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The Changing Face of Air Quality
Improved air quality between 2011 and 1999 can be seen over North America and Europe, driven by cleaner technologies adopted there—but India and China show an increase in exposure to fine-particulate matter, due largely to industrial expansion.
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Humans 2.0
At thirty-four, Feng Zhang is the youngest member of the core faculty at the Broad Institute of Harvard and M.I.T. He is also among the most accomplished. In 1999, while still a high-school student, in Des Moines, Zhang found a structural protein capable of preventing retroviruses like H.I.V. from infecting human cells. The project earned him third place in the Intel Science Talent Search, and he applied the fifty thousand dollars in prize money toward...
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Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers—for free
The biggest rule is that you don’t thank people.
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Scientists In The Antarctic Are Drinking Way Too Much Booze
It’s a lonely life as a scientist stationed in the South Pole. On top of the normal pressures of work, love and life most have to deal with, workers for the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) also face chronic cabin fever, isolation, periods of 24-hour darkness and a stark snowy backdrop that could ice over the warmest of hearts. It’s perhaps no surprise that many of them turn to alcohol to chase away the Antarctic blues.
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Ancient Recording of Earth Core's Birth
A reassessment of ancient rocks leads scientists to estimate that Earth's inner core started to form earlier than was previously thought, around 1.3 billion years ago.
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Mustached Bird Photographed for First Time, Then Promptly Killed
The first ever photographs of the elusive male moustached kingfisher were recently released by the American Museum of Natural History. They show a vibrant blue adult bird in apparent good health. There is a sad footnote to the images, however, because researchers elected to kill the endangered bird in order to further study it.
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Nanowires, stem-cell transplants and wastewater treatment win 2015 MacArthur ‘genius grants’
Nine US scientists and social scientists among 24 winners.
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Understanding Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence research has since its inception, been presented as that grand plan which in itself is capable of making or destroying the future of our race. For me then, it becomes a matter of principle to grasp, in its entirety what these AI researchers mean when they make this claim. To begin with, what do they mean by the namesake – Artificial Intelligence.
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What Climate Change Looks Like From the Arctic's Edge
For decades, the Churchill Northern Studies Centre has been on the front lines of climate-related science and public education in Canada’s north.
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Arctic Ocean's Wakeful Winter Revealed
Over three winters in the waters of a Svalbard fjord, scientists have catalogued surprisingly high levels of animal activity during the long polar night.
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This Man Was Accused of Trying to Pull Earth Out of Its Orbit
Gregory Laughlin has a funny story: While he was working as a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in the early 2000s, he was accused in the press of trying to shove Earth into a new orbit, farther from the Sun. “I got into major trouble,” Laughlin remembers in a conversation with Nautilus. “All my own fault, I have to admit.”
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4 Theories About How the Moon Formed
Scientists have debated several scenarios that might explain our moon, but none of which are without flaws.
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Ig Nobel Prizes Mark a Quarter Century of Irreverent Science Humor
From levitating a live frog with magnets to a study of soggy cereal, awards foster enlightenment through laughter
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East Coast Shark Populations Are Highest in Decades
There are more sharks off the eastern seaboard than there have been in a generation.
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Scientists replicated 100 recent psychology experiments. More than half of them failed.
Replication is one of the foundational ideas behind science. It's when researchers take older studies and reproduce them to see if the findings hold up. Testing, validating, retesting: It's all part of the slow and grinding process to arrive at some semblance of scientific truth. Yet it seems that way too often, when we hear about researchers trying to replicate studies, they simply flop or flounder. Some have even called this a "crisis of irreproducibility."
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Academic journals are facing a battle to weed out fake peer reviews
Responsible publishers are taking the threat very seriously.
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Alan Turing Institute to Start Work
An institute for the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and Big Data has announced its first director, and will start research activities in the autumn...
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Queen’s University awarded £3.6m to lead nationwide research programme | Graduate News from Gradplus.com
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Cancer reproducibility effort faces backlash
A nonprofit's effort to replicate 50 top cancer papers is shaking up labs.
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The oceans can’t take any more
Our oceans need an immediate and substantial reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. If that doesn't happen, we could see far-reaching and largely irreversible impacts on marine ecosystems, which would especially be felt in developing countries.
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