New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses
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For these species, their biological sex is the most consequential trait. (Extreme sexual dimorphism)
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2019 in review: The year in math and computer science
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Impacts: Climate change awareness project
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The most important invention of the 20th century: Transistors
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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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The top retractions of 2019
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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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"Why do we need to know this when there’s fancy part X that already does Y?"
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Some of the Pew Research Center's most noteworthy findings from 2019
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Quantum droplets win the 2019 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition
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China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research
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The gene patent question
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The Bell Curve
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Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?
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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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Cows wearing VR headsets might produce better milk
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ETH researchers used a 3D printing process to produce complex and highly porous glass objects
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Grok Correlation
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How fungi made all life on land possible
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Slaying the speckled monster - The history of smallpox and the origins of vaccines
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If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious
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A new slippery coating could help reduce water usage
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The next graphene? Shiny and magnetic, a new form of pure carbon dazzles with potential.
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Researchers have created glass which can bend and compress
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How we domesticated cats (twice)
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Does transparency in moderation really matter? User behavior after content removal explanations on Reddit.
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Thousands of egg-shaped balls of ice have covered a beach in Finland – the result of a rare weather phenomenon
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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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Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans
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Hydra: Stretchy, Speedy, & Probably Immortal
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Unified theory of evolution
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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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Putting brains into technological perspective - Brains as analog computers
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Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks
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Can you turn a grape into a "meat berry"? - Tissue recellularization
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The material science of metal 3D printing
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Migrating Russian eagles run up huge data roaming charges
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A newly-discovered species of beetle, Nelloptodes gretae, has been named after young climate activist Greta Thunberg
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MIT Media Lab scientist claimed success for a deployment of food computers to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, but the computers never worked
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Google demonstrating quantum supremacy
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Quantum supremacy: The gloves are off
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Can brain science help us break bad habits?
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The exquisite precision of time crystals
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Increasingly, scientists are taking note of the many indications that insects exhibit consciousness-like phenomena
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Google's AI plays football in its new reinforcement learning environment
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Loop quantum gravity explained
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Lasers reveal 60,000 ancient Maya structures in Guatemala
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The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has been named one of the most important projects in the world over the last fifty years
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Viewpoint: Richard Feynman, harassment, and the culture of science
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