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Matt York / AP Conservatives Try to Rebrand the Coronavirus
The term Wuhan virus treats COVID-19 as a Chinese scourge—and ignores an ugly history.
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AP The Scientist and the Fascist
How Einstein reacted to Hitler’s rise
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Matt Dunham / AP The Sexist Response to a Science Book Prize
After Andrea Wulf won the Royal Society’s highest honor for her book The Invention of Nature, a writer at The Guardian attributed it to a new fondness for “female-friendly” biographies among prize juries.
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ESO / M. Kornmesser / N. Risinger Astronomers Have Found Planets in the Habitable Zone of a Nearby Star
The newly discovered worlds are now the most promising targets in the search for life among the stars—and the race to take a closer look at them has begun.
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R.Hurt / Caltech / IPAC A New Planet or a Red Herring?
The history of astronomy gives us plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the potential new addition to our solar system.
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Larry Downing / Reuters What Chief Justice Roberts Misunderstands About Physics
Science is not a separate realm that sits outside culture.
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Corbis Science Doesn’t Work the Way You Might Think
Not even for Einstein
