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Does Not Being Able to Picture Something in Your Mind Affect Your Creativity?

Researchers who study aphantasia, or the inability to visualize something in your “mind’s eye,” are starting to get a sense of how to accurately measure the condition and what it may mean for those who have it.

New Color-Changing Coating Could Both Heat and Cool Buildings

A thin film can switch from releasing heat to trapping it, and wrapping the coating around buildings could make them more energy-efficient

Climate Resilience: Impactful Innovation is Needed Today

What’s most needed right now are outcome-driven, scientific approaches committed to delivering breakthrough technologies and capabilities—ones that leverage the fundamental knowledge of the past and apply it in new mission-driven methods that reach beyond what is possible today.

U.S. Lawsuit Threatens Access to Abortion Drug: The Science behind the Case

A judge’s decision could ban mifepristone across the country and weaken the Food and Drug Administration’s authority

Scientists Are Trying to Pull Carbon Out of the Ocean to Combat Climate Change

Instead of sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some scientists are looking to capture it from the oceans

Chemistry Urgently Needs to Develop Safer Materials

The damaging effects of accidents like the Ohio train derailment would be minimized if industry would commit to developing safer chemical processes and products

The U.S. Needs a Formal Reckoning on the COVID Pandemic

After Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and other major tragedies, the U.S. has examined itself to see how to prevent the next catastrophe. We need to do the same for the COVID pandemic

Why Is the Amazon So Important for Climate Change?

Here’s why the Amazon rain forest is key to protecting Earth from the detrimental effects of climate change

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