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November 02, 2020

Policy & Ethics How the Senate Race Could Shape Future U.S. Climate Action Control of the Senate is seen as a linchpin to enacting meaningful climate legislation By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Public Health Deliberate Efforts to Achieve Herd Immunity to COVID Are Dangerous More people will die, and it might not even work By Steven Albert,The Conversation US

Conservation Rain Forest Canopy Bridges Aid Slow Lorises, Gibbons and Other Threatened Species The world's most endangered primate is only the latest example of an arboreal animal benefiting from this simple yet effective conservation solution By Rachel Nuwer

Space NASA's OSIRIS-REx Probe Successfully Stows Space-Rock Sample The spacecraft will deliver the pristine material from asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023 By Mike Wall,SPACE.com

Policy & Ethics Beware Political Hype over the 'Right to Try' COVID Drugs Giving some patients fast access to experimental treatments is no pandemic panacea By Jeremy Snyder

Physics What 50 Gravitational-Wave Events Reveal about the Universe Astrophysicists now have enough black-hole mergers to map their frequency over the cosmos's history By Davide Castelvecchi,Nature magazine

Space 'Like Froth on a Cappuccino': Spacecraft's Chaotic Landing Reveals Comet's Softness Detective work reconstructs the final movements of the European Space Agency's Philae probe By Elizabeth Gibney,Nature magazine

Policy & Ethics Election Science Stakes: Technology We wrap up our preelection series with Scientific American senior editor Jen Schwartz, who talks about the possible effects of the election results on technology development and use.  By Jen Schwartz,Steve Mirsky | 03:56

Space How Geologists Reveal the Secrets of the Solar System Rocks that have fallen to Earth or that have been brought here deliberately are practically the only way we can study planets and asteroids up close By Tim Gregory

The Body Taking Early Cancer Detection to the Next Level The genomic revolution gives us an opportunity to bend the mortality curve By Joshua J. Ofman,Azra Raza

Conservation We Can Save Earth's Coral Reefs Members of the International Coral Reef Initiative have agreed on the steps we must take. Now governments have to act By Alfred DeGemmis,Stacy Jupiter,Simon Cripps,Emily Darling

Policy & Ethics Confronting Misinformation How to protect society from fear, lies and division

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