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June 01, 2021

At the Bottom of Lake Huron, an Ancient Mystery Materializes Two small artifacts recovered from the depths have a big story to tell. They are challenging what we think we know about how humans lived in North American nearly 10,000 years ago. By Aaron Martin | June 1, 2021

Policy & Ethics Sexuality, Gender and Justice This Pride Month, discover the science supporting equality and antidiscrimination

Public Health Vivid Photos Capture the Emotions of People Getting Their COVID Vaccinations At a mass vaccination site in New Jersey, people got a shot of hope By Grant Delin,Robin Lloyd

Policy & Ethics Biden Budget Includes Plan to Help Poor Buy Flood Insurance The money comes as FEMA looks to revamp its insurance program to better reflect flood risks By Thomas Frank,E&E News

Environment Pesticides Are Killing the World's Soils They cause significant harm to earthworms, beetles, ground-nesting bees and thousands of other vital subterranean species By Nathan Donley,Tari Gunstone

Public Health As the Pandemic Wanes, Sexually Transmitted Infections Are Likely to Rise We created new vaccines. Now how about creating better protection against STIs? By Ina Park

Climate That 'Obama Scientist' Climate Skeptic You've Been Hearing About ... His track record on getting climate science right is extremely poor By Naomi Oreskes,Michael E. Mann,Gernot Wagner,Don Wuebbles,Andrew Dessler,Andrea Dutton,Geoffrey Supran,Matthew Huber,Thomas Lovejoy,Ilissa Ocko,Peter C. Frumhoff,Joel Clement

Space Maybe Dark Matter Is More Than One Thing If so, it could explain some inconsistencies in our observations By Avi Loeb

Computing DNA: The Ultimate Data-Storage Solution The double helix can archive a staggering amount of information in an almost inconceivably small volume By Latchesar Ionkov,Bradley Settlemyer

Policy & Ethics Biomedical Research Falls Short at Factoring in Sex and Gender Despite policies that endorse more inclusiveness, incentives work against including female subjects in experiments By Rebecca M. Shansky,Anne Z. Murphy

FROM THE STORE Evolution: The Human Odyssey The complex story of human evolution is a tale seven million years in the making. Each new discovery adds to or revises our story and our understanding of how we came to be the way we are. In this eBook, Evolution: The Human Odyssey*, we explore the evolution of those characteristics that make us human.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE Stop Using Phony Science to Justify Transphobia Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary By Simón(e) D Sun | June 2019

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Gender is not something given that we need to unearth, but something that remakes itself--the same or anew--over and over again as we gather new experiences of the world...Transitioning is just another way we explore our gender." Florence Ashley, transfeminine jurist and bioethicist via Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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