Once we knew how the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread, a college campus seemed like one of the more dangerous places to spend time.  #longreads
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“It gives me goosebumps every time I see it.” https://t.co/ID4mM8ANYr

One of the earliest known hominids may have taken to the trees. https://t.co/6pYPUHL06r

Technology that can change the brain’s activity already exists today as medical treatments. But what happens if that influence finds a place outside the medical arena?
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“The impacts may have been enormous.” 
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The proton’s antimatter is out of whack.
 https://t.co/ZfxA7lrIYV

Planet Nine might be a mirage. 
 https://t.co/iBO12QyIII

A hybrid of woolly mammoths and a previously unknown species may have roamed North America. https://t.co/4fwVmOrgvI

As the master blueprint for building humans turns 20, researchers are both celebrating the landmark achievement and looking for ways to bolster its shortcomings. 
 https://t.co/KYeAtsd4nH

Medicine has racial blind spots. Just look at “flesh” colored bandages. https://t.co/THdbKgsOqD

It’s possible that climate change has facilitated the lizards’ mountaintop access. https://t.co/tq6IiqBEpS

“Even the biggest and most awesome creatures that ever lived were still kept in check by the whims of climate change.” 
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Genes inherited from our ancestors can be a mixed bag: Neandertal DNA on chromosome 12 can reduce risk of landing in the ICU while Neandertal DNA on chromosome 3 has previously been shown to raise the risk. https://t.co/g7oVjvv7o7

For now, companies have only our behavior to build eerily accurate profiles of us and predict what we’ll do next. And we let them. But what if they can get that data straight from our brains? #longreads
 https://t.co/I7eKso7Hgs

New Zealand’s kauri tree, one of the most ancient in the world, helped provide the evidence for timing geomagnetic events.
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When broken down by race and ethnicity, stark differences in the pandemic’s toll in the United States emerge.  https://t.co/Ad65EZL02J

With coronavirus variants that are more contagious, and perhaps more deadly, now becoming dominant, it raises the question of how much impact this trial can have. https://t.co/miUFzUOv1q

Though DNA degrades into shorter strings of genetic material over time, making it difficult to handle and piece together, cold permafrost helps to protect genetic information from rapidly degrading. 
 https://t.co/4fwVmOrgvI

A century on, it’s clearer than ever that general relativity not only gave us wild beasts, but also the framework and tools to understand them — along with all the other cosmic bizarreries around us. #SN100  https://t.co/HB6sCx3S2k

RT @buehlersciwri: My latest for @ScienceNews on a new scaly-skinned record holder high in the Peruvian Andes. 

These little guys were found scurrying around more than 17,700 feet above sea level, dethroning a different lizard that lives on the Tibetan Plateau.

https://t.co/iahnrpQPpY