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In the Trade publications category of the 2023
@AHCJ
Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel took first place for coverage of a new procedure for organ donation.
Check out the winning story. 🏆
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Starship will be the biggest rocket ever. Are space scientists ready to take advantage of it?
Learn more:
@ScienceVisuals
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Italians can speak up to nine syllables per second, while Germans deliver five to six syllables in the same tick of a watch.
Yet, they transmit a similar amount of information, according to a new study.
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It may not sound like much, but the audio clip in this story is the first reconstruction of an ancient human voice—one belonging to a 3000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Nesyamun.
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Far beneath the ice cap at Mars’s south pole lies a lake of liquid water—the first to be found on the Red Planet:
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Scientists and doctors are divided over whether myocarditis concerns should influence vaccine recommendations, especially now that a new
#COVID19
wave is looming and revamped boosters are hitting the scene.
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As with other behavioral traits such as personality, there is no single “gay gene.” Instead, same-sex sexual behavior appears to be influenced by perhaps hundreds or thousands of genes, each with tiny effects, according to new research.
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This rabbit walks on its "hands." Scientists think they’ve found the genetic reason why:
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Rapid color changes in marlins may prevent the predators from impaling one another during group attacks.
Learn more:
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The
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry has been awarded to the two scientists who transformed an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, commonly called
#CRISPR
, into a tool that can simply and cheaply edit the genomes of everything from wheat to mosquitoes to humans.
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In an effort to save Guam’s remaining birds, researchers placed nests atop smooth poles they were sure no snake could climb.
But to their shock, the snakes scaled the poles and looped themselves into never-before-seen lassos to snag their prey.
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Watch rare shorebirds engage in a synchronized water dance:
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They are no bigger than sesame seeds, and they pulse with a hypnotic rhythm.
These are human “minihearts,” the first to be created in the lab with clearly beating chambers.
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“This is just amazing.”
For the first time, scientists have sharpened cryo-EM’s resolution to the atomic level, allowing them to pinpoint the positions of individual atoms in a variety of proteins at a resolution that rivals x-ray crystallography’s.
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More than 1000 researchers have signed an open letter in support of Elisabeth Bik, a scientific integrity consultant who is being accused of harassment and blackmail by a lawyer representing
#COVID19
drug researcher Didier Raoult.
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"This remarkable bird has a most impressive, exemplary success story that illustrates effective conservation and collaboration at work."
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Artificial intelligence has solved one of biology’s grand challenges: predicting how proteins curl up from a linear chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that allow them to carry out life’s tasks.
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After 26 hours -- and over 60 updates -- we're wrapping up our global coverage of the
#MarchForScience
...for now.
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The Arecibo Observatory is gone. Its 900-ton instrument platform, suspended above a dish in the karst hills of Puerto Rico, collapsed earlier this week.
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New data released by the U.S. National Science Foundation underscore concerns that the academic community is facing a postdoc shortage and that early-career scientists are increasingly favoring higher paid positions outside academia.
@ScienceCareers
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Nearly two dozen research groups are already at work on a “pancoronavirus” vaccine—a vaccine that could prevent the next pandemic. Learn more:
#WeekendReads
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They turned an obscure bacterial immune mechanism, commonly called
#CRISPR
, into a tool, revolutionized the life sciences, and took home the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
#WomensHistoryMonth
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This improbable membrane can trap flies in a jar—and odor in a toilet:
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"The Earth is round, gasoline is flammable, and vaccines are safe and effective ... All the rest are dangerous lies."
Those words began the media career of virologist Roberto Burioni.
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Revealing the genes that turn one cell into an entire body:
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A new analysis of fossilized footprints reveals clues about how sauropods, the largest known dinosaurs, may have walked.
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Researchers last year captured on video what they believed to be the first direct observation of a pelican eel hunting for prey.
#ScienceMagArchives
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It’s not exactly the T-1000—yet. But researchers have created a liquid metal robot that can mimic the shape-shifting abilities of the silvery, morphing killer robot in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
#WomenInScience
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A newly discovered dwarf planet—nicknamed “Farout”—may be the solar system’s most distant resident.
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Astronomers finally have visual evidence of a black hole.
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Scientists put a fish tank on wheels to test whether goldfish can navigate as well on land as they can in water.
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Exclusive: Paleontologist Robert DePalma has been accused of faking data in a paper showing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth in the spring.
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Some mosquitoes are able to avoid running into walls, even in complete darkness. Now, researchers have figured out how these pesky insects do this, and they’ve used that information to build a sensor that may one day help keep helicopters safe:
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"I’ve never seen anything like it": the first-ever video of a deep-sea anglerfish mating pair is stunning biologists
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Ross 128 b, an exoplanet found just 11 light-years away, could be in a friendly location for alien life:
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Researchers have found a way to convert Type A blood to universal donor blood, potentially revolutionizing blood donation and transfusion.
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Watch a puffin use a tool—to scratch an itch.
The video is some of the first evidence of tool use in seabirds:
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Moderna has announced the final results of the 30,000-person efficacy trial for its
#COVID19
vaccine candidate, reporting that the vaccine had 100% efficacy against severe disease.
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It’s a new day on Mars.
NASA’s $2.7 billion Perseverance rover has successfully landed in Jezero crater.
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RIP Mario Molina, one of the most consequential scientists of the past 50 years, the Nobel Prize-winning Mexican chemist who helped save the ozone layer.
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Doctors diagnose advanced cancer—in a dinosaur:
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#COVID19
is strangely—and tragically—selective. Researchers are now gearing up to scour patients’ genomes for DNA variations that could explain why some are more susceptible to the disease than others.
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In Mexico, hundreds of early-career scientists have been forced out by the country’s science agency. A combination of budget cuts, politics, and a widening rift between the government and scientists is at work, researchers say.
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Dolphins learn the "names" of their friends to form teams—a trait previously seen only in humans. Learn more:
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Biologist David Sabatini, who has been forced out of or fired from three leading institutions for sexual misconduct, may now be hired by the New York University Grossman School of Medicine.
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
#ScienceMagArchives
#WomensEqualityDay
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In a medical first, researchers have injected a
#CRISPR
drug into the blood of people born with a fatal nerve and heart disease and shown that in three of them it nearly shut off production of toxic protein by their livers.
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A new generation of cancer-preventing vaccines could wipe out tumors before they form.
#LongReads
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Academic researchers in Israel say they are being “affected dramatically” by negative international reactions to Israel’s military actions against Hamas in Gaza, a recent survey finds.
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Watch these phalaropes engage in a synchronized water dance:
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A power shift in the U.S. Senate could have momentous implications for science and climate policy.
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Dolphins learn the "names" of their friends to form teams—a first in animal kingdom. Learn more:
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"Proactive school closures—closing schools before there’s a case there—have been shown to be one of the most powerful nonpharmaceutical interventions that we can deploy."
#coronavirus
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The
#DanceYourPhD
competition challenges scientists around the world to explain their research through the most jargon-free medium available: interpretive dance.
Here are this year's winners. 🏅
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Scientists put a fish tank on wheels to test whether goldfish can navigate as well on land as they can in water.
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President-elect Biden has appointed Eric Lander, a research policy maven and geneticist, to be his science advisor and head up the White House office of Science and Technology Policy.
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A dozen
#COVID19
scientists have filed a formal complaint with Rutgers University alleging that two faculty members violated the university’s policies by posting “provably false” comments that are often defamatory and that could incite harm against them.
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Guam’s invasive tree snakes loop themselves into lassos to reach their feathered prey:
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Watch this plant fire seeds with bulletlike force:
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This deformed bone is the first clear example of a malignant tumor diagnosed in a dinosaur:
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Over the past 75 years, flowers have adapted to rising temperatures and declining ozone by altering ultraviolet pigments in their petals, new research suggests.
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
#ScienceMagArchives
#DayOfTheGirl
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Daytime wounds heal more quickly than those suffered at night:
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Experimental treatment strategies being tested by a large
@WHO
study and other clinical trials attempt to interfere with different steps in the
#coronavirus
replication cycle.
Learn more:
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The mechanics behind how elephants, zebras and other animals use their tails as flyswatters:
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Breaking news: Data from a trial involving 4800 children in four African countries suggest a vaccine known as R21/MatrixM provides significant protection against
#malaria
.
It could receive WHO approval as soon as Monday.
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Though neither of the two
#COVID19
vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer showed safety concerns in trials, some experts say the public must be made aware of the potential for “unpleasant but not dangerous" side effects, including fever and aches.
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HIV, Ebola, and Zika are ugly, nasty viruses. Structural biologist David Goodsell makes them look beautiful.
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Signed so far by more than 370 Russian scientists and science journalists, a protest letter denounces a war it says will turn Russia into a pariah.
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For the first time, one of the many
#COVID19
vaccines in development has protected an animal, rhesus macaques, from infection by the new coronavirus, scientists report.
@pulitzercenter
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CRISPR may one day have a challenger. Meet retrons—mysterious complexes of DNA, RNA, and protein. Not only are they also part of the bacterial immune arsenal that defeats viruses, but they have genome-editing potential, too.
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In serious cases,
#SARSCoV2
lands in the lungs and can do deep damage there. But the virus, or the body’s response to it, can injure many other organs.
Scientists are just beginning to probe the scope and nature of that harm. Learn more:
#coronavirus
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Booming electric vehicle sales have spurred a growing demand for lithium. But the light metal isn’t abundant. In 2020, researchers reported a major step toward tapping a virtually limitless lithium supply.
#ScienceMagArchives
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The Arecibo Observatory is gone.
Its 900-ton instrument platform, suspended above a dish in the karst hills of Puerto Rico, collapsed this morning, at about 8 a.m. local time.
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The Nobel Committee has awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the hepatitis C virus, one of the most common causes of liver cancer.
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Humans are not the only primate to take in motherless offspring.
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“It looks like a crazy idea...But if you look at the data, it’s actually a very compelling story.”
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She didn’t win the Nobel Prize, a recognition many say was denied her because of her gender. But this week physicist Chieng-Shiung Wu will appear on a U.S. postage stamp—an honor previously bestowed on Einstein, Fermi, and Feynman.
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Are you ready for a new era of “psychobiotics”? Treating the biome in the gut to ease the disorders of the brain is emerging as a promising field of study, and the market is watching.
#ScienceMagArchives
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Scientists are unraveling how our organs talk to the brain and how the brain talks back.
#LongReads
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In serious cases,
#SARSCoV2
lands in the lungs and can do deep damage there. But the virus, or the body’s response to it, can injure many other organs. Scientists are just beginning to probe the scope and nature of that harm.
See the interactive here:
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Watch this plant fire seeds with bulletlike force:
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A fossil captured a 99-million-year-old encounter between a “hell ant,” one of the earliest known ants, and its prey, an extinct relative of the cockroach.
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Goffin’s cockatoos take a tool set to work on a puzzle box, a rare example of pre-planning in the animal kingdom.
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Scientists hope a new study—which strongly links multiple sclerosis with Epstein-Barr virus—will spur the development of a vaccine against
#EBV
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A new finding that Chinese pigs are more and more frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that has the potential to jump to humans has infectious disease researchers worldwide taking serious notice.
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We're finally closing the hole in the ozone layer -- but there's still a long way to go:
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This walking fish may reveal how animals first took to land:
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Mario Molina, a chemist whose work on the ozone layer earned him a Nobel Prize in 1995, died yesterday in Mexico City. He was 77.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to astrophysicists who made pioneering discoveries about the nature of black holes, and their existence at the center of the Milky Way.
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"We can now say that human beings have flown a rotorcraft on another planet."
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Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has aced another test.
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Biologists have re-engineered a bacterium that normally eats a diet of simple sugars into one that builds its cells by absorbing carbon dioxide, much like plants.
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Nearly two dozen research groups are already at work on a pancoronavirus vaccine in an effort to help prevent a future pandemic like
#COVID19
.
#LongReads
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"But when you're dealing with the White House, sometimes you have to say things 1,2,3,4 times, and then it happens. So I'm going to keep pushing."
We spoke with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the researcher who has become America’s most trusted
#coronavirus
expert.
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