science news 2019
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DeepMind’s AI develops popular policy for distributing public money
DeepMind researchers have trained an AI system to find a popular policy for distributing public funds in an online game…
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Newly identified species is the world’s largest known giant water lily
Almost 180 years after specimens were first brought from Bolivia to the UK, a giant water lily has been confirmed…
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News at a glance: Polio in London sewage, U.S. science spending bills, and new medical citations leader
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African wild dogs give birth 22 days later than they did 30 years ago
African wild dogs like to breed at the coolest time of year, and climate change has shifted the average timing…
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New Abortion Laws Could Make Prenatal Genetic Screening Harder to Do
Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal genetic test came back last…
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26 US states are likely to ban abortion to the fullest extent possible
After the US Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade, abortion bans in states such as Louisiana and Tennessee…
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How Connected Cars Can Map Urban Heat Islands
Early one May morning in 1927 researcher Wilhelm Schmidt attached a mercury thermometer to his car door and drove around…
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Reddit moderators do $3.4 million worth of unpaid work each year
Volunteers who maintain the standard of content on Reddit’s forums do 466 hours of work every day – labour that…
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UK’s largest carbon capture project will turn CO2 into baking soda
Tata Chemicals Europe’s plant at Northwich will eventually capture 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year for use in making…
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Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage, UK Officials Warn
A strain of poliovirus that can sometimes cause paralysis has cropped up in the sewers of London and may be…
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