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March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 1 March 2021 VOLUME 324, NUMBER 3 00 ON ThE cOVEr A Black Lives Matter protest last August at ...

Scientific American (ISSN 0036-8733), Volume 324, Number 3, March 2021 published monthly by Scientific American, a division of S ...

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4 Scientific American, March 2021 Illustration by Nick Higgins FROM THE EDITOR Laura Helmuth is editor in chief of Scientific Am ...

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6 Scientific American, March 2021 LETTERS [email protected] FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY I read “The Pandemic We Forgot,” Scott Hershberger ...

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8 Scientific American, March 2021 LETTERS [email protected] ESTABLISHED 1845 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR HOW TO CONTACT US Subscriptio ...

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10 Scientific American, March 2021 SCIENCE AGENDA OPINION AND ANALYSIS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN’S BOARD OF EDITORS Illustration ...

March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 11 FORUM COMMENTARY ON SCIENCE IN THE NEWS FROM THE EXPERTS Nick Pyenson is a research geolog ...

ADVANCES 12 Scientific American, March 2021 The first octopus genome sequenced was from a California two-spot octopus (species p ...

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ADVANCES 14 Scientific American, March 2021 ing. But of all the widely studied “model species” that are easy to raise in the lab ...

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March 2021, ScientificAmerican.com 17 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR Whale Mimics Australian pilot whales might copy orca calls Southern long-f ...

ADVANCES 18 Scientific American, March 2021 WILSON R. RAMIREZ Illustration by Thomas Fuchs O P T I C S Traveling Photons A laser ...