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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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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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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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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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Why psychologists can’t decide if moral disgust is even a thing
By Ana Aznar Michelle D’urbano WE SHOULD really care about disgust. Not only does it protect us from coming into…
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Cosmic Dawn, Nitro, GeoTime—diverse South African scientists get superhero alter egos
Ask children around the world to draw a scientist and they’ll most likely sketch an older white man. Now, a…
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Planetary Defense Is Good—but Is Planetary Offense Better?
Less than eight years from now, on Friday the 13th of April 2029, a 370-meter-wide asteroid called Apophis will pass…
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Overruling scientists, Florida commission authorizes fishing of the vulnerable goliath grouper
For the first time in 3 decades, Florida is planning to allow recreational fishing of one of the world’s largest…
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One reason men often sweep the Nobels: few women nominees
This year’s all-male slate of science Nobel Prize winners—in physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine—disappointed but didn’t shock many in…
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WHO unveils candidates for new panel to restart study of the pandemic’s origins
The World Health Organization (WHO) today unveiled its candidates for a new team to study the origins of the COVID-19…
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