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May 26, 2020

SpaceX Crew Dragon will be the most memorable launch of the year

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Jan 19, 2020

The first-ever video of individual atoms bonding and breaking

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Jan 17, 2020

New fossil discovery reveals the oldest-ever scorpion and arachnid, logging a new species. The finding marks the very beginning of air-breathing animals, which left the sea to thrive on land.

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Jan 15, 2020

Ancient sex between different human species influences modern-day health.It's just as well we Homo sapiens got some Neanderthal & Denisovan genes into our DNA. These ancient humans’ genetic exchange could be one of the major causes of adaptive evolution in humans,

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Jan 15, 2020

Scientists have traced the interstellar journey of phosphorus — a key ingredient in the recipe for life. The paper details how phosphorus-bearing molecules formed in star-forming regions, and how it may have been delivered to Earth onboard rocky comets during our planet’s infancy.

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Jan 13, 2020

Drosophila kept in total darkness had "severe" long-term memory impairments compared to those exposed to normal light cycles. Scientists suggest that light promotes the release of neuropeptides related to long-term memory formation and argue light is "essential" for maintaining long-term memory.

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Jan 09, 2020

To study the link between minimum wage and suicide rates, researchers looked at two decades of data. They found that raising the wage by just a $1 leads to a drop in suicide rates - between 3.5 and 6 percent.

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Jan 07, 2020

First-time marathoners (n=138) saw changes in their hearts that reduced the biological age of their hearts by about four years, on average. Specifically, scientists saw reductions in aortic stiffness, and the most significant reductions were seen in older men.

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Jan 01, 2020

Scientists have found that a worldwide Green New Deal would create nearly 30 million jobs. By 2050 the world will spend around $17 trillion per year on energy if we’re still relying on fossil fuels, and that number goes down to $6.8 trillion if we’re using renewable energy.

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Dec 26, 2019

Scientists develop a new method to predict El Niño’s extreme weather early. A new method could help predict the turbulent weather forecast a year early, giving the public advance warning of conditions that might contribute to extreme and dangerous weather. The previous lead time was six months.

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Dec 18, 2019

Drinking alcohol during adolescence is related to accelerated gray matter atrophy, structural brain images show (n=726). Analysis suggests that gray matter decline affects drinking behavior and increases drinking behavior over time.

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Dec 16, 2019

Eating hot peppers at least four times per week was linked to 23% reduction all-cause mortality risk (n=22,811). This study fits with others in China (n= 487,375) and the US (n=16,179) showing that capsaicin, the component in peppers that makes them hot, may reduce risk of death.

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Dec 16, 2019

“Collective memories” or the narratives that societies use to selectively describe history are recorded in the brain’s prefrontal medial cortex, fMRI analysis shows (n=24). The results suggest “collective memories” influence how we recall our own individual memories of historical events.

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Dec 15, 2019

New “bio-based hybrid foam” can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere more sustainably and cost-effectively, suggests new study, made by combining gelatin and cellulose with zeolites, minerals known for their absorbent properties. Researchers claim this new material is cheap and absorbs CO2 extremely well.

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Dec 11, 2019

The dawn of speech was millions of years earlier than previously thought: A new study suggests that speech goes back 20 million years ago, 100 times earlier than previously thought.

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Dec 11, 2019

Researchers discovered you can make transparent solar windows by punching extremely small holes into crystalline silicon wafers, which when vertical only lose 4% efficiency compared to 30% for traditional solar cells, potentially suitable for powering high-rise buildings with lots of window space.

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Dec 10, 2019

Contrary to stereotype, young people today are likely no more narcissistic than any generation before them (including the Baby Boomers). That’s just one of the findings from a new analysis of how three key narcissistic traits change over a person’s lifespan and across generations (n=747).

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Dec 10, 2019

The "presence" of meaning in life peaks around 60 years old, and is correlated with better physical and mental health in older adults (n=1,042). The search for meaning in life follows a u-shaped curve where people younger than 60 and older tend to be actively seeking purpose.

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Dec 05, 2019

Smoking weed every day puts men at risk of testicular disease

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Dec 04, 2019

Scientists walked thousands of kilometers across the Arctic tundra to count Svalbard's reindeer — what they found suggests the subspecies, almost driven to extinction, is thriving once more.

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