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Immunology Is Where Intuition Goes to Die

Which is too bad because we really need to understand how the immune system reacts to the coronavirus.   Updated at 10:36 a.m. ET on August 5, 2020. There’s a joke about immunology, which Jessica Metcalf of Princeton recently told … Continue reading

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There Are More Than Two Human Sexes

In high school biology, we learn that humans are born with either XX or XY chromosomes, and that a person’s internal and external sex organs match those chromosomes. It turns out, however, that sex isn’t that straightforward. Hosted by: Hank … Continue reading

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No Air, No Problem: How Parasites Survive Without Oxygen Inside Host – ScienceBlog.com

Around one people on the planet are infected with parasitic helminths, round worms that live in soil and colonize human guts through dirty water. The helminths owe their ability to survive in the low oxygen environment of the human gut to … Continue reading

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Is Glass a Liquid?

Stained glass is thicker at the bottom – so is it a liquid? Earth’s mantle enables plate tectonics, so is it a liquid? Check out Audible: http://bit.ly/AudibleVe Sign up for the mailing list: http://www.veritasium.com Pitch drop experiment: http://www.thetenthwatch.com

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Dinosaur relative’s genome linked to mammals – ScienceBlog.com

Scientists from the University of Adelaide and South Australian Museum have collaborated with Otago University, New Zealand and a global team to sequence the genome of the tuatara – a rare reptile whose ancestors once roamed the earth with dinosaurs. The … Continue reading

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Half the universe was missing… until now

Half of the ordinary baryonic matter has been tough to find but Fast Radio Bursts made it possible to detect the WHIM. Thanks to Kiwico for sponsoring this video! For 20% off go to https://kiwico.com/veritasium or use code VERITASIUM at … Continue reading

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Study reveals exciting speech processing similarities between humans and dogs

Dog brains, just as human brains, process speech hierarchically: intonations at lower, word meanings at higher stages. Human brains process lexical meaning separately from the emotional prosody of speech at higher levels of the processing hierarchy. Dog brains can also … Continue reading

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Assembly of the largest ever thermonuclear fusion reactor ITER begins

In France, the assembly of the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), which will be the world’s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment, has started on July 28, 2020. The largest nuclear fusion reactor to date begins construction next to the … Continue reading

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The mysterious echo from the Sun: the IBEX Ribbon | Unsolved Mystery in Physics

Go to http://brilliant.org/DrBecky and sign up for free. The first 200 people that go to that link will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. In 2009 the IBEX satellite detected an excess of atoms reflected back from a particular … Continue reading

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Earth’s atmosphere rings like a giant bell, say researchers – Physics World

Study confirms 200-year-old prediction by Pierre-Simon Laplace The Earth’s entire atmosphere vibrates like a giant bell, with various large-scale resonant waves travelling in both directions around the globe. That is the conclusion of scientists in Japan and the US, who … Continue reading

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