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Readers Respond to the June 2024 Issue

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Poem: ‘Alfred Wegener to the World’

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November 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

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New Nasal Vaccines Offer Stronger Protection from COVID, Flu, and More—No Needle Needed

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Math Puzzle: Play Architect with These Houses of Cards

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Lucy Turns 50, and Dark Energy Gets More Mysterious

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Leap Seconds May Be Abandoned by the World’s Timekeepers

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Kids with ADHD May Still Have Symptoms as Adults

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Hidden Patterns in Folk Songs Reveal How Music Evolved

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Fossil Human Ancestor ‘Lucy’ Remains Pivotal 50 Years after Discovery

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Could ‘Early Dark Energy’ Resolve the Mystery of Cosmic Expansion?

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Contributors to Scientific American’s November 2024 Issue

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Contrary to Occam’s Razor, the Simplest Explanation Is Often Not the Best One

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Book Review: The Big Costs of Mining the Planet for Electric Power

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Book Review: Inside the Global Movement to Protect Forests from Climate Change

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Book Review: How the Author of Braiding Sweetgrass Imagines a New Economy

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Book Review: How Our Love for Citrus Shaped the Modern World

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Book Review: Fifty years later, Ursula K. Le Guin’s Novel about Utopian Anarchists Is as Relevant as Ever

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At-home experiments shed light on cats’ liquid behavior

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How to Make Progress in Health Equity

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New Medical Diagnoses and Tools Are Removing Historical Biases

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Rural Health Innovations Are Improving Health Care

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Cash transfers linked to improved educational outcomes for American Indian children

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See How Many Lives Vaccines Have Saved around the World

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Health Experts Share What Gives Them Hope for Improving Equity

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Cultural Competency in Health Care Can Save Lives

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Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander People Need Better Health Data

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The Mpox Response Has Learned from HIV/AIDS History

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Astronomers detect very-high-energy gamma-ray emission surrounding distant pulsar

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State backs environmentalists after water shutoff kills thousands of fish in Kern River

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Penetrating the ice sheet of an ocean moon: Four questions about the Clipper Mission to Europa

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Washington state's older forests capture carbon better than nearly any other

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Owls that nest underground become candidate for endangered status

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Cemetery study reveals how daily life changed from the Iron Age to the Roman period

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Dual-species atomic arrays show promise for quantum error correction

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Ancient hominins had humanlike hands, indicating earlier tool use, study reveals

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How Marie Curie Helped a Generation of Women Break into Science

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Tiny Babies Who Can Smell Their Mother Recognize Faces Better

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Seven newly named frog species make whistles that sound like Star Trek

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Seven new frog species discovered in Madagascar

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Rangers lead effort to monitor Uganda's lion population in critical stronghold

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New temperature conditions found in two thirds of key tropical forests

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Modern mass extinction in an Ecuadorean cloud forest found to be a mirage

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How 'vaccinating' plants could reduce pesticide use and secure global food supplies

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Cars, chlamydia threaten Australian koalas

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Reoxygenating oceans: Startups lead the way in Baltic Sea

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'Pandas are coming': Two new bears depart China for US capital

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Can biodiversity credits unlock billions for nature?

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A Hong Kong zoo seeks answers after 9 monkeys die in 2 days

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China unveils its plans to turn its feats in space exploration into scientific advances

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