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Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children. One in three women in Europe inherited the receptor for progesterone from Neandertals – a gene variant associated with increased fertility, fewer bleedings during early pregnancy and fewer miscarriages.

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SpaceX on Twitter: Team is performing additional pre-flight checkouts of Falcon 9, Crew Dragon, and the ground support system ahead of tomorrow’s Demo-2 mission. Weather forecast for launch is 60% favorable.

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AskScience AMA Series: I'm Brian Greene, theoretical physicist, mathematician, and string theorist, and co-founder of the World Science Festival. AMA!

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Dragon Dawn (credit Elon Musk)

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Six-month old infants recognize when adults imitate them, and perceive imitators as more friendly. The babies looked and smiled longer at an adult who imitated them, as opposed to when the adult responded in other ways. Babies also approached them more, and engaged in imitating games.

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We're engineers, astronaut trainers, and other specialists working to launch humans to the International Space Station from American soil for the first time since 2011. Ask us anything about Launch America!

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NASA and SpaceX confirm SpaceX’s first ever astronaut launch is a ‘go’

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Scientists have identified specific compounds from the Brazilian peppertree—a weedy, invasive shrub in Florida—that ‘disarm’ antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus bacteria.

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Long-term data show hurricanes are getting stronger

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Governments have spent $8 trillion to help combat COVID-19 in just 10 weeks. $1·8 trillion will be needed in the coming decade to combat the effects of climate change, in order to aggressively reduce emissions to achieve the 1·5°C global warming goal. (Lancet)

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'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat: Scientists say more than 50 billion years of cumulative evolutionary history could be lost as humans push wildlife to the brink.

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If the coronavirus is respiratory and you can't get it from eating infected food, why can you get it through your eyes?

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Is there any amount of turbulence which could bring a plane down?

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U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadband

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If a mother bird couldn't find enough food, would she let all her babies starve, or favor one/some and only feed them?

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Russia Space Chief Spars With Elon Musk Over Launch Pricing. Roscosmos is in an increasingly precarious position if the US stops buying seats on Soyuz.

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Why did Johann Elert Bode use the Greek “Uranus” instead of the Roman “Caelus” when all the other planets use their Roman names? Wikipedia was no help.

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Cicada wings are covered in antibacterial "nanopillars." Scientists have identified specific chemical compounds that give them their shape and function

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Highest Resolution Video Of The Sun Ever Taken.

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I helped my husband, director of a small planetarium, create a model of the solar system in NE Michigan

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Decoding the chemistry behind cicada’s bacteria-killing wings: Meticulously organised fatty acids are responsible for the bacteria-killing, superhydrophobic nanostructures on cicada wings.

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DARPA Solicits for a Nuclear Thermal Rocket to get to/from the moon with a demo by 2025

13 points 6 comments

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Researchers have isolated a human neutralizing antibody that targets the receptor where SARS-CoV-2 binds to in the human body, blocking it completely: The results suggest the ‘antibody CB6’ deserves further clinical translation.

58 points 4 comments

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SpaceX Crew Dragon will be the most memorable launch of the year

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"Green" recyclable rubber gives new life to single-use building materials. The material can be used on its own like regular rubber, or mixed with filler materials to create brand new composites. Then when the useful life of the product is over, the material can be recycled in an almost endless loop.

247 points 4 comments