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Saturday Citations: Chatbots easily tricked; better strength training; dynamics of a neural 'reward map'
This week, the state of Florida reached a "startling milestone" in the effort to eradicate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Archaeologists found the 6,000-year-old remains of a teen girl with cranial modification. ...
Saturday Citations: Reality vs. imagination; rhinos vs. poachers; mathematics vs. the Big Bang
This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia. A team at the USDA identified viruses from a miticide-resistant parasitic mite causing honey bee ...
For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface
Scientists need skills in visual analysis and critical thinking, but these skills aren't being taught or practiced nearly enough in our university classrooms.
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Jun 5, 2025
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After 60 years, the search for a missing plane in Lake Superior remains fruitless
Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan's Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three people on a scientific assignment.
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Jun 3, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Wages vs. welfare; origins of teeth; a search for primordial black holes
A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from the James Webb Space Telescope is bringing physicists closer to resolving the Hubble tension; and ...
From peasant fodder to posh fare: How snails and oysters became luxury foods
Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein.
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May 24, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Protoplanetary cornucopia; trees abound; the importance of diversity in corporate boards
This week, paleontologists reported finding new details in an Archaeopteryx fossil via CT scanning and UV light exposure. NASA engineers revived a set of thrusters aboard Voyager 1 that had been considered inoperable in 2004. ...
Rare blue diamond fetches $21.5 mn at auction in Geneva
An exceptionally rare blue diamond went under the hammer in Geneva late Tuesday, selling for $21.5 million, Sotheby's auction house said.
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May 14, 2025
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Breathtaking images show what working as a scientist can look like
A scientist braving crashing waves to track whales in a northern Norwegian fjord tops a list of winners of Nature's 2025 Scientist At Work competition. Arctic telescopes, tiny frogs, and mountain fog also feature in the top ...
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May 13, 2025
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'CoVox': A matched vocal dataset for comparing singing and speech styles
The human voice is as diverse and individual as a fingerprint and can provide information about emotions, age, or health. In order to study vocal performances, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics ...
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May 13, 2025
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Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole
This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative ...
Virtual reality study reveals how burglars weigh risk and reward in response to environmental features
Criminology studies have posited theories based on the assumption that environmental features (e.g., street lighting, housing design) shape offenders' perceptions of risk and reward. In a new study, researchers used virtual ...
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May 8, 2025
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Chinese research isn't taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere, researchers find
My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world's most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics ...
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May 8, 2025
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France, EU leaders take aim at Trump in bid to lure US scientists
French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump's policies on science on Monday, as the EU seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.
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May 5, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Cancer precursor cell identified; Webb spots more old galaxies
This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a new way to solve higher polynomial equations, one of algebra's oldest challenges. And climbing shoe ...
French research center seeks to lure US-based scientists
France's flagship scientific research center CNRS has launched a new initiative, in an apparent effort to lure US scientists hit by federal research spending cuts under President Donald Trump.
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May 2, 2025
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Some 'Star Wars' stories have already become reality
Just 48 short years ago, movie director George Lucas used the phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" as the opening to the first "Star Wars" movie, later labeled "Episode IV: A New Hope." But at least four important ...
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May 1, 2025
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Study finds engagement journalism training reduced 'horse race' political coverage, boosted more substantive content
News outlets across the country have been making efforts to engage more deeply with their communities and enhance transparency in their reporting. New research from the University of Kansas has found that journalism engagement ...
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Apr 29, 2025
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Investigators are increasingly using technology in conflict-related sexual assault cases
In the last two weeks of February, humanitarian agencies reported 895 cases of conflict-related rape as M23 rebels advanced through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). According to a United Nations High Commissioner ...
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Apr 28, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Is the universe a computational process? Plus: Psychological benefits of gaming
This week, researchers uncovered the negative pressure mechanisms plants use to communicate stress. Linguists found that the melody of spoken language in English functions as its own, distinct language. And there was also ...
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