Sex can relieve nasal congestion, and other work honored by 2021 Ig Nobels
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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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Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion, produces three times more energy than was absorbed by the fuel
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Scientists grew stem cell 'mini brains'. Then, the brains sort-of developed eyes
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Vast sunken continent “Icelandia” may exist under the North Atlantic – if proven it could upend long-standing assumptions about region's geological history
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Scientist invents toilet that turns human feces into cryptocurrency
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Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
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Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
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Scientists have taught bees to smell the coronavirus
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Scientists want your help stalking billions of Cicadas
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The unparalleled genius of John von Neumann
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Rise of the 'robo-plants', as scientists fuse nature with tech
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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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Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem.
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New coloring book salutes women pioneers in STEM
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How our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines
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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find
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Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass'
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New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely: The design, which uses entangled atoms, could help scientists detect dark matter and study gravity's effect on time
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Scientists restore age-related vision loss in mice through epigenetic reprogramming
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Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live
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Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution
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The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution
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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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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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You want to see my data? I thought we were friends
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The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born.
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What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course
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A deep-sea soft coral garden habitat has been discovered in Greenlandic waters by scientists, using an innovative and low-cost deep-sea video camera
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The search for the world’s simplest animal: For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely
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Marie Curie's PhD thesis
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Martin Luther King's challenge to the nation's social scientists
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Scientists unravel challenge in improving fusion performance
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Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks
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Blind people could 'see' letters that scientists drew on their brains with electricity: scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface
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Elisabeth Bik quit her job to spot errors in research papers — and has become the public face of image sleuthing
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Greenland's Grand Canyon – UMass Amherst and the University of Copenhagen's Centre for Ice & Climate propose a new mechanism for how the megacanyon formed
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Richard Feynman: Making the extraordinary look easy
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Scientists make mistakes. I made a big one
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
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Australian scientists have made a test to check who is likely to develop coronavirus
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Shimmering schools of fish have dazzled scientists for centuries with their synchronized maneuvers. Now, high-speed video is revealing how—and why—they do it
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Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic
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The Donald Trump administration drove him back to China, where he invented a fast coronavirus test
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Scientists successfully created a cybernetic neural network
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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
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Freeman Dyson, visionary technologist, is dead at 96
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Physicists take their closest look yet at an antimatter atom
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