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Nobel laureates warn Milei budget cuts 'canceling' scientific research
Sixty-eight Nobel science laureates urged Argentina's self-professed "anarcho-capitalist" President Javier Milei Wednesday to restore budgets for science and technology that have been cut under his drive to slash public spending.
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Mar 6, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Will they or won't they? A black hole binary refuses to merge. Plus: Vestigial eyeballs
It's been a long, eight-day leap week, and this weekend, I'm spending my free time working on the manuscript for my style guide for science writers, "How to Effectively Split an Infinitive."
Animated maps reveal true level of devastation in Ukraine
Two years of war in Ukraine have caused widespread devastation to the country's citizenry, infrastructure and environment, and new research utilizing publicly accessible satellite imagery lays bare the scope of destruction.
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Feb 26, 2024
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Saturday Citations: The neurology of pair bonding and one small step for robots
From enraptured voles and space robots on the moon to brain gears and dense objects, it was a heck of a week in science. Let's take a look at some of the most interesting developments over the past seven days.
Lab-grown diamonds put natural gems under pressure
The glittering diamonds sparkle the same but there are key differences: mined natural gems are more than a billion years old, while laboratory-made rocks are new and cost less than half the price.
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Feb 20, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Einstein revisited (again); Atlantic geological predictions; how the brain handles echoes
Einstein's inexhaustible field equations just keep on predicting weird stellar objects, and the latest one is a doozy—so strap on your helmet, inside of which is another helmet, encasing still yet another helmet. This headgear ...
EU, UK urge scientists to join research program after Brexit concerns
EU and UK science chiefs on Monday launched a push to attract scientists to Europe's £80 billion Horizon research program after warnings of high costs and red tape in Britain.
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Feb 12, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Dark matter, a bug, and the marriageability of baritones
"Oh, hello. I didn't see you there. I was just editing a weekly roundup of science news stories for Saturday morning." This is the first line from my autobiographical one-man play about having multiple Firefox tabs open.
Decades of research samples destroyed in Sweden cooler failure
Research samples collected over decades at a prestigious Swedish medical university have been destroyed after a freezer malfunctioned over the Christmas holidays, the university said on Monday.
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Feb 5, 2024
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Saturday Citations: A dog regenerates a body part that may surprise you; plus microbes, neurons and climate change
Coming in hot on February 3 with a photo of a cute French bully who did an amazing trick with his jawbone. Good boy! (Click!) Happy Saturday. Here's a roundup that includes news about additive printing of neurons, evidence ...
What inner speech is, and why philosophy is waking up to it
It is quite rare for philosophers to start investigating a new area, and a lot of the questions they explore have been around since ancient times. However, there is something they have only begun to look at closely in the ...
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Jan 31, 2024
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The Doomsday Clock is still at 90 seconds to midnight. But what does that mean?
Once every year, a select group of nuclear, climate and technology experts assemble to determine where to place the hands of the Doomsday Clock.
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Jan 29, 2024
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Science sleuths are using technology to find fakery and plagiarism in published research
Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and the amateur sleuths uncovering image manipulation in published research.
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Jan 28, 2024
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Works of poetry, fiction and nonfiction receive $10,000 "Science + Literature" awards
A poetry collection, a coming-of-age novel and a history of deep sea exploration are unlikely to be found in the same section of your favorite bookstore. But they all have enough in common to be this year's winners of Science ...
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Jan 24, 2024
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'Doomsday Clock' remains at 90 seconds to midnight
The symbolic "Doomsday Clock" was held at 90 seconds to midnight Tuesday, reflecting existential threats to humanity posed by potential nuclear escalation from the war in Ukraine and the multiplying impacts of the climate ...
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Jan 23, 2024
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Saturday Citations: The cutest conservationists; a weird stellar object; vitamins good for your brain
There are fields of scientific research that involve neither vast cosmic phenomena nor extremely cute animals, but those are topics of high salience in Saturday Citations, and this week is no exception. And we'll probably ...
The science of color: How color blindness creates unseen barriers in science
Dr. Mark Lindsay was 5 years old when he first learned that tree trunks were brown.
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Jan 15, 2024
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Saturday Citations: The Dark Energy Survey; the origins of colorblindness; the evolution of heads
The Dark Energy Survey took an entire decade to produce a value for the cosmological constant—and it's smaller than you might think! There were other stories as well, including one about primeval black holes, and because ...
Many survivors aren't sure what to do after a sexual assault—here's what you need to know
Millions of people have experienced sexual violence and abuse in England and Wales, but many do not know where to go, or who to turn to afterward. The shame felt by victims and survivors of sexual violence can be reinforced ...
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Jan 10, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Honey yields, exercising under the influence, unexpected benefits of hearing aids
It's the futuristic year 2024! Where is the power loom that natural philosophers have been promising me? What's that? Edmund Cartwright already made one? In 1785? And it revolutionized industrial weaving? Sorry, it's been ...
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AI makes a rendezvous in space
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Often seen, never studied: First characterization of a key postsynaptic protein
Earth's earliest forest revealed in Somerset fossils
NASA's network of small moon-bound rovers is ready to roll
Scientists develop new machine learning method for modeling chemical reactions
