‘Sex reversal’ is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
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Would you get sick in the name of science?
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US National Institutes of Health suspends dozens of pathogen studies over ‘gain-of-function’ concerns
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'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers to influence automated review
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Finding Peter Putnam
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Inside arXiv — the most transformative platform in all of science
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The most ingenious hawk in New Jersey
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US National Institutes of Health guts its first and largest study centered on women
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Those dire wolves aren’t an amazing scientific breakthrough. They’re a disturbing symbol of where we’re heading.
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RNA motifs coming into focus
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Sociogenomics, a new scientific field is changing the understanding of how and why people develop the specific ways that they do
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Scientists have bred "Woolly Mice" on their journey to bring back the mammoth
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Cynicism vs hopeful skepticism
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Academic urban legends about spinach and iron
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Why probability probably doesn't exist (but it's useful to act like it does)
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California squirrels are hunting and eating voles, surprising UC Davis study says
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Mathematicians discover a new kind of shape that’s all over nature (3D tessellating forms)
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A ‘yoga pill’ to end anxiety? Scientists find a brain circuit that instantly deflates stress.
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The Business-School research scandal that just keeps getting bigger
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Digging into the first work of modern ecology
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The US has a cloned sheep contraband problem
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Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent US neuroscientist and top National Institutes of Health official, fall under suspicion
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Patent law is broken (USA) and EU (sort of)
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Scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor
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Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year
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The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
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The asteroid-in-spring hypothesis - two paleontologists have turned on each other, each claiming to have found new evidence about the worst day on Earth
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The Marshmallow Test and other predictors of success have bias built in, researchers say
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Why don’t we know how antidepressants work yet?
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Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells
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Star botanist likely made up data about nutritional supplements, new probe finds
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Why we like people who ask us for favors
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Size matters? "Size" dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America.
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Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in five key points
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America's never-ending battle against flesh-eating worms
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Wiley to shutter nineteen more journals, some tainted by fraud
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Argentine scientists find speedy ninety-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur
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Lemon-scented marijuana compound reduces weed’s ‘paranoia’ effect
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Water isn't normal
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MH370 and the sea creatures that opened a new mystery
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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‘It’s insane’: New viruslike entities found in human gut microbes
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Seaweed could save a billion people from famine after a nuclear war
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Transparent wood is stronger than plastic and tougher than glass
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Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake.
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What am I thankful for this year? Amazing scientific discoveries.
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Machine learning creates a massive map of smelly molecules
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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies
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Lithium discovery in US volcano could be biggest deposit ever found
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Scientists discovered why Germany’s wild boar are radioactive
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