Microbes that live in fishes’ slimy mucus coating could lead chemists to new antibiotic drugs
310 Views March 31, 2019 Sandra Loesgen
Drug discovery can get an assist from what nature's already devised. Annie Spratt/Unsplash, CC…
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March 2019
Last of the giants: What killed off Madagascar’s megafauna a thousand years ago?
241 Views March 29, 2019 Nick Scroxton
A modern mouse lemur *Microcebus* sits upon the cranium of an extinct *Megaladapis* lemur.…
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Medicaid work requirements: Is there a path forward that could help the poor, not harm them?
282 Views March 29, 2019 Simon F. Haeder
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson at a press conference in Little Rock, talking about new…
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What happens to rural and small-town Trump voters after Trump is gone?
222 Views March 29, 2019 J. Edwin Benton
How will Trump's rural and small-town voters affect American politics after he's gone? AP/David…
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Data reveals the value of an assist in basketball
247 Views March 29, 2019 Konstantinos Pelechrinis
A player drives to the basket. As the defense collapses, he passes the ball…
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Are astronauts worth tens of billions of dollars in extra costs to go to Mars?
276 Views March 29, 2019 Steve Swanson
What makes more sense: Sending a human or a robot to Mars? Juergen Faelchle/Shutterstock.com…
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Want to fix gerrymandering? Then the Supreme Court needs to listen to mathematicians
240 Views March 29, 2019 Manil Suri
Activists at the Supreme Court opposed to partisan gerrymandering hold up representations of congressional…
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For a flooded Midwest, climate forecasts offer little comfort
228 Views March 29, 2019 Shuang-Ye Wu
Historic flooding in the Midwest, including this farm in Nebraska, has caused widespread damage.…
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For devastating Midwest floods, climate forecasts offer little comfort
220 Views March 29, 2019 Shuang-Ye Wu
Historic flooding in the Midwest, including this farm in Nebraska, has caused widespread damage.…
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Why pay transparency alone won’t eliminate the persistent wage gap between men and women
232 Views March 29, 2019 Nancy Modesitt
The gender pay gap has proved difficult to close. Ian johnston/shutterstock.com No matter how…