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Readers Respond to the March 2023 Issue

Readers Respond to the March 2023 Issue

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Letters to the editors for the March 2023 issue of Scientific American

Yes, Airline Flights Are Getting Bumpier: Here's Why

Yes, Airline Flights Are Getting Bumpier: Here's Why

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Clear-air turbulence is becoming more frequent and more intense as the atmospher...

Where's Waldo? How to Mathematically Prove You Found Him Without Revealing Where He Is

Where's Waldo? How to Mathematically Prove You Found Hi...

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Zero-knowledge proofs allow mathematicians to prove claims without explaining wh...

Climate Law Will Slash Emissions--Maybe Halving Them by 2035

Climate Law Will Slash Emissions--Maybe Halving Them by...

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Major climate models agree that the Inflation Reduction Act was a “huge step for...

Lab-Grown Meat Approved for Sale: What You Need to Know

Lab-Grown Meat Approved for Sale: What You Need to Know

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Cultured meat, grown from real animal cells, will soon be available in restauran...

Here's How CDC Can Put the 'Public' Back in Public Health

Here's How CDC Can Put the 'Public' Back in Public Health

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The new leader of the CDC should prioritize the people it serves, people in the ...

We Need to Better Regulate Nutraceuticals

We Need to Better Regulate Nutraceuticals

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Manufacturers of a class of food-derived supplements called nutraceuticals often...

Earth's Aphelion Isn't the Reason for the Seasons

Earth's Aphelion Isn't the Reason for the Seasons

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Our planet’s not-quite-circular orbit means that on July 6 we’ll be about 2.5 mi...

Europe's Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era in Studies of the 'Dark Universe'

Europe's Euclid Space Telescope Is Launching a New Era ...

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The Euclid mission will probe dark energy and dark matter like never before, set...

Can Your Body's Response to Music Predict Hit Songs? A New AI Study Claims It Can

Can Your Body's Response to Music Predict Hit Songs? A ...

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A new study suggests AI can analyze cardiac activity to predict whether a song w...

How Do CPAP Machines Treat Sleep Apnea?

How Do CPAP Machines Treat Sleep Apnea?

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President Joe Biden has been using a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea, acco...

Why Scientists Must Stand for Affirmative Action and against Scientific Racism

Why Scientists Must Stand for Affirmative Action and ag...

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STEM professionals must stand against the white supremacy and scientific racism ...

In a First, Scientists See Neutrinos Emitted by the Milky Way

In a First, Scientists See Neutrinos Emitted by the Mil...

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The disk of our galaxy was long thought to produce these ghostly high-energy par...

Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells

Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Sep...

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Scientists hypothesize that coiled channels inside a cat’s nose may function lik...

The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]

The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World...

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John O’Keefe shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that...

Discrimination May Hasten Menopause in Black and Hispanic Women

Discrimination May Hasten Menopause in Black and Hispan...

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Researchers say understanding differences in when menopause starts in racial and...

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