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Scientific American Magazine
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Features
The Fossil-Fuel Industry Has a Plan to Drown Earth in Plastic
To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products
Beth Gardiner
Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment—If Funding Cuts Don’t Doom Them
Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy
Rowan Moore Gerety
Mars Sample That May Contain Evidence of Life Might Never Come Home
NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded
Jonathan O'Callaghan
Postpartum Depression Gets a Fast-Acting Fix
Deep emotional distress after birth kills many mothers. A new kind of drug offers better, faster treatment
Marla Broadfoot
Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal?
What can AI “griefbots” do for those in mourning?
David Berreby