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Scientists Find First Evidence of Humans Cooking Starches
More than 100 millennia ago, people were roasting tubers over the fire, a culinary practice that fueled their bodies and may have aided their migrations.
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Reversible superglue proves strong enough to hold average man
Snail slime-like substance appears to solve problem of weak and reversible or strong and irreversible adhesive
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Spider glue's sticky secret revealed by new genetic research
The glue that gives spider webs their stickiness is a form of spider silk protein. Researchers can imagine cool uses for a synthetic version – but had to wait for the tricky glue gene to be sequenced.
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Brush your teeth -- postpone Alzheimer's
Researchers at the University of Bergen in Norway have discovered a clear connection between oral health and Alzheimer´s disease.
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The Science of Addictive Food
How the food industry manipulates ingredients to keep us buying more and eating so much we blow up like balloons.
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Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at the same time
The mind-bending material would be like a sponge made of water that's leaking water.
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No Yolk! Scientists Unboil an Egg Without Defying Physics
Scientists have figured out a way to unboil an egg, a technique that could dramatically reduce the cost of cancer treatments and food production, researchers say.
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‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations | Penn Today
Engineering professor Nader Engheta and his team have demonstrated a metamaterial device that can function as an analog computer, validating an earlier theory.
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The Women Who Contributed to Science but Were Buried in Footnotes
In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.
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Being committed to truth means admitting the limitations of what we can know
Michela Massimi has a long article at Aeon defending scientific realism. The time for a defence of truth in science has come. It begins with a commitment to get things right, which is at the heart …
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Scientism Stems From a One-Dimensional Worldview (with comment)
Science has a way of making a man feel confident. It gives him a sense of being in control of the universe. Man feels powerful as a result of the assurance he receives from scientific research. Sou…
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Have Aliens Found Us? An Interview with the Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb About the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
On October 19, 2017, astronomers at the University of Hawaii spotted a strange object travelling through our solar system, which they later described as “a red and extremely elongated asteroid.” It was the first interstellar object to be detected within our solar system; the scientists named it ‘Oumuamua, the Hawaiian word for a scout or messenger. The following October, Avi Loeb, the chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, co-wrote a paper (with a Harvard postdoctoral fellow, Shmuel Bialy) that examined ‘Oumuamua’s “peculiar acceleration” and suggested that the object...
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The Fatal Phobia: Why Your Fear of Needles Could Kill You | Incident Report 213
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Yes, there is a war between science and religion
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there's no reconciling science and religion. In the search for truth, one tests hypotheses while the other relies on faith.
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The Tardis in 'Doctor Who' Can Be Explained as a Bubble of Space-Time
But actually making one would require an extra-dimensional building material.
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We Need More Women in Sports Research
For years, female athletes have relied on training protocols, injury guidelines, and nutrition plans based on research conducted with men. That's starting to change.
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Llama blood clue to beating all flu
Scientists design an antibody based on llama blood that is highly effective against flu strains.
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My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery
His career as an eminent physicist was derailed by an obsession. Was he a genius or a crackpot?
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Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt
A new study looked at sea, rock, and lake salt sold around the world. Here’s what you need to know.
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‘Journalologists’ use scientific methods to study academic publishing. Is their work improving science?
Decades spent studying peer review, publication bias, and more have challenged the status quo, but journalologists say they have a long way to go
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