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The Future of Science Storytelling
Science is messy, full of plot twists and competing interpretations—and the way we talk about it should reflect that truth
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Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter
A chemical reaction he suggested can now be done, and it makes a great membrane.
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Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas
Scientists have discovered what they say is “direct evidence” supporting the theory that Ice Age migrants from Asia traveled down the Pacific Coast, rather than through North America’s interior.
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Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.
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Scientists Use Acoustic Forces to Print Like Never Before
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses soundwaves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity.
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British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for pulsar work
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate the money to help students underrepresented in physics
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Fatal Phobia: Why Your Fear of Needles Could Kill You | Incident Report 213
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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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