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Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this wins Ig Nobel prize
A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the types of pizza lizards preferred to eat.
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New Picasso portrait unveiled at Paris auction house
A previously unknown portrait by Pablo Picasso of one of his lovers was revealed on Thursday after being put up for sale at auction in Paris with a reserve price of eight million euros ($9.5 million).
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Listen closely: Research suggests lie detection is more accurate when based solely on audio
A recent study by the University of Portsmouth has found that focusing on audio alone improves the performance of the interviewer during interviews, particularly in criminal investigations.
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Sep 17, 2025
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How the US became a science superpower
America is awesome at science. For as long as most of us have been alive, United States scientists have published more research, been cited more often by other scientists, earned more patents, and even won more Nobel Prizes ...
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Sep 13, 2025
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Saturday Citations: A mechanism for liver failure; LIGO black hole kick observed; primordial black hole explosions
This week, researchers reported on a new biopsy tool that can detect HPV-associated head and neck cancer up to 10 years before symptoms appear. Researchers developed a process to transform two-dimensional paintings into full-color, ...
Balzan prizes of nearly $1 million awarded for democracy studies and advances in leukemia treatment
American historian Josiah Ober, whose studies of Athenian democracy provide insights into current political crises, and U.S. immunologist Carl H. June, who works on gene-modified cell therapy that offers hope for future cures ...
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Sep 8, 2025
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'Correcting The Map': reshaping perceptions of Africa
The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger.
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Sep 7, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Ant species clones workers; a primordial black hole candidate; an anti-tumor carotenoid
This week: Researchers reported that evolutionary mutations are genome-driven, not random. Quantum physicists observed the magnetic nucleus of an atom switching back and forth in real time. And a new catalyst could simplify ...
Eiffel Tower to honor 72 women scholars to ensure gender parity
Gustave Eiffel, who designed France's world-famous monument, had the names of 72 scholars inscribed on the base of the tower in golden letters. All of them men.
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Sep 5, 2025
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Lost for 50 years, Nobel patents found in Swedish summer home
A dozen patents belonging to Swedish inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel and lost for almost 50 years were recently found in a Swedish couple's summer house, the Nobel Foundation told AFP.
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Sep 3, 2025
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Chinese cluster now world's top innovation hotspot: UN
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou has overtaken Tokyo-Yokohama to become the world's top cluster for innovation, the United Nations said Monday.
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Sep 1, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Human impacts on reef systems; testing AI systems; a woman with perfect memory
The week in science: UK fishermen are reporting a massive octopus bloom in the waters off southwest England. Researchers found a massive fossilized pearl in the Australian outback, the largest ever found in the country. And ...
World maps get Africa's size wrong: Cartographers explain why fixing it matters
The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 signatures.
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Aug 28, 2025
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New AI tool can spot shady science journals and safeguard research integrity
One of the big benefits of open-access journals is that they make research articles freely and immediately available to everyone online. This increases exposure for scientists and their work, ensuring there are no barriers, ...
Saturday Citations: Beyond general relativity; gas giants and dark energy; the pleasures of difficult hobbies
This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years old. Medical researchers reported that the majority of chronic pain patients discontinue cannabis ...
How bad science is becoming big business
Researchers are dealing with a disturbing trend that threatens the foundation of scientific progress: scientific fraud has become an industry. And it's growing faster than legitimate peer-reviewed science journals can keep ...
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Aug 18, 2025
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Saturday Citations: A new category of supernovas; neurons beat machine learning; depression and vitiligo
Based on simulations, researchers report that the next big earthquake along the San Andreas fault is unlikely to resemble previous quakes. Researchers at the intersection of algebra, geometry, particle physics and cosmology ...
Study pits super-recognizers against digitally manipulated face images
Some people never forget a face. This is an ability police forces around the world find very useful. It now seems that this superpower can be used for more than previously thought.
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Aug 12, 2025
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Remains of British researcher lost in 1959 recovered from Antarctic glacier
The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis "Tink" Bell, a 25-year-old meteorologist ...
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Aug 11, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Video games and brain activity; a triple black hole system; neutralizing Skynet
It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of Mars, a sharp panorama color altered to make the sky blue (???). California health authorities are ...
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'Quantum squeezing' a nanoscale particle for the first time
