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Science Crossword: Organized Chaos

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2025/10/14

Play this crossword inspired by the November 2025 issue of Scientific American

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What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and...

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2025/10/14

Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

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Complex Life May Have Evolved Multiple Times

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2025/10/14

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

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Contributors to Scientific American’s November 2025...

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2025/10/14

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

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Three Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Can Really Fight...

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2025/10/14

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

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Saving the Vision of People with Diabetic Retinopathy

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2025/10/14

Diabetic eye disease robs sight from millions. But there are often ways to save vision

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Workouts Help to Treat Cancer and Improve Survival

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2025/10/14

Workouts seem to release body chemicals that improve cancer survival and limit recurrence

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SpaceX’s Starship Succeeds in Final Test Flight of 2025

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2025/10/14

With the successful 11th test flight of its Starship megarocket, SpaceX is on the cusp of a new era in spaceflight

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Coral Die-Off Marks Earth’s First Climate ‘Tipping...

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2025/10/13

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread coral reef bleaching and death around the world

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Nobel Prize Winner Shimon Sakaguchi Reflects on How...

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2025/10/13

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplant rejection

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Moving NASA Space Shuttle to Texas from DC Could...

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2025/10/13

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to destroy a near-priceless American treasure,” one historian says

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Scientists Map Microbiome Hidden Deep inside Tree Trunks

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2025/10/13

Trees’ inner heartwood harbors methane-producing microbes adapted to oxygen-poor swamps and cow guts

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2025 Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine, Physics and...

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2025/10/13

The CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of rising child malnutrition in Gaza.

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How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope

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2025/10/11

A decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missed

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OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets Users Generate AI...

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2025/10/10

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Part of a Pig Liver was Transplanted into a Human

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2025/10/10

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more than a month

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The Science Behind Peak Fall Colors: What to Expect...

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2025/10/10

If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer

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Alzheimer’s-Related Biomarker Found at Elevated...

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2025/10/10

Researchers hope the finding could point to new therapeutic approaches for the disease

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The San Andreas and Cascadia Earthquake Faults May Be...

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2025/10/10

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in quick succession over the past 3,000 years

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Can You See the Earth and Moon from Mars?

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2025/10/10

If you pick the right time, our home world and our moon could be easily visible from the Red Planet

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