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- Mice pass on brain benefits of enriched upbringing to offspring
- North Sea rocks could act as large-scale renewable energy stores
- Ecological benefits of part-night lighting revealed
- Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’
- CRISPR babies are real and the scientist who made them sought “personal fame and fortune”
- New class of solar cells, using lead-free perovskite materials
- The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending January 19, 2019)
- Fossilized slime of 100-million-year-old hagfish shakes up vertebrate family tree
- Early prediction of Alzheimer’s progression: Blood protein
- Mechanical engineers develop process to 3-D print piezoelectric materials
- Scientists find genes with large effects on head and brain size
- Broadband achromatic metalens focuses light regardless of polarization
- AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong
- New species of snake found in stomach of predator snake
- Using bacteria to create a water filter that kills bacteria
- Greenland ice melting four times faster than in 2003
- On Facebook and Twitter your privacy is at risk — even if you don’t have an account, study finds
- Ancient carpet shark discovered with ‘spaceship-shaped’ teeth
- New ‘architecture’ discovered in corn
- WhatsApp is banning you from forwarding the same message to more than five people
- A new low-latency congestion control for cellular networks
- Local drivers of amplified Arctic warming
- Enhanced NMR reveals chemical structures in a fraction of the time