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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
01Science
Almanac Weather Claims vs Scientific Forecasting
Almanac Weather Claims vs Scientific Forecasting What the Forecasters Actually Claim A groundhog emerging from a burrow and a two century old book with a yellow cover share one curious trait: both are consulted for...
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Single Dose LSD Reduces Anxiety Without Therapy
Single Dose LSD Reduces Anxiety Without Therapy The Trial That Stripped Everything Back Generalised anxiety disorder affects nearly 3 per cent of adults in the United States each year. 5] It is not ordinary worry. It is...
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03Science
Chinas Academic Hat System Creates Winners and Left Behind
Chinas Academic Hat System Creates Winners and Left Behind How China's Talent Programmes Work China has quite deliberately concentrated its brightest minds and its scarcest resources into a small number of hands. That...
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Ancient Forest Loss Warns of Modern Climate Risk
Ancient Forest Loss Warns of Modern Climate Risk A Warning Buried in Ancient Mud Around 56 million years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere climbed sharply. 3] The result was severe global warming...
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05Science
Mosquitoes Expanding Faster Than Surveillance Maps Can Track
Mosquitoes Expanding Faster Than Surveillance Maps Can Track When the Instruments Themselves Fall Behind The UK Health Security Agency issued a warning earlier this month: travellers heading abroad for the summer...
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Fire Clouds Force Rethink of Storm Science
Fire Clouds Force Rethink of Storm Science When the Forecast Model Breaks Down Wildfires in Oregon and France have grown large enough to generate pyrocumulonimbus clouds enormous storm systems that form in the hot...
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Quantum Computing Inc Bets on Room Temperature Entropy
Quantum Computing Inc Bets on Room Temperature Entropy The Noise That Refused to Stay Quiet For decades, the central problem in quantum computing was not building a qubit. It was keeping one alive. A quantum bit stores...
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08Science
Two progenitor cell types rewrite brain development model
Two progenitor cell types rewrite brain development model A Second Flavour of Starter Cell For decades, the dominant picture in developmental neuroscience held that one kind of starter cell a single type of progenitor...
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09Science
How a Grant Turns Scientists Into Managers
How a Grant Turns Scientists Into Managers The Experiment That Failed Its Way Into a Career Anna Sandak submitted a research proposal to the European Research Council in April 2021, after six months of intensive...
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Arthropods likely made honeycomb fossil not worms
Arthropods likely made honeycomb fossil not worms A Pattern That Broke the Worm Hypothesis For more than 150 years, the honeycomb shaped pattern pressed into ancient marine sediments had a comfortable explanation. Soft,...
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Metformin and Paxlovid May Prevent Long COVID
Metformin and Paxlovid May Prevent Long COVID From Glucose Control to Viral Defense Metformin was designed to lower blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. It has been a cornerstone of diabetes care for decades....
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Museum Rebuilds Lost World Through Stimulated Memory
Museum Rebuilds Lost World Through Stimulated Memory When the Model Breaks Against Its Own Data A lost world sits behind glass, and the visitors standing before it are being asked to remember something they never lived...
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