A comic uses fluid dynamics to explain how groups of people move—and how that could help make large gatherings safer.
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Taking stock of the moment for science and science policy.
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Polls capture shifting, conflicted public views about science.
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How we learned to sort true from false in medicine.
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Practiced mostly by women, this fishing tradition is thousands of years old. Can it survive?
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The first evidence from a randomized controlled trial that financial assistance helps prevent homelessness.
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Why dangerous crowds behave the way they do.
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Sixty years later, will anybody have heard of COVID-19?
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One question for Ruth Morgan, a professor of crime and forensic sciences at University College London.
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One question for Laura Weidinger and Iason Gabriel, research scientists at Google DeepMind.
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