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Scientists Discover Anatomical Changes in the Brains of the Newly Sighted
By Anne Trafton | MIT News Office For many decades, neuroscientists believed there was a “critical period” in which the brain could learn to make sense of visual input, and that this window closed...
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Scientists Warned of a Salton Sea Disaster. No One Listened.
By FLETCHER REVELEY On the afternoon of Oct. 6, 2022, a massive dust storm rose in the drought-parched Sonoran Desert just southeast of California’s Salton Sea. Wind, gusting at more than 60 miles...
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Scientists Devise a Method for Removing Microplastics From Water
By Daniel T Cross Microplastic pollution is one of the gravest environmental challenges facing us, and a solution as to how to tackle it could come from an unlikely source: plants. By adding natural...
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Opinion: Boost Innovation by Funding Younger Scientists
By Aman Majmudar When newly recognized Nobel laureate Katalin Karikó was doing research in the 1990s that eventually led to mRNA vaccines, she had a hard time getting funding for her work. Her...
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On Being Reasonable
By Brian Lloyd Scientists have been in the news of late fretting that their projections about the onset of disasters caused by a warming climate may have been off the mark. It appears that Mother...
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In the Face of Extreme Weather, Scientists Look to Adapt Crops
By LOURDES MEDRANO In late September, an international team of researchers fanned out across a remote New Mexico mountain range, in search of an elusive plant. The group trekked through the rugged...
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Why Scientists Are Making Transparent Wood
By Jude Coleman Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried...
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Lab-Grown Coffee Tastes Pretty Darn Good, Scientists Say
By Sustainability Times As coffee cultivation worldwide is coming under increased stresses from climate change, scientists have been exploring ways to see how lab-grown coffee plant cells might become...
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What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming?
By Catherine Caruso, Harvard Gazette You are sitting quietly, and suddenly your brain tunes out the world and wanders to something else entirely — perhaps a recent experience or an old memory. You just...
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A Robot Inspired by a Snail Could Help Clean Up Microplastics
By Daniel T Cross Plastic pollution poses a clear and present danger to ecosystems and an especially insidious form of it involves microplastics. These tiny plastic particles can accumulate in the...
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Scientists May Misunderstand the Gender Gap in Physics
By Amy McCaig-Rice University The study’s researchers warn that chalking this imbalance up to merely individual choice may diminish the push for gender equality in the sciences. Using survey data...
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In Mighty Atlantic Ocean, Ecosystem Wonders and Threats Lie Below the Surface
By JACK MCGOVAN During his first offshore expedition in 1997, marine-biology expert Murray Roberts was shocked to see the state of cold-water corals located west of Scotland’s Shetland Islands. A...
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Smoking Shrinks Your Brain
By Tamara Bhandari-Washington University The good news is that quitting smoking prevents further loss of brain tissue, but still, stopping smoking doesn’t restore the brain to its original size. Since...
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Scientists Map the Best Areas for Europe’s Bison to Thrive in the Wild
By Daniel T Cross Once upon a time bison roamed in large herds across Europe, but a century ago they went extinct on the continent with just three dozen of them languishing in captivity. Conservation...
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How Do You Stop a Glacier From Melting? Put Up an Underwater Curtain
By Robin McKie, Grist This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists are working on an unusual plan to prevent...
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Do Plants Feel Pain? No, and Here’s How Scientists Know
By Seth Millstein, Sentient Media When vegans and vegetarians argue against eating meat because of the pain it inflicts on animals, they’re often met with a pithy-sounding retort: What if plants feel...
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A Company Said There Was Only Sand in the Path of Its New Pipeline....
By Avery Schuyler Nunn, Grist “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Javier Bello could scarcely believe what he was seeing in the waters off the...
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A Heightened Awareness: How Tech Helps Scientists Protect Giraffes
By Dave Reynolds Technology is helping wildlife experts in Africa to protect endangered giraffes and to reintroduce them to areas where they had previously died out. An estimated 117,000 giraffes...
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Scientists Warn a Poorly Managed Hydrogen Rush Could Make Climate Change Worse
By Kari Lydersen As the federal government rolls out billions of dollars in subsidies to produce hydrogen fuel for use in vehicles, factories and power plants, a growing body of evidence is...
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Nearly 15% of Americans Deny Climate Change Is Real
By Jim Erickson-U. Michigan Scientists have long warned that a warming climate will cause communities around the globe to face increasing risks due to unprecedented levels of flooding, wildfires, heat...
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