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Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting toxic flame retardants from electronics wind up in some household products ...

I’ll be watching for them. *Update: After publication, a reader in Turkey wrote to tell me that the spike in math scores in her country reflected the fact that the weakest students were not part of ...

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