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Study: Childhood abuse linked to greater risk of endometriosis
A study of more than 60,000 women has found that sexual and physical abuse in childhood and adolescence is associated with a greater risk of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis diagnosed during adulthood. The study — the largest of its kind — found that women reporting severe-chronic abuse of multiple types had a 79 percent higher risk of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis.
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Should We Loosen the Restrictions on Psychedelics?
Probably, but we also need to take the risks very seriously — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Flydende hollandsk park skal stoppe plastforurening i Nordsøen
Hollandsk projekt opsamler plast i byens store flod og enorme havn og genanvender den i plantebede, der skal forbedre økosystemet for fiskene.
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These 41 hay fever genes can't explain allergy 'epidemic'
Scientists have mapped 41 genes that increase the risk of developing hay fever, in a new study of almost 900,000 people. Of the genes, 20 are new to science. The findings bring researchers a little closer to understanding the causes of hay fever, which is the most common type of allergy. It affects more than 400 million worldwide. "This is the largest genetic study ever conducted into hay fever,"
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Early supper associated with lower risk of breast and prostate cancer
People who have their evening meal before 9 p.m. or wait at least two hours before going to sleep have lower risk of breast and prostate cancer.
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How To Be A Savvy Consumer Of Science News
Astrophysicist Adam Frank has a cheat sheet for how to not get overwhelmed or snookered by science headlines.
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Trump's Crisis of Legitimacy
Nothing matters—until something matters. Helsinki is that something, and it will not stop mattering soon. In the aftermath, Republican leaders in Congress have felt obliged to state unequivocally that Russia did interfere with the election. But as they speak, they face an uncomfortable problem. Here's Paul Ryan's version of that problem. "They did interfere in our elections—it's really clear. The
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The timing of your dinner could affect your overall cancer risk
Health Breast and prostate cancers seem to be more common amongst those who eat dinner late, but it may just be a correlation. Individuals who eat dinner before 9:00 p.m. or wait at least two hours after finishing dinner before going to bed have about a 26 percent lower risk of developing…
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Dr. Alan S. Rabson, Influential Cancer Researcher, Is Dead at 92
A longtime leader of the National Cancer Institute, he was known for his willingness to help anyone with a cancer diagnosis seeking advice or a referral.
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Lawmakers Don't Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut
Decades ago, Section 230 gave tech companies sweeping power to police content on their platforms. Now some lawmakers want that power back.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: He Said, He Said
-Written by Elaine Godfrey ( @elainejgodfrey ), Maddie Carlisle ( @maddiecarlisle2 ), and Olivia Paschal (@ oliviacpaschal ) Today in 5 Lines President Trump said he accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, contradicting his remarks a day earlier. "In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word would instead of wouldn't ," Trump said. "Th
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Lava Bomb Slams Boat Tour in Hawaii, Injuring 23
A burning chunk of lava plummeted down and punctured the roof of an offshore Hawaiian tour boat yesterday (July 16), injuring 23 people who likely weren't expecting to get that up close and personal with a lava bomb.
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Most-Magical Things to Buy in Hogsmeade (and Some to Avoid)
ORLANDO, Florida — The Wizarding World of Harry Potter brims with exclusive souvenirs and replicas that fans will recognize from the books and films. Some of them are awesome, but others aren't worth a single Galleon. The hamlet of Hogsmeade, which sits in the shadow of Hogwarts castle at the new theme park attraction, is \[…\]
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Questions Raised About "Breakthrough" Therapies' Clinical Support
Compared to other drugs, therapeutics given breakthrough status receive FDA approval on the basis of weaker trial evidence, a study finds.
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What It Was Like to Attend That Trump-Putin Press Conference
HELSINKI—After weeks of frantic preparations and buildup, the world's spotlight has come to Finland and gone, leaving behind controversy and confusion. U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's flashy one-day meeting on Monday brought an international frenzy to the normally calm Finnish capital, culminating in a bizarre press conference that has left experts and commentat
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A Giant Iceberg Grounded Itself Near a Greenland Town
It's retreated, but the risk of what happens with a grounded iceberg is almost luck of the draw.
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No more zigzags: Scientists uncover mechanism that stabilizes fusion plasmas
Article describes simulation of mechanism that eliminates sawtooth instabilities in fusion plasmas.
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New target protein for colon cancer identified
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified a new potential target protein (c-Cbl) they believe can help further the understanding of colon cancer and ultimately survival of patients with the disease.
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Giant insects once covered Earth. Where did they go?
Believe it or not, insects today are really tiny. How did pre-historic insects get so colossal, and why have they now shrunk in size? Read More
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Study: Being in a bad mood can boost performance
Being grumpy can actually make you a better problem solver, as it boosts executive function. This doesn't give you free range to be a grouch. Read More
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Amazon pokes fun at glitches, says tech gadgets popular
Amazon poked fun at the early glitches it saw with Prime Day, though it said shoppers still found plenty to buy. Analysts, meanwhile, saw other things Amazon could have done better, like discounting more fashion brands and taking more advantage of its acquisition of Whole Foods.
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Oleo Sponge successful in real-world conditions off California coast
The Oleo Sponge, a patent-pending technology to clean oil spills invented at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has lived up to its promise in an experiment conducted off the coast of Southern California in April.
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Algorithm identifies patients best suited for antidepressants
Results of a new study bring us closer to identifying individuals likely to benefit from antidepressants.
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The winding, heated, and absurdly technical oral history of the ginger emoji
Entertainment It's complicated. In November 2014, a consortium announced a new set of emoji that would diversify the physical appearance of the pictograms. Redheads weren't represented.
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The White House Transcript Is Missing the Most Explosive Part of the Trump–Putin Press Conference
It was perhaps the most explosive exchange in an incendiary press conference . Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to frankly admit to a motive for, and maybe even to the act of, meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite repeatedly denying Russian interference in American politics during the rest of his appearance with Donald Trump in Finland on Monday. But the exchange does
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Science for Sustainable Cities
How smart urban planning and design can help people and the planet — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Why chivalry remains attractive to some women despite being sexist
Women tend to find male chivalry attractive even though they see it as a threat to fairness, according to a new study. Existing inequality may explain why
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Ever ran screaming from a concert? Keaton Henson has a treat in store
Aided by the performance artist Brendan Walker, the folk-rock musician is giving concert-goers at London's Barbican Hall a taste of the anxiety disorder that keeps him off the stage.
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We've found 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter – and one is probably doomed12 New Moons Jupiter
A new haul of moons brings Jupiter's total to 79. Nine of the newly discovered satellites are orbiting the wrong way, and could obliterate one of their companions
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Blood test detects melanoma skin cancer while it's easily treatable
A blood test that detects melanoma in its early stages may allow people to get treatment before the cancer spreads and becomes difficult to cure
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Drones are checking up on insurance claims to look for fraudsters
Insurance companies are training hundreds of drone pilots to check property damage from the air to make sure claims are legitimate
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Trump's meeting with Putin may have had a surprise nuclear twist
On Monday, Vladimir Putin said he'd given Donald Trump a note with suggestions on disarmament. This might be the first move in extending an important agreement
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Weird 'wind drought' means Britain's turbines are at a standstill
Britain is experiencing a prolonged "wind drought" that has slowed or halted the blades on turbines around the country
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Stone Age bakers made first bread thousands of years before farming
Evidence of the first early bread suggests humans were baking with wheat and oats thousands of years before they began farming the cereals
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UK announces plans for two spaceports that could see launches by 2021
The UK is funding the development of spaceports in Scotland and Cornwall, but plans for US firms to launch small satellites could run afoul of US export laws
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Jupiter Now Has a Whopping 79 Moons
Scientists have discovered 12 previously unknown moons orbiting Jupiter, and one of them is a real oddball.
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ScienceTake: Secrets of Citrus Micro-Jets
How the skins of oranges, lemons and other fruits squirt oil in tiny bursts
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The Hidden Power of Squirting Fruit
High-speed video reveals how bending the skin of an orange or similar fruit releases tiny bursts of aromatic oil at 30 feet per second from microjets. But what is their use?
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Jupiter has 10 newly-discovered moons, and one is a weirdo12 New Moons Jupiter
Space The survey also confirmed the existence of two other moons, whose discovery was announced last year Jupiter has always held fast to the upper echelon of superlatives in our solar system. It was always the biggest planet, a heavyweight whose gravity influences anything…
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Even Geologists Hate the EPA's New Science Rule
Oops. A few months ago, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a new policy that it claimed would "strengthen transparency" in the science it uses to craft regulation. To support its case, the agency alluded to a few major research institutions—namely, three of the world's most prestigious scientific journals and two bipartisan reports on science and policy. "The proposal is consistent," br
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Cancer Geneticist Quits After Harassment Allegations
Accusations that Nazneen Rahman bullied employees at the Institute of Cancer Research in the U.K. stretch back 12 years.
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Iceberg looming over Greenland village spotted from space
An iceberg that drifted perilously close to a remote Greenland village is so big it can be seen from space.
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Twitter suspended 58 million accounts in 4Q
Twitter suspended at least 58 million user accounts in the final three months of 2017, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.
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A new report says AI will replace as many jobs as it kills—but take that with a huge grain of salt
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Trump's Remarkable Attempt to Walk Back His Russia Comments
Updated at 4:01 p.m. ET Facing one of the biggest controversies of his tumultuous presidency, Donald Trump on Tuesday tried to clean up his remarks during a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday. Contradicting his prior comments, Trump said he accepts, with caveats, the American conclusion that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. After saying in Helsinki
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Barack Obama Breaks His Silence
Less than 24 hours after an astonishing joint news conference between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, in which Trump sided with Putin over his own intelligence agencies, former President Barack Obama finally did what his supporters have waited for him to do since he left the Oval Office. He spoke up, forcefully, with a dire warning about the direction of global politics. "I am not being alarmist
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Why Instagram Questions Became So Annoying
Last week, Instagram rolled out Questions , one of its most controversial features yet. The release unleashed a wave of backlash and has been blamed for ending friendships, spamming users, and causing mass unfollows. The new feature works like this: You post a Questions sticker to your Story , and the sticker auto-populates with the phrase Ask me a question . Once the Questions sticker is posted,
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43% of heterosexual men have a hard time identifying a female orgasm
Not good news for inattentive married dudes. Read More
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Study: Great white sharks will be swimming in British waters by 2050
As a result of warming seas, at least 10 types of sharks currently found in warmer areas will likely be found in British waters in coming decades. Read More
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Bioethics Council: Gene-Editing Human Embryos Conditionally OK
The UK-based organization encourages public debate about the issue but does not recommend immediate policy change.
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Almost half of US adults who drink, drink too much, and continue to do so
A new study has found that about 40 percent of adults in the United States who drink alcohol do so in amounts that risk health consequences, and identifies a range of factors associated with starting or stopping drinking too much.
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Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors
Recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks highlight the need for licensed treatments. ZMapp, an experimental therapy, has shown promise in a clinical trial, but targets only one of five known species of Ebola virus. Now scientists have discovered powerful, broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) in the blood of EVD survivors. In animal studies, two of these antibodies provided substantial protect
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5,000 percent increase in native trees on rat-free palmyra atoll
New research demonstrates dramatic positive benefits for native trees following rat removal at Palmyra Atoll, a magnificent National Wildlife Refuge and natural research laboratory located about 1000 miles south of Hawaii. For five native tree species, including Pisonia grandis, fewer than 150 seedlings were counted in the presence of rats, and more than 7700 seedlings were counted five years afte
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Sap-sucking bugs manipulate their host plants' metabolism for their own benefit
Researchers have shown for the first time that free-living, sap-sucking bugs can manipulate the metabolism of their host plants to create stable, nutritious feeding sites.
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The rise of secondary imaging interpretations
Among Medicare beneficiaries, the frequency of billed secondary interpretation services for diagnostic imaging services increased from 2003 to 2016 across a broad range of modalities and body regions, often dramatically.
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Study: Blowhole spray can provide fast data on whale health
Scientists no longer have to collect poop to get key data on the health of endangered right whales. A new study indicates that under the right conditions, scientist can get real-time hormonal data by collecting the spray from whales' blowholes.
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UTA regional assessment shows segregation, challenges
After extensively analyzing fair housing in North Texas, UTA researchers have discovered that in many cases, segregation and associated problems are becoming more pronounced.
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Study shows 5,000 percent increase in native trees on rat-free Palmyra Atoll
New research published in PLOS ONE this week demonstrates dramatic positive benefits for native trees following rat removal at Palmyra Atoll, a magnificent National Wildlife Refuge and natural research laboratory located about 1000 miles south of Hawaii.
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BU: Almost half of US adults who drink, drink too much, and continue to do so
A new study led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers has found that about 40 percent of adults in the United States who drink alcohol do so in amounts that risk health consequences, and identifies a range of factors associated with starting or stopping drinking too much.
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Human cancers aren't contagious, but dogs and other animals aren't so lucky
Science Don't worry, these diseases can't spread to people. Dogs can get one of the more bizarre cancers in the world. The disease spreads from dog to dog, but it's not triggered by a virus, the way Human papillomavirus can…
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Sap-sucking bugs manipulate their host plants' metabolism for their own benefit
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, show for the first time that free-living, sap-sucking bugs can manipulate the metabolism of their host plants to create stable, nutritious feeding sites.
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For professional baseball players, faster hand-eye coordination linked to batting performance
Professional baseball players who score higher on a test of hand-eye coordination have better batting performance — particularly in drawing walks and other measures of 'plate discipline,' reports a study.
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A single genetic change in gut bacteria alters host metabolism
Scientists have found that deleting a single gene in a particular strain of gut bacteria causes changes in metabolism and reduced weight gain in mice.
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As we get parched, cognition can easily sputter, dehydration study says
Getting parched can fuzz attentiveness and make it harder to solve problems. Dehydration can easily put a dent in those and other cognitive functions, a new metadata analysis of multiple studies shows. Researchers are particularly interested in accident potential this may pose for people who toil in the heat around heavy equipment or military hardware.
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The scent of coffee appears to boost performance in math
Research reveals that the scent of coffee alone may help people perform better on the analytical portion of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test, or GMAT, a computer adaptive test required by many business schools.
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Solutions to water challenges reside at the interface
Researchers describe the most advanced research innovations that could address global clean water accessibility. A new comprehensive article focuses on understanding and controlling the interfaces between materials and water.
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What is the meaning of life? Ask a conservative
A deep analysis of a series of surveys across 16 countries that spanned several years shows that people who are on the conservative end of the political spectrum believe their lives are meaningful while those on the liberal end continue to search for meaning.
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Childhood abuse linked to greater risk of endometriosis
A study of more than 60,000 women has found that sexual and physical abuse in childhood and adolescence is associated with a greater risk of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis diagnosed during adulthood. The study — the largest of its kind — found that women reporting severe-chronic abuse of multiple types had a 79 percent higher risk of laparoscopically-confirmed endometriosis.
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Close-ups of grain boundaries reveal how sulfur impurities make nickel brittle
Engineers have shed new light on a scientific mystery regarding the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. The discovery also enriches fundamental understanding of general grain boundaries that often control the mechanical and physical properties of polycrystalline materials.
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Nitric oxide tells roundworms to avoid bad bacteria
Nitric oxide gas produced by a type of harmful bacteria lets roundworms know to stay away from it, says a new study.
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Exploding waves from colliding dissipative pulses
The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. These waves, known as dissipative pulses are driving experimental studies in a variety of areas that involve matter and energy flows.
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New cost-effective instrument measures molecular dynamics on a picosecond timescale
Studying the photochemistry has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions in the human body and, alternatively, can provide 'photo-protection' by dispersing extra energy. To better understand the dynamics of these photochemical processes, a group of scientists irradiated the RNA base uracil with ultraviolet light and documented its behavior on a picosecond timescale.
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Digital media use linked to behavioral problems in kids
Teens who spend lots of time using digital devices are prone to psychiatric problems, reports a team of scientists in a new study. Children who are heavy users of digital devices are twice as likely as infrequent users to show symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the study finds.
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UK-Based Think Tank Says Editing Human Embryos Is 'Morally Permissible'
Could gene editing be used to cut out harmful genes in human embryos?
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High vinculin levels help keep aging fruit fly hearts young
A new discovery in how heart muscles maintain their shape in fruit flies sheds light on the crucial relationship between cardiac function, metabolism, and longevity. Researchers have discovered that maintaining high levels of the protein vinculin confers health benefits to fruit flies. Their work shows that fruit flies bred to produce 50 percent more vinculin enjoyed better cardiovascular health a
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The rise of secondary imaging interpretations
Among Medicare beneficiaries, the frequency of billed secondary interpretation services for diagnostic imaging services increased from 2003 to 2016 across a broad range of modalities and body regions, often dramatically.
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Sap-sucking bugs manipulate their host plants' metabolism for their own benefit
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany, have shown for the first time that free-living, sap-sucking bugs can manipulate the metabolism of their host plants to create stable, nutritious feeding sites.
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Study shows 5,000 percent increase in native trees on rat-free Palmyra Atoll
New research published in PLOS ONE this week demonstrates dramatic positive benefits for native trees following rat removal at Palmyra Atoll, a magnificent National Wildlife Refuge and natural research laboratory located about 1000 miles south of Hawaii. For five native tree species, including Pisonia grandis, fewer than 150 seedlings were counted in the presence of rats, and more than 7700 seedli
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Free malaria tests coupled with diagnosis-dependent vouchers for over-the-counter malaria treatment
Coupling free diagnostic tests for malaria with discounts on artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) when malaria is diagnosed can improve the rational use of ACTs and boost testing rates, according to a cluster-randomized trial published this week in PLOS Medicine by Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara of Duke University, USA, and colleagues.
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Despite the Glitches, Shoppers Can't Quit Amazon
Updated on July 17 at 4:30 p.m. ET The promotions started more than a week ahead of time: Amazon, the world's biggest e-commerce site, was launching its annual Prime Day on July 16, with 30 hours of deals online and in Whole Foods markets. The company issued five press releases promoting Prime Day, during which shoppers who pay $119 for a yearly Prime membership are offered flash sales and discou
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6 Weird and Awesome Amazon Prime Day Deals
Already own an Echo Dot and an Instant Pot? We have a few fascinatingly strange Amazon Prime Deals for you.
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Getting to a 75 percent sugar reduction: How researchers discovered sweet spot for Stevia
JULY 17, 2018 (Brussels, Belgium) — A team of 27 scientists working with a major stevia supplier has created a systematic way to spot blends of steviol glycosides with outstanding taste performance. With data from a huge sensory study they built a mathematical model of the interactions between key glycosides. The model reveals the glycoside mixes that taste the best — and those that don't.
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UTA regional assessment shows segregation, challenges
After extensively analyzing fair housing in North Texas, UTA researchers have discovered that in many cases, segregation and associated problems are becoming more pronounced.
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Lessons from a real Atlantis
Traces of long-forgotten human settlements claimed by the sea thousands of years ago are being uncovered by researchers along the coastlines of Europe.
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Why Does Pregnancy Cause Weird Dreams?
Do dreams really become more vivid and bizarre when you're pregnant?
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Close-ups of grain boundaries reveal how sulfur impurities make nickel brittle
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on a scientific mystery regarding the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. The discovery also enriches fundamental understanding of general grain boundaries that often control the mechanical and physical properties of pol
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A single genetic change in gut bacteria alters host metabolism
Scientists have found that deleting a single gene in a particular strain of gut bacteria causes changes in metabolism and reduced weight gain in mice, according to a study in the journal eLife.
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Nitric oxide tells roundworms to avoid bad bacteria
Nitric oxide gas produced by a type of harmful bacteria lets roundworms know to stay away from it, says a new study published in eLife.
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Scientists May Have Wildly Underestimated the Giant Dinosaurs of the Ancient World
A new study of how plants grew in the environments of the dinosaur age offers some new clues about their populations.
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again Is a Gleefully Pointless Sequel
This story contains a mild spoiler for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Hollywood is, at its very heart, an industry that exists to answer questions. For example, I've long wondered what it might look like if Cher and Andy García, resplendent in linen, marched toward each other at a snail's pace singing ABBA's classic hit "Fernando" as fireworks exploded around them. Now, with Mamma Mia! Here We Go A
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Dickie Chivell's Best Moments | The Faces of Shark Week
The biggest risk taker of Shark Week, Dickie Chivell, dives in the waters in nothing but a glass cage and puts his life on the line by jumping on a shark decoy in the search for the most famous shark week shark. Shark Week 2018 starts Sunday July 22 9p! Stream The Faces of Shark Week on Discovery GO: https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/the-faces-of-shark-week/ Stream Classic Shark Week Episodes: h
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A House Republican Joins the Fight to Save Net Neutrality
Colorado's Mike Coffman signs a petition to force a vote on a measure to restore the Obama-era rules. Backers still need about 40 more members to sign on.
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Paleoclimatic changes are the most probable causes of the rainforest crises 2,600 y ago in Central Africa [Physical Sciences]
In PNAS, Garcin et al. (1) describe a Late Holocene rainforest crisis (LHRC) between ∼2,600 and 2,000 calendar years B.P. in Lake Barombi (Southwest Cameroon) when tropical rainforest was replaced by savannah, as attested by a large peak in Poaceae pollen (30–40%), and correlated with a shift in the δ13C…
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Reply to Giresse et al.: No evidence for climate variability during the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa [Physical Sciences]
Giresse et al. (1) criticize both our paleoclimatic reconstruction and our inferred anthropogenic origin of the late Holocene rainforest crisis (LHRC) (2). However, their argumentation, which is combined with alleged evidence for a climatic change during the LHRC, lacks strong support. Citing studies describing both brief (weeklong) and limited periods…
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Misunderstandings regarding the application of Granger causality in neuroscience [Physical Sciences]
Stokes and Purdon (1) raise several concerns about the use of Granger–Geweke causality (GGC) analysis in neuroscience. They make two primary claims: (i) that GGC estimates may be severely biased or of high variance and (ii) that GGC fails to reveal the full structural/causal mechanisms of a system. Unfortunately, these…
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Reply to Barnett et al.: Regarding interpretation of Granger causality analyses [Physical Sciences]
The main points of our work were (i) to characterize statistical properties of the traditional computation of Granger–Geweke (GG) causality and (ii) to analyze how the dynamics of the system are represented in the GG-causality measure. Barnett et al. (1) point out that the issues with bias and variance in…
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Ferroelectric domain wall dynamics characterized with X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy [Applied Physical Sciences]
Technologically important properties of ferroic materials are determined by their intricate response to external stimuli. This response is driven by distortions of the crystal structure and/or by domain wall motion. Experimental separation of these two mechanisms is a challenging problem which has not been solved so far. Here, we apply…
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Universal folding pathways of polyhedron nets [Applied Physical Sciences]
Low-dimensional objects such as molecular strands, ladders, and sheets have intrinsic features that affect their propensity to fold into 3D objects. Understanding this relationship remains a challenge for de novo design of functional structures. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the refolding of the 24 possible 2D unfoldings ("nets") of…
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Chromatin organization by an interplay of loop extrusion and compartmental segregation [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Mammalian chromatin is spatially organized at many scales showing two prominent features in interphase: (i) alternating regions (1–10 Mb) of active and inactive chromatin that spatially segregate into different compartments, and (ii) domains (<1 Mb), that is, regions that preferentially interact internally [topologically associating domains (TADs)] and are central to…
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Origins of equine dentistry [Anthropology]
From the American West to the steppes of Eurasia, the domestic horse transformed human societies, providing rapid transport, communication, and military power, and serving as an important subsistence animal. Because of the importance of oral equipment for horse riding, dentistry is an essential component of modern horse care. In the…
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Feasting and the evolution of cooperative social organizations circa 2300 B.P. in Paracas culture, southern Peru [Anthropology]
Recent theoretical innovations in cultural evolutionary theory emphasize the role of cooperative social organizations that unite diverse groups as a key step in the evolution of social complexity. A principal mechanism identified by this theory is feasting, a strategy that reinforces norms of cooperation. Feasts occur throughout the premodern world,…
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Synthetic far-red light-mediated CRISPR-dCas9 device for inducing functional neuronal differentiation [Applied Biological Sciences]
The ability to control the activity of CRISPR-dCas9 with precise spatiotemporal resolution will enable tight genome regulation of user-defined endogenous genes for studying the dynamics of transcriptional regulation. Optogenetic devices with minimal phototoxicity and the capacity for deep tissue penetration are extremely useful for precise spatiotemporal control of cellular behavior…
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Decoding on the ribosome depends on the structure of the mRNA phosphodiester backbone [Biochemistry]
During translation, the ribosome plays an active role in ensuring that mRNA is decoded accurately and rapidly. Recently, biochemical studies have also implicated certain accessory factors in maintaining decoding accuracy. However, it is currently unclear whether the mRNA itself plays an active role in the process beyond its ability to…
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Amyloid seeding of transthyretin by ex vivo cardiac fibrils and its inhibition [Biochemistry]
Each of the 30 human amyloid diseases is associated with the aggregation of a particular precursor protein into amyloid fibrils. In transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR), mutant or wild-type forms of the serum carrier protein transthyretin (TTR), synthesized and secreted by the liver, convert to amyloid fibrils deposited in the heart and…
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S4-S5 linker movement during activation and inactivation in voltage-gated K+ channels [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
The S4–S5 linker physically links voltage sensor and pore domain in voltage-gated ion channels and is essential for electromechanical coupling between both domains. Little dynamic information is available on the movement of the cytosolic S4–S5 linker due to lack of a direct electrical or optical readout. To understand the movements…
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Zyxin promotes colon cancer tumorigenesis in a mitotic phosphorylation-dependent manner and through CDK8-mediated YAP activation [Cell Biology]
Zyxin is a member of the focal adhesion complex and plays a critical role in actin filament polymerization and cell motility. Several recent studies showed that Zyxin is a positive regulator of Yki/YAP (Yes-associated protein) signaling. However, little is known about the mechanisms by which Zyxin itself is regulated and…
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Mechanistic insights in transcription-coupled nucleotide excision repair of ribosomal DNA [Cell Biology]
Nucleotide excision repair (NER) guarantees genome integrity against UV light-induced DNA damage. After UV irradiation, cells have to cope with a general transcriptional block. To ensure UV lesions repair specifically on transcribed genes, NER is coupled with transcription in an extremely organized pathway known as transcription-coupled repair. In highly metabolic…
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Minor zygotic gene activation is essential for mouse preimplantation development [Developmental Biology]
In mice, transcription initiates at the mid-one-cell stage and transcriptional activity dramatically increases during the two-cell stage, a process called zygotic gene activation (ZGA). Associated with ZGA is a marked change in the pattern of gene expression that occurs after the second round of DNA replication. To distinguish ZGA before…
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How functional traits influence plant growth and shade tolerance across the life cycle [Ecology]
Plant species differ in many functional traits that drive differences in rates of photosynthesis, biomass allocation, and tissue turnover. However, it remains unclear how—and even if—such traits influence whole-plant growth, with the simple linear relationships predicted by existing theory often lacking empirical support. Here, we present a theoretical framework for…
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Sinking particles promote vertical connectivity in the ocean microbiome [Ecology]
The sinking of organic particles formed in the photic layer is a main vector of carbon export into the deep ocean. Although sinking particles are heavily colonized by microbes, so far it has not been explored whether this process plays a role in transferring prokaryotic diversity from surface to deep…
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Conservation of mRNA quality control factor Ski7 and its diversification through changes in alternative splicing and gene duplication [Genetics]
Eukaryotes maintain fidelity of gene expression by preferential degradation of aberrant mRNAs that arise by errors in RNA processing reactions. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Ski7 plays an important role in this mRNA quality control by mediating mRNA degradation by the RNA exosome. Ski7 was initially thought to be restricted to Saccharomyces…
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Lifelong CMV infection improves immune defense in old mice by broadening the mobilized TCR repertoire against third-party infection [Immunology and Inflammation]
Lifelong interactions between host and the ubiquitous and persistent cytomegalovirus (CMV) have been proposed to contribute to the age-related decline in immunity. Prior work from us and others found some support for that idea, yet evidence that this led to increased vulnerability to other infections was not obtained. Moreover, evidence…
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Identification of a new subset of lymph node stromal cells involved in regulating plasma cell homeostasis [Immunology and Inflammation]
Antibody-secreting plasma cells (PCs) arise rapidly during adaptive immunity to control infections. The early PCs are retained within the reactive lymphoid organ where their localization and homeostasis rely on extrinsic factors, presumably produced by local niche cells. While myeloid cells have been proposed to form those niches, the contribution by…
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Induction of oligoclonal CD8 T cell responses against pulmonary metastatic cancer by a phospholipid-conjugated TLR7 agonist [Medical Sciences]
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have improved patient survival. However, only a minority of patients with pulmonary metastatic disease respond to treatment with checkpoint inhibitors. As an alternate approach, we have tested the ability of systemically administered 1V270, a toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) agonist conjugated to a phospholipid, to inhibit…
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Rsd balances (p)ppGpp level by stimulating the hydrolase activity of SpoT during carbon source downshift in Escherichia coli [Microbiology]
Bacteria respond to nutritional stresses by changing the cellular concentration of the alarmone (p)ppGpp. This control mechanism, called the stringent response, depends on two enzymes, the (p)ppGpp synthetase RelA and the bifunctional (p)ppGpp synthetase/hydrolase SpoT in Escherichia coli and related bacteria. Because SpoT is the only enzyme responsible for (p)ppGpp…
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Disruption of divisome assembly rescued by FtsN-FtsA interaction in Escherichia coli [Microbiology]
Cell division requires the assembly of a protein complex called the divisome. The divisome assembles in a hierarchical manner, with FtsA functioning as a hub to connect the Z-ring with the rest of the divisome and FtsN arriving last to activate the machine to synthesize peptidoglycan. FtsEX arrives as the…
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Antimalarial proteasome inhibitor reveals collateral sensitivity from intersubunit interactions and fitness cost of resistance [Microbiology]
We describe noncovalent, reversible asparagine ethylenediamine (AsnEDA) inhibitors of the Plasmodium falciparum proteasome (Pf20S) β5 subunit that spare all active subunits of human constitutive and immuno-proteasomes. The compounds are active against erythrocytic, sexual, and liver-stage parasites, against parasites resistant to current antimalarials, and against P. falciparum strains from patien
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Redundancy in synaptic connections enables neurons to learn optimally [Neuroscience]
Recent experimental studies suggest that, in cortical microcircuits of the mammalian brain, the majority of neuron-to-neuron connections are realized by multiple synapses. However, it is not known whether such redundant synaptic connections provide any functional benefit. Here, we show that redundant synaptic connections enable near-optimal learning in cooperation with synaptic…
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External light activates hair follicle stem cells through eyes via an ipRGC-SCN-sympathetic neural pathway [Neuroscience]
Changes in external light patterns can alter cell activities in peripheral tissues through slow entrainment of the central clock in suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). It remains unclear whether cells in otherwise photo-insensitive tissues can achieve rapid responses to changes in external light. Here we show that light stimulation of animals' eyes…
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Genetic dissection of neuropeptide cell biology at high and low activity in a defined sensory neuron [Neuroscience]
Neuropeptides are ubiquitous modulators of behavior and physiology. They are packaged in specialized secretory organelles called dense core vesicles (DCVs) that are released upon neural stimulation. Unlike synaptic vesicles, which can be recycled and refilled close to release sites, DCVs must be replenished by de novo synthesis in the cell…
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Molecular profiling of reticular gigantocellularis neurons indicates that eNOS modulates environmentally dependent levels of arousal [Neuroscience]
Neurons of the medullary reticular nucleus gigantocellularis (NGC) and their targets have recently been a focus of research on mechanisms supporting generalized CNS arousal (GA) required for proper cognitive functions. Using the retro-TRAP method, we characterized transcripts enriched in NGC neurons which have projections to the thalamus. The unique expression…
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Subsystem organization of axonal connections within and between the right and left cerebral cortex and cerebral nuclei (endbrain) [Neuroscience]
The endbrain (telencephalon) is at the rostral end of the central nervous system and is primarily responsible for supporting cognition and affect. Structurally, it consists of right and left cerebral hemispheres, each parceled into multiple cortical and nuclear gray matter regions. The global network organization of axonal macroconnections between the…
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Repurposing isoxazoline veterinary drugs for control of vector-borne human diseases [Pharmacology]
Isoxazolines are oral insecticidal drugs currently licensed for ectoparasite control in companion animals. Here we propose their use in humans for the reduction of vector-borne disease incidence. Fluralaner and afoxolaner rapidly killed Anopheles, Aedes, and Culex mosquitoes and Phlebotomus sand flies after feeding on a drug-supplemented blood meal, with IC50…
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Serum exosomes mediate delivery of arginase 1 as a novel mechanism for endothelial dysfunction in diabetes [Physiology]
Exosomes, abundant in blood, deliver various molecules to recipient cells. Endothelial cells are directly exposed to circulating substances. However, how endothelial cells respond to serum exosomes (SExos) and the implications in diabetes-associated vasculopathy have never been explored. In the present study, we showed that SExos from diabetic db/db mice (db/db…
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Ablation of PM20D1 reveals N-acyl amino acid control of metabolism and nociception [Physiology]
N-acyl amino acids (NAAs) are a structurally diverse class of bioactive signaling lipids whose endogenous functions have largely remained uncharacterized. To clarify the physiologic roles of NAAs, we generated mice deficient in the circulating enzyme peptidase M20 domain-containing 1 (PM20D1). Global PM20D1-KO mice have dramatically reduced NAA hydrolase/synthase activities in…
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Selective fertilization with phosphite allows unhindered growth of cotton plants expressing the ptxD gene while suppressing weeds [Plant Biology]
Weeds, which have been the bane of agriculture since the beginning of civilization, are managed manually, mechanically, and, more recently, by chemicals. However, chemical control options are rapidly shrinking due to the recent rise in the number of herbicide-resistant weeds in crop fields, with few alternatives on the horizon. Therefore,…
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Human impact on the diversity and virulence of the ubiquitous zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii [Population Biology]
A majority of emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonoses. Understanding factors that influence the emergence and transmission of zoonoses is pivotal for their prevention and control. Toxoplasma gondii is one of the most widespread zoonotic pathogens known today. Whereas only a few genotypes of T. gondii dominate in the…
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Role for fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) in the leptin-mediated effects on feeding and energy balance [Neuroscience]
Endocannabinoid signaling regulates feeding and metabolic processes and has been linked to obesity development. Several hormonal signals, such as glucocorticoids and ghrelin, regulate feeding and metabolism by engaging the endocannabinoid system. Similarly, studies have suggested that leptin interacts with the endocannabinoid system, yet the mechanism and functional relevance of this…
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Repression of human and mouse brain inflammaging transcriptome by broad gene-body histone hyperacetylation [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
Brain "inflammaging," a low-grade and chronic inflammation, is a major hallmark for aging-related neurodegenerative diseases. Here, by profiling H3K27ac and gene expression patterns in human and mouse brains, we found that age-related up-regulated (Age-Up) and down-regulated (Age-Down) genes have distinct H3K27ac patterns. Although both groups show promoter H3K27ac, the Age-Up…
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Global hidden harvest of freshwater fish revealed by household surveys [Sustainability Science]
Consumption of wild-caught freshwater fish is concentrated in low-income countries, where it makes a critical contribution to food security and livelihoods. Underestimation of inland harvests in official statistics has long been suspected due to unmonitored subsistence fisheries. To overcome the lack of data from extensive small-scale harvests, we used household…
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Past role and future outlook of the Conservation Reserve Program for supporting honey bees in the Great Plains [Sustainability Science]
Human dependence on insect pollinators continues to grow even as pollinators face global declines. The Northern Great Plains (NGP), a region often referred to as America's last honey bee (Apis mellifera) refuge, has undergone rapid land-cover change due to cropland expansion and weakened land conservation programs. We conducted a trend…
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Vulnerability of Arctic marine mammals to vessel traffic in the increasingly ice-free Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route [Sustainability Science]
The fabled Northwest Passage and Northern Sea Route that were once the quests of early Western explorers are now increasingly sea ice–free, with routine vessel transits expected by midcentury. The potential impacts of this novel vessel traffic on endemic Arctic marine mammal (AMM) species are unknown despite their critical social…
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Correction for Stokes and Purdon, A study of problems encountered in Granger causality analysis from a neuroscience perspective [Corrections]
STATISTICS, NEUROSCIENCE Correction for "A study of problems encountered in Granger causality analysis from a neuroscience perspective," by Patrick A. Stokes and Patrick L. Purdon, which was first published August 4, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1704663114 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114:E7063–E7072). The authors wish to note the following: "In the Discussion section…
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Retraction for Ganesh et al., Structure of vaccinia complement protein in complex with heparin and potential implications for complement regulation [Retraction]
BIOPHYSICS Retraction for "Structure of vaccinia complement protein in complex with heparin and potential implications for complement regulation," by Vannakambadi K. Ganesh, Scott A. Smith, Girish J. Kotwal, and Krishna H. M. Murthy, which was first published June 3, 2004; 10.1073/pnas.0400744101 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:8924–8929). The US Office…
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Retraction for Ajees et al., Crystal structure of human apolipoprotein A-I: Insights into its protective effect against cardiovascular diseases [Retraction]
BIOPHYSICS Retraction for "Crystal structure of human apolipoprotein A-I: Insights into its protective effect against cardiovascular diseases," by A. Abdul Ajees, G. M. Anantharamaiah, Vinod K. Mishra, M. Mahmood Hussain, and H. M. Krishna Murthy, which was first published February 1, 2006; 10.1073/pnas.0506877103 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:2126–2131). The…
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In This Issue [This Week in PNAS]
Feasting and evolution of social complexity Artist's rendering of congregants at Cerro del Gentil. Image courtesy of Robert Gutierrez (artist). Ritual feasting promoted cohesion and cooperation among early peoples, enabling nonstate societies, which lacked institutions such as markets, policing, and codes of law, to evolve social complexity. Charles Stanish et…
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QnAs with Shaul Mukamel [QnAs]
Since the invention of the laser in the 1960s, researchers have recognized that the device could be used to investigate atomic structure and nuclear motions. Over the course of his career, Shaul Mukamel, a professor of chemistry, physics, and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, has advanced theories underlying…
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Linking glucose metabolism to the stringent response through the PTS [Microbiology]
pppGpp and ppGpp (here abbreviated as ppGpp) are signaling molecules synthesized throughout the bacterial domain of life, serving as second messengers that respond to nutritional deprivation, a phenomenon called the stringent response. ppGpp accumulation causes the coordinated inhibition of macromolecule synthesis resulting in growth arrest, as well as the activation…
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Tailoring crop nutrition to fight weeds [Plant Biology]
Increasing crop productivity in an environmental-friendly way is one of the major challenges humankind is facing in the context of food security with a constantly growing population. In this scenario, ensuring adequate levels of soil nutrients and controlling aggressive weeds constitute two main problems that farmers have to deal with….
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Counting the fish eaten rather than the fish caught [Sustainability Science]
Counting fish underwater is more difficult than counting sheep on a pasture but is needed to support fishery management and to enumerate the contribution fish catches currently make to human society in the form of food, income, and revenue. Inland fisheries are particularly challenging to monitor and assess. They take…
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Ethological observations of social behavior in the operating room [Anthropology]
Operating rooms (ORs) are inhabited by hierarchical, mixed-gender clinical teams that are often prone to conflict. In evolutionary terms, one expects more within- than between-gender rivalries, especially since the OR is a place where all sorts of social interactions occur, not merely technical communications. To document the full range of…
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Folding artificial mucosa with cell-laden hydrogels guided by mechanics models [Applied Biological Sciences]
The surfaces of many hollow or tubular tissues/organs in our respiratory, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts are covered by mucosa with folded patterns. The patterns are induced by mechanical instability of the mucosa under compression due to constrained growth. Recapitulating this folding process in vitro will facilitate the understanding and engineering…
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Convergent beam electron holography for analysis of van der Waals heterostructures [Applied Physical Sciences]
The van der Waals heterostructures, which explore the synergetic properties of 2D materials when assembled into 3D stacks, have already brought to life a number of exciting phenomena and electronic devices. Still, the interaction between the layers in such assembly, possible surface reconstruction, and intrinsic and extrinsic defects are very…
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Growth suppression of ice crystal basal face in the presence of a moderate ice-binding protein does not confer hyperactivity [Applied Physical Sciences]
Ice-binding proteins (IBPs) affect ice crystal growth by attaching to crystal faces. We present the effects on the growth of an ice single crystal caused by an ice-binding protein from the sea ice microalga Fragilariopsis cylindrus (fcIBP) that is characterized by the widespread domain of unknown function 3494 (DUF3494) and…
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Distinct ways of G:U recognition by conserved tRNA binding motifs [Biochemistry]
Throughout three domains of life, alanyl-tRNA synthetases (AlaRSs) recognize a G3:U70 base pair in the acceptor stem of tRNAAla as the major identity determinant of tRNAAla. The crystal structure of the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus AlaRS in complex with tRNAAla provided the basis for G3:U70 recognition with residues (Asp and Asn)…
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Distribution shapes govern the discovery of predictive models for gene regulation [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Despite substantial experimental and computational efforts, mechanistic modeling remains more predictive in engineering than in systems biology. The reason for this discrepancy is not fully understood. One might argue that the randomness and complexity of biological systems are the main barriers to predictive understanding, but these issues are not unique…
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Extreme stability in de novo-designed repeat arrays is determined by unusually stable short-range interactions [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Designed helical repeats (DHRs) are modular helix–loop–helix–loop protein structures that are tandemly repeated to form a superhelical array. Structures combining tandem DHRs demonstrate a wide range of molecular geometries, many of which are not observed in nature. Understanding cooperativity of DHR proteins provides insight into the molecular origins of Rosetta-based…
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Traceless synthesis of ceramides in living cells reveals saturation-dependent apoptotic effects [Chemistry]
Mammalian cells synthesize thousands of distinct lipids, yet the function of many of these lipid species is unknown. Ceramides, a class of sphingolipid, are implicated in several cell-signaling pathways but poor cell permeability and lack of selectivity in endogenous synthesis pathways have hampered direct study of their effects. Here we…
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Anthropogenic and biogenic CO2 fluxes in the Boston urban region [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]
With the pending withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, cities are now leading US actions toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Implementing effective mitigation strategies requires the ability to measure and track emissions over time and at various scales. We report CO2 emissions in the Boston, MA,…
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First evidence for silica condensation within the solar protoplanetary disk [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]
Calcium-aluminum–rich inclusions (CAIs) and amoeboid olivine aggregates (AOAs), a refractory component of chondritic meteorites, formed in a high-temperature region of the protoplanetary disk characterized by approximately solar chemical and oxygen isotopic (Δ17O ∼ −24‰) compositions, most likely near the protosun. Here we describe a 16O-rich (Δ17O ∼ −22 ± 2‰)…
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Opposite outcomes of coinfection at individual and population scales [Ecology]
Coinfecting parasites and pathogens remain a leading challenge for global public health due to their consequences for individual-level infection risk and disease progression. However, a clear understanding of the population-level consequences of coinfection is lacking. Here, we constructed a model that includes three individual-level effects of coinfection: mortality, fecundity, and…
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Reprogrammable Braille on an elastic shell [Engineering]
We describe a minimal realization of reversibly programmable matter in the form of a featureless smooth elastic plate that has the capacity to store information in a Braille-like format as a sequence of stable discrete dimples. Simple experiments with cylindrical and spherical shells show that we can control the number,…
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Plant height and hydraulic vulnerability to drought and cold [Evolution]
Understanding how plants survive drought and cold is increasingly important as plants worldwide experience dieback with drought in moist places and grow taller with warming in cold ones. Crucial in plant climate adaptation are the diameters of water-transporting conduits. Sampling 537 species across climate zones dominated by angiosperms, we find…
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Ancient human parvovirus B19 in Eurasia reveals its long-term association with humans [Evolution]
Human parvovirus B19 (B19V) is a ubiquitous human pathogen associated with a number of conditions, such as fifth disease in children and arthritis and arthralgias in adults. B19V is thought to evolve exceptionally rapidly among DNA viruses, with substitution rates previously estimated to be closer to those typical of RNA…
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Host quality induces phenotypic plasticity in a wing polyphenic insect [Evolution]
Food quality is a critical environmental condition that impacts an animal's growth and development. Many insects facing this challenge have evolved a phenotypically plastic, adaptive response. For example, many species of insect exhibit facultative wing growth, which reflects a physiological and evolutionary trade-off between dispersal and reproduction, triggered by environmental…
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Immunogenetic and structural analysis of a class of HCV broadly neutralizing antibodies and their precursors [Immunology and Inflammation]
Elicitation of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is a leading strategy in rational vaccine design against antigenically diverse pathogens. Here, we studied a panel of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) from mice immunized with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) envelope glycoproteins E1E2. Six of the mAbs recognize the conserved E2 antigenic site 412–423…
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Quorum sensing and iron regulate a two-for-one siderophore gene cluster in Vibrio harveyi [Microbiology]
The secretion of small Fe-binding molecules called siderophores is an important microbial strategy for survival in Fe-limited environments. Siderophore production is often regulated by quorum sensing (QS), a microbial counting technique that allows organisms to alter gene expression based on cell density. However, the identity and quantities of siderophores produced…
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An aryl-homoserine lactone quorum-sensing signal produced by a dimorphic prosthecate bacterium [Microbiology]
Many species of Proteobacteria produce acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) compounds as quorum-sensing (QS) signals for cell density-dependent gene regulation. Most known AHL synthases, LuxI-type enzymes, produce fatty AHLs, and the fatty acid moiety is derived from an acyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) intermediate in fatty acid biosynthesis. Recently, a class of LuxI…
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Costs and benefits of provocation in bacterial warfare [Microbiology]
Competition in animals involves a wide variety of aggressive behaviors. One of the most sophisticated strategies for a focal actor is to provoke a competitor into uncontrolled aggression toward other competitors. Like animals, bacteria rely on a broad spectrum of molecular weapons, some of which provoke potential rivals by triggering…
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Adaptation aftereffects reveal representations for encoding of contingent social actions [Neuroscience]
A hallmark of human social behavior is the effortless ability to relate one's own actions to that of the interaction partner, e.g., when stretching out one's arms to catch a tripping child. What are the behavioral properties of the neural substrates that support this indispensable human skill? Here we examined…
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Core Concept: Amazingly precise optical atomic clocks are more than timekeepers [Physics]
In March, physicists unveiled the world's most accurate timepiece. But this was no pocket watch. At its heart is an atomic pendulum that swings 500 trillion times per second and can measure fractions of a second out to 19 decimal places (1). The clock is so precise that it loses…
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Relational mobility predicts social behaviors in 39 countries and is tied to historical farming and threat [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
Biologists and social scientists have long tried to understand why some societies have more fluid and open interpersonal relationships and how those differences influence culture. This study measures relational mobility, a socioecological variable quantifying voluntary (high relational mobility) vs. fixed (low relational mobility) interpersonal relationships. We measure relational mobility in…
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Eye movements support the link between conscious memory and medial temporal lobe function [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
When individuals select the recently studied (and familiar) item in a multiple-choice memory test, they direct a greater proportion of viewing time toward the to-be-selected item when their choice is correct than when their choice is incorrect. Thus, for both correct and incorrect choices, individuals indicate that the chosen item…
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Local structure can identify and quantify influential global spreaders in large scale social networks [Social Sciences]
Measuring and optimizing the influence of nodes in big-data online social networks are important for many practical applications, such as the viral marketing and the adoption of new products. As the viral spreading on a social network is a global process, it is commonly believed that measuring the influence of…
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Juice is very, very, very bad for kids
A glass of juice has as much sugar, ounce for ounce, as a full-calorie soda. And those vitamins do almost nothing. Read More
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12 new moons discovered around Jupiter; one of them could spell trouble.12 New Moons Jupiter
Scientists just discovered 12 new moons orbiting the planet Jupiter, and they're … interesting. Read More
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Chicago may become one of the first U.S. cities to implement a universal basic income program
A Chicago lawmaker says UBI is not only a way to ensure people still get paid as automation displaces their jobs, but that it's also a safeguard against the inevitable sociopolitical strife that would follow. Read More
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A single genetic change in gut bacteria alters host metabolism
Scientists have found that deleting a single gene in a particular strain of gut bacteria causes changes in metabolism and reduced weight gain in mice.
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Nitric oxide tells roundworms to avoid bad bacteria
Nitric oxide gas produced by a type of harmful bacteria lets roundworms know to stay away from it, says a new study published in eLife.
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The new sharks coming to UK waters
Research suggests new kinds of shark could migrate to UK waters as the oceans warm.
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Resistance to Gonorrhea Spurs Bespoke Treatments
Researchers are developing diagnostics to determine which drugs might work for specific patients — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sidste måltid inden 5.300 år i gletscher: Fedt, kulstøv og tørret kød
Forskere har fundet frem til indholdet i mavesækken på den østrigske ismand, Ötzi. Kobberalder-kost var fyldt med kød, planter, giftig bregne – og kulstøv.
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Millions in UK face water restrictions amid hot, dry weather
Millions of people in northern England are facing a ban on using garden hoses or sprinklers amid one of the longest spells of hot, dry weather in years.
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Does Wales hold the key for saving the puffin from extinction?
While the bird is dying out in parts of Europe, the population on one Welsh island is thriving.
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Sacha Baron Cohen's Fake Conspiracy Site Is Fully Post-Parody
Truthbrary.org is the website of Dr. Billy W. Ruddick, a character Cohen plays in Who Is America?, but the conspiracy theories it aggregates are taken from across the web.
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The Private-School Persuasion of the Supreme Court
Should Brett Kavanaugh get confirmed as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, five of the Court's nine sitting justices will share an experience that is foreign to most Americans: that of attending one of the nation's private high schools. Of the court's conservative block (Justices Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, Alito, and presumably Kavanaugh, sooner or later), all but Alito graduated from a private
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GPM satellite sees Tropical Cyclone Son-Tinh dropping rain in the Philippines
As Tropical Depression 11W was strengthening into Tropical Storm Son-tinh near the northern Philippines, the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite analyzed its rainfall.
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Why is Facebook keen on robots? It's just the future of AI
Facebook is announcing several academic hires in artificial intelligence, including Carnegie Mellon researcher Jessica Hodgins, who's known for her work making animated figures move in more human-like ways.
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Another endangered black rhino dies after Kenya transfer
Kenyan authorities say a ninth critically endangered black rhino has died after being moved from the capital to a new wildlife park.
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Close-ups of grain boundaries reveal how sulfur impurities make nickel brittle
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have shed new light on a scientific mystery regarding the atomic-level mechanism of the sulfur embrittlement of nickel, a classic problem that has puzzled the scientific community for nearly a century. The discovery also enriches fundamental understanding of general grain boundaries that often control the mechanical and physical properties of pol
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What is the meaning of life? Ask a conservative
A deep analysis of a series of surveys across 16 countries that spanned several years shows that people who are on the conservative end of the political spectrum believe their lives are meaningful while those on the liberal end continue to search for meaning.
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Solutions to water challenges reside at the interface
In response to rising water scarcity, leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could address global clean water accessibility. His comprehensive paper focuses on understanding and controlling the interfaces between materials and water.
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As Amazon slashes prices, Bezos sees jump in wealth
As Amazon marked its "Prime Day" with price cuts across a range of products, founder and chief executive saw his net worth hit new peaks, increasing his lead over fellow billionaires.
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EU set to fine Google billions over Android: sources
The EU is set to fine US internet giant Google several billion euros this week for freezing out rivals of its Android mobile phone system, sources said, in a ruling that risks fresh tensions with Washington.
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Scientists Hunt For A Test To Diagnose Chronic Brain Injury In Living People
Doctors are closer to a test in live brains that could help diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease that's been linked to concussions and other repeated brain assaults. (Image credit: UCLA)
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Social isolation: Animals that break away from the pack can influence evolution
For some animals — such as beetles, ants, toads, and primates — short-term social isolation can be just as vital as social interaction to development and long-term evolution. Evolutionary biologists describe approaches for testing how an animal's isolation might impact natural selection and evolution. This framework can help design more effective breeding, reintroduction, and conservation strate
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Trump's Performance With Putin Creates a Career Dilemma for His Aides
President Trump's press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday has set off a bigger-than-usual backlash, provoking criticism from both the right and the left . It has also presented a quandary for those who work in the Trump administration, who seem unable to guide or influence the president in any real way when it comes to Russia. In the hours afterward, critics have asked a
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There's No Defending Trump Anymore
Whether President Trump is a Manchurian candidate—cultivated for leadership here by an enemy nation to damage our country—or simply feckless is almost irrelevant at this point. It would be satisfying to know, but immaterial, given the president's behavior. Trump's actions, even if motivated by ill-founded concepts or desperate self-preservation rather than allegiance to a hostile foreign power, a
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EPA proposal to limit role of science in decision-making met with alarm
Democratic lawmakers and scientists denounced proposal to allow administrators to reject study results if research isn't public Democratic lawmakers joined scientists, health and environmental officials and activists on Tuesday in denouncing a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), backed by industry, that could limit dramatically what kind of science the agency considers when mak
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Black children subjected to higher discipline rates than peers
Elementary school discipline policies that rely on expulsions or suspensions as punishment may be fostering childhood inequality, a new study shows.
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More Screen Time For Teens Linked To ADHD Symptoms
A new study finds that teens who engage in frequent texting, social media use and other online activities daily are more likely to develop symptoms of ADHD. (Image credit: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images)
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Newly discovered shark species honors female pioneer
Eugenie Clark was a pioneer in shark biology, known around the world for her illuminating research on shark behavior. But she was a pioneer in another critical way, as one of the first women of prominence in the male-dominated field of marine biology.
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Transmission of specific colors of light over long distances
Researchers have reached a new milestone on the way to optical computing, or the use of light instead of electricity for computing. They explored a new way to select and send light of a specific color using long silicon wires that are several hundred nanometers in diameter and their work enabled a new type of nanoscale "light switch" that can turn on and off the transmission of one color of ligh
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While men lose more weight on low-carb diets, women show improved artery flexibility
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1 out of 3 American adults live with higher than normal blood sugar levels known as prediabetes. Researchers recently found that while men may lose more weight on low-carb diets, women actually see better improvements in artery flexibility. It's a finding that may help pre-diabetic women reduce their risk for heart disease t
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Newly discovered shark species honors female pioneer
The 'Shark Lady,' has received the ultimate ichthyologist honor: having a new species of shark, Squalus clarkae, named after her.
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Why men might recover from flu faster than women
Men may recover more quickly from influenza infections because they produce more of a key lung-healing protein, a study suggests.
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Incarceration of parents impacts health of their children into adulthood
A new study found that young adults who had a parent incarcerated during their childhood are more likely to skip needed healthcare, smoke cigarettes, engage in risky sexual behaviors, and abuse alcohol, prescription and illicit drugs. These findings have a potentially broad impact, as more than five million US children have had a parent in jail or prison.
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Childhood adversity increases susceptibility to addiction via immune response
Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body's immune response to cocaine, reports a new study.
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Protein found to be key component in irregularly excited brain cells
In a new study in mice, researchers have identified a key protein involved in the irregular brain cell activity seen in autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy. The protein, p53, is well-known in cancer biology as a tumor suppressor.
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Solutions to water challenges reside at the interface
Leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could address global clean water accessibility. His comprehensive paper focuses on understanding and controlling the interfaces between materials and water.
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The scent of coffee appears to boost performance in math
Research at Stevens Institute of Technology reveals that the scent of coffee alone may help people perform better on the analytical portion of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test, or GMAT, a computer adaptive test required by many business schools.
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Molecular tracer, seen with PET scan, shows concentrations of abnormal proteins
In a small study of military personnel who had suffered head trauma and had reported memory and mood problems, UCLA researchers found brain changes similar to those seen in retired football players with suspected chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated blows to the head
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FSU research finds troubling disadvantages, including bias, against women in business
Florida State University researchers, Drs. Gang Wang and Michael Holmes, uncover startling findings about the role of gender on CEOs' careers following their investigation of decades of research focusing on business management practices.
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Researchers enable transmission of specific colors of light over long distances
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have reached a new milestone on the way to optical computing, or the use of light instead of electricity for computing. They explored a new way to select and send light of a specific color using long silicon wires that are several hundred nanometers in diameter (about 1,000 times smaller than a human hair) and their work enabled a ne
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Data software firm Snowflake lands on Microsoft's Azure cloud
Snowflake, a California cloud-computing data software company, has launched its products on Microsoft Azure, another boost for the Redmond company as it competes with Amazon's popular cloud service.
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Opinion: No, AI Will Not Replace Radiologists
The adoption of machine-learning techniques to aid in diagnosis should be done with radiologists' guidance.
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The UK's history in space
The UK is set to get its first space port in Sutherland, Scotland. But it already has a long history in space.
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Research finds troubling disadvantages, including bias, against women in business
Women CEOs in America are paid less, have shorter tenures and their companies are punished in the stock market, even when their firms are just as profitable as those run by men, according to new research from Florida State University.
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For professional baseball players, faster hand-eye coordination linked to batting performance
Professional baseball players who score higher on a test of hand-eye coordination have better batting performance — particularly in drawing walks and other measures of 'plate discipline,' reports a study in the July issue of Optometry and Vision Science, the official journal of the American Academy of Optometry. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.
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As we get parched, cognition can easily sputter, dehydration study says
Getting parched can fuzz attentiveness and make it harder to solve problems. Dehydration can easily put a dent in those and other cognitive functions, a new metadata analysis of multiple studies shows. Researchers are particularly interested in accident potential this may pose for people who toil in the heat around heavy equipment or military hardware.
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Afriski: Lesotho's Only Ski Resort
High in the Maluti Mountains of the Kingdom of Lesotho, sits Afriski, one of only two ski resorts in southern Africa (the other, Tiffindell, is in the same mountains, just over the border in South Africa.) The resort summit is about 10,600 feet (3,222 m) above sea level, with a slope running about 1 kilometer. Much of the winter, snow on the ground can be sparse, so snow-making machines fill in t
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Chinese Researchers Achieve Stunning Quantum-Entanglement Record
The feat could pave the way for more powerful computing, although the technology is still in its early stages — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Allergic responses may protect against skin cancer
The components of the immune system that trigger allergic reactions may also help protect the skin against cancer, suggest new findings.
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Technique may improve lung delivery of bacteria-killing phage
A new delivery system for bacteriophages — viruses that selectively attack harmful bacteria — could help give doctors a new way to battle lung infections that threaten older patients and people with cystic fibrosis.
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Tackling cancer at ground zero with designer molecules
A new molecule shows great promise for future treatment of many cancers.
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GPM satellite sees Tropical Cyclone Son-Tinh dropping rain in the Philippines
As Tropical Depression 11W was strengthening into Tropical Storm Son-tinh near the northern Philippines, the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite analyzed its rainfall.
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Black children subjected to higher discipline rates than peers
Elementary school discipline policies that rely on expulsions or suspensions as punishment may be fostering childhood inequality, a new study shows.
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While men lose more weight on low-carb diets, women show improved artery flexibility
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 1 out of 3 American adults live with higher than normal blood sugar levels known as prediabetes. Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine recently found that while men may lose more weight on low-carb diets, women actually see better improvements in artery flexibility. It's a finding that may help pre-d
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Researchers enable transmission of specific colors of light over long distances
Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have reached a new milestone on the way to optical computing, or the use of light instead of electricity for computing. They explored a new way to select and send light of a specific color using long silicon wires that are several hundred nanometers in diameter and their work enabled a new type of nanoscale "light switch" that can tu
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A Flurry of Tiny Moons Around Jupiter
If you ranked the planets of the solar system by the number of their moons, Jupiter would reign. Jupiter, the biggest planet in our cosmic neighborhood—and perhaps the most photogenic one —is circled by a surfeit of objects. Some of them are truly massive, veritable worlds of their own, like icy Europa, and volcanic Io, and sparkling Ganymede. Some are tiny things, measuring just several miles ac
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Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Erode Air Quality Gains
Such fires are causing spikes in fine particles that threaten human health — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelganger
A new planet has been imaged, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelganger differs in one very important way: Its origin. One object has long been known: the 13-Jupiter-mass planet beta Pictoris b, one of the first planets discovered by direct imaging, back in 2009. The new object, dubbed 2MASS 0249 c, has the same mass, brightness, and spectr
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The freediving champions of the dolphin world
New research explains how some populations of bottlenose dolphins can dive to almost 1,000 meters while avoiding decompression sickness. The new hypothesis suggests that lung architecture and the management of blood flow allow bottlenose dolphins to access oxygen in the lungs while preventing uptake of nitrogen which would cause the bends. The findings act as a starting point to understand how env
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Homogeneous BTK occupancy assay
A time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based BTK occupancy assay measures target engagement in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and in lymph-node and bone-marrow samples.
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The ancient armor of fish — scales — provide clues to hair, feather development
How do scale patterns on fish provide understanding of the development of feathers, fur — and even cancer? Biologists are investigating.
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Decade of research shows little improvement in websites' password guidance
Leading brands including Amazon and Wikipedia are failing to support users with advice on how to securely protect their data, a study shows.
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What psychological science can offer to reducing climate change
The consequences of climate change are immense, and believed by many experts to be largely irreversible (and exponential), causing threats coming from heat waves, flooding, declines in agriculture, and decreasing biodiversity, to name a few. Given that climate change, at least in part, is rooted in human behavior, an obvious question to ask is: Can psychological science offer evidence-based soluti
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How cannabis affects appetite: Brain changes
New research on how cannabis use alters eating behavior could lead to treatments for appetite loss in chronic illness, according to experts. Using a new procedure to dose lab rats with cannabis vapor, the researchers found how the drug triggers hunger hormones. They also identified specific brain regions that shift to 'hungry' mode while under the influence.
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Diabetes drug with better side-effect tolerance could improve treatment
Improved medications for Type 2 diabetes are one step closer thanks to a new discovery. By modifying the key ingredient in current diabetes drugs, the researchers produced a compound that was effective for hyperglycemia in animal trials, yet without the most problematic side effects of current drugs.
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Hunger hormones offer promising avenue for addiction treatment
Hormones that signal the body's state of hunger and fullness could be the key to new treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. Gut hormones have received considerable attention from scientists seeking to understand overeating and obesity, which led the panelists to discover that those hormones are also involved in addiction.
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Anti-obesity drug derived from chili peppers shows promise in animal trials
A novel drug based on capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their spicy burn, caused long term weight loss and improved metabolic health in mice eating a high fat diet. The drug, Metabocin, was designed to slowly release capsaicin throughout the day so it can exert its anti-obesity effect without producing inflammation or adverse side effects.
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Researchers identify brain area linked to motivational disruptions in binge eating
Scientists have discovered that a small group of brain cells in the hypothalamus called 'orexin' neurons could be a promising target for medications for controlling binge eating episodes in individuals with obesity. These neurons, named for the chemical messenger they use to communicate with other brain cells, have previously been shown to be important for addiction to several drugs, including coc
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Mindset during meal planning changes food choices and brain responses to food
A simple instruction to change your thinking as mealtime approaches can help cut calories, according to new research. By encouraging study participants to concentrate on different types of information when planning their meal, the experimenters saw portion sizes shift. Adopting a health-focused mindset produced better outcomes than focusing on pleasure or the desire to fill up.
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Discrepancies found in prescription drug labeling pregnancy information across four countries
A study comparing the evidence and recommendation levels of pregnancy information in new prescription drug labeling found significant discrepancies in labeling information among the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Korea.
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Pediatric NEXUS head CT DI reliably guides blunt trauma imaging decisions
The Pediatric NEXUS Head Computed Tomography (CT) Decision Instrument (DI) reliably identifies blunt trauma patients who require head CT imaging and could significantly reduce the use of CT imaging.
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Exploding waves from colliding dissipative pulses
The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. These waves, known as dissipative pulses are driving experimental studies in a variety of areas that involve matter and energy flows. In the journal Chaos, researchers discuss their work studying collisions between three types of DSs to deter
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Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors
Recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks highlight the need for licensed treatments. ZMapp, an experimental therapy, has shown promise in a clinical trial, but targets only one of five known species of Ebola virus. Now NIAID-supported scientists have discovered powerful, broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) in the blood of EVD survivors. In animal studies, two of these antibodies provided sub
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New cost-effective instrument measures molecular dynamics on a picosecond timescale
Studying the photochemistry has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions in the human body and, alternatively, can provide 'photo-protection' by dispersing extra energy. To better understand the dynamics of these photochemical processes, a group of scientists irradiated the RNA base uracil with ultraviolet light and documented its behavior on a picosecond timescale.
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Digital media use linked to behavioral problems in kids
Teens who spend lots of time using digital devices are prone to psychiatric problems, reports a team of USC scientists in a new study that appears today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Children who are heavy users of digital devices are twice as likely as infrequent users to show symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the study finds.
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Study examines strength of evidence of drugs granted 'breakthrough' approval
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) created the Breakthrough Therapy designation in 2012 to expedite the development and review of drugs and biologics intended to treat serious or life-threatening conditions when preliminary clinical evidence suggested better improvement over existing therapies.
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Is there an association between more frequent use of digital media by teens and symptoms of ADHD?
Frequent use of digital media may be associated with the development of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in adolescence but more research is needed to know if the association is causal.
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Social isolation: Animals that break away from the pack can influence evolution
For some animals — such as beetles, ants, toads, and primates — short-term social isolation can be just as vital as social interaction to development and long-term evolution. In a review published July 17 in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, two evolutionary biologists describe approaches for testing how an animal's isolation might impact natural selection and evolution. This framework
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High vinculin levels help keep aging fruit fly hearts young
A new discovery in how heart muscles maintain their shape in fruit flies sheds light on the crucial relationship between cardiac function, metabolism, and longevity. Researchers have discovered that maintaining high levels of the protein vinculin confers health benefits to fruit flies. Their work, published in APL Bioengineering, shows that fruit flies bred to produce 50 percent more vinculin enjo
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There's A White Shark Cafe In The Middle Of The Pacific | Shark News
The apex predator of the sea has a secret lunch spot over 1,000 miles off the coast of Baja California. Shark Week 2018 starts Sunday July 22 9p! Stream Classic Shark Week Episodes: https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Discovery https://www.facebook.com/SharkWeek Follow on Twitter: htt
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Social isolation: Animals that break away from the pack can influence evolution
For some animals—such as beetles, ants, toads, and primates—short-term social isolation can be just as vital as social interaction to development and long-term evolution. In a review published July 17 in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution, two evolutionary biologists describe approaches for testing how an animal's isolation might impact natural selection and evolution. This framework can he
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High vinculin levels help keep aging fruit fly hearts young
Our cells tend to lose their shape as we grow older, contributing to many of the effects we experience as aging. This poses particular problems for the heart, where aging can disrupt the protein network within muscle cells that move blood around the body. A new discovery in how heart muscles maintain their shape in fruit flies sheds light on the crucial relationship between cardiac function, metab
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New cost-effective instrument measures molecular dynamics on a picosecond timescale
Studying the photochemistry, or chemical results of light, has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions in the human body and, alternatively, can provide "photo-protection" by dispersing extra energy. To better understand the dynamics of these photochemical processes, a group of scientists irradiated the RNA base uracil with ultraviolet light and documented its behav
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Exploding waves from colliding dissipative pulses
The interaction of traveling waves in dissipative systems, physical systems driven by energy dissipation, can yield unexpected and sometimes chaotic results. These waves, known as dissipative pulses (DSs), are driving experimental studies in a variety of areas that involve matter and energy flows.
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12-Million-Ton Iceberg Threatens Greenland Village
Residents of a small town on Greenland's western coast were evacuated after a giant iceberg parked itself nearby.
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Alcohol's health risks are far easier to prove than its benefits
Health Drinking is part of American life, but its health consequences may be underplayed. Partially because it is such a commonly used substance, heavily marketed and glamorized in pop culture, Americans' comfort with and acceptance of alcohol is high. Should…
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Sleeping Vs. Being Awake
You spend a 3rd of your live sleeping and the other 2/3 being awake. That's a total of your entire life! There are many benefits to both wakefulness and sleeping, but which is your preferred state? Being Awake You live most of your life being awake, so enjoy the many benefits of wakefulness! You can can use your waking hours to do an infinite number of wonderful (or terrible) things, so don't tak
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Gold nanoparticles to find applications in hydrogen economy
The international team of scientist of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), Leibniz University Hannover (Leibniz Universität Hannover) and the Ioffe Institute found a way to improve nanocomposite material which opens new opportunities to use it in hydrogen economy and other industries. The study is dedicated to the composite material, a semiconductor based on titanium dio
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The power of diversity within yourself | Rebeca Hwang
Rebeca Hwang has spent a lifetime juggling identities — Korean heritage, Argentinian upbringing, education in the United States — and for a long time she had difficulty finding a place in the world to call home. Yet along with these challenges came a pivotal realization: that a diverse background is a distinct advantage in today's globalized world. In this personal talk, Hwang reveals the endles
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The Anti-Trump Hysteria Isn't Helping
President Donald Trump's press conference with Russia's Vladimir Putin was a debacle. The president went from an anodyne prepared statement to a question-and-answer session that ping-ponged between stunning and appalling (with a bit of emetic thrown in for good measure). Suffice it to say, it was a new low from a chief executive who is redefining the term. But the reaction on Twitter from the for
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Rising sea levels are coming for the internet
Rising seas threaten more than 4,000 miles of buried fiber optic cables in densely populated US coastal regions, report researchers. Seattle is one of three cities at most risk of internet disruptions. In a talk to internet network researchers, Ramakrishnan Durairajan, an assistant professor in the computer and information science department at the University of Oregon, warned that most of the da
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Galileo Would Be Stunned: Jupiter Now Has 79 Moons12 New Moons Jupiter
Astronomers have found 12 more moons orbiting the planet Jupiter. These moons are all small — just 5 kilometers or less across — and one of them behaves very strangely. (Image credit: Image by Roberto Molar Candanosa, courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science)
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Majority of older adults with probable dementia are likely unaware they have it, study suggests
An analysis of information gathered for an ongoing and federally sponsored study of aging and disability adds to evidence that a substantial majority of older adults with probable dementia in the United States have never been professionally diagnosed or are unaware they have been.
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Variations of a single gene drive diverse pigeon feather patterns
Biologists have discovered that different versions of a single gene, called NDP (Norrie Disease Protein), have unexpected links between color patterns in pigeons, and vision defects in humans. These gene variations were likely bred into pigeons by humans from a different pigeon species and are now evolutionarily advantageous in wild populations of feral pigeons living in urban environments.
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Who made the error? The brain distinguishes causes of errors to perform adaptation
Scientists examined positions to detect motor and target errors and whether error signals from these positions were used for learning, finding that the parietal lobe detected causes of motor errors in arm reaching and provided signals to compensate for errors. They also revealed that Brodmann area 5 detected the self-generated motor error and that Brodmann area 7 detected target error caused by ta
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How does the sun's rotational cycle influence lightning activity on earth?
A collaborative research team has taken the first steps to understanding how the sun's rotational cycle influences lightning activity. They found answers in an unusual source — diaries dating back to the 1700s.
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Impact of temperature on mitochondrial DNA evolution
A new study provides evidence towards selection in mtDNA due to variations in temperature.
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Newly discovered shark species honors female pioneer
The 'Shark Lady,' Mote Marine Lab founder Eugenie Clark, has received the ultimate ichthyologist honor: having a new species of shark, Squalus clarkae, named after her.
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Incarceration of parents impacts health of their children into adulthood
A new study published in Pediatrics found that young adults who had a parent incarcerated during their childhood are more likely to skip needed healthcare, smoke cigarettes, engage in risky sexual behaviors, and abuse alcohol, prescription and illicit drugs. These findings have a potentially broad impact, as more than five million US children have had a parent in jail or prison.
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Why men might recover from flu faster than women
Men may recover more quickly from influenza infections because they produce more of a key lung-healing protein, a study from scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests.
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Why Nature Prefers Couples, Even for Yeast
We tend to think about two biological sexes: male and female. But before the evolution of eggs and sperm — before sex cells began to diverge in size and form — organisms couldn't be classified by sex. The same holds true for many fungi, algae and protozoans today. Instead of sexes, these species have mating types, with sex cells that differ at the molecular level but not anatomically. And those m
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A dozen new moons of Jupiter discovered, including one 'oddball'12 New Moons Jupiter
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found — 11 'normal' outer moons, and one that they're calling an 'oddball.' Astronomers first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant solar system objects as part of the hunt for a possible massive planet far beyond Pluto.
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Brain iron levels may predict multiple sclerosis disabilities
A new, highly accurate MRI technique can monitor iron levels in the brains of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and help identify those at a higher risk for developing physical disability, according to a new study.
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The depths of the ocean and gut flora unravel the mystery of microbial genes
Surprisingly, the functions of a huge number of microbial genes are still unknown. This knowledge gap can be thought of as "genomic dark matter" in microbes, and neither computational biology nor current lab techniques have been able address this gap. This challenge has now been tackled through an international collaboration between the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and t
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World's largest study on allergic rhinitis reveals new risk genes
Scientists have presented the largest study so far on allergic rhinitis. The data of nearly 900,000 participants revealed loci in the human genome whose changes significantly increase the risk of disease.
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Genetically modifying future children isn't just wrong. It would harm all of us | Marcy Darnovsky
Genome editing for human embryos is an unnecessary threat to society. Why has the Nuffield Council of Bioethics endorsed it? The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has taken what it clearly regards as a brave new step: it has openly endorsed the use of genome editing to engineer the traits of future children and generations. The council's report, Genome editing and human reproduction : social and ethic
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EPA proposal to limit science studies draws opposition
Democratic lawmakers are joining scientists in denouncing an industry-backed proposal to dramatically limit what kind of science the Environmental Protection Agency can consider in rule-making.
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Amazon upbeat on Prime Day, despite early glitches
Amazon is hoping customers don't see any more dogs, after early problems on Prime Day meant people trying to shop got only images of cute canines delivering an apologetic message.
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A dozen new moons of Jupiter discovered, including one 'oddball'
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found — 11 'normal' outer moons, and one that they're calling an 'oddball.' A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant solar system objects as part of the hunt for a possible massive planet far beyond Pluto.
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Brain iron levels may predict multiple sclerosis disabilities
A new, highly accurate MRI technique can monitor iron levels in the brains of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and help identify those at a higher risk for developing physical disability, according to a new study.
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Jupiter's moon count reaches 79, including tiny 'oddball'12 New Moons Jupiter
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found—11 "normal" outer moons, and one that they're calling an "oddball." This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79—the most of any planet in our Solar System.
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Astronomers discover 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter – one on collision course with the others
A head-on collision between two Jovian moons would create a crash so large it would be visible from earth One of a dozen new moons discovered around Jupiter is circling the planet on a suicide orbit that will inevitably lead to its violent destruction, astronomers say. Valetudo (one of Jupiter's moons) is driving down the highway on the wrong side of the road. Continue reading…
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Immigrants and their children are more likely to be profiled for citizenship
Law enforcement official are most likely to ask first- or second-generation Latinos for papers proving their right to be in the US. This is according to a study published in Springer's journal Race and Social Problems. Lead author, Maria Cristina Morales of the University of Texas at El Paso in the US, says the findings are important given that US law enforcement officers are increasingly required
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Rolls-Royce warns about Brexit uncertainty
The boss of British aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce warned Tuesday that the government's new Brexit blueprint failed to dispel uncertainty and cautioned over supply pressures.
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It's no vibranium or proto-adamantium, but researcher's new alloy comes close
Four times stronger than stainless steel, a unique alloy blends chromium, cobalt, iron, manganese and silicon.
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They worked at Apple, Amazon and Lyft. Now they're working to get you stoned
For much of her career, Natasha Pecor followed a path well-worn by tech workers. She built her reputation with her first employer in the industry, earning the title head of platform at Yelp. Then she jumped to one of the giants, Amazon, where she worked as a product manager.
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When a DNA Test Shatters Your Identity
I t was AncestryDNA's customer service rep who had to break the news to Catherine St Clair. For her part, St Clair thought she was inquiring about a technical glitch. Her brother—the brother who along with three other siblings had gifted her the DNA test for her birthday—wasn't showing up right in her family tree. It was not a glitch, the woman on the line had to explain gently, if this news can
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When Are Trans Actors Allowed to Act?
On Sunday night's episode of Pose , the Ryan Murphy–helmed FX drama that follows the lives of several young queer and transgender people in New York's ballroom scene, opportunities vanished. In one scene, Blanca (Mj Rodriguez) confronts Lil Papi (Angel Bismark Curiel), one of the abandoned queer youths she'd brought into her house, after she finds out that he's been selling drugs. As he tries to
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Michigan's most endangered species nears extinction in one county
At an idyllic, quiet, tranquil patch of fen and prairie in Oakland County's Springfield Township, a tragedy is unfolding.
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Jupiter's Moon Total Hits 79
The International Astronomical Union reports that there are now 79 known Jovian moons, with a dozen found last year. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New findings suggest allergic responses may protect against skin cancer
The components of the immune system that trigger allergic reactions may also help protect the skin against cancer, suggest new findings.
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Childhood adversity increases susceptibility to addiction via immune response
Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body's immune response to cocaine, reports a study by researchers at the IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation and University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy.
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Study: Protein found to be key component in irregularly excited brain cells
In a new study in mice, researchers have identified a key protein involved in the irregular brain cell activity seen in autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy. The protein, p53, is well-known in cancer biology as a tumor suppressor.
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Jupiter has 12 more moons than we knew about — and one is bizarre
Astronomers found a dozen previously unknown moons of Jupiter, and one may be a remnant of a larger moon that was all but ground to dust.
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Astronomers Discovered 12 New Moons Around Jupiter. Here's How12 New Moons Jupiter
Eleven of them behave a lot like Jupiter's other moons, but the twelfth one is weird (in a good way).
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'Nanoscope' zooms in to see Alzheimer's plaques
A major problem with understanding Alzheimer's is not being able to clearly see why the disease starts. Now, a super-resolution "nanoscope" offers a 3D view of brain molecules with 10 times greater detail than ever before. Recent studies show that 40 percent of Americans over the age of 85 have Alzheimer's disease. Further, the disease begins 10 to 20 years before people ever show up at the docto
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Baseball Needs Bryce Harper to Be Better
In some ways, the present moment looks like a pinnacle for Bryce Harper. Tuesday evening, the 25-year-old Washington Nationals slugger will be starting in the All-Star Game in his home ballpark, marking his fourth consecutive appearance at the midsummer classic and the sixth of his seven-year career. Monday night, he made his much-anticipated return to the Home Run Derby (he long maintained he'd
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Glow-In-The-Dark Sharks
Glow-In-The-Dark Sharks A deep-sea creature that mainly lives in the dark glows to find a mate. Glow-In-The-Dark Sharks Video of Glow-In-The-Dark Sharks Creature Tuesday, July 17, 2018 – 09:30 Karin Heineman, Executive Producer (Inside Science) — There are just a handful of land animals that can create their own light — the most well-known are fireflies. But down in the deep sea, where natural
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Tempted to buy an Amazon tablet or Fire TV? Read this first
When it comes to the Amazon Prime Day sales, a frequently discounted staple is the company's line of Fire tablets, Fire TV sticks and boxes.
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Amazon's website crashes for some users as Prime Day kicks off
Amazon's website experienced widespread crashes and problems Monday shortly after the e-commerce company's annual day of sales, Prime Day, began at noon.
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White mass shooters receive sympathetic media treatment
White mass shooters receive much more sympathetic treatment in the media than black shooters, according to a new study that analyzed coverage of 219 attacks.
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China's Didi teams with Booking.com for $500mn investment
Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing landed a $500 million investment from Booking Holdings, owner of Booking.com and similar sites, in a tie-up that will see the companies offer their services on each other's platforms, they said Tuesday.
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Walmart, Microsoft team up to take on AmazonWalmart Microsoft Amazon
Walmart said Tuesday it was entering into a strategic partnership with Microsoft on "digital transformation" for the onetime retail industry leader.
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Dutch company gets funding to bring lab-grown meat to market
A Dutch company that presented the world's first lab-grown beef burger five years ago says it has received funding to pursue its plans to make and sell artificially grown meat to restaurants from 2021.
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Immigrants and their children are more likely to be profiled for citizenship
Law enforcement official are most likely to ask first- or second-generation Latinos for papers proving their right to be in the US. This is according to a study published in Springer's journal Race and Social Problems. Lead author, Maria Cristina Morales of the University of Texas at El Paso in the US, says the findings are important given that US law enforcement officers are increasingly required
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Study demonstrates impact of temperature on mitochondrial DNA evolution
A new study by researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), provides evidence towards selection in mtDNA due to variations in temperature.
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World's largest study on allergic rhinitis reveals new risk genes
An international team of scientists led by Helmholtz Zentrum München and University of Copenhagen has presented the largest study so far on allergic rhinitis in the journal 'Nature Genetics'. The data of nearly 900,000 participants revealed loci in the human genome whose changes significantly increase the risk of disease.
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Machine-learning predicted a superhard and high-energy-density tungsten nitride
A collaborated research team led by Prof. Jian Sun and Prof. Hui-Tian Wang at the Department of Physics, Nanjing University implemented a machine-learning algorithm into the crystal structure search method and found a superhard tungsten nitride by using their new method. Their calculations show that this compound is the hardest transition metal nitride known so far, and it also has other extraordi
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College isn't a cure for the racial wealth gap
Education is not a panacea for the racial wealth gap, according to new research. On average, black families in the US have just five to 10 percent as much wealth as white families do. One 2015 study showed that black households headed by a college graduate have roughly one-third less wealth than white households headed by a high school dropout. Yet for decades, many people have staunchly argued f
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New shark species could be swimming toward UK as seas warm
University of Southampton research suggests new types of sharks could be heading to UK waters as a result of warming seas.
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Early puberty boosts substance use risk for white boys
White adolescent boys who go through puberty early are at higher risk for substance use than later developing boys, a new study finds. "The earlier your first sip of alcohol or that you try other kinds of drugs, the more likely you are to go on to develop lifelong addiction and problems with substance use," says Kristine Marceau, assistant professor in human development and family studies at Purd
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Variations of a single gene drive diverse pigeon feather patterns
In a new study, a team led by University of Utah biologists has discovered that different versions of a single gene, called NDP (Norrie Disease Protein), have unexpected links between color patterns in pigeons, and vision defects in humans. These gene variations were likely bred into pigeons by humans from a different pigeon species and are now evolutionarily advantageous in wild populations of fe
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Using driving simulation to understand driver complacency at passive rail level crossings
In a new Human Factors article, researchers have shown that a validated advanced driving simulator is an effective tool for examining risky behavior at passive rail level crossings, where static signs alert drivers to stop. Such crossings have been the scene of significant global fatalities, but studying driver behavior in the real world to make them safer is not practical—hence the need for simul
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New magnetic anomaly map helps unveil Antarctica
The most comprehensive magnetic map of Antarctica ever produced is published this week (15 July 2018). The new map – which includes 3.5 million line-kilometres of magnetic anomaly data collected over the past 50 years – sheds new light on the structure and evolution of the Antarctic continent and its surrounding oceans.
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Study demonstrates impact of temperature on mitochondrial DNA evolution
A new study by researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), provides evidence towards selection in mtDNA due to variations in temperature.
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The depths of the ocean and gut flora unravel the mystery of microbial genes
Surprisingly, the functions of a huge number of microbial genes are still unknown. This knowledge gap can be thought of as "genomic dark matter" in microbes, and neither computational biology nor current lab techniques have been able address this gap.This challenge has now been tackled through an international collaboration between the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and two
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How does the sun's rotational cycle influence lightning activity on earth?
A collaborative research team in Japan has taken the first steps to understanding how the sun's rotational cycle influences lightning activity. They found answers in an unusual source — diaries dating back to the 1700s.
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New findings for 'gifted' Otago geneticist diagnosing rare genetic disorders
Recent research undertaken by University of Otago Cure Kids Professor Paediatric Genetics, Stephen Robertson, highlights the world-leading discoveries he is making regarding rare genetic disorders affecting children and the opportunity genomic analysis is providing.
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Major study identifies new hay fever risk genes
In a large international study involving almost 900,000 participants, researchers from the University of Copenhagen and COPSAC have found new risk genes for hay fever. It is the largest genetic study so far on this type of allergy, which affects millions of people around the world.
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Studies of all PIH proteins in zebrafish reveal distinct roles in axonemal dynein assembly
A research team led by Masahide Kikkawa, a professor of the University of Tokyo, established zebrafish mutants of all four PIH-protein genes and solved the structures of axonemal dyneins in mutant spermatozoa by cryo-electron tomography.
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Who made the error? The brain distinguishes causes of errors to perform adaptation
Osaka University scientists examined positions to detect motor and target errors and whether error signals from these positions were used for learning, finding that the parietal lobe detected causes of motor errors in arm reaching and provided signals to compensate for errors. They also revealed that Brodmann area 5 detected the self-generated motor error and that Brodmann area 7 detected target e
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Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelganger
One object has long been known: the 13-Jupiter-mass planet beta Pictoris b, one of the first planets discovered by direct imaging, back in 2009. The new object, dubbed 2MASS 0249 c, has the same mass, brightness, and spectrum as beta Pictoris b.
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Din overlevelsesguide til at undvære arbejdet i ferien
Længes du midt i sommerferien pludselig tilbage til din daglige dont, så ty til denne inspirationskilde over steder, bøger og aktiviteter, der kan dulme abstinenserne.
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Plants are way more energy efficient than we thought
Photorespiration wastes little energy and instead enhances nitrate assimilation, the process that converts nitrate from the soil into protein, according to a new study. Photosynthesis is one of the most crucial life processes on Earth. It's how plants get their food, using energy from sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide from the air into sugars. Scientists have long believed that more th
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The Seventh Sense
Long thought to be divorced from the brain, the immune system turns out to be intimately involved in its functioning — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The depths of the ocean and gut flora unravel the mystery of microbial genes
Understanding the functions of genes in bacteria that form part of the human microbiome—the collection of microbes found inside our bodies—is important because these genes might explain mechanisms of bacterial infection or cohabitation in the host, antibiotic resistance, or the many effects—positive and negative—that the microbiome has on human health.
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Mode changing and giant pulses found in a millisecond pulsar
Canadian astronomers have identified mode changing and giant pulses in the millisecond pulsar known as PSR B1957+20. It is the first time when mode changing mechanism has been observed in a millisecond pulsar. The finding is detailed in a paper published July 4 on the arXiv pre-print server.
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Fin Frenzy | Countdown to Shark Week: The Daily Bite
In this episode, Jordan Carlos brings us another segment of Fin Frenzy and we get our next lesson from The Captain in shark mating. Finally, we end this episode with some tongue twisting shark vocab as we expand our shark knowledge in prep for Shark Week. Shark Week 2018 starts Sunday July 22 9p! Stream The Daily Bite on Discovery GO: https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/the-daily-bite/ Stream Clas
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The role of sleep on the specifics of human memory (research summary)
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BMW's Launching an Uber Competitor in Seattle
The automaker's ReachNow car-sharing service now lets users book rides with pro drivers, putting it in competition with and Uber Black and Lyft Lux.
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Does Comics Culture Have an Inferiority Complex?
The comics industry, and its fans, are no longer the underdogs.
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Best Prime Day Gaming Deals (2018): Xbox, Nintendo, PC, Headset Deals
Some fantastic gear for gamers is on sale for Amazon Prime Day, including consoles, headsets, PCs, accessories, and games.
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In the era of Brexit and fake news, scientists need to embrace social media
Social media can be an intimidating place for academics as not all of them take to it like ducks to water. For many newcomers, a more appropriate analogy is a newborn giraffe—clumsy, awkward and vulnerable to prey.
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Increase in wildfires causing bad air days in US Northwest to get worse over the past 28 years
A pair of researchers with the University of Washington has found that an increase in wildfire size and duration over the past 28 years has led to worsening bad air days in the U.S. Northwest. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Crystal McClure and Daniel Jaffe describe their study and what their results mean for people living in affected areas.
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What psychological science can offer to reducing climate change
The consequences of climate change are immense, and believed by many experts to be largely irreversible (and exponential), causing threats coming from heat waves, flooding, declines in agriculture, and decreasing biodiversity, to name a few. Given that climate change, at least in part, is rooted in human behavior, an obvious question to ask is: Can psychological science offer evidence-based soluti
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White mass shooters receive sympathetic media treatment
White mass shooters receive much more sympathetic treatment in the media than black shooters, according to a new study that analyzed coverage of 219 attacks. Findings showed that white shooters were 95 percent more likely to be described as 'mentally ill' than black shooters.
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Tackling cancer at ground zero with designer molecules
A new molecule designed by University of Adelaide researchers shows great promise for future treatment of many cancers.
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Technique may improve lung delivery of bacteria-killing phage
A new delivery system for bacteriophages–viruses that selectively attack harmful bacteria–could help give doctors a new way to battle lung infections that threaten older patients and people with cystic fibrosis.
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Active surveillance of lung subsolid nodules reduces unnecessary surgery and overtreatment
Subsolid nodules (SSN) can be considered a biomarker of lung cancer risk and should be managed with long-term active surveillance. Conservative management of SSN will reduce unnecessary surgery and overtreatment in patients with multiple comorbidities and aggressive lung cancer arising from lung sites other than the SSN.
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A Sense of Discovery: How the Immune System Works with the Brain
— Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New insight into Greenland's melting glaciers
New research into Greenland's glaciers will help bring accurate sea level rise forecasts – which are crucial in preparing for the impacts of climate change—a step closer.
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6 ways to safely exercise in extremely hot weather
When temperatures spike in the summer, it's important to make sure you temper your workouts to stay safe, says Sandeep Mannava, a sports medicine specialist at University of Rochester Medicine. Here, Mannava offers tips to avoid overexertion on exceptionally hot days, which can lead to illness or potentially life-threatening issues. 1. Know your limits Be aware of your fitness limitations and res
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Study suggests women in biomedical sciences have equal chance of success in sustaining grant funding
A team of researchers at the National Institutes of Health has found that women in biomedical sciences are just as successful as men in sustaining grant funding. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of grant approval rates for men and women in the biomedical sciences.
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Trump's Weak Defense of His Meeting With Putin
Even many Republicans who normally support or silently abide Donald Trump criticized the president Monday after his press conference with Vladimir Putin. The Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire prompted the most controversial exchange by asking, "Just now President Putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. Every U.S. intelligence agency has concluded that Ru
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Cranes here to stay, new model predicts
The UK's tallest bird – the common crane – is here to stay and we could have as many as 275 breeding pairs within 50 years, according to the latest population model from scientists at the University of Exeter, WWT and RSPB published in Animal Conservation.
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Variations of a single gene drive diverse pigeon feather patterns
In a new study, a team led by University of Utah biologists has discovered that different versions of a single gene, called NDP (Norrie Disease Protein), have unexpected links between color patterns in pigeons, and vision defects in humans. These gene variations were likely bred into pigeons by humans from a different pigeon species and are now evolutionarily advantageous in wild populations of fe
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Majority of older adults with probable dementia are likely unaware they have it, study suggests
A Johns Hopkins Medicine analysis of information gathered for an ongoing and federally sponsored study of aging and disability adds to evidence that a substantial majority of older adults with probable dementia in the United States have never been professionally diagnosed or are unaware they have been.
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Flydende farm med 40 malkekøer er på vej til Rotterdam
Wauw! Ingeniøren blev blæst bagover af potentialet i denne banebrydende idé, der fra sidst på året kan opleves i Holland – og senere måske blive dagligdag i alverdens storbyer.
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Insurers And Government Are Slow To Cover Expensive CAR-T Cancer Therapy
Treatment costs for the immunotherapy can run to more than $1 million. Some state Medicaid programs aren't paying for the treatment, and Medicare's complicated payment rates have hospitals worried. (Image credit: Fanatic Studio/Collection Mix: Subjects RF/Getty Images)
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'Sonic Mania Plus' Manages to Be Different Where It Counts
A good remix can provide a thrilling encounter with an already fantastic game—and that's what Sega's latest accomplishes with a new gameplay mode.
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Prime Day Alternatives: Best Deals From Google, Walmart, Dell
Amazon may have Prime Day, but rivals like Google and Walmart are holding huge sales too.
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Barbie becomes a scientist, thanks to stereotype expert
Sapna Cheryan has spent much of her career researching the stereotypes that contribute to male-dominated science and technology fields. She's traced those ideas to childhood, to the toys boys and girls play with and to the beliefs they form about who programs a computer and who feels at home in a lab. "If there's a way to influence children, it's through a toy…" So when Mattel in the spring asked
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The case for full-fat yogurt
Health Dairy fat may be saturated, but it's not unhealthy the way animal fats are. Not all fats are created equal. There's the dangerous trans fats, the healthy unsaturated fats, and the middling saturated fats, but even within that final category…
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Image of the Day: Eye-Opener
An open-source microscopy method can super-resolve live cells even under low lighting.
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What Is Less Scary in the Dark?
There is a way that the dark makes us feel safer—and this has implications for our health — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tinder for Cheetahs? Big Cats Are Attracted by Urine Smell
The enticing scent of pee could help female felines choose the best mate — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Podcast: why is positive news coverage so vital in today's world?
This episode of our regular podcast focuses on the impact of the modern news cycle on our health and wellbeing, and whether a greater focus on positive, hopeful, solution-based stories could help to mitigate this What are the effects of negative news on our mental health and sense of empowerment? How does it effect our trust in the media? Why historically has negative news become so prevalent at
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CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing scissors are less accurate than we thought, but there are fixes
CRISPR gene editing technology is revolutionising medicine and biology. This technique allows scientists to edit DNA with more precision and greater ease than previous gene editing technology.
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Magma storage and eruptive behaviour at Bali volcano
A new study by researchers at Uppsala University and the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) published in the journal Scientific Reports sheds light on magma storage under the currently active Agung volcano on the island of Bali in Indonesia. Magma at Agung is stored at both mantle (~20 km) and shallow crustal (~5 km) depths, which may be a potential cause for sudden p
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Semantic concept discovery over event databases
At IBM Research AI, we built an AI-based solution to assist analysts in preparing reports. The paper describing this work recently won the best paper award at the "In-Use" Track of the 2018 Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC).
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New PRRI/The Atlantic Poll: Americans Sharply Split About Core Democratic Issues
Washington, D.C. (July 17, 2018)—Americans are sharply divided by political party, race, and ethnicity regarding what they consider to be the biggest problems facing the U.S. electoral system, according to a newly released PRRI/ The Atlantic poll . In another possible perception gap between elites and everyone else, many survey respondents were not concerned about civic issues that have received
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Not Everyone Can Afford a Job They Love
Every so often, Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, will have a conversation with her 3-year-old son in which he'll ask her why she has to go to work. Saujani loves her job and wants to ensure that her son has a good relationship to work. "Mommy's helping girls," she tells him. Saujani wasn't always helping girls. Having taken on around $300,000 of student-loan debt to attend Yale Law
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This Magnetic Wire Could One Day Pull Cancer Cells from Your Blood
A magnetic wire inserted into a vein could attract magnetized tumor cells
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Liver Cancer Death Rates Rise As Overall Cancer Death Rates Fall in the US
Death rates from liver cancer have risen steadily since 2000, resulting in the disease going from the ninth-leading cause of cancer death to the sixth, according to a new report.
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The longest period transiting planet candidate from K2
To discover and confirm the presence of a planet around stars other than the sun, astronomers wait until it has completed three orbits. However, this very effective technique has its drawbacks since it cannot confirm the presence of planets at relatively long periods (it is ideally suited for periods of a few days to a few months). To overcome this obstacle, a team of astronomers under the directi
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'The Poisoned City' chronicles Flint's water crisis
A new book examines how lead ended up in Flint's water and resulted in a prolonged public health disaster.
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This man's quest to understand memory starts with obsessive bodycam recording and brain-wave tracking
By-products include striking short films that speed up and slow down along in response to body signals.
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Climate Change Is Killing These Ancient Trees , but That's Just Part of the Story
New research shows 2,000-year-old baobab trees are suddenly dying. New trees won't have a chance, either — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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It takes just six minutes for a dog to die in a hot car
The soaring temperatures in Europe and North America have seen a rise in reports of dogs being rescued from hot cars. Police across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Canada have all saved dogs from certain death. But in the US, a Great Dane in Juneau, Alaska, a Pitbull Boxer mix in Trussvile, Alabama, and three Rottweilers in Long Island, New York were not so lucky.
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New study could hold key to hack-proof systems
Major data breaches have made worldwide headlines of late but an international consortium of scientists—including a professor from Heriot-Watt—have developed a new technique that could result in hack-proof systems.
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Anatomy of a protein kinase spine and how to break it
The post-translational addition of phosphate groups to serine, threonine and tyrosine residues is a fundamental strategy for regulating protein activities in eukaryotes. Eukaryotic protein kinases—the enzymes that catalyze these modifications—are critical to cellular function, and aberrant kinase activities are associated with many diseases including cancer, inflammation, infection, diabetes, hype
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An atom-thick graphene membrane for industrial gas separation
Chemical engineers at EPFL have demonstrated for the first time that an atom-thick graphene membrane can separate gas mixtures with a high-efficiency. The "ultimate" membrane is scalable, making it a breakthrough for industrial gas separation.
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Disclosing trade secrets increases risk of cyberattack, study finds
U.S. firms that disclosed the existence of trade secrets have a significantly higher probability of becoming targets of hackers, according to a new study led by a University of Kansas accounting professor.
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For Scientists Running for Congress, Victory Doesn't Depend on Science
Engineers, researchers, physicians have won or lost primary races based on other factors — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sociologist uses Twitter to research criminological behavior online
In the modern era of social media, more than 300 million people use Twitter to share news and engage in online conversations. This provides a glimpse into the minds of a diverse public – making Twitter a useful tool for researchers to study people who sympathize and promote extreme violence.
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Researchers work to advance understanding of hydrodynamic instabilities in NIF, astrophysics
In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) "Special Feature" paper published online June 26, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and University of Michigan researchers reported on recent experiments and techniques designed to improve understanding and control of hydrodynamic (fluid) instabilities in high energy density (HED) settings such as those that occur in inertial
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What is the meaning of life? Ask a conservative
"To be or not to be?" Hamlet asked aloud as he pondered the meaning of life.
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Murder rates highest in countries that lack due process
Governments that do the best job protecting the rights of the accused have the lowest murder rates, while those that neglect due process have the highest, according to a five-year study of 89 countries by CU Boulder political scientists.
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Nanocrystal links could lead to better electronics, scientists say
Chemists and engineers today are very interested in a kind of nanotechnology enabled by tiny islands of nanoparticles called "colloidal nanocrystals." They can be made out of abundant and non-toxic materials, and they can be easily tweaked to have a number of different properties as a function of their size. Depending on how they're built, colloidal nanocrystals could be made into solar panels, el
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Using driving simulation to understand driver complacency at passive rail level crossings
The study replicates and extends prior research on the effectiveness of using driving simulators to detect and mitigate risky behaviors.
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Technique may improve lung delivery of bacteria-killing phage
A new delivery system for bacteriophages—viruses that selectively attack harmful bacteria—could help give doctors a new way to battle lung infections that threaten older patients and people with cystic fibrosis.
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DTU Fysik shopper ny klynge-supercomputer med Linux
12 millioner på højkant til nyt klynge-system til atomforskning.
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Voter Suppression Is Warping Democracy
Voter suppression almost certainly helped Donald Trump win the presidency. Multiple academic studies and court rulings indicate that racially biased election laws, such as voter-ID legislation in places like Wisconsin, favored Republican candidates in 2016. Like most other elections in American history, this one wasn't a fair fight. A new poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (
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One Country, Two Radically Different Narratives
The United States is one country, but Americans are living in two separate worlds. In one version of America, the country is headed in the totally wrong direction. Billionaires control politics. Foreign governments meddle in elections. And not enough people vote to demand a change. In the other America, things are looking up, particularly with a good president in office. But some civic functions
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How Kavanaugh's Last Confirmation Hearing Could Haunt Him
The last time Brett Kavanaugh appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in May 2006, the country was slowly learning about some of the extraordinary steps the George W. Bush administration had taken as part of its anti-terrorism efforts—from warrantless wiretapping to torture of detainees. Kavanaugh had spent five years in the White House, and was nominated for a lifetime appointment on the
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Researchers identify protein essential for making stem cells
Researchers at the School of Medicine have identified a new protein critical to the production of induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells.
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Genetically engineered eggplant improving lives in Bangladesh
Ansar Ali earned just 11,000 taka – about $130 U.S. dollars – from eggplant he grew last year in Bangladesh. This year, after planting Bt eggplant, he brought home more than double that amount, 27,000 taka. It's a life-changing improvement for a subsistence farmer like Ali.
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How Google's Safe Browsing Helped Build a More Secure WebGoogle Assistant Android
You may not have heard of Safe Browsing, but it's made the web more secure for over a decade. Here's its story, from the people who built it.
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Crispr Can Speed Up Nature—and Change How We Grow Food
It took thousands of years for humans to breed a pea-sized fruit into a beautiful beefsteak tomato. Now, with gene editing, scientists can change everything.
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Team develops new generation of artificial neural networks able to predict properties of organic compounds
Scientists from Russia, Estonia and the United Kingdom have created a new method for predicting the bioconcentration factor (BCF) of organic molecules. Leveraging the classical models of physicochemical interactions between the solvent and the solute and advanced machine learning methods, the new approach makes it possible to predict complex properties of a substance based on a minimum set of inpu
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Dawn mission to gather more data in home stretch
As NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to wrap up its groundbreaking 11-year mission, which has included two successful extended missions at Ceres, it will continue to explore—collecting images and other data.
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Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelgänger
When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelgänger differs in one very important way: its origin.
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Tackling cancer at ground zero with designer molecules
A new molecule designed by University of Adelaide researchers shows great promise for future treatment of many cancers.
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The turbulent life of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq
Launched in 1932 the school has spent almost a century uncovering Iraq's ancient treasures, including the spectacular Assyrian capital at Nimrud On a dark November day in 1929, the nascent British School of Archaeology in Iraq launched its appeal for funds. Central Hall in Westminster was packed to overflowing and the audience was treated to a lantern slide show of recent discoveries in Iraq, fol
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Startup innovates by developing IoT technology for forestry sector
Since its inception in 2016, Brazilian startup Treevia, based in Sao Jose dos Campos, São Paulo State, has been developing a remote forest monitoring system named SmartForest, which uses electronic sensors to monitor forest growth in real time. The system provides forest managers the data required for taking forest inventory by means of remote collection and uses mathematical and statistical metho
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What happens when we heat the atomic lattice of a magnet all of a sudden?
Magnets have fascinated humans for several thousand years and enabled the age of digital data storage. They occur in various flavors. Ferrimagnets form the largest class of magnets and consist of two types of atoms. Similar to a compass needle, each atom exhibits a little magnetic moment, also called spin, which arises from the rotation of the atom's electrons about their own axes. In a ferrimagne
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Geologists find out how over 2.6 Ga years old rocks were formed at Limpopo Complex
Cratons (from the Greek "power" or "might") are the areas of the oldest continental crust on Earth, and are preserved only in only a few places around the world. According to scientists, the Kaapvaal Craton in the South Africa and the Pilbara Craton in Australia (the most ancient of these structures) were the parts of Vaalbara, an Archean supercontinent.
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MagicMark: A marking menu using 2-D direction and 3-D depth information
A recent study presents a novel marking menu, MagicMark, to extend the selection capability of large-screen interactions. By leveraging the 2-D directional information and 3-D depth information, MagicMark supports smooth freehand gestures to complete menu selection without any additional confirmation gesture. It can also provide seamless transition from a novice user to an expert user. Results of
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A step closer to quantum computers: Researchers show how to directly observe quantum spin effects
With companies like Google, Microsoft and IBM all racing to create the world's first practical quantum computer, scientists worldwide are exploring the potential materials that could be used to build them. Now, Associate Professor Yang Hyunsoo and his team from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering have demonstrat
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Når sex styrer dit liv: Nu bliver overdreven sextrang en sygdom
WHO tilføjer ukontrollerbar sextrang til listen over mentale lidelser.
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How to build efficient organic solar cells
Organic solar cells, made from carbon-based materials, present unique advantages compared with other solar cell technologies. For example, they can be manufactured through low-cost printing technologies, and they can be made semi-transparent with selectable colours, which can be used architecturally in building integration. Their flexibility and low weight make them perfect for powering the sensor
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Homogeneous BTK occupancy assay
A time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based BTK occupancy assay measures target engagement in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and in lymph-node and bone-marrow samples.
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The freediving champions of the dolphin world
New research explains how some populations of bottlenose dolphins can dive to almost 1,000 meters while avoiding decompression sickness. The new hypothesis suggests that lung architecture and the management of blood flow allow bottlenose dolphins to access oxygen in the lungs while preventing uptake of nitrogen which would cause the bends. The findings act as a starting point to understand how env
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Den niende planet er svær at finde – selv hvis den eksisterer
I to år har forskerne ledt efter en stor niende planet langt ude i solsystemet – hidtil uden held. Nu overvejer astronomerne alternative eftersøgningsteknikker.
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Country diary: metamorphosis in a museum tower
Oxford University Museum: For 70 years, researchers have been watching 'particularly hideous' young swifts turn into long-winged angels This glorious structure is a place rich in history. As we walked through the galleries our guide paused to show us the great oak door behind which Bishop Wilberforce confronted "Darwin's bulldog", Thomas Huxley , in their famous debate on evolution. We, however,
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The freediving champions of the dolphin world
For the first time, researchers have explored the physiological adaptations that enable different populations of the same species of dolphin to vary in diving ability by almost 1000m. The research, published in two complementary studies in Frontiers in Physiology, compared the lung mechanics and metabolic rates of bottlenose dolphin populations known for their different hunting depths. Using theor
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The short, tumultuous working life of a major league baseball pitcher
There are pitchers in Major League Baseball (MLB) who have had 30-year careers, but as UC Riverside demographer David Swanson points out, these are extreme outliers and often the stars of the game who receive most of the media's attention. The reality for most pitchers in baseball is that their professional working lives are surprisingly short—3.99 years on average—according to a new method of cal
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Why did home runs surge in baseball? Statistics provides twist on hot topic
Around the middle of the 2015 season, something odd started happening in Major League Baseball (MLB): Home runs surged. They surged again in 2016, from the previous year's 4,909 to 5,610, and then again in 2017 to an all-time high of 6,105.
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Antimatter plasma reveals secrets of deep space signals
Mysterious radiation emitted from distant corners of the galaxy could finally be explained with efforts to recreate a unique state of matter that blinked into existence in the first moments after the Big Bang.
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The French President Had a More American Response to Putin Than Trump Did
President Trump's astonishing news conference Monday with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, was as remarkable for what was said as what wasn't. "The disagreements between our two countries are well known and President Putin and I discussed them at length today," Trump said in Helsinki, Finland. "But if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world, then we're going to have to find
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Thyssenkrupp advisory board chief quits after Tata deal
German industrial giant Thyssenkrupp on Monday announced the resignation of the chairman of its advisory board after a dispute with shareholders.
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Statistics sends strong signal to market: Sales stability creates long-run success, not just sales
It was a bittersweet triumph. Their model had been validated in the real world. Share prices of Wayfair—which had billed itself as "the Amazon of furniture"—had fallen 23 percent over one day after the company announced a fourth-quarter loss. Wayfair's model was broken—and Daniel McCarthy's model, created with Wharton marketing professor Pete Fader, identified the flaw.
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Netflix shares dive as subscriber growth misses mark
Netflix shares plunged Monday after the leading streaming television service said subscriber growth fell short of expectations in the recently ended quarter.
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How to stop rape in Nairobi: Ground-breaking work by a group of Stanford statisticians
He has been called "Stanford's star of statistical inference," and he is responsible for creating a swathe of modern statistics, including the bootstrap. But when Brad Efron first heard about a project to tackle the horrific prevalence of rape in Nairobi's poorest schools, his first thought was that it required more than statistical help—it required "angelic" intervention. "I put it in the categor
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Expanding 'dead zone' in Arabian Sea raises climate change fears
In the waters of the Arabian Sea, a vast "dead zone" the size of Scotland is expanding and scientists say climate change may be to blame.
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Elon Musk's latest outburst raises doubts on leadership
Elon Musk has had a series of angry social media dust-ups with Wall Street analysts, journalists, employees and others.
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Rolls-Royce unveils hybrid flying taxi at Farnborough
British engine maker Rolls-Royce revealed plans this week to develop a hybrid electric vehicle, dubbed the "flying taxi", which takes off and lands vertically and could be airborne within five years.
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Decade of research shows little improvement in websites' password guidance
Leading internet brands including Amazon and Wikipedia are failing to support users with advice on how to securely protect their data, a study shows.
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The ancient armor of fish—scales—provide clues to hair, feather development
When sea creatures first began crawling and slithering onto land about 385 million years ago, they carried with them their body armor: scales. Fossil evidence shows that the earliest land animals retained scales as a protective feature as they evolved to flourish on terra firma.
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Decade of research shows little improvement in websites' password guidance
Leading brands including Amazon and Wikipedia are failing to support users with advice on how to securely protect their data, a study shows.
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Her tester de beton, som skal modstå ekstreme belastninger, reparere sig selv og holde i 200 år
Beton med unikke egenskaber udviklet af nanomaterialer testes nu i Norge.
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Amazon's hopes its Prime Day doesn't go to the dogs
Amazon is hoping customers don't see any more dogs, after early problems on Prime Day meant people trying to shop got only images of the cute canines delivering an apologetic message.
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Japan's growing plutonium stockpile fuels fears
Japan has amassed enough plutonium to make 6,000 atomic bombs as part of a programme to fuel its nuclear plants, but concern is growing that the stockpile is vulnerable to terrorists and natural disasters.
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Mur af tavshed omkring påstået Jens Rohde-hacking
EU-parlamentets it-afdeling kender intet til påstået hack, udført af politiske modstandere. Radiotavshed fra hovedpersonen og medarbejdere.
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Genetically modified babies given go ahead by UK ethics body
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics says changing the DNA of a human embryo could be 'morally permissable' if it is in the child's best interests The creation of babies whose DNA has been altered to give them what parents perceive to be the best chances in life has received a cautious green light in a landmark report from a leading UK ethics body. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics said that changin
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'My brain feels like it's been punched': the intolerable rise of perfectionism
The pursuit of perfection, taken to extremes, can lead to OCD and depression – and the number of students reporting the problem has jumped by 33% since 1989 Tom Nicol thought he had a problem with sleep. He could never get enough. He took "a very disciplined, stripped approach" to his routine. He drank water only at premeditated times, ate according to schedule, avoided caffeine, exercised (but n
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Top cancer genetics professor quits job over bullying allegations
Exclusive: Nazneen Rahman will leave the ICR in October after harassment claims A leading light in the world of cancer genetics, who was honoured at the outstanding Asian women of achievement awards and given a CBE, has quit her job at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) after facing multiple allegations of bullying dating back 12 years. Prof Nazneen Rahman, who is the high-profile head of gen
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Researchers identify brain area linked to motivational disruptions in binge eating
Scientists at Rutgers Brain Health Institute have discovered that a small group of brain cells in the hypothalamus called 'orexin' neurons could be a promising target for medications for controlling binge eating episodes in individuals with obesity. These neurons, named for the chemical messenger they use to communicate with other brain cells, have previously been shown to be important for addicti
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Mindset during meal planning changes food choices and brain responses to food
A simple instruction to change your thinking as mealtime approaches can help cut calories, according to new research from the University of Tübingen, Germany. By encouraging study participants to concentrate on different types of information when planning their meal, the experimenters saw portion sizes shift. Adopting a health-focused mindset produced better outcomes than focusing on pleasure or t
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Researchers find that hunger hormones offer promising avenue for addiction treatment
Hormones that signal the body's state of hunger and fullness could be the key to new treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. That is the consensus of an expert panel convened this week at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study Ingestive Behavior, the leading international research conference on food and fluid intake. Gut hormones have received considerable attention from scientists see
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Anti-obesity drug derived from chili peppers shows promise in animal trials
A novel drug based on capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their spicy burn, caused long term weight loss and improved metabolic health in mice eating a high fat diet, in new studies from the University of Wyoming School of Pharmacy. The drug, Metabocin, was designed to slowly release capsaicin throughout the day so it can exert its anti-obesity effect without producing inflammation or
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Brain changes responsible for the appetite effects of cannabis identified in animal studies
New research on how cannabis use alters eating behavior could lead to treatments for appetite loss in chronic illness, according to experts at Washington State University. Using a new procedure to dose lab rats with cannabis vapor, the researchers found how the drug triggers hunger hormones. They also identified specific brain regions that shift to 'hungry' mode while under the influence, accordin
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Diabetes drug with better side-effect tolerance could improve treatment
Improved medications for Type 2 diabetes are one step closer thanks to a new discovery reported this week by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University. By modifying the key ingredient in current diabetes drugs, the researchers produced a compound that was effective for hyperglycemia in animal trials, yet without the most problematic side effects of current drugs.
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The ancient armor of fish — scales — provide clues to hair, feather development
How do scale patterns on fish provide understanding of the development of feathers, fur — and even cancer? Biologists are investigating.
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RealNetworks Launches Free Facial Recognition Tool for Schools
A new facial recognition tool by RealNetworks aims to keep kids safe in school. But privacy experts fear the unchecked surveillance of kids could go awry.
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Gonorrhea: Symptoms & Treatment
Gonorrhea is the second most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. More than 468,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported to the CDC in 2016, although the number may be much higher.
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Self-Driving Cars Finally Get an Easy-to-Read Rule Book
Inrix's 'Road Rules' platform lets cities compile details about things like stop signs and school zones in a computer-friendly format that any self-driving developer can fold into its software.
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'Invisible' stool blood linked to heightened risk of death from all causes
'Invisible' blood detected in the stools is linked to a heightened risk of death from all causes, as well as from bowel cancer, reveals research published online in the journal Gut.
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Effective diagnosis of persistent facial pain will benefit patients and save money
Patients with persistent facial pain are costing the economy more than £3,000 each per year, new research has revealed.
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Key social reward circuit in the brain impaired in kids with autism
Children with autism have structural and functional abnormalities in the brain circuit that normally makes social interaction feel rewarding, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Heritable genome editing: Action needed to secure responsible way forward
An independent inquiry has concluded that editing the DNA of a human embryo, sperm, or egg to influence the characteristics of a future person ('heritable genome editing') could be morally permissible. If that is to happen, a number of measures would need to be put in place first to ensure that genome editing proceeds in ways that are ethically acceptable.
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Key social reward circuit in the brain impaired in kids with autism, Stanford study shows
Children with autism have structural and functional abnormalities in the brain circuit that normally makes social interaction feel rewarding, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Kilauea 'Lava Bomb' Hits Tour Boat; Explosion Injures 23
A basketball-sized lava bomb slammed through the roof of a tour boat near an active fissure of the Hawaiian volcano early Monday morning, showering the vessel with debris. (Image credit: Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources/AP)
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Moths Evade Bats with Slight of Wing
Some moth species have evolved long wing tails that flutter and twist as the moth flies, which distract hungry bats. Christopher Intagliata reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Why 8 Endangered Rhinos Died in Mission to Save Them
A mission meant to save critically endangered rhinoceroses by transferring them to a wildlife sanctuary in Kenya has ended in tragedy. And now we know why.
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Prehistoric bake-off: Scientists discover oldest evidence of bread
Charred crumbs found in the Jordanian desert show that bread-making dates back 14,000 years.
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Why Sinclair's Bid to Buy the Tribune Company Might Die
FCC Chair Ajit Pai, long seen as supporting the deal, suggests sending it to a judge–often a graveyard for merger proposals.
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How to improve kidney transplant exchanges
Kidney transplant exchanges are missing out on 25 to 55 percent of live donor matches that might otherwise be possible, according to a new study. Nearly 100,000 people with failing kidneys are on waiting lists for a kidney transplant in the United States, with an average wait of three to five years. Organs come from one of two sources—from living donors, typically a friend or family member willin
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Heritable genome editing: Action needed to secure responsible way forward
An independent inquiry by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that editing the DNA of a human embryo, sperm, or egg to influence the characteristics of a future person ('heritable genome editing') could be morally permissible. If that is to happen, a number of measures would need to be put in place first to ensure that genome editing proceeds in ways that are ethically acceptable.
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Effective diagnosis of persistent facial pain will benefit patients and save money
Patients with persistent facial pain are costing the economy more than £3,000 each per year, new research has revealed.
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The End of All Illusions
Even Fox News was appalled at President Donald Trump's performance at his Helsinki press conference alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin. The network, usually only too happy to cheer on the president, responded somewhat differently this time to Trump's insistence that "President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial" of Russian involvement in election interference. Neil Cavu
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Even on Fox, Trump's Helsinki Performance Was 'Ridiculous' and 'Surreal'
Updated at 10:29 p.m. ET When Donald Trump stood side by side with Russian President Vladimir Putin and announced that he was taking Putin's word over that of his own intelligence community, talking heads spun on cable news. And rightfully so. On CNN, Anderson Cooper called Trump's performance " disgraceful ." Cooper's face was noticeably cringing and his voice was shaking. John King called the e
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Strikes, Boycotts, and Outages Mar Amazon Prime Day
Workers in Europe, upset by talk of cuts in pay and benefits, plan walkouts during one of the retailer's biggest promotions.
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New D.C. bill aims to make 'cashless' restaurants illegal
Restaurants are increasingly less likely to accept paper currency, a trend that likely protects businesses from theft but also makes it harder for low-income people to shop. Read More
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New studies illuminate mysterious connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease
A growing body of research suggests that healthy sleep habits might be effective in preventing the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Read More
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Arkæologer finder 14.400 år gammelt brød
Under en arkæologisk udgravning i det nordøstlige Jordan har forskere fra Københavns…
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What Hollywood's 'blacklist' era can teach us today
On March 5, 1946, at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared the onset of the Cold War with an image that crystallized American fears of Soviet expansionism abroad and Communist subversion at home. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent," intoned Churchill. "…in the fraug
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Lack of this stuff in fat may cause obesity and diabetes
The fat molecule cardiolipin controls the energy metabolism of the body's "brown fat" cells, research finds. The findings also show that the absence of cardiolipin in fat cells is causally linked to pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes. "Switching off production of cardiolipin in mice leads to insulin resistance, which is the cornerstone of diabetes." Large amounts of cardiolipin produced in the fat
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