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Doula care may lead to fewer C-sections or preterm births

Having an extra trained professional by your side might ease a pregnancy. Among a group of pregnant...

How to Close the Gender Health Gap

If you’re a man, you are more likely to suffer a health condition that kills you. But...

UK Considers New Smartphone Bans for Children

The UK parliament is considering clamping down on how young people use smartphones. A bill brought forward...

Megafire smoke may dampen California’s nut harvests

Wildfires may put some of America’s favorite nuts — almonds, pistachios and walnuts — at risk. The...

How Cells Resist the Pressure of the Deep Sea

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The bottom of the ocean is cold, dark,...

Dolphins Are Exhaling Microplastics

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay in...

California Is Flooding School Cafeterias With Vegan Meals—and Kids Like It

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Three years ago, Erin...

Taking the temperature of democracy

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

Readers are curious about dark matter, plastics’ effects on pollination and Percy’s selfies

Let’s talk neutrinos Two dark matter experiments have spotted signs of neutrinos knocking into atomic...

The Physics Trick That Makes These New Super Cars So Insanely Fast

People with fast street cars like to put them through their paces at the quarter-mile track. One...

The ‘Does It Fly?’ podcast separates fact from science fiction

Does It Fly?Roddenberry EntertainmentAvailable wherever you get your podcasts Imagine you’re hanging out at a...

Is U.S. democracy in decline? Here’s what the science says

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken...
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