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05/07/2019

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An ancient pouch reveals the hallucinogen stash of an Andes shaman

May 06 2019 3:00 PM

South American shamans in the Andes Mountains carried mind-altering ingredients 1,000 years ago, a study finds.

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LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves

May 06 2019 1:14 PM

Gravitational wave hunters are on a cosmic scavenger hunt. Here's what they're hoping to find.

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Medical student evaluations appear riddled with racial and gender biases

May 06 2019 7:00 AM

Women and minorities are more frequently described by personality in medical student evaluations, but men are described by their skills, a study says.

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War wrecked an African ecosystem. Ecologists are trying to restore it

May 05 2019 8:00 AM

Bringing back big predators to Gorongosa, once a wildlife paradise in Mozambique, is just one piece of the puzzle in undoing the damage there.

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Antimatter keeps with quantum theory. It's both particle and wave

May 03 2019 2:00 PM

A new variation of the classic double-slit experiment confirms that antimatter, like normal matter, has wave-particle duality.

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These award-winning photographs capture rarely seen wildlife and landscapes

May 03 2019 9:00 AM

Winners of the California Academy of Sciences' annual photo contest dove deep underwater and hiked to great heights to create these striking images.

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Facebook data show how many people left Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

May 03 2019 7:00 AM

Conventional surveys can't track migration after natural disasters in real time. But Facebook data may provide a crude estimate of those who flee.

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Pandas' share of protein calories from bamboo rivals wolves' from meat

May 02 2019 3:22 PM

The panda gut digests protein in bamboo so well that the animal's nutritional profile for calories resembles a wolf's.

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A dinosaur's running gait may reveal insights into the history of bird flight

May 02 2019 2:11 PM

In what may have been a precursor to avian flight, a flightless winged dinosaur may have flapped its wings as it jogged.

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An AI used art to control monkeys' brain cells

May 02 2019 2:00 PM

Art created by an artificial intelligence exacts unprecedented control over nerve cells tied to vision in monkey brains, and could lead to new neuroscience experiments.

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LIGO and Virgo made 5 likely gravitational wave detections in a month

May 02 2019 1:41 PM

It took decades to find the first gravitational wave event, and now they're a weekly occurrence.

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Can Silicon Valley entrepreneurs make crickets the next chicken?

May 02 2019 7:00 AM

Entrepreneurs are bringing automation and data analysis to insect agriculture to build a profitable business that helps feed the planet.

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Hippo poop cycles silicon through the East African environment

May 01 2019 2:06 PM

By chowing down on grass and then excreting into rivers and lakes, hippos play a big role in transporting a nutrient crucial to the food web.

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Water has been found in the dust of an asteroid thought to be bone-dry

May 01 2019 2:00 PM

Scientists detected water in bits of an asteroid thought to be devoid of the liquid. Such space rocks might have helped create Earth's oceans.

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A jawbone shows Denisovans lived on the Tibetan Plateau long before humans

May 01 2019 1:00 PM

A Denisovan jaw is the earliest evidence of hominids on the Tibetan Plateau, and the first fossil outside of Siberia from the mysterious human lineage.

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How scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany's nuclear reactor program

May 01 2019 3:00 AM

New research suggests that the Nazis had enough uranium to make a working nuclear reactor.

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