There are 3 trilion trees in the world, they used to be twice as much before the advent of agriculture 12.000 years ago and currently the world is losing trees at a rate of 10 milion trees a year. (scientificamerican.com)

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The Problem with Scientific Credit - Issue 66: Clockwork - Nautilus (nautil.us)

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The Case Against Quantum Computing (spectrum.ieee.org)

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Hubble captured an image of a face in space (bgr.com)

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The Increase in Narcissism in College Students (owlcation.com)

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Everything you know about the Jewish people, the Palestinians, and Israel is a lie (i.imgtc.com)

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Can Analogies Reveal the Laws of Physics? (nautil.us)

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Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem (quantamagazine.org)

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New evidence of naturally-caused 'Tunguska-like' mid air nuclear explosions on Mars (hou.usra.edu)

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Perspective | Academia is a cult (washingtonpost.com)

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Our native language affects what we can and can’t see, finds a new brainwave study, which shows for the first time that our native language, and the color categories we apply within it, can influence whether we consciously perceive a stimulus or not. (digest.bps.org.uk)

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The Dawn spacecraft exploring the asteroid belt has gone dark (arstechnica.com)

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My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery (theatlantic.com)

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Billionaires Chase ‘SpaceX Moment’ for the Holy Grail of Energy (bloombergquint.com)

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Are Ghosts and Spirits Real? Psychology Fails to Explain the Paranormal (hubpages.com)

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Archaeologists Discover That Chocolate Is As American As Halloween (forbes.com)

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"Schrödinger's Bacterium" Could Be a Quantum Biology Milestone (scientificamerican.com)

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A Proof About Where Symmetries Can’t Exist (quantamagazine.org)

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Artificial Intelligence May Offer Cancer Cure (childrenfromtomorrow.blogspot.com)

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Research project aims to keep nuclear waste isolated 10,000 years into the future (phys.org)

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Growing ‘Mini-Brains’ With Neanderthal DNA (anthropology.net)

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Space Sex (freakybay.com)

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CERN’s prowess in nothingness (cerncourier.com)

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Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cells: Neural models could improve understanding of neurodegenerative and other diseases, and facilitate discovery of treatments (sciencedaily.com)

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Earth’s inner core is solid, 'J waves' suggest (sciencedaily.com)

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