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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

Election Day is November 3rd. In this week before the election, we're rolling out a special series of short podcasts in which we'll look at how the election could affect some major areas of science.

To set up what you'll hear the rest of the week, I spoke to Scientific Americans

editor-in-chief, Laura Helmuth. There's a lot to talk about. You know, the election is

almost upon us. People are voting already. And some of the biggest issues that will be decided

by this election have to do with science and health and the environment and our future energy structure

and climate change. And it's an urgent time to talk about these subjects. And we're not endorsing a

candidate in this case. We are just laying out the terms of what the stakes are for these

scientific areas in this election? Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, there are a lot of reasons to vote for one candidate or for some people, the other.

But really, if you're interested in scientific subjects, there will be a lot of different directions the country will go in, one direction or the other, depending on this election. And we just want to, you know, lay out what the stakes are.

And what do we say to the inevitable audience member who doesn't want to hear about politics

when they come to a science venue? Yeah, I mean, that is a good question. And, you know, I think all of us, you know, right now, especially when there's so much politics in the air,

it's really refreshing to come somewhere and to think about black holes or the age of the

universe or how dinosaurs evolved.

And, you know, we will continue to be talking about those things.

You know, if politics settles down, we'll be doing probably more of those than we have in the past few years.

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