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Fake News: Wheat Buried with Mummies Can Grow

Originally published in July 1864 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “There is a popular belief that wheat found in the ancient sepulchres…

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Common Steroid Could Be Cheap and Effective Treatment for Severe COVID-19

On Tuesday headlines around the world hailed a common steroid drug as a “breakthrough” treatment for the most severe cases…

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From Dinosaurs to Disney, Children Take Cues from Adults on Real vs. Make-Believe

Most children have a decent sense of reality. They get that dinosaurs existed and that SpongeBob is fictional. But a…

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Futuristic Solar Plants Plagued by Glitches, Poor Training

A hectic pace of development spurred by expiring national and state incentive programs has caused multiple reliability problems among the…

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Common Steroid Could Be Cheap and Effective COVID-19 Treatment

On Tuesday headlines around the world hailed a common steroid drug as a “breakthrough” treatment for the most severe cases…

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Physicists Announce Potential Dark Matter Breakthrough

A team of physicists has made what might be the first-ever detection of an axion. Axions are unconfirmed, hypothetical ultralight…

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Did Galaxies Grow from Quantum Static?

Some 13.8 billion years ago, the universe as we know it began in the instant of time we call the…

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Pandemic-Related Gun Purchases Raise Suicide Risks

As our country battles two simultaneous major public health crises—COVID-19 and systemic racism—our now endemic public health crisis of gun…

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How a 380-Million-Year-Old Fish Gave Us Fingers

Five digits radiating from a palm, an arrangement both flexible and strong—capable of playing a piano, wielding a hammer, offering…

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Police Violence Calls for Measures beyond De-escalation Training

Black people are about three times more likely than white people to be killed by a police officer. Outrage over…

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