How culture affects the ‘Marshmallow Test’
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The secret life of deep sea vents
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The surprisingly sinister history behind Texas’s cliff chirping frog
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How scientific conferences are responding to US abortion bans and anti-LGBTQ+ laws
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The first two botanists who surveyed, and survived, the Colorado River
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The incredible latent abilities of living things — slime mould is amazing!
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Cat noses contain twisted labyrinths that help them separate smells
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Golden age of medicine
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John Goodenough, part of Nobel trio in lithium battery hunt, dies at 100
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Neuroscientists show that brain waves synchronize when people interact
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Nanoplastic ingestion causes neurological deficits
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In a geologic triumph, scientists drill a window into Earth’s mantle
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Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn't drink milk
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The unique merger that made you (and ewe, and yew)
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How our team overturned the ninety-year-old metaphor of a ‘little man’ in the brain who controls movement
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The gambler who beat roulette
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One more reason to hate cockroaches
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The myth of the alpha wolf
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Lord of the Rings–quoting performance wins this year’s ‘Dance Your PhD’ contest
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Native Americans—and their genes—traveled back to Siberia, new genomes reveal
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A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence
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New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind.
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Science has a nasty Photoshopping problem
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US physics body concedes mistakes in study of missile defense
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How to build a GPT-3 for science
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Reaching closer to Earth's core, one lava scoop at a time – 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle
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The weed influencer and the scientist feuding over why some stoners incessantly puke
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‘Zombie papers’ just won’t die. Retracted papers by notorious fraudster still cited years later.
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How ‘The Dress’ sparked a neuroscience breakthrough
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A frog so small, it could not 'frog'
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Death could be reversible, as scientists bring dead eyes back to life
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The portentous comeback of humpback whales
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The twitches that spread on social media
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The attack of zombie science - They look like scientific papers. But they’re distorting and killing science.
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What "impossible" meant to Richard Feynman
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Japan’s monkey queen faces challenge to her reign: mating season
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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
20 votes