Early embryonic hearts are the first functioning organ in embryos, playing a critical role in development, but don’t resemble the mature four-chambered organ we might imagine. Some anti-abortion legislation hinges on the term ‘fetal heartbeat’ to describe early cardiac activity when neither a fetus nor a chambered heart exist.
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Continue ReadingConservatives and liberals offer differing views on the causes of racial inequality. What does the experimental evidence say?
Continue ReadingSTEM students seem to be turning out to vote less than their politically engaged peers. Let’s break down what this means.
Continue ReadingIt seems that in this polarizing era, two things unite us: our preference for more equality and our ignorance of the scale of current inequality.
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Continue ReadingWith two months to go before election day, we’ve already seen numerous candidates in numerous debates. It seems like politicians will debate everything…except science. Science is all around us, and…
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