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25 votes
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Astronomers make rare exoplanet discovery, and a giant leap in detecting Earth-like bodies
15 votes -
Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’
36 votes -
How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now
27 votes -
Scientists attempt to explain “magic islands” on Saturn’s largest moon
6 votes -
I got my IELTS scores back and I need help
Overall band score 8. What's the next step? I am an Indian and wish to pursue a master's program in the US. Should I prepare for the GRE and apply for spring semester? Total newbie about all of...
Overall band score 8.
What's the next step? I am an Indian and wish to pursue a master's program in the US.
Should I prepare for the GRE and apply for spring semester? Total newbie about all of this university stuff.
Thanks in advance.
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Coffee connoisseurs have long believed that adding a little water to beans before grinding them makes a difference. A new study by researchers at the University of Oregon seems to confirm exactly why.
35 votes -
Hacking the Climate - 37c3
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The origin of mysterious green ‘ghosts’ in the sky has been discovered
18 votes -
Wrongfully jailed for twenty years, Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ likely to receive record compensation
18 votes -
Top court clears path for Democrats to redraw House map in New York
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How much can forests fight climate change? A sensor in space has answers.
12 votes -
Course evaluations are garbage science
23 votes -
The strange clouds of alien worlds
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I will be very sad when David Attenborough dies
I got teary eyed when my 5yo asked me about how baleen whales feed the other day, and I showed him a video narrated by David. Just today I saw another great video from David. There will never be...
I got teary eyed when my 5yo asked me about how baleen whales feed the other day, and I showed him a video narrated by David.
Just today I saw another great video from David. There will never be another like him (edit: David, not my kid), which is the saddest part of this post.
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99% of the world’s bananas are threatened by a fungus. To save them, scientists are turning to genetic modification.
24 votes -
NASA mission excels at spotting greenhouse gas emission sources
23 votes -
What are the best intro books for different science fields?
I wish to know more about science in general and books are a good way to do that. We have a good assortment of science-minded people on Tildes, so I think it would be interesting to know what...
I wish to know more about science in general and books are a good way to do that. We have a good assortment of science-minded people on Tildes, so I think it would be interesting to know what everyone recommends. The one requisite is that the books must be adequate for a general audience. This means that the books must not require the reader to hold a STEM degree or even have a particular aptitude for STEM.
Just so it is abundantly clear: I am looking for books that people with an arts and humanities background can read. Laypeople. "Dummies".
I'm asking more about books that are intros to a specific field than introductions to science in general.
Thanks!
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Denmark is building on the success of blockbuster drugs – the country's focus on reinvestment is feeding a stream of discovery
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The Republican Revolution and how the party switch actually happened
13 votes -
NASA to launch NASA+, a free streaming service
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First images of ESA-telescope 'Euclid'
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Earth is hiding another planet deep inside
24 votes -
What would happen if the Earth had rings?
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A giant European telescope rises as US rivals await rescue
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Supervolcano eruption on Pluto hints at hidden ocean beneath the surface
21 votes -
First malaria vaccine slashes early childhood mortality
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Ohio embraced the ‘science of reading.’ Now a popular reading program is suing.
36 votes -
Scientists at the Askö research base in Sweden are investigating a methane mystery – levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly and nobody is quite sure why
11 votes -
Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think
11 votes -
Red, juicy, heat resistant: The hunt for a climate-proof apple
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Americas’ first cowboys were enslaved Africans, ancient cow DNA suggests
24 votes -
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
7 votes -
We might have accidentally killed any life we collected in samples on Mars nearly fifty years ago
43 votes -
Appropriate for spooky season. Venus: Welcome to her nightmare
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'Sports specialization' in young athletes can do more harm than good
8 votes -
More than twenty-year-old assumption about beer aroma disproved
12 votes -
Poverty, not the poor - a systematic analysis of the relatively high stable rate of US poverty using multinational data
21 votes -
The chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (2017)
4 votes -
A revelation about trees is messing with climate calculations
21 votes -
Outrage at China’s life sentence of Uyghur folklore scholar Rahile Dawut
24 votes -
A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
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Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts
14 votes -
Jet Propulsion Laboratory-led team use Iceland as a stand-in for Venus to test radar technologies that will help uncover the planet's ground truth
6 votes -
Women used to be more likely to vote Conservative than men but that all changed in 2017—UK research wants to find out why
17 votes -
Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
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You say tomato, these scientists say evolutionary mystery
6 votes -
Haitian scholar was early path-breaking anthropologist
7 votes -
This "perpetual motion" device is really clever
18 votes -
Douglas B. Lenat - The Ubiquity of Discovery
4 votes