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Your Brain Pays Attention to Unfamiliar Voices, Even While You Sleep
The findings could suggest it’s possible to learn simple information while snoozing. Even when sleeping deeply you are more aware of what is going on around…
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Were in Hedgehogs a Century Before We Used Antibiotics
Study suggests the dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as MRSA first evolved naturally. As soon as humans started using antibiotics to fight bacterial infections, the bacteria started…
China’s Surprisingly Robust System of Marine Protection
China is not slouching on its marine protection efforts—domestically, at least. China, as the world’s largest producer and consumer of seafood, is well known for its…
Study: Fish can recover from mercury pollution faster than thought
Mercury pollution remains a problem in many parts of the Great Lakes, but new research from Canada’s Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario shows that efforts…
Replication failures cast doubt on some cancer studies
A decade-long project that attempted to replicate experiments from several high-profile papers in the field of preclinical cancer biology has found that around half of the…
Scientists Are Running Out of Salmon to Study
With west coast salmon populations withering, these researchers are heading for the Great Lakes. For years, Steven Cooke, a biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa, has…