Evidence mounts that gut bacteria can influence mood, prevent depression

Researchers find certain bacteria may make compounds that affect mental well-being | Continue reading


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Bug Bombs Don’t Get Rid of Bugs, Study Suggests

Bait, not bombs, is the way to best cockroaches | Continue reading


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Bats and dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way

Finding suggests genomes may be rife with hidden similarities | Continue reading


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Star Trek–like replicator 3D prints entire objects in minutes

Ghostly 3D printer sculpts The Thinker before your eyes | Continue reading


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Plants and animals sometimes take genes from bacteria, study of algae suggests

About 1% of genes in some red algae come from bacteria | Continue reading


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The northern and southern lights are different

Study explains dissimilarity between light shows at Earth’s poles | Continue reading


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When Ph.D. Stands for Problematic Hiring Detriment

Our columnist investigates how having a Ph.D. can hurt your job search | Continue reading


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David Egilman wins billions–makes enemies–fighting companies over public health

Physician has given depositions and testimony in more than 600 cases of occupational or environmental disease | Continue reading


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Gum disease–causing bacteria could spur Alzheimer’s

Once-fringy notion inspires clinical trials | Continue reading


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People can predict your tweets–even if you aren’t on Twitter

Deleting your account doesn’t prevent ‘shadow profiles’ | Continue reading


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Contiguous United States just lost its last wild caribou

Canadian biologists capture animal for controversial conservation effort | Continue reading


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Scientists sue to protect Utah monument–and fossils that could rewrite history

The downsized Bears Ears monument is just beginning to reveal its secrets | Continue reading


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Huge Open Access Deal in Germany

New contract gives researchers access to Wiley’s journals and makes their papers open access | Continue reading


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Japan’s exit from international whaling treaty may benefit whales

Commercial whaling will replace a controversial research program, but the market for whale meat is declining | Continue reading


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Two ways you can tell someone is sick just by looking at them

Facial traits give away whether we might be contagious | Continue reading


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The bacteria in your gut may reveal your true age

Scientists say microbiome is a surprisingly accurate biological clock | Continue reading


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Astronomers still can't decipher the ‘Cow’, a mysterious explosion in deep space

June discovery could be birth of a neutron star—or something entirely unprecedented | Continue reading


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How much do graduate students benefit from studying abroad?

NSF reopens Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide and reviews its support for international travel programs | Continue reading


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Dog breeds really do have distinct personalities – and they’re rooted in DNA

Findings may have implications for humans as well | Continue reading


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Artificial intelligence turns brain activity into speech

Fed data from invasive brain recordings, algorithms reconstruct heard and spoken sounds | Continue reading


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Japan’s asteroid mission faces ‘breathtaking’ touchdown

As first data roll in from Hayabusa2, engineers plan descent to rocky surface | Continue reading


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United States should prepare to build a prototype fusion power plant, panel says

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report calls for a 35% boost in funding for fusion research | Continue reading


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Artificial intelligence helps predict volcanic eruptions – Science – AAAS

Global warning system based on data from existing satellites could be just a couple years away | Continue reading


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Viking cat skeletons reveal a surprising growth in the size of felines over time

Improved diet, breeding may have led to bigger bodies | Continue reading


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Tiny implantable wireless device could help people repair nerves and lose weight

Some of the devices even dissolve in the body once their work is done. | Continue reading


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Just thinking you have poor endurance genes changes your body

New study suggests our minds can influence our physiology as much as our genes | Continue reading


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Google’s DeepMind aces protein folding

Artificial intelligence firm takes crown in biannual contest | Continue reading


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This 8000-year-old ‘gum’ holds surprises about ancient toolmakers

Young hunter-gatherers in Scandinavia chewed birch bark pitch while they worked | Continue reading


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Ten percent of NFL players could eventually develop serious brain disease

New study builds on previous work to estimate athletes’ risk of brain disease | Continue reading


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Cosmic cacophony of colliding black holes continues (gravitational waves)

Gravitational wave detectors spot four more mergers of stellar ghosts | Continue reading


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Bands of martian rock could solve the ‘faint young sun’ paradox

New study suggests rocks on Mars could hold a hidden record of the sun’s weight | Continue reading


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Controversial Forensic Technology: Journal Caves to Legal Threat (2009)

Paper questioning voice analyzer pulled from Web after manufacture claims it is defamatory | Continue reading


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New test spots ‘hidden consciousness’ in severely injured brains

Electroencephalography detects cognitive action in seemingly unresponsive patients | Continue reading


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Watch humpback whales trick thousands of fish into becoming dinner

An open mouth and the help of some seabirds put herring on the menu | Continue reading


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European funders detail their open-access plan

Plan S will allow publishing in hybrid journals that plan flip to open access | Continue reading


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United States blocks Iran from fusion megaproject

Other scientific ties envisioned under embattled nuclear deal are slow to develop | Continue reading


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Watch just a few self-driving cars stop traffic jams – Science – AAAS

Artificial intelligence–powered cars can put the brakes on stop-and-go traffic | Continue reading


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Study shows brain cells revamp their DNA, perhaps sparking Alzheimer’s disease

Brain cells are some of the only body cells that can perform these alterations | Continue reading


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Landmark study shows brain cells revamp their DNA, perhaps sparking Alzheimer’s

Brain cells are some of the only body cells that can perform these alterations | Continue reading


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What Can We Learn from Dartmouth?

In light of the recent lawsuit against Dartmouth College, our columnist reflects on her graduate experience there and possible ways forward | Continue reading


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Duke's case alleging researchers used fraudulent data to win millions in grants

Whistleblower could win up to 30% of settlement | Continue reading


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Why 536AD was the worst year to be alive

Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness | Continue reading


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Thorium-230 Dating Pushes Borneo Cave Painting 40,000-52,000 Years Old

Borneo cave art dated to at least 40,000 years old | Continue reading


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Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’

Glacier cores reveal Icelandic volcano that plunged Europe into darkness | Continue reading


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Massive crater under Greenland’s ice points to climate-altering impact

The 31-kilometer-wide Hiawatha crater may have formed as recently as 12,800 years ago when a 1.5-kilometer asteroid struck Earth | Continue reading


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Seeds of Parkinson’s disease may hide in the appendix

Appendectomy decreases risk of the neurodegenerative disease, though we can’t yet explain why | Continue reading


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Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains?

Preliminary finding turns heads at neuroscience meeting | Continue reading


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New tracking system could show how pesticides are harming bee colonies

Experiments with the system suggest neonicotinoids severely disrupt bumble bee social behavior | Continue reading


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