The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects
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Cows wearing VR headsets might produce better milk
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Effects of one year of Vitamin D and marine Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation on biomarkers of systemic inflammation in older US adults
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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Can face-to-face discussions improve societal cohesion?
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How life sciences actually work
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Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study
News article: Climate deniers get more media play than scientists: study Study: Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians
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Self-blinding microdosing study, open to participation
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Origins of the current outbreak of multidrug-resistant malaria in southeast Asia: a retrospective genetic study
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Very rare pathogenic genetic variants detected by SNP-chips are usually false positives: implications for direct-to-consumer genetic testing
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Snowball the dancing cockatoo has wide range of killer moves, new study finds
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How people want to feel determines whether others can influence their emotions, Stanford psychologists find
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The invisible gorilla strikes again: Sustained inattentional blindness in expert observers
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Unlike men, women’s cognitive performance may improve at higher room temperature
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Ravens spread negative emotions to their friends, study finds
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Coca-Cola's contracts with researchers reserved the right to kill studies
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Bad evidence: Ten years after a landmark study blew the whistle on junk science, the fight over forensics rages on
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Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores - A new study shows that the nutrient profile of the bear’s all-bamboo diet is much closer to that of a typical meat eater
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The internet's hidden rules: An empirical study of Reddit norm violations at micro, meso, and macro scales
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Long-term measles vaccine study shows no link with autism — again
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Dinosaurs had birdlike lungs
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An optical illusion that resembles "looming googly eyes" scares some types of birds, and is being used to keep them away from an airport
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The dangers of DNA testing - In a new study, 74 out of 108 crime laboratories implicated an innocent person in a hypothetical bank robbery
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First ever trials on the effects of microdosing LSD set to begin
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A study on the online "filter bubble" found that liberals and conservatives were actually recommended similar stories on Google News, representing a fairly homogeneous set of mainstream news sources
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Brain drain: The mere presence of one’s own smartphone reduces available cognitive capacity
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Psychological language on Twitter predicts county-level heart disease mortality
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Kansas is flatter than a pancake
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Even four-year-olds dislike freeloaders. Young children expect cooperation and are willing to work to sustain it.
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Potential DNA damage from CRISPR has been ‘seriously underestimated,’ study finds
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Mammals are becoming more nocturnal to avoid humans, study finds
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