Microplastic pollution in oceans vastly underestimated - study: Particles may outnumber zooplankton, which underpin marine life and regulate climate ~enviro climate change plastics.micro pollution.water Article 741 words 6 votes
No, you don't have a "lizard brain": Why the Psychology 101 model of the brain is all wrong ~science psychology biology Article 875 words 7 votes
Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia ~science biology.paleo Article 936 words 7 votes
Llama antibodies could help fight coronavirus, study finds ~health medicine Article 646 words 5 votes
Mouse embryos that are four per cent human are step towards spare organs ~science medicine biology Article 601 words 4 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
Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits ~enviro Article 903 words, published May 1 2020 6 votes
Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist ~enviro Article 473 words 14 votes
More than thirty million years ago, monkeys rafted across the Atlantic to South America ~science biology.paleo Article 1062 words 12 votes
Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus ~science biology medicine Article 245 words 3 votes
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 ~science biology.marine Link 6 votes
Scientists in Melbourne are testing a drug used to fight parasitic worms and bugs – in the hope of destroying coronavirus ~health medicine Article 227 words 3 votes
Coronavirus: CSIRO scientists begin vaccine testing in global COVID-19 milestone ~health medicine Article 411 words 4 votes
World-first tool to help medicos detect COVID-19 could save 'thousands of lives' ~science biology medicine Article 562 words 3 votes
Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic ~science biology medicine Article 1547 words 10 votes
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open-label non-randomized clinical trial ~science biology medicine Article 223 words 10 votes
Microbial life has been found deep in Earth's crust beneath the ocean floor ~science biology.micro Article 484 words 8 votes
New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic ~science biology medicine Article 1100 words 8 votes
Testing the efficacy of homemade masks: Would they protect in an influenza pandemic? ~science biology Link 8 votes
An ancient Elpistostege fish fossil found in Miguasha, Canada has revealed new insights into how the human hand evolved from fish fins ~science biology Article 1026 words 5 votes
Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense ~space spaceflight.scientific Article 582 words 3 votes
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 ~science biology medicine Link 9 votes
Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network ~science biology Article 1485 words 10 votes
21-yr-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands – intergender and interrace double-hand transplant ~science medicine biology Article 1126 words 21 votes
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 ~science biology Article 1148 words 11 votes
"Both studies ... sought to pin down how many times the human brain oscillates in and out of focus per minute." ~science biology Article 1217 words, published Aug 22 2018 6 votes
Folding@home takes up the fight against COVID-19 ~health Article 753 words, published Feb 27 2020 21 votes
Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time ~science biology Article 830 words 5 votes
Saving Grace, featuring Robert Plant and Suzi Dian, cancels Faroe Islands festival set due to country's whaling operation ~music Article 276 words 4 votes
Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19 ~science biology.micro Article 641 words 5 votes
This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant ~science biology Article 632 words 10 votes
“We are at a turning point”: The coronavirus outbreak is looking more like a pandemic ~health medicine Article 2420 words 14 votes
Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth ~science biology.molecular Article 567 words 10 votes
'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans ~science biology anthropology Article 736 words 9 votes
Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI ~science biology Article 2065 words, published Jan 15 2020 4 votes
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. ~health medicine Article 12 votes
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. ~science medicine biology Article 265 words, published Jan 27 2020 5 votes