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Topic: Science (page 30)

Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy using an instrument like an ice pick which he invented for the procedure. Inserting the instrument under the upper eyelid of the patient, Dr. Freeman cuts nerve connections in the front part of the brain. (Getty Images/Bettmann Contributor)

Book review: When scientists break bad

Elizabeth Svoboda - Undark
Close up man head of hair loss (Getty Images/Chanakon Laorob)

Why, where and how we go bald

Matthew Rozsa
Atlantic Salmons in a river (Getty Images)

How Crispr could protect wild salmon

Lisa Abend - Undark
Researchers observed bright flares of X-ray emissions, produced as gas falls into a supermassive black hole. The flares echoed off of the gas falling into the black hole, and as the flares were subsiding, short flashes of X-rays were seen – corresponding to the reflection of the flares from the far side of the disk, bent around the black hole by its strong gravitational field. (Dan Wilkins)

Astronomers see behind a black hole

Nicole Karlis
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Mental illness informs brain science

Elizabeth Landau - Undark
Astronaut in outer space (Getty Images)

Bezos shade? FAA redefines "astronaut"

Nicole Karlis
Young man stroking his black cat (Getty Images)

Does your cat really love you?

Matthew Rozsa
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) American writer. (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

A poet’s scientific legacy

James Dinneen - Undark
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Mallard Ducks Swimming In Lake (Getty Images/Colin Drewery)

How did duck sex get so weird?

Jess Thomson
Outspace orbital view of planets and moons (Getty Images/Lev Savitskiy)

How moons are made

Matthew Rozsa
DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Panpsychism: Is everything alive?

Matthew Rozsa
The Catalina View Wines vineyard in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA on Monday, July 12, 2021 (Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images)

Disease-resistant grapes & wine's future

Agostino Petroni - Undark
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Hubble Space Telescope (Getty Images/James Benet)

Hubble stops, and starts again

Nicole Karlis
A 5th instar Rhodnius pallescens (Kissing Bug) sitting on a hand, engorged after consuming the blood of nearby fauna in Panama. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer K Peterson, PhD / jennipeterson.com)

Lifting the curtain on Chagas disease

Emily Cataneo - Undark
The Joy Of Sweat by Sarah Everts (Photo illustration by Salon/Joerg Emes/W. W. Norton & Company)

Why sweating is a human "superpower"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/balono)

Fewer adults want children — a lot fewer

Jennifer Watling Neal, Zachary Neal - The Conversation
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Great White Shark cruises through the ocean displaying its power and grace that many people fear. (Getty Images/Cat Gennaro)

Coexisting with sharks in Cape Cod

Sarah Sax - Undark
Stressed Woman By Laptop On Table (Getty Images/Bundit Binsuk)

Fearing in-person work? You're not alone

Matthew Rozsa
Rick and Morty | Loki (Photo illustration by Salon/Adult Swim/Marvel Studios)

Do we live in a multiverse?

Matthew Rozsa
A health worker prepares a dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 (Getty Images)

5 unvaxxed clusters putting U.S. at risk

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
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Meteorite in orbit (Getty Images)

Unlocking a meteorite's ancient clues

Matthew Rozsa
Macro image of a dead bee on a leaf (Getty Images)

Blumenauer wants to save pollinators

Lisa Held - Civil Eats
Demosponges in a coral reef in the Caribbean Sea (Getty Images)

Cruises returns, but at what cost?

Kelly Heber Dunning - The Revelator
The body of a VW ID.3 hangs on a production line during a press tour of Volkswagen's Transparent Factory. At the site in Dresden, 35 fully electric vehicles are produced every day. (Effect due to long exposure) (Sebastian Kahnert/picture alliance via Getty Images)

US wants to change EV batteries

Maddie Stone - Grist
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