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Microbiologist Does Simple Demo to Show How Face Masks Are Effective

Sometimes having a visual is the best way to understand something. This is particularly true when it comes to science. And as wearing a face mask has become part of our daily routine, more and more people are questioning if … Continue reading

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What do all languages have in common? – Cameron Morin

Dig into Noam Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar and decide: are there universal grammar rules and are they hardwired into our brains? — Language is endlessly variable. Each of us can come up with an infinite number of sentences in … Continue reading

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What Black People Need to Know About Vitamin D and Covid-19 | Medium

Terri Huggins Hart Writer and producer Tyler Perry is by no means a health expert. But when he posted a video on Instagram in April discussing Black people, their likelihood of having low vitamin D levels, and the possible connection … Continue reading

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This Cell Might Hold the Answer to a Universal Cure for Cancer

There are a couple of different types of immunotherapy, but this new discovery points to a facet of our immune system that could be harnessed to treat all cancers, according to researchers. These recent findings, published in Nature Immunology, relate … Continue reading

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Erik Verlinde: Gravity Doesn’t Exist | Big Think

Erik Verlinde is a theoretical physicist and string theorist and the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam. The “Verlinde formula,” which relates to conformal field theory and topological field theory, is named after him. In a paper … Continue reading

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3 Ways To Smell Cancer

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The calm and the chaos

This image, one of photographer Ketan Khambhatta’s favorites, shows the different personalities of two different species. During the river crossings in the Masai Mara, zebras tend to be very careful, looking out for crocodiles in the water before moving forward … Continue reading

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Is the colour in space images “real”?

Are you fascinated by beautiful pictures of objects in space but always left wondering whether the colour shown is “real”? This video is all about how astronomers use colour in images to best highlight the physics that is going on … Continue reading

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Has confinement turned us all into hikikomori? – ScienceBlog.com

After two months of lockdown, have we become like the hikikomori – the Japanese youngsters who choose to live in isolation, shunning the outside world?  Natacha Vellut, a psychosociologist at the CERMES3 laboratory and co-author of a book on the … Continue reading

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BBC Sounds – Rethink, Jarvis Cocker: Rethinking an Environmental Revolution

Jarvis contemplates what might awaken us to our duty as stewards of the Earth.                                                     … Continue reading

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