Why (and how) over 600,000 bird specimens are preserved at the Smithsonian | Colossal Collections
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This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes
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Office of Science and Technology Policy issues guidance to make US Federally funded research freely available without delay
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We might need to reevaluate the sexual harassment allegations against David Sabatini
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How do these rocks move on their own in the desert? Ninety-nine years later... we solved it.
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Simultaneous tragedy: Fire at Evergreen Packaging
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Crow-plagued California city turns to lasers and boomboxes to clear the air
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Henrietta Lacks estate sues company using her ‘stolen’ cells
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This MIT engineer built his own bionic leg
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MIT scientists report 'major advance' in fusion energy
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Fire rainbow over West Virginia
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The great American science heist
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US controls on ‘gain of function’ pathogen research have been undercut
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Smarter Every Day's 'Nuclear Submarine Deep Dive' completed playlist
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Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole
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MIT predicted in 1972 that society will collapse this century. New research shows we're on schedule
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UCSF researchers achieve the ability to interpret neurological signals into speech
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Humpback whale gulps and spits out Cape Cod lobsterman
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The military’s mobile nuclear reactor prototype is set to begin taking shape
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Havana syndrome: US NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s
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The last time a vaccine saved America
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Why do Biden's votes not follow Benford's Law? Debunking an election fraud claim.
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Let's crack Zodiac: 51-year old 340 cypher is solved
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It’s time to restore scientific integrity
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Florida mosquitoes: 750 million genetically modified insects to be released
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
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An archaeology of marijuana
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The undying appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “death ray”
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How Andrea Ghez won the Nobel for an experiment nobody thought would work
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'Wild West' mentality lingers in modern populations of US mountain regions
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A math problem stumped experts for fifty years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days
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Twenty-five years after returning, Yellowstone’s wolves are the most studied but misunderstood good boys
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Colorado is not a rectangle, it’s not even a quadrilateral, in fact it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
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A highly contagious, often lethal rabbit virus arrives in the United States
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The true story of Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South
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Type A blood converted to universal donor blood with help from bacterial enzymes
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Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
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$100B plan submitted for massive remake and expansion of National Science Foundation
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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Pulling seven G's in an F-16 and going supersonic with US Air Force Thunderbirds
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An inmate's love for math leads to new discoveries: Published in the journal Research in Number Theory, he showed for the first time regularities in the approximation of a vast class of numbers
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How much is a human life actually worth?
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US Geological Survey volcano news
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The Donald Trump administration drove him back to China, where he invented a fast coronavirus test
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The plant ecology of the Los Angeles River
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An examination of over 4700 clinical trials found that less than 45% of them reported their results on time, despite it being a legal requirement
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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ACM signs letter against open access publication of federally funded studies
@americanpublish: Proud to join 125+ other organizations to oppose a costly proposed Administration policy that would undermine scientific discovery, American jobs, & our global competitiveness. Read the coalition letter: https://t.co/Lm8gDO56MG @americanpublish @AmericanCancer @globalIPcenter
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Some of the Pew Research Center's most noteworthy findings from 2019
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The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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