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How to Build an Offshore Wind Farm
Let’s talk about building an offshore wind farm. For starters, it’s not your average construction job. Vineyard Wind I, the…
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People Who Jump to Conclusions Show Other Kinds of Thinking Errors
How much time do you spend doing research before you make a decision? The answer for many of us, it…
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Covid-19 news: UK lab may have given 43,000 false PCR test results
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan ,…
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Nanotechnology Offers New Ways to Fight an Endless Pandemic
A flurry of recent papers highlights growing interest in approaches that employ nanomaterials as antiviral countermeasures. Compared with traditional small…
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Major U.S. research charity places big bet on diversity
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), one of the largest private funders of biomedical research in the United States, is…
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World Leaders Meet to Address Biodiversity Crisis, But U.S. Stays on Sidelines
World leaders moved forward this week with a global framework to stem the loss of biodiversity, but missing from the…
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Large Trial Finds Oxytocin Nasal Spray Is Ineffective for Autism
An intranasal form of the hormone oxytocin is no more effective than placebo at increasing social behaviors in autistic children,…
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Remote Work Can Be Better for Innovation Than In-Person Meetings
Fear of losing their innovative edge pushes many leaders to reject hybrid and virtual work arrangements. Yet extensive research shows…
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Genomes Show the History and Travels of Indigenous Peoples
I am the proud descendant of people who, at least 1,000 years ago, made one of the riskiest decisions in…
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FAST, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are one of the greatest mysteries of our universe. Coming from deep space, these outbursts…
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