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A Life Interrupted

 

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Ancient Maya built sophisticated water filters – ScienceBlog.com

Ancient Maya in the once-bustling city of Tikal built sophisticated water filters using natural materials they imported from miles away, according to the University of Cincinnati. UC researchers discovered evidence of a filter system at the Corriental reservoir, an important … Continue reading

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Probing fine-scale connections in the brain

Tracing connections, such as those in this section of the fruit-fly brain, could uncover links between neural architecture, biology and disease. Credit: FlyEM at HHMI/Google Research   Artificial intelligence and improved microscopy make it feasible to map the nervous system … Continue reading

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BBC World Service – CrowdScience, Am I related to a virus?

Although they’re not technically ‘alive’ might viruses hold a place in our family tree? All living things are related to each other, from elephants to algae, e-coli to humans like us. Within our cells we hold genetic information in the … Continue reading

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Viral ‘molecular scissor’ is next COVID-19 drug target – ScienceBlog.com

American and Polish scientists, reporting Oct. 16 in the journal Science Advances, laid out a novel rationale for COVID-19 drug design – blocking a molecular “scissor” that the virus uses for virus production and to disable human proteins crucial to the … Continue reading

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The Coronavirus Unveiled

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Fundamental Physics: Scientists Discover the Fastest Possible Speed of Sound

A research collaboration between Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk has discovered the fastest possible speed of sound. The result — about 36 km per second — is … Continue reading

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How Special Relativity Makes Magnets Work

MinutePhysics on permanent magnets: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFAOXd… Subscribe to Veritasium: http://bit.ly/SuBVe Support Veritasium- get a t-shirt: http://dft.ba/-vetshirt Subscribe to MinutePhysics: http://bit.ly/1eVPynh Magnetism seems like a pretty magical phenomenon. Rocks that attract or repel each other at a distance – that’s really cool … Continue reading

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‘Rapid evolution’ means humans now being born without wisdom teeth

Scientists in Australia have discovered several changes in humans which are appearing over a short period of time. Dr Teghan Lucas, of Flinders University in Adelaide, said faces are also becoming shorter, due to changes in our diet, and our … Continue reading

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A Thousand Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Were Writing About Natural Selection | Vice

Professors are starting to orient Charles Darwin within a rich history of people from all cultures who have grappled with the mechanisms of life. By Shayla Love In the summer of 1837, Charles Darwin drew a rudimentary sketch in his … Continue reading

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