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Senior editor at ScientificAmerican.com.Sustainability, climate, energy, water, environment. Otherwise, live music! Oh, and curling. Views are my own.
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January 2026: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

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By Mark Fischetti Verified
| Scientific American Verified
1976 Killer Bees Won’t Invade “Much attention has been given to the fact that honeybees of an African race (Apis mellifera adansonii) were accidentally released in Brazil in the mid-1950s, where they have been cross-breeding with commercial honeybee populations and also have established their own wild colonies.
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December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

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By Mark Fischetti Verified
| Scientific American Verified
1975 Heimlich Maneuver “The list of first-aid procedures that the medical profession encourages laypeople to undertake is short because of concern that tactics applied in ignorance may do more harm than good. Now, however, the American Medical Association has cautiously endorsed the ‘Heimlich maneuver’ as a first-aid procedure when someone is choking on a foreign object, described by Henry J. Heimlich, the Cincinnati surgeon who developed it.
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December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

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By Mark Fischetti Verified
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Search query December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago Heimlich maneuver; training fleas Tue, November 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM UTC 1975 “The list of first-aid procedures that the medical profession encourages laypeople to undertake is short because of concern that tactics applied in ignorance may do more harm than good.
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