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• COVID-19 and Beyond: Year in Pharma 2021

  27-12-2021 23:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Not surprisingly, COVID-19 vaccines and antiviral treatments dominated headlines in 2021. But in addition to these breakthroughs, pharmaceutical and biotech companies continued to work on...
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• Dead Zone Atlas: MIT Scientists Build 3D Maps of Ocean’s Oxygen-Starved Waters

  27-12-2021 22:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The 3D maps may help researchers track and predict the ocean’s response to climate change. Life is teeming nearly everywhere in the oceans, except in...
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• Zuckerberg buys more Hawaii land, including deadly dam site

  27-12-2021 21:32
  Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has purchased more land in Hawaii, including most of a reservoir that unleashed a deadly flood 15 years ago
  
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• How Ancient Human and Animal DNA Is Preserved in Archaeological Sediments for Thousands of Years

  27-12-2021 21:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Ancient human and animal DNA can remain stably localized in sediments, preserved in microscopic fragments of bone and feces. Sediments in which archaeological finds are...
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• Challenging “Rule Breakers” – Children Will Confront Their Peers, but How They Do So Varies Across Cultures

  27-12-2021 21:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Led by the University of Plymouth, UK, and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, the study analyzed the behavior of 376 children aged five to eight from...
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• DentalSlim Diet Control: Researchers Develop World-First Weight Loss Device

  27-12-2021 20:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  University of Otago and UK researchers have developed a world-first weight-loss device to help fight the global obesity epidemic. DentalSlim Diet Control is an intra-oral...
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• Thomas Lovejoy, biologist who championed biodiversity, dies

  27-12-2021 19:19
  A leading conservation biologist who is credited with popularizing the term “biological diversity” has died
  
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• Why Emotional Intelligence Takes a Dive Among the Affluent

  27-12-2021 19:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  When economic inequality rises, concern for others dips.
  
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• Edward O. Wilson, biologist known as 'ant man,' dead at 92

  27-12-2021 18:26
  
  E.O. Wilson advanced the theory that human behavior has a genetic basis.
  
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• “Battle of the Sexes”’ Begins in Womb – Father’s and Mother’s Genes Tussle Over Nutrition

  27-12-2021 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Cambridge scientists have identified a key signal that the fetus uses to control its supply of nutrients from the placenta, revealing a tug-of-war between genes...
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• Chinese citizens slam Musk online after space station near-misses

  27-12-2021 16:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Chinese citizens lashed out online against billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk’s space ambitions on Monday.
  
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• Stunning Close-Up Reveals Secrets of Milky Way’s Neighbor in “Unprecedented” Clarity

  27-12-2021 15:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A stunning image captured by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, shows one of the Milky Way’s closest...
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• Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who argued for a new vision of human nature, dead at 92

  27-12-2021 15:03
  Edward O. Wilson, the pioneering Harvard biologist who argued for a new vision of human nature, dead at 92
  
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• How Toxic Aggregates Form and Kill Brain Cells in Prion Diseases

  27-12-2021 14:27 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scripps Research Discovery Illuminates How Brain Cells Die in Prion Diseases Researchers show how toxic aggregates are formed inside brain cells, and how to block...
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• For This Goose Couple, Love Knows No Boundaries

  27-12-2021 14:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Geese are famously loyal and mate for life. Could a life-threatening injury put that partnership at risk?
  
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• Otherworldly Earth: This NASA Photo Isn’t Really Mars, It’s the Libyan Desert

  27-12-2021 13:20 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Libyan Desert is often cited as a Mars analogue. The vast Libyan Desert stretches toward the Mediterranean Sea, which itself fades into the horizon...
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• Integrated Photonics Meets Electron Microscopy in Unconventional Collaboration

  27-12-2021 12:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of light, and has revolutionized materials science and...
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• 2021 was a huge year for space exploration. 2022 could be even bigger. - The Washington Post

  27-12-2021 12:02 via news.google.com
  2021 was a huge year for space exploration. 2022 could be even bigger.  The Washington PostThe Year 2021: Space exploration launches into new heights  ABC NewsWhy 2022 could be an even bigger year for space exploration  The Week MagazineSpace race: The cosmic missions launching in 2022  The IndependentThese were 2021’s most exciting stories in an extraordinary year for space exploration  EuronewsView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Astronomers Spy Quartet of enormous Cavities From Giant Black Holes

  27-12-2021 11:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Four cavities in the hot gas of a single galaxy cluster have been found. Astronomers found this quartet of X-ray cavities in the cluster located...
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• China will tighten rules on overseas IPOs, but won't ban them entirely

  27-12-2021 09:36 via cnn.com
  
  China is planning to tighten restrictions for Chinese companies that want to list overseas, but the government won't ban them from trading abroad altogether.
  
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• Watch the Webb Space Telescope Liftoff on Ariane 5 Rocket [Video]

  27-12-2021 08:29 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The James Webb Space Telescope lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 13:20 CET on December 25 on...
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• NASA Webb Space Telescope Antenna Released and Tested

  27-12-2021 07:56 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Shortly after 10 am EST on December 26, the Webb team began the process of releasing the gimbaled antenna assembly, or GAA, which includes Webb’s...
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• Nutrient’s Role Confirmed in Childhood Blood Cancer – Dietary Limits May Help

  27-12-2021 07:28 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A molecular building block of many animal proteins, the amino acid valine, plays a key role in cancerous growth seen in T cell acute lymphoblastic...
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• Lonely Spiral Captured by Hubble Used To Construct “Cosmic Distance Ladder”

  27-12-2021 06:25 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The lonely spiral galaxy UGC 9391 is shown in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. This galaxy resides 130...
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• How NASA’s Psyche Mission Will Explore an Unknown World We Can Barely Pinpoint From Earth

  27-12-2021 05:05 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid belt in 2026, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we can barely pinpoint from Earth...
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• T Cells: No Time To Die – At the Forefront in the Fight Against Viruses, Bacteria, and Malignant Cells

  27-12-2021 03:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  They are at the forefront in the fight against viruses, bacteria, and malignant cells: the T cells of our immune system. But the older we...
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• Using Defects To Turn Inert Materials Into Useful, Active Ones

  27-12-2021 02:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class...
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