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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests ~humanities.history Link 24 votes
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'Sports specialization' in young athletes can do more harm than good ~sports Article 667 words 8 votes
More than twenty-year-old assumption about beer aroma disproved ~food drinks Article 725 words 12 votes
Poverty, not the poor - a systematic analysis of the relatively high stable rate of US poverty using multinational data ~finance Link 21 votes
The chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (2017) ~science chemistry Article 2549 words, published May 13 2017 4 votes
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Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts ~health.mental Link 14 votes
Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth ~space Article 6 votes
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Planet K2-18 b has an ocean and atmosphere that could support life ~space astronomy Article 1056 words 24 votes
Effects of thermal environment on sleep and circadian rhythm (2012) ~health Article 4973 words 20 votes
Obituary: Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and his quest to capture the world with logic ~tech Article 2132 words, published Sep 5 2023 12 votes
Kids and families: the latest targets of climate denialism propaganda ~enviro climate change Article 2884 words, published Aug 10 2023 34 votes
‘We’re changing the clouds.’ An unforeseen test of geoengineering is fueling record ocean warmth. ~science Link 80 votes
Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than two weeks ~science astronomy Link 18 votes
Political warfare comes home to the US - the founder of the Nixon presidential library comments on the history of US disputes over presidential succession and the Trump indictments ~society politics Article 1592 words 14 votes
Tiny meteorites are everywhere - here's how to find them ~space astronomy Video 10:26, published Feb 5 2019 7 votes
Obituary - Evelyn Boyd Granville, mathematician and programmer, space-flight trailblazer (1924—2023) ~space Article 1017 words 15 votes
German Aerospace Center (DLR), a NASA VERITAS mission partner, is conducting instrument field tests in Iceland ~space Article 485 words 4 votes
While Earth days get longer, NASA finds Mars days are getting shorter ~space Article 494 words 11 votes
Is this the protein plant of the future? New study finds ‘sweetness gene’ that makes lupins tastier ~food Article 652 words 16 votes
North Atlantic Oscillation contributes to 'cold blob' in Atlantic Ocean ~science Article 860 words 10 votes