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April 2, 2020
Mar. 31, 2020 — A new brain-imaging study has studied the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisation to show that creativity is, in fact, driven primarily by the right hemisphere in musicians who are … read more
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Mar. 27, 2020 — Because of poor dates for land fossils laid down before and after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, paleontologists assumed that the terrestrial extinctions from Gondwana occurred at the same time as the better-documented marine … read more
Health News
April 2, 2020
Mar. 17, 2020 — An analysis of public genome sequence data from SARS-CoV-2 and related viruses found no evidence that the virus was made in a laboratory or otherwise … read more
Latest Health Headlines
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Spina Bifida Surgery Before Birth Restores Brain Structure
Apr. 1, 2020 — Surgery performed on a fetus in the womb to repair defects from spina bifida triggers the body’s ability to restore normal brain structure, new research has … read more
Physical/Tech News
April 2, 2020
Mar. 11, 2020 — Using data from the Dark Energy Survey, researchers have found and cataloged more than 300 minor planets beyond Neptune, including more than 100 new discoveries. This updated catalog of … read more
Latest Physical/Tech Headlines
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Models Explain Changes in Cooking Meat
Apr. 1, 2020 — Mathematicians show that by modelling meat as a fluid-saturated matrix of elastic proteins, which are deformed as the fluid moves, cooking behaviors can be simulated more … read more
Environment News
April 2, 2020
Mar. 19, 2020 — A parasite known only to be hosted in North America by the Virginia opossum is infecting sea otters along the West Coast. A new study elucidates the … read more
Latest Environment Headlines
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Regular Climbing Behavior in a Human Ancestor
Mar. 30, 2020 — A new study has found evidence that human ancestors as recent as two million years ago may have regularly climbed … read more
Society/Education News
April 2, 2020
Jan. 22, 2020 — A new study uses machine learning to project migration patterns resulting from sea-level rise. Researchers found the impact of rising oceans will ripple across the country, beyond coastal areas at … read more
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Misinformation on Vaccines Readily Available Online
Mar. 12, 2020 — Parents researching childhood vaccinations online are likely to encounter significant levels of negative information, researchers have … read more
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