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Non-profit & editorially independent. Exploring science as a frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious, and occasionally troubling byproduct of human culture.

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  1. New ideas advance in science not just because they are true, but because their opponents die, physicist Max Planck wrote in 1948. New research suggests there may be some truth to this assertion.

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  2. A new way of farming called regenerative agriculture is touted to be better for the soil, better for climate change, and more profitable for farmers. And it’s starting to get some serious attention from major players.

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  3. Sydney Pearce was two-and-a-half years old and recovering from open-heart surgery when her parents agreed to let her participate in an ICU mobility study. Within 24 hours of the operation, she was walking and driving a cozy coupe car around the ICU.

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  4. Opinion | The biggest lifestyle choice you can make to combat climate change is not to forego having a kid, it’s to become a climate activist — and raise your kid to become one too.

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  5. Because the organization is run by gay black men, says co-founder Larry Scott-Walker, it’s better than other organizations at knowing what gay black men need, and delivering it the way they need it.

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  6. Nakazawa writes with clarity about two complex fields — immunology and neuroscience — and vividly explains what’s at stake, interweaving the stories of the scientists who are shedding light on microglia and the patients whose lives could be changed.

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  7. Most media coverage of CTE has focused on former NFL players. But the disease has recently been diagnosed in people who only played high school sports, which means it might be present in a much larger swath of the population. (From the Undark archives)

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  8. As policymakers and insurance companies scramble to get a handle on skyrocketing health care costs, they are promoting the idea of paying for value. But this raises a thorny question: Who gets to define “value”?

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  9. "We hope that it kind of shifts the norms or kind of the expectations of psychological science," the accelerator's founder says, "towards these larger samples, more diverse samples, more rigorous methods, and preregistration," among other things.

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  10. Some experts are concerned that restoration initiatives rely on such an anemic definition of what constitutes a forest that they will ultimately generate far fewer benefits than advocates imagine.

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  11. "As more and more resources get invested in it, regenerative ag is still controversial. That’s because a lot of the claims regenerative farmers make — or companies and advocates make on the farmers’ behalf — still haven’t been vetted by scientists."

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  12. In the new field of studying "undone science," sociologists investigate situations where scientific research is secret, incomplete, ignored, constrained, or simply not done.

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  13. "It’s hard to make a case for spending a lot of money on a program for which there is no strong evidence."

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  14. In place of political or corporate action that would make insulin readily available, an unusual social media phenomenon is developing that puts the onus on people with diabetes to stay well.

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    I spent nearly two years on this story. What happens when badly needed science is ignored? People get hurt. Undone Science: When Research Fails Polluted Communities via

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  16. Mass mortality events can have long-lasting effects by poisoning soil and restructuring plant communities. As carcasses decompose, they release gases and spill cocktails of liquefied remains, acidic body fluids, and microbes that the soil absorbs.

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  17. A once-successful endangered species reintroduction site suddenly began losing its ferrets. Researchers are struggling to figure out why.

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  18. "Who owns the right to print which bones?” asks Brenna Hassett, an archaeologist at University College London in the U.K. “Is it even possible to own the rights to part of a person?”

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  19. Redwood forests store at least three times as much carbon as any other kind of forest, and because the individual trees live for thousands of years, the carbon storage is long-term.

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  20. Opinion | Drugs are not solely to blame for the prolonged suffering many of these infants experience. The way neonatal abstinence syndrome cases are handled also has a profound impact on their severity, and often leads to negative outcomes.

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