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MDMA-assisted therapy for severe PTSD: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 study ~health.mental Article 8867 words 10 votes
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Quantum computing’s reproducibility crisis: Majorana fermions ~science physics Article 1907 words 9 votes
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Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm ~enviro pollution.air Article 715 words 17 votes
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Hurricanes and typhoons moving 30km closer to coasts every decade for the last forty years ~science Article 497 words 6 votes
When travel restrictions stopped bird-watchers from visiting the Swedish island of Stora Karlsö, hidden ecosystem dynamics were revealed ~enviro conservation Article 715 words 6 votes
Surprise! First peek inside Mars reveals a crust with cake-like layers ~space Article 592 words 4 votes
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How Iceland hammered COVID with science – the tiny island nation brought huge scientific heft to its attempts to contain and study the coronavirus ~health Article 2897 words 9 votes
An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020 ~enviro climate change Article 4899 words 15 votes
Designers and technologists look to the natural world to envision more resilient futures ~design Link 4 votes
How the pandemic could choke gender equity for female researchers in Denmark – advocacy group calls for funders and institutions to launch grant and fellowship schemes ~science Article 955 words 3 votes
Gas hydrate dissociation linked to contemporary ocean warming in the southern hemisphere ~enviro climate change Article 5422 words, published Jul 29 2020 4 votes
SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls ~health PDF 12 votes
Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks ~science Article 7 votes
Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing ~science biology.micro Article 3590 words 9 votes
Why measles deaths are surging — and coronavirus could make it worse ~health Article 1927 words 7 votes
A profound ignorance of nature - Commentary on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most recent expression of historical illiteracy ~humanities.history Article 1031 words 4 votes
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction ~science biology.micro Article 1233 words 14 votes
SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconstellation’ threat to astronomy ~space astronomy satellites Article 846 words 15 votes
United States to fund gun-violence research after twenty-year freeze ~news usa politics Article 603 words 21 votes
Peckish pedestrians in Copenhagen will soon be able to pluck healthy snacks directly from greenery around the city ~food Article 299 words 13 votes
Finland has become the latest destination to introduce a tourism pledge – asking visitors to the country to promise to respect its nature, culture and inhabitants ~enviro sustainability Article 592 words 8 votes
Seabed mining is coming — bringing mineral riches and fears of epic extinctions ~enviro Article 3376 words 8 votes
Wherever you are, there’s a state park nearby ~life Article 2613 words, published Jun 5 2019 13 votes
Dissecting the role of the gut microbiota and diet on visceral fat mass accumulation ~science biology Article 6486 words, published Jul 5 2019 4 votes
Joel Sartore, an acclaimed National Geographic photographer, is a man on a mission. He's trying to photograph every species, every animal, bird, fish, reptile and insect, in captivity. ~arts photography Article 2057 words 7 votes
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study ~health.mental Article 741 words 8 votes
The myopia boom: Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. ~health Article 2489 words, published Mar 18 2015 22 votes