Sometimes — EXTREMELY rarely, but *sometimes* — I'm wrong about something. So, mea culpa: yup. There's at least ONE green star. www.scientificamerican.com/article/gree... 🧪 🔭

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Now on @sciam.bsky.social: 50 years ago The Selfish Gene became an instant bestseller, bringing evolutionary biology back into cultural conversation and catapulting its author, Richard Dawkins, to global fame. Yet today scientists are still debating its core message. By @philipcball.bsky.social.

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Scoop: The NSF's Major Research Instrumentation program offers up to $4 million to help scientists buy expensive equipment. Applying is time consuming and competitive. So it's no small issue that date when submissions were meant to open has come and gone. www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

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Now on @sciam.bsky.social: Could we send bioengineered organisms to Mars to help make it more Earth-like? Remarkably, the answer seems to be yes. But *should* we? That’s a much harder question to answer—but it didn’t stop us from asking Pioneer Labs CEO Erika DeBenedictis.

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Time is about to change. Slightly, but this change was more than 30 years in the making! www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...

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