How can you know that science done quickly during a crisis is good science?
Archaeology
Dec 15, 2021
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It can be hard to appreciate that a human-made, football-pitch-sized spacecraft is orbiting 400 km above our heads, but there it is.
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2021
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It is commonly assumed that any important scientific knowledge would be available in English, and so scientific knowledge used in international studies is predominantly sourced from English-language documents. But is this ...
Ecology
Oct 7, 2021
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Three residents of the International Space Station will take a short ride aboard a Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft Tuesday, Sept. 28, relocating the spacecraft to prepare for the arrival of the next set of station crew members.
Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2021
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Figures released this week suggest Australia's koala populations have plummeted by 30% in three years, and fewer than 58,000 now remain in the wild.
Plants & Animals
Sep 23, 2021
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The first United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), scheduled for September, could be as historic to food system transformation as the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 was to climate change. Rio sparked the creation of the Intergovernmental ...
Environment
Sep 2, 2021
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In the popular view of traditional science, scientists are in the lab hovering over their experiments, micromanaging every little detail. For example, they may iteratively test a wide variety of material compositions, synthesis ...
Materials Science
Jul 28, 2021
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On June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a much-anticipated report on UFOs to Congress. The military has rebranded unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena—UAPs—in ...
Other
Jun 30, 2021
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While the U.S. president is calling for suspending patents on COVID-19 vaccines, experts at UNESCO are quietly working on a more ambitious plan: a new global system for sharing scientific knowledge that would outlast the ...
Other
May 12, 2021
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In a new report, ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities, examines the potential of technical and policy measures to tackle science disinformation and calls for improved European exchange and ...
Social Sciences
May 3, 2021
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