Indonesia coral reef partially restored in extensive project
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Forbes
The SHEBA Hope Reef Brings Hope To Coral Reefs Everywhere—You Can Help Too
This immense reef (temporarily) spells out "hope" and shows that hope can lead to actions that save the world's oceans.
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Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
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The New Yorker
Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs
Deer can regrow their antlers, and humans can replace their liver. What else might be possible?
Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior from Sequential Images [pdf]
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(PDF) Fungi on Mars? Evidence of Growth and Behavior From Sequential Images
PDF | Fungi thrive in radiation intense environments. Sequential photos document that fungus-like Martian specimens emerge from the soil and increase in... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Study finds using Night Shift doesn’t improve sleep
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Ars Technica
Study: Using Apple’s Night Shift to improve your sleep? Don’t bother
The test was done with iPhones, but many gadgets have a similar feature.
Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations
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Ars Technica
Children of Chernobyl cleanup crew don’t have excess mutations
A deep look into the genetic damage left by the disaster.
Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
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If the case that SARS2 originated in a lab is so substantial, why isn’t this more widely known? As may now be obvious, there are many people who have reason not to talk about it. The list is led, of course, by the Chinese authorities. But virologists in the United States and Europe have no great interest in igniting a public debate about the gain-of-function experiments that their community has been pursuing for years.
Nor have other scientists stepped forward to raise the issue. Government research funds are distributed on the advice of committees of scientific experts drawn from universities. Anyone who rocks the boat by raising awkward political issues runs the risk that their grant will not be renewed and their research career will be ended.
The US government shares a strange common interest with the Chinese authorities: neither is keen on drawing attention to the fact that Dr. Shi’s coronavirus work was funded by the US National Institutes of Health.
One can imagine the behind-the-scenes conversation in which the Chinese government says “If this research was so dangerous, why did you fund it, and on our territory too?” To which the US side might reply, “Looks like it was you who let it escape. But do we really need to have this discussion in public?”
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Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
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If the case that SARS2 originated in a lab is so substantial, why isn’t this more widely known? As may now be obvious, there are many people who have reason not to talk about it. The list is led, of course, by the Chinese authorities. But virologists in the United States and Europe have no great interest in igniting a public debate about the gain-of-function experiments that their community has been pursuing for years.
Nor have other scientists stepped forward to raise the issue. Government research funds are distributed on the advice of committees of scientific experts drawn from universities. Anyone who rocks the boat by raising awkward political issues runs the risk that their grant will not be renewed and their research career will be ended.
The US government shares a strange common interest with the Chinese authorities: neither is keen on drawing attention to the fact that Dr. Shi’s coronavirus work was funded by the US National Institutes of Health.
One can imagine the behind-the-scenes conversation in which the Chinese government says “If this research was so dangerous, why did you fund it, and on our territory too?” To which the US side might reply, “Looks like it was you who let it escape. But do we really need to have this discussion in public?”
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Medium
Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: the political agendas…
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