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This is Scientific Americans.

This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.

I'm Steve Mersky. 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 Helmouth.

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, you know, if you're interested in scientific subjects there will be a lot of different

directions the country will go in one you know 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

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