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Dec 18, 2019
All soccer leagues appear to conform to mathematical laws, which constrain the league standings as the season progresses. This means that partial standings can be used to predict end-of-season league position with reasonable accuracy.
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Dec 09, 2019
Dunking makes for a quieter brain: Athletes have larger responses to sound than nonathletes, driven by a reduction in their level of background neural noise.
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Dec 06, 2019
A NASA scientist recently recruited an unlikely sidekick to study the transfer of heat in ocean currents. A seal wearing an antenna hat swam through the freezing Antarctic waters for three months, providing researchers with unprecedented data that may change current climate models.
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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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Nov 08, 2019
The cheapest "green diet" costs $2.84 per day, according to a study in The Lancet, but that isn’t affordable for 1.68 billion people, more than a fifth of the global population
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Nov 01, 2019
Two investigations into a recent measles outbreak in the Netherlands revealed that the virus deletes parts of the immune system’s memory, leaving patients vulnerable to a host of other infections, bacteria, pathogens, and diseases.
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Oct 28, 2019
Scientists may have finally pinpointed humanity's ancestral hometown Roughly 200,000 years ago, we were hanging out somewhere in a Northeast Botswana, south of the Zambezi river.
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Oct 21, 2019
Yale study finds brief speech spoken out of context is enough to allow people to discern the social class of speakers at levels above chance accuracy
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Oct 17, 2019
New research shows that chytrid fungus, which is responsible for a rapid decline in frog populations and some extinctions around the world, is thriving in the Peruvian Amazon, where scientists didn’t suspect it could live. This challenges what we know about the global pandemic.
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Oct 17, 2019
Scientists discover a third gene mutation of "natural short sleepers" (people who only need 4-6 hours), explaining further why they don't need the suggested 7 hours a night.
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Oct 16, 2019
New research from Harvard Medical School suggests the secret to living longer may lie in neural activity, which speeds up and slows down as we age: Over-excitation, or too much activity in the brain, leads to shorter life spans. Suppressing neural over-excitation actually extends life.
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Aug 30, 2019
A study of electronic scooter riders (n=103) admitted to 3 Level I trauma centers in southern California showed that 98% of seriously injured riders weren’t wearing helmets, and a significant number were intoxicated. Most of these riders were men between age 20 and 40.
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Jun 20, 2019
A Mystery of Peru's Nazca Lines Has Been Unraveled: 3 of the figures depicted in Peru's ancient Nazca lines have been identified as a pelican, a guano bird, and a hermit.
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Apr 24, 2019
Researchers suggest that brain-computer interfaces — also known as neuroprostheses — are within reach: In the journal Nature, they show evidence that they could decode neuronal signals into human speech.
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