Category: SCIENCE
Want to Talk to Aliens? Try Changing the Technological Channel Beyond Radio
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Common Steroid Could Be Cheap and Effective Treatment for Severe COVID-19
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Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts
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COVID-Era Isolation is Making Dangerous Eating Disorders Worse
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Storm Surge: The Science behind This Year’s Hyperactive Hurricane Season
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Two Strains of Polio Down, One to Go
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‘Warp Speed’ COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts Aim for Diverse Volunteers and Long-Lasting Protection
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Schools Have No Good Options for Reopening during COVID-19
[responsivevoice_button rate="1″ pitch="1.2″ volume="0.8″ voice="US English Female" buttontext="Story in Audio"] Schools Have No Good Options for Reopening during COVID-19 Even as schools have already[more...]
Time’s Arrow Flies through 500 Years of Classical Music, Physicists Say
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This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory
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Costa Rica Readies Horse Antibodies for Trials as an Inexpensive COVID-19 Therapy
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A 429-Million-Year-Old Trilobite Had Eyes like Those of Modern Bees
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Women in Science May Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19
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Weird Mystery Seeds Arriving by Mail Sprout Biodiversity Concerns
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How Do Scientists Determine the Ages of Human Ancestors, Fossilized Dinosaurs and Other Organisms?
[responsivevoice_button rate="1″ pitch="1.2″ volume="0.8″ voice="US English Female" buttontext="Story in Audio"] How Do Scientists Determine the Ages of Human Ancestors, Fossilized Dinosaurs and Other Organisms?[more...]
How Dozens of Languages Help Build Gender Stereotypes
[responsivevoice_button rate="1″ pitch="1.2″ volume="0.8″ voice="US English Female" buttontext="Story in Audio"] How Dozens of Languages Help Build Gender Stereotypes Linguists use machine-learning techniques for mining[more...]
How to Evaluate COVID-19 News without Freaking Out
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Neural Switch Flips on Aggression in Male Mice
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Concerns about Waning COVID-19 Immunity Are Likely Overblown
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Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do
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Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply
[responsivevoice_button rate="1″ pitch="1.2″ volume="0.8″ voice="US English Female" buttontext="Story in Audio"] Plants Have Hormones, Too, and Tweaking Them Could Improve Food Supply Between crop damage[more...]
One Mystery of Stonehenge’s Origins Has Finally Been Solved
[responsivevoice_button rate="1″ pitch="1.2″ volume="0.8″ voice="US English Female" buttontext="Story in Audio"] One Mystery of Stonehenge's Origins Has Finally Been Solved For more than four centuries,[more...]
