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Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Amy Moran-Thomas
Forensic scientists respond to allegations that their work harms the criminal justice system.
Wesley Vernon, Michael Nirenberg, Nathan J. Robinson
Polls are bad at picking presidents but still have much to teach us.
Claude S. Fischer
University fossil-fuel divestment is a well-meaning, but misguided, enterprise.
David G. Victor
The recurring, and often conflicting, narratives of technology and progress.
Meghan O’Gieblyn
Two men test their ethical and spiritual mettle by raising and slaughtering pigs.
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Michigan law shields decision-makers from public scrutiny.
Anna Clark
Symbiosis, not just gradual change, may lie at the heart of how evolution works.
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Railways are leaving themselves at risk of dangerous hacking—and they know it.
Bryce Emley
It is impossible to divorce nature from human influence. Can that influence be democratic?
Jedediah Purdy
For anti-Assad rebels, a southern spring has become a kind of suicide bomb.
Alisa Reznick
The FDA has approved an ineffective drug for a disease that may not exist.
Hair tests, bite marks, blood spatter: it’s mostly magic.
Nathan J. Robinson
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