Astronomers confront their role in–and vulnerability to–climate change

Large carbon footprints and rising temperatures force astronomers to take climate action | Continue reading


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Newly discovered viruses suggest ‘German measles’ jumped from animals to humans

Scientists find relatives of rubella in bats, wild mice, and zoo animals | Continue reading


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Critics of Sweden’s lax pandemic policies face fierce backlash

Doctors face reprimands for wearing masks as researchers consider leaving the country | Continue reading


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Designer antibodies fight cancer by tethering immune cells to tumor cells

Bispecific antibodies that bind two or more targets are the latest immunotherapy to shine in clinical trials | Continue reading


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Moon safe for long-term human exploration

China’s lunar lander finds radiation dose is 200 times that at Earth’s surface | Continue reading


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Cat imitates human, in first scientific demonstration of behavior

Ability may be widespread in animal kingdom | Continue reading


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The short weird life and potential afterlife of quantum radar

In spite of the hype, even inventors of the basic idea say it will never help defeat stealth technology | Continue reading


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Immune weakness found in 14% of gravely ill Covid-19 patients

Damaged interferon response helps explain why men get sicker than women | Continue reading


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Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart

Circuitry of the pallium mirrors the mammalian neocortex | Continue reading


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$1 hearing aid could treat millions with hearing loss

LoCHAid can be assembled in 30 minutes with cheap parts | Continue reading


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120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia

Tracks also provide rare snapshot of ancient people interacting with animals | Continue reading


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Ocean’s hidden heat measured with earthquake sounds

Revived technique could detect a deep-ocean signal of global warming | Continue reading


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Trials begin for a new weapon against Parkinson’s: light

Patients report benefits, but how near-infrared protects brain cells is unclear, and some scientists are skeptical | Continue reading


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Viking was a job description, not a matter of heredity, ancient DNA study shows

Study reveals family histories of black-haired Vikings who set forth—and died—far from home | Continue reading


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IBM promises 1000-qubit quantum computer–a milestone–by 2023

Company presents timeline for its next step on the road to practical quantum computing | Continue reading


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Crispr patent battle has an apparent victor, but the fight continues

Broad Institute appears to gain an advantage over the University of California and its partners who have claimed to have invented the genome editor first. | Continue reading


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How big money is powering a hunt for alien intelligence

Alien hunters deploy new telescopes and tactics—and win some respect | Continue reading


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Dozens of scientific journals vanished from the internet: no one preserved them

Specialists worry about a potential loss to scholarship | Continue reading


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To survive frigid nights, hummingbirds cool themselves to very-low temperatures

Tiny flyers save energy by entering a hibernationlike state overnight | Continue reading


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Bats have outsmarted viruses–including coronaviruses–for 65M years

Newly sequenced genomes reveal the secrets of their “superstar” immune systems | Continue reading


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One of quantum physics’ greatest paradoxes may have lost its leading explanation

Underground experiment undermines gravity as the cause of quantum collapse | Continue reading


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Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle (2016)

Grisly find suggests northern Europe was more organized (and violent) 3,000 years ago than previously thought | Continue reading


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Warrior skeletons reveal Bronze Age Europeans couldn’t drink milk

Ability to digest dairy as an adult evolved later—and much more quickly—than scientists thought | Continue reading


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Can you catch Covid-19 from your neighbor’s toilet?

Study suggesting virus spread through waste pipes in Chinese apartment building raises concerns | Continue reading


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Industrial waste can turn planet-warming carbon dioxide into stone

Strategy could combat climate change by removing greenhouse gas from the air | Continue reading


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Leader of U.S. vaccine push says he‘ll quit if politics trumps science

Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election | Continue reading


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It’s not just cars that make pollution. It’s the roads they drive on, too

Fresh asphalt is a major source of hazardous particles, laboratory study suggests | Continue reading


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It’s not just cars that make pollution. It’s the roads they drive on, too

Fresh asphalt is a major source of hazardous particles, laboratory study suggests | Continue reading


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Watch levitating upside-down boats flip the law of buoyancy

Experiments suggest strong shaking can make objects float upside down | Continue reading


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Supplement promotes healthy aging and extends life span, at least in mice

Alpha-ketoglutarate could be safer than other potential anti-aging treatments | Continue reading


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China again boosts R&D spending by more than 10%

But nation likely to miss 2020 goal of spending 2.5% of GDP on R&D | Continue reading


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Transforming riverbanks can clean contaminated waterways – Science – AAAS

Removing humanmade banks of polluted sediment transforms streams to their former glory | Continue reading


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Growing underwater heat blob speeds demise of Arctic sea ice

New feedbacks add to the impact of warming air | Continue reading


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Report suggests ways to avoid satellites ruining telescope images

Thousands of new orbiters threaten astronomical observations and image processing alone won’t save them | Continue reading


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FDA’s treating Covid-19 with plasma: critics see thin evidence–and politics

Scientists question justification for the emergency authorization and worry about its effects on clinical trials of other possible treatments | Continue reading


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Some people can get the pandemic virus twice. That is no reason to panic

A man in Hong Kong was found to be reinfected with COVID-19, but what that means for vaccines and immunity is unclear | Continue reading


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Medieval DNA suggests Columbus didn’t trigger syphilis epidemic in Europe

Skeletons provide first DNA evidence that diverse strains of syphilis circulated in Europe before 1492 | Continue reading


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‘Electric mud’ teems with new, mysterious bacteria

Microbes that conduct electricity are transforming how we see sediments | Continue reading


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Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality

Test of Wigner’s paradox suggests facts are relative | Continue reading


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An unusual meteorite may hold the building blocks of life

Aguas Zarcas, a space rock that crashed last year in a Costa Rican rainforest, has captivated researchers and collectors | Continue reading


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World’s oldest camp bedding found in South African cave

Remains suggest people 200,000 years ago used ash to repel insects in grass bedding | Continue reading


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Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shreds dish

Iconic instrument could be offline for months | Continue reading


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Russia’s approval of a Covid-19 vaccine is less than meets the press release

Despite Putin’s reported endorsement, little-tested vaccine is not approved for widespread use until 2021 | Continue reading


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Doctors diagnose advanced cancer–in a dinosaur

Bone tumor is the first confirmation of malignant cancer in a dinosaur | Continue reading


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From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, Covid-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists

Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do | Continue reading


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Olympian-turned-scientist helped a basketball tournament tip off amid Covid-19

As major U.S. sports leagues struggle to restart during the pandemic, Tara Kirk Sell saw contest as a “model experiment” for reopening society | Continue reading


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Long-lost relic may reveal origins of Stonehenge

Rock core drilled out more than 50 years ago points to birthplace of monument’s giant stones | Continue reading


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Chinese scientist at the center of Covid-19 origin theories speaks out

Wuhan bat virologist Shi Zhengli denies responsibility for the pandemic and calls for more international collaboration | Continue reading


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