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Fight election season burnout with these mental health tips

By Rachael Zisk

A stage with an American flag and a Trump campaign sign

President Trump wants to hold rallies this weekend. Could he spread COVID-19?

By Popular Science Team

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

By Popular Science Team

The US-Mexico border wall in Tijuana and San Diego

How border walls trick the human brain and psyche

By Jessica Wapner

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COVID has created a shortage of poll workers. Here’s how to step in.

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

President Donald Trump (left) and former Vice President Joe Biden at the first 2020 presidential debate

Five key science takeaways from the first presidential debate

By Purbita Saha

CDC Director Robert Redfield and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci in 2018

The CDC thinks 90 percent of the US could still catch COVID-19

By Purbita Saha

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Election graphics can be deceiving. Here’s how to see through their tricks.

By Sara Chodosh

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Drone surveillance can help hold governments accountable—but it can also oppress us

By Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick/MIT Press Reader

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Political rhetoric may impact your hurricane preparedness

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It’s time to check your voter registration—here’s how

By John Kennedy

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Popular Science wants to help you vote well

By Corinne Iozzio

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Convincing someone to wear a mask is hard, but not impossible

By Colin Marshall/The Conversation

The CDC’s new COVID-19 testing guidelines could make the pandemic worse

By Sara Kiley Watson

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The Great American Outdoors Act proves that grassroots advocacy and democracy still work

By Robinson & Krebs/ Outdoor Life

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Black mothers face high death rates. Now they have to contend with climate change, too.

By Candice Wang

Tech congressional hearing

Let’s watch some of the world’s biggest tech CEOs speak in front of Congress

By Stan Horaczek

Black Lives Matters protests have continue from Memorial Day through mid-June.

What you need to know to protest safely and securely

By Popular Science Team

Protesters in Washington, D.C. faced off with canisters of tear gas at the end of May.

Tear gas during COVID-19 is a public health disaster

Pesticide-killed locusts

An unprecedented locust swarm is creating unlikely allies

By Lou Del Bello/Undark

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We have the tools to contain COVID-19 misinformation, we just aren’t using them

The Mississippi capitol building in Jackson

COVID-19 could be especially bad news for the South

By Laura Beil/Undark

Blessing of narwhals

The narwhal’s giant unicorn horn might help them find mates

By Sara Kiley Watson

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The American healthcare system is only making COVID-19 worse

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Where every Democratic candidate stands on the biggest environmental issues

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Congress is putting money toward gun violence research for the first time in decades

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Everything that happened at COP25, a potentially world-changing climate conference

Evolution doesn’t work the way you think it does

Evolution doesn’t work the way you think it does

By Quentin Wheeler, Antonio G. Valdecasas & Cristina Cánovas/The Conversation

Male bighorn sheep

Roadkill hurts a lot more than just animals. A new bill aims to ease the pain.

By Ben Long/ Outdoor Life

Everything you need to know about uranium

Everything you need to know about uranium

By Eleanor Cummins

Driverless car proponents love this stat. Too bad it’s a wreck.

Driverless car proponents love this stat. Too bad it’s a wreck.

State parks could be 10 times more expensive to operate by 2050

State parks could be 10 times more expensive to operate by 2050

Here’s exactly how restricting abortion harms public health

Here’s exactly how restricting abortion harms public health

By Nicole Wetsman

The world isn’t light on helium, but mining it is no party

The world isn’t light on helium, but mining it is no party

By Claire Maldarelli

By destroying this female pharaoh’s legacy, her successor preserved it forever

By Eleanor Cummins

Pretty soon we’ll have to stop blaming China for global carbon emissions

Pretty soon we’ll have to stop blaming China for global carbon emissions

The president wants NASA back on the moon by 2024—a risky and unrealistic request

The president wants NASA back on the moon by 2024—a risky and unrealistic request

By Neel V. Patel

The Green New Deal is more feasible than you think

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The White House is infested with flies

By Ellen Airhart

Bighorn Joshua Tree National Park California

The biggest public lands bill in a decade has something for everyone

Chilldren taking political action to save the environment

Kids skipping school to protest climate change isn’t just reasonable—it’s logical

By Rupert Read/The Conversation

Green New Deal explainer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Everything you need to know about the Green New Deal

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What science issues President Trump did—and did not—address in this year’s State of the Union

By Kaitlin Sullivan

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People with extreme political views have trouble thinking about their own thinking

Purple jellyfish float in the dark

The new jellyfish genome proves you don’t need weird genes to be a weirdo

By Charlie Wood

Maine’s new voting system is mathematically superior—and constitutionally questionable

Maine’s new voting system is mathematically superior—and constitutionally questionable

By Charlie Wood

A science-loving lady could head the next House Science Committee

A science-loving lady could head the next House Science Committee

By Jillian Mock

How to spot misleading statistics in the news

How to spot misleading statistics in the news

By Liberty Vittert/The Conversation

voting at the polls

Eight science policies at stake this Election Day

By Emily Mullin

Brazil’s new president plans to plunder the Amazon, which is bad news for all of us

Brazil’s new president plans to plunder the Amazon, which is bad news for all of us

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The most important science policy issue in every state

Hiral Tipirneni

These scientists may be your next members of Congress

Everything you need to know about ricin poison

Everything you need to know about ricin poison

By Dan Nosowitz

Twitter Timeline

Twitter will let you see your feed in chronological order again—here’s how and why

By Stan Horaczek

Google says its search can’t be biased—that’s not how search works

Google says its search can’t be biased—that’s not how search works

Hurricanes may have made these lizards better huggers

Hurricanes may have made these lizards better huggers

Endangered Species

Here are 10 plants and animals that might have gone extinct without the Endangered Species Act

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Social media’s political role got its start in the Middle East

The EPA has a new plan that’s good for business and bad for bodies

The EPA has a new plan that’s good for business and bad for bodies

a baby drinking a glass of water

The EPA is keeping a troubling new study on drinking water under wraps. Here’s what you need to know.

New York should ban plastic bags—and so should the rest of the country

New York should ban plastic bags—and so should the rest of the country

By Eleanor Cummins

Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal: how to find out if your data was compromised

Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal: how to find out if your data was compromised

By Stan Horaczek

Hunting regulations are forcing animals to change in all sorts of ways

Hunting regulations are forcing animals to change in all sorts of ways

By Sara Chodosh

vietnam war protesters

We shouldn’t disregard the ideas that come from teens’ developing brains

By Eleanor Cummins