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March 2020 ScIENTIFIcaMErIcaN.cOM WHAT’S IN WILDFIRE SMOKE? HOW WE LEARN NEW HOPE FOR RARE DISEASES A COSMIC CRISIS How fast is ...

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March 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 1 March 2020 VOLUME 322, NUMBER 3 Photograph by Matt Nager COSMOLOGY 30 A Cosmic Crisis Two d ...

2 Scientific American, March 2020 Scientific American (ISSN 0036-8733), Volume 322, Number 3, March 2020, published monthly by S ...

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4 Scientific American, March 2020 FROM THE EDITOR Curtis Brainard is acting editor in chief of Scientific American. Follow him o ...

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6 Scientific American, March 2020 LETTERS [email protected] SOCIAL MEDIA DEBATE Lydia Denworth is a little too quick to dis- mis ...

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March 2020, ScientificAmerican.com 9 LETTERS [email protected] ESTABLISHED 1845 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HOW TO CONTACT US Subscrip ...

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12 Scientific American, March 2020 Illustration by Dion MBD SCIENCE AGENDA OPINION AND ANALYSIS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’S BOARD ...

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14 Scientific American, March 2020 FORUM COMMENTARY ON SCIENCE IN THE NEWS FROM THE EXPERTS Illustration by Eleni Kalorkoti Erin ...

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ADVANCES 16 Scientific American, March 2020 Laser light traveling through fiber-optic lines ( visualized here ) can provide ultr ...

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18 Scientific American, March 2020 Illustration by Thomas Fuchs ADVANCES industry a decade ago, this technique— known as distrib ...