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  1. 18 hours ago

    Scientists have long known the Crab Nebula as a very energetic astrophysical object beaming off radiation ranging from radio waves to gamma rays. But recently, researchers have discovered it is even more energetic than they thought.

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  2. 18 hours ago

    The blistering heat wave that scorched the Pacific Northwest last month would have been “virtually impossible” without the influence of climate change, scientists say.

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  3. 21 hours ago

    This summer Chinese scientists begin analyzing the first new samples brought back from the moon in 45 years—specimens that could reset the clock on not just lunar chronology but also planetary bodies' evolution across the solar system.

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  4. 21 hours ago

    More than 80 percent of elite mathematicians descend from two early greats—18th-century French mathematician Jean le Rond d’Alembert and 17th-century German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jul 7

    Now more than ever, we need to focus on harm reduction when facing Covid, my latest for

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  6. Jul 7

    The western United States is experiencing its worst drought this century, threatening to kill crops, spark wildfires and harm public health as hot and dry conditions are expected to continue this month.

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  7. Jul 7

    New research shows that lightning-quick neural rehearsal can supercharge learning and memory. 🎧

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    Jul 7

    How loved ones of those still missing in the Miami condo collapse are struggling with a psychological purgatory known as . My latest for : a Q&A with Pauline Boss who coined the term in the 1970s:

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  9. Jul 7

    How does a quantum computer work? If you understand how these systems operate, then you understand why they could change everything. Watch the latest episode of our Decoded series:

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  10. Jul 7

    "We welcome investment in agriculture on our continent, but we seek it in a form that is democratic and responsive to the people at the heart of agriculture." | Perspective by and

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    Jun 16

    COVID-19 placed cancer patients, who may already be immune-suppressed, at further risk. An oncologist from a leading cancer center describes how hospitals can protect patients and patients can protect themselves. [Sponsored by ]

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  12. Jul 6

    Most people in the poorest countries will need to wait another two years before they are vaccinated against COVID-19.

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  13. Jul 6

    Take an immersive acoustic journey into the blue oak woodlands of Sequoia National Park with and get strafed by pigeons that sound like fighter jets. 🎧

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  14. Jul 6

    "Embracing humanity’s dark-skinned ancestors with love and respect is key to changing our relationship to the past, and to creating racial equity in the present." | Perspective

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    Jul 6

    Most popular story on today: “[The Delta variant] is the most hypertransmissible, contagious version of the virus we’ve seen to date, for sure—it’s a superspreader strain if there ever was one,” says in this article by .

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  16. Jul 6

    The time may finally be ripe for a national climate service

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  17. Jul 6

    As scientists and clinicians continue to delineate the “long-haul” course of COVID, policy makers and planners must anticipate and prepare for the impact of this new cause of disability.

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  18. Jul 6

    Scientists recently observed a hidden, flattened world: electrons in a three-dimensional material behaved as if only two dimensions of space exist.

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  19. Jul 5

    Studying corals usually requires observing them alive in the ocean or examining dead tissue in a laboratory. But new research offers a way to keep all coral cell types alive in a lab culture for two weeks or longer, opening new research possibilities.

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  20. Jul 4

    Our new no-go theorem about information scrambling has real-world application to understanding random and chaotic systems in the rapidly expanding fields of quantum machine learning, quantum thermodynamics, and quantum information science.

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