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Profiles in Science: How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured It Out last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 20:59:46 GMT
For forty years, the physicist at U.C.L.A. has been uncovering the outer solar system’s secrets. Few scientists know more about the mysteries of Jupiter and its icy moons.
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ScienceTake: What a Frog Needs to Make That Leap last updated on: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:30:07 GMT
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Hubble Telescope, Disoriented by Mechanical Failure, Takes a Nap to Reboot last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 22:24:36 GMT
NASA’s observational workhorse enters “safe mode” after a gyroscope malfunctions.
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A Mysterious Fossil Points to the Origins of Lizards and Snakes last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 17:10:01 GMT
The ancestors of today’s squamates were lost in time. Now paleontologists have identified the earliest known example: Meet Megachirella.
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Your Dog May Be Smart, but She’s Not Exceptional last updated on: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 04:11:30 GMT
In a new study, scientists say that dogs do not stand out compared to other animals when it comes to intelligence.
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Trilobites: An Ancient Ant-Bacteria Partnership to Protect Fungus last updated on: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 09:00:06 GMT
Amber specimens indicate that fungus-farming ants have been cooperating with antimicrobial bacteria for tens of millions of years.
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Trilobites: Hidden Stories of Chinese Migration and Culture Found in Giant Genetic Study last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:23:16 GMT
Scientists reported an assortment of findings resulting from a sweeping and novel analysis of data from the prenatal tests of 141,431 participants.
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How a Seafloor Blob Became Mexico’s ‘Black Gold’ last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 20:57:22 GMT
A frenzy for sea cucumbers, driven by demand in Asia, has brought their populations near collapse in the waters off the Yucatán Peninsula.
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Matter: Deep in Human DNA, a Gift From the Neanderthals last updated on: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 20:31:49 GMT
Long ago, Neanderthals probably infected modern humans with viruses, perhaps even an ancient form of H.I.V. But our extinct relatives also gave us genetic defenses.
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The Science Behind a Frog’s Leap last updated on: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:30:04 GMT
A frog’s leap is a study in power and accuracy. So how do frogs do it, and what can humans learn from its mechanics?
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New U.N. Climate Report Says Put a High Price on Carbon last updated on: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 04:39:46 GMT
Most nations don't tax carbon. Those that do tax emissions have not set carbon prices high enough to bring deep reductions in carbon pollution.
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Australia’s Other Great (and Threatened) Coral Reefs last updated on: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 00:01:10 GMT
Every one of Australia’s coral reefs is threatened by climate change, potentially devastating not just the country’s ecosystems but its economy as well.
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As Storms Keep Coming, FEMA Spends Billions in ‘Cycle’ of Damage and Repair last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:31:24 GMT
FEMA has paid out billions for disaster recovery efforts. But many projects seem to be undertaken in defiance of climate change, leaving structures nearly as vulnerable as before.
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Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 15:03:43 GMT
A landmark United Nations report paints a far more dire picture of the immediate consequences of climate change than previously thought and says that avoiding damage requires quickly transforming the world economy.
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Flashy Science Hub and Vaping Parties Fail to Win Friends at W.H.O. Tobacco Talks last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 12:13:08 GMT
Industry representatives, who were barred from the negotiations, ultimately failed to get delegates to designate a special exemption for new products.
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There Are Fat Bears in Alaska, and You Can Vote on Your Favorite last updated on: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:22:34 GMT
Katmai National Park in southern Alaska is home to thousands of bears. This week, rangers are celebrating the fattest through an online tournament.
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Drunk Birds? How a Small Minnesota City Stumbled Into the Spotlight last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 01:22:19 GMT
A police chief’s notice that birds were getting tipsy off fermented berries prompted a news media blitz. But experts say there are other explanations.
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domains: Who Is Neri Oxman? last updated on: Sun, 07 Oct 2018 22:18:08 GMT
A star of M.I.T.’s Media Lab working in “material ecology,” she has intrigued Björk, Brad Pitt and the Cooper Hewitt.
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Why Count All the Squirrels in Central Park? Why the Heck Not last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 04:30:09 GMT
The team behind the park’s census of Eastern grays say an accurate tally is possible despite the critters’, well, squirrelish ways.
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8-Year-Old Girl Pulls Pre-Viking Sword From Lake in Sweden last updated on: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 07:03:28 GMT
Saga Vanacek recovered a sword lost for more than a thousand years, and kept the find secret for months while archaeologists surveyed the site.
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HPV Vaccine Expanded for People Ages 27 to 45 last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 23:55:13 GMT
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Gardasil 9, a vaccine against nine strains of the human papillomavirus for older age groups.
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Trilobites: Taming the Groundcherry: With Crispr, a Fussy Fruit Inches Toward the Supermarket last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:08:47 GMT
You may have never eaten a groundcherry, but with common gene-editing techniques it and other fruits may be more easily domesticated.
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Q&A: A Tube of DNA? Not Pretty, but That’s Life. last updated on: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:11:23 GMT
Extracting and purifying DNA is routine now, but the results are not particularly aesthetic.
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Take a Number: Amputations and Lacerations: Your Front Lawn Is a Jungle last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:26:54 GMT
As lawn-mowing season ends, scientists are toting up the injuries from recent years.
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Why the Wilder Storms? It’s a ‘Loaded Dice’ Problem last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 09:00:15 GMT
Global warming is bringing an era of wilder, more dangerous rains. The good news is that we’re getting better at evacuating flood zones. The bad news is everything else.
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Plastics Are Predicted to Rise last updated on: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:00:04 GMT
A predicted rise in emissions from the petrochemical industry, led by plastics producers, threatens to erode climate benefits from reductions in other sectors, according to a report.
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Dr. Bernard J. Carroll, ‘Conscience of Psychiatry,’ Dies at 77 last updated on: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 03:12:41 GMT
After early work on the biological basis of depression, Dr. Carroll became a relentless campaigner against corruption among academic researchers.
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Viruses Spread by Insects to Crops Sound Scary. The Military Calls It Food Security. last updated on: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 18:29:50 GMT
Critics warn that a Defense Department-funded food security project that is still in the lab could set off a “biological arms race.”
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How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? With a Telescope as Big as the Earth last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 16:54:39 GMT
A planet-spanning virtual observatory, years in the making, could change how we think about space, time and the nature of reality. Will it work?
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to a Woman for the Fifth Time in History last updated on: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 01:23:32 GMT
Frances H. Arnold was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work conducting the directed evolution of enzymes.
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Leon Lederman, 96, Explorer (and Explainer) of the Subatomic World, Dies last updated on: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:55:32 GMT
A Nobel laureate who deepened science’s understanding of the building blocks of matter, he was called “the best ambassador of physics to the general public since Einstein.”
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Trilobites: Why Elephants Don’t Shed Their Skin last updated on: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:54:49 GMT
The cracks in African elephants’ skin help them keep cool and stay healthy. A new explanation for how those cracks form could offer insights into treating a human skin disease.
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Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer to Medicinal Use (It’s Not Just Your Imagination) last updated on: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 18:06:48 GMT
Researchers say psilocybin, the active compound in the mushrooms, should be reclassified to treat anxiety and depression. But any such move would be years away.
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Use of Evolution to Design Molecules Nets Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 3 Scientists last updated on: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 15:05:20 GMT
Frances H. Arnold of the U.S. received half the prize, while her compatriot George P. Smith and Gregory P. Winter of Britain shared the other half.
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In Australia, Cervical Cancer Could Soon Be Eliminated last updated on: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 09:05:10 GMT
The government started a program to distribute the HPV vaccine for free to girls more than a decade ago.
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A Goblin World That Points Toward Hidden Planet Nine in the Solar System last updated on: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 01:42:33 GMT
What astronomers have found about the curious orbit of a small ice world far away reinforces the idea that a large world is hidden out in the solar system.
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First Woman in 55 Years Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics last updated on: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:36:06 GMT
Prof. Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work with lasers. She is the first woman to receive the award in 55 years and the third woman to receive it in over a century.
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For Just the Third Time in 117 Years, a Woman Wins the Nobel Prize in Physics last updated on: Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:39:56 GMT
Donna Strickland did pioneering work with lasers and shared the award with two men on Tuesday. She is the first woman to receive the award in 55 years.
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F.D.A. Seizes Documents From Juul Headquarters last updated on: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:37:40 GMT
The latest move by the agency to increase pressure on e-cigarette makers to curtail marketing their products to teenagers.
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Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Chief Executive Resigns From Merck’s Board of Directors last updated on: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:19:52 GMT
Under scrutiny for the hospital’s industry ties and compensation, Dr. Craig B. Thompson stepped down from two company boards.
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