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Scientists monitored brains replaying memories in real time
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Computational predictions of protein structures associated with COVID-19
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This marsupial, the swamp wallaby, is the only animal that's always pregnant
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A surrogate cheetah gave birth to two cubs at the Columbus Zoo. This birth marks a scientific breakthrough: it is the first successful embryo transfer to have ever been performed on a cheetah
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Giant phages have been found in French lakes, baboons from Kenya, and the human mouth
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Upside-down jellyfish lob tiny grenades to kill prey
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'Ghost' DNA from unknown ancestors found in West Africans
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Beyond identical or fraternal: Six rare types of twins
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Dopamine and temporal difference learning: A fruitful relationship between neuroscience and AI
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New Coronavirus Protease Structure Available
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A British cobbler had his thumb replaced with a big toe. He’d lost the digit while mending a shoe, but is now back at work with a toe grafted onto his hand.
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Deciphering the genetic diversity of leaf shapes
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Scientists just used a supercomputer to make a living organism from scratch
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The real experiments that inspired Frankenstein
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Australians are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated.
A news article: Patients suffer invasive treatments for harmless cancers The study itself: Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia
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Where will the next pandemic come from? And how can we stop it?
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Genetically modify bacteria in three simple steps - Heat shock
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A watershed moment for protein structure prediction
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New microscopy technique shows cells’ 3D ultrastructure in new detail
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African grey parrots are the first bird species to pass a test that requires them both to understand when another animal needs help and to actually give assistance
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Gene-drive technology could alter entire species, help eliminate malaria and prevent extinctions, but assessing the risks is difficult
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A microbial map of the city – Boston, USA
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DNA animations by wehi.tv for science-art exhibition
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China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies
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Erythranthe Peregrina - The flower species born from a sterile hybrid. Twice.
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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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A new study shows an animal’s lifespan is written in the DNA. For humans, it’s thirty-eight years
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China’s CRISPR babies: Read exclusive excerpts from the unseen original research
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How fungi made all life on land possible
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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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Vikings killed off Iceland's walruses – ancient DNA says the extinct Icelandic walruses were a genetically distinct population
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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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In pursuit of better baby formula: Replicating human milk is no easy feat—nor is separating the science from the hype
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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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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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A new study posits that tsunamis triggered by the Great Alaska Earthquake in 1964 washed a deadly fungus onto the shore
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Survival of the friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break
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Earliest signs of life
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Venoms vs. poisons
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How cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife
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GM mosquito progeny not dying in Brazil: study
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Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
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Evidence for bias of genetic ancestry in resting state functional MRI
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI [blocked] Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional...
Conference paper: Evidence For Bias Of Genetic Ancestry In Resting State Functional MRI
[blocked]Preprint (not peer-reviewed): Evidence for Bias of Genetic Ancestry in Resting State Functional MRI
[not blocked]Someone posted this on Reddit. It purports to be a study which shows that it is possible to identify a person's genetic ancestry (in other words, their "race") by observing their brain activity.
Thereby, we demonstrated that genetic ancestry is encoded in the functional connectivity pattern of the brain at rest. We hypothesize that these observed differences are a result of known ethnicity-related variations in head and brain morphology
This feels problematic, in that it gives support to the racist idea that different "races" think differently. But I don't know enough myself to believe this study or debunk it. I present it for more knowledgeable people than myself to dissect and discuss.
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'Ding dong, it's time': Dancing tarantulas emerge in droves to mate in western US
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Winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Fundamental Physics and Mathematics announced, awarding a collective $21.6 million
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Deinonychus, the raptor that made us rethink dinosaurs
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The 'Sea Nomad' children who see like dolphins
6 votes