody cocktail

The chosen drugs might offer more clues to his condition.

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Tech Hacks

The best internet browsers you’ve never heard of

Take a fresher look at the web.

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COVID-19

How does contact tracing work, and how extensive will it be for Trump?

The President tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.

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COVID-19

All the conditions we know increase your risk of dying from COVID-19

The president’s age and weight put him at high risk, but that doesn’t guarantee he’ll have severe symptoms.

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Vaccines

How do we know if medicines are safe during pregnancies?

Expectant mothers have long been excluded from clinical trials. Some experts say this practice needs to change.

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Ocean

We can protect whales from ship strikes by translating their songs

Using song patterns to predict whale migrations could help us protect them from ship strikes.

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Psychology

How border walls trick the human brain and psyche

Geopolitical walls cause people to form mental walls, triggering a cascade of emotional reactions.

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Bears

How scientists try to weigh some of the fattest bears on Earth

The Alaskan ursines of “Fat Bear Week” are very heavy indeed. Laser scanning can help measure their size.

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COVID-19

President Trump has COVID-19, according to White House statements

Here’s what we know.

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Projects

The scientific way to make perfectly creamy fondue

A food scientist explains the do’s and don’ts of the ultimate melted cheese sauce.

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Climate Change

How we can burn our way to a better future

We desperately need wildfires to restore many of the forests in the Western US.

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Vaccines

Keeping older folks out of COVID-19 vaccine trials hurts everyone

Failing to include older people in later-stage trials could make the treatment seem less safe.

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Fitness & Exercise

BCAA supplements can enhance your fitness routine, but should you take them?

Here’s what the science says about what branched-chain amino acids actually do.

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Life Skills

You should definitely rotate your workouts

No, we’re not telling you to spin in circles.

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Life Skills

There’s a better way to warm up than stretching

Movement is key.

Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground, to the base of Maat Mons on Venus.
Solar System

Three ways scientists could search for life on Venus

The truth is out there. We just have to go get it.

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Health

Can you get too much Botox?

Procedures are trending among millennials, and men, too.

This rocket launched from Pad-0A at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility (Virginia) on Jan. 9, 2014, and also performed a resupply to the ISS—though it did not carry new toilet hardware.
International Space Station

Watch live as NASA launches a $23 million toilet into space

It’ll be the first new loo since the 1990s.

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Evolution

What hundreds of pickled frog carcasses can tell us about their enormous eyes

Frogs have the biggest eyes of any vertebrate in relation to their body size. Researchers are just starting to understand why.