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Scientific American spoke to one of the people currently being monitored at the National Quarantine Unit in Nebraska for ...

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Constructed starting in 312 B.C.E. to carry troops southeast toward Capua and, eventually, the port city of Brindisi in the ...

Mosaic depictions of a weapon-wielding female gladiator are the first physical evidence showing women in ancient Rome could ...

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Letters to the editors for the February 2026 issue of Scientific American ...