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How nature can alter our sense of time
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Putin has no successor, no living rivals and no retirement plan – why his eventual death will set off a vicious power struggle
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The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway
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MH370 disappearance 10 years on: can we still find it?
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Where does lightning strike? New maps pinpoint 36.8 million yearly ground strike points in unprecedented detail
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Birmingham council's 'equal pay' bankruptcy provided cover for Oracle disaster
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Arctic rivers face big changes with a warming climate, with an accelerating water cycle that includes water flowing through thawed permafrost as well as surface runoff, increasing the release of CO2, according to a new study using historical data and sophisticated computer models
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We’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
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Daily fibre supplement improves older adults’ brain function in just three months – new study
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Gravity experiments on the kitchen table: why a tiny, tiny measurement may be a big leap forward for physics
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A blow to the heart can kill you – or bring you back to life
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"Expertise Erosion" from Over-Reliance on AI
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The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk
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Memes form part of a highly sophisticated strategy to spread and monetise health disinformation. They are used to show the government is corrupt and tyrannical; that vaccines are unsafe and ineffective and that the government is using vaccines as a form of state surveillance, for control and profit.
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A new study found that conspiracy theory beliefs don't change much over time. The most popular theory was “Big Pharma have suppressed a cure for cancer to protect their profits” (18%). The least popular was the theory that “COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ contain microchips to monitor and control people” (2%).
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Bacteria in your gut can improve your mood − new research in mice tries to zero in on the crucial strains
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Why is free time still so elusive?
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Breaking down fat byproducts could lead to healthier aging − researchers identify a key enzyme that does just that
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The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. This is the story of scientists’ quest to decode it – and read people’s minds
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Lunar science is entering a new active phase, with commercial launches of landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages
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Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names
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Why AI can’t replace air traffic controllers
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Oil firms forced to consider climate effects of new drilling, rules Norway court
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A newly identified ‘Hell chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit, with fossil finds indicating diverse species thriving towards the end of Cretaceous era
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Study of 300 million groundwater level measurements in 170,000 wells located in over 40 countries finds widespread, sharp declines in aquifers but also that some places have succeeded in reversing the trend through measures like raising fees and ponds that leak back into the aquifer
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Alcohol and drugs rewire your brain by changing how your genes work – research is investigating how to counteract addiction’s effects
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'No cash accepted' signs are bad news for unbanked Americans
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Iceland battles a lava flow: Countries have built barriers and tried explosives in the past, but it’s hard to stop molten rock
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Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why – but finding out could change the way we grow things
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Almost never use a pie chart for data
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Higher fees, more ads: streaming cashes in by using the old tactics of cable TV
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Radiation therapy takes advantage of cancer’s poor DNA repair abilities – an oncologist and physicist explain how
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New map of the world's oceans synthesizes a petabyte of data from various sources to provide new insights on energy (offshore wind turbines passed offshore oil rigs in 2020) and fishing (75% of which isn't publicly tracked) (reddit)
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Fascia: the most neglected part of our body is finally starting to receive attention
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Keeping a streak alive can be strong motivation to stick with a chosen activity
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People once lived in a vast region in north-western Australia – and it had an inland sea
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100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a US university
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How the Boston Tea Party’s ‘destruction of the tea’ changed American history
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Ancestral Coast Salish societies in the Pacific Northwest kept long-haired “woolly dogs” that were bred for millennia and whose hair was used for weaving; in collaboration with Indigenous people, scientists analyzed the only confirmed extant pelt and discovered "Mutton" had not been interbred (reddit)
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How do pacemakers and defibrillators work? A cardiologist explains how they interact with the electrical system of the heart
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Isotopic analysis suggests that volatile elements like sulfur and nitrogen which are crucial ingredients for life were present from Earth's formation, and not added as a "late veneer" by asteroid-type objects from space (reddit)
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Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, is showing up in pregnant women living near farm fields, even if they eat organic food, during seasons when farmers are spraying it (reddit)
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Why Franklin, Washington and Lincoln considered American democracy an ‘experiment’
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Rats are more human than [one might] think – and they certainly like being around us
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What's lost when we photograph life instead of experiencing it? (2016)
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Does having children make you happier? Here’s what the research suggests
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Salad Fingers and the dawn of ‘weird YouTube’
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Henry Kissinger’s bombing campaign likely killed hundreds of thousands of Cambodians − and set path for the ravages of the Khmer Rouge
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Almost half the men surveyed think they could land a passenger plane. Experts disagree
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Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why
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Forensic anthropologists work to identify human skeletal remains and uncover the stories of the unknown dead
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Good profits from bad news: How the Kennedy assassination helped make network TV news wealthy
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How can you define a 'drug'? Nobody knows
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The battle over right to repair is a fight over your car's data
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Music painted on wall of a Venetian orphanage will be heard 250 years later
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Skulls in Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East. These two individuals interbred with Neanderthals and with the very first European Homo sapiens, who arrived around 45,000 years ago and were thought to have become extinct following a major climatic catastrophe. (reddit)
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The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?
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How we’re building the world’s biggest optical telescope to crack some of the greatest puzzles in science
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How zebras get their stripes may be explained by a model using diffusiophoresis, validating the mechanism proposed by Alan Turing and known as Turing patterns, where previous models had blurred edges (reddit)
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Acapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis’ destructive winds
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Understanding that chronic back pain originates from within the brain could lead to quicker recovery, a new study finds
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Giraffes could go extinct
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'I’ve researched time for 15 years – here’s how my perception of it has changed'
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NASA’s robotic prospectors are helping scientists understand what asteroids are made of – setting the stage for miners to follow someday
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Modern medicine has its scientific roots in the Middle Ages − how the logic of vulture brain remedies and bloodletting lives on today
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Starlink satellites are 'leaking' signals that interfere with radio telescopes
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What is ‘fried rice syndrome’? A microbiologist explains this type of food poisoning – and how to avoid it
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Toxic diets: Canadian orcas face high risks of pollution-related health effects (reddit)
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What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circular intersections
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We traced a powerful radio signal to the most distant source yet – a galaxy billions of lightyears away
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Rising oil prices, surging inflation: The Arab embargo 50 years ago weaponized oil to inflict economic trauma
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3 powerful earthquakes strike Afghanistan in one week – here’s how people around the world prepare for disasters
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Cars are a ‘privacy nightmare on wheels’. Here’s how they get away with collecting and sharing your data
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Your immune system makes its own antiviral drug − and it’s likely one of the most ancient
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Spicy food might burn in the moment, but it likely won’t harm your health in the long term
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Unmasking Banksy – the street artist is not one man but a whole brand of people
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Does employer have to tell if they're spying on you through your work computer?
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Despite one of the US military’s greatest fiascoes, American troops are still in Somalia fighting an endless war
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Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain − new research at the level of neurons is untangling how
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Juries that don’t understand forensic science can send innocent people to prison − a short training video could help
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Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report
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Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report
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