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F.d. Flam

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Do you really want to find out if you'll get Alzheimer's?

A few years ago, researchers made the unnerving discovery that in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease, disordered clumps of abnormal...

05.05.2024 50

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A century of bad choices will haunt Earth for 100,000 years

One of the many things to appreciate about our home planet is that buried in its layers of rock is a kind of time machine. These strata tell us so...

30.04.2024 30

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Your dog will have an anti-aging drug before you do

Before we have an anti-aging drug for humans, we’re likely to have one for dogs. Multiple clinical trials are currently under way to test potential...

05.04.2024 50

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The scandals rocking cancer science matter to your health

The field of cancer biology is a mess. Signs of trouble emerged years before the most recent scandal, in which investigators found evidence of data...

21.02.2024 10

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Have scientific breakthroughs declined?

The year 2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientific...

08.01.2024 20

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Let’s stop insulting each other as ‘anti-science’

Peter Hotez, a vaccine scientist from Baylor College of Medicine, has been receiving a stream of hate mail. Much of it is unhinged, paranoid and...

02.01.2024 20

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The 10 most intriguing science breakthroughs over the past year

Every year, scientists make amazing new discoveries — findings that often don’t get the attention they deserve. War, tragedy and political...

31.12.2023 20

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It’s past time scientists admitted their COVID-19 mistakes

During the pandemic years, Americans’ trust in scientists fell, according to a recently released Pew poll. In 2019, only 13% of Americans were...

26.12.2023 40

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Science hype and celebrity culture make a bad pair

Until recently, physicist Ranga Dias was enjoying burgeoning stardom for a scientist. He was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Next Innovators and...

23.11.2023 20

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Don’t worry about global population collapse

The world’s massive human population is leveling off. Most projections show we’ll hit peak humanity in the 21st century, as people choose to have...

11.10.2023 90

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Fusion research shouldn’t be a nuclear weapons side hustle

If humanity survives for thousands more years, our primary energy source could very likely be nuclear fusion. It’s clean, the fuel is inexhaustible...

12.09.2023 90

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