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Beth Linker Is Turning Good Posture on Its Head

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Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too

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Alicia Cox

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6 Great Space Images From July

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Mauricio Diazgranados Is a Botanist in a Hurry

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A Theory of Childbirth’s Evolution May Not Be What You’re Expecting

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Worms Revived After 46,000 Years Frozen in Siberian Permafrost

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When Connecting With Birds Connects People

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Can you understand bird? Test your recognition of calls and songs

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When connecting with birds connects people

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Titanium Clouds Engulf This Ultrahot Neptune-like Planet

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Geoscientists probe geochemistry, microbial diversity of Peruvian hot springs

Geoscientists probe geochemistry, microbial diversity of Peruvian hot springs South America's Andes Mountains, the world's longest mountain range and home to some of the planet's highest peaks, feature hundreds of hot springs. Driven by plate tectonics and fueled by hot rock and fluids, their thermal discharges vary widely in… Read more at nsf.gov

NASA Seeks a Nuclear-Powered Rocket to Get to Mars in Half the Time

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A Looming Retraction Casts a Shadow Over a Field of Physics

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When Ancient Eruptions Pumped Diamonds to Earth’s Surface

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NSF, EDA announce official coordination on regional innovation programs

NSF, EDA announce official coordination on regional innovation programs The U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) signed a memorandum of understanding to officially enable cross-agency coordination on regional innovation programs. "Innovation and collaboration go hand in… Read more at nsf.gov
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A 23-Month Pregnancy? Scientists See Hints in Bowhead Whales.

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Masters of acclimation: Octopuses adjust to cold by editing their RNA

Masters of acclimation: Octopuses adjust to cold by editing their RNA Each cell comes with a finite set of instructions encoded in its DNA. Life, however, is unpredictable, and when circumstances change, animals need flexibility to acclimate. Now, U.S. National Science Foundation-supported research led by Joshua… Read more at nsf.gov

Aug. 23 or 24: India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission could attempt to land on the moon.

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Avi Loeb’s Deep Dive for Alien Life Is Making Other Scientists Gasp

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan welcomed Chief Scientist of Israel's Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology Avi Domb. Discussions centered on shared priorities and strengthening and scaling the innovation capacity of both… Read more at nsf.gov

Can You Understand Bird? Test Your Recognition of Calls and Songs

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How Sketching Birds Changes the Way You See Them

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From an Ancient Soil Sample, Clues to an Ice Sheet’s Future

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Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds

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Low-cost, waterproof sensors may create new possibilities for monitoring health

Low-cost, waterproof sensors may create new possibilities for monitoring health A Penn State-led team of researchers has literally put pencil to paper to create an accessible, affordable, waterproof and wearable sensor to monitor multiple vital signs. The team published the details of the pencil-on-paper sensor in Chemical… Read more at nsf.gov

What to Know About the Stanford President’s Resignation

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A Cow, a Camel and a Finch Exploded in Space. What Is Going On?

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This week with NSF Director Panchanathan

This week with NSF Director Panchanathan This week, network operators and vendors, academia, federal agencies and public interest representatives gathered at the Federal Communications Commission for a workshop co-hosted by NSF and the FCC to discuss the opportunities and challenges of… Read more at nsf.gov

This Fossil Is a Freeze-Frame of a Mammal Fighting a Dinosaur

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Advanced electrode to help remediate stubborn new 'forever chemicals'

Advanced electrode to help remediate stubborn new 'forever chemicals' As new environmental regulations are rolling out to mitigate the industry-retired long-chain chemicals known as PFAS in drinking water, there are concerns regarding a new breed of these "forever chemicals" called short-chain PFAS. PFAS is an… Read more at nsf.gov

What Benjamin Franklin Learned While Fighting Counterfeiters

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A Fossil Dream as Big as Texas

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Fossils Where They Don’t Belong? Maybe We Just Didn’t Look Hard Enough.

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Everett Mendelsohn, Who Linked Science and Society, Dies at 91

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NSF announces 54 teams picked for the VITAL Prize Challenge Semi-Final Round

NSF announces 54 teams picked for the VITAL Prize Challenge Semi-Final Round The U.S. National Science Foundation announced that 54 teams have been selected to advance to the Semi-Final Round of the Visionary Interdisciplinary Teams Advancing Learning (VITAL) Prize Challenge. The $6 million, multiphase challenge supports… Read more at nsf.gov

A Rocket Alternative to SpaceX Inches Toward Its First Launch

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Evelyn M. Witkin, Who Discovered How DNA Repairs Itself, Dies at 102

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‘They’re Outsmarting Us’: Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes

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Break Out the S’mores: This Star Is Cooler Than a Campfire

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Robot caterpillar demonstrates new approach to locomotion for soft robotics

Robot caterpillar demonstrates new approach to locomotion for soft robotics Researchers at North Carolina State University have shown that a caterpillar-like soft robot can move forward, backward and dip under narrow spaces. The caterpillar-bot's movement is driven by a novel pattern of silver nanowires that use heat to… Read more at nsf.gov

Lightning Can Strike, but It Can’t Hide From a New Satellite

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A Year of Cosmic Wonder With the James Webb Space Telescope

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Saber-Tooth Cats and Dire Wolves Carried a Terrible Disease in Their Bones

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NSF announces Research on Research Security Program

NSF announces Research on Research Security Program Since World War II, the U.S. has been a world leader in science and technology research and innovation. The key to success is its research model founded on principles and values which foster openness and collaboration, accruing benefits to society as… Read more at nsf.gov

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter.

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Overfishing linked to rapid evolution of codfish

Overfishing linked to rapid evolution of codfish The overfishing of codfish spanning the second half of the 20th century indicates that human action can force evolutionary changes more quickly than widely believed, according to a Rutgers University-led study. Published in Philosophical Transactions… Read more at nsf.gov

Scientists Have Found a Hot Spot on the Moons Far Side

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A Tiny Fish That Fuels an Atlantic Ecosystem Now Fuels Industry Debates

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New Map Shows Titan Submersible Debriss Proximity to Titanic Wreck

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Silence Is a Sound You Hear Study Suggests

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This Alien Is Missing Something Found in Every Other Male Beetle

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NSF Director Panchanathan joins Rep. Cartwright in Pennsylvania for Engine kickoff

NSF Director Panchanathan joins Rep. Cartwright in Pennsylvania for Engine kickoff On July 7, U.S. National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan joined Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Subcommittee Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, for the… Read more at nsf.gov

Wherever I Am I Am Always Birding

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A protein mines and sorts rare earths paving way for green tech

A protein mines and sorts rare earths, paving way for green tech Rare-earth elements, such as neodymium and dysprosium, are critical components in almost all modern technologies from smartphones to hard drives, but they are notoriously hard to extract from the Earth's crust and to separate from one another. Penn… Read more at nsf.gov

In years after El Niño global economy loses trillions

In years after El Niño, global economy loses trillions In the years it strikes, the band of warm ocean water spanning from South America to Asia known as El Niño triggers far-reaching changes in weather that result in devastating floods, crop-killing droughts, plummeting fish populations and an uptick in… Read more at nsf.gov

Edward Fredkin Who Saw the Universe as One Big Computer Dies at 88

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Missed Monday Nights Supermoon? Weve Got You Covered.

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Dr. Susan Love Surgeon and Breast Health Advocate Dies at 75

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A.I. Is Coming for Mathematics Too

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When Is a Cannibal Not a Cannibal?

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2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off

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