Silicon Valley Startup Hopes to Deliver Precision Cancer Medicine to Dogs

Promoters hope efforts will also offer insights into treatments used for humans | Continue reading


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Extreme Weather Events Could Worsen Climate Change

Weather fluctuations change how much excess carbon soil can absorb from the atmosphere | Continue reading


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Rocking to Sleep Is a Matchless Sedative and Elixir

Back-and-forth motions may tweak the sensory organs that control our balance and spatial orientation | Continue reading


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Why Rocking to Sleep Is a Matchless Sedative--and Elixir

The back-and-forth motions may tweak the sensory organs that control our balance and spatial orientation | Continue reading


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In a First, Earthlings Spot a Meteor Strike the Eclipse-Darkened Moon

A flash of light during last weekend’s total lunar eclipse sparks a search for a new lunar crater | Continue reading


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An Open Letter to U.S. Scientist Legislators

You can restore credibility to Congress and lead on issues from opioid addiction to clean water | Continue reading


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Saturn's Blingy Rings Are a Recent Upgrade

Though Saturn formed about 4.5 billion years ago, its rings were added relatively recently—only 100 to 10 million years ago. Karen Hopkin reports.  | Continue reading


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A Simple Camera and an Algorithm Let You See around Corners

A preliminary study shows how it might be possible one day to use a smartphone app to look around a bend without the help of a mirror | Continue reading


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Four Climate-Influenced Disasters Cost the U.S. $53 Billion in 2018

Two wildfires and two hurricanes were among the costliest disasters worldwide | Continue reading


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4 Ways to Improve Your Posture and Lose that Slouch

A nicely aligned body is a nicely stacked body | Continue reading


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Ebola Vaccine Supplies Are Expected to Last

The World Health Organization predicts the Democratic Republic of the Congo has enough of the experimental vaccine | Continue reading


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Prior Dengue Infection Protects Children against Zika Symptoms

A Nicaraguan study supports the idea preexisting dengue immunity may affect susceptibility to Zika | Continue reading


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Do-Gooders Should Survey Communities First

Detroit residents declined an offer of free street trees—but were more willing to accept them if they had a say in the type of tree. Jason G. Goldman reports. | Continue reading


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Scientist Behind "CRISPR Babies" Fired by University

An investigation by Chinese authorities found He Jiankui broke national regulations in his controversial gene editing work | Continue reading


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Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky

The first direct air capture and storage plant in the world is powered by geothermal heat in Iceland. Is it enough to reach negative carbon emissions? To learn more, read the story here . | Continue reading


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Protecting Monarch Butterflies Could Mean Moving Hundreds of Trees

Researchers are trying to shift Mexico’s oyamel firs to higher elevations to help them weather warming temperatures | Continue reading


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How to Shift Anti-Transgender Attitudes

A new study shows that door-to-door “deep canvassing” conversations can change real voters’ attitudes to be more tolerant | Continue reading


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Trump's Border Wall Highlights the Climate-Migration Connection

While the wall is aimed at stopping migrants, environmental rollbacks could encourage more migration | Continue reading


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Can Outrage Be a Good Thing?

A scientific look at an emotion that shapes our times | Continue reading


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As Fires Choke Utility, the Question of Who Pays for Warming Emerges

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is headed to bankruptcy after downed power lines are blamed for several large wildfires | Continue reading


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Is Only-Child Syndrome Real?

Children without siblings have long been thought of as spoiled and selfish. Are the claims true? | Continue reading


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Pesticides on Our Plates: Is Our Food Safe to Eat?

A new report looks at the amount of pesticides that are making their way to our plates | Continue reading


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Lunar Craters Show Spike in Earth-Pummeling Space Rocks

A new analysis suggests the last few hundred million years of life on Earth has seen above-average asteroid impact rates | Continue reading


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Viewing This Weekend's Lunar Eclipse

A total lunar eclipse will grace the skies this Sunday, January 20th—and it may or may not be red. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading


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Resurrecting the Genes of Extinct Plants

Scientists at Gingko Bioworks have resurrected the smell of an extinct flower by putting together the pieces of its DNA. | Continue reading


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Glaciers in the Americas Are Melting Faster

Mountain glaciers are an important source of freshwater for wildlife and human communities | Continue reading


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Has LIGO Seen Galaxy-Warped Gravitational Waves?

Nobel laureate George Smoot claims LIGO has observed amplified signals of black hole mergers from the very distant universe, but LIGO scientists disagree | Continue reading


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The Cerebellum Is Your "Little Brain"--and It Does Some Pretty Big Things

A newly identified circuit connecting the cerebellum to the brain’s reward centers in mice could help scientists understand autism and addiction | Continue reading


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Lunar De-Light! How to View 2019's Sole Total Eclipse of the Moon

On January 20, stargazers across the Americas will have stunning views of a historic celestial event | Continue reading


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U.S. Astronomers Ponder Science Priorities for the 2020s and Beyond

The Astro 2020 Decadal Survey kicks off amid turmoil and uncertainty | Continue reading


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"Mona Lisa Effect" Not True for Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa effect is the illusion that the subject of a painting follows you with her gaze, despite where you stand. But Da Vinci's famous painting doesn't have that quality. Christopher Intagliata reports. | Continue reading


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RoboFossil Reveals Locomotion of Beast from Deep Time

Modeling shows the 290-million-year-old Orobates had an advanced way of walking—revising an enduring view of how tetrapods colonized dry land | Continue reading


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Climate Forecast: World Is "Sleepwalking into Catastrophe"

In an annual World Economic Forum report, climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss were named among the highest global risks | Continue reading


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Heat Waves Are Causing Mass Fish Deaths in Australia

Drought conditions and poor water management have contributed to the events | Continue reading


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Bitter Reality: Most Wild Coffee Species Risk Extinction Worldwide

Researchers surveyed the world’s 124 coffee species and found more than half are threatened | Continue reading


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Ants Stick to Cliques to Dodge Disease

Ants infected with fungal pathogens steer clear of other cliques within the colony—avoiding wider infection, and allowing for a sort of immunity. Lucy Huang reports.  | Continue reading


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Wildfires Spark Population Booms in Fungi and Bacteria

Understanding how microbial communities change after a fire can help researchers to predict how an ecosystem will recove | Continue reading


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How to Deal With People Who Talk Too Much

Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen offers 5 tips for when Jeff from accounting stops by to give you the play-by-play of his morning | Continue reading


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Clean Power Plan Replacement Could Lead to Increased Emissions

The EPA’s proposed new rule could be worse than having no climate rule at all | Continue reading


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Weird Star System's Planet-Forming Disk Goes Vertical Like a Ferris Wheel

Worlds with off-kilter orbits may be much more common than previously believed | Continue reading


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Fukushima Residents Return Despite Radiation

Eight years after the nuclear meltdown, wary citizens are moving back to contaminated homesteads—some not by choice | Continue reading


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Physicists Lay Out Plans for a New Supercollider

The proposed facility would become the most powerful—and most expensive—collider ever built | Continue reading


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Our Language Affects What We See

A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception | Continue reading


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Physicists Lay Out Plans for a New Super-Collider

The proposed facility would become the most powerful—and most expensive—collider ever built | Continue reading


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Climate Concerns Are Pushing Oil Majors to Look Beyond Fossil Fuels

Several companies are diversifying their businesses, from biofuels to electric vehicles | Continue reading


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When the Mind’s Eye Is Blind

Some people find it impossible to imagine a friend’s face or their own apartment—a phenomenon named aphantasia. Scientists are beginning to tease out the brain features underlying the condition | Continue reading


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Our Language Affects What We See

A new look at “the Russian Blues” demonstrates the power of words to shape perception | Continue reading


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Proper Breathing Brings Better Health

Stress reduction, insomnia prevention, emotion control, improved attention—certain breathing techniques can make life better. But where do you start? | Continue reading


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