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PsychologyStudy: Baby boomers don't work harder than younger generations (upi.com)
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EnvironmentCERN scientists discover that trees are much better at creating clouds and cooling the climate than we thought: "gases emitted by trees can stick together to make new seeds for clouds in the atmosphere – without needing any help from other pollutants" (theconversation.com)
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BiologyRoughly 100 million years ago, an amoeba robbed a bacterium of its genes. Now, researchers finally know how the amoeboid pulled off the heist. The ancient amoeba Paulinella subsumed the bacterium without harming it. It then hijacked the genes necessary for photosynthesis. (news.rutgers.edu)
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NeuroscienceMars-bound astronauts face chronic dementia risk. Exposure to highly energetic charged particles – much like those found in the galactic cosmic rays that will bombard astronauts during extended spaceflights – causes significant long-term brain damage in test rodents. (news.uci.edu)
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Energy Storage AMAACS AMA: I'm Kyle Bradbury, Managing Director of the Energy Data Analytics Lab at the Duke University Energy Initiative. Ask me anything about energy storage systems and energy data analytics. (self.science)
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BiologyVirus carrying DNA of black widow spider toxin discovered (news.vanderbilt.edu)
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ChemistryScientists identify the molecules in frankincense responsible for the scent of Christmas. (chemistryworld.com)
submitted by vilnius2013PhD | Microbiology
AnthropologyHundreds of human footprints made 5,000-19,000 years ago found near an active volcano in Tanzania. (news.nationalgeographic.com)
submitted by vmjaggard99Victoria Jaggard | Editor
EnvironmentClimate Change Behind Surge in Western Wildfires | The number of acres of forest burning yearly in large Western fires ballooned nine-fold from 1984 to 2015, with climate pollution and natural changes in the weather playing roughly equal roles in driving the deadly trend (climatecentral.org)
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Chicxulub Impact Crater AMAScience AMA Series: We are Drs. Gulick, Morgan and Lowery. In spring we drilled into the Chicxulub impact crater. Now the whole science party has met for the first time to have a closer look at the cores. AMA! (self.science)
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ChemistryA big step to solving a 50-year-old evolutionary problem: Viscosity promotes gene strand self-replication (rh.gatech.edu)
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PhysicsStable molecular state of photons and artificial atom discovered. It provides a platform to investigate the interaction between light & matter at a fundamental level, helps understand quantum phase transitions, & provides a route to applications of non-classical light such as Schrödinger cat states. (nict.go.jp)
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