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Lessons from Milgram’s Shock Studies on Confronting Authoritarianism
Fifty years ago, Stanley Milgram conducted a series of experiments that shed light on the extent to which ordinary people would follow orders, even when it meant causing harm to others. The results of...
Polio Outbreak in Gaza: Updates on Vaccination Campaign
The first round of a global effort to vaccinate children in the Gaza Strip against polio concluded in mid-September, with almost 560,000 kids receiving initial doses amid humanitarian pauses in the ongoing war. The...
UK’s Last Coal-Fired Power Plant in Nottinghamshire Shuts Down: A Final Farewell
It was a somber day at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power plant in Nottinghamshire as the last coal-fired power plant in the UK shut down, marking the end of a 142-year reliance on coal for electricity generation....
Discovering Negative Time: Quantum Physicists’ Strange Experiment Unveils New Findings
Quantum physicists are always uncovering strange and fascinating phenomena in the quantum realm. Recently, researchers at the University of Toronto led by Daniela Angulo made a groundbreaking discovery: photons, the wave-particles of light, can...
Early Universe Had More Black Holes than Previously Believed, Hubble Study Finds
Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive objects in the universe, with masses around one billion times more than that of the Sun. These black holes have been around for a long...
Health Care Worker Exposed to Bird Flu: Symptoms and Unknowns
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported that additional health care workers in Missouri developed mild respiratory symptoms after being exposed to a person hospitalized with confirmed H5N1 infection. Blood samples were...
Uncovering the Dangers of Thalidomide: Medical Investigation and Insights
It’s the early 1960s, and Widukind Lenz, a German pediatrician, is going door to door in his efforts to find out what is causing an epidemic of babies born with shortened limbs and other...
Understanding the Essence of Math with Drag Queen Kyne Santos
Mathematics is a subject that has puzzled many, including mathematicians themselves. The question of whether math is a discovery of nature or an invention of the human mind is still a topic of debate....
Is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS the Brightest of the Year? – Expert Analysis and Predictions
A comet named C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has astronomers excited as it approaches the sun in the coming days. Discovered in January 2023, this comet has an eccentricity just barely hyperbolic, indicating it likely originated...
Changing Perceptions: Rare Diagnoses and Medical Risk
As a graphics editor at Scientific American, I spend a lot of time thinking about and visualizing data—including data on medical risks. So when I got pregnant in 2018, I was prepared for things...