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Science Shouldn't Give Data Brokers Cover for Stealing Your Privacy  
Science Shouldn't Give Data Brokers Cover for Stealing Your Privacy
Data brokers buy and sell millions of people's personal information. When scientists use those data, they provide cover for a massive invasion of privacy, says Gennie Gebhart and Josh Richman, both at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
 
Some of Earth's Most Famous Art Started with Stardust  
Some of Earth's Most Famous Art Started with Stardust
Some of the pigments in our most vibrant paint colors have their origins in stardust, nuclear astrophysicist Sanjana Curtis tells us, and this is a reminder of how interconnected we are with not just the world but the universe.
 
The SAT Problem That Everybody Got Wrong  
The SAT Problem That Everybody Got Wrong
The answer to an SAT test question about one object rolling around another defies common sense, but it is a math puzzle we encounter every day and describes planetary motion, says writer Jack Murtagh.
 
High School Students Need More Sleep and Later School Start Times  
High School Students Need More Sleep and Later School Start Times
A group of high school students in New Mexico wrote to us about their experiences with sleepiness in response to our editorial calling for later school start times. Their district took up the issue soon after, and here's what happened.
 
The Jackson Water Crisis Didn't Need to Happen  
The Jackson Water Crisis Didn't Need to Happen
Brown University epidemiologist Erica D. Walker explains how a project her colleagues carried out in response to the water crisis in Jackson, Miss., is a type of community-based participatory research approach called storm chasing and why scientists and funders need to consider it more often.
 
 
 
 
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