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Climate change could slow recovery of southern right whales
By Carissa Wong Mother and calf southern right whales Nicolas Lewin More frequent and severe El Niño weather events caused…
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Kyoto University to close leading primate center over misuse of construction funds
Kyoto University plans to disband its celebrated Primate Research Institute (PRI) because of the misuse of government funds under former…
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Beethoven’s Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence
Teresa Carey: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Teresa Carey. Every morning at five o’clock, composer Walter Werzowa would…
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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: Positive lateral flow test results ‘should be trusted’
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan ,…
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Gnarly, Centuries-Old Mathematical Quandaries Get New Solutions
A series of unsolved puzzles in number theory called Diophantine problems date back to 3,700 years ago. Over the years…
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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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NASA’s Lucy mission is launching to study asteroids near Jupiter
By Leah Crane An illustration of the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter Southwest Research Institute/NASA…
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Risk of Dangerous Heat Exposure Is Growing Quickly in Cities
Cities are famously sweltering places during heat waves, with pavement and buildings radiating heat back into the air and elevating…
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