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Online misinformation contributed to the 6 January 2021 Capitol riots.Credit: Samuel Corum/Getty “The Holocaust did happen. COVID-19 vaccines have saved
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Nature, Published online: 06 June 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-01653-w Swarms of painted ladies that descended on the Middle East, northern Africa and
Capturing carbon dioxide from air with charged-sorbents
Chemicals Activated carbon fabric ACC-5092-10 cloth was purchased from Kynol. The cloth was activated for 1 h at 100 °C in a
Do scientists make good presidents? How five national leaders performed
This week, Mexico elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo — a politician with a background in physics and
CERN’s $17-billion supercollider in question as top funder criticizes cost
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What’s the best way to tackle climate change? An ‘evidence bank’ could help scientists find answers
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Single-cell nascent RNA sequencing unveils coordinated global transcription
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Author Correction: Restoration of vision after transplantation of photoreceptors
a, Schematic of water-maze apparatus (adapted from ref. 22; see Supplementary Information). Mice were trained to associate striped grating with
every bird in South Africa now has an isiZulu name
The African pitta’s isiZulu name unothingo — meaning rainbow — is a reference to its brightly coloured plumage.Credit: Richard Flack/NaturePL
A disease-associated gene desert directs macrophage inflammation through ETS2
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