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Spooky Lake Month and the science of ‘haunted hydrology’ Um yes, hello Geo!
🎧 Geo Rutherford joins Science Quickly’s Rachel Feltman to celebrate the haunted hydrology of Spooky Lake Month. You may have seen Rutherford’s videos about the scariest bodies of water on the planet. Now you can read ...

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Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage A small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by forcing firefighters to focus on saving lives

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Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction.

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Why We All Need a U.N. Study of the Effects of Nuclear War A new United Nations expert study of the effects of nuclear war would spur informed and inclusive global debate on what nuclear war means for people and the planet today

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New ‘Unconscious’ Therapies Could Help Treat Phobias These therapies dampen fears absent direct exposure—no need to be in the room with a live tarantula

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Plans to Destroy the International Space Station Preview a Bigger Orbital Junk Problem A special spacecraft will guide the space station through Earth’s atmosphere, but what about other large pieces of space debris?

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An Enormous Meteorite, Bird Flu in Washington State and a Troubling Scurvy Case Study We cover a 3.26-billion-year-old meteorite impact, the spread of bird flu and a scurvy case study that serves as a cautionary tale in this week’s news roundup.

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World way off target in tackling climate change - UN The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever

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Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Robert Roberson Still on Death Row? Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize advances in scientific knowledge

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UK needs big emissions cut, climate watchdog says The government's advisers say faster action is needed but the UK has the tools to achieve this.

Spooky Lakes and the Science of Haunted Hydrology

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Spooky Lakes and the Science of Haunted Hydrology Artist and author Geo Rutherford created Spooky Lake Month to highlight the strange and eerie waters of the world. She first fell in love with the Great Lakes during graduate school in Milwaukee. Rutherford was an early educational video creator, ...

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Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests.

What Do Societal Beauty Standards Have to Do with Breast Cancer? | Science Quickly Podcast

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What Do Societal Beauty Standards Have to Do with Breast Cancer? | Science Quickly Podcast Host Rachel Feltman is joined by Jasmine McDonald, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, to discuss the disturbing trend of an increase in early-onset breast cancer diagnoses. They explore how chronic exposure to ...

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Why fruit looks better in nets Fruits and vegetables wrapped in a colorful net appear riper and more appetizing. This is caused by a perceptual phenomenon known as the “confetti illusion”: objects appear to take on the color of a pattern placed over them. So lemons ...

What The Next President Will Do about Artificial Intelligence

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What The Next President Will Do about Artificial Intelligence There’s a lot of excitement and apprehension over the seemingly sudden proliferation of artificial intelligence in just about everything. Technological progress often outpaces regulation, and the next U.S. president will set the tone for AI policy. Scientific American’s associate technology ...

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What is so super about a supermoon? If you go outside tonight you may be able to see the October supermoon, the closest supermoon of 2024. When the moon’s elliptical orbit reaches its closest point to Earth, the perigee, it can appear brighter and bigger—but not by ...

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Bird “foster parents” teach migration “I fly with the birds”
The threatened Northern Bald Ibis are learning to migrate again thanks to their special bond with their researcher ‘foster parents,’ a tiny plane and some airborne megaphone encouragement.
Before teaching the birds where to ...

What is Implicit Bias? And How Might it Affect Your Next Medical Visit?

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What is Implicit Bias? And How Might it Affect Your Next Medical Visit? Have you ever felt judged at the doctor’s office, even before you said a word? Unfortunately, that’s not uncommon, and it’s often not intentional. Like everyone, doctors have unconscious biases that can affect how they treat patients, which can pose ...

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Ask the Expert | Social Market Foundation and UK Research and Innovation Our Ask The Expert series, in association with UK Research and Innovation, brings academic research on public policy into the ...

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UK Research and Innovation China: Launching Research Partnerships #InspiringPartnerships This video helps to showcase the impact and breadth of UK-China collaborations, as UK #Research and #Innovation celebrated ...