Memories are made by breaking DNA — and fixing it (in mice)
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More exposure to artificial, bright, outdoor night-time light linked to higher stroke risk
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Daniel Kahneman, renowned psychologist and Nobel prize winner, dies at 90
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Water isn't normal
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Researchers show that introduced tardigrade proteins can slow metabolism in human cells
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The mystery of spinors
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When you make a mathematical knot using elastic material you get jumping loops, and challenging puzzles
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Investigating touchscreen ergonomics to improve tablet-based enrichment for parrots
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Science will only end once we've licked all the objects in the universe
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Scientists studied how cicadas pee. Their insights could shed light on fluid dynamics.
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I teach you weird animal mating facts for half an hour
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
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Psilocybin therapy alters prefrontal and limbic brain circuitry in alcohol use disorder
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Chimp moms play with their offspring through good times and bad
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Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy
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When armor met lips
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Happy Tau/2 day everyone!
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Montana man, 80, pleads guilty to creating giant mutant hybrid bighorns
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MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery
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First Light fusion startup breaks pressure record using giant ‘gun’ machine for projectile fusion attempts
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Colorado Bureau of Investigation finds DNA scientist manipulated data in hundreds of cases over decades
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Argentina president Javier Milei’s actions after taking office have research institutions facing shutdown. Scientists protest.
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Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
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Research sheds light on new strategy to treat infertility
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Having self-control leads to power: a new study with 3,500 people finds that showing self-control influences how powerful an individual is perceived to be by their peers
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The oldest unsolved problem in math. Do odd perfect numbers exist?
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Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet: An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge
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Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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Why is it so hard to tell the sex of a dinosaur?
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Chemistry of Spice Melange (from Dune)
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Progress deferred: Lessons from mRNA vaccine development
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Tour of Vienna's Natural History Museum in Austria. It houses one of the oldest natural history collections in the world, dating back to the 1700's.
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What's an obelisk, anyway?
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The bizarre patterns that emerge when you heat any fluid
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A peer reviewed journal with nonsense AI images was just published
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Researchers find response to ketamine depends on opioid pathways, but varies by sex
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Bioluminescent houseplant hits US market for first time
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Research samples collected over decades at Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays
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Extreme metal guitar skills linked to intrasexual competition, but not mating success
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Ultra-rapid MRI while singing and speaking
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Researchers were able to isolate the brain from the rest of the body of a pig, and kept it alive and functioning for five hours
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Why flying insects gather at artificial light
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Tiny ant species disrupts lion's hunting behavior
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‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
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Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research
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Full field-of-view virtual reality goggles for mice
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The Hawthorne effect in human resource management is based on unreliable studies
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Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war
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Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of the cosmic microwave background, has died age 90
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