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What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics

Today, there is a crisis of trust in science. Many people"including politicians and, yes, even presidents"publicly express doubts about the validity of scientific findings. Meanwhile, scientific institutions and journals express their concerns about the public's increasing distrust in science. How is ...

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What Makes People Distrust Science? Surprisingly, Not Politics

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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 23)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE What It’s Like to Watch an IBM AI Successfully Debate Humans Dieter Bohn | The Verge “It looks like a huge leap beyond that other splashy demonstration we all remember from IBM when Watson mopped the floor with its competition at Jeopardy. …But this time, ...

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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 23)

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Us Live Longer

What if we could generate novel molecules to target any disease, overnight, ready for clinical trials? Imagine leveraging machine learning to accomplish with 50 people what the pharmaceutical industry can barely do with an army of 5,000. It's a multibillion-dollar opportunity that can help billions. ...

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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Us Live Longer

Yahoo Science

Partial Results Show Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Leading in Country's Elections

The country's state-run news agency showed he had more than 50 percent of the vote

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Partial Results Show Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Leading in Country's Elections

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Trump's 'Space Force' could fuel a new $1 trillion economy, Morgan Stanley says

President Donald Trump's proposed "Space Force" could help fuel the $1 trillion intergalactic economy, Morgan Stanley says. If

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Trump's 'Space Force' could fuel a new $1 trillion economy, Morgan Stanley says

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How genetic genealogy can help solve decades-old crimes

Genetic genealogy was used to track down the suspected Golden State Killer. The technology uses DNA data from crime scene samples, public genealogy sites, and research to track down suspects.

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How genetic genealogy can help solve decades-old crimes

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Police: Backup Driver in Fatal Autonomous Uber Crash Was Watching 'The Voice'

The human backup driver in an autonomous Uber SUV was streaming the television show "The Voice" on her phone and looking downward.

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Police: Backup Driver in Fatal Autonomous Uber Crash Was Watching 'The Voice'

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Daughter files a wrongful death suit against stepdad in mom's death: Part 2

Kim Pack, April Kauffman's daughter, wanted to prevent Jim Kauffman from claiming her mother's life insurance policy.

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Daughter files a wrongful death suit against stepdad in mom's death: Part 2

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Sri Lanka arrests villagers for killing leopard

Police in Sri Lanka on Sunday arrested two men accused of beating a leopard to death in a "sickening" attack that was captured on film and sparked revulsion. Gruesome images of the leopard, a protected species in Sri Lanka, being savagely beaten were shared on social media, generating widespread disgust. ...

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Sri Lanka arrests villagers for killing leopard

Science Daily

Social bonding key cause of soccer (football) violence

As World Cup fever sets in, increased hooliganism and soccer (football) related violence are legitimate international concerns. Previous research has linked sports-related hooliganism to 'social maladjustment' e.g. previous episodes of violence or dysfunctional behavior at home, work or school etc. However, ...

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Social bonding key cause of soccer (football) violence

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New research on avian response to wildfires

New research explores the effects fire has on ecosystems and the wildlife species that inhabit them. Scientists examined the impacts of fires of different severity levels on birds and how that changes as the time since fire increases. Scientists looked across 10 fires after they burned through forests ...

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New research on avian response to wildfires

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Repellent research: Navy developing ship coatings to reduce fuel, energy costs

It can repel water, oil, alcohol and even peanut butter. And it might save the US Navy millions of dollars in ship fuel costs, reduce the amount of energy that vessels consume and improve operational efficiency.

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Repellent research: Navy developing ship coatings to reduce fuel, energy costs

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Tiny jumping roundworm undergoes unusual sexual development

Biologists have shown that gonad development varies in other nematodes relative to C. elegans. Specifically, they focused on Steinernema carpocapsae, a nematode used in insect biocontrol applications in lawns and gardens.

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Tiny jumping roundworm undergoes unusual sexual development

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The photoelectric effect in stereo

In the photoelectric effect, a photon ejects an electron from a material. Researchers have now used attosecond laser pulses to measure the time evolution of this effect in molecules. From their results they can deduce the exact location of a photoionization event.

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The photoelectric effect in stereo

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Challenging our understanding of how platelets are made

Correlative light-electron microscopy is being used to increase our knowledge of how platelets are made in the body and the results are challenging previously held understandings.

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Challenging our understanding of how platelets are made

New York Times Science

The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools

What the implements found with the body of Ötzi revealed about the Copper Age.

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New York Times Science

The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools

New York Times Science

Trilobites: Extinct Gibbon Found in Tomb of Ancient Chinese Emperor’s Grandmother

The remains appear to be a new species of gibbon, and it was perhaps a pet.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: Extinct Gibbon Found in Tomb of Ancient Chinese Emperor’s Grandmother