'Risk to public is low,' officials say after 18 US passengers return from hantavirus ship

American passengers from the virus-hit MV Hondius have returned to the US to be evaluated at facilities in Nebraska and ...
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More credulous nonsense about acupuncture, this time from National Geographic

PNAS recently published credulous nonsense about acupuncture so bad that I thought it couldn't be topped. "Hold my beer!" ...
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A pond organism found at Oxford University breaks biology’s most universal rule — its DNA uses stop codons to build proteins instead of ending them

In April 2021, Jamie McGowan was running a routine test. A computational biologist at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, ...
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Cross-modal interaction of human alpha activity does not reflect inhibition of early sensory processing in a frequency-tagging study using EEG and MEG

Early visual alpha oscillations correlate on a trial-by-trial basis with steady-state responses at later stages of the processing stream, implying a role in signal enhancement and interareal ...