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Social ScienceThe Understudied Female Sexual Predator: According to new research, sexual victimization by women is more common than gender stereotypes would suggest. (theatlantic.com)

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HealthAustralian researchers have connected sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) to low levels of a brain protein which regulates sleep arousal in a major breakthrough in understanding the disease (telegraph.co.uk)

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BiologyGeologist uncovers 2.5 billion-year-old fossils of bacteria that predate the formation of oxygen (geology.gsapubs.org)

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CRISPR AMAScience AMA Series: I'm Denis Bauer, a Team leader at Australia’s government research organization, CSIRO. We develop BigData and cloud-based software to give researchers a ‘CRISPR’ look at genome engineering applications. AMA! (self.science)

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Social ScienceShapely Boobs Are More Important Than Big Ones, New Study Finds (inverse.com)

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NanoscienceResearchers discover astonishing behavior of water confined in carbon nanotubes - water turns solid when it should boil. (news.mit.edu)

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BiologyResearchers have identified a gene variant that suppresses the desire to drink alcohol. (utsouthwestern.edu)

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NeuroscienceSleeping on negative memories makes them harder to forget, as the brain shifts them from short-term to long-term memory. (researchgate.net)

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MedicineThese sets of data strongly suggest that THC could be a potential therapeutic treatment option for Alzheimer's disease through multiple functions and pathways. (content.iospress.com)

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HealthAmericans who are less health literate tend to be skeptical of new health technologies (news.utexas.edu)

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Animal ScienceWhales jump to improve communication between distant groups (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

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Animal ScienceSeemingly peaceful gorillas join 'mobs' and beat up rivals: A surprising series of observations of mountain gorillas in Africa's Virunga Mountains has overturned the view that gorillas, like bonobos, rarely turn violent. (bbc.com)

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PsychologyMany people place greater trust in university & industry scientists than in faith organizations to tell the truth about the risks & benefits of technologies & the applications. But the pattern is reversed with Evangelicals, with faith organizations trusted significantly more than scientific sources. (npr.org)

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PsychologyComparing yourself with others on Facebook is more likely to lead to feelings of depression than making social comparisons offline. (lancaster.ac.uk)

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NeuroscienceSpiritual and religious experiences activate brain’s reward circuits in much the same way as music, sex, and gambling, new brain imaging study finds. (researchgate.net)

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PsychologyA psychological explanation for why angry atheists are so annoying: a new study show that rationality — taken to an extreme — itself turns into ideology. (nymag.com)

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EngineeringA team of researchers in Japan have developed a thin, flexible polymer sheet that safely and efficiently absorbs and stores hydrogen. Even when saturated with hydrogen, the polymer is safe to touch. (upi.com)

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MedicineBelgian scientists discover bacterium that protects against obesity and diabetes (joinfo.com)

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PhysicsThe Case Against Dark Matter (quantamagazine.org)

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BiologyScientists have made a rare find: a new species of fossil beetle from Antarctica. It's the first evidence of a ground beetle found on the southernmost continent (bbc.com)

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NeuroscienceNeuroscientists Say Simple Mathematical Logic Underlies Complex Brain Computations (sci-news.com)

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Honey Bee Health AMAScience AMA Series: Hi, reddit! I’m Alex Lu, Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and I’m here to talk about the state of science and public policy around the world on protecting honeybee health (self.science)

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PsychologyA new study finds that, under the right conditions, 2 1/2-year-old children can answer questions about people acting on false beliefs, an ability that most researchers believe does not develop until age 4. (pnas.org)

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EngineeringScientists in Israel have developed the world's first "water-wave laser," proof light and water waves can combine to generate laser radiation. (technion.ac.il)

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Computer ScienceResearchers at the University of Toronto have succeeded in teaching an AI to learn from human instructions rather than from data, which increased its learning performance by 160%. Also, the algorithm outperformed its training by 9%. (ieeexplore.ieee.org)

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