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1	Sep 15, '20	Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now. The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you to vote fo	1630×	0	151k	65k	1.7k
2	Sep 16, '24	For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. \| Editorial	397×	11.2M	47k	16k	2.1k
3	Sep 15, '20	The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and science. The most devastating example is his willfully	223×	0	26k	6.8k	112
4	Oct 9, '20	Editorial: Instead of thinking about whether to vote Democratic or Republican in the upcoming U.S. election, think about voting to protect science instead of destroying it.	126×	0	15k	4.5k	135
5	Jan 27, '19	Cardiac coherence breathing exercises can stabilize the heartbeat and have a powerful ability to dampen anxiety.	114×	0	5.3k	2.2k	1.2k
6	Jul 26, '24	As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say	112×	3.1M	3.2k	908	389
7	Sep 20, '19	“We are a wave of change. Together and united, we are unstoppable. This is what people power looks like. We will rise to the challenge," said 16-year-old climate activist @GretaThu	108×	0	15k	2.7k	65
8	Jul 19, '19	Elon Musk seeks to enable humans to “merge” with AI, giving people superhuman intelligence. (By @tanyalewis314)	107×	0	13k	2.4k	230
9	Nov 27, '18	Your dog may not be a genius, after all. A new study finds that canines are not exceptional in the animal world.	87.9×	0	3.2k	689	105
10	Oct 17, '23	The notion that men evolved to hunt and women to tend to children and domestic duties is one of anthropology’s most influential ideas. But the available data do not support it. Evi	78.7×	2.2M	4.1k	1.1k	930
11	Mar 13, '24	Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging	75.2×	2.1M	3.4k	1.7k	1.6k
12	Nov 9, '20	Joe Biden will soon be president of the United States, and scientists the world over are breathing a collective sigh of relief.	60.7×	0	8.7k	1.3k	62
13	Feb 14, '19	Instead of a wall, we could build solar and wind farms, plus 2,000 miles of natural gas and water pipelines to power and supply water for farms and industry along the entire U.S.–M	52.3×	0	4.4k	2.4k	65
14	Apr 12, '21	Scientific American has agreed with major news outlets worldwide to start using the term “climate emergency” in its coverage of climate change. Read our statement about this decisi	49.2×	0	3.2k	1.4k	100
15	May 3, '23	Decades of data support the use and safety of puberty-pausing medications, which give transgender adolescents and their families time to weigh important medical decisions	47.3×	1.3M	2.3k	604	307
16	Jul 7, '20	More than 200 scientists have outlined evidence that they say shows the novel coronavirus can spread in tiny airborne particles, urging the @WHO to update its guidance. Read our st	46.4×	0	3.1k	2.2k	235
17	Jul 21, '17	A tough but flexible robot unfurls like a plant using a pressurized plastic tube to inch through rugged environments.	46.1×	0	3.8k	2.2k	7
18	Aug 24, '23	A steadily growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that "rapid-onset gender dysphoria" claims do not reflect transgender adolescents’ experiences and that “social contagio	45.4×	1.3M	4.4k	1.2k	516
19	Jun 13, '17	Jupiter now has 69 moons: two new satellites join the gas giant's family	44.9×	0	2.7k	1.6k	0
20	Feb 20, '18	Road trip! @ElonMusk’s Tesla Roadster won’t strike Earth anytime soon. New research suggests the vehicle will cruise through space for tens of millions of years @SpaceX	44.5×	0	6.2k	1.1k	1
21	Apr 24, '20	Happy 30th birthday, @NASAHubble! 🎂🥳	41.3×	0	5.1k	1.4k	54
22	Oct 15, '24	Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm	40.4×	1.1M	2k	385	351
23	Aug 22, '17	Path of totality. Nashville, TN. 📷 Richard Sparkman. #SolarEclipse2017	38×	0	4.1k	1.6k	0
24	Jun 11, '20	In Opinion Stop using phony science to justify transphobia. Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary	37.9×	0	2.9k	1.4k	567
25	May 10, '21	The first gender affirmation surgeries took place in the 1920s, at a Berlin clinic that employed transgender technicians and nurses and was headed by a gay Jewish man. The Nazis de	36.4×	0	2.3k	945	629
26	Aug 31, '20	COVID-19 can wreck your heart, even if you haven't had any symptoms	35.2×	0	2.1k	1.6k	294
27	Feb 11, '16	Confirmed: #LIGO has detected gravitational waves created by merging black holes	34.8×	0	1.9k	2.5k	1
28	Aug 8, '17	A century of global warming, in just 35 seconds	32.8×	0	2k	2.1k	3
29	Feb 28, '20	Freeman Dyson has died at 96. Dyson helped construct the standard model of particle physics, and he envisioned the Singularity decades before that term was adopted. A tribute, by @	31.1×	0	4k	924	59
30	Nov 14, '18	A frozen super-Earth may orbit Barnard’s Star. At just six light years away, the candidate planet would be the second-closest world known beyond our solar system—and a prime target	31.1×	0	3.2k	1.2k	41
31	Jan 30, '18	Blog: Bill Nye does not speak for us and he does not speak for science (By @500womensci)	30.8×	0	2.3k	1.1k	1
32	Jul 10, '19	Nikola Tesla was born on this day in 1856. Read the autobiographical sketch he wrote in the June 1915 issue of Scientific American:	29.1×	0	3.5k	1k	74
33	Feb 6, '24	“We’re still in a pandemic,” says a lead COVID official with the World Health Organization	28.4×	798k	1.8k	810	223
34	Dec 4, '18	Monumental disaster at the Department of the Interior: a new report documents suppression of science, denial of climate change, the silencing and intimidation of staff	28.2×	0	1.7k	1.6k	35
35	Jul 11, '22	This is the picture we’ve all been waiting for—the deepest image of the cosmos ever captured. Billions of dollars and lifetimes of work have brought us to this historic moment. Wat	28.1×	0	3.1k	862	114
36	Jul 14, '23	The temperature in Death Valley could rise above 130 degrees Fahrenheit this weekend. If it does, it would set a record for the hottest temperature ever reliably measured on Earth	27.2×	764k	1.6k	558	32
37	Jul 13, '22	The Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago. Hubble sees back to roughly 13.5 billion years. #JWST was designed to peer into a part of the universe we've never seen before—when th	26.1×	0	3k	828	195
38	Jun 28, '21	Behold the highest-resolution image of atoms ever seen	24.7×	0	3.3k	642	64
39	Oct 2, '18	Donna Strickland is the third woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. "We need to celebrate women physicists because we're out there," she said upon hearing the news. “Hopefully i	23.5×	0	2.3k	1.1k	6
40	Apr 20, '24	Three types of misinformation are being used against transgender people: oversimplifying scientific knowledge, fabricating and misinterpreting research, and promoting false equival	23.4×	656k	2.1k	697	499
41	Aug 5, '19	Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, a study shows. And the American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male that meets a very specific	22.5×	0	1.5k	1.1k	108
42	Dec 7, '17	View post on X	22.4×	0	1.9k	1.1k	1
43	Feb 24, '17	Goal! Scientists teach bumblebees how to play soccer	19.5×	0	1.5k	966	0
44	Nov 27, '16	Homeopathic medicine labels now must state products do not work	19×	0	1.2k	1k	0
45	Jan 7, '19	Exercise is not optional; it is essential. Humans have evolved to require high levels of physical activity to be healthy. 🔒	18.9×	0	1.7k	839	70
46	Jul 20, '18	On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the moon. Video:	18.7×	0	1.7k	863	8
47	Jun 1, '17	Ahead of Trump decision, China says it will stick to Paris climate deal	18.3×	0	1.7k	744	0
48	Jun 5, '21	For this experiment, a researcher talked to eight-week-old puppies that had previously had little experience with humans. Specifically, the experimenter would say: “Hi pup. Are you	18×	0	2.2k	387	99
49	Mar 25, '17	If Obama’s Clean Power Plan is scrubbed, pollution from coal plants will choke agricultural productivity.	17.8×	0	1.1k	1.1k	0
50	Sep 30, '24	Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time	⚡ 17.7×	2.5M	1.2k	261	692
51	Jan 15, '18	How diversity makes us smarter: being around people who are different from us makes us more creative, more diligent and harder-working	17.4×	0	1.4k	946	0
52	Oct 2, '17	More firearms do not keep people safe, research show. Why do so many Americans believe the opposite? #guncontrol	16.8×	0	1.1k	970	0
53	Jun 28, '19	In computer science, Pāṇini–Backus form is a way of notating syntactical features of programming languages. It is named for 4th-century BCE Indian scholar and linguist Pāṇini and J	16.6×	0	1.4k	797	82
54	Aug 17, '19	The world is gradually becoming less green, scientists have found.	16.5×	0	1.2k	840	39
55	Oct 15, '20	Luminous zebra fish wins contest for microscopic photography	16.3×	0	2.2k	425	47
56	Sep 18, '19	Scientists are finding that pterosaurs were even more extraordinary than we ever imagined	16.3×	0	1.9k	539	53
57	Dec 31, '19	Australia's angry summer: This is what climate change looks like. The catastrophic fires raging across the southern half of the continent are largely the result of rising temperatu	16.1×	0	1.1k	851	44
58	Dec 28, '18	Three percent of the population now owns half of the country’s firearms, a recent study shows. And the American citizen most likely to own a gun is a white male that meets a very s	16×	0	1.1k	752	85
59	Aug 14, '21	“Damage from the Charles Koch Floods along the Missouri River are being compounded by heavy rains from Hurricane Inhofe.” A proposal to name climate disasters after polluters and p	16×	0	1.8k	566	28
60	Nov 12, '19	After more than two decades of research, the world finally has an approved Ebola vaccine.	15.4×	0	1.5k	688	28
61	Jun 16, '17	Elon Musk publishes plans for colonizing Mars	15.2×	0	1.4k	671	3
62	Nov 2, '20	This year, Scientific American endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in our 175-year history. The 2020 election is literally a matter of life and death. We urge you	15.1×	0	1.6k	446	18
63	Jan 8, '19	Stephen Hawking was born on this day in 1942. He was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century and perhaps the most celebrated icon of contemporary science.	14.7×	0	1.6k	584	24
64	Dec 25, '20	At the North Pole, 24 time zones collide at a single point, rendering them meaningless. It’s simultaneously all of Earth’s time zones and none of them.	14.1×	0	1.6k	371	127
65	Jan 4, '24	Vaccination dramatically lowers long COVID risk	14×	392k	1.1k	339	118
66	Dec 23, '18	China is once again on the threshold of a historic first in its fast-paced exploration of Earth’s moon.	13.9×	0	1.5k	486	27
67	Dec 23, '17	If corrective facts only make matters worse, what can we do to convince people of the error of their beliefs? 🔥 This was one of our most popular stories in 2017.	13.7×	0	1.2k	685	3
68	Jun 2, '24	A new study shows that hundreds of thousands more Black people in the U.S. would qualify for a lung disease diagnosis and disability payments if lung-function measurements weren’t	13.7×	384k	1.2k	598	256
69	Apr 10, '19	At last, a black hole’s image revealed. The Event Horizon Telescope accomplishes a historic feat, capturing one of the universe’s most mysterious objects #EHTBlackhole (By @LeeBill	13.4×	0	1.3k	551	9
70	Aug 28, '18	First published on this day in 1845, Scientific American is the longest continuously running magazine in the U.S. We have been the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advance	13.3×	0	1.4k	509	4
71	Sep 18, '20	Scientific American has endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in our 175-year history. We urge you to vote for @JoeBiden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect	13.2×	0	1.4k	415	13
72	Mar 24, '24	Research shows that even mild COVID-19 can lead to the equivalent of seven years of brain aging	13.2×	370k	1.4k	645	510
73	Nov 19, '18	Small farmers in Mexico keep corn’s genetic diversity alive	13×	0	1.4k	522	18
74	Oct 22, '18	Oxygen-rich liquid water may exist on Mars	13×	0	1.8k	337	10
75	Aug 1, '21	The claim that Indigenous students in residential schools “only” died of TB is an attempt to whitewash what survivors and scholars recognize as genocide. The institutions caused th	12.8×	0	1k	581	76
76	Aug 3, '19	Since Bolsonaro took office in January, Brazil’s researchers have faced funding cuts and repeated attempts by the administration to roll back protections for the environment and In	12.8×	0	1.2k	587	14
77	Oct 18, '19	Sleep deprivation shuts down production of essential brain proteins	12.5×	0	1.2k	498	74
78	Jun 8, '21	See iridescent jellyfish and glowing wonders of the sea in World Oceans Day photos	12.4×	0	1.5k	421	41
79	Mar 25, '19	The adult brain does grow new neurons after all, study says	12×	0	1.1k	494	45
80	Jul 22, '18	Candidates with science and technical backgrounds are running for Congress this year in unprecedented numbers.	11.9×	0	1.3k	469	3
81	Sep 17, '24	Kamala Harris has plans to improve health, boost the economy, and mitigate climate change. Donald Trump has threats and a dangerous record. That’s why the editors of Scientific Ame	11.3×	318k	7.5k	2.4k	191
82	Jan 31, '21	Psychedelic drugs in combination with psychotherapy "are remarkably efficient at treating depression." An analysis of serotonergic psychedelics such as LSD, psilocybin and DMT from	11.2×	0	1.2k	336	82
83	Oct 14, '20	Science, built on facts and evidence-based analysis, is fundamental to a safe and fair America.	11.2×	0	1.3k	376	12
84	Apr 20, '21	"The data show very clearly that where you had Black Lives Matter protests, killing of people by the police decreased. It’s inescapable from this study that protest matters—that it	11×	0	1.1k	429	54
85	Apr 3, '18	Happy 84th birthday, Dr. Jane Goodall! In this interview from October, the famed primatologist talks about her past work, her environmental concerns and the importance of conservat	10.6×	0	1.3k	403	4
86	Oct 9, '17	Jane Goodall, still traveling the world and speaking up for animals at 83	10.2×	0	1.1k	401	0
87	Nov 6, '20	Mark Kelly has won a seat in the U.S. Senate, making him only the fourth NASA astronaut to be elected to Congress.	9.9×	0	1.5k	168	3
88	Jan 3, '24	Vaccination dramatically lowers long COVID risk	9.3×	262k	1.5k	586	140
89	Apr 2, '21	The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs created the Amazon rain forest	9.1×	0	1.1k	242	44
90	Jan 20, '21	Joe Biden will spend his first hours as president trying to obliterate much of the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda, restore public land protections and reestablish the U	8.3×	0	1.1k	165	5
91	Jun 18, '24	We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our heads in the sand and why we need to pull them out, fast \| Opinion	7.5×	212k	1.3k	486	383
92	Jan 5, '24	No, COVID mRNA vaccines won't damage your DNA	7.2×	201k	2.2k	664	96
93	Jan 4, '24	No, COVID mRNA vaccines won't damage your DNA	6.8×	190k	2.3k	626	66
94	Aug 21, '24	Science means being able to change your mind in light of new evidence	5.3×	149k	2k	653	284
95	Aug 4, '24	A novel way of making superheavy elements could soon add a new row to the periodic table, allowing scientists to explore uncharted atomic realms	1.5×	42k	117	27	15
96	Jul 28, '24	A novel way of making superheavy elements could soon add a new row to the periodic table, allowing scientists to explore uncharted atomic realms	1.5×	41k	113	27	14
97	Aug 11, '24	Helen Edwards was a particle physicist who led the design and construction of the Tevatron, a machine built to probe deeper into the atom than anyone had gone before.	1.5×	41k	103	26	10
98	Jul 31, '24	For thousands of years, scholars pondered the question of how anything can move in our world. The problem seemed to have been solved—until the development of quantum mechanics	1.0×	28k	85	28	12
99	Apr 29, '24	A rectangular nine-volt battery is basically just a bunch of smaller batteries in a trench coat	1.0×	28k	92	24	5
100	Aug 9, '24	With the detection of a long-predicted “neutrino fog,” the search for particles of dark matter has entered a new age of both possibility and peril	0.9×	27k	88	30	6

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