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  1. 9 hours ago

    Huh? Carbon dioxide emissions raise risk of satellite collisions

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  2. 10 hours ago

    Does a new mood-predicting app actually work?

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  3. 11 hours ago

    Why do computers use so much energy?

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    Watch the team (me, , and ) battle at trivia, happening soon on pop sci fb live!

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    Getting ready for 's , and to slay during the at 12 EST Subscribe via so you can play along:

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    set a world record for biggest wave ridden by a woman. See previous for how the monster waves form, and how surfers ride and survive

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  7. 13 hours ago

    Are the Nobels finally rewarding more female scientists’ achievements?

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  8. 16 hours ago

    Success! Hopping, shoebox-size lander touches down safely on asteroid Ryugu

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  9. 16 hours ago

    Visit us in the pavilion at the Career Expo!

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    Learn how to better communicate your science in the modern age. Join our Naturejobs Career Expo London live stream.…

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  11. Oct 3

    Gérard A. Mourou, one of the 2018 Nobel Prize winners for advances in laser physics, wrote this story in Scientific American in 2002:

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    Oct 3

    In-depth 🎧 on chemistry Nobel Prize, to , George Smith and Gregory Winter for using evolutionary principles to create very efficient enzymes and antibodies, with numerous applications. Illustration by Niklas Elmehed. ©Nobel Media

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    Oct 3

    Hearing someone else's traumatic experience can etch the event into memory, as if it was your own experience. Hearing additional traumatic experiences adds up, increasing your risk for PTSD, whether or not YOU had a traumatic event in the past. More

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    Now on : Astronomers have found the most compelling evidence yet of an exomoon, and it's a whopper. Hubble data hints at a Neptune-sized moon orbiting a gas-giant planet around a star 8,000 light-years from Earth. Is this moon too strange to be true?

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  15. Oct 3

    Indonesian tsunami was powered by deadly combo of tectonics and geography (By )

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  16. Oct 3

    2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Three scientists sped up evolutionary changes in the lab to make cleaner fuels and cancer drugs

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    Oct 2

    Now on : Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou & Donna Strickland win the 2018 Nobel Physics Prize for "tools made from light." At 96, Ashkin is the oldest-ever laureate. Strickland is the 1st female physics laureate in 55 years—and only the 3rd in history.

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  18. Oct 3

    Scientists can now visualize memories as they are made, and that advance could dramatically change how doctors diagnose and treat brain disease forever (Sponsored by )

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  19. Oct 3

    Today, FEMA will conduct a nationwide test of their new Wireless Emergency Alert System.

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  20. Oct 3

    James P. Allison is one of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winners for pioneering work in cancer immunotherapy. In 2015, he spoke with Scientific American about the future prospects and limitations of the relatively new field:

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