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Looking for a Specific Kind of Research Study (Neurostimulation)
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How Can You Get a Crying Baby to Sleep?
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Medical What Are the Dangers of Blindly Trusting Medical Professionals?
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Immune System & Environment: Can Living Near Loved Ones Make You Sick?
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Who Are the 2022 Ig Nobel Prize Winners and What Are Their Research Topics?
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Medical Universal Virus? - mononucleosis, chronic fatigue, multiple sclerosis....
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Monarch Butterflies: Endangered Species at Risk of Extinction
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Medical Derealization parts of brain? (schizophrenia)
  • LightningInAJar
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Artery Reabsorption & Trigeminal Neuralgia
  • LightningInAJar
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Focal length of LCD screen as a car's rear view mirror
  • Melbourne Guy
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Biological Info: Understanding & Analyzing
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Confused by the contents listed on this soup can
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Genetic code other than DNA (moved)
  • KingGambit
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Why does the DNA codon ACG code for threonine in the RNA codon table?
  • nomadreid
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Is this map of metabolic pathways comprehensive or are there missing components?
  • BWV
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CocaCola or Pepsi - The human sense of taste & flavor
  • symbolipoint
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Why do scientists call evolution a "theory"?
  • Jupiter60
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Medical Why does the penis stop responding to testosterone after puberty?
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Microbes & Methane: Are Microbes "Encased" in Gases?
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Medical Natural compounds for radiation protection
  • hilbert2
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Is the Styrofoam used for food today modified?
  • kenny1999
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How to deal with depression in undergraduate studies?
  • LCSphysicist
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Can People Be Neither Right Nor Left Handed?
  • symbolipoint
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Medical Nootropics that improve motor reaction time
  • hilbert2
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COVID Covid Variant Omicron (B.1.1.529)
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Apparent death from supplement overdose: news analysis
  • jim mcnamara
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Mouse Embryos Grown WITHOUT Eggs or Sperm
  • Tom.G
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Medical Is the oral polio vaccine causing an unexpected problem in the UK?
  • pinball1970
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A Nice history of Evolutionary Thinking
  • BillTre
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Why Do Chimpanzees Have Superior Memory but Limited Language Skills?
  • symbolipoint
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How Did My Health Insurer Save Me THIS Much?
  • kyphysics
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Could we filter out diseases with a process similar to dialysis?
  • kolleamm
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Anne Heche is not expected to survive
  • fresh_42
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No clear link between low serotonin and depression - study
  • StevieTNZ
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Medical Brain Death: Tests & Secondary Reactions
  • nomadreid
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Do supplements and adaptogens truly work?
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New type of henipavirus identified - Langya
  • Astronuc
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Are we predisposed to run along the line of a falling tree?
  • Melbourne Guy
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What is the current scientific consensus on myofascial trigger points?
  • Awwtumn
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Psychopaths have Bigger Striatum area in Brain
  • Tom.G
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Powassan virus on the rise in the US?
  • Astronuc
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Long COVID - Blood Markers linked to Mental Problems
  • Tom.G
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Is Biology the Misunderstood Science?
  • BillTre
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AlphaFold Catalogues 200 Million Protein Fold Predictions
  • .Scott
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Does Wearing a Wet Shirt Help to Keep You Cooler?
  • Yolk
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Discovering Auroralumina attenboroughii: A New PreCambrian Jellyfish Relative
  • BillTre
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Medical Acute severe Hepatitis in Children, theories as to causation
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  • Poll Poll
What are the effects of climate change on animal breeding patterns?
  • BillTre
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Biological model of Alzheimer’s based upon fabricated research
  • BWV
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How might plant life look different on other theoretical planets?
  • clevend
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Shouldn't they use carbon dioxide monitors?
  • PainterGuy
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What bird species laid these eggs in my garden?
  • DaveC426913
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Tanzania, Deadly outbreak, unknown disease (Ebola-like, hemorrhagic virus?)
  • Astronuc
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Push-ups with feet on stairs above body's CoM -- Why does it seem harder?
  • Melbourne Guy
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Are Antineoplastons actually a cure or significant treatment of cancer
  • Nic sign
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How can life exist in an increasingly entropic universe?
  • megacal
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What Triggers Fatigue During Illness: Understanding the Pathophysiology?
  • mktsgm
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COVID US maternal mortality increased 33% during pandemic: Study
  • berkeman
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Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum) - dangerous plant
  • Astronuc
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Eating based on the food pyramid vs Mediterranean and no meat
  • timeuser84
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Can inactivity or to much inactivity give you diabetes?
  • timeuser84
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Insights What is Evolution: A Beginner’s Guide
  • Ryan_m_b
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Is This Jawbone Human? A Scientific Approach to Identifying Fossils
  • Tiger Blood
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The Consequences of Misguided Parental Pressure on Career Choices in Medicine
  • symbolipoint
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What happens to non-respiratory gases in the lungs?
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Medical How does human eye decode different geometric shapes such as circle?
  • PainterGuy
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Black Death pandemic in medieval Europe -- prevention?
  • Aidyan
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What is the underlying physiological mechanism of itch?
  • mktsgm
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Sex determination based on food availability
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Medical Drinking water and the release of gastric acid
  • PainterGuy
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Do viruses eventually cause species extinction?
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Can synthetic viruses be created in a lab and become pathogenic?
  • mktsgm
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The Data Science of Elizabeth Bik Unmasks Hydrochloraquin
  • jedishrfu
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US Covid Deaths Reaching 1M: 997041 in 2022/18/03 18:51 MDT
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Origin of Life Podcast with Nick Lane & Sean Carroll
  • BillTre
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Cases of Monkey Pox in England/UK, US, Portugal, Spain
  • Astronuc
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Which Dinosaurs Were Warm Blooded or Cold Blooded?
  • BillTre
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Medical Question about the synthesis of fatty acids
  • samy4408
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Medical How do severed capillaries get re-joined on their own after an injury?
  • PainterGuy
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Can an anti-itch cream treat secondary itching caused by insect bites?
  • DaveC426913
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Are Minor Bases and Nucleosides the Same Thing
  • samy4408
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Book Review: The Gene's-Eye View of Evolution
  • BillTre
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Toxic mushrooms and fungi, their toxins and effects of poisoning
  • Astronuc
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Medical Hello, I found a weird sentence in a book about enzymes....
  • samy4408
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COVID How Will North Korea Handle Its First Major COVID Outbreak?
  • Trollfaz
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Self-watering plant pots vs pots that drain
  • Stephen Tashi
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Medical Promising Results: Stanford's Vibrating Glove Treats Parkinson's Disease
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Working out after plastic surgery
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COVID Lingering effects of a COVID infection: Post COVID Syndrome
  • gleem
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Medical Fecal Swapping between Young & Aging mice Swaps Aging Markers
  • Tom.G
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Spike protein level in blood, vaccinated vs. infected study
  • artis
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Why Do We Need ATP for Endergonic Reactions in Metabolism?
  • mktsgm
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Raw genetic data: Plink and TPED file
  • DaveC426913
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COVID Booster Shots - Thoughts/News?
  • kyphysics
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COVID Various approaches to new anti-viral drugs to treat COVID-19
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Big Article on Dog Breeds in Science
  • BillTre
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Shooting Hoops with a Schizophrenic Basketball Savant
  • berkeman
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Messenger RNA (mRNA) - not just for Coronavirus vaccines
  • Astronuc
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Species Age limit tied to 3200 lifetime genetic mutations
  • .Scott
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SARS CoV-2 link to Parkinson's, N protein α-synuclein interaction
  • artis
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