Forerunners
14 articles-
How to Build Trust in Covid-19 Vaccines
Why people distrust vaccines and how they can be convinced otherwise.
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Physicists Nail Down the “Magic Number” That Shapes the Universe
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.As fundamental constants go, the speed of light, c, enjoys all the fame, yet c’s numerical value says nothing about nature; it differs depending on whether it’s measured in meters per second or miles per hour. The fine-structure constant, by contrast, has no dimensions or units. It’s a pure number […]
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The Problem with a New Study on Mentorship in Science
Arguably the best prescription to improve the situation facing women in science is for there to be more women in science.Oleg Golovnev / Shutterstock The increasing visibility of women in leadership roles is one of the few success stories in the struggle for equality in science. But a new study, which connects how often scientists’ […]
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Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
Is memorizing a string of words a key to what makes the human brain unique?
