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What If You Never Get Better From Covid-19?
Some patients could be living with the aftereffects for years to come. Recent research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help us understand how to treat them.
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Missing: One Black Hole With 10 Billion Solar Masses
One of the biggest galaxies in the universe seems to lack its dark centerpiece.
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Space station detectors found the source of weird ‘blue jet’ lightning
The origins of an enigmatic type of lightning in the upper atmosphere has been traced to a 10-microsecond flash of bright blue light.
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Wild lynx could be reintroduced into Scottish Highlands
Study tests public support for bringing back species after 500-year absence, while farmers fear for sheep
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Why Do We Assume Extraterrestrials Might Want to Visit Us?
It presumes we’re inherently fascinating, but that’s not necessarily the case
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Breakthrough study finds age-related cognitive decline may be reversible
A breakthrough study from a team of neurologists at Stanford University claims to have discovered one way immune cells become dysfunctional as we age, leading to the inflammatory hyperdrive that plays a role in most age-related disease from cancer to cognitive decline.
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Brain pressure disorder that causes headache, vision problems on rise: Increase corresponds with obesity rates, linked to low socioeconomic status in women
A new study has found a brain pressure disorder called idiopathic intracranial hypertension is on the rise, and the increase corresponds with rising obesity rates.
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How whales help cool the Earth
The world's largest animals are unusually good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
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Synthetic cornea helped a legally blind man regain his sight
A legally blind 78-year old man has regained his sight after being the inaugural patient to receive a promising new type of corneal implant.
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We’ve got intelligence all wrong – and that’s endangering our future
A narrow focus on IQ to determine success is depriving us of key decision-making smarts, as our faltering response to problems such as covid-19 and climate change shows
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Electrical Brain Stimulation May Alleviate Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
Noninvasive electrical zaps, tuned specifically to individual brain-activity patterns, appear to reduce checking, hoarding and other compulsions for up to three months
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Have We Already Been Visited by Aliens?
An eminent astrophysicist argues that signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life have appeared in our skies. What’s the evidence for his extraordinary claim?
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A 'super-puff' planet like no other
The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers at Université de Montréal have found.
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AI Machine Learning Used to Predict Psychosis
European study led by the Max Planck Institute uses AI as a mental health tool.
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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
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AI Machine Learning Used to Predict Psychosis
European study led by the Max Planck Institute uses AI as a mental health tool.
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The planet is dying faster than we thought
A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth.
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Shocking Study Finds Electric Eels Hunt Together
The study challenges what researchers know about eels’ supposed loner behavior.
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Biden plans to fight climate change in a way no U.S. president has done before
Managing climate change requires a systems approach, with strategic coordination across all sectors
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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
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