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Nobel prizes in year marked by pandemic
Press freedom groups and climate activist Greta Thunberg are making Nobel Peace Prize buzz ahead of next week's award announcements, in a pandemic year that has highlighted the importance of science and research.
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How to multitask when nuclear nonproliferation is on the line
New cognitive science research from Sandia National Laboratories shows that while maps can help someone identify landmarks while being escorted, using one also limits situational awareness and knowledge of surroundings not ...
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Sep 29, 2020
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Portrait by Renaissance master expected to soar past $80M
An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering $80 million estimate, despite the pandemic.
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Sep 24, 2020
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Stockholm Nobel ceremony replaced with televised event: Foundation
The traditional Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm has been cancelled for the first time since 1944 in favour of a televised event due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers announced Tuesday.
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Sep 22, 2020
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Poop knives, arachnophobic entomologists win 2020 Ig Nobels
Maybe this year's Ig Nobels, the spoof prizes for dubious but humorous scientific achievement, should have been renamed the Ick Nobels.
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Sep 18, 2020
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Dutch inventor's mushroom coffins turn bodies into compost
In the Netherlands you can keep helping the planet after you die—by opting for a living coffin made of mushrooms which speeds up the decomposition of your body.
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Sep 17, 2020
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Why San Francisco felt like the set of a sci-fi flick
On Sept. 9, many West Coast residents looked out their windows and witnessed a post-apocalyptic landscape: silhouetted cars, buildings and people bathed in an overpowering orange light that looked like a jacked-up sunset.
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Sep 16, 2020
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In first, Scientific American magazine endorses Biden
For the first time in its 175-year history, US magazine Scientific American has endorsed a White House candidate, saying Tuesday it wanted Democrat Joe Biden to prevail because President Donald Trump "rejects" science.
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Sep 15, 2020
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Pandemic spawns 'infodemic' in scientific literature
The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of research studies that it is hard for anyone to digest them all, underscoring a long-standing need to make scientific publication more accessible, ...
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Sep 11, 2020
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Lock of Lincoln's hair and bloodied telegram up for auction
This is one macabre auction: A lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, wrapped in a bloodstained telegram about his 1865 assassination, is up for sale.
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Aug 28, 2020
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New data show few states require specific action for implementation of Complete Streets policies
Nearly half of all US states have mandatory Complete Streets policies, according to new data published today to LawAtlas.org.
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Aug 27, 2020
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Technology and planning help museums manage outdated exhibitions
Museum exhibitions are all about the "Wow!", "What?" and "Why?" as they showcase beauty and wonder, spark curiosity, and share some of the important lessons museum scientists have learnt through detailed study of these objects.
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Aug 27, 2020
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Report reveals continued global imbalance in distribution of peer review
A new global peer review study from IOP Publishing has found that the imbalance in the distribution of peer review continues to be felt by Western and more experienced reviewers.
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Aug 27, 2020
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The tech field failed a 25-year challenge to achieve gender equality by 2020
In 1995, pioneering computer scientist Anita Borg challenged the tech community to a moonshot: equal representation of women in tech by 2020. Twenty-five years later, we're still far from that goal. In 2018, fewer than 30% ...
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Aug 27, 2020
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We rely on science. Why is it letting us down when we need it most?
Science is suffering from a replication crisis. Too many landmark studies can't be repeated in independent labs, a process crucial to separating flukes and errors from solid results. The consequences are hard to overstate: ...
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Aug 19, 2020
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Pentagon to set up new unit to investigate UFOs
The Pentagon said Friday it was setting up a new task force under the US Navy to investigate UFO sightings.
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Aug 15, 2020
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WTF, when will scientists learn to use fewer acronyms?
Have you heard of DNA? It stands for Do Not Abbreviate apparently. Jokes aside, it's the most widely used acronym in scientific literature in the past 70 years, appearing more than 2.4 million times.
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Aug 14, 2020
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Lessons from two pan-African giants on how to achieve genuine nuclear disarmament
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US in 1945, the only time in history that nuclear bombs have been used.
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Aug 06, 2020
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Beirut explosion: the disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not, say researchers
At the time of writing at least 100 people have lost their lives and a further 4,000 have been wounded following an explosion in the Port of Beirut. While the actual cause remains uncertain, the tragedy calls to attention ...
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Aug 06, 2020
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Will COVID-19 mark the end of scientific publishing as we know it?
Randy Schekman is getting a bit tired of talking about this.
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Aug 04, 2020
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