A centuries-old concept in soil science has recently been thrown out. Yet it remains a key ingredient in everything from climate models to advanced carbon-capture projects.
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Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills
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The most powerful computers you've never heard of
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The irony of the Dunning Kruger effect
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Scientists just found a 'significant' volume of water inside Mars' grand canyon
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NASA returns Hubble to full science operations
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We lied to you and we'll do it again
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Why the new pollution literature is credible
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This drone has legs: Watch a flying robot perch on branches, catch a tennis ball in midair
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Neuroengineer trains rats to play Doom in VR
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Human computer: The forgotten women's profession
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COVID-19 myths
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Were the Norse the first to settle the Azores? Seafarers may have come and gone from lush archipelago more than 1000 years ago
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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Science and sci-fi memorabilia booming at auction
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Approximate data deletion from machine learning models
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To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
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Folding@Home's Covid Moonshot program to receive $10M grant
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Rolling with the Holmies
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In Iceland, well diggers seek to tap a volcano’s magma
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The first baby in history to be conceived with the help of polygenic testing
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There is no algorithm for truth (presentation by Tom Scott)
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Why many scientists say it’s unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a “lab leak”
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Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
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Google’s new ‘time crystals’ could be a breakthrough for long-awaited quantum computers
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Why is the Earth round but the Milky Way flat?
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Physicists face stagnation if they continue to treat the philosophy of science as a joke
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‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers
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Solving puzzles to create better COVID vaccines
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Change mammals to viruses and bacteria
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One Tenth of a Second
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The success of Iceland's 'four-day week' trial has been greatly overstated
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Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport
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Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
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Scientists and economists sold Karl Popper’s ‘falsification’ idea to the world. They have much to answer for
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This is the only possible world
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NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus, expected to launch in 2028 - 2030
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The fastest train ever built: The SCMaglev
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The doomed mouse utopia that inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’. Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the ’60s and ’70s playing god to thousands of rodents.
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How humanity has changed the food it eats
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Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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The sixty-year-old scientific screwup that helped Covid kill
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COVID-19 is a vascular disease not a respiratory one, says study
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Why did the Democratic and Republican parties switch platforms?
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Which Scientific Disciplines Cite Philosophy of Science?
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Carbon emissions and large neural network training
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Mars has right ingredients for present-day microbial life beneath its surface, study finds
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Scientists want your help stalking billions of Cicadas
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The Polish doctors who used science to outwit the Nazis
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