The science of mask-wearing hasn’t changed. So why have our expectations?
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Advances in weather prediction
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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea near Stockholm, global body says
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White House ordered National Institutes of Health to cancel coronavirus research funding, Anthony Fauci says
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Italian amateur astronomer captures amazing photo of Mercury’s comet-like sodium tail
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/r/BlackPeopleTwitter and /r/science will collaborate on a series of panels on why Black lives matter
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Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes
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Could solar storms destroy civilization? Solar flares and coronal mass ejections.
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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
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Study shows erosion of ozone layer responsible for mass extinction event
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How to capture wild yeast for bread (and why it works)
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How Europeans evolved white skin
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Freaky ‘active’ object in Jupiter’s orbit is first of its kind seen by astronomers
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America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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Scientists say social distancing has worked really well to reduce coronavirus's spread: new study finds measures saved thirty-five million Americans from contracting the virus
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Should tomatoes go in the fridge? Apparently, it doesn't matter much: the variety of tomato is much more important.
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks
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At the limits of thought: Science today stands at a crossroads--will its progress be driven by human minds or by the machines that we’ve created?
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“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response
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Why are clinical trials so complicated?
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What are everyone's resources for fact-checking health claims?
I'm wondering what resources people use to aggregate technical or nuanced information primarily for fact-checking claims about anything health-related. Ironically, everyone and their mother...
I'm wondering what resources people use to aggregate technical or nuanced information primarily for fact-checking claims about anything health-related. Ironically, everyone and their mother appears to be a medical scientist meanwhile as a scientist in the medical field myself, I feel overwhelmed to answer questions properly.
Recently I found the website Health Feedback which seems to be reliable, though confirmation of that would be great. They appear to be on top of anything COVD-19-related.
Another source I use for nutritional stuff is Examine but for now I'm more interested in relevant and recent health "news" topics.
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The coronavirus pandemic turned Folding@Home into an exaFLOP supercomputer
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Coronavirus vaccine prospects
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Corona-AI project asks DreamLab app users to help create ‘virtual supercomputer’ to assist in COVID-19 research efforts
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Just around the corner: Sustainability developments to give you hope
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A profound ignorance of nature - Commentary on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s most recent expression of historical illiteracy
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Are we ready for quantum computers?
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World Health Organization launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments
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Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time
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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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Doing being rational: polymerase chain reaction
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Folding@Home is prioritizing users towards their Coronavirus projects
@foldingathome: Do you want to help us fight #COVIDー19 ? Download our client from https://t.co/55uKn0rJem -> Install -> Set category to "ANY" #COVID19 is prioritized. GPU and CPU projects are up. Connect with us if you want to do corp collab or donate your time.
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Here's how you can help find a cure for COVID-19
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Chloroquine, past and present
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“Overstressed” NASA Mars exploration budget threatens missions
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New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic
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Planetary science decadal survey to include astrobiology and planetary defense
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Scientists are leading Notre Dame’s restoration—and probing mysteries laid bare by its devastating fire
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"Do us a favor" - A letter from the Editor-in-Chief of Science journals regarding the coronavirus response by President Trump and his administration
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Lessons from the fields of crisis informatics and the sociology of disaster for COVID 19
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The history of the URL
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Inside the mad-science world of a professional fermentation chef
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There’s an entire industry dedicated to making foods crispy
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The Pope's Astronomer, Telescopes, & Space Rocks
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them...
Three related videos of Brady Haran in Italy interviewing Brother Guy Consolmagno, director of The Vatican Observatory, were released today on his various channels... and rather than submit them individually:
The Pope's Astronomer - Sixty Symbols
The Pope's Telescopes - Deep Sky Videos
The Pope's Space Rocks - Objectivity #2216 votes -
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to data from the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission
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Working in science was a brutal education. That’s why I left
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New exoplanet search strategy claims first discovery
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Why poor people make poor decisions
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Undone science: When research fails polluted communities
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