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Eleven strategies for making reproducible research and open science (doi.org)

The bilingual brain may be better at ignoring irrelevant information (www.eurekalert.org)

Air Cleaners Don’t Stop You Getting Sick, Research Shows (www.uea.ac.uk)

Air filtration systems do not reduce the risk of picking up viral infections, according to new research from the University of East Anglia....

Study finds coffee inhibits SARS-CoV-2 (cellandbioscience.biomedcentral.com)

Elusive egg-laying mammal caught on camera for the first time (www.popsci.com)

Do lemmings actually jump off of cliffs? | Live Science (www.livescience.com)

25.000 old prehistoric pyramid in West Java (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

See also ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/…/abstract

Harvard astronomer's "alien spherules" are industrial pollutants (bigthink.com)

Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

Novel C. diff Structures are Required for Infection, Offer New Therapeutic Targets (news.vumc.org)

Iron storage “spheres” inside the bacterium C. diff — the leading cause of hospital-acquired infections — could offer new targets for antibacterial drugs to combat the pathogen.

How easy it is to publish a false hypothesis: people were nearly a year-and-a-half younger after listening to “When I’m Sixty-Four” (journals.sagepub.com)

Also this research.uh.edu/…/behind-closed-drawers-the-file-…

Team Creates Synthetic Enzymes To Unravel Molecular Mysteries (news.utdallas.edu)

University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers have developed synthetic enzymes that can control the behavior of the signaling protein Vg1, which plays a key role in the development of muscle, bone and blood in vertebrate embryos....

When light flashes for a quintillionth of a second, things get weird (www.popsci.com)

Scientists Tame Biological Trigger of Deadly Huntington’s Disease (news.ucr.edu)

Engineered yeast breaks new record: a genome with over 50% synthetic DNA (www.nature.com)

Interdisciplinary Research Could Lead to New Targeted Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis (news.cuanschutz.edu)

Here's how high-speed diving kingfishers may avoid concussions (www.sciencenews.org)

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark matter’s origins (www.newscientist.com)

By mulling over colliding bubbles on a cosmological scale, physicists are finding cause for speculation about fresh sparks of cosmic creation. It is possible, they say, that in the weeks after the big bang there was a second, similarly profound moment of transformation. This one may have spawned monstrous shadow particles...

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