Alexander Soifer is a professor of mathematics and European cinema at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He has ...

Lisa Pavia-Higel is an assistant teaching professor of English and technical communication at the Missouri University of ...

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Deni Ellis Béchard is Scientific American’s senior tech reporter. He is author of 10 books and has received a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, a Midwest Book Award, and a Nautilus Book Award for ...

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A Trump-aligned prosecutor’s attack on medical journals is a threat to your health care—and the medical establishment should ...