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A multiyear project studying stray dogs around Chernobyl aims to uncover the health effects of chronic radiation exposure
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Echoes from earthquakes suggest that Earth’s solid inner core has its own core.
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Combining biomarkers and AI could prevent disease and give us more years of healthy life, says Leroy Hood, a systems biology pioneer—but it will take about $10 billion in research funding. [Sponsored by ]
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The Havana syndrome saga is an epic failure of science, one with severe consequences both for patients and for international relations. | Analysis
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Scientist map the world’s largest seagrass meadow with unconventional collaborators—tiger sharks.
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Xenobots are living, swimming, self-powered robots less than a millimeter across, evolved by artificial intelligence and built out of frog stem cells—and they could open new medical frontiers.
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Scientist map seagrass ecosystem, with tiger sharks as collaborators.
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We needs a permanent national nuclear waste disposal site now, before the spent nuclear fuel stored in 35 states becomes unsafe
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One of the first and largest Nazi book burnings destroyed the library at the Institute for Sexual Research, the world's first trans clinic. (By )
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🚨📽️🚨📽️ My new / doc is out! "ANIMAL ROBOT" is the inside story of how "the world's first living robots" were made using AI + the bio/tech/philosophical implications of their creation. Give it watch and share if you liked it! youtu.be/8WyWFAS96ac
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Xenobots are living, swimming, self-powered robots less than a millimeter across, evolved by artificial intelligence and built out of frog stem cells—and they could open new medical frontiers.
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Scientists partnered with tiger sharks to map seagrasses—the unsung hero of ocean conservation.
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Plastic coverings, gravity snow guns and painted rocks could slow ice melt in high mountains
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A fresh analysis of tree-ring data suggests barrages of cosmic radiation that washed over Earth centuries ago may have come from sources besides our sun
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COVID wasn't proven a lab leak. The US Energy Dept says w/ "low confidence" that it could have been. That means, Dir of National Intel says, that info is "scant, questionable." Could be doubts about sources. Most other agencies lean toward natural origin.
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Join the team at @AAASMeeting for the premiere of Animal/Robot, in partnership with . The screening and discussion will begin at 2:30 ET today in Room 156, see #AAASMtg program for details.
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That prime numbers and powers of 2 fascinate many people comes as no surprise. In fact, all numbers split into two camps: interesting and boring
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The grasslands of India and elsewhere do not need to have economic value to be worth studying and preserving
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Intelligence reports supporting the lab-leak theory for COVID are not based in science
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"An intelligence assessment isn’t a scientific conclusion...The important factor for intelligence assessments is the veracity of sources, whereas scientific conclusions depend on data and the coherence of the argument the data support." scientificamerican.com/article/lab-le
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Archaeologists have found a handful of human skeletons with characteristics that have been linked to horseback riding and are a millennium older than early depictions of humans riding horses
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Fires in North America and Eurasia spewed record-shattering amounts of CO2 in 2021
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Although most experts say bird flu is not an immediate threat to humans, efforts are underway to produce vaccines for H5N1 or another potential pandemic virus
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🎙️ and explore the pandemic’s mental health toll on teens and young adults. They also delve into the effectiveness of telehealth: bit.ly/41ygPWV 🎧
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Some photos of Vera Rubin — a female astrophysicist who proved the existence of dark matter — and some of the instruments she used
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The Biden administration is eyeing a 70% cut in the cost of floating offshore wind power by 2035
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Scientists may have spotted two pairs of merging dwarf galaxies, each pair with a duo of soon-to-collide black holes
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U.S. health care is inching toward a new system that uses science-based interventions to prevent disease. Once this shift takes hold, it will generate new companies, new jobs and a healthier population. [Sponsored by ]
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Some caterpillars have evolved with antifreeze in their body cavities, allowing them to become caterpopsicles to survive cold winters. But climate change could threaten that.
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Climate change is likely at least partially to blame for an uptick in the size and frequency of algal blooms in parts of the world's oceans
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Instead of sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some scientists are looking to capture it from the oceans
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Sharpshooter insects use a physics phenomenon called superpropulsion to efficiently fling away droplets of pee at extremely high speeds
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Congress and the airline industry must reassess how they approach and fund air transportation modernization
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Many neurological and psychiatric illnesses could be prevented if routine brain monitoring became the norm, a Kavli Prize-winning neuroscientist argues. [Sponsored by ]
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Researchers worry the Colombian environmental ministry will side with animal-rights activists rather than curb the spread of invasive hippos once kept by drug-cartel leader Pablo Escobar
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