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Science Selections

Science Selections From Popular Scientific Journals

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Tesla's Tower - May 2021 Smithsonian.com

Tesla's Tower - May 2021 Smithsonian.com

The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower. His vision of a global wireless-transmission tower proved to be his und... Read more

8 May 2021

15mins

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Virus Affects Brain - Apr 2021 Science News

Virus Affects Brain - Apr 2021 Science News

New clues hint at how Researchers are sifting through symptoms to figure out what the virus does to the brain, by Laura ... Read more

29 Apr 2021

13mins

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Human Hair - Apr 2021 Smithsonian

Human Hair - Apr 2021 Smithsonian

Why Did Humans Lose Their Fur? We are the naked apes of the world, having shed most of our body hair long ago. By Jason ... Read more

22 Apr 2021

11mins

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Einstein Baffled Press & Public - Apr 2021 Pocket Worthy

Einstein Baffled Press & Public - Apr 2021 Pocket Worthy

100 years ago few people claimed to fully understand Relativity, but it still managed to spark the publics imagination. ... Read more

22 Apr 2021

21mins

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Y Chromosome is Disappearing - The Conversation, Apr 2021

Y Chromosome is Disappearing - The Conversation, Apr 2021

Research shows the Y chromosome may escape extinction in the short term. But what if, in the future, we reproduce artifi... Read more

22 Apr 2021

9mins

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An Evolutionary Puzzle - Apr 2021 Pocket Worthy

An Evolutionary Puzzle - Apr 2021 Pocket Worthy

Paleontologists seek the ancestors that could explain how bats became the only flying mammals. By Riley Black.

16 Apr 2021

11mins

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Our Strange Sun - Apr 2021 Quanta Magazine

Our Strange Sun - Apr 2021 Quanta Magazine

The Sun radiates far more gamma rays than expected, raising questions about its magnetic field and the possibility of ex... Read more

11 Apr 2021

14mins

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Programming By Voice - Mar 2021 IEEE Spectrum

Programming By Voice - Mar 2021 IEEE Spectrum

Programming by Voice May Be the Next Frontier in Software Development. Your speech becomes your computer's commands.

5 Apr 2021

8mins

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Time Will Blow Your Mind - Mar 2021 Pocket Worthy

Time Will Blow Your Mind - Mar 2021 Pocket Worthy

This Physicist's Ideas of Time Will Blow Your Mind. Is time only in our head? By Ephrat Livni.

26 Mar 2021

11mins

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Comets Are Dangerous - Mar 2021 Nautil.us

Comets Are Dangerous - Mar 2021 Nautil.us

Comets Are More Dangerous Than We Thought. Could a comet, not an asteroid, have killed the dinosaurs? By Sean Raymond

18 Mar 2021

15mins

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