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Antibiotic Resistance Is Now Rife across the Entire Globe
A first-ever World Health Organization assessment of the growing problem calls for rapid changes to avoid the misery and deaths of a potential "post-antibiotic era" -
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Heavenly Sounds: Hearing Astronomical Data Can Lead to Scientific Insights
Converting the energetic hail of cosmic radiation into audible tracks has produced better understanding of the solar wind and other astrophysical events—along with musical enjoyment -
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Arthritis Research Looks to Unlock Secrets of Heart Disease and Depression
Better insights into this ancient condition, with uncontrolled inflammation at its core, might reveal information about a host of other illnesses -
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New Drug for Stomach Cancer Starves Tumors of Blood
The medication could offer a way to fight other cancers as well -
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Technology
Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
As hundreds of “altcoin” knockoffs are minted online, bitcoins no longer dominate as the principal form of digital currency -
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Many Prisoners on Death Row are Wrongfully Convicted
Researchers estimate that more than 340 U.S. inmates that could have been exonerated were sentenced to death since 1973 -
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Fungus-Chomping Micro Predators Could Protect Amphibians from Deadly Skin Disease
Microbes that thrive in lakes happily consume the pandemic fungus that has caused declines in more than half the planet’s amphibian species -
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Water Scarcity and the Private Sector
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Evolution
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The Beguiling History of Bees [Excerpt]
The first bees existed around 130 million years ago at a time when our own ancestors were small, ratlike creatures
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Environment
Good Friday Quake in Mexico City Tested Region’s Preparations for Bigger One
The city’s unusual geology allows engineers and seismologists to rely upon exceptional safety measures -
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U.S. Puzzles Over What to Do about E-Cigarettes
Federal regulators propose new rules to answer long-burning questions about electronic cigarettes -
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Reprieve for Men: Y Chromosome Is Not Vanishing
Alarming shrinkage has stopped, researchers say, because the Y is a bastion of elite genes that play vital roles throughout the body -
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As Drug War Rages, Tweets Reveal Mexicans’ Emotional Numbness
Tweets from citizens on the front lines of the country’s conflicts with drug cartels indicate desensitization to the growing violence -
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Virtual Doctor Visits Gaining Steam in “Geneticist Deserts”
Genetic experts are eyeing computer Webcams and videoconferencing to assess patients in Alaska and other remote places -
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Ecology
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Cull Kill Includes Small Tiger Sharks along with Intended Victims [Video]
Photos from Australia's controversial shark extermination show that released tiger sharks are also dying—both from the stress of capture and improper handling -
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Animals with Human Rights Make Researchers Run Scared
Legally, dogs and cats are moving closer to personhood. A new book says this poses problems for biomedical researchers and veterinarians -
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Could an Oral Measles Drug Help the Unvaccinated?
A medication designed to inhibit measleslike virus in infected ferrets shows promise -
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Heartbleed Software Snafu: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The ramifications from the years-long security hole are both better and worse than we initially thought -
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Bloody Moon and Planet Align: Photos from Readers
A total lunar eclipse on April 15, 2014, was captured by Scientific American readers around the globe -
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The Overlooked Influence of Kathleen Sebelius
The head of Health and Human Services oversaw a pandemic flu response, the expansion of Medicaid—and, yes, the flubbed Obamacare Web site rollout
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