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Honesty study was based on fabricated data

Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses

Vaccine nationalism and the dynamics and control of SARS-CoV-2

Molecular farming to create plant made vaccines that are cheaper and can be tailored made to individual patients.

In Chicago, relative to white officers, Black and Hispanic officers make far fewer stops and arrests, and they use force less often, especially against Black civilians

Trading of animals susceptible to bat coronaviruses is the likely cause of the COVID-19 pandemic

Science: What we think we know about metabolism may be wrong. Daily energy expenditure through the human life course.

Beware explanations from AI in health care

‘Dragon Man’ may be an elusive Denisovan

Cockatoos in 3 suburbs Sydney, Australia figured how to raid garbage bins, a skill that gradually spread to populations in 41 more suburbs and showed various raiding style "subcultures" among segments of the population.

Cauliflowers form fractals because they are failed flowers

Targeting aging cells diminishes cytokine storm and improves immunity, reducing COVID-19 mortality by 50% in old mice

The global threat from plastic pollution

The epsilon variant of SARS-CoV-2, first detected California, carries three spike protein mutations that confer resistance to neutralizing antibodies generated by mRNA vaccines or by SARS-CoV-2 infection…

Convalescent plasma from 22 people infected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic contains 4 antibodies that are extremely potent against 23 variants of SARS‑CoV‑2…

Clear evidence found of the behavioral use of echolocation under fully dark conditions in soft-furred tree mice (genus Typhlomys)

Making the hard problem of consciousness easier

The problem with ‘follow your dream’

Top Researchers Are Calling For a Real Investigation Into the Origin of Covid-19

Face masks effectively limit the probability of SARS-CoV-2 transmission

Modern theories of human evolution foreshadowed by Darwin’s Descent of Man

New evolutionary data suggests that the ancestor of all bacteria was a rod-shaped organism with two membranes, able to swim, with a replication machinery similar to extant bacteria, and able to fend off genetic parasites like viruses using CRISPR

Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target

Side effect worry grows for AstraZeneca vaccine

Lightning may be an important source of air-cleaning chemicals

Children whose parents had been exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident in 1986 had no excess germline mutations, a new whole-genome sequencing study in Science shows.

Scar-free wound healing demonstrated in mice, restoring skin with normal hair follicles and glands, extracellular matrix, and mechanical strength

Researchers in the Netherlands realize the first entanglement-based quantum network in the world, connecting three quantum processors.

Intense, widespread bushfires in Australia injected huge amounts of smoke into the stratosphere in 2020

Study suggests that over 2/3rds of SARS-CoV-2-like zoonotic events would not ignite a pandemic, indicating that spillover of these viruses may be frequent, even if pandemics are rare

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