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The First Picture of the Black Hole at the Milky Way’s Heart Has Been Revealed
The mystery at the heart of the Milky Way has finally been solved. This morning, at simultaneous press conferences around…
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‘World-leading’ research not confined to elite universities, says REF
The Research Excellence Framework, an assessment of UK universities’ research output, has found that “world-leading” research is distributed across the…
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Covid-19 news: Easing zero-covid may cause 1.5 million deaths in China
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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Some medicines prescribed to treat back pain may prolong the problem
Two drugs called dexamethasone and diclofenac relieve back pain in the short term, but may block healing of the injury…
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God, Dark Matter and Falling Cats: A Conversation with 2022 Templeton Prize Winner Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek, a Nobel Prize–winning theoretical physicist and author, has been announced as the recipient of the 2022 Templeton Prize,…
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Covid-19 news: Fourth vaccine may offer ‘substantial’ antibody boost
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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Rat testicle cells make sperm after being frozen for 23 years
Pre-pubescent children who become infertile because of cancer treatment may be able to make sperm after reimplanting frozen testicular tissue,…
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Women Bear the Brunt of Drought Shocks
CLIMATEWIRE | Women in much of the world are more prone than men to shocks related to drought and desertification…
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Bats buzz like bees and hornets to scare off hungry owls
For the first time, researchers have recorded mammals mimicking the sounds of stinging insects as a survival mechanism: mouse-eared bats…
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The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade
Tanya Lewis: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Tanya Lewis. On Monday a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked,…
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