Konstantine Vlasis never imagined that a single track on a Sigur Rós album would lead him to study the melting glaciers of Iceland
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The effect of physical fitness on mortality is overestimated
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Adolescents' screen time displaces multiple sleep pathways and elevates depressive symptoms over twelve months, Swedish study finds
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Scientists reveal how DMT alters brain activity and consciousness by lowering control energy
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They don’t read very well: A study of the reading comprehension skills of English majors at two midwestern universities
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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the Large Hadron Collider
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The Viking Age is undergoing a revisionist transformation based on studies of artifacts and documents tying them to the Silk Road
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Researchers secretly ran a massive, unauthorized AI persuasion experiment on Reddit users
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The disturbing history of Dr. Oetker's success. What started as a small pharmacy in Bielefeld, Germany, grew into a food empire that aligned with Adolf Hitler’s regime and profited from the war.
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Is dark energy weakening over time? Why some cosmologists aren’t sure.
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Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
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Microplastics found in human ovary follicular fluid for the first time
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Meet the death metal singers changing vocal health research
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Finland is under pressure to switch its rail to standard gauge – planned train line to run between Kemi and Haparanda in Sweden is the first phase
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Arctic haze induced by an Icelandic volcanic eruption – evidence from China's highest-resolution trace gas monitoring
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New study attributes nine trillion dollars of climate change related damages to just five companies, and outlines how they could be held accountable for specific local damages
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US National Institutes of Health guts its first and largest study centered on women
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Ultra-processed diets cause weight gain compared to unprocessed diets of similar energy density and macronutrients, possibly due to overeating
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Clobazam, an anti-anxiety drug, is polluting our waterways – Swedish study found traces of the drug had altered the way wild Atlantic salmon migrate
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Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk
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Swedish study finds surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and heavy metals
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Immune ‘fingerprints’ aid diagnosis of complex diseases in Stanford Medicine study
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Study unlocks how diabetes distorts memory and reward processing. The risk of developing Alzheimer’s is 65% higher in diabetics.
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Apparently magpies and crows are using "Anti-Bird Spikes" to make their nests
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Labradors and humans share the same obesity genes – new study
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A daily tea routine partially protects people from heavy metals, study finds
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AI chatbots are people, too. (Except they’re not.)
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Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play
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Orchid's nutrient theft from fungi sheds light on photosynthesis-parasitism continuum
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Mean World Syndrome - moderate to heavy exposure to violence-related content in mass media may cause people to perceive the world to be more dangerous than it is
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Microplastics can block blood vessels in mice brains, researchers find
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Using 3D surface maps, scientists led by Durham University, found crevasses had significantly increased in size and depth on Greenland's ice sheet over the five years between 2016 and 2021
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Slush flows can be more deadly than avalanches – Norwegian scientists are racing to help predict this hidden hazard
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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
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Families of the more than 120 men killed when the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig capsized in 1980 were failed by official investigations in Norway, a new study has concluded
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Randomized trial shows AI tutoring effective in Nigeria
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Earth might have had a ring system like Saturn millions of years ago, causing the coldest ice age known
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Neolithic people on the Danish island Bornholm sacrificed hundreds of engraved sun stones – linked with a large volcanic eruption that made the sun disappear throughout Northern Europe
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Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout
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Roman with Scandinavian ancestry lived in Britain between AD100 and AD300, long before the Anglo-Saxons or Vikings arrived research shows
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Journal that published faulty black plastic study removed from science index
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US youth drug use defies expectations, continues historic decline
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, surprising UC Davis study says
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Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
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Study: essay graders rarely detect AI, give higher grades
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In the real world, existing EV batteries may last up to 40% longer than expected from lab tests
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A marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean that began a decade ago killed some four million common murres in Alaska, researchers say
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How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils
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Iceland's international reputation for gender equality comes with a striking caveat – new analysis shows about 40% of women have been sexually or physically assaulted, and many are grappling with PTSD
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Blue Zones are fraud, debunked
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