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It’s Settled: How Adult Brains Make New Neurons

Nora Bradford Scientific American
Adult brains grow new neurons, and scientists have finally pinpointed where they come from. These new findings settle a major dispute that neuroscientists have been arguing about for more than 60 years.

Calculating the Damage of Vaccine Skepticism

Rivka Galchen The New Yorker
It’s clear that we’re on the precipice of a surge in preventable diseases. The domestic stoking of anti-vaccine sentiment is itself infectious—a disease-carrying rat population on the ships exporting American culture.

Sunday Science: All Seeing Eye

Daniel Clery Science
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to transform astronomy. Its wide and fast survey will discover billions of dynamic objects while building up a deep map of the universe

Sunday Science: MATHUSLA – Long Live the Long-Lived Particles!

Paul M. Sutter YouTube
As powerful as the Large Hadron Collider is, it does have one blind spot: long-lived neutral particles that can slip through the detector before they're found. Coming up soon is an upgrade, called MATHUSLA, that hopes to change that.

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