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DiscussionAskHistorians 2020 Conference Panel: "Pick Your Poison: Climate, Disease, and Human Disaster from the Middle Ages to Today" Panel Presentation and AMA with the Participants (youtube.com)

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Social ScienceWhen governments describe something as "fake news", citizens reduce their belief in that particular news. However, if the news item turns out to be true, citizens become less likely to believe future "fake news" proclamations and reduce their satisfaction with the government. [Evidence from China] (journals.sagepub.com)

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HealthSuicides Among U.S. Kids, Young Adults Jumped 57% in Past Decade (msn.com)

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MedicineChoir singing has become a major risk during COVID-19 pandemic due to high infection rates. The majority of droplets expelled during singing follow the ambient airflow pattern, pointing toward the possibility of COVID-19 spread by small airborne droplets during singing. (Video in comment) (academic.oup.com)

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PhysicsPhysicists May Have The First Experimental Evidence of a New Type of Dark Boson. The dark-matter boson, a particle that is predicted to interact weakly with ordinary matter, is a dark-matter candidate. (physics.aps.org)

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PsychologyAfter reading empirical literature showing that the US racial wealth gap has persisted since the 1960s, white Americans became more optimistic about past equality (compared to white participants who read about an unrelated topic). (journals.sagepub.com)

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EnvironmentMelting Ice Sheets Will Add Over 15 Inches To Global Sea Level Rise By 2100 (tc.copernicus.org)

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NeuroscienceLow-to-Moderate Drinking Found to Increase Chance of Dementia, Lower Total Brain Volume (theconversation.com)

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PhysicsScientists have developed a method to generate circularly polarized light from the ultimate symmetrical structure: sphere. This method can be used to encode information in phase and polarization direction of circularly polarized light, enabling novel quantum communication and encryption technologies (titech.ac.jp)

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Social ScienceGoogle searches to buy chloroquine spiked by 442% following Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s endorsements of the drug for treating COVID-19 (psypost.org)

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AstronomyThe universe likely has trillions of planets made primarily of diamonds, scientists confirmed (news.yahoo.com)

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EnvironmentDiscrete Pulses of Cooler Deep Water Can Decelerate Coral Bleaching During Thermal Stress: Implications for Artificial Upwelling During Heat Stress Events (frontiersin.org)

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BiologyHumans develop more slowly than mice because our chemistry is different: Scientists have found that the “segmentation clock”—a genetic network that governs the body pattern formation of embryos—progresses more slowly in humans than in mice because the biochemical reactions are slower in human cells (riken.jp)

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Social ScienceRecent study suggests that martial arts actually improves children's development of executive functions (jitsmagazine.com)

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BiologyResearchers have found the clock that sets the speed of embryonic development and discovered the mechanism is based on how proteins are made and dismantled. The study could also help us understand how different mammals evolved from one another and help refine methods for regenerative medicine (crick.ac.uk)

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BiologyHow the giant stinging tree of Australia can inflict months of agony | Peptides that resemble spider venom are used (nature.com)

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NeuroscienceScientists explains why sleep is so vital to our health. Scientists with expertise in neuroscience, biology, statistics and physics, conducted the most comprehensive statistical analysis of sleep to date, using data from more than 60 sleep studies involving humans and other mammals (college.ucla.edu)

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EnvironmentWashing Synthetic Clothes Spreads Microplastics Even Further Than We Thought (sciencealert.com)

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MedicineInflammation brakes mitochondrial metabolism in obesity (nature.com)

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PsychologyConfidence in the authorities' handling of Covid-19 provides good mental health. Those who were satisfied with how the country fought the outbreak had better well-being and a lower perceived risk of getting Coronavirus. (partner.sciencenorway.no)

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PsychologyScientists reveal a fascinating link between the immune system and anxiety (inverse.com)

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ChemistrySupercooled Water is Two Liquids in One, Study Shows (sci-news.com)

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PsychologyThe number of adults experiencing depression in the U.S. has tripled, according to a major study. Before the pandemic, 8.5% of U.S. adults reported being depressed. That number has risen to 27.8% as the country struggles with COVID-19. (medicalnewstoday.com)

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HealthIndoor air pollution and heavy metals linked to child obesity (ehn.org)

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Social ScienceStudy indicates that Americans respond to COVID-19 differently based on their socioeconomic and demographic status (psypost.org)

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PhysicsNuclear fusion reactions in deuterated metals (journals.aps.org)

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