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Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

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These Bloodworms Grow Copper Fangs and Have Bad Attitudes

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Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?

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Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This?

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The ‘Ultimate Bird’ Once Prowled the Seas of a Young Japan

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They’re All Good Dogs, and It Has Nothing to Do With Their Breed

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Research team develops more efficient photocathodes

Research team develops more efficient photocathodes Breakthrough could lead to better particle accelerators and novel materials imaging More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305003&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Rewriting the history books: Why the Vikings left Greenland

Rewriting the history books: Why the Vikings left Greenland Increasing aridity contributed to Norse abandonment of settlements in the 15th century More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=305004&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Now That’s What I Call Frog Mating Music!

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Climate Change Will Accelerate Viral Spillovers, Study Finds

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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter

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A Traffic Jam at the Space Station

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Engineers create frost-resistant, ice-phobic coatings

Engineers create frost-resistant, ice-phobic coatings Alternatives to conventional de-icing technology could reduce environmental harm More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304993&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize

Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realize Ozone in the atmosphere found to have weakened one of Earth's main cooling mechanisms More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304994&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out.

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With supply more abundant, U.S. pharmacies struggle to use up Covid pills.

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New technology could make biopsies a thing of the past

New technology could make biopsies a thing of the past 3D microscope can see inside living tissue in real-time More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304987&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Ocean water samples yield treasure trove of RNA virus data

Ocean water samples yield treasure trove of RNA virus data Study of organisms in the sea identifies 5,500 new species More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304988&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Cultivating Coveted Morels Year-Round and Indoors

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To cut costs, Weddell seal pups keep swimming when trading in their fluff

To cut costs, Weddell seal pups keep swimming when trading in their fluff Youngsters can take to the water as early as 2 days old More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304985&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Hundreds of new mammal species waiting to be found, study says

Hundreds of new mammal species waiting to be found, study says Research suggests where these species may be 'hidden' More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304986&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Get Ready For the New, Improved Second

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Tripping Through the Universes

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Worried Sick: A Journey Into the Anxious Teenage Mind

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Ursula Bellugi, Pioneer in the World of Sign Language, Dies at 91

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Dozens of Bald Eagles Have Died From Bird Flu

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Watch the Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak in Night Skies

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Peter Swales, Who Startled Freud Scholarship, Dies at 73

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Collective motion in crowds is largely determined by individual fields of vision

Collective motion in crowds is largely determined by individual fields of vision Researchers create model of human 'flocking' behavior More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304956&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Did Earth form inside a solar nebula? New research says likely yes

Did Earth form inside a solar nebula? New research says likely yes Clue from vast stores of helium from the Big Bang lingering in the core More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304957&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Migrants from south carrying maize were early Maya ancestors

Migrants from south carrying maize were early Maya ancestors Previously unknown migratory movement brought knowledge of maize agriculture More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304949&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Research discovery a pearl of hope for imperiled oyster reefs

Research discovery a pearl of hope for imperiled oyster reefs Restored oyster reefs can match natural oyster populations More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304950&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Data researchers use health informatics and artificial intelligence in Type 1 diabetes study

Data researchers use health informatics and artificial intelligence in Type 1 diabetes study Determinants of health outcomes analyzed More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304941&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Researchers engineer a new way to model lymph system conditions

Researchers engineer a new way to model lymph system conditions Organ-on-a-chip model could result in new treatment options More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304942&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures

Fast-melting alpine permafrost may contribute to rising global temperatures Permafrost at high elevations is more vulnerable than Arctic permafrost More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304939&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Chemists synthesize novel neuroactive compound found in rainforest

Chemists synthesize novel neuroactive compound found in rainforest Breakthrough could result in new psychiatric and neurological pharmaceuticals More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304940&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

NASA Will Move Its Moon Rocket Off Launchpad for Repairs

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Is Covid More Dangerous Than Driving? How Scientists Are Parsing Covid Risks.

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We Have a Creativity Problem

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Sidney Altman, Who Stumbled on a Breakthrough in Genetics, Dies at 82

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Military Memo Deepens Mystery of Possible Interstellar Visitor to Earth

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Hubble Telescope Zooms In on the Biggest Comet Ever Spotted

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‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer

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A perennial grass could mitigate climate change in the Midwest

A perennial grass could mitigate climate change in the Midwest Researchers lead effort to find natural option to protect crops More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304906&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Birds That Build Nests With Domes May Be Doomed

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When a Small Bat Slaps a Big Bat, Who Is the Bully?

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Tiny robot cheetah breaks speed record

Tiny robot cheetah breaks speed record Robotic mini-cheetah trained to adapt by simulated experience More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304889&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Magnetic reconnection breakthrough could help predict space weather

Magnetic reconnection breakthrough could help predict space weather Experiment examines the physics of plasma eruptions and solar flares More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304890&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War

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COVID-19 variants can't hide from Variabel

COVID-19 variants can't hide from Variabel Computer scientists develop program to find 'low-frequency' variants in sequence data More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304877&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov

Study finds mutated protein structure at the root of blood cancers

Study finds mutated protein structure at the root of blood cancers Structural findings could result in more effective, less toxic treatments More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304878&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1 This is a Research News item. Read more at nsf.gov