A profound ignorance of nature - Commentary on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most recent expression of historical illiteracy
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Scientists translate coronavirus spike protein into music, revealing more about its structure
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Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus
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Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it
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Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus
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Coronavirus: CSIRO scientists begin vaccine testing in global COVID-19 milestone
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Eight strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists
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A twitter thread about the UK's response to Covid-19 and the Nudge Unit
@sophie_e_hill: Got a lot of angry replies to this one so here's a more in-depth thread about why the Behavioural Insights Team irritates me so much... https://t.co/dPk9CVPCc1
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Groundwater expert Dr. John Cherry wins 2020 Stockholm Water Prize – his research has raised awareness of how groundwater contamination is growing across the world
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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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Why this Nobel laureate predicts a quicker coronavirus recovery: ‘We’re going to be fine’
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Prominent scientist dares to ask: Has the COVID-19 response gone too far?
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The Donald Trump administration drove him back to China, where he invented a fast coronavirus test
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Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration—and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire
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Advice from a doctor who studied coronaviruses for 50 years
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica is tracking the worst-case climate warming scenario set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists say
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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
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Freeman Dyson, visionary technologist, is dead at 96
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Physicists take their closest look yet at an antimatter atom
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Working in science was a brutal education. That’s why I left
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A pro-Trump blog doxed a Chinese scientist it falsely accused of creating the coronavirus as a bioweapon
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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Scientists synthesize the voice of 3000 year old mummy
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Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction
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Why scientists fall for precariously balanced rocks
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Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
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The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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The citizen scientist who finds killers from her couch: How CeCe Moore is using her genetic knowledge to expose murderers
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Virgil Griffith, research scientist at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for advising North Korea on how to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions
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Scientists turn undersea fiber optic cables into seismographs
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How scientists got climate change so wrong
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Scientists figured out a cool way to make better gluten-free bread
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their work on lithium-ion batteries
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded, with one half to James Peebles and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
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Scientist who discredited meat guidelines didn’t report past food industry ties
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How to save a glacier – Iceland's scientists offer hope with carbon capture technology
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Scientists taught rats to play hide-and-seek with them
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Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics announced, awarding a collective $21.6 million
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Making new elements doesn’t pay. Just ask this Berkeley scientist.
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New Zealand glaciers won't survive this century, scientists say
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Lyme disease is baffling, even to experts
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A vaccine for cat allergies is in development; early results are promising, aiming for market release in 2022
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Scientists from the University of Borås are exploring the possibility of converting old pieces of glutinous waste into yarn
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A conversation with the team that made bread with 4500-year-old yeast from ancient Egyptian pottery
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Quora: 31,000 scientists who denied Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
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Supergravity pioneers win $3m Special Breakthrough prize
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A passion for physical realms, minute and massive (2001)
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The math of Emil Konopinski
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