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New York Times Science

Why "Tiger King" Is Not "Blackfish" for Big Cats

Critics say the popular Netflix series and its directors lost sight of the conservation and animal welfare problems at the heart of the story of Joe Exotic.

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New York Times Science

Why "Tiger King" Is Not "Blackfish" for Big Cats

Yahoo Science

Cities struggling to boost urban tree cover

Many cities have ambitious plans to boost tree numbers, but development hinders their aims.

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Yahoo Science

Cities struggling to boost urban tree cover

Science - The Verge

A spacecraft is about to swing by Earth to get a gravity assist on its way to Mercury

An artistic rendering of BepiColombo as it swings by Earth. | Image: ESA / ATG medialab On Friday, an interplanetary spacecraft will slingshot around Earth in the super early morning hours. The spacecraft, a joint European and Japanese creation, will use our planet's gravity to brake its speed ...

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Science - The Verge

A spacecraft is about to swing by Earth to get a gravity assist on its way to Mercury

WIRED Science

The FDA Asks Companies to Stop Selling Ranitidine

The federal agency cites concerns that the widely-used antacid may contain a possibly cancer-causing contaminant called NDMA.

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WIRED Science

The FDA Asks Companies to Stop Selling Ranitidine

Science - The Verge

A smart toilet could identify you by your "analprint" and detect diseases

Image: James Strommer A prototype smart toilet that can identify you by your "analprint" and monitor your trip to the loo has been created by researchers at Stanford University. It's equipped with cameras and sensors that collect information on your bodily waste, and it uses that data to look ...

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Science - The Verge

A smart toilet could identify you by your "analprint" and detect diseases

Science Daily

False-negative COVID-19 test results may lead to false sense of security

A new article calls attention to the risk posed by overreliance on COVID-19 testing to make clinical and public health decisions. The sensitivity of reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing and overall test performance characteristics have not been reported clearly or consistently ...

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Science Daily

False-negative COVID-19 test results may lead to false sense of security

Science Daily

Guidance on treating COVID-19 patients with signs of acute heart attack

Much remains unknown about COVID-19, but many studies already have indicated that people with cardiovascular disease are at greater risk of COVID-19. There also have been reports of ST-segment elevation (STE), a signal of obstructive coronary artery disease, in patients with COVID-19 who after invasive ...

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Science Daily

Guidance on treating COVID-19 patients with signs of acute heart attack

New York Times Science

The Invasion of Antarctica Begins With Mussels

The bivalves " likely transported from Patagonia via ship " are the first nonnative marine species to settle on the White Continent.

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New York Times Science

The Invasion of Antarctica Begins With Mussels

Science Daily

In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf

Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other stars.

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Science Daily

In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf

Science Daily

New study shows how oxygen transfer is altered in diseased lung tissue

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has developed tiny sensors that measure oxygen transport in bovine lung tissue. The study -- which establishes a new framework for observing the elusive connection between lung membranes, oxygen flow and related ...

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Science Daily

New study shows how oxygen transfer is altered in diseased lung tissue

Science Daily

Transmission of the amphibian pathogen, Bsal

Using existing data from controlled experiments and computer simulations, researchers have found that host contact rates and habitat structure affect transmission rates of Bsal among eastern newts, a common salamander species found throughout eastern North America.

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Science Daily

Transmission of the amphibian pathogen, Bsal

Science Daily

Strongest predictors of menhaden growth in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic

New research suggests that large-scale environmental factors influence the size of one of the ocean's most abundant forage species. Recently, scientists found that anthropogenic influences affected menhaden in the Atlantic more than in the Gulf, where environmental factors were the more dominant predictors ...

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Science Daily

Strongest predictors of menhaden growth in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic

WIRED Science

Can You Use an Infrared Camera to Detect a Fever?

These devices are fun to play around with, but they're also really useful?if you know the science behind them.

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WIRED Science

Can You Use an Infrared Camera to Detect a Fever?

Science - The Verge

It's time to stop debating whether a hot dog is a sandwich

Photo by Ross Miller / The Verge Few questions are as divisive as the hot dog / sandwich debate. I've certainly had it more times than I can count. But what's unique about the controversy isn't how eager people are to argue; it's how dead-set they are in their opinions from the get-go. Even ...

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Science - The Verge

It's time to stop debating whether a hot dog is a sandwich

Science - The Verge

These photos and videos of baby clouded leopards and cheetahs are a gift

Zoo Miami Lo, unto you, four cheetah cubs and two clouded leopard kittens have been born. Cat lovers on the internet can now coo over the rare infant cats, thanks to Washington, DC's National Zoo "Cheetah Cub Cam" and recently released photos from Zoo Miami. A five-year-old cheetah, Echo, gave ...

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Science - The Verge

These photos and videos of baby clouded leopards and cheetahs are a gift

Yahoo Science

Space station crew dock at ISS after virus-hit build up

A three-man crew docked successfully at the International Space Station Thursday, leaving behind a planet overwhelmed by the coronavirus pandemic. Russian space agency Roscosmos said the Soyuz MS-16 capsule "docked successfully" in a statement on its website. Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos ...

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Space station crew dock at ISS after virus-hit build up

New York Times Science

Early String Ties Us to Neanderthals

A 50,000-year-old fragment of cord hints at the cognitive abilities of our ancient hominid cousins.

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New York Times Science

Early String Ties Us to Neanderthals

Science - The Verge

COVID-19 clinicians wrestle with false negative results

Photo by Steve Pfost / Newsday RM via Getty Images As the rate of COVID-19 testing slowly creeps up in the US, public health experts have a new concern that many people with negative test results actually have the virus. "If you have had likely exposures and symptoms suggest Covid-19 infection, ...

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Science - The Verge

COVID-19 clinicians wrestle with false negative results

Singularity HUB

Coronavirus Is a Once in a Lifetime Chance to Reshape How We Travel

The transport sector has been impacted as much as any by the coronavirus. This isn't a normal period of disruption, which is usually caused by failures in supply such as road accidents or industrial action. In this case it is the lack of demand that is the problem. When the world finally emerges from ...

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Coronavirus Is a Once in a Lifetime Chance to Reshape How We Travel

WIRED Science

Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above

Images taken from space are providing details to governments and relief efforts about how humanity is handling the Covid-19 crisis.

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WIRED Science

Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above

WIRED Science

Death Cuts the Degree of Separation Between You and Covid-19

If knowing someone who has died would make the pandemic concrete for someone in the US'real and actionable"how many have to die" Here's the grim math.

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WIRED Science

Death Cuts the Degree of Separation Between You and Covid-19

Yahoo Science

'Houston, we've had a problem?: Remembering Apollo 13 at 50

Apollo 13's astronauts never gave a thought to their mission number as they blasted off for the moon 50 years ago. Jim Lovell and Fred Haise insist they're not superstitious. As mission commander Lovell sees it, he's incredibly lucky.

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'Houston, we've had a problem?: Remembering Apollo 13 at 50

New York Times Science

Poachers Kill More Rhinos as Coronavirus Halts Tourism to Africa

Threatened and endangered animals may become additional casualties of the pandemic.

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New York Times Science

Poachers Kill More Rhinos as Coronavirus Halts Tourism to Africa

WIRED Science

The US Hitches Its Final Ride to Space From Russia?for Now

Thursday's launch to the space station will mark the end of America's dependence on Russia for human spaceflight, but NASA may buy more seats on Soyuz rockets.

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WIRED Science

The US Hitches Its Final Ride to Space From Russia?for Now

Science - The Verge

America set up black communities to be harder hit by COVID-19

Illustration by Grayson Blackmon and Alex Castro / The Verge Experts hope the pandemic is "a wake up call" The COVID-19 pandemic is piling on top of a litany of health inequalities in America to kill a disproportionate number of African Americans. In Chicago alone, black residents make up more ...

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Science - The Verge

America set up black communities to be harder hit by COVID-19

National Science Foundation

NSF on coronavirus

NSF encourages you to take extra precautions to protect yourselves and your families against COVID-19. More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/coronavirus/?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item.

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National Science Foundation

NSF on coronavirus

New York Times Science

Coronavirus Turns Urban Life's Roar to Whisper on World's Seismographs

Geoscientists are getting a clearer picture of what's going on beneath our feet as lockdowns keep many of us at home.

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New York Times Science

Coronavirus Turns Urban Life's Roar to Whisper on World's Seismographs

New York Times Science

Lynx Numbers Are in Decline in the West

While the federal government weighs taking the Canada lynx off the list of threatened species, a new study points to reduced populations in Washington State, Colorado and Montana.

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New York Times Science

Lynx Numbers Are in Decline in the West

WIRED Science

iPads Are Crucial Health Care Tools in Combating Covid-19

Hospitals are deploying tablets and smartphones to protect staff, preserve protective equipment, and help patients connect with loved ones.

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WIRED Science

iPads Are Crucial Health Care Tools in Combating Covid-19

Yahoo Science

For Much Stronger Concrete, Just Add Waste

Sewage-enhanced steel slag could be an excellent aggregate, researchers say.

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Yahoo Science

For Much Stronger Concrete, Just Add Waste

Yahoo Science

Science row hits EU at height of coronavirus crisis

The European Union has been thrown into a scientific policy dispute at the height of the coronavirus crisis after the head of its top science panel resigned amid claims of red tape and institutional gridlock while other scientists at the group indicated that they were well rid of him. Professor Mauro ...

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Science row hits EU at height of coronavirus crisis

Singularity HUB

NASA's Plan to Build a Base Camp on the Moon Sounds Like Sci-Fi, But It's Real

If we're ever going to make Elon Musk's vision of colonizing Mars a reality, we first need to figure out an essential component of the plan: how to get there. After all, it's somewhere between 34 and 140 million miles away from Earth. The moon is barely spitting distance closer, relatively speaking?but ...

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Singularity HUB

NASA's Plan to Build a Base Camp on the Moon Sounds Like Sci-Fi, But It's Real

National Science Foundation

Zoom media briefing: The Event Horizon Telescope, a year after capturing the image of a black hole

Media are invited to join an April 10 Zoom media briefing with Sheperd S. Doeleman, founding director of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), and astrophysicist Michael Johnson to discuss the one-year anniversary of EHT releasing its revolutionary image of a black hole. Doeleman and Johnson will be ...

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National Science Foundation

Zoom media briefing: The Event Horizon Telescope, a year after capturing the image of a black hole

Yahoo Science

Flower power: How plants bounce back after crushing blows

Some flowers have remarkable powers of resilience after injuries including being walked on by humans.

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Yahoo Science

Flower power: How plants bounce back after crushing blows

Singularity HUB

Blood Is the Next Critical Tool In the Coronavirus Fight. Here's Why

I've been sick for the past week. The symptoms match up with coronavirus infection. But like many people in the US, because they're relatively mild I"m unable to get a test. Testing rates have finally skyrocketed recently, yet per capita we're still lagging behind, leaving many wondering"myself included"if ...

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Blood Is the Next Critical Tool In the Coronavirus Fight. Here's Why