STEM News from Around The World

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  Sunken Cost Fallacy: Study finds both lab animals and humans stick with their bad decisions

  July 17, 2018

  The behavior of people who remain committed to a choice, even when it is clear that an alternate choice would be a better option, has been a perplexing phenomenon to psychologists and economists.  For example, [...]
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  Rare Meteorite Recovered In Botswana

  July 12, 2018

  A meteorite has been recovered from a remote area of Botswana. The event is one of a kind as the meteor was identified before entering the atmosphere, and its fall and retrieval documented. It’s only the second [...]
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  Increased risk of birth defects in babies after first-trimester exposure to lithium

  June 19, 2018

  Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found an elevated risk of major congenital malformations in fetuses after first-trimester exposure to lithium, in the largest study ever to examine the risk of [...]
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  New type of photosynthesis discovered

  June 18, 2018

  The discovery changes our understanding of the basic mechanism of photosynthesis and should rewrite the textbooks. It will also tailor the way we hunt for alien life and provide insights into how we could engineer [...]
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  “Useless” DNA changes the genitals you’re born with

  June 18, 2018

  Male mice grow ovaries instead of testes if they are missing a small region of DNA that doesn’t contain any genes — a finding that could help explain disorders of sex development in humans, at [...]
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  Ugandan wins Africa prize for bloodless malaria test

  June 18, 2018

  A Ugandan inventor has won a major prize for a device which tests for malaria without drawing blood. Brian Gitta, 24, won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for a device that detects tell-tale [...]