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How I talk to my science-skeptic parents about COVID-19

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Science | AAAS - For this biomedical Ph.D. student, give-and-take conversations are key to communicating with her...

Science Magazine

"...I try to help them find the balance between honoring their beliefs and recognizing scientific truths." For this biomedical #PhD student, give-and-take conversations are key to communicating with her family. https://t.co/qvKbM8DbiS #SciMagWorkingLife

School risk calculations scrambled by fast-spreading virus strains

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Science | AAAS - The Netherlands saw rapid spread through a school and into the...

Marion Koopmans

Some info on our ongoing large scale investigation on B117 school outbreak ⁦@GGD_RR⁩ ⁦@MinVWS⁩ ⁦@ErasmusMC⁩ ⁦@ZonMw⁩ https://t.co/UNmNti2sXx

Saliva could hold clues to how sick you will get from COVID-19

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Science | AAAS - Compared with nasal swabs, saliva tests may better reflect infection deep in the...

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How much of the virus is in your saliva? The answer could determine how sick you become from #COVID19. https://t.co/hWnHXOCzuA

The legendary dire wolf may not have been a wolf at all

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Science | AAAS - North America’s “top dog” traveled a lonely evolutionary...

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Dire wolves—the beasts depicted in "Game of Thrones"—don't belong in the same genus as wolves, coyotes, and dogs, a new DNA study reveals. In fact, they may not have even been wolves. https://t.co/0ErzVdP9lt

Here’s the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm

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Science | AAAS - See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious...

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As #vaccines for #COVID19 are distributed all across the globe, we look back at this data visualization from 2017 that illustrates the power of vaccines to vanquish disease—an impact that far eclipses their minute risks: https://t.co/z4xedn1kb3 @ScienceVisuals https://t.co/z4xedn1kb3

The legendary dire wolf may not have been a wolf at all

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Science | AAAS - North America’s “top dog” traveled a lonely evolutionary...

News from Science

The first analysis of dire wolf DNA finds that these ancient predators—a favorite of Game of Thrones fans—are so different from other wolves, coyotes, and dogs as to require an entirely new scientific classification. https://t.co/pBOgPjhZMr

Saliva could hold clues to how sick you will get from COVID-19

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Science | AAAS - Compared with nasal swabs, saliva tests may better reflect infection deep in the...

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To the known risk factors for developing severe #COVID19—age, male sex, or any of a series of underlying conditions—a new study adds one more: high levels of the virus in your saliva. https://t.co/EsQlhG6kIr

A single genetic switch can lead to rapid evolution in sea anemones

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Science | AAAS - Powerful evolutionary mechanism may have helped them colonize the...

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In sea anemones, a single genetic switch can transform cells that sting into cells that cling. https://t.co/OxIZ8nOu7o

School risk calculations scrambled by fast-spreading virus strains

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Science | AAAS - The Netherlands saw rapid spread through a school and into the...

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How ‘undertaker’ bees recognize dead comrades

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Science | AAAS - It’s not that fallen bees smell dead—they just don’t smell alive...

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Their job: to scour the hive for fallen comrades and drag them away. How do "undertaker bees" identify the dead? #ScienceMagArchives https://t.co/ztcwWJaQZH