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Thursday, December 23, 2021
Exposure to formaldehyde at work raises risk for cognitive problems later
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Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by shark variable new antigen receptors elucidated through X-ray crystallography
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Reactive Oxygen Species: Not Omnipresent but Important in Many Locations
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Astronomers capture black hole eruption spanning 16 times the full Moon in the sky. As the black hole feeds on in-falling gas, it ejects material at near light-speed, causing ‘radio bubbles’ to grow over hundreds of millions of years.
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Psilocybin Microdosing had no effect on stress or depression in a preregistered, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Study also did not find any evidence that psilocybin makes it easier to identify happy facial expressions as opposed to angry, fearful and sad ones (as previous studies found).
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Contrary to prevailing public belief, Twitter gives the political right higher algorithmic amplification than the political left in six out of seven countries. In the US, algorithmic amplification favors right-leaning news sources. [Data from a long-running, massive-scale randomized experiment]
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Researchers discover older male bull elephants have a calming effect on younger elephants, potentially reducing human-wildlife conflict.
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How the Earth-shaking theory of plate tectonics was born
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Non-linear Mendelian randomization analyses support a role for vitamin D deficiency in cardiovascular disease risk
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Analyzing and predicting the popularity of memes on Reddit
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"The oldest unequivocal fossil animal sperm" has been discovered. Scientists announced their breakthrough discovery, describing how, hidden in a chunk of amber, they uncovered a fossil sperm thought to be 100 million years old.
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How Maxwell’s Demon Continues to Startle Scientists: The thorny thought experiment has been turned into a real experiment — one that physicists use to probe the physics of information.
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Little Ice Age | geochronology
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Study: Majority of dog breeds are highly inbred, contributing to an increase in disease and health care costs throughout their lifespan. The average inbreeding based on genetic analysis across 227 breeds was close to 25%, or the equivalent of sharing the same genetic material with a full sibling.
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Probiotics Improve Gastrointestinal Function and Life Quality in Pregnancy
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University of Oxford researchers have come up with a way to control the speed at which tomatoes ripen by modifying a specific gene. This could not only help reduce wastage and boost tomato crop yields, but possibly other crop varieties, too.
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