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Saturday Citations: Disproving string theory; interstellar comet arrives; lemurs age gracefully
Well, it's July 12, which means (a) the Steam Summer Sale is over and (b) it's really hot outside in the northeastern U.S. This week, researchers discovered a cool new fish and named it after Darth Vader. An analysis of the ...
Fascinating, but does it replicate? The reproducibility crisis is undermining scientific trust
Over the last few centuries, the scientific method has established itself as a pretty useful tool.
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Jul 9, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Upside-down sharks; brain network functioning in psychopaths; IQ associated with better predictions
This week, biologists discovered a new cellular organelle that's like "a new recycling center within the cell." Wild-growing tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving. And geologists at the University of Southampton detected ...
'Science refugees': French university welcomes first US researchers
Eight American researchers have arrived at a university in southern France, as the country pushes to offer "science asylum" to US academics hit by federal research spending cuts under Donald Trump.
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Jun 27, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Genetic toggles, undersea farmers and exploding rockets
This week, medical researchers ruled out brainstem CT scanning alone for proof of neurologic death. Researchers at Yale presented new evidence that the brain stores and retrieves visuomotor associations in graph-like cognitive ...
Saturday Citations: Chatbots easily tricked; better strength training; dynamics of a neural 'reward map'
This week, the state of Florida reached a "startling milestone" in the effort to eradicate invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades. Archaeologists found the 6,000-year-old remains of a teen girl with cranial modification. ...
Saturday Citations: Reality vs. imagination; rhinos vs. poachers; mathematics vs. the Big Bang
This week, Chinese researchers reported a nearly complete skull representing the first known sauropod species from East Asia. A team at the USDA identified viruses from a miticide-resistant parasitic mite causing honey bee ...
For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface
Scientists need skills in visual analysis and critical thinking, but these skills aren't being taught or practiced nearly enough in our university classrooms.
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Jun 5, 2025
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After 60 years, the search for a missing plane in Lake Superior remains fruitless
Experts searching for plane wreckage in Michigan's Lake Superior found logs and rocks on the bottom but no debris from an aircraft that crashed nearly 60 years ago carrying three people on a scientific assignment.
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Jun 3, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Wages vs. welfare; origins of teeth; a search for primordial black holes
A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from the James Webb Space Telescope is bringing physicists closer to resolving the Hubble tension; and ...
From peasant fodder to posh fare: How snails and oysters became luxury foods
Oysters and escargot are recognized as luxury foods around the world—but they were once valued by the lower classes as cheap sources of protein.
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May 24, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Protoplanetary cornucopia; trees abound; the importance of diversity in corporate boards
This week, paleontologists reported finding new details in an Archaeopteryx fossil via CT scanning and UV light exposure. NASA engineers revived a set of thrusters aboard Voyager 1 that had been considered inoperable in 2004. ...
Rare blue diamond fetches $21.5 mn at auction in Geneva
An exceptionally rare blue diamond went under the hammer in Geneva late Tuesday, selling for $21.5 million, Sotheby's auction house said.
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May 14, 2025
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Breathtaking images show what working as a scientist can look like
A scientist braving crashing waves to track whales in a northern Norwegian fjord tops a list of winners of Nature's 2025 Scientist At Work competition. Arctic telescopes, tiny frogs, and mountain fog also feature in the top ...
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May 13, 2025
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'CoVox': A matched vocal dataset for comparing singing and speech styles
The human voice is as diverse and individual as a fingerprint and can provide information about emotions, age, or health. In order to study vocal performances, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics ...
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May 13, 2025
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Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole
This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative ...
Virtual reality study reveals how burglars weigh risk and reward in response to environmental features
Criminology studies have posited theories based on the assumption that environmental features (e.g., street lighting, housing design) shape offenders' perceptions of risk and reward. In a new study, researchers used virtual ...
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May 8, 2025
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Chinese research isn't taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere, researchers find
My new research suggests there is a stubborn pattern in academic publishing. My co-author and I examined some 8,000 articles published in the world's most reputable economics journals to study citations, which are where academics ...
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May 8, 2025
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France, EU leaders take aim at Trump in bid to lure US scientists
French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen took aim at Donald Trump's policies on science on Monday, as the EU seeks to encourage disgruntled US researchers to relocate to Europe.
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May 5, 2025
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Saturday Citations: Cancer precursor cell identified; Webb spots more old galaxies
This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a new way to solve higher polynomial equations, one of algebra's oldest challenges. And climbing shoe ...
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