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Halving warming with idealized solar geoengineering moderates key climate hazards ~enviro climate change Article 692 words 7 votes
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Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting (South Korea) ~science biology.paleo Article 5635 words 3 votes
UK Biobank data on 500,000 people paves way to precision medicine ~health healthcare medicine Article 751 words 8 votes
Astronomers have found an exoplanet around the same star that Vulcan orbits in Star Trek canon ~space astronomy Article 12 votes
A band of Polish mathematicians figured out much about how German Enigma encoding machines operated, years before Alan Turing did ~humanities.history Article 1134 words 6 votes
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Entire yeast genome squeezed into one lone chromosome ~science biology.synthetic Article 908 words 6 votes
BCG vaccine leads to long-term improvement in blood sugar levels in type 1 diabetes patients ~health medicine Article 6 votes
IVF at forty: Revisiting the revolution in assisted reproduction ~science medicine biology Article 740 words 3 votes
Science under siege: Behind the scenes at Trump’s troubled environment agency ~science Article 3434 words 8 votes
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Migrants and refugees are good for economies: Analysis of thirty years of data from Western Europe refutes suggestions that asylum seekers pose a financial burden ~finance economics Article 674 words 6 votes
Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education ~health.mental Article 146 words, published Mar 6 2018 8 votes
An excerpt from "The Overstory: A Novel" by Richard Powers ~books fiction Article 4267 words, published Apr 5 2018 2 votes
Recently published study in Nature shows that tropical storms have slowed by 10% over seventy years ~enviro climate change Article 660 words 4 votes
How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer ~science medicine biology.micro Article 2020 words 10 votes