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Machine learning and gravity signals could rapidly detect big earthquakes

May 11 2022 11:00 AM

Large earthquakes make speed-of-light adjustments to Earth's gravitational field. Researchers have now trained computers to detect the signals.

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Here's the latest good and bad news about COVID-19 drugs

May 11 2022 9:00 AM

After coronavirus vaccines, antivirals and a monoclonal antibody are the next line of defense, but the treatments may be hard for some people to find.

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Eating meat is the Western norm. But norms can change

May 11 2022 7:00 AM

A meat-heavy diet, with its high climate costs, is the norm in the West. So social scientists are working to upend normal.

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Baby marmosets may practice their first distinctive cries in the womb

May 10 2022 11:00 AM

Ultrasounds tracking fetal mouth movements in baby marmosets pinpoint the early development of the motor skills needed for vocalization.

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Why it's so hard for a one-hit wonder to have a lasting music career

May 10 2022 9:00 AM

An analysis of nearly 3 million pop songs from 1959 to 2010 shows fame is a dance between similarity and innovation.

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The sun's searing radiation led to the shuffling of the solar system's planets

May 10 2022 7:00 AM

As the young sun's radiation evaporated gas from its surrounding disk, it triggered a jumbling of the giant planets' orbits, simulations suggest.

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