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‘The Social Reckoning’ Doesn’t Reckon With Much Of Anything
'The Social Reckoning,' Aaron Sorkin’s follow-up to 'The Social Network,' can’t help but pale in comparison.
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Remember the “caregiving kills” study? Reality is nuanced
A decades-old claim linking caregiving stress to risk of death has stuck around, hampering research into its benefits. But caregivers still need support.
Scientists changed how zoo lions eat. Their wild side came out
Giving zoo lions whole carcasses on a feast-and-fast schedule appears to bring out more natural behavior. The lions spent nearly three times longer feeding, engaged in more tearing and manipulating of food, and rested more heavily after meals. Their activity then increased gradually during the fasting period, closely resembling the rhythm seen in wild lions.
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The biggest factor controlling where your body stores fat (and what you can do about it)
Whether it’s bums and tums or your arms and hips, flab can gather in all sorts of places. Here’s what controls body fat distribution and how to change it.
Physicists just found the ‘ghost’ of superconductivity
Physicists have found striking evidence for an unusual form of superconducting behavior in uranium ditelluride, where electron pairs organize into rippling patterns called pair density waves. Even more surprisingly, these patterns appear to survive after ordinary superconductivity disappears, suggesting that the electron pairs responsible for superconductivity may begin forming before the material actually becomes superconducting.
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15 Years Later, An Underrated Blockbuster Remains A Sci-Fi Masterpiece
You can often see a director’s future in their early work. Early Wes Anderson immediately established his style, Peter Jackson’s fantasy interludes in Heavenly Creatures could be pulled directly from Lord of the Rings, and you can even see echoes of Superman in James Gunn’s screenplay for Scooby-Doo. But some movies are more influential than others, and in 2011 we got a sci-fi dystopian thriller that predicted some of the greatest stars of the age — and the story we would see again and again.
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Like a Mythical Phoenix, This Planet May Have Risen From the Ashes of a Dead Star
The “second-generation” world, predicted from telescope data, could be the first known planet of its kind, and it may shed light on the future of our own solar system
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Yorkshire Water admits sewage scheme falls short
The firm says the scheme to reduce storm overflow discharges has not performed as expected.
Drug target could block brain inflammation linked to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
Blocking a receptor called P2X7 significantly reduced inflammation in human brain tissue, revealing a potential new treatment strategy for neurological and psychiatric disorders. The discovery could help researchers repurpose existing drugs for conditions including traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, depression, and schizophrenia.
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The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also slow the aging process. Drugmakers Eli Lilly
Webb finds a surprising atmosphere on a scorching lava world
The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky lava world HD 3167 b has an atmosphere, despite circling its star every 24 hours under extreme heat. The surprising discovery could help scientists understand how rocky planets retain atmospheres and what the young, molten Earth may once have looked like.
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A Ship Carrying Stacks of Ancient Dishware Sank Off the Coast of Turkey 2,100 Years Ago. Its Ceramic Cargo Is Still Remarkably Intact
Researchers believe that the vessel's plates and bowls were made in the ancient city of Rhosus, once praised by Roman statesman Cicero for its "fine pottery"
Earth’s center is moving, and NASA just measured it
Earth’s center of mass is constantly on the move, shifting by a few millimeters as enormous amounts of water, ice, and even air migrate around the planet with the seasons. NASA scientists have developed a more precise way to track these tiny swings using laser-ranging satellites, GPS data, and measurements of how water and ice deform Earth’s crust.
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Russia Says It Found No ‘Emergency’ in Plague Lab
New information around the death of a lab worker, including a statement that she had been vaccinated against the plague, came as U.S. officials demanded more data.
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If you’re looking, here’s a “good deal” for NASA and the European Space Agency
It's no surprise that NASA's new tack toward foreign partnerships—good deals only, please—is challenging preconceived notions of international cooperation in space.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Is Awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai
The Nobel Committee recognized them for “the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai
The prize was given to the French and Japanese scientists for solving the mystery of life's asymmetry.
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A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat
Atoco’s new machines use specialized materials that can harvest water from some of the driest air on Earth without using electricity.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their groundbreaking discoveries related to the origin of chirality and life's building blocks.
Scientists reprogram immune cells inside the body to fight cancer
Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a way to create cancer-fighting CAR-T cells directly inside the body, potentially avoiding the slow and extremely expensive process of removing, engineering, and reinfusing a patient’s immune cells. Using a two-particle delivery system, the researchers sent CRISPR gene-editing tools and new cancer-targeting DNA specifically into T cells, where the DNA was inserted at a precise location in the genome.
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