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How Much Vaccination Stops a Measles Outbreak?
To stop the spread of an infectious disease like measles, you don’t have to vaccinate everyone. But you do have…
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Dyson spheres could exist after all, new study hints — but only around this 1 type of star
Dyson spheres, the hypothetical mega-structures that advanced alien civilizations might use to enclose a star and harness its energy, suffer…
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Salmon are swimming faster due to painkillers and other drugs dumped into water: study
Wild salmon are swimming quicker due to painkillers and other drugs dumped in rivers and the sea, reveals new research.…
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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her
A shift in the atmosphere Ms. Petrova’s return flight from Paris landed in Boston on the evening of Feb. 16.…
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Why do people hate vegans? Science may have the answer
People seem to always have beef with vegans — and scientists say they’ve figured out why. A new study published in…
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Scientists built largest brain ‘connectome’ to date by having a lab mouse watch ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Star Wars’
The mammal brain is a complex network of billions of cells connected via trillions of nodes that neuroscientists have yet…
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Bats wearing tiny mics reveal how the fliers avoid rush hour collisions
The first bat-wearable microphone is helping biologists study the bats’ good safety record at avoiding collisions in rush hour air.…
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Driving the CAR to fight acute myeloid leukemia
One main goal of anti-cancer therapies is to kill tumor cells without affecting the surrounding normal cells. Therefore, many drugs…
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Dad’s backyard lessons inspired this hearing scientist to learn
biology: The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists. biomedical: Having to do with…
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Denisovans inhabited Taiwan, new fossil evidence suggests
A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of…
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