Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic?
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An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins
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Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense
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Melbourne researchers have mapped immune responses from one of Australia’s first novel coronavirus (COVID-19) patients, showing the body’s ability to fight the virus and recover from the infection
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
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21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant
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Coronavirus COVID-19 models are starting to give us an idea of what a pandemic would look like, but there's still so much we don't know
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"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute."
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Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19
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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
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Saving Grace, featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian, cancels Faroe Islands festival set due to country's whaling operation
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
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“We are at a turning point”: The coronavirus outbreak is looking more like a pandemic
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Australian coronavirus vaccine goes into test production
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Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth
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Upside-down jellyfish lob tiny grenades to kill prey
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
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Forget face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the coronavirus is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines.
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New Coronavirus Protease Structure Available
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Genetically modify bacteria in three simple steps - Heat shock
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
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Man with 5.5-inch horn growing on his back slipped "through the net" docs say
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DNA animations by wehi.tv for science-art exhibition
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China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies
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Erythranthe Peregrina - The flower species born from a sterile hybrid. Twice.
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New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses
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For these species, their biological sex is the most consequential trait. (Extreme sexual dimorphism)
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research
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How fungi made all life on land possible
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Effects of one year of Vitamin D and marine Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on biomarkers of systemic inflammation in older US adults
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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