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https://t.co/EwxQfOm7V0 Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19 #sciencenews

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https://t.co/DVannC1N8P Scientists find evidence of humans making clothes up to 120,000 years ago #sciencenews

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https://t.co/VFAb2Nexgl According to a new paper, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany is now capable of containing heat that reaches temperatures twice as high as those found in the core of the Sun. This means physicists have been able to reduce heat loss - a major step …

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https://t.co/tmKSDeb7Cm A fundamentally new way to freeze foods, based on a strategy for transporting organs for transplant patients, could cut carbon emissions equal to 1 million cars. #sciencenews

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https://t.co/jPHF94cTJc Study: When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher. These findings support the politics hypothesis that the social determinants of health are, at least in part, constructed by the power vested in governments. #sciencenews

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https://t.co/AOIcdcNhIA Our immune system cannot recognize foreign molecules that are overly dissimilar to our own ones because T cells use our own peptides as a test set during their development. The study questions a widespread opinion in immunology: "the more dissimilar, the…

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https://t.co/HFg4hD8ZEy Scientists discover that the inner core of the Earth is growing unevenly #sciencenews

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https://t.co/9P6kq7tfSS Based on the potential of algae to remove a large number of chemical pollutants and various bacteria from water, scientists have developed a new eco-friendly, sustainable, and cost-effective solution for urban wastewater treatment, and tested the utility…

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https://t.co/2I1wCcdxQn New engineered anti-sperm antibodies show strong potency and stability and can trap mobile sperm with 99.9% efficacy in a sheep model, suggesting the antibodies could provide an effective, nonhormonal female contraception method. #sciencenews

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https://t.co/o0cEVvSXQX The pressure to avoid negative emotions might help explain why some approaches to happiness backfire #sciencenews

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https://t.co/aLtd7WDiTt Smoke from Australia's Black Summer bushfires of 2019/2020, which burnt through 18 million hectares of land, produced a phytoplankton bloom larger than the entire country of Australia located in the Southern Ocean #sciencenews

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https://t.co/uXqeMkrsA1 Children who survived the Utøya mass shooting in Norway ended up having worse educational outcomes and more mental health diagnoses than comparable children who were not on Utøya. Parents and siblings of survivors also experienced substantial increases i…

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https://t.co/whQqUUp96Z NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Ancient Volcanic Eruptions on Mars: Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of "super eruptions," the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year…

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https://t.co/msBEJQMI2Z Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth. They just got $15 million to make it happen #sciencenews

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https://t.co/OJNKaHpUXV Earth's magnetic north pole has been shifting south at speeds up to 30 miles per year recently. That's prompting some scientists to suggest we're on the brink of a geomagnetic reversal, where Earth's magnetic north and south poles swap places. Such a rev…

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https://t.co/mmuk7WbhuX A family of proteins best known for their role in diminishing HIV infectivity may have the goods to outwit other emerging and re-emerging viruses such as Zika & Ebola. The key to their power: enhancing signals sent within immune cells to unleash a potent…

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https://t.co/HXfMvv8od9 Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months. Researchers undertook the most extensive quantitative analysis to date of “infant corpse carrying” in primate mothers, looking a…

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https://t.co/kbXrvZqYgT Mass grave of Christian crusaders shows bloody reality of medieval war. Some of the skeletal remains show sword wounds to the back of the body, suggesting the soldiers were attacked from behind, likely running away at the time they were cut down #science…

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https://t.co/tmKSDeb7Cm A fundamentally new way to freeze foods could cut carbon emissions equal to 1 million cars #sciencenews

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https://t.co/RUTCj5X03D Scientists have uncovered children's hand prints from between 169,000 and 226,000 BC which they claim is now the earliest example found of art done on rock surfaces #sciencenews