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A trust divide | Science

Whoever wins the U.S. presidency will face a deep and growing partisan divide in trust in science among voters, pollsters say. Whereas a majority (53%) of those...

Scientists Say: Deepfake

ad: Short for advertisement. It may appear in any medium (print, online or broadcast) and has been prepared to sell someone on a product, idea or point...

Building pangenome graphs | Nature Methods

Garrison, E. et al. Variation graph toolkit improves read mapping by representing genetic variation in the reference. Nature Biotechnol. 36, 875–879 (2018).Article  CAS  ...

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Woolly mammoths were inbred, but this didn’t lead to population collapse

A bottleneck event caused inbreeding in the last woolly mammoths, but scientists find this was not responsible for their demise on Wrangel Island. Once prevalent...

The Main Types of Chemical Reactions

The Main Types of Chemical Reactions A chemical reaction may be regarded as the process that occurs when matter undergoes change in composition. To be...

A peak behind the (hosting) scenes of this blog.

A peak behind the (hosting) scenes of this blog. I should start by saying that the server on which this blog is posted was set...

Why did I take my blanket for a walk in the woods? – Naturally Speaking

Will McLellan takes us on a tour of his work on tick density in human-impacted environments. What are you studying? The word ‘tick’, to most people,...

Conserving urban biodiversity needs an evolutionary mindset – Colin Donihue

This is a re-post of one that Max Lambert and I wrote for the blog “Life in the City: Evolution in an Urbanizing World.” — A...

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