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Optical Illusion Makes Vessel Seem to Hover
Ian Sample, The Guardian
Remains of Jesus' Brother Shown to Be Someone Else
The Conversation
Was the Golden Rule Born in the Mind of a Monkey?
Julie Sedivy, Nautilus
Homo Sapiens: The Water-Saving Ape
Lauren Fuge, Cosmos Magazine
The New COVID Vaccine Is Not "Morally Compromised"
Amesh A. Adalja, Leaps
Octopuses Can Feel Both Physical and Emotional Pain
Carly Cassella, Science Alert
Could Your Brain Run Out of Space?
Simen Høseggen, ScienceNorway
U.S. Traffic Deaths Spiked in 2020, Despite Less Driving
Ed Cara, Gizmodo
What's Under the Hood of a Quantum Computer?
Christine Middleton, Physics Today
Scientists Made Noctilucent Clouds to See How They Form
Maria Temming, SciN
Physicists Propose Universe Filled With Tiny Atomic Bombs
Becky Ferreira, Vice
The Threat of Coronavirus Variants in the U.S. Is Unclear
Ewen Callaway, Nature
RCS Flashback: Before Artificial Light, We Slept Twice a Night

The Latest Research

Vegan Diet May Lead to Poorer Bone Health
BfR
Did Woolly Mammoths Overlap With First Humans in New England?
Dartmouth
Could Catnip Become the New DEET?
Northwestern University
Atlantic Warming Cycle Likely an Artifact of Climate Forcing
Penn State

Humans Of The Future

The Rise of God-Like Beings
Mark Alan Walker, iai
Mutation Provides Superior Resilience to Cold
Karolinska Institutet
The Dark Side of CRISPR
Sandy Sufian & Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Scientific American
Wearable Device Turns the Body Into a Battery
University of Colorado-Boulder

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Optical Illusion Makes Vessel Seem to Hover

Ian Sample, The Guardian

There are only so many polite words that come to mind when one spots a ship apparently hovering above the ocean during a stroll along the... Read More

Remains of Jesus' Brother Shown to Be Someone Else

The Conversation

Hunched innocuously in the shadow of Rome’s mighty Piazza Venezia, just a stone’s throw from one of the city’s busiest... Read More

Was the Golden Rule Born in the Mind of a Monkey?

Julie Sedivy, Nautilus

As economic inequality increased in many wealthy nations in recent years, a debate has developed around the question of whether inequality is... Read More

Homo Sapiens: The Water-Saving Ape

Lauren Fuge, Cosmos Magazine

It’s an age-old question in evolution: how did humans become the dominant primate, able to venture out from tropical rainforests to the... Read More

The New COVID Vaccine Is Not "Morally Compromised"

Amesh A. Adalja, Leaps

The approval of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been heralded as a major advance. A single-dose vaccine that is highly... Read More

Octopuses Can Feel Both Physical and Emotional Pain

Carly Cassella, Science Alert

An important new study suggests octopuses are likely to feel and respond to pain in a similar way to mammals - the first strong evidence for... Read More

Could Your Brain Run Out of Space?

Simen Høseggen, ScienceNorway

The closing credits of your favourite reality series are scrolling through after the episode. After treating yourself to some junk TV, fear... Read More

U.S. Traffic Deaths Spiked in 2020, Despite Less Driving

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The covid-19 pandemic had a surprising effect on road fatalities in 2020, new data released this week suggests. Despite people staying at... Read More

What's Under the Hood of a Quantum Computer?

Christine Middleton, Physics Today

When most people sit down at their computers to work, they’re thinking about all the things they need to get done; far from mind is any... Read More

Scientists Made Noctilucent Clouds to See How They Form

Maria Temming, SciN

NASA’s Super Soaker mission was basically an extreme DIY project: To better understand how noctilucent, or night-shining clouds form,... Read More

Physicists Propose Universe Filled With Tiny Atomic Bombs

Becky Ferreira, Vice

Stars across the universe run on nuclear fusion, but nuclear fission—the mechanism at the core of an atomic bomb—is an... Read More

The Threat of Coronavirus Variants in the U.S. Is Unclear

Ewen Callaway, Nature

For the scientists who have spent the past year poring over hundreds of thousands of coronavirus genomes, the United States has been an... Read More

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Vegan Diet May Lead to Poorer Bone Health

BfR

The vegan diet is on trend. How this type of diet affects health is the subject of scientific studies. In a new study from the German Federal... Read More

Did Woolly Mammoths Overlap With First Humans in New England?

Dartmouth

Woolly mammoths may have walked the landscape at the same time as the earliest humans in what is now New England, according to a Dartmouth... Read More

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New collaborative research from Northwestern University and Lund University may have people heading to their backyard instead of the store at... Read More

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Are some important questions simply un-answerable by humans due to the type of biological beings we are? Philosophers such as Kant thought... Read More

Mutation Provides Superior Resilience to Cold

Karolinska Institutet

Almost one in five people lacks the protein α-actinin-3 in their muscle fibre. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet now show that more... Read More

The Dark Side of CRISPR

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Americans have celebrated the fact that the Biden administration is embracing science and returning the country to evidence-based... Read More

Wearable Device Turns the Body Into a Battery

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Shining Light on Dark Matter

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The CRISPR Frontier

How CRISPR Can Create More Ethical Eggs

Justin Cremer, Alliance for Science

Over the past couple of decades, Western consumers have shown an increasing appetite for more ethical eggs. The European Union and a number of American states have banned the use of battery cages for egg-laying hens and the cage-free egg market segment has been growing for years. In some countries, free-range eggs outsell caged eggs and a number of powerful corporations like Walmart and McDonalds ... Read More

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