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Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how

Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between solar activity and Earth’s magnetic field. When we first …

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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published | Peer review and scientific publishing

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published | Peer review and scientific publishing

It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. …

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“No Records. No Reason. Just Silence”: 75 Scientific And Historic Mysteries Scientists Still Can’t Explain

“No Records. No Reason. Just Silence”: 75 Scientific And Historic Mysteries Scientists Still Can’t Explain

Scientists have done a lot of good for our society that we should forever be grateful for, like generating enough knowledge to invent vaccines, electricity, the camera, and the Internet, among other things. They also help us answer important questions, such as who our ancestors were, why it rains, and how we can see colors. However, some things still baffle …

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