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A Black Physician’s Analysis Of The Legacy Of Racism In Medicine

Faraway Planets Could Have Oceans Of Magma

Making Chemistry More Accessible To Blind And Low-Vision People

Understanding And Curbing Generative AI’s Energy Consumption

How Do You Know If A Feathered Dinosaur Could Fly?

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A Year After Chemical Spill, Ohio Community Is Still Recovering

Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins Defamation Case

Odysseus Lander Is On Its Way To The Moon

An interview with the president and founder of African Gong, Elizabeth Rasekoala. Her current book <em>Race and Sociocultaral Inclusion in Science Communication</em> brings together perspectives from science communicators from the global south. Host, Katie L. Burke, Digital Features Editor at American Scientist. Edited by Nwabata Nnani.

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Global Discourse on Science Communication

Cosmic rays have mysterious qualities about them that scientists continue to research in order to better understand their origins and composition. Dr. Eun-Suk Seo, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland, and her colleagues, fly enormous balloons as large as a football stadium and a volume of 40-million-cubic feet for extended periods over Antarctica to reach as close to the top of the atmosphere as possible. The instruments in the balloons can then record the particles coming from cosmic rays before they break up in the atmosphere. Dr. Seo further explains how her work can help humans understand the origins of cosmic rays and why they are so highly energetic.

From Balloons to Space Stations: Studying Cosmic Rays

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From Balloons to Space Stations: Studying Cosmic Rays

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