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- Using ‘science’ to market cookies and other products meant for pleasure backfires with consumers
- Wealthy nations are carving up space and its riches – and leaving other countries behind
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- Elon Musk is wrong: research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation
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- COVID-19 official counts can miss mild cases – here’s how serosurveys that analyze blood for signs of past infection can help
- In Antarctica, scientists discover a vast, salty groundwater system under the ice sheet – with implications for sea level rise