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Strange research paper claims there's a black hole at the center of the Earth
"We show that the existence of life on the earth may be a reason that this black hole like object is a black brane that has been formed from biological materials like DNA."
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We scientists must rise up to prevent the climate crisis. Words aren’t enough
As scientists, we tend to operate under an unspoken assumption – that our job is to provide the world with factual information, and if we do so our leaders will use it to make wise decisions. But what if that assumption is wrong? For decades, conservation scientists like us have been telling the world that species and ecosystems are disappearing, and that their loss will have devastating impacts on humanity.
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The Woman Who Revealed the Missing Link Between Viruses and Cancer
Today, vaccinating against cervical cancer is routine. But before Sarah Stewart, scientists dismissed the idea of a cancer-preventing vaccine as ludicrous. By Leila McNeill.
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Citizen sleuths exposed pollution from a century-old Michigan factory, with nationwide implications
Discoveries have helped fuel national debate over nonstick chemical contamination. By Sara Talpos.
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A Bozo of a Baboon
A talk with Robert Sapolsky.
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Wikipedia’s Refusal to Profile a Black Female Scientist Shows Its Diversity Problem
The site has acknowledged its systemic bias before. By Claire L. Jarvis.
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Women who win prizes get less money and prestige
Scientists might gauge their success by the usual publishing metrics, or perhaps by how many Nature papers they have. Yet the rest of the world cares little for citation counts, publication rates or journal prestige — people are more likely to learn of a scholar’s impact through the media buzz surrounding big scientific awards. Such prizes also catch the eye of granting agencies, influence the direction of research and bring scientists personal recognition, particularly in the formative period of their careers.
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Meet the scientist painter who turns deadly viruses into beautiful works of art
David Goodsell’s scientifically precise watercolor paintings of the cells and microbes he studies grace journal covers and impress colleagues
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Massive Science
Massive is making scientific knowledge more accessible and actionable for everyone.
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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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Crowdfunding research flips science’s traditional reward model
Students and junior investigators are more likely than senior scientists to secure crowdfunding for their research.
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The Sharashka Phenomenon
As many older Russians undoubtedly remember, by the early 1970s, the culture of underground or samizdat literature in the Soviet Union had evolved into a highly risky but established system for disseminating information among the dissident community… By Asif Siddiqi. (Mar. 10, 2011)
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A Black Scientist Has Never Been Awarded a Science Nobel Prize
Many in the scientific world are celebrating the fact that two women received this year's Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry. Donna Strickland and Frances Arnold are only the 20th and 21st female scientists to be recognised by the Nobel Committee.
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Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
Those who take on the global industry that traps research behind paywalls are heroes, not thieves, says George Monbiot
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Meet the Woman Who Rocked Particle Physics—Three Times
Sau Lan Wu spent decades working to establish the Standard Model of particle physics. Now she’s searching for what lies beyond it. By Joshua Roebke.
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A century-old model for life's origin gets significant substantiation
In an article just appeared in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Lancet and colleagues report an extensive literature survey, showing that lipids can exert enzyme-like catalysis, similar to ribozymes.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old who defeated a powerful House Democrat, has an asteroid named after her — here's why
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic Socialist born and raised in the Bronx, defeated longtime incumbent Joseph Crowley in a primary race for New York’s 14th District on Tuesday.
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The oddness of Isaac Newton
One of the shocks of reading Rob Iliffe’s study of Isaac Newton is that its subject fancied himself as something very much like a mujaddid. By Oliver Moody.
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Darwin on Endless Trial
Morten Høi Jensen weighs two takes on Darwin’s legacy.
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The origin of the thesis; Charles Darwin in his time
Clare Pettitt on Charles Darwin’s method and approach to his scientific discoveries and the influence of ideology in shaping his theory of sexual selection.
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