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Death could be reversible, as scientists bring dead eyes back to life biology Article 679 words 6 votes
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What "impossible" meant to Richard Feynman physics.quantum Article 2588 words, published Nov 24 2021 7 votes
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African researchers say they face bias in the world of science. Here's one solution. Article 1158 words 6 votes
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Sex can relieve nasal congestion, and other work honored by 2021 Ig Nobels Article 1023 words 17 votes
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 Article 476 words 10 votes
Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion, produces three times more energy than was absorbed by the fuel physics Link 16 votes
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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 Article 797 words 9 votes
Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity biology Article 2606 words 15 votes
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"We monitor its every breath": Inside Mount Etna's war room, where scientists are trying to explain its recent unusual behaviour Article 1002 words 6 votes
Ancient leaves preserved under a mile of Greenland’s ice – and lost in a freezer for years – hold lessons about climate change Article 6 votes
Scientists are concerned by falling sperm counts and declining egg quality. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals may be the problem. biology Article 926 words 12 votes
How our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines medicine Article 1313 words 8 votes
Physicists have observed an entirely new state of matter called 'Liquid Glass' physics Article 499 words 7 votes
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 physics Article 1024 words 13 votes
Scientists restore age-related vision loss in mice through epigenetic reprogramming biology.cell medicine Article 1642 words 9 votes
Scientists discover the first animal that doesn’t breathe oxygen to live biology Article published Oct 17 2019 23 votes
Scientists grow bigger monkey brains using human genes, replicating evolution biology Article 459 words, published Jun 19 2020 4 votes
The remarkable life of Roxie Laybourne, the world’s first forensic ornithologist at the Smithsonian Institution biology Article 4630 words, published Oct 5 2020 6 votes
Real-time tracking of serotonin, dopamine opens new window to the brain biology Article 669 words 4 votes
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna chemistry Article 1049 words 13 votes
The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a new ocean is being born Article 898 words 7 votes
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 biology Article 1331 words 6 votes
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 biology.marine Article 802 words 6 votes
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 biology.marine Article 3049 words 8 votes
Rock samples aren’t archived or shared: An international group of geologists make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks Article 7 votes
Blind people could 'see' letters that scientists drew on their brains with electricity: scientists stimulated the brain using electrodes implanted on its surface medicine Link 8 votes