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Honey as a Pollution Detector? It’s a Sweet Idea
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Beehives and their contents are a sensitive detector of lead emissions, a study of Canadian urban apiaries showed.
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NYT Science It turns out that honey is an exquisitely sensitive detector of pollutants like lead 5h
An Elusive Whale Is Found All Around the World
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Researchers are learning about a newly identified species of baleen whales, tracing sightings and sounds to learn that they stay mainly in tropical waters.
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NYT Science Omura's whales, a newly identified species, largely live in tropical waters and don't migrate. Researchers are tracking them through sightings around the world, and by listening to records of their distinctive sounds. 20h
A.I. Can Improve Health Care. It Also Can Be Duped.
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As medical insurers and billing companies begin using machine-learning software, they can learn to game the underlying algorithms for profit.
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NYT Science Machine-learning technology could be a boon to medicine. But researchers increasingly are troubled by the potential for manipulation. 43h
Chop Up a Worm. It Will Regenerate. Scientists Figured Out Why.
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Researchers identified the master control gene that enables worms to grow a new body, capturing the imagination of some humans looking for a fresh start.
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NYT Science Scientists have identified the master control gene responsible for full body regeneration in worms 3d
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NYT Science Scientists have identified the master control gene responsible for full body regeneration in worms 57h
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NYT Science Scientists have identified the master control gene responsible for full body regeneration in worms 7h
A Twin Inside a Twin: In Colombia, an Extraordinary Birth
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What appeared to be a cyst in a healthy fetus turned out to be an unformed twin “absorbed” early in pregnancy, connected by a second umbilical cord and still growing.
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NYT Science In Colombia, a mother gave birth to a girl with her unformed twin sister growing inside her. 4d
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NYT Science In Colombia, a mother gave birth to a girl with her unformed twin sister growing inside her. 3d
The Asteroid Was Shooting Rocks Into Space. ‘Were We Safe in Orbit?’
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NASA’s Osiris-Rex and Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft reached the space rocks they are surveying last year, and scientists from both teams announced early findings on Tuesday.
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NYT Science It's going to be challenging for an American spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, to collect samples from an asteroid it is studying because the space rock is rugged and strewn with large boulders 4d
Daily Low-Dose Aspirin No Longer Recommended by Doctors, if You’re Healthy
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New guidelines suggest the risk of bleeding outweighs the heart benefits among healthy adults who take low-dose aspirin.
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NYT Science New guidelines suggest that aspirin should not be prescribed to most adults who are in good cardiovascular health and that the risk of internal bleeding often outweighs the benefit. 4d
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NYT Science New guidelines suggest that aspirin should not be prescribed to most adults who are in good cardiovascular health and that the risk of internal bleeding often outweighs the benefit. 16h
DNA and a Coincidence Lead to Arrest in 1999 Double Murder in Alabama
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For 19 years, police were unable to identify the person who fatally shot two 17-year-olds. Then they turned to the technique used in the Golden State Killer case.
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NYT Science DNA and a coincidence lead to arrest in a double murder that has haunted an Alabama town for two decades. 4d
Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Receive Abel Prize in Mathematics
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Dr. Uhlenbeck helped pioneer geometric analysis, developing techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians.
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NYT Science Karen Uhlenbeck, Abel Prize winner, "did things nobody thought about doing,” said Sun-Yung Alice Chang, a mathematician at Princeton, “and after she did, she laid the foundations of a branch of mathematics.” 5d
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NYT Science Karen Uhlenbeck helped pioneer a field known as geometric analysis, and she developed techniques now commonly used by many mathematicians. Today she has become the first woman to win the Abel Prize in mathematics. 5d
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NYT Science “I certainly very much felt I was a woman throughout my career. That is, I never felt like one of the guys.” — Karen Uhlenbeck, winner of the 2019 Abel Prize, mathematics’ equivalent of the Nobel. 5d
88 Pounds of Plastic Found in Dead Whale in the Philippines
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The whale’s grisly death renewed focus on the problem of plastics ending up in oceans. The Philippines is the third-biggest contributor of such waste.
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NYT Science “The plastic in some areas was so compact it was almost becoming calcified, almost like a solid brick,” said a person who was at the whale's post-mortem 6d
How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks
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Researchers combing through archives discovered that cigarette makers had applied their marketing wizardry to sweetened beverages and turned generations of children into loyal customers.
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NYT Science How Big Tobacco got American youth hooked on sugary drinks. A new study reveals how cigarette companies unleashed their marketing prowess on brands like Tang, Kool-Aid and Hawaiian Punch, and made them irresistible to kids. 6d
Did Dietary Changes Bring Us ‘F’ Words? Study Tackles Complexities of Language’s Origins
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Softer foods from agricultural lifestyles may have changed the human bite, making it easier to form certain sounds.
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NYT Science Where did "F" words come from? A new study suggests the rise of agriculture and softer foods changed the sounds people could make, but the science of language development is complex. 7d
This Songbird Is Nearly Extinct in the Wild. An International Treaty Could Help Save It — but Won’t.
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Over a quarter of the species threatened by commercial trade are not protected by Cites, the global agreement intended to save them.
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NYT Science Nations are failing to protect threatened and endangered species from exploitation, conservationists say. "It’s not going to get any better unless countries step up.” 7d
The Story of the Iberian Peninsula, Told in DNA
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With an analysis of nearly 300 skeletons from various periods, scientists are peering into human prehistory in the region.
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NYT Science We've long known that Spain and Portugal sat at history's crossroads. Now DNA from ancient skeletons is revealing human migrations into the region from thousands of years ago. 7d
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NYT Science We've long known that Spain and Portugal sat at history's crossroads. Now DNA from ancient skeletons is revealing human migrations into the region from thousands of years ago. 5d
Sealed Cache of Moon Rocks to Be Opened by NASA
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A half-century ago, three containers of lunar samples were set aside, to await study by more advanced technology. Their time has come.
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NYT Science About a half-century ago, three containers of moon rocks collected by American astronauts were set aside, awaiting study by more advanced technology. Their time has come. 7d
Tobacco, E-Cigarette Lobbyists Circle as F.D.A. Chief Exits
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Juul and Big Tobacco have lobbied for months to protect themselves from aspects of the F.D.A.’s crackdown. As Scott Gottlieb leaves, they see an opening.
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NYT Science How much of the F.D.A.'s tobacco control plan will disappear when Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner, steps down? 9d
How Pi Made Us Modern
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The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity.
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NYT Science For some people, #PiDay is an occasion to marvel at circles. But it’s the domestication of infinity that we really should be celebrating, writes. 10d
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NYT Science Mathematically, pi is less a child of geometry than an early ancestor of calculus, and our first step toward taming infinity, writes 10d
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NYT Science For some people, #PiDay is an occasion to marvel at circles. But it’s the domestication of infinity that we really should be celebrating, writes. 8d
What Makes a Waterfall? Maybe It Forms Itself
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An experiment with a river built in a lab suggests that geological histories around the world may need to be rewritten.
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NYT Science We may have to rewrite the geological history of some of our planet's most beautiful waterfalls 10d
A Dead Baby Was Found in a Ditch in 1981. DNA Helped Charge the Mother With Murder.
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A cold case in Sioux Falls, S.D., was given new impetus after detectives employed DNA technology and genealogy data.
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NYT Science DNA testing was used to track down the mother of an abandoned baby in South Dakota who had been unidentified since 1981. She faces murder charges. 10d
Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared.
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A century ago, British scientists suggested a link between increased hygiene and allergic conditions — the first hint that our immune systems are becoming improperly “trained.”
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NYT Science “We evolved over millions of years to have our immune systems under constant assault. Now they don’t have anything to do.” 10d
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NYT Science Should you pick your nose? And eat it? Scientifically, it’s an interesting question. 10d