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ift.tt/Y0uJD8n Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19 #sciencenews

ift.tt/3zbnUgA Scientists find evidence of humans making clothes up to 120,000 years ago #sciencenews

ift.tt/3gNe8uW According to a new paper, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany is now capable of containing heat that reaches temperatures twice as high as those found in the core of the Sun. This means physicists have been able to reduce heat loss - a major step …

ift.tt/3z7tH6Q A fundamentally new way to freeze foods, based on a strategy for transporting organs for transplant patients, could cut carbon emissions equal to 1 million cars. #sciencenews

ift.tt/2VMCmy1 Study: When Republicans control state legislatures, infant mortality is higher. These findings support the politics hypothesis that the social determinants of health are, at least in part, constructed by the power vested in governments. #sciencenews

ift.tt/3l89n0a Our immune system cannot recognize foreign molecules that are overly dissimilar to our own ones because T cells use our own peptides as a test set during their development. The study questions a widespread opinion in immunology: "the more dissimilar, the…

ift.tt/3lwYkh5 Scientists discover that the inner core of the Earth is growing unevenly #sciencenews

ift.tt/3kd1mYp Based on the potential of algae to remove a large number of chemical pollutants and various bacteria from water, scientists have developed a new eco-friendly, sustainable, and cost-effective solution for urban wastewater treatment, and tested the utility…

ift.tt/3zdRqlR New engineered anti-sperm antibodies show strong potency and stability and can trap mobile sperm with 99.9% efficacy in a sheep model, suggesting the antibodies could provide an effective, nonhormonal female contraception method. #sciencenews

ift.tt/3EoyvZx The pressure to avoid negative emotions might help explain why some approaches to happiness backfire #sciencenews

ift.tt/3lmyXys Smoke from Australia's Black Summer bushfires of 2019/2020, which burnt through 18 million hectares of land, produced a phytoplankton bloom larger than the entire country of Australia located in the Southern Ocean #sciencenews

ift.tt/397n2z4 Children who survived the Utøya mass shooting in Norway ended up having worse educational outcomes and more mental health diagnoses than comparable children who were not on Utøya. Parents and siblings of survivors also experienced substantial increases i…

ift.tt/3ny27gY NASA Confirms Thousands of Massive, Ancient Volcanic Eruptions on Mars: Scientists found evidence that a region of northern Mars called Arabia Terra experienced thousands of "super eruptions," the biggest volcanic eruptions known, over a 500-million-year…

ift.tt/3Ei3JS6 Scientists want to resurrect the woolly mammoth. They just got $15 million to make it happen #sciencenews

ift.tt/3zdG8hz Earth's magnetic north pole has been shifting south at speeds up to 30 miles per year recently. That's prompting some scientists to suggest we're on the brink of a geomagnetic reversal, where Earth's magnetic north and south poles swap places. Such a rev…

ift.tt/2YN7Wg4 A family of proteins best known for their role in diminishing HIV infectivity may have the goods to outwit other emerging and re-emerging viruses such as Zika & Ebola. The key to their power: enhancing signals sent within immune cells to unleash a potent…

ift.tt/3C8wuyu Some primate species may express grief over the death of their infant by carrying the corpse with them, sometimes for months. Researchers undertook the most extensive quantitative analysis to date of “infant corpse carrying” in primate mothers, looking a…

ift.tt/399IIug Mass grave of Christian crusaders shows bloody reality of medieval war. Some of the skeletal remains show sword wounds to the back of the body, suggesting the soldiers were attacked from behind, likely running away at the time they were cut down #science…

ift.tt/3z7tH6Q A fundamentally new way to freeze foods could cut carbon emissions equal to 1 million cars #sciencenews

ift.tt/3EhMm3t Scientists have uncovered children's hand prints from between 169,000 and 226,000 BC which they claim is now the earliest example found of art done on rock surfaces #sciencenews