US Federal nutrition research is underfunded, even as the costs of diet-related diseases are skyrocketing. Does Washington hold the key to solving the obesity crisis?
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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Google demonstrating quantum supremacy
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Headline Whiplash: Red meat is good for you now? (Research meta-review)
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Scientist who discredited meat guidelines didn’t report past food industry ties
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A day in the life of a tree
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Communicating science online increases interest, engagement and access to funds
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Using "time outs" to discipline children is not going to harm them or your relationship with them, US research suggests
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The problem with sugar-daddy science
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New research finds that user affiliations on Reddit can be used to predict which subreddits will turn so toxic they eventually get banned
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In April 2018, Facebook promised to share data so academics could research impact on elections. They haven't done it, and the project's funders will pull out if it's not all available by Sept 30
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Qantas 'research flights' to test nineteen hour non-stop London, New York to Sydney routes
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Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts
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Apple files lawsuit against virtualization company Corellium for selling ‘perfect replicas’ of iOS
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Why speaking to yourself in the third person makes you wiser
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The Valve Index Ear Speakers - Research, design, and evolution
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Say cheese: Ransomware-ing a DSLR camera
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Puffer, a machine learning research study by Stanford University which allows you to stream live TV in your browser
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What the research says about a $15 minimum wage
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Virtual characters learn to work out… and undergo surgery (scalable muscle-actuated human simulation and control)
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Why you can't trust me
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Insects are 'food of the future'
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From two bulls, nine million dairy cows
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How information is like snacks, money, and drugs—to your brain
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Researchers may soon isolate the genetic roots of homosexuality. As a scientist, that excites me. But as a gay man, I worry about what might happen next.
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The war to free science: How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls
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The tricky ethics of using YouTube videos for academic research
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Animation showing the hierarchy of health research since 1947
@drmohidkhan: This is amazing: the hierarchy of diseases studied in the last 70 years! From https://t.co/aANCZti0Io #research #clinicalresearch #letstalkaboutnets https://t.co/xWUe5Jq56P
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Amazon is 3D-scanning people's bodies in exchange for gift cards
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A solution to psychology’s reproducibility problem just failed its first test
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Origin of Sino-Tibetan language family revealed by new research
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Coca-Cola's contracts with researchers reserved the right to kill studies
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Country hits increasingly objectify women and glorify whiteness
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
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Measured air samples put Canadian oil sand emissions at higher levels than industry-calculated values made using the internationally recommended methods for estimating the emissions
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Coronary atherosclerosis in indigenous South American Tsimane: A cross-sectional cohort study
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Preventing harassment and increasing group participation through social norms in 2,190 online science discussions
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Magnetic micro-robots
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Puffer - Free TV (major networks only) as part of a Stanford research project
Not sure how long this will last, but here is legal, free, live TV. This may or may not work outside of the US, not sure. Requires creating an account, but no email needed....
Not sure how long this will last, but here is legal, free, live TV.
This may or may not work outside of the US, not sure.
Requires creating an account, but no email needed.
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Psychedelic renaissance: Could MDMA help with PTSD, depression and anxiety?
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Five damaging myths about video games – let’s shoot 'em up
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FTC hits "predatory" scientific publisher with a $50 million fine
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Online activists are silencing us, scientists say
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Physicists analyze the rotational dynamics of galaxies and the influence of the mass of the photon
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Cracking the mystery of egg shape
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New window film reduces energy costs
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Kipple field notes
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UC terminates Elsevier subscription citing unstable fees and irreconcilable differences in approach to open research
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Privacy attacks to the 4G and 5G cellular paging protocols using side channel information
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"Insectageddon" is a great story. But what are the facts?
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