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11h

Millennials are less well off than members of earlier generations, and mass incarceration is likely contributing to the problem, according to a new study. On average, incarceration cut one's net worth by 34% and financial assets by 76%.

28.6k points 1.43k comments

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16h

[NASA] Wildfires in the Brazilian Rainforest Creating Cross Country Smoke: Amazon rainforest fires causing smoke to drift across the whole of Brazil.

13.7k points 541 comments

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Reddit

15h

Is it possible to have a planet and a moon in close enough proximity that their atmospheres mix?

3.26k points 328 comments

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14h

Astronomers discover 3 Earth-sized exoplanets just 12 light-years from Earth, and one of the planets is likely in the star's habitable zone.

4.12k points 424 comments

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Reddit

17h

Fake news can lead people to form false memories after they see fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, suggests a new study, which indicates how voters may be influenced in upcoming political contests like the 2020 US presidential race (n=3,140).

51.7k points 2.31k comments

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Reddit

13h

Is there a significant difference between the current Amazon forest fire and previous seasons?

591 points 59 comments

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Reddit

10h

Simulation finds a 5% decrease in vaccination rates could lead to a 4,000% increase in the size of a potential measles outbreak in some Texas cities

1.74k points 91 comments

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Reddit

1d

How are drugs made to be active transdermally?

2.64k points 266 comments

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Reddit

17h

Republicans who are exposed to more news about the Trump-Russia scandal start to rate Trump’s performance lower and express more negative emotions about him.

2.22k points 333 comments

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2h

Repeated semen exposure promotes host resistance to infection, which provides a potential explanation as to why a small number of female sex workers worldwide continue to test negative for infection despite continuous high-risk sexual activity, suggests a new study in a non-human primate HIV model.

116 points 18 comments

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Reddit

8h

The space station just got a new docking port that will allow two ships to visit at once, including ships from SpaceX and other commercial companies.

71 points 8 comments

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Reddit

1h

Physicists have shown that time itself can exist in a state of superposition. The work is among the first to reveal the quantum properties of time, whereby the flow of time doesn't observe a straight arrow forward, but one where cause and effect can co-exist both in forward and backward direction.

61 points 5 comments

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Reddit

1d

The “Transylvania Effect” is an oft-repeated phenomenon dating back 2,000 years that claims a Full Moon makes people go crazy (the word lunatic is from the Latin Luna, or Moon). But decades of research show the effect doesn't exist, and is instead due to our minds' desire to find patterns in chaos.

37.1k points 1.78k comments

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Reddit

17h

Although it outnumbers regular matter by a ratio of five to one, dark matter is frustratingly elusive. Now, researchers have proposed a new hypothetical particle that might be behind dark matter – the superheavy gravitino – and outlined just how we might find them.

316 points 84 comments

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Reddit

7h

Quantum physicists have teleported ‘qutrits’ for the first time

140 points 15 comments

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Reddit

6h

Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth

38 points 4 comments

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Reddit

7h

Scientists share new details about mysterious 'ghost particle'. Neutrinos, so-called "ghost particles" scattered across the universe, can be 10 million times lighter than the mass of an electron, according to a new study

43 points 8 comments

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Reddit

1d

Researchers say they've identified 14 molecules in blood that are tied to dying from any cause, and that a score based on the molecules can predict risk of death over a 5- or 10-year period. The team hopes their find encourages lifestyle interventions and helps doctors make treatment decisions.

44k points 974 comments

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Reddit

16h

Even though the empirical literature shows that immigrants have lower crime rates than native-born Americans, "most immigration-crime news stories describe immigrants as especially crime-prone or as increasing aggregate crime rates."

592 points 102 comments

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Reddit

15h

Nuclear Propulsion Could Be 'Game-Changer' for Space Exploration, NASA Chief Says

175 points 84 comments

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Reddit

7h

Do ducks have the ability to count?

17 points 0 comments

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Reddit

5h

HDEV down for the count.

19 points 3 comments

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Reddit

7h

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in quantum teleportation, successfully transferring something far more complex than ever before. Discovery opens up new 'dimension' in transmitting information

24 points 9 comments

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Reddit

3h

New research indicates that psychiatric illnesses are common in children and adults with kidney failure, and hospitalizations for such illnesses are associated with a higher risk of early death in adults.

32 points 0 comments

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Reddit

10h

Audiobooks are as good as physical books: fMRI study finds listening stimulates the brain in almost identical ways as reading.

98 points 25 comments