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Children are willing to make personal sacrifices to punish wrongdoers — and even more so if they believe punishment will teach the transgressor a lesson. Retribution is a driving force in young children’s moral judgement.

47.2k points 1.03k comments

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How six scientists survived ‘living on Mars’ for a year: « The habitat had a small living room, 1.5 bathrooms, a galley kitchen and tiny living quarters for each of the six up a flight of stairs. Power came via solar panel, water via large storage tanks outside. »

19.4k points 751 comments

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12h

[Is It Possible to Magnetize Dirt, Wood, or Other NONMAGNETIC Materials?]

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23h

AskScience AMA Series: Hello, I'm Dr Pen-Yuan Hsing from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom & have worked in ecology/conservation, founded a citizen science wildlife-monitoring project and am also an active open science/open source advocate. Ask me anything!

1.55k points 70 comments

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4h

Curiosity One Year On Mars upscaled to 4k

113 points 7 comments

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22h

As interactions increasingly take place online, people find information that confirms their existing beliefs, making them less willing to listen to alternatives. This exacerbates filter bubbles and explains why public debates become polarized as people become impervious to opposing arguments.

42.2k points 1.29k comments

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12h

Astrogeologists, why does mars still have rivers that were formed millions of years ago? why havent they eroded away due to dust storms and winds?

164 points 33 comments

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13h

The bones of the only dinosaurs to be found on the island of Ireland have been confirmed by a research team at National Museums NI.

1.34k points 33 comments

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16h

Bifurcated (2) needles for vaccination?

189 points 33 comments

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18h

Are there cubic energy formulas?

222 points 48 comments

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1d

Why did they opt for an mRNA COVID vaccine as opposed to using said mRNA to generate the viral antigens and inject those instead?

4.07k points 349 comments

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1d

Space travel is bad for the body at a cellular level

9.13k points 742 comments

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3h

Neonatal male circumcision is associated with altered adult socio-affective processing

52 points 11 comments

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4h

Currently there’s an estimated 29,000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm circling the globe

14 points 6 comments

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10h

Earth is closer to supermassive black hole than we thought

45 points 11 comments

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8h

11th Graders interested in Space wanted!!

32 points 3 comments

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15h

How do pressurised gases or liquids (EG in a gas canister or a rocket fuel tank) remain pressurised when the amount of said gas or liquid is decreasing (For instance as rocket fuel is being used up in a launch)?

48 points 16 comments

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21h

People’s moral foundations can predict their compliance with staying at home, wearing masks, and social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Caring and fairness are morals that predict compliance with all three public health measures.

1.18k points 132 comments

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2h

UAE mission to Mars on course to arrive in February 2021 - Spacecraft known as Hope carries instruments designed to study the tenuous Martian atmosphere

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14h

Scientists identified one common thread behind all the changes taking place in the human body as a result of time in space — mitochondrial dysfunction which leads to changes in gene regulation, metabolism, and the immune system in both mice and humans after time spent in space.

167 points 18 comments

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In the US, states typically pay for prison while counties determine sentencing. A natural experiment whereby the cost burden of juvenile incarceration was placed on counties led to a stark drop in incarceration. This suggests that mass incarceration in the US is in part due to misaligned incentives.

105k points 1.92k comments

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8h

There are studies in which the right hemisphere reacts to a linguistic stimulus without conscious awareness. But how can it do that without being able to process language?

4 points 2 comments

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43m

What's the best home planetarium projector for under 200$ ?

3 points 0 comments

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12h

Galaxy's brightest gamma-ray binary system may be powered by a magnetar

23 points 2 comments

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9h

Elon promised Starship sea-based launches, so i created an animation of how that might look like.

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