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⇪ A Novel Protective Prion Protein Variant that Colocalizes with Kuru Exposure
blog posts
1. Cannibalism & evolution
  Gene Expression, 1 day ago
2. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 3 days ago
3. Cannibalism clue to brain disease
  NHS Choices: Behind the headlines, 3 days ago
4. New Guinean Cannibals Evolved Resistance To Mad Cow-Like Disease
  Discover Blogs, 4 days ago
5. Brain eating drove rapid evolution in disease-struck tribe
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 5 days ago
⇪ Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America
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1. When mammoths roamed
  Gene Expression, 3 days ago
2. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 3 days ago
3. Dung dating illuminates mammoth mystery
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 4 days ago
4. Spores in Mastodon Dung Suggest Humans Didn’t Kill Off Ancient Mammals
  Discover Blogs, 4 days ago
⇪ Computed Tomographic Assessment of Atherosclerosis in Ancient Egyptian Mummies
blog posts
1. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 3 days ago
2. Mummified arteries clogged
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 5 days ago
3. X-Rayed Mummies Reveal That Ancient Egyptians Had Heart Disease
  80beats, 6 days ago
⇪ Maize genome mapped
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1. Wash. Post, wires, etc: Yawn another genome? Yes, but this is on the bigger side. It’s corn.
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 3 days ago
2. On Nature News
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 4 days ago
3. Decoded Corn Genome Promises Higher Yields, Better Biofuels, New Plastics
  Popular Science - Science, 4 days ago
⇪ Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing?
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1. That (carbon) sinking feeling
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 5 days ago
2. Earth monitoring: Damn it’s frustrating
  Heliophage, 6 days ago
3. Global temperatures will rise 6C by end of century, say scientists
  Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk, 6 days ago
⇪ Physicist working at CERN arrested
blog posts
1. Collider collisions draw near!
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 3 days ago
2. A tale of two beer bottles
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 1 week ago
3. On Nature News
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 6 weeks ago
⇪ Outcome Reporting in Industry-Sponsored Trials of Gabapentin for Off-Label Use
blog posts
1. Mag Citrate 4
  Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog, 1 week ago
2. Pfizer fuzzies data?
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 1 week ago
3. Massaging the Data for Neurontin?
  In the Pipeline, 1 week ago
⇪ A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism
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1. LA Times, The Age, etc: New dinosaur and it’s a, a, a can you believe it?: a Missing Link!!
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 1 week ago
2. Aardonyx celestae: New Transitional Sauropodomorph
  PALAEOBLOG, 1 week ago
3. Why dinosaurs grew so big
  Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk, 1 week ago
⇪ What's next for science communication? Promising directions and lingering distractions
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1. Science and Yale Environment 360 on Climate Fatigue
  Framing Science, 5 days ago
2. Two Articles on Predictions & Hype in Science
  Framing Science, 1 week ago
3. Primer on The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
  Framing Science, 2 weeks ago
⇪ Japanese science faces deep cuts
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1. IPMU in Tokyo Needs Support
  Cosmic Variance, 1 day ago
2. Access to biological databases must be guaranteed
  Nautilus - Blog Posts, 4 days ago
3. On Nature News
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 6 days ago
⇪ Screening for Breast Cancer: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
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1. The USPSTF recommendations for breast cancer screening: Not the final word
  Science-Based Medicine, 5 days ago
2. Really rethinking breast cancer screening
  Respectful Insolence, 6 days ago
⇪ Amid Worrisome Signs of Warming, 'Climate Fatigue' Sets In
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1. Countdown to Copenhagen
  Climate Feedback - Blog Posts, 3 days ago
2. Science and Yale Environment 360 on Climate Fatigue
  Framing Science, 5 days ago
⇪ A force to fight global warming
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1. Nature celebrates 150 years of On The Origin of Species
  Nautilus - Blog Posts, 1 day ago
2. A force to fight global warming
  Climate Feedback - Blog Posts, 4 days ago
⇪ Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature
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1. Nature celebrates 150 years of On The Origin of Species
  Nautilus - Blog Posts, 1 day ago
2. A list of ecosystem services
  Biopolitical, 4 days ago
⇪ The geometry of hobbits: Homo floresiensis and human evolution
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1. Homo floresiensis statistically a new species
  PALAEOBLOG, 19 hours ago
2. Hobbits Are Indeed A Separate Species, Said Researchers.
  Anthropology.net, 2 days ago
⇪ The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics
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1. Get ready for a maize of puns
  A Man With A Ph.D., 3 days ago
2. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 3 days ago
⇪ Money in biomedicine: The senator's sleuth
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1. NIH still bedevilled by conflicts of interest issue
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 4 days ago
2. Nature: Journal scoops papers–but there’s a catch
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 7 weeks ago
⇪ Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
blog posts
1. That (carbon) sinking feeling
  Climate Feedback - Blog Posts, 5 days ago
2. Earth monitoring: Damn it’s frustrating
  Heliophage, 6 days ago
⇪ Access denied?
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1. Access to biological databases must be guaranteed
  Nautilus - Blog Posts, 4 days ago
2. How to sustain OA databases?
  Open Access News, 4 days ago
⇪ Adenovirus vector vaccination induces expansion of memory CD4 T cells with a mucosal homing phenotype that are readily susceptible to HIV-1
blog posts
1. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 3 days ago
2. HIV vaccine failure still an enigma
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 6 days ago
⇪ Partitioning Recent Greenland Mass Loss
blog posts
1. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 1 week ago
2. Greenland ice and Himalayan glaciers: What’s going on?
  Climate Feedback - Blog Posts, 1 week ago
⇪ A SMART Plan for New Investigators
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1. Fourty two* and still in need of mentoring?
  Transcription and Translation, 4 days ago
2. Not a very "SMART Plan", no.
  DrugMonkey, 1 week ago
⇪ Enhanced lithium depletion in Sun-like stars with orbiting planets
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1. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 1 week ago
2. The Lithium Clue to Exoplanets
  Centauri Dreams, 1 week ago
⇪ Oxygen and hydrogen isotope evidence for a temperate climate 3.42 billion years ago
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1. Apologies
  Heliophage, 1 day ago
2. Early Life In Cool Oceans
  PALAEOBLOG, 1 week ago
⇪ Lithium loss may be the planet-hunter's gain
blog posts
1. The Lithium Clue to Exoplanets
  Centauri Dreams, 1 week ago
2. On Nature News
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 1 week ago
⇪ Extended-Release Niacin or Ezetimibe and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness
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1. Cholesterol drugs' effectiveness called into question — again
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 1 week ago
2. Zetia Takes Another Torpedo
  In the Pipeline, 1 week ago
⇪ Physiological and life history strategies of a fossil large mammal in a resource-limited environment
blog posts
1. Ripped From the Journals: The Biggest Discoveries of the Week
  Discover Blogs, 3 days ago
2. Extinct Goat Tried out Reptilian, Cold-Blooded Living (It Didn’t Work)
  80beats, 1 week ago
⇪ Climate model sets tough targets
blog posts
1. On Nature News
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 6 days ago
2. Mitigation scenario a taste of things to come
  Climate Feedback - Blog Posts, 6 days ago
⇪ A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae; Annelida)
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1. A very long time to be around
  A Man With A Ph.D., 1 week ago
2. Tracing bone-eating deep sea worms back through time
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 1 week ago
⇪ Recent unprecedented tree-ring growth in bristlecone pine at the highest elevations and possible causes
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1. A Treeline Story
  RealClimate, 6 days ago
2. SF Chronicle, Ariz. Daily Star, New Scientist: Ancient trees growing faster than ever. Maybe it’s the CO2??
  Knight Science Journalism Tracker, 6 days ago
⇪ Phylogenomics of primates and their ancestral populations
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1. Reviewing the clock, and phylogenomics
  john hawks weblog, 6 days ago
2. Phylogenomics of primates and their ancestral populations
  Mailund on the Internet, 6 days ago
⇪ Biologists rally to sequence 'neglected' microbes
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1. Biologists rally to sequence 'neglected' microbes : Nature News
  The Tree of Life, 6 days ago
2. On Nature News
  The Great Beyond - Blog Posts, 6 days ago