Week of August 7, 2017 Archives
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Monday, August 7
What if the Nazis Had Built the Atomic Bomb?
Ross Pomeroy
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RCScience
Will Aliens Kill Us or Will We Kill Them?
Tim Callahan
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Skeptic
Most Violent Vortices Found in Primordial Plasma
Gabriel Popkin
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Inside Sci
A New Understanding of How Animals See Color
Bianca Datta
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PBS NOVA
Did the Vikings Raid in Response to Climate Change?
K.N. Smith
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Ars Tech
The Risk of Spreadsheets in Science
Neuroskeptic
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Discover
Puzzle Shows How Difficult It Is to Know Something
Brian Gallagher
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Nautilus
Magma Pulse Caused End-Permian Mass Extinction
Sian Bradley
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Wired UK
Scientists Destroy Entire Chromosome with CRISPR
Kerry Grens
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The Scientist
Bees Are First Insects to Understand Zero
Sam Wong
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NewScientist
Tuesday, August 8
Understanding the Inside of a Supernova
Megan Ray Nichols
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Astronomy
How Did the Narwhal Get Its Tusk?
James Deutsch
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Smithsonian Magazine
Exoplanets May Bypass Habitable Conditions
Charles Q. Choi
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Space.com
Restoring Sight With Fractal Retinal Implants?
Kendra Redmond
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PC
Ebola Mutations Suggest More Lethal Evolutions
Alex B. Berezow
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ACSH
Amazonian Trees Create Their Own Rain
Ilima Loomis
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Science Magazine
Voyager Spacecraft Celebrated in New Documentary
Eric Berger
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AT
UK Incinerators May Slow Recycling Progress
Roger Harrabin
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BBC News
FFAG Accelerator Repurposed by New Tech
Edwin Cartlidge
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Physics World
Hot, Pure-Acid Environment Harbors Life
Jasmin Fox-Skelly
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BBC Future
Wednesday, August 9
'Cool Roofs' Have Unintended Consequences
Sarah DeWeerdt
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Anthro
Turkey DNA May Help Locate 'Vanished' Puebloans
Michael Price
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Sci Mag
Genetic Autism Visible in Brain Scans
Elizabeth Finkel
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Cosmos
'Spin Record' Smashed by Primordial Particle Soup
Gabriel Popkin
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PC
'Planetary Protection Officer' Will Protect Other Worlds
Ethan Siegel
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SWaB!
Synthetic Rhino Horns: Can They Curb Poaching?
Olivia Trani
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Inside Sci
Organic 'Tissue Paper' May Help Regenerate Organs
Charles Q. Choi
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LS
Premature Birth Linked to Insomnia by Study
Amy Maxmen
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Nature News
Penguin Feathers Record Migration Routes
Sarah Gabbott
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BBC News
Mushroom-Spore Catapult Mechanism Replicated
Tim Wogan
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Phys World
Thursday, August 10
Lise Meitner's Devastating Letter to Otto Hahn
Ross Pomeroy
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RCS
The Impending Eclipse Has Exposed Many Hoaxes
Eric Berger
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Ars Tech
Fossils Place Humans in Sumatra 20,000 Years Early
Andrew Masterson
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CM
Ancient Flying Mammals Unearthed in China
Nathaniel Scharping
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Discover
What Are Gas Giants?
Matt Williams
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Universe Today
Moon Rock Reveals Longer-Lasting Magnetic Field
Ashley Yeager
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Sci News
Extra Dose of Vitamin B3 May Prevent Birth Defects
Gretchen Vogel
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SM
Mapping the Brain's Complex Circuitry
Kerri Smith
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Nature News
How Effective Is the 'Liquid Biopsy?'
Sharon Begley
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Stat
Pristine Asteroids Lurk in the Inner Belt
Alison Klesman
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Astronomy
Friday, August 11
NASA's Plasma Rocket Aims for 100-Hour Burn
Eric Berger
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AT
New Ceramic Coating Could Enable Hypersonic Flight
The Economist
Rooftop Wind Turbines: Can They Compete?
Prachi Patel
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Anthropocene
SpaceX Aces Static Fire, Prepares for Launch
Stephen Clark
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Spaceflight Now
Lunar Cell Tower Plan Unveiled by Startup
Tereza Pultarova
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Space.com
Defeating the Industry of Fear
Alex B. Berezow
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ACSH
Sea-Snake Pigment Binds to Water Pollutants
Rachael Lallensack
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Nat News
Superconductors: Powering Our Future
Keith Landry
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Inside Science
Primordial Black Holes Created Heavy Elements?
Michael Lucy
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CM
Oil Exposure May Send Birds Off Course
Alex Lees
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BBC News
Sunday, August 13
Did a GMO Almost Destroy the World?
Andrew Porterfield
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Genetic Literacy
BBC Must Accept That Nigel Lawson Doesn't Exist
Dean Burnett
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Guardian
Should We "Stop Equating 'Science' With Truth"?
Heather Heying
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Quillette
The Media's Double Standard in Reporting Risk
David Ropeik
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Undark
Comet That Created Perseids Might Bring Humanity's End
Ethan Siegel
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Forbes
How 'Clean Eating' Can Hurt Babies
Sophia Komninou
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The Conversation
NASA Looks at Reviving Nuclear Rocket Program
David Szondy
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New Atlas
Google's Damore Fired for Thinking on His Own
Sabine Hossenfelder
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Nautilus
Why Freud Was Really a Philosopher
David Livingstone Smith
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Aeon Magazine
New Shapes Solve Infinite Pool-Table Problem
Kevin Hartnett
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Quanta