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Use of Brain Organoids Creates Unease

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Jon Hamilton, NPR Research on conditions like autism, schizophrenia and even brain cancer increasingly relies on clusters of human cells called brain organoids. These pea-size bits of...
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New Analysis Makes Case for Earliest Human Ancestor

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Ian Sample, The Guardian In the murky first chapters of the human story is an unknown ancestor that made the profound transition from walking on all fours to standing up tall, an act that...
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The Hidden Aesthetics of Early Astrophotography

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Danny Robb, JSTOR Daily In the 1880s, dry plate photographs of the Pleiades star cluster revealed a previously undiscovered nebula. It was an important moment for astronomers, who were...
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Giving Up Alcohol Could Radically Slow Aging

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Hatty Willmoth, Science Focus January feels like the perfect month to give up alcohol - and not only because 'Dry January' has become...
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How Much Does a Single Cell Weigh?

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Tibi Puiu, ZME Science How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast cells tip the scales at about 100...
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Key Bottleneck for Tokamak Fusion Has Been Overcome

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Micah Hanks, The Debrief In a potential new milestone for
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Should Trump Be Taking That Much Aspirin?

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Nina Agrawal, New York Times President Trump takes a high daily dose of aspirin, and has done so for over two decades, rejecting medical guidelines and advice from his doctors to switch to a...
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