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- Obamacare Calorie Count Rules Ushered In https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obamacare-calorie-count-rules-ushered-in 108 comments
- Could Boxes of Water Help Reforest the World? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=could-a-water-box-help-reforest-the-world 28 comments
- The grandmother factor: Why do only humans and whales live long past menopause? http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-grandmother-factor-why-do-only-2010-06-30 22 comments
- Eating Too Much Protein Makes Pee a Problem Pollutant in the U.S. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eating-too-much-protein-makes-pee-a-problem-pollutant-in-the-u-s/ 1044 comments science
- Rechargeable Molten Salt Battery Freezes Energy in Place for Long-Term Storage https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rechargeable-molten-salt-battery-freezes-energy-in-place-for-long-term-storage/ 10 comments technology
- Pesticides Are Killing the World’s Soils - They cause significant harm to earthworms, beetles, ground-nesting bees and thousands of other vital subterranean species https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/pesticides-are-killing-the-worlds-soils/ 963 comments science
- 100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated, The evidence mounts that bacteria can be effectively immortal https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/100-million-year-old-seafloor-sediment-bacteria-have-been-resuscitated/ 20 comments worldnews
- Trump's "Affordable Clean Energy" Plan Won't Save Coal https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trumps-affordable-clean-energy-plan-wont-save-coal/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_term=2018-08-21_top-stories&spmailingid=57220460&spuserid=ntm5nzi1mdiymas2&spjobid=1462871402&spreportid=mtq2mjg3mtqwmgs2 3 comments economy
- Lawbreaking particles may point to a previously unknown force in the universe. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lawbreaking-particles-may-point-to-a-previously-unknown-force-in-the-universe/ 4 comments technology
- Woman Killed by a Superbug Resistant to Every Available Antibiotic. The “nightmare bacteria” could fend off 26 different drugs. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/woman-killed-by-a-superbug-resistant-to-every-available-antibiotic/ 10 comments worldnews
- Error Found in Study of First Ancient African Genome - This week the authors issued a note explaining the mistake in their October 2015 Science paper on the genome of a 4,500-year-old man from Ethiopia—the first complete ancient human genome from Africa. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/error-found-in-study-of-first-ancient-african-genome/ 6 comments worldnews
- Global warming might sharply increase the odds of grey swan hurricanes and storm surge over the coming century. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray-swan-hurricanes-pose-future-storm-surge-threat/ 4 comments science
- Molecules Reach Coldest Temperature Ever: Physicists have chilled molecules to just a smidgen above absolute zero—colder than the afterglow of the Big Bang http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/molecules-reach-coldest-temperature-ever/ 6 comments science
- New Mathematics Could Neutralize Pathogens That Resist Antibiotics http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-mathematics-could-neutralize-pathogens-that-resist-antibiotics/ 4 comments science
- BP Oil Spill Responsible for Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Deaths: New autopsy results confirm mass dolphin strandings largely stemmed from BP's 2010 Macondo well blowout http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bp-oil-spill-responsible-for-gulf-of-mexico-dolphin-deaths/ 72 comments science
- A psychedelic drink used for centuries in healing ceremonies is now attracting the attention of biomedical scientists as a possible treatment for depression http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ayahuasca-psychedelic-tested-for-depression/ 124 comments science
- Global Warming Could Hit Rates Unseen in 1,000 Years http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/global-warming-could-hit-rates-unseen-in-1-000-years/ 25 comments science
- Chimps Outplay Humans in Brain Games: In a recent study by psychologists, chimps and humans played a strategy game – and unexpectedly, the chimps outplayed the humans. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chimps-outplay-humans-in-brain-games/ 308 comments science
- Electric Airplane! http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/impossible-electric-airplane-takes-flight/ 4 comments technology
- Plug Methane Leaks in the Booming Natural Gas Industry - Gas-powered electricity could slash greenhouse gases, but only if we get methane emissions under control http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plug-methane-leaks-in-the-booming-natural-gas-industry/ 2 comments politics
- Is the Universe Made of Math? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-the-universe-made-of-math-excerpt 44 comments science
- Physicists Now Want a Very Large Hadron Collider http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=physicists-now-want-a-very-large-hadron-collider 85 comments science
- Research shows that people get happier as they get older. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=age-brings-happiness 29 comments science
- Red Meat Clogs Arteries Because of Gut Bacteria. Researchers have now laid the blame on bacteria in the human gut that convert a common nutrient found in beef into a compound that may speed up the build-up of plaques in the arteries. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=red-meat-clogs-arteries-bacteria 10 comments science
- The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor - Most of us have become unwitting actors in an unfolding drama about the tale of 2 internets. There is yours & mine, theirs & ours. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rich-see-different-internet-than-the-poor 904 comments technology
- U.S. Releases Initial Report on Fracking Impacts on Drinking Water - The Obama administration on Friday gave an early look at a long-term study on whether hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in drilling for natural gas pollutes drinking water http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-releases-initial-report-on-fracking 9 comments science
- What Caused the Yosemite Hantavirus Outbreak? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=yosemite-hantavirus-outbreak&wt.mc_id=sa_dd_20120907 3 comments science
- Your Scientific Reasoning Is More Flawed Than You Think http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=your-scientific-reasoning-more-flawed-than-you-think 24 comments cogsci
- Nigerian Oil Still Poisons The Landscape After Promised Clean-Up http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=insight-a-year-on-nigerias-oil-still 6 comments worldnews
- Shrinking Arctic sea ice may have helped cause unusually snowy winters that have blanketed parts of the Northern Hemisphere in recent years. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=recent-snowy-winters-rapid-melting-arctic 4 comments science
- Why does time fly (Or, why is the passage of time not constant)? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-does-time-fly 5 comments cogsci
- Deep Freeze: Mars Orbiter Finds Massive Stores of Buried Dry Ice - Radar soundings point to huge deposits of carbon dioxide near the Red Planet's south pole, which may have once contributed to a different climate http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mro-co2-ice 10 comments space
- TIL cats don't have taste buds. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-cats-cannot-taste-sweets 3 comments reddit.com
- NASA to lead global asteroid response http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasa-to-lead-global-asteroid-r 6 comments space
- U.S. law enforcement asks for a backdoor to the world's encryptions http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=wiretapping-quantum-encryption 28 comments technology
- Discovery:Squid Fly Out of the Water. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-squid-fly 13 comments science
- Finally! A way to convince right-wingers that global warming is a serious issue! http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=climate-change-may-mean-more-mexican-immigration 5 comments politics
- Does insincere flattery work? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=flattery-will-get-you-far 8 comments science
- Should DDT Be Used to Combat Malaria? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ddt-use-to-combat-malaria 13 comments science
- With a wave of the hand - How using gestures can make you smarter http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=with-a-wave-of-the-hand 3 comments cogsci