The mysterious case of man who can read letters–but not numbers

With a condition that’s “too strange for words,” patient can do mental math but cannot recognize numerals | Continue reading


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Missed wind patterns are throwing off climate forecasts of rain and storms

Climate models could improve by capturing hidden predictability | Continue reading


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From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes

Scientists discover a seemingly universal rule of how stuff falls apart | Continue reading


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Scientists pull living microbes from 100M years beneath the sea

Bacteria 75 meters below the sea floor began to divide after a light snack | Continue reading


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Critics blast US study finding Alaskan mine poses little environmental risk

Proposed Pebble Mine has stoked years of controversy | Continue reading


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Ancient microbial arms race sharpened immune system–but also left us vulnerable

Study traces genetic responses to pathogens back more than 600,000 years to the ancestor of Neanderthals and humans | Continue reading


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Can boosting interferons, the body’s frontline virus fighters, beat Covid-19?

Some basic research supports treating early with synthetic interferons—but treating too late might make people sicker | Continue reading


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First gene-modified ants shed light on how insect societies evolved (2007)

GMO ant shows expanded sense of smell helped ants become social | Continue reading


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The artist who helped drive The Magic School Bus remembers Joanna Cole

Bruce Degen teamed with Cole on series of science books for children | Continue reading


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After 40 years, researchers finally see Earth’s climate destiny more clearly

Landmark study narrows bounds for “climate sensitivity,” ruling out benign warming | Continue reading


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Polio vaccination restart after modelers warn of risk of ‘explosive’ outbreaks

Eradication drives were suspended worldwide in March to prevent spread of COVID-19 | Continue reading


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Dogs may use Earth’s magnetic field to take shortcuts

GPS-equipped hunting dogs take a curious north-south jog, which seems to help them get their bearings | Continue reading


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Desert quakes may have boosted chances of ‘big one’ striking California

Ridgecrest, California, quakes have primed the Garlock fault for rupture, which in turn threatens the San Andreas fault | Continue reading


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NSF’s handful of foreign influence cases may be due to how it investigates them

NSF’s new numbers pale next to what NIH has reported | Continue reading


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Underwater caves in Mexico preserve one of the world’s oldest ochre mines

Archaeologists follow the footsteps of 10,000-year-old miners | Continue reading


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The biggest flipping challenge in quantum computing

To realize their dreams, developers must learn to tame the noise that jostles their machines’ delicate quantum bits | Continue reading


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Tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions

As universities look for savings, new software helps reimagine deals with publishers | Continue reading


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DNA proves Polynesians met Native Americans long before Europeans

Study of modern DNA shakes up ideas of when and where contact happened | Continue reading


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One U.K. trial is transforming Covid-19 treatment. Why haven’t others delivered?

Clinical study has been helped by a simple design, a centralized health care system, and lots of infections | Continue reading


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Scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more

Preeminent researchers who held bigoted views are now under growing scrutiny | Continue reading


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Greenland drilling bedrock campaign aims to trace ice sheet’s last disappearance

U.S. effort could also date controversial Hiawatha impact crater | Continue reading


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Aiming ultrasound at the brain raises hope of new treatments

Approach could lead to new ways to treat epilepsy, depression, and Alzheimer's disease | Continue reading


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Swine flu strain with human pandemic potential increasingly found in Chinese pig

New study spotlights influenza virus that could wreak havoc if it adapts to humans | Continue reading


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The chicken first crossed the road in Southeast Asia, landmark gene study finds

Domestication of world's most common farm animal had been debated since Charles Darwin | Continue reading


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Gravitational waves reveal lightest black hole ever observed

Lightweight black hole shouldn’t exist—at least according to some theories | Continue reading


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NASA’s new rover will collect martian rocks–and clues to Mars’s ancient climate

Was ancient Mars warm and wet or cold and dry? Perseverance will help resolve the debate | Continue reading


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Dolphins learn to use giant snails' shells as fish traps from their friends

“Shelling” skills spread from peer to peer | Continue reading


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European physicists boldly take small step toward 100kilometer-long atom smasher

A technical and financial feasibility study could arrive in 2026 | Continue reading


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U.S. science groups wary of new Senate bills to curb foreign influences

Bipartisan coalition proposes sweeping changes to protect federally funded research | Continue reading


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Dark matter hunters’ inconclusive signal grabs headlines

Events in underground detector could—just maybe—be signs of exotic new particles | Continue reading


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Corvids may owe their smarts to long childhoods

Parenting may be linked to the evolution of larger brains and intelligence in corvids | Continue reading


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54 Scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties

New data reveal extent of ongoing investigation | Continue reading


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Three big studies dim hopes that hydroxychloroquine can treat or prevent Covid

Amid politicization and scandal, a disappointing scientific picture is emerging | Continue reading


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Nobel laureate Tasuku Honjo to sue Japanese drug firm for 22B yen

Dispute stems from patent rights to lucrative cancer treatment | Continue reading


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The hunt for Dinosaur proteins (2017)

Defying conventional wisdom, Mary Schweitzer works to transform dinosaur paleontology into a molecular science | Continue reading


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It's never too late to stretch your wings: Why I got a PhD at age 66 (2018)

To maintain a rewarding career, be open to change | Continue reading


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A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in medical journals may be unraveling

Scientists and journals express concern over influential studies of COVID-19 patient data that evaluated possible treatments such as hydroxychloroquine | Continue reading


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Operation Warp Speed selects billionaire scientist’s Covid-19 vaccine for tests

Innovative vaccine uses another virus to present two genes from the novel coronavirus | Continue reading


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The frustrated science student behind Sci-Hub (2016)

Alexandra Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub to thwart journal paywalls | Continue reading


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Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real

When tuned up, old algorithms can match the abilities of their successors | Continue reading


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U.S. lawmakers unveil bold $100B plan to remake NSF

Agency would get a huge technology research arm and a new name | Continue reading


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Study tells Covid-19’s rampage through a South African hospital (25 May 2020)

Staff and medical equipment carried the virus from patient to patient and from ward to ward | Continue reading


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Top Chinese virologist on how China and U.S. have met the pandemic

Shao Yiming leads the HIV program at China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention | Continue reading


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They redesigned PubMed, a beloved website. It hasn’t gone over well

Unhappy researchers unleash torrent of complaints on social media | Continue reading


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Sweden wasted a ‘rare opportunity’ to study coronavirus in schools

One of the few countries to keep primary schools open failed to collect data on children’s role in pandemic | Continue reading


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Court rules “Dueling Dinos” belong to landowners, in a win for science

Spectacular fossils can’t be legally considered minerals | Continue reading


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Defective immune cells could make us old

T cells with faulty mitochondria may help drive aging | Continue reading


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U.S. Department of Energy rushes to build advanced new nuclear reactors

New program aims to have two prototype reactors running within 7 years | Continue reading


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