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1. Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they’ll need to work at 62 mph.

   By Karlston, November 20, 2024
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   • Comment by coopers
   • November 25, 2024

2. Are standing desks good for you? The answer is getting clearer.

   By Karlston, November 15, 2024
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 15, 2024

3. Did the snowball Earth give complex life a boost?

   By Karlston, February 28
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   • 256 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 28

4. What did the snowball Earth look like?

   By Karlston, November 14, 2024
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   • 559 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 14, 2024

5. SpaceX will try some new tricks on Starship’s sixth test flight

   By Karlston, November 19, 2024   

   • spacex
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   • 574 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 19, 2024

6. Can going to a haunted house boost the immune system?

   By Karlston, November 19, 2024
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   • 507 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 19, 2024

7. We’re closer to re-creating the sounds of Parasaurolophus

   By Karlston, November 22, 2024
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 22, 2024

8. How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom

   By Karlston, November 11, 2024
   • 1 comment
   • 780 views
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   • Comment by coopers
   • November 12, 2024

9. The amorous adventures of earwigs

   By Karlston, November 19, 2024
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   • 556 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • November 19, 2024

10. In a rare disclosure, the Pentagon provides an update on the X-37B spaceplane

    By Karlston, October 11, 2024
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    • 540 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 11, 2024

11. SpaceX has caught a massive rocket. So what’s next?

    By Karlston, October 28, 2024   

    • spacex
    • 1 comment
    • 663 views
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    • Comment by lurch234
    • October 28, 2024

12. A candy engineer explains the science behind the Snickers bar

    By Karlston, October 29, 2024
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    • October 29, 2024

13. Can walls of oysters protect shores against hurricanes? DARPA wants to know.

    By Karlston, October 13, 2024
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    • October 13, 2024

14. Bizarre fish has sensory “legs” it uses for walking and tasting

    By Karlston, October 19, 2024
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    • 595 views
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    • Comment by noeh
    • October 20, 2024

15. Protein structure and design software gets the Chemistry Nobel

    By Karlston, October 9, 2024   

    • nobel prize
    • chemistry
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 9, 2024

16. When ribosomes go rogue

    By Karlston, October 24, 2024
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    • 540 views
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    • Comment by SL0TH
    • October 24, 2024

17. In stunning Nobel win, AI researchers Hopfield and Hinton take 2024 Physics Prize

    By Karlston, October 8, 2024   

    • nobel prize
    • physics
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 8, 2024

18. To the astonishment of forecasters, a tiny hurricane just sprang up near Cuba

    By Karlston, October 20, 2024
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    • 469 views
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    • Comment by The Boca Deb
    • October 20, 2024

19. Rocket Report: Bloomberg calls for SLS cancellation; SpaceX hits century mark

    By Karlston, October 18, 2024
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    • October 18, 2024

20. How can you write data to DNA without changing the base sequence?

    By Karlston, October 29, 2024
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 29, 2024

21. US measles outlook is so bad health experts call for updating vaccine guidance

    By Karlston, March 14   

    • measles
    • us
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 14

22. Medicine Nobel goes to previously unknown way of controlling genes

    By Karlston, October 7, 2024   

    • nobel prize
    • medicine
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    • 492 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 7, 2024

23. Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction

    By Karlston, October 4, 2024
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 4, 2024

24. H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain

    By Karlston, February 6
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 6

25. People think they already know everything they need to make decisions

    By Karlston, October 15, 2024
    • 1 comment
    • 549 views
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    • Comment by SL0TH
    • October 15, 2024