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It was such a fantastic floral joy to talk with David Haskell, author of HOW FLOWERS MADE OUR WORLD, about the botanical history of magnolias, the variations of sunflowers, and how grass is a "green Prometheus" 🧪📚🌷🌱 www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How flowers shaped the world as we know it

David Haskell brings readers through millions of years of botanical history for his latest book, How Flowers Made Our World

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Does anyone else default to re-reads in the summer because it’s too hot to process new information? … just my low-heat-tolerance self? Totally unrelated, I’m on my annual Austen reread marathon nonsense.

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Read anything good lately? Use hashtags #SciAmBookBingo and #SciAmSummerReading to tell us how you're participating in our Summer Reading Challenge 📚🧪🏆 www.scientificamerican.com/article/join...

Three days after Springer Nature sold Scientific American without warning, the NLRB conducted our scheduled union vote count, despite Springer Nature’s attempt to stop it. And guess what? WE WON. What’s more, it was nearly unanimous, with 31 out of 32 voters checking YES.

Join us for a rally outside of Springer Nature offices on Tuesday, June 30th at 5pm ET to call out the company’s callous treatment of Scientific American’s staff, publication, and legacy—and to stand up for science journalism everywhere. RSVP: wgaea.st/sciam-rally

Scientific American Union Rally 6/30

On Tuesday, the international scientific publisher Springer Nature sold Scientific American, the iconic 181-year old publication famous for its authoritative coverage of science to LabX Media Group. L...

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On Tuesday, Scientific American was sold by international publisher Springer Nature. Large numbers of staff were immediately laid off, and salaries of remaining workers were cut by as much as 30% SciAm staff had just voted to unionize. We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting.

A poster titled “Scientific American Rally” invites people to a rally on tuesday june 30 at 5pm at 1 new york plaza. it says “show springer nature that science journalism and the people behind it matter!”

Mars scientists have detailed, deliberate plans for what missions can give them the data they most want about the Red Planet. SkyFall's trio of helicopters (relying on the first-ever nuclear-propulsion spacecraft and mid-air deployment, all with a 2028 launch date!) is...not among them. 🧪 🔭

Will NASA’s SkyFall Mars helicopter fleet sink science at the Red Planet?

Mars researchers are wrestling with the potential costs of a flashy new NASA mission to the Red Planet

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