Why vaccine safety experts put the brakes on AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine

European doctors see an unusual combination of blood clots, low platelet counts, and internal bleeding in more than 13 vaccinated people | Continue reading


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Who is Camille Noûs, the fictitious French researcher with nearly 200 papers?

Group invents character as form of protest, but ethicists say campaign is misguided | Continue reading


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California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal

University gets desired price cut and discounts for publishing in Cell, The Lancet | Continue reading


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France grossly underestimated radioactive fallout from atom bomb tests, study

Declassified documents suggest 90% of French Polynesians received significant exposure | Continue reading


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Europe moves to exclude neighbors from its quantum and space research

Proposed European grant rules would exclude U.K., Swiss, and Israeli researchers | Continue reading


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Giant gravitational wave detectors could hear murmurs from across universe

Rival designs for next-generation machines pit Yankee brawn versus continental sophistication | Continue reading


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Ancient Earth was a water world

Life and plate tectonics may have emerged on a planet drowned in water that was rejected by the mantle | Continue reading


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Countries now scrambling for Covid-19 vaccines may soon have surpluses to donate

Rich countries have ordered billions of doses more than needed for their populations | Continue reading


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Fusion startup plans reactor with small but powerful superconducting magnets

Commonwealth Fusion Systems announces site for compact reactor | Continue reading


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Physician has studied the Fukushima disaster for a decade

After 10 years advising survivors of the Fukushima disaster about radiation, Masaharu Tsubokura thinks the evacuations posed a far bigger health risk | Continue reading


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Of 126 conversations, only 2% ended when both participants wanted them to

Study finds most chats don’t end when people want them to | Continue reading


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Should journals pay peer reviewes?

Payment advocates expect quicker, better reviews but opponents fear unsustainable costs | Continue reading


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Fleets of radar satellites are measuring movements on Earth like never before

With a surge in InSAR data, researchers are monitoring slipping faults, flowing ice, inflating volcanoes, and sinking croplands | Continue reading


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Mammoth molars yield the oldest DNA ever sequenced

1.2-million-year-old DNA from Siberia smashes previous record, reveals new mammoth lineage | Continue reading


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Scientists entered people’s dreams and got them ‘talking’

Dreaming experiments involved real-time conversations between sleepers and scientists | Continue reading


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Africans begin to take the reins of research into their own genomes

Their studies of their continent’s rich human diversity will benefit everyone, everywhere | Continue reading


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Risk of being scooped drives scientists to shoddy methods

Model shows racing for results leads to lower standards | Continue reading


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Cloak and dagger tale behind year’s most anticipated particle physics result

Locked cabinets, a secret frequency, and the curious magnetism of a particle called the muon | Continue reading


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How do wombats poop cubes? Scientists get to the bottom of the mystery

Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop | Continue reading


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Why Covid-19 is more deadly in people with obesity–even if they’re young

“The stickiest blood I’ve ever seen” and other weight-related factors worsen the coronavirus disease | Continue reading


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Cuttlefish are smarter than people

Mollusks delay rewards for promise of greater payoff | Continue reading


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My university plans to terminate my department. We’re trying to save it

During precarious times, tenure isn’t a guarantee of stability, this professor learned | Continue reading


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What might Earth’s next supercontinent look like? New study provides clues

Researchers say giant landmasses form at regular intervals in predictable locations | Continue reading


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Why cats are crazy for catnip

Minty chemical in catniplike plant activates their opioid systems—and acts as a mosquito repellent | Continue reading


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Who needs a teacher? Artificial intelligence designs lesson plans for itself

Machines—like people—learn best when tasks are just hard enough | Continue reading


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Biden appoints geneticist Eric Lander as science adviser

Post will also be elevated to Cabinet level | Continue reading


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Swarms of robotic fish can synchronize their swimming, for the first time

Two cameras and light-emitting diode lights enable communication | Continue reading


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Many scientists citing two scandalous Covid-19 papers ignore their retractions

Globally discredited hospital data from the company Surgisphere continues to live as reliable evidence—even in leading journals | Continue reading


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New coronavirus variants could cause more reinfections, require updated vaccines

Scientists worry mutations found in Brazil and South Africa could help SARS-CoV-2 evade human antibodies | Continue reading


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How the famed Arecibo telescope fell–and how it might rise again

Engineering failures and a harsh climate conspired in telescope’s sudden collapse | Continue reading


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World’s first dwarf giraffes spotted in Uganda and Namibia – Science – AAAS

This kind of condition is rare among wild animals | Continue reading


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Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website

Move comes as publishers sue in India to block public access | Continue reading


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Sensitive WHO mission to study pandemic origins is on its way to China

International team hopes to meet Chinese scientists and visit sites in Wuhan after 2 weeks in quarantine | Continue reading


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Brazil scales back efficacy claims for Covid-19 vaccine from China

Lower efficacy for Sinovac's vaccine still meets recognized threshold for emergency use, but barely | Continue reading


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New mandate highlights tradeoffs of making all scientific articles free to read

As funders’ Plan S requirements begin, the open-access movement shows progress and faces questions | Continue reading


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Antlions engineer deadly sand traps

Funnel-shaped pits capture prey when antlions add some extra sand | Continue reading


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Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer vaccine trigger allergic reactions

Life-threatening responses seen in at least eight people could be linked to polyethylene glycol, known to trigger reactions to some drugs | Continue reading


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Mutant coronavirus in the UK sets off alarms but its importance remains unclear

European countries impose travel bans as scientists probe if new strain spreads faster or causes more severe COVID-19 | Continue reading


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When sound science meets imperfect grammar

Scientists shouldn’t be grammar tyrants, our Experimental Error columnist argues | Continue reading


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DNA links elephant tusks from a 487-year-old shipwreck to their living relatives

With some genetic sleuthing, researchers have determined where the ivory originated | Continue reading


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Watch a swarm of drones fly through heavy forest–while staying in formation

Approach could speed up search and rescue missions and forest surveys | Continue reading


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The coronavirus may sometimes slip its genetic material into human chromosomes

Unexpected evidence that SARS-CoV-2 can integrate its genetic material could explain puzzling diagnostic tests in recovered COVID-19 patients | Continue reading


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How many scientists are LGBTQ? Federal survey delays frustrate researchers

Scientists call for National Science Foundation’s workforce surveys to tally sexual and gender minorities | Continue reading


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Covid-19 is 10 times deadlier for people with Down syndrome

Extra chromosome carries key genes that may work against them | Continue reading


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Human ‘stuff’ now outweighs all life on Earth

The mass of buildings and other infrastructure exceeds that of all trees, shrubs, and animals on the planet | Continue reading


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U.S. physicists rally around ambitious plan to build fusion power plant

Plan calls for a subtle but crucial shift toward applied research in Department of Energy fusion program | Continue reading


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Etruscan shrew can shrink and regrow their brains

Brain shrinkage during the winter could help these tiny animals conserve energy | Continue reading


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Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test

Vaccine aims to elicit broadly protective antibodies against the “stalk” of a surface protein on influenza viruses | Continue reading


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