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Briefing chat: ‘Can it run Doom?’ — why scientists got brain cells and a satellite to play the classic game

00:26 Why researchers keep using Doom in their researchNature: How the classic computer game Doom became a tool for scienceSubscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast ...  Show more

This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates

A study reveals how the asexual Amazon molly defies evolutionary expectations — plus, evidence of what may be powering superluminous supernovae.In this episode:00:46 Unravelling the genetics of an asexual fish that should be extinctResearch Article: Ricemeyer et al.News and Views ...  Show more

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