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Saturday Citations: Football metaphors in physics; vets treat adorable baby rhino's broken leg
This week, researchers reported an effective way to protect working dogs from heat stress: training them to dunk their heads in cool water. A new computational technique provided a breakthrough in understanding the so-called ...
'The data on extreme human aging is rotten from the inside out,' says Ig Nobel winner
From the swimming habits of dead trout to the revelation that some mammals can breathe through their backsides, a group of leading leftfield scientists have been taking their bows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
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Sep 16, 2024
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Study looks at funded partnerships between nonprofit organizations and researchers
Front-line communities, those in regions most severely and immediately affected by increasing weather hazards and climate extremes, can benefit from partnerships between local organizations and academic researchers. However, ...
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Sep 16, 2024
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Backside breathing and pigeon bombers studies win Ig Nobel prizes
Mammals that can breathe through their backsides, homing pigeons that can guide missiles and sober worms that outpace drunk ones: these are some of the strange scientific discoveries that won this year's Ig Nobels, the quirky ...
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Sep 14, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Permian-Triassic mystery solved; cute baby sighted; the nine-day 2023 seismic event
This week, a billionaire made a spacewalk, archaeologists found a new, isolated Neanderthal lineage and the James Webb Space Telescope revealed the extreme outskirts of the Milky Way. And a few other things happened:
Studies on pigeon-guided missiles, swimming abilities of dead fish among Ig Nobels winners
A study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles and one that looks at the swimming abilities of dead fish were among the winners Thursday of this year's Ig Nobels, the prize for comical scientific ...
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Sep 13, 2024
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First publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's collected poems offers new insights into author's personality
If you have read The Lord of the Rings, there is a good chance that you skipped over one or more of the 75 songs and poems in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy epic. Yet long before he was the "father of modern fantasy", Tolkien's ...
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Sep 10, 2024
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This year's $890,000 Balzan Prizes awarded for research on aging, restorative justice, climate crisis
An Australian criminologist specializing in restorative justice and a U.S. scientist whose work helps address the climate crisis are among the winners of this year's Balzan Prize announced Monday.
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Sep 9, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Teen seals photobomb research site; cell phones are safe; serotonin and emotional resilience
If you're not susceptible to urban myths and misinformation, there's a new study from the World Health Organization that will ease your 2010s-era anxieties about cell phones. There were a lot of other developments this week, ...
A mural honoring scientists hung in Pfizer's NYC lobby for 60 years. Now it's up for grabs
A mural honoring ancient and modern figures in medicine that has hung in the lobby of Pfizer's original New York City headquarters for more than 60 years could soon end up in pieces if conservationists can't find a new home ...
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Sep 7, 2024
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US disinformation researcher laments 'incredible witch hunt'
Understanding disinformation has emerged as a lightning rod in the United States ahead of the November election, with academics and think-tanks facing lawsuits by right-wing groups and subpoenas from a Republican-led congressional ...
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Sep 5, 2024
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Researchers propose framework for contextual metadata
In an article published in the International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, a multi-center research team discusses how they hope to fill a significant gap in the documentation and sharing of research data ...
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Sep 3, 2024
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First Nations people are three times more likely to die on the road. Here's how to fix Australia's transport injustice
Last year, more than 1,200 people died in road crashes across Australia. But not all Australians face the same level of risk on our roads.
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Sep 3, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Corn sweat! Nanoplastics! Plus: Massive objects in your area are dragging spacetime
It's the last day of August, which means that in the Northern Hemisphere, tomorrow will be 50 degrees and cloudy; conditions are expected to be hot and humid south of the equator. In science news this week, we reported on ...
Claw machine games are Rio de Janeiro's new public enemy
Rio de Janeiro—already notorious for street muggings, corrupt politicians, ruthless militias and Kalashnikov-toting drug traffickers—has a new public enemy: plushies. Or, more specifically, the joystick-controlled claw ...
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Aug 30, 2024
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Best of Last Week—How humans really killed mammoths, making AI systems smarter, mitochondria fling their DNA
It was an interesting week for the study of human behavior as a team of cognitive scientists at MIT found what they believe is the reason that laws are written in an incomprehensible style—because it confers what they describe ...
Saturday Citations: Tarantulas and their homies; how mosquitoes find you; black holes not mysterious at all
So much science news this week. It's like a torrential deluge of information bursting explosively through a levee of ignorance. Who built that levee, anyway? How did they get that through the legislature? Anyway, of the hundreds ...
World's second largest diamond found in Botswana
A massive 2,492-carat diamond—the second largest in the world—has been discovered in Botswana, the Canadian mining company that found the stone announced Thursday.
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Aug 22, 2024
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New research analyzes 'Finnegans Wake' for novel spacing between punctuation marks
Statistical analysis of classic literature has shown that the way punctuation breaks up text obeys certain universal mathematical relationships. James Joyce's tome "Finnegans Wake," however, famously breaks the rules of normal ...
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Aug 20, 2024
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Saturday Citations: Citizen scientists observe fast thing; controlling rat populations; clearing nanoplastic from water
Good morning! Here are a few of this week's most interesting science stories to read while you're settling into the couch with your cup of General Foods International French Vanilla Cafe.
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New method developed to relocate misplaced proteins in cells
New data science tool greatly speeds up molecular analysis of our environment
Citizen science collaboration yields precise data on exoplanet WASP-77 A b
Genome sequence analysis identifies new driver of antimicrobial resistance
Algorithm used on Mars rover helps scientists on Earth see data in a new way
Double-edged STING: A new pathway involved in aging
