A swarm of over 200 small quakes has shaken the notoriously earthquake prone region over the past week.
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More Than 200 Earthquakes Just Rattled California
A New Twist in the Fight Against Sexism in Science
What once might have been whispered in labs is now a public conversation: loud, open, and clear.
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How LEDs Are Making Weed Better
As more states legalize recreational and medical marijuana use, the LED business is growing and professionalizing.
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What Happens When You Dye the Ocean Pink? Science!
Scientists are hoping to develop better models of how runoff mixes with the ocean.
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The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language
Garbage in, garbage out when it comes to big data analysis of language and culture.
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Scientists Found a Flu Vaccine Flaw—Now They Have to Fix It
The H3N2 subtype is the deadliest of the common flu viruses---and the one vaccines are worst at fighting.
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It Just Got a Lot Harder for Big Tobacco to Defend Itself
This week, the 12 countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership---the largest regional trade agreement in history---slapped tobacco down.
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Why America Still Doesn’t Have Any Good Data on Guns
A comprehensive government databases exists for car deaths. Why not for gun deaths?
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Framing the battle over credit for CRISPR as Berkeley v. MIT is wrong.
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Why Science Can’t Say When a Baby’s Life Begins
If anything, science has only complicated the personhood debate.
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