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Is Your Phone Actually Draining Your Brain? Dec 20, 2022

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A new study puts the “brain drain hypothesis”—the idea that just having a phone next to you impacts your cognition—to the test to see if the science passes muster.

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Why Your Dog Might Think You're a Bonehead Dec 16, 2022

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The verdict is in: female dogs actively evaluate human competence.

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Alaska's Protective Sea Ice Wall Is Crumbling because of the Climate Crisis Dec 14, 2022

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A massive storm slammed into Alaska’s western coast, and there was no ice to stop it.

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It's the Bass That Makes Us Boogie Dec 09, 2022

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Concertgoers danced more when music was supplemented with low-frequency bass tones.

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How Vaccines Saved Money and Lives and China's Zero-COVID Protests: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 44 Dec 06, 2022

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Vaccines saved New York City billions of dollars, and China faces public fury over its strict virus-control policies.

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'Chatty Turtles' Flip the Script on the Evolutionary Origins of Vocalization in Animals Dec 02, 2022

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Recordings of more than 50 species of turtles and other animals help scientists reassess the origins of acoustic communication in vertebrates.

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Tardigrades, an Unlikely Sleeping Beauty Nov 30, 2022

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Researchers put this ancient critter through a subzero gauntlet to learn more about what happens to their internal clock while surviving the extreme.

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A Burned Redwood Forest Tells a Story of Climate Change, Past, Present and Future Nov 23, 2022

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From the ashes of the giants of Big Basin Redwoods State Park arise a history of fire suppression and real questions about what happens to the forests in a drought-stricken West Coast going forward.

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Antivirals Could Reduce Long COVID Risk and How Well the New Boosters Work: COVID, Quickly Podcast, Episode 43 Nov 22, 2022

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In this new episode of our coronavirus podcast, we discuss a study that looked at the effects of Paxlovid on long COVID symptoms, and we also talk new bivalent boosters and immunity.

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A Honeybee Swarm Has as Much Electric Charge as a Thundercloud Nov 15, 2022

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New research shows that bees “buzz” in more than the way you might think.

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