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- Marine bacteria genus may hold mitochondria's closest relatives https://www.aaas.org/news/marine-bacteria-genus-may-hold-mitochondrias-closest-relatives 74 comments
- Faculty hiring dominated by graduates of elite institutions https://www.aaas.org/news/faculty-hiring-dominated-graduates-elite-institutions 64 comments
- Can Mathematics Unlock the Secrets of Terrorism? http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/0324math_terrorism.shtml 5 comments
- Babies’ Brains Are Primed for Their Native Language Before Birth. Results provide the most compelling evidence to date that language experience already shapes the functional organization of the infant brain, even before birth https://www.aaas.org/news/babies-brains-are-primed-their-native-language-birth 197 comments science
- Our Best Defense Against Climate Change, According to Climate Scientist Julie Snow https://www.aaas.org/membership/member-spotlight/our-best-defense-against-climate-change-according-climate-scientist 7 comments climate
- By combining a robotic system with a beehive, scientists successfully warmed and resurrected a honeybee colony experiencing a perilous winter condition called chill-coma. The “robotic beehive” also let researchers monitor heat patterns and map colony activity. https://www.aaas.org/news/robotic-beehive-resuscitates-honeybee-colony-fatal-winter-cold 8 comments science
- One-third of humanity is unable to see the Milky Way at night, 99% of the US and European population live under light-polluted skies https://www.aaas.org/news/one-third-people-cannot-see-milky-way 43 comments environment
- How To Do General Media Interviews https://www.aaas.org/resources/communication-toolkit/media-interviews 3 comments science
- Female Big Game Hunters May Have Been Common in the Early Americas: Scientists have discovered the 9,000-year-old remains of a young woman buried with a well-stocked big game hunting toolkit at the Wilamaya Patjxa site in Peru, according to a new study https://www.aaas.org/news/female-big-game-hunters-may-have-been-common-early-americas 4 comments science
- Ghetto doctors and Jewish council members successfully curtailed a typhus epidemic in occupied Poland's Warsaw Ghetto — the largest Nazi ghetto — through measures that included social distancing, self-isolation, public lectures, and an underground university to train medical students. https://www.aaas.org/news/community-efforts-curbed-typhus-epidemic-warsaw-ghetto 245 comments science
- Study Hints at Potential Treatment for Scarring Around Silicone Implants https://www.aaas.org/news/study-hints-potential-treatment-scarring-around-silicone-implants 4 comments science
- Statistical tools outmatch humans at predicting whether someone convicted of a crime will reoffend under conditions designed to mimic real life criminal justice settings, according to a new study https://www.aaas.org/news/algorithms-outperform-humans-predicting-if-defendants-will-reoffend 84 comments science
- Researchers have created a hearing device that can single out a speaker in a crowd. It does so by matching a listener's brainwaves with the "soundprint" of a speaker's voice https://www.aaas.org/news/coached-brainwaves-hearing-device-singles-out-speaker-crowd 5 comments science
- The more people watch, listen or scroll through hours of news coverage of events such as terrorist attacks, the more likely they are to develop stress symptoms that in turn increase their media consumption during the next mass violence event, according to a nationwide study. https://www.aaas.org/news/media-exposure-mass-violence-leads-cycle-distress 7 comments science
- Researchers found that in classes taught by instructors who endorsed more of a fixed mindset of intelligence, the achievement gap between racial and ethnic minority students compared to white and Asian students was nearly twice as large. https://www.aaas.org/news/when-professors-see-intelligence-innate-grades-go-down 38 comments science
- Some naturally-occurring soil bacteria can produce compounds that repel mosquitoes as effectively as commercial repellents like DEET and picaridin. The findings of this study suggest that bacteria can be harnessed and exploited as a potential source of deterrents for mosquitoes. https://www.aaas.org/news/soil-bacteria-extract-repels-mosquitoes-well-commercial-sprays 5 comments science
- Transitioning from low-income to high-income occupations is difficult because the skills associated with each type of job are so different. This polarization of skills has notable consequences for wages and provides important insights into the controversial hollowing the middle class https://www.aaas.org/news/distinct-workplace-skills-could-explain-disappearance-us-middle-class 3 comments science
- Residents of an Amish community in northeastern Indiana who had a nonfunctional copy of the gene SERPINE1 lived an average of 10 years longer than other individuals in the largely secluded community: A null mutation in SERPINE1 protects against biological aging in humans https://www.aaas.org/news/study-amish-suggests-mutation-linked-longer-life-span 3 comments science
- Science Groups Urge House to Reject Tax Changes That Hit Graduate Students https://www.aaas.org/news/science-groups-urge-house-reject-tax-changes-hit-graduate-students 4 comments politics
- Scientiest glued fake caterpillars to plants and discovered that the likelihood that a caterpillar will fall prey to another animal increases substantially the closer the caterpillar is to the equator, as well as at lower elevations https://www.aaas.org/news/want-avoid-predators-head-poles 6 comments science
- Coordinated Action Needed to Face Sea-Level Rise, Experts Say https://www.aaas.org/news/coordinated-action-needed-face-sea-level-rise-experts-say 7 comments politics
- President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says http://www.aaas.org/news/presidents-budget-plan-would-cripple-science-and-technology-aaas-says 9 comments politics
- Unraveling the Grammar of Sign Language (American Association for the Advancement of Science) https://www.aaas.org/blog/member-spotlight/unraveling-grammar-sign-language 5 comments linguistics
- Scientists Build Giant Petri Dish to Film Bacteria Resistance http://www.aaas.org/news/scientists-build-giant-petri-dish-film-bacteria-resistance 4 comments science
- Dogs have the ability to distinguish words and the intonation of human speech through brain regions similar to those that humans use, a study in the 2 September issue of Science reports. http://www.aaas.org/news/dogs-understand-human-words-and-intonation 9 comments science
- Science AMA Series: We’re Drs. Jessica Hellmann and Tessa Hill—two scientists who talk to non-scientists about climate change. Ask us anything! http://www.aaas.org/pes/leshner-leadership-institute 991 comments science
- Science AMA Series: I'm Dr. Wilson Compton, I study the epidemiology of drug abuse and addiction, the role that genes play in addiction, and how personalized medicine might one day be used to wean people from opioids and other substances, Ask me anything! http://www.aaas.org 106 comments science
- Researchers have come up with a new 3D Printing technique that dwarfs conventional printing speeds, reducing time from hours to minutes. http://www.aaas.org/news/science-3d-objects-printed-swiftly-out-liquid 6 comments science
- The population of Earth is unlikely to stabilize this century, according to a new analysis: The findings are contrary to past studies, which have predicted that the world population will peak around 2050 and then level off or decline http://www.aaas.org/news/science-global-population-wont-stabilize-century 26 comments science
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science, speaks out against a ballot measure in California that would require labeling of genetically modified foods http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/1025gm_statement.shtml 63 comments science
- "Breeding Tomatoes to Look Pretty Sacrifices Their Sweetness" http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2012/0628sp_tomato.shtml 101 comments science
- Think NASA is the only agency facing cuts? All federal R&D funding is about to take a serious hit. http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/fy2013/housebudgetbrief.shtml 15 comments politics
- U.S. Students and Science: AAAS Testing Gives New Insight on What They Know and Their Misconceptions... How can we, as scientists, help? http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/0407p2061_assessment.shtml?elq=37319716106d4a15af144863a50990fe 24 comments askscience
- The Breakthroughs of 2010 and Insights of the Decade http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2010/1216sp_boy.shtml?sa_campaign=internal_ads/aaas/aaas_news/2010-12-16/jump_page 5 comments science
- Award-winning reporter for the journal Science struck and killed by military vehicle in Washington, D.C. http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2010/0413in_memoriam.shtml 18 comments science
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- Global warming: Earth carbon dioxide levels highest in 3 million years https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/04/global-warming-earths-carbon-dioxide-levels-highest-3-million-years/3367027002/ 291 comments
- Science and Scientific Expertise Are More Important Than Ever - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/science-and-scientific-expertise-are-more-important-than-ever/ 214 comments
- A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/science/a-mathematical-challenge-to-obesity.html?_r=1 108 comments
- Award-Winning Nautilus Magazine Enters Troubled Waters https://undark.org/2017/04/29/award-winning-nautilus-enters-rough-waters/ 96 comments
- Climate Risks as Conclusive as Link between Smoking and Lung Cancer - Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-risks-as-conclusive-as-link-between-smoking-and-lung-cancer/ 64 comments
- Meet the largest science project in US government history—the James Webb Telescope | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/meet-the-largest-science-project-in-us-government-history-the-james-webb-telescope/ 56 comments
- Scientists Propose Spraying Trillions Of Tons Of Frozen Seawater Onto Antarctica https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottsnowden/2019/07/23/scientists-propose-spraying-trillions-of-tons-of-frozen-desalinized-seawater-onto-antarctica/#395df8036e7d 48 comments
- Steve Jobs didn't invent the iPhone, says Nancy Pelosi - CNET http://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-didnt-create-the-iphone-govt-did-says-nancy-pelosi/ 45 comments
- 8 Ways Journalists Can Access Academic Research for Free - GIJN https://gijn.org/2023/08/09/8-ways-journalists-access-free-academic-research-journals/ 35 comments
- Top scientists accuse House panel of harassing climate researchers | Climate science | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/25/leading-scientists-accuse-house-panel-of-harassing-climate-researchers 32 comments
- USTPC http://usacm.acm.org/usacm/weblog/index.php?p=663 31 comments
- Governments Await Obama’s Move on Carbon to Gauge U.S. Climate Efforts - The New York Times http://nytimes.com/2014/05/27/us/politics/governments-await-obamas-move-on-carbon-to-gauge-us-climate-efforts.html?amp%3B_r=0&%3Breferrer=&%3Brref=politics&hpw= 27 comments
- Why I Won’t Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals – The Wire Science https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/why-i-wont-review-or-write-for-elsevier-and-other-commercial-scientific-journals/ 24 comments
- Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet - Findings - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28tierney.html 24 comments
- Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/science/scientists-sound-alarm-on-climate.html?ref=science%3Fsrc%3Ddayp 13 comments
- ‘Joyful madness’: ANU scientist wins global prize for ‘dancing his PhD’ about kangaroos | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/27/kangaroo-time-anu-scientist-global-science-prize-aaas-dance-your-phd-competition 10 comments
- That Climate 'Scandal' Rep. Lamar Smith Promoted Was, Indeed, Fake News | HuffPost Latest News http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/daily-mail-climate-data-inaccurate-lamar-smith_us_59bfcbc4e4b086432b08a296?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009 9 comments
- Ancient giant dolphin discovered in the Amazon https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-giant-dolphin-discovered-amazon-183520534.html 8 comments
- Great white shark is more endangered than tiger, claims scientist | Endangered species | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/19/great-white-shark-endangered-tiger 5 comments