Rubric 01
Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
133Science
Early Sugar Exposure Shapes Lifelong Aging
In the early 1950s, Britain ran an unintentional experiment on the people whose first 1,000 days fell on either side of sugar rationing. 1] The country was still under post war sugar rationing. Every adult was limited...
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134Science
Speech Age Gap Predicts Accelerated Ageing
The researchers were not hunting for a way to measure ageing. They were building a machine learning system to analyse speech hundreds of acoustic and linguistic features at once, the kind of data that lets a computer...
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135Science
Waves Decide Where Mangroves Can Stand
Mangrove forests look, from a satellite, like dark green stitches sewn along the seams of tropical coastlines. Those stitches hold. For decades, the question of why a mangrove grows in one place and not another has been...
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136Science
Tumors Hijack Bone Eating Cells at Brains Edge
Dural metastases tumors that spread to the outermost membrane wrapping the brain were long treated as passive squatters. They sit at the border. They press. They cause symptoms through sheer mass. That picture just...
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137Science
Butterfly Wings Use Optical Illusions to Evade Capture
Butterflies in flight create confusing motion cues that baffle the birds that hunt them. High speed footage of takeoffs shows that butterfly wing patterns in flight create powerful illusory motion cues. The finding...
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138Science
Panama pushes legal rights for nature
Juan Carlos Navarro serves as minister of the environment of the Republic of Panama, based in Panama City. Callie Veelenturf is a marine biologist working in Panama City, affiliated with the UN Harmony with Nature...
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139Science
Sea Monkeys Reveal How to Reverse a Rule of Turbulence
Brine shrimp are about a centimeter long, swim upside down, and beat their legs in a frantic rhythm while trailing their elongated abdomens behind them like tails. Anyone who ever sent cash, a check, or a money order to...
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140Science
Four Winged Dinosaur Rewrites Flight Evolution
A dinosaur smaller than a house cat carried feathers on its arms, its legs, and the tip of its tail. It lived in what is now Liaoning province in China, sometime between 145 million and 100 million years ago. A local...
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141Science
Counterspeech Science How Replies Reduce Online Hate
A research group has done something that had never been attempted at scale: it took more than one million social media posts written over four years and asked, with mathematical precision, which replies actually reduce...
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142Science
CCR5 frameshift signal questioned by retraction
In July 2014, a research team including Jonathan D. Dinman at the University of Maryland published a study describing a programmed 1 ribosomal frameshift signal in the human CCR5 mRNA the messenger RNA encoding the co...
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143Science
Confinement Turns Amoeba Into One-Way Crawler
A pond amoeba eats bacteria. It has no brain, no nerves, and no muscles worth the name. Put that cell inside a narrow corridor a channel so tight that its body must deform to fit and its behavior changes. In wide, open...
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144Science
Cosmic Dust Solves Venus Haze Mystery
For nearly fifty years, planetary scientists have stared at a stubborn anomaly in the Venusian atmosphere. The Venera and Pioneer Venus probes first spotted it in the 1970s: a yellowish layer of tiny particles hovering...
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