The top scientific journal retractions of 2021
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Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
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Strong new evidence suggests a virus triggers multiple sclerosis
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mRNA vaccine technology has helped repair broken hearts in mice
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You have no idea how hard it is to get a hamster drunk
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‘Big’ data can be 99.98% smaller than it appears
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When times are good, the gender gap grows
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The volcanologist’s paradox
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Is there any point in arguing with people?
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The poisons – real and fictional – used in Bond films
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To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
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Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters?
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Australian musk ducks have the ability to call you a ‘bloody fool,’ research finds
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Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassing them
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US controls on ‘gain of function’ pathogen research have been undercut
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Scientists last month set foot on a tiny island off the coast of Greenland which they say is the world's northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice
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Can a $110 million helmet unlock the secrets of the mind?
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The long, strange life of the world’s oldest naked mole rat
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The man who drank Cholera and launched the yogurt craze. Ilya Metchnikoff laid the foundation for modern probiotics.
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To the brain, a tool is just a tool, not a hand extension
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Autism and the social mind
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Claims of microwave attacks are scientifically implausible
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Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus
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How blackouts, fires, and a pandemic are driving shortages of pipette tips — and hobbling science
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Before you answer, consider the opposite possibility
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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Our brain typically overlooks this brilliant problem-solving strategy
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How mRNA technology could change the world
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Israeli scientists grow mouse embryos in a mechanical womb
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How is this horse feeling? New mobile brain wave reader could tell.
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Ketchup is not just a condiment: It is also a non-Newtonian fluid
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Microdosing's feel-good benefits might just be placebo effect
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No one is prepared for hagfish slime
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Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem.
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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an ancient geomagnetic disruption
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Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
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Meet YInMn, the first new blue pigment in two centuries
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The ethical challenges of connecting our brains to computers
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What did the past smell like?
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Researchers restore lost sight in mice, offering clues to reversing aging
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One couple’s tireless crusade to stop a genetic killer
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Metagenomic sequencing can quickly identify pathogens in body fluids, new study finds
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AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
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Coding human data into microbes that will survive for millions of years
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How eugenics shaped statistics
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Why astrology matters
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Scientists discover new human salivary glands
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How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work
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Computer built using swarms of soldier crabs
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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