Preserved leaves reveal 7000 years of rainfall and drought
A study by University of Adelaide researchers and Queensland Government scientists has revealed what south-east Queensland's rainfall was like over the last 7000 years — including several severe droughts worse and longer lasting than the 12-year Millennium Drought.
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Trump's Bizarre, Rambling Announcement of a National Emergency
After failing for two years to persuade Congress to fund a wall on the southern border, President Donald Trump on Friday said he will declare a national emergency and reallocate some $8 billion to build the wall through executive fiat. Trump announced the move in a rambling, free-associative appearance in the White House Rose Garden that was more MAGA rally than presidential announcement. Even by
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NASA heading back to Moon soon, and this time to stay
NASA is accelerating plans to return Americans to the Moon, and this time, the US space agency says it will be there to stay.
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Extraordinary tensile strength and ductility of scalable nanoporous graphene
While the compressive strength-density scaling relationship of ultralight cellular graphene materials has been extensively investigated, high tensile strength and ductility have not been realized in the theoretically strongest carbon materials because of high flaw sensitivity under tension and weak van der Waals interplanar bonding between graphene sheets. In this study, we report that large-scal
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High-tide flooding disrupts local economic activity
Evaluation of observed sea level rise impacts to date has emphasized sea level extremes, such as those from tropical cyclones. Far less is known about the consequences of more frequent high-tide flooding. Empirical analysis of the disruption caused by high-tide floods, also called nuisance or sunny-day floods, is challenging due to the short duration of these floods and their impacts. Through a n
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STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes
An important goal of the scientific community is broadening the achievement and participation of racial minorities in STEM fields. Yet, professors' beliefs about the fixedness of ability may be an unwitting and overlooked barrier for stigmatized students. Results from a longitudinal university-wide sample (150 STEM professors and more than 15,000 students) revealed that the racial achievement gap
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In-memory computing on a photonic platform
Collocated data processing and storage are the norm in biological computing systems such as the mammalian brain. As our ability to create better hardware improves, new computational paradigms are being explored beyond von Neumann architectures. Integrated photonic circuits are an attractive solution for on-chip computing which can leverage the increased speed and bandwidth potential of the optica
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Theoretical guidelines to create and tune electric skyrmion bubbles
Researchers have long wondered whether ferroelectrics may present topological textures akin to magnetic skyrmions and chiral bubbles, the results being modest thus far. An electric equivalent of a typical magnetic skyrmion would rely on a counterpart of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and seems all but impossible; further, the exotic ferroelectric orders reported to date rely on specific co
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Power flow-conformal metamirrors for engineering wave reflections
Recently, the complexity behind manipulations of reflected fields by metasurfaces has been addressed, showing that, even in the simplest scenarios, nonlocal response and excitation of auxiliary evanescent fields are required for perfect field control. In this work, we introduce purely local reflective metasurfaces for arbitrary manipulations of the power distribution of reflected waves without ex
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Lithiophilicity chemistry of heteroatom-doped carbon to guide uniform lithium nucleation in lithium metal anodes
The uncontrollable growth of lithium (Li) dendrites seriously impedes practical applications of Li metal batteries. Various lithiophilic conductive frameworks, especially carbon hosts, are used to guide uniform Li nucleation and thus deliver a dendrite-free composite anode. However, the lithiophilic nature of these carbon hosts is poorly understood. Herein, the lithiophilicity chemistry of hetero
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Charge extraction via graded doping of hole transport layers gives highly luminescent and stable metal halide perovskite devices
One source of instability in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is interfacial defects, particularly those that exist between the perovskite and the hole transport layer (HTL). We demonstrate that thermally evaporated dopant-free tetracene (120 nm) on top of the perovskite layer, capped with a lithium-doped Spiro-OMeTAD layer (200 nm) and top gold electrode, offers an excellent hole-extracting stack w
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Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids
Pure liquids in thermodynamic equilibrium are structurally homogeneous. In liquid crystals, flow and light pulses are used to create reconfigurable domains with polar order. Moreover, through careful engineering of concerted microfluidic flows and localized optothermal fields, it is possible to achieve complete control over the nucleation, growth, and shape of such domains. Experiments, theory, a
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Highly crystalline Ni-doped FeP/carbon hollow nanorods as all-pH efficient and durable hydrogen evolving electrocatalysts
Herein, we report the synthesis of uniform hollow nanorods of Ni-doped FeP nanocrystals hybridized with carbon as electrocataysts for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). These hollow nanorods are prepared based on the etching and coordination reaction between metal-organic frameworks and phytic acid, followed by a pyrolysis process. Benefiting from the abundant active sites, t
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New AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release, say creators
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Who cleans up an outbreak of a genetically modified species?
In the United States, which federal government department is likely to pick up the task of trying to eradicate the outbreak of a genetically modified species? Let's say a gene drive went rogue and they were trying to eradicate a GM species of honeybee, for example. Which Feds would appear at your door if you had those GM bees on your property? submitted by /u/joe4wesome [link] [comments]
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STEM professors' beliefs on intelligence may widen the racial achievement gap
Seeing intelligence as fixed can result in lower grades, especially for certain minorities
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What rising seas mean for local economies
Impacts from climate change are not always easy to see. But for many local businesses in coastal communities across the United States, the evidence is right outside their doors—or in their parking lots.
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Faculty beliefs about intelligence predict racial achievement gaps in STEM classes
In a major analysis of university faculty and students in science, technology, engineering and math, Indiana University social psychologists found that professors' beliefs about intelligence play a measurable role in the success of all students—with the strongest effects for underrepresented students taking their first college-level STEM courses.
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Chimp gestures and human language are underpinned by same mathematical principles
Zipf's law of abbreviation and Menzerath's law seem to govern not just human speech but chimpanzee gestures. Fifty-eight individual chimp gestures were catalogued in a new study. Their presence points to an intriguing overlap between language and genetic chemistry. None Quantitative linguistics is a field that seeks to unmask mathematical laws that govern speech patterns and rhythms. Its research
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Lithium-air batteries can store energy for cars, houses and industry
Growth in the offer of renewable energy sources will mean increased demand for devices optimal for energy storing; São Paulo and UK researchers presented advances in new battery development at FAPESP Week London.
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Digital cameras are more exciting right now than they have been in years
Gadgets The smartphone changed the industry in a big way, but it's not all bad. The enthusiast market has gotten a lot more interesting as the point-and-shoot cameras have dropped off.
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Biologists identify honeybee 'clean' genes known for improving survival
The key to breeding disease-resistant honeybees could lie in a group of genes—known for controlling hygienic behaviour—that enable colonies to limit the spread of harmful mites and bacteria, according to genomics research conducted at York University.
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Biologists identify honeybee 'clean' genes known for improving survival
The key to breeding disease-resistant honeybees could lie in a group of genes—known for controlling hygienic behaviour—that enable colonies to limit the spread of harmful mites and bacteria, according to genomics research conducted at York University.
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A new study looks at ways to cut roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammals
Most motorists pay little attention to the amount of roadkill they drive over or past on the highway, except when swerving to avoid it.
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The scientific tooth fairies of San Francisco
W. Thomas Boyce, co-director of the CIFAR program in Child & Brain Development and professor emeritus in the UCSF department of Pediatrics, will tell the tale of his time as California's tooth fairy and set the stage for a discussion of teeth as biomarkers in human health.
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A new study looks at ways to cut roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammals
Most motorists pay little attention to the amount of roadkill they drive over or past on the highway, except when swerving to avoid it.
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Hungary's scientists outraged by government budget grab
Hungary's scientists outraged by government budget grab Hungary's scientists outraged by government budget grab, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00586-z Innovation ministry's decision to issue grant call using money meant for Hungarian Academy of Sciences' operations sparks protests.
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Why you can't recognize when you're wrong
Not only does everyone have personal experience with how difficult it can be to change people's minds, but there's also empirical research showing why this is the case. A new study in Current Biology explains why some people seem to be constitutionally incapable of admitting they're wrong. The study shows the underlying mechanism behind being bull-headed, and there may be some ways to get better
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Bio-Rad Showcases New Automation Features of its ZE5 Cell Analyzer at SLAS 2019
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb) today showcases new automation features of its ZE5 Cell Analyzer during the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening 2019 International Conference and Exhibition (SLAS) in Washington, D.C., February 2–6. These capabilities enable the ZE5 to be used for high-throughput flow cytometry in biomarker discovery and phenotypic screening.
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Machine learning flags patients at risk of TB comeback
New diagnostic tools such as machine learning and precision medicine could help identify tuberculosis patients with the highest risk of reactivation of the disease, report researchers. The researchers are showing that identifying multiple biomarkers can provide a more accurate diagnosis for patients. "A multi-array test can provide a more detailed, disease specific glimpse into patient's infectio
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Biologists identify honeybee 'clean' genes known for improving survival
The key to breeding disease-resistant honeybees could lie in a group of genes — known for controlling hygienic behaviour — that enable colonies to limit the spread of harmful mites and bacteria, according to genomics research conducted at York University. The researchers narrowed in on the 'clean' genes known to improve the colony's chance of survival. The finding was published today in the jour
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On Itchiness in Science Writing
Spotting and scratching the places where something just feels off — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Endnu en undersøgelse af computerspil: Du bliver ikke voldelig af gaming
Dansk forsker kritiserer tidligere undersøgelser for at være for dårlige.
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The best of eBay President's Day sale, plus 38 percent off a NutriBullet and other good deals happening today
Gadgets A quick guide to getting the goods for cheaper. PopSci is always on the lookout for today's best deals. Our lists will be updated throughout the day, so check back to see if stumbled upon any awesome new discounts.
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Dr Julian Pratt obituary
As a young doctor in rural South Africa (1975-76), my father, Julian Pratt, questioned the underlying cause of the diseases he was treating and identified how the grossly unequal distribution of land for agriculture was having a devastating effect. As a result, he became passionate about land reform and pursued this interest for the next 40 years. Julian, who has died aged 70, researched, propose
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Read President Trump's Speech Declaring a National Emergency
President Donald Trump announced Friday morning that he's declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and will be reprogramming billions in federal funds to build a wall. Below, the full text of his remarks from the White House Rose Garden before he took questions from reporters. Thank you very much, everybody. Before we begin, I would like to say that we have a large team of very ta
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Here's how a 100% renewable energy future can create jobs and even save the gas industry
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Amazon to lead $700M investment in Rivian electric vehicle startup
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Study suggests Chilean food regulations are changing food perceptions, norms, behaviors
Food regulations targeted at reducing obesity make a positive impact on those most likely to purchase the family's food — mothers. A study conducted jointly by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Diego Portales University, and University of Chile found that Chilean mothers understood and perceived the benefits of the country's ne
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Why some brain tumors respond to immunotherapy
Fewer than 1 in 10 patients with glioblastoma — the most common type of brain cancer — respond to immunotherapy; a new study reveals how to detect patients who may respond.
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A new study looks at ways to cut roadkill numbers for small and medium-sized mammals
A study of a stretch of highway in Quebec looks at the effect of road fencing and underground passages on the number of roadkill deaths of small and medium-sized mammals. The study found that roadkill numbers were higher at the ends of road fences, suggesting that they are not long enough to prevent animals from crossing busy roadways.
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'Reverse trick' for LEDs could keep future computers cool
In a finding that runs counter to a common assumption in physics, researchers ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away. The approach could lead to new solid-state cooling technology for future microprocessors, which will have so many transistors packed into a small space that current methods can't remove heat quickly enough. "W
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The Trump Administration Can't Get a United Front Against Iran
Mike Pence traveled to Warsaw to deliver a scathing message to European allies for not standing with America against Iran. "The time has come for our European partners to stand with us and the Iranian people," he declared. Except some of the Europeans hadn't even bothered to show up. Nevertheless, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heralded the breadth of the Middle East conference, citing representa
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It's Impossible to Follow a Conversation on Twitter
Earlier this week, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and the tech journalist Kara Swisher conducted a full 90-minute interview entirely on Twitter . The interview was meant to be an old-school "Twitter chat," and users were instructed to follow along using the hashtag #KaraJack. It was a disaster. Attempting to follow a public conversation happening on Twitter is "pretty much a mess right now," Dorsey hims
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Illinois Democrats ask Evers to review Foxconn plant impact
Illinois congressional Democrats have asked Wisconsin's new Democratic governor to re-evaluate the environmental impact of a sprawling plant that Foxconn Technology Group plans to build near the states' border, saying they are concerned it could exacerbate flooding in Chicago's northern suburbs.
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BP: Plastic ban "could have unintended consequences"
The oil and gas company believes a prohibition on single-use plastic could increase CO2, but is that true?
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NASA tracks Tropical Cyclone Oma as warnings remain for Vanuatu
Tropical Cyclone Oma continued to stay just west of Vanuatu in the Southern Pacific Ocean as NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and captured an image of the tropical storm.
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Russia Claims Strobe-Light Weapon Causes Nausea & Hallucinations. Is That Even Possible?
How flashing light can overwhelm the brain
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A.I. Could Widen Economic Disparity in U.S., Report Says
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NASA tracks Tropical Cyclone Oma as warnings remain for Vanuatu
Tropical Cyclone Oma continued to stay just west of Vanuatu in the Southern Pacific Ocean as NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and captured an image of the tropical storm.
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Elk avoid beetle-killed forest areas
While previous studies showed elk often move into areas disturbed by fires or timber harvest to take advantage of new plant growth, that isn't happening in Wyoming's Sierra Madre Mountains, where elk strongly avoid beetle-killed areas in the summer.
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Explainer: What is quantum communication?
Researchers and companies are creating ultra-secure communication networks that could form the basis of a quantum internet. This is how it works.
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Conservatives Will Live to Regret This
The president seems to think he's found a way out of the crisis. No, not the "crisis" at the border—if the word still has any universally accepted definition, there is no crisis at the border. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 2018's apprehensions along the Southwest border were the fifth lowest in nearly a half century. 2018's records show modest growth from 2017, when apprehensio
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Moon Rush: NASA Wants Commercial Lunar Delivery Services to Start This Year
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In space, NASA heard astronaut's immune system scream
Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin.
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Boil-water advisory ends in Dayton, Ohio
The city of Dayton, Ohio, is telling residents their water is OK to use again without being boiled first.
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Be Kind to Extraterrestrials
We need to tread lightly if we encounter alien ecosystems — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Brexit uncorks fears for French wine industry
French wine makers may be "selling like crazy" to Britain as their clients stock up ahead of Brexit, but they say the country's looming departure from the European Union promises nothing but problems.
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The Nationalist Case for Amnesty
Perhaps 10 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States. Their fate is among the most polarizing, seemingly intractable issues in American politics. Proponents of a substantial amnesty often make humanitarian arguments, highlighting the most affecting challenges faced by families "living in the shadows." That makes it easy to conclude that the debate is best understood as pitting glo
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A Dispatch From the Anti-Amazon Victory Party
A piñata hangs from a tree in Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens. It is decorated with the face of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and by the end of Thursday night it will meet the fate of all piñatas. It is here to celebrate a major victory for grassroots activism in New York City. Earlier in the day, Amazon announced that it would not build its planned headquarters in Queens, with or without $3
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US Facebook fine over privacy could be in billions: reports
A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday.
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NHTSA Claim That Tesla Autosteer Reduced Crashes Proven Bogus
Remember the NHTSA report that claimed Tesla Autopilot cut fatality rates by 40 percent? It wasn't true. It wasn't even close to true. The post NHTSA Claim That Tesla Autosteer Reduced Crashes Proven Bogus appeared first on ExtremeTech .
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Antarctic voyage will explore ocean hidden under ice for 100,000 years
Antarctic voyage will explore ocean hidden under ice for 100,000 years Antarctic voyage will explore ocean hidden under ice for 100,000 years, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00588-x Scientists on board German research icebreaker Polarstern hope to observe underwater ecosystem changing in real-time.
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From vibrations alone, acacia ants can tell nibbles from the wind
Researchers find that the ants of the acacia tree are tipped off to the presence of herbivores by vibrations that run throughout the trees when an animal gets too close or begins to chew. As a result, the insects begin patrolling the acacia's branches more actively. Remarkably, the researchers show, the ants don't react when the trees' movements are caused only by the wind.
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Be Kind to Extraterrestrials
We need to tread lightly if we encounter alien ecosystems — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The winner of this year's 'Dance Your Ph.D.' contest turned physics into art
Dance shows "unsociable" particles becoming "joyful" pairs
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Study finds children with autism more likely to face maltreatment
A recent study by Vanderbilt researchers of 11 counties in Middle Tennessee revealed that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were nearly 2.5 times more likely than children without ASD to be reported to the Child Abuse Hotline by the age of 8.
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Brain discovery explains a great mystery of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
One of the great mysteries of neuroscience may finally have an answer: Scientists have identified a potential explanation for the mysterious death of specific brain cells seen in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Tidal tails: The beginning of the end of an open star cluster
In the course of their life, open star clusters continuously lose stars to their surroundings. The resulting swath of tidal tails provides a glimpse into the evolution and dissolution of a star cluster. Thus far only tidal tails of massive globular clusters and dwarf galaxies have been discovered in the Milky Way system. In open clusters, this phenomenon existed only in theory. Researchers have no
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Tide gauges capture tremor episodes in cascadian subduction zone
Hourly water level records collected from tide gauges can be used to measure land uplift caused by episodic tremor and slip of slow earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, according to a new report.
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A nearby river of stars
Astronomers have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at least 4000 stars that have been moving together in space since they formed, about 1 billion years ago.
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Laminitis research to help save horses and ponies
Laminitis — a complex, common and often devastating disease — is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it has been compiled.
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Anti-Aging Drug That Kills Old Cells Passes First Human Trial
Cleaning House Not all damaged cells die. Some stick around as senescent cells, unable to divide but still able to produce chemical signals — and they could play a major role in the battle against aging. "It is thought that these cells and the substances they produce are involved in the process of aging," longevity researcher Nicolas Musi from the University of Texas at Austin told MIT Technology
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Watch 'flares' repair leak in protective cell barrier
Using a new live-imaging technique, researchers directly detected short-lived leaks in tissues that protect us from bacteria, viruses, and other disease-causing invaders. Epithelial tissues are sheets of cells that coat our organs, creating wall-like barriers for protection. And when potentially harmful gaps between these cells emerge, a molecular switch gets flipped to call the repair crew and f
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Lunar Outpost: NASA Plans to Inhabit Moon by 2028
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AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos, Clearly Misses the Entire Point of the Internet
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Using neuroscience to develop artificial intelligence
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Exercise might improve health by increasing gut bacterial diversity
Research has suggested that the efficiency with which we transport oxygen to our tissues (cardiorespiratory fitness) is a far greater predictor of gut microbiota diversity than either body fat percentage or general physical activity.
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'Cellular barcoding' reveals how breast cancer spreads
A cutting-edge technique called cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancer from the main tumour into the blood and other organs.
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'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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China Is Building a Solar Power Station in Space
Front Row Seats China's Academy of Space Technology is working on an orbital power plant that would capture solar energy in space and beam it back to Earth. The plant would be able to harness solar power even when it's cloudy back on Earth, since its photovoltaic array would be floating high above any terrestrial weather. With plans to launch a test facility before 2025, pursuing space-based clea
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Kids skipping school to protest climate change isn't just reasonable—it's logical
Environment Why adults no longer have the right to object to their children taking radical action. Speaking as both a climate campaigner and an academic philosopher, I believe school walkouts are morally and politically justifiable.
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Scientists Track the Source of Soot That Speeds Arctic Melt
Heat-absorbing black carbon comes from fossil fuels in winter and biomass burning in summer — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Watch This Epic "Trailer" for the Commercial Lunar Space Station
Rotating Space Station Welcome on board the Von Braun Rotating Space Station. At least, that's what the Gateway Foundation is envisioning. Dreamed up by former pilot John Blincow and retired Jet Propulsion Laboratory mission architect Tom Spilker, the station would allow for both low-gravity scientific experiments conducted by national space agencies and space tourism. In a slick new video posted
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Rare 12th-Century Triple Toilet Let Three People Go Number Two at Once
This toilet built for three is a gross gem of London history (and soon, you can take a selfie with it).
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Hypofractionated RT should be considered new practice standard for men with low risk prostate cancer
Results from the NRG Oncology clinical study NRG-RTOG 0415 determined that a hypofractionated radiotherapy schedule (H-RT), a treatment schedule that delivers a total dose of radiotherapy over a shorter period of time, is not worse than the conventional radiotherapy schedule (C-RT) in terms of bowel, bladder, sexual, and general quality of life (QOL) as well as anxiety and depression for men with
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CVIA special issue on stable ischemic heart disease
The journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published a new issue, Volume 3 Issue 3. This is a Special Issue on Stable Ischemic Heart Disease.
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How common, preventable are sepsis-associated deaths in hospitals?
This study estimates how common sepsis-related deaths are in hospitals and how preventable those deaths might be. In a retrospective study using medical record reviews of 568 patients who died in six US hospitals or who were discharged to hospice in 2014 or 2015, sepsis was present in more than half (300) of the hospitalizations and directly caused death in more than one-third (198) of cases.
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Introduction of flat-rate payments accompanied by an increase in readmission rates
Seven years after the introduction of flat-rate payments at Swiss hospitals, a major study has revealed a slight increase in readmission rates. Researchers from the University of Basel and the cantonal hospital of Aarau reported the findings in the journal JAMA Network Open.
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Getting behind the wheel on opioids: could be a road to tragedy
Driving while on prescription opioids plays an increasingly significant role in fatal motor vehicle crashes, irrespective of alcohol use and demographic characteristics, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The prevalence of prescription opioids detected for the years studied increased from 2 percent to 7 percent among crash initiators and from .9 percen
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Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of cardiovascular disease events among men
Active, middle-aged men able to complete more than 40 push-ups had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes — including diagnoses of coronary artery disease and major events such as heart failure — during 10 years of follow-up compared with those who were able to do less than 10 push-ups during the baseline exam.
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Scientists fine-tune method to save rhinos
Only two northern white rhinos exist in the world: both are female and neither can bear calves. But scientists have not given up hope of saving the species from extinction.
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Scientists fine-tune method to save rhinos
Only two northern white rhinos exist in the world: both are female and neither can bear calves. But scientists have not given up hope of saving the species from extinction.
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Free access to research will help save horses and ponies
Laminitis—a complex, common and often devastating disease—is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it has been compiled and shared online for equine vets and others to access.
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Researchers discover anti-laser masquerading as perfect absorber
Researchers at Duke University have discovered that a perfect absorber of electromagnetic waves they described in a 2017 paper can easily be tweaked into a sort of "time-reversed laser" known as a coherent perfect absorber (CPA).
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Danish economist picked to be new UN environment chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has picked Danish economist and environmentalist Inger Andersen to be the new UN environment chief, turning the page on a scandal over expenses that rocked the UN agency, according to a letter seen by AFP on Friday.
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Free access to research will help save horses and ponies
Laminitis—a complex, common and often devastating disease—is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it has been compiled and shared online for equine vets and others to access.
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A 7-Year Journey Across the US, One Highway at a Time
Joshua Dudley Greer traveled 100,000 miles up and down US interstates for his new book 'Somewhere Along the Line'.
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Undersea Odyssey: Coral Reef Hunt
The next stop on our journey is much closer to the surface, in one of our oceans' gorgeous, colorful coral reefs. You may think of coral reefs as primarily appearing in shallow, tropical water, which is true, but reefs do occasionally grow in deep water or closer to the Earth's poles. Likewise, although they cover less than 0.1% of ocean area, they contain more than 25% of marine life! This life
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Fears of OpenAI's super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblownOpenAI Elon Musk AI
Elon Musk-backed firm OpenAI has built a text-generating AI that it says is too dangerous to release because of potential misuse
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A dialect quiz shows we still cling to our regional identities
The New York Times' online quiz can pinpoint where in the UK or Ireland you grew up by the words you use and how you say them. We asked a linguist to explain why dialects persist
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Scientists make an environmentally friendly prototype water purifier constructed from a sheet of graphitic carbon nitride that could remove 99.9999% of microbes, and purified a 10L water sample in less than one hour using only sunlight.
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Spare 10 minutes to make science leap forward
Today sees the launch of an innovative Citizen Science Project by Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility.The project uses a crowdsourcing model to call on people of all ages around the world to help speed up the analysis of the terabytes of data that Diamond generates every day. The first task set for citizen scientists is to spend a few minutes looking at a series of
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Earth first origins project seeks to replicate the cradle of life
The evolution of planet Earth and the emergence of life during its first half-billion years are inextricably linked, with a series of planetwide transformations—formation of the ocean, evolution of the atmosphere, and the growth of crust and continents—underpinning the environmental stepping stones to life. But how, and in what order, were the ingredients for life on Earth manufactured and assembl
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A State of Unreality
President Donald Trump's declaration of emergency salved yesterday's loss of face—but has not solved any real problems for this administration or the country. In fact, Trump has opened four new problems atop the original problem with which he has flailed. The original problem is that a border wall was Trump's signature promise, backed by his guarantee—"Believe me!"—that Mexico would pay for it. T
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Spare 10 minutes to make science leap forward
Today sees the launch of an innovative Citizen Science Project by Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron science facility.The project uses a crowdsourcing model to call on people of all ages around the world to help speed up the analysis of the terabytes of data that Diamond generates every day. The first task set for citizen scientists is to spend a few minutes looking at a series of
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Image: Jewels of the Maldives
Copernicus Sentinel-2 brings you some of the jewels of the Maldives for Valentine's week. Arguably one of the most romantic destinations in the world, the Maldives lie in the Indian Ocean about 700 km southwest of Sri Lanka. The nation is made up of more than 1000 coral islands spread across more than 20 ring-shaped atolls.
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The age of genetic wonder | Juan Enriquez
Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know it? Juan Enriquez forecasts the possible futures of genetic editing, exploring the immense uncertainty and opportunity of this next frontier.
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Luft under vingerne: Nu producerer verdens største havvindmøllepark strøm
Ørsted er begyndt at producere strøm fra verdens største havvindmøllepark ud for den engelske vestkyst. Det sker efter den første havvindmølle ud af 174 er installeret og producerer strøm.
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AI can write just like me. Brace for the robot apocalypse | Hannah Jane Parkinson
I've seen how OpenAI's GPT2 system can produce a column in my style. We must heed Elon Musk's warnings of AI doom Elon Musk, recently busying himself with calling people "pedo" on Twitter and potentially violating US securities law with what was perhaps just a joke about weed – both perfectly normal activities – is now involved in a move to terrify us all. The non-profit he backs, OpenAI, has dev
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My generation trashed the planet. So I salute the children striking back | George Monbiot
Across the country today, children left their classes to protest against climate change. This is my message to them The Youth Strike 4 Climate gives me more hope than I have felt in 30 years of campaigning. Before this week, I believed it was all over. I thought, given the indifference and hostility of those who govern us, and the passivity of most of my generation, that climate breakdown and ecol
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Tide gauges capture tremor episodes in cascadian subduction zone
Hourly water level records collected from tide gauges can be used to measure land uplift caused by episodic tremor and slip of slow earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, according to a new report in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
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New research offers insights into what keeps gay hockey players from coming out
The overriding threat of becoming a distraction is the main barrier keeping professional hockey players from identifying publicly as gay, even though such an admission would likely accelerate a more tolerant hockey culture, according to new research out of the University of Alberta.
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Norway makes early play in hydrogen race
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AI is reinventing the way we invent
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Nvidia forecasts demand rebound, Wall Street not so sure
Nvidia Corp's forecast of a demand rebound by the end of the year calmed investor nerves and pushed its shares up 5 percent on Friday, but several Wall Street analysts said the outlook was "aggressive" …
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Light bulbs in the crosshairs of Trump administration's environmental rollbacks
The Trump administration has been on a spree of environmental rollbacks, including air and auto emissions. Its next target: light bulbs.
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AI Is Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare and Longevity
When it comes to the future of healthcare, perhaps the only technology more powerful than CRISPR is artificial intelligence. Over the past five years, healthcare AI startups around the globe raised over $4.3 billion across 576 deals, topping all other industries in AI deal activity. During this same period, the FDA has given 70 AI healthcare tools and devices 'fast-tracked approval' because of th
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'Master control' puts brakes on deadly food allergy reactions
A master control mechanism on mast cells, a type of immune cell, can prevent the immune system from overreacting in times of stress, which could limit or even stop severe allergic reactions to food, researchers report. In cases of severe, even deadly, allergic reactions to foods such as peanuts and fish, immune cells go into hyperdrive. This can trigger anaphylactic shock, which can in turn cause
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When Gravity Breaks Down – Facts So Romantic
Theoretical physicists have known since the 1930s that quantum gravity is necessary to bring order into the laws of nature, but 80 years on, a solution isn't anywhere in sight. Photograph by Andrea / Flickr Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is more than a hundred years old, but still it gives physicists headaches. Not only are Einstein's equations hideously difficult to solve, they a
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Dog burial as common ritual in Neolithic populations of north-eastern Iberian Peninsula
Coinciding with the Pit Grave culture (4200-3600 years before our era) in Southern Europe, the Neolithic communities of the northeastern Iberian Peninsula conducted ceremonial activity related to the sacrifice and burial of dogs. The high number of cases recorded in Catalonia suggests it was a general practice, and it proves the tight relationship between humans and these animals, which, apart fro
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3D protein structure reveals a new mechanism for future anti-cancer drugs
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina discovered a new mechanism for a class of anti-cancer drugs known as E1 inhibitors. Their findings, published in Nature Communications on Dec. 4, 2018, reveal a novel binding site that will promote drug design of more efficient E1 inhibitors.
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Trinity College Dublin researchers describe the first model of mitochondrial epilepsy
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have become the first to describe a model of mitochondrial epilepsy which raises hope for better therapies for patients with this incapacitating condition.Despite the severity of this epilepsy, up to now there have been no animal models available to provide a mechanistic understanding of the condition.That is set to change though as researchers at Trinity ca
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Happy as a pig in muck?
Photos play an important role when it comes to how agricultural products are seen by consumers. A team of scientists from the Universities of Bozen-Bolzano and Göttingen investigated how people perceive and evaluate photos of a pig in different stalls. The results were published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE.
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Researchers discover anti-laser masquerading as perfect absorber
Researchers at Duke University have discovered that a perfect absorber of electromagnetic waves they described in a 2017 paper can easily be tweaked into a sort of 'time-reversed laser' known as a coherent perfect absorber (CPA).
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Can we trust scientific discoveries made using machine learning?
Rice University statistician Genevera Allen is cautioning fellow scientists at the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., not to make assumptions about the accuracy, uncertainty or reproducibility of scientific discoveries made with today's machine learning models.
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Scholar to talk about household water insecurity
A Northwestern anthropology professor will discuss the first cross-culturally equivalent measurement of household water insecurity
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What It Will Take For Humans to Be Self-Sustaining in Space
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Newly created AI system can predict survival of ovarian cancer patient
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Artificial intelligence to tackle insurance fraud and assess flood damage
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Space, the final frontier for those hoping to part us from our money | Arwa Mahdawi
What do attempts to establish a human colony on Mars, a $9bn blood-test startup and the Fyre festival have in common? Sheer chutzpah If you were hoping to escape Brexit Britain with a one-way ticket to Mars, I am afraid you're out of luck. Mars One Ventures, the company that wanted to start a permanent human settlement on the red planet in the next few years, has gone bankrupt , although its not-
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Researchers crack mystery of past maternal mortality rates
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have developed the first method for determining maternal mortality rates in prehistoric populations based on archaeological records.
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A river of stars in the solar neighborhood
Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at least 4000 stars that have been moving together in space since they formed, about 1 billion years ago. Due to its proximity to Earth, this stream is a
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Virus-infested fungus could help cut chemical pesticides
The evidence against chemical pesticides is mounting. An estimated 7m people are at risk from exposure to pesticides globally, while a million a year suffer or die from pesticide associated diseases. And that says nothing of the damage they are thought to be doing to other wildlife. Yet when humanity needs to produce approximately two billion tons of crops every year to feed itself and the populat
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The children striking over climate change speak to New Scientist
New Scientist went to meet the UK schoolchildren who have left their classrooms to join a global protest that calls for the government to declare a climate emergency
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Virus-infested fungus could help cut chemical pesticides
The evidence against chemical pesticides is mounting. An estimated 7m people are at risk from exposure to pesticides globally, while a million a year suffer or die from pesticide associated diseases. And that says nothing of the damage they are thought to be doing to other wildlife. Yet when humanity needs to produce approximately two billion tons of crops every year to feed itself and the populat
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A Friendship Baked in the Great British Bake Off Tent
Every week, The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic's Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two former contestants on the U.K. reality show The Great British Bake Off (known in the U.S. as The Great British Baking Show ) who forged an intergenerational friendship during the competition.
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When a Teacher Becomes a Friend
Every week, The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic 's Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with a group of college students who have been friends with their high-school history teacher since they started eating lunch in his classroom sophomore year, discussing politics and sharing stories f
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He Returned His Friend's Sweatshirt 20 Years After He Borrowed It
Every week, The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic 's Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two men who were close friends in high school in the '90s, lost touch, and were recently brought back together by a sweatshirt that one of them had borrowed 20 years earlier. The Friends Everett
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What It's Like to Make a Friend on Bumble BFF
Every week, The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic 's Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two young women who met on Bumble BFF—the friendship mode of the dating app Bumble—when they both were living in Austin, Texas. (One has since moved to New York.) They discuss becoming friends th
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Introducing 'The Friendship Files'
Today, The Atlantic is launching a new series of interviews that we are calling The Friendship Files . It will feature a weekly conversation between me and two or more friends, talking about the history and significance of their relationship—how they met, the way their friendship evolved over the years, what they mean to one another, that time one of them borrowed a sweatshirt and didn't give it
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The Books Briefing: What Stories About Childhood Teach Adults About Themselves
Childhood may be fleeting, but the stories, heroes, and fantasy worlds of children's books somehow always manage to carve out space in readers' hearts long after they've grown up. Of course, there's the magical world of Harry Potter , which has continued to inspire countless films and plays today. For one writer, rereading the boy wizard's confrontations with mortality became instrumental in help
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What It Will Take For Humans to Be Self-Sustaining in Space
We take for granted that we live on a planet that is rich in life. With over 14 million identified species , the sheer biodiversity on Earth is outstanding. We depend on this diversity for food and resources, which in return allow us to flourish and thrive. However, this symbiotic relationship doesn't necessarily exist for the rest of the universe. In The Beginning of Infinity , physicist David D
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Parker Refuses to Leave Tony Any Gold | Gold Rush
Parker, in a desperate bid to get every last ounce of gold from his ground, pushes his crew and wash-plant to the limit. Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush: https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/gold-rush/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoldRush/ https://www.facebook.com/Discovery Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gold_Ru
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Animal populations bounce back faster in marine protected areas
A new paper in the American Naturalist discusses the significant role marine protected areas can play in preventing the extinction of commercially harvested species like abalone. MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Charles A. Boch participated in the study, which examined abalone population models and how protected areas can ensure animals survive catastrophic events that could otherwise wipe out a populati
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How far should organizations be able to go to defend against cyberattacks?
The deluge of cyberattacks sweeping across the world has governments and companies thinking about new ways to protect their digital systems, and the corporate and state secrets stored within. For a long time, cybersecurity experts have erected firewalls to keep out unwanted traffic and set up decoy targets on their networks to distract hackers who do get in. They have also scoured the internet for
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Farewell, Opportunity: Rover dies, but its hugely successful Mars mission is helping us design the next one
NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars has been officially pronounced dead. Its amazingly successful mission lasted nearly 15 years, well beyond its initial three-month goal. Opportunity provided the first proof that water once existed on Mars and shaped its surface, a crucial piece of knowledge informing both current and future missions.
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Environmental noise found to enhance the transport of energy across a line of ions
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Austria and Germany has shown that introducing environmental noise to a line of ions can lead to enhanced transport of energy across them. In their paper published in Physical Review Letters, the researchers describe their experiments and why they believe their findings will be helpful to other researchers.
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New study of fossil plants shows the emergence of the Pacific Northwest's temperate forests
The iconic evergreen forests of the Pacific Northwest haven't always been here.
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The friendly extortioner takes it all
Cooperating with other people makes many things easier. However, competition is also a characteristic aspect of our society. In their struggle for contracts and positions, people have to be more successful than their competitors and colleagues. When will cooperation lead to success, and when is egoism more effective? Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen have d
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'Metro Exodus' Brings the Series' Grim Atmosphere Aboveground
By taking the 'Metro' titles out of the Metro, 4A Games is conducting a massive experiment—one that mostly succeeds.
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Most Website Terms of Service Are Functionally Incomprehensible to Americans
A new analysis of ToS agreements online found that 498 out of 500 of them may be essentially unreadable to average people. The post Most Website Terms of Service Are Functionally Incomprehensible to Americans appeared first on ExtremeTech .
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Animal populations bounce back faster in marine protected areas
A new paper in the American Naturalist discusses the significant role marine protected areas can play in preventing the extinction of commercially harvested species like abalone. MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Charles A. Boch participated in the study, which examined abalone population models and how protected areas can ensure animals survive catastrophic events that could otherwise wipe out a populati
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The friendly extortioner takes it all
Cooperating with other people makes many things easier. However, competition is also a characteristic aspect of our society. In their struggle for contracts and positions, people have to be more successful than their competitors and colleagues. When will cooperation lead to success, and when is egoism more effective? Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen have d
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Pitt bioengineers create ultrasmall, light-activated electrode for neural stimulation
In a recently published paper, the University of Pittsburgh's Takashi D. Y. Kozai detailed a less invasive method of neural stimulation that would use an untethered ultrasmall electrode activated by light, a technique that may mitigate damage done by current methods.
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Solid-state catalysis: Fluctuations clear the way
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet chemists have identified a mechanism that allows molecules to diffuse rapidly on the already crowded surface of a solid-state catalyst – an important capability, especially for efficient catalysis under industrial conditions.
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Tidal tails — The beginning of the end of an open star cluster
In the course of their life, open star clusters continuously lose stars to their surroundings. The resulting swath of tidal tails provides a glimpse into the evolution and dissolution of a star cluster. Thus far only tidal tails of massive globular clusters and dwarf galaxies have been discovered in the Milky Way system. In open clusters, this phenomenon existed only in theory. Researchers at Heid
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A Rare Slasher-Movie Sequel That's Both Cerebral and Fun
The premise of 2017's Happy Death Day is a perfect elevator pitch: What if Groundhog Day were a horror film? Theresa (Jessica Rothe) wakes up in a college dorm room, goes through her routine, and then dies at the hands of a masked serial killer, becoming the first murder victim of the movie. Except when she dies, she wakes up back in that dorm, at the start of the day again, doomed to relive the
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My university(University of Bergen) found a way to make cells change jobs which can possibly help diabetes patients to actively create insulin again.
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Researchers Made an AI Whose Performance Increases if They Let It Sleep And Dream
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Pages and prejudice: How queer texts could fight homophobia in Australian schools
Recently, the Australian Association for the Teaching of English (AATE)—the peak professional body for Australian English teachers—published a special issue of the journal English in Australia entitled "Love in English." It addressed the continued marginalisation of some genders and sexualities within the classroom.
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Efforts to control cyber weapons ignore the agents who use them
Reports of malicious and targeted cyber attacks are becoming increasingly common around the world. In early February, for example, Australia's security agencies revealed there were investigating an attempted hack on the country's parliament, and hadn't ruled out another country being behind it.
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CA Governor Wants Tech Companies to Pay People for Personal Data
One For All Californians may soon get a cut of the proceeds when tech giants like Facebook sell their personal data. Governor Gavin Newsom announced his support for such an initiative during his State of the State address on Tuesday, according to Gizmodo — a move that could permanently upset the balance of power between the world's biggest tech corporations and their users. "Companies that make b
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Protecting human heritage on the moon: Don't let 'one small step' become one giant mistake
Why did the hominin cross the plain? We may never know. But anthropologists are pretty sure that a smattering of bare footprints preserved in volcanic ash in Laetoli, Tanzania bear witness to an evolutionary milestone. These small steps, taken roughly 3.5 million years ago, mark an early successful attempt by our common human ancestor to stand upright and stride on two feet, instead of four.
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How to fight climate change in agriculture while protecting jobs
Agriculture has become a carbon-intensive endeavour. Crop, livestock and fossil fuel use in agriculture account for about 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
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Google vs. DuckDuckGo vs. Bing—is it time to switch your search engine?
DIY Comparing the top search engines. How the top search engines stack up in terms of results, features, and how they protect your privacy.
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Women should be offered a choice of treatment options for miscarriage, study shows
Women experiencing miscarriage should be offered a choice in the treatment they receive, argues a new study from the University of Warwick that compares all treatment options for the first time.
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Patients' own cells could be the key to treating Crohn's disease
A new technique using patients' own modified cells to treat Crohn's disease has been proven to be effective in experiments using human cells, with a clinical trial of the treatment expected to start in the next six months.
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The friendly extortioner takes it all
People who cunningly use cooperation and egoism are unbeatable.
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Intervention can boost rates of exclusive breastfeeding
Providing additional support to women in Burkina Faso can boost rates of exclusive breastfeeding.
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Linking sensing to signaling during plant immunity
A new study by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne has revealed that a previously unappreciated structural feature underlies the ability of the plant immune molecule EDS1 to provide a timely defense boost against pathogens.
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Bill Gates Funds Tiny Robot Surgeons That Operate Inside the Body
Dr. Robot Vicarious Surgical's plan for healthcare sounds like a twist on "The Magic School Bus." Take a tiny humanoid robot with two arms and a camera where its head should be and place it inside a person's body through a small incision. Then have a surgeon anywhere in the world don a virtual reality system, connected to the robot. The setup lets the surgeon "see" what the robot sees — and contr
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Service dogs give handlers an emotional boost
Service dogs can have measurable positive effects on the health and well-being of people with physical disabilities, a new study shows. "We found that compared to individuals on the wait list, those who had a service dog had significantly better psychosocial health including better emotional, social, and work/school functioning," says Maggie O'Haire from the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Pu
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Andreas Ekström: Can We Solve For Bias In Tech?
We think of search engines as unbiased sources of information. But they're not — and they can be manipulated. Andreas Ekström asks: who should hold the burden of addressing bias in search engines? (Image credit: TED)
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J. Marshall Shepherd: How Does Bias Shape Our Perceptions About Science?
Why do many people dismiss issues like climate change, despite strong scientific evidence? Climatologist J. Marshall Shepherd examines how different forms of bias shape how we perceive science. (Image credit: TED)
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Reduce children's test anxiety with these tips—and a re-think of what testing means
The term "test anxiety" typically conjures up images of a high school or university student obsessing over an upcoming exam.
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After 90 years, a better way to measure the composition of paper
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), have developed a novel, nondestructive method to rapidly measure the wood and non-wood fiber components in paper.
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From Chelyabinsk to Cuba: The meteor connection
On February 1, 2019 a bright meteor crossed the sky over Cuba in the middle of the day. The phenomenon, which was followed by a smoke trail (a characteristic cloud left by the burn in the atmosphere of a meteoroid) and a sonic boom, was witnessed by thousands of locals and tourists in the region of Pinar del Rio (western side of the island).
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Chemical data mining boosts search for new organic semiconductors
Organic semiconductors are lightweight, flexible and easy to manufacture. But they often fail to meet expectations regarding efficiency and stability. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are now deploying data mining approaches to identify promising organic compounds for the electronics of the future.
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Companies with more financial analysts produce more and better-quality patents
A recent study conducted by researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), explores the role of financial analysts on firms' innovation strategy and outcome. This study concludes that financial analysts can help companies to invest more efficiently in innovation and therefore produce a higher number of patents of bet
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Cambridge anglers win fish loss compensation
Anglian Water admits ammonia discharge from a recycling unit killed big bream in the River Cam.
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Tide gauges capture tremor episodes in cascadian subduction zone
Hourly water level records collected from tide gauges can be used to measure land uplift caused by episodic tremor and slip of slow earthquakes in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, according to a new report in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America.
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Live better with attainable goals
Those who set realistic goals can hope for a higher level of well-being. The key for later satisfaction is whether the life goals are seen as attainable and what they mean to the person, as psychologists from the University of Basel report in a study with over 970 participants.
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The Lypla1 gene impacts obesity in a sex-specific manner
Susceptibility to obesity, insulin resistance and other cardio-metabolic traits may also be dependent on a person's sex. An international research team studied sex differences and sex-specific interaction with the genetic background in cardio-metabolic phenotypes. The researchers discovered, among other things, a sex-specific obesity locus of the Lypla1 gene, which is associated with human obesity
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Biocolonizer species are putting the conservation of the granite at Machu Picchu at risk
The UPV/EHU's IBeA research group has used a non-destructive methodology to determine the role of specific algae, lichens, mosses and cyanobacteria that may be causing exfoliation and delamination processes that are degrading the Sacred Rock of Machu Picchu, one of the most important symbols in the Peruvian archaeological city.
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Carbon capture on power stations burning woodchips is not the green gamechanger many think it is
The UK's efforts to develop facilities to remove carbon emissions from power stations took a step forward with news of a demonstrator project getting underway at the Drax plant in north Yorkshire. Where most electricity carbon capture projects have focused on coal-fired power, the Drax project is the first to capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) from a plant purely burning wood chips – or biomass, to use
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Laser pulses light the way to tuning topological materials for spintronics and quantum computing
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a means of controlling the surface conductivity of a three-dimensional (3-D) topological insulator, a type of material that has potential applications in spintronic devices and quantum computing.
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Enhedslisten: Sådan får vi 1,2 mio. elbiler i 2030
Enhedslistens klimaplan tager livtag med den svære transportsektor med omstilling af 1,2 mio. biler til el i 2030. Et godt forsøg, siger IDA's transport-ekspert
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Electronic waste is recycled in appalling conditions in India
The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of the rest ends up in landfill, or is recycled informally in developing nations.
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India's Disgrace
I've written here about what I referred to as "nationalist science", in that case actions by the Hungarian government against its own universities and the Chinese government's vigorous promotion of traditional medicine. Now we can (unfortunately) add another one to the list. The Hindu nationalist movement in India has been moving into science and medicine in recent years, making claims about anci
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Skin wound regeneration with bioactive glass-gold nanoparticles ointment
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This $5.9 million floating home lets you ride out sea-level rise in style
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Venezuela Is Unraveling—So Is Its Science
Research has ground to a halt, and many scientists have left the country out of desperation — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Fewer suicidal teens die young after caring 'circle'
Building a circle of trusted adults around a suicidal teen may have long-term effects that reduce their risk of dying young, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Michigan tracked deaths among hundreds of young adults who spent time in the hospital for suicidal thoughts or attempts during their teen years, and took part in a study that the team ran in the early 2000s. Half of t
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The Fallout of the Activision Layoffs Will Last a While
Outcry about the layoffs has continued throughout the week.
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See All the Tools and Tricks That Make Nascar Go
If bullet journals, perfectly arranged drawers, and heart-stopping car racing is your thing, you'll be glad to meet the crews who make it happen.
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Kindness works: Teachers' helping behaviors related to better student relationships and academic confidence
Think back to your favorite teacher you had in school. Now, think about the subject they taught—you probably got a better grade in that subject than other classes.
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Blood clot discovery could pave way for treatment of blood diseases
Scientists have discovered new ways in which the body regulates blood clots, in a discovery which could one day lead to the development of better treatments that could help prevent and treat conditions including heart diseases, stroke and vascular dementia.
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A nearby river of stars
Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at least 4000 stars that have been moving together in space since they formed, about 1 billion years ago.
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Scientists discovered where black carbon comes from in the Arctic in winter and summer
Scientists from seven countries published an article on the study of the sources of black carbon (BC) emissions in the Arctic. BC aerosols are formed under incomplete fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning. Soot which is the main component of BC amplifies the melting of snow and ice cover, accelerating global warming. Based on the complex elemental and isotopic analysis the scientists revealed
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Free access to research will help save horses and ponies
Laminitis — a complex, common and often devastating disease — is the second biggest killer of domestic horses. Now a body of important research on it, from QUT and other organizations, has been compiled and shared online by the Equine Veterinary Journal for vets and others to access.
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Sundhedsminister: Ankenævn kommer i et andet lovforslag
Lægeforeningen har kritiseret lovforslag om tillidspakke uden ankenævn. Det kommer i et nyt lovforslag, fortæller sundhedsministeren.
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Venezuela Is Unraveling—So Is Its Science
Research has ground to a halt, and many scientists have left the country out of desperation — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Measles is on the rise. But telling anti-vaxxers they're stupid won't fix it | Ellie Mae O'Hagan
Simply telling people they are ignorant has failed. We need to find a better way to communicate After reading the news that cases of measles have soared by 50% in the last year, I recalled the first time I heard an anti-vaccination conspiracy theory. It wasn't from a member of Donald Trump's administration, or part of a frenetic, grammatically challenged Facebook post – it was from a classmate whe
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3-D printed nanomaterial shows different transparencies and colours
Metallic nanoparticles have been used as glass colorants since the Roman Empire. One of the most famous pieces of pottery from the period is the Lycurgus cup. The nanoparticles embedded in this cup have an optical peculiarity, presenting different colours depending on the angle of the illumination. This effect is called dichroism. Now, scientists from Wageningen University & Research have made 3-D
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Radio telescope gets upgrade at Brookhaven lab
A radio telescope at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has received a significant upgrade, advancing from one dish to four. The upgrades are part of the Laboratory's ongoing effort to test the merits of a radio telescope for a potential future project between national labs and DOE-sponsored universities. The scientists' ultimate goal is to look deep into the univ
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Is Russia Building an Internet Iron Curtain? Russia intends to temporarily disconnect RUnet from the global internet in the coming months to test out Russia's autonomous internet.
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Ryggproblem vanligt bland elitidrottande ungdomar
– Fysisk aktivitet är bra för kroppen. Men det finns också en risk att det blir för mycket av det goda. Det krävs en medvetenhet om att den fysiska mognadsgraden varierar mellan individer i samma årskull för att minska skaderiskerna, säger Claes-Göran Sundell, fysioterapeut och doktorand vid Institutionen för samhällsmedicin och rehabilitering. – Ju fler träningstimmar, desto mer individanpassad
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Looking behind a rare brain disease for clues to treat more common mental disorders
Researchers have clarified, for the first time, the mechanism behind a very rare brain disorder called MICPCH (microcephaly, disproportionate pontine and cerebellar hypoplasia) syndrome in animal models. Information gleaned from this study could also inform research into other, more common neurological diseases such as mental retardation, epilepsy, and autism.
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E-cig users develop some of the same cancer-related molecular changes as cigarette smokers
A USC study in 93 people shows that e-cig users develop some of the same cancer-related molecular changes in oral tissue as cigarette smokers, adding to the growing concern that e-cigs aren't a harmless alternative to smoking.
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Video: Permafrost in the Arctic – what increasing temperatures mean for the planet
The fact is, the planet is getting warmer, and with the temperature increase comes an array of issues.
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Samsung unveils its thinnest, lightest tablet ever
Samsung is still the one to beat in the world of Android tablets. In our recent Best Tablets feature, we voted its Galaxy Tab S4 the best option in the category, with the Galaxy Tab S3 in …
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The world has become more peaceful
Although the war in Syria is in its eighth year, statisticians have established that the world is becoming increasingly peaceful.
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Indian payment-for-papers proposal rattles scientists
Indian payment-for-papers proposal rattles scientists Indian payment-for-papers proposal rattles scientists, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00514-1 Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.
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China is taking its renewable energy push to new heights, with scientists revealing plans to build the first solar power station in space, to be launched between 2021 and 2025. The next step will be a Megawatt-level space solar power station, slated for construction in 2030.
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SDSU researchers find new way to measure nicotine exposure in children
A team of researchers from SDSU has found silicone wristbands to be an effective way to measure children's exposure to secondhand smoke.
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Sign-language translator is as portable as Chapstick
A new sign language translator technology is non-invasive and as portable as a tube of Chapstick, researchers report. "We are providing a ubiquitous solution to sign language translation," says Mi Zhang, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan State University. "Hard-of-hearing individuals who need to communicate with someone who doesn't understand sign language can
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Innovative bio-based air filter could transform air filtration, possibly reduce airborne allergens indoors
The World Health Organization estimates that 90 percent of people breathe polluted air, which causes 7 million premature deaths each year. That's why Ongenia LLC, a Purdue-affiliated startup, is developing a bio-material alternative to standard heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) units' air filters.
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Next month's SpaceX launch could help end America's reliance on Russian rockets
Space If it's not delayed again, that is. It's been nearly eight years since American astronauts last launched into space from American soil. When NASA shuttered the Space Shuttle Program in 2011, it did so…
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Avstängd gen ger sämre spermier
– Samma gen finns hos människor och det är mycket möjligt att den påverkar människor på samma sätt. Om genen är förändrad hos män kan det leda till att de inte kan få barn, säger Per-Erik Olsson, professor i biologi vid Örebro universitet. Forskningen är ett samarbete med forskare i Singapore vid Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory. Båda forskargrupperna undersöker vad som bestämmer om du blir kvinn
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Havarirapport: Kaptajn forsøgte »desperat landingsforsøg« i Nepal – 51 omkom
Den endelige havarirapport fra en af sidste års mest alvorlige flyulykker er skræmmende og frustrerende læsning. 51 omkom i et tragisk styrt i Kathmandus Tribhuvan-lufthavn. Rapporten placerer hovedansvaret på førstepiloten.
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Tornado fatalities continue to fall, despite population growth in Tornado Alley
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 ushered in a movement of westward migration in the United States, and with new territory came new challenges – and weather phenomena. The rate of tornado-related fatalities increased faster than the rate of population growth until the start of the 20th century, according to a new study in the journal Weather, Climate, and Society.
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CMS gets first result using largest-ever LHC data sample
Just under three months after the final proton–proton collisions from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s second run (Run 2), the CMS collaboration has submitted its first paper based on the full LHC dataset collected in 2018 – the largest sample ever collected at the LHC – and data collected in 2016 and 2017. The findings reflect an immense achievement, as a complex chain of data reconstruction and
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Gavin Newsom's Big Idea
Not long ago, Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, was dismissed as a showboating opportunist who cared more about climbing the political ladder than he did about the finer details of public policy. But his decision to abandon the dream of a high-speed train that would ferry passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco, at least for now, suggests that he's made of sterner stuff. Lamented by
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Suicide Memes Might Actually Be Therapeutic
In a recent post to the popular meme-sharing platform 9gag, two side-by-side storybook illustrations depict a girl watching snowflakes fall outside her bedroom window. The left panel is titled "kids then": In a thought bubble, the girl wistfully muses, "I sure hope they cancel school for all this snow." The right panel is "kids now." The girl looks at the snow outside and thinks, "I hope a car lo
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Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns
Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns Rare trial of open peer review allays common concerns, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00500-7 Study suggests that making reviewers' reports freely readable doesn't compromise peer-review process .
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Samsung is opening its first US retail stores in Los Angeles, New York and Houston
February 20 is going to be a big day for Samsung. In addition to hosting its latest Unpacked event where we expect to see both the Galaxy S10 and Samsungs new foldable smartphone, the South …
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Reality check: Can cat poop cause mental illness?
Science breaks down the evidence on the link between Toxoplasma gondii and mental illness
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The Eye-Popping Alita: Battle Angel Never Ends—Literally
The James Cameron-produced movie is a lot of fun, but it's trying so hard to turn into a franchise it forgets to have a third act.
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Netflix's 'Umbrella Academy' Is Your New X-Men—Ugh
Sure, it's derivative. That's what you'll love about it—and what might drive you crazy.
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Is hemp the same thing as marijuana?
There's been a lot of discussion about hemp recently, since the 2018 Farm Bill made it legal for farmers to grow industrial hemp for the first time since the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (or, practically speaking, since the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act).
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Spintronics by 'straintronics': Switching superferromagnetism with electric-field induced strain
Switching magnetic domains in magnetic memory normally requires magnetic fields generated by electrical currents, hence requiring large amounts of electrical power. Now, teams from France, Spain and Germany have demonstrated the feasibility of another approach at the nanoscale: "We can induce magnetic order on a small region of our sample by employing a small electric field instead of using magnet
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Image of the Day: Hot Pink Squirrels
Under UV light, flying squirrels give off a rosy glow.
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Is hemp the same thing as marijuana?
There's been a lot of discussion about hemp recently, since the 2018 Farm Bill made it legal for farmers to grow industrial hemp for the first time since the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (or, practically speaking, since the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act).
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Ancient Earth's Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction
When our planet's magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sådan ser den ud – du får den på søndag
Ugens trykte udgave af Dagens Medicin er blevet forsinket – vores distributør har begået en fejl.
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Ancient Earth's Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction
When our planet's magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Preserved leaves reveal 7000 years of rainfall and drought
A study by University of Adelaide researchers and Queensland Government scientists has revealed what south-east Queensland's rainfall was like over the last 7000 years – including several severe droughts worse and longer lasting than the 12-year Millennium Drought.
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Climate strike: Schoolchildren protest over climate change
Students in cities around the UK walked out of school to call for action from the government.
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In zebrafish eggs, most rapidly growing cell inhibits neighbors through mechanical signals
"The winner takes it all, the loser standing small"—that's not just true in the famous ABBA song, but also in animal development. Frequently, a group of cells starts out all being the same. But then one cell puts the brake on its neighbors, sending inhibitory signals that stop their differentiation. The "winning" cell, in the end, is different from its neighbors. So far, the only signalling mechan
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How accurate are dog-activity trackers?
There are countless gadgets available these days for people to track everything from our heart rate to our stress levels. So perhaps it's no surprise that there also are quite a few products that now claim to similarly monitor your dog's activity and health, including tracking what your pet is up to all day at home while you're at work.
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Enorma krafter i varje slalomsväng
– Banorna i de tekniska disciplinerna involverar fler och snabbare riktningsförändringar såväl som högre reaktionskrafter, säger H-C Holmberg, professor vid Nationellt vintersportcentrum på Mittuniversitetet i Åre-Östersund. I artikeln The Training of Olympic Alpine Ski Racers (Frontiers in Physiology) beskriver forskarna hur elitskidåkare från fyra av de stora alpina länderna förberedde sig för
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In zebrafish eggs, most rapidly growing cell inhibits neighbors through mechanical signals
"The winner takes it all, the loser standing small"—that's not just true in the famous ABBA song, but also in animal development. Frequently, a group of cells starts out all being the same. But then one cell puts the brake on its neighbors, sending inhibitory signals that stop their differentiation. The "winning" cell, in the end, is different from its neighbors. So far, the only signalling mechan
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How accurate are dog-activity trackers?
There are countless gadgets available these days for people to track everything from our heart rate to our stress levels. So perhaps it's no surprise that there also are quite a few products that now claim to similarly monitor your dog's activity and health, including tracking what your pet is up to all day at home while you're at work.
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The smallest skeletons in the marine world observed in 3-D by synchrotron techniques
Coccolithophores are microscopic marine algae that use carbon dioxide to grow, and release carbon dioxide when they create their miniature calcite shells. These tiny, abundant planktonic microorganisms could therefore be seriously impacted by current increasing carbon dioxide emissions. Scientists from the CNRS, Le Mans Université, Sorbonne Université, Aix-Marseille Université and the ESRF, the Eu
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How income and attitudes affect greenhouse gas emissions
The higher the income of individuals living in Switzerland, the higher their greenhouse gas emissions. But to what extent do differences in income actually have an effect on emissions, and to what extent do household emissions differ? The main differences were found in the areas of mobility and housing. For nutrition, the differences in individual emissions are less pronounced. These are the findi
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Carbonaceous chondrites provide clues about the delivery of water to Earth
An international study led by researchers from the Institute of Space Sciences, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya has discovered that carbonaceous chondrites, a class of meteorites, incorporated hydrated minerals along with organic material from the protoplanetary disk before the formation of planets. The researchers, who have publi
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Facebook Might Remove Anti-Vaccine Recommendations
Facebook might take extra steps to remove misleading anti-vaccine information from its social network site. The company, which has taken measures to minimize fake news, is still having issues …
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How proteins become embedded in a cell membrane
Many proteins with important biological functions are embedded in a biomembrane in the cells of humans and other living organisms. But how do they get in there in the first place? Researchers in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich have investigated the matter.
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Why seeing marginalized communities in pop culture matters
It was just four years ago that the social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite was trending, helping to spark a national outcry regarding the lack of diversity in Oscar-nominated films and Hollywood in general. But it's not just the film and TV industry that fail to represent the diversity of our society, it's most forms of popular culture. Can this be dismissed as "identity politics"? Why should we care
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Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?
Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of the "normal" matter in the Universe. New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may have helped them locate this elusive expanse of missing matter.
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How proteins become embedded in a cell membrane
Many proteins with important biological functions are embedded in a biomembrane in the cells of humans and other living organisms. But how do they get in there in the first place? Researchers in the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH Zurich have investigated the matter.
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Space harpoon skewers 'orbital debris'
A British-led mission demonstrates a projectile that could one day be used to clear up space junk.
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The Risks of Water Insecurity
It's found all over the world and in nearly every corner of the U.S., and it's especially dangerous for children — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Meet the man who made CRISPR monkey clones to study depression
Hung-Chun Chang told New Scientist about his team's controversial project to find drugs for depression and schizophrenia using clones of gene-edited monkeys
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Russia's plan to unplug from the internet shows cyberwar is escalating
Media reports suggest Russia is contemplating disconnecting from the global internet. The move is not about isolationism but security, says James Ball
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I Fell Under the Spell of NASA's Most Notorious Thief
I first heard of Thad Roberts during a lecture on black holes. November 18, 2000, was the University of Utah's Science Day, a grand affair for visiting high-school students like me; the lecture hall was packed. The professor began by invoking the name of the 18th-century natural philosopher John Michell, whose theory of a "dark star" was the forerunner of today's black hole—a fuel-spent star so c
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The Hollywood Producer Behind Bryan Singer's Stalled Movie
LOS ANGELES—He got his start in the movies as a theater projectionist in South Africa, and later managed the first drive-in in his native Israel. The Hollywood Reporter once dubbed him the low-budget "King of the B's" and "The Most Unlikely Movie Mogul." He is so frugal, a filmmaker who worked with him recalls, that he once suggested an Oscar-winning movie star like Diane Keaton should drive hers
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Yellow, Blob-Like Cell Transforms into Wriggling Salamander in Surreal Time-Lapse Video
A mesmerizing 6-minute time lapse shows a single cell dividing seemingly endlessly until what was once a yellow blob has become a wriggling, darting salamander tadpole.
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Report: Electric Cars Already Cheaper To Own In Europe Than Gas/Diesel Cars – the electric version of the Golf cost less to own that the other three models, due in large part to a combination of lower taxes, lower fuel costs, and incentives.
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Skeptical of Artificial Intelligence? You Can Blame the Media This Time – Cutbacks in science and tech staffs have led to PR-driven coverage that fails to educate a public that wants to know the real story.
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UK's city leaders sign up to ambitious clean air plan. Research suggests that this could pay for nearly half a million (488,647) older polluting cars, vans and buses to be taken off the roads and incentivise people and businesses into using low-emission vehicles and public transport.
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NASA chief talks returning to the moon and life on Mars: NASA is focused on utilizing partnerships with companies like SpaceX and Boeing, rather than contracting and operating the rockets and spacecraft itself. He also said the resources on the moon could be worth "tens of trillions of dollars."
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The Gateway Foundation Released a video detailing there plans to build the first commercial space station, featuring specialized modules and docking hubs for the BFR(Starship)!
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Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI
Social science has an image problem—too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.
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Personal Data Collection: The Complete Wired Guide
Information about you, what you buy, where you go, even where you look is the oil that fuels the digital economy.
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Muons reveal the whopping voltages inside a thunderstorm
Particle physics sheds new light on the electric potential of thunderstorms.
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AI is reinventing the way we invent
The biggest impact of artificial intelligence will be to help humans make discoveries we couldn't make on our own.
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The Risks of Water Insecurity
It's found all over the world and in nearly every corner of the U.S., and it's especially dangerous for children — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Humpback Whale Calls Remain Constant over Decades
Whales in southeastern Alaska produce "shrieks," "moans" and "squeegies" that persist over generations — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Bold Plan? Replace the Border Wall with an Energy–Water Corridor: Building solar, wind, natural gas and water infrastructure all along the U.S.–Mexico border would create economic opportunity rather than antagonism
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The Scientist as Diplomat: Five Questions for Alex Dehgan
The author of "The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation" discusses his globetrotting career as a "conservation diplomat" and his efforts to protect wildlife in Afghanistan, where he helped create the nation's first national park and searched for the threatened snow leopard.
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Climate strike: Why are students striking and will it have an impact?
Across the UK, students are set to take part in a climate strike, but will it make a difference?
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Humpback Whale Calls Remain Constant over Decades
Whales in southeastern Alaska produce "shrieks," "moans" and "squeegies" that persist over generations — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Humpback Whale Calls Remain Constant over Decades
Whales in southeastern Alaska produce "shrieks," "moans" and "squeegies" that persist over generations — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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'I'm standing up for our planet'
Every Friday morning, 13-year-old Holly Gillibrand skips school for an hour to demand more is done over climate change.
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Researchers have created a new kind of computer that uses chemistry instead of electronic components. Their first prototype can perform Boolean logic and pattern recognition
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New molecules reverse memory loss linked to depression, aging – In preclinical models of aging, memory declines were rapidly reversed and performance increased to 80% after administration, reaching levels seen in youth with improvements lasting over two months with daily treatment.
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Interstellar 'Oumuamua might be a fractal snowflake not an alien probe
The interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua might be an alien spaceship, at least according to one prominent researcher, but now there is a much more reasonable explanation
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Life Really Is Harder for Night Owls. Here's Why.
"Night owls" have different patterns of brain activity compared with "morning larks," a new study finds
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Why Do Humans Hear So Well? You Can Thank the Tiny 'Jell-O' Violin Inside Your Ear
A teensy little "Jell-O" membrane in our ears may partly explain why humans have such amazing hearing.
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Reindeer Cyclones Are Real, and You Definitely Don't Want to Get Caught in One
Threatened reindeer herds literally run circles around their predators.
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A Solar Flare '10 Billion Times More Powerful' Than Earth's Sun Blasted Out of Orion's Sword
This crazy solar flare is more powerful than any ever blasted by Earth's sun.
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The vaporized rock and extreme heat at a huge landslide's heart
The vaporized rock and extreme heat at a huge landslide's heart The vaporized rock and extreme heat at a huge landslide's heart, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00536-9 An entire mountainside came crashing down after a devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan Province.
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I reported the news in print and online. Here's the difference.
Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, describes what life was like for a journalist in the 1980s – a "stone age" when news was governed by the printing press schedule. Today, many journalists will break stories on Twitter before writing it, eliminating nuance and increasing the chance of error. Social media in particular has added a fatal speed to journalism. Errors erode
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Intenet of Things: Køleanlæg i madbutikker og sygehuse ligger frit tilgængelige på nettet
Installeret med standardpassword, som ikke er blevet skiftet.
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Naboejendom revet ned: Bygning i Aarhus evakueret på tredje uge
Da entreprenøren MT Højgaard rev en bygning i det centrale Aarhus ned, medførte det så store skader på naboejendommen, at kommunen evakuerede beboerne. Advarslerne stod ellers i kø, inden byggeriet startede.
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What Did Elliott Abrams Have to Do With the El Mozote Massacre?
I n a testy exchange with Elliott Abrams on Wednesday, Representative Ilhan Omar resurrected the memory of El Salvador's El Mozote massacre, one of the worst mass killings in modern Latin American history. Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was all of two months old when the December 1981 massacre took place. Abrams, President Donald Trump's new special envoy for Venezuela, was a senior State Depar
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Stop Alleging Anti-Semitism Just to Score Political Points
There's little doubt that Israel is shaping up to be one of the hottest of hot-button issues in the 2020 presidential-election cycle. While one might hope that a presidential campaign could feature a productive discussion about policy toward a region vital to U.S. interests, what we're likely to have instead is a toxic political firefight, rife with partisan attacks and recrimination, bereft of i
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Sunni Jihad Is Going Local
For decades, Sunni jihadism has been characterized by transnational terrorism, suicide bombing, and excommunication. These three pillars not only attracted the ire of American and European governments, but turned off many of the jihadists' target constituents, namely Sunnis living in the Muslim world. Yet there are signs that Sunni extremists are changing their ways, drifting away from the global
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Legal threats once again force corrections over a scale measuring medication usage
A journal is warning contributors that they should avoid using a controversial scale for assessing adherence to medication regimens or they might wind up wearing an omelette on their faces. The chicken here, of course, is the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale. The instrument was developed by a UCLA professor named Donald Morisky, who with a … Continue reading Legal threats once again force correc
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Facebook is set to pay a multibillion-dollar fine to settle a US privacy probeFacebook FTC Dollar Fine
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China's Didi to restructure following passenger murders
Chinese ride-hailing leader Didi Chuxing will streamline operations and make cuts to non-core business units as it doubles down on safety after the murders of two passengers clobbered its image, a source familiar with the plans told AFP.
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Massive Storms Lead to Elevated Landslide Hazards for the West Coast
Saturated slopes can be very bad news. The good news: Congress may be ready to do something about it — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Uppbackning utanför familjen viktig vid ätstörning
Att som ungdom drabbas av en ätstörning gör att livet sätts på pausläge under en lång tid. Därför är det viktigt med rätt uppbackning även utanför familjen. Det kan vara inom både skolans värld och idrottsorganisationer. – Ungdomars sociala kontexter utanför familjen verkar ha stor betydelse för insjuknandet, behandlingen och tillfrisknandet, säger Katarina Lindstedt, behandlare på ätstörningsenh
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Ljudkonst ett samspel mellan konstnär och platsens förutsättningar
Det är viktigt att konstnären först skaffar sig en förståelse för de villkor som finns inbyggda i platsen, och hur ljudkonsten kan förändra upplevelsen av den. Detta undersöks i en avhandling från Högskolan för scen och musik. I avhandlingen utgår Åsa Stjerna från sitt eget konstnärliga arbete. Under mer än tio år har hon skapat ljudinstallationer anpassade efter specifika platser både i Sverige
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In light of the Trader Joe's post, you should know: Compostable materials are not necessarily the answer. Let's educate ourselves and ask TJ's, and other companies, to do one step better!
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Harish Natarajan on beating IBM Project Debater on Monday, and what it needs to do to beat him in future
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Resolution limit of image analysis algorithms
Resolution limit of image analysis algorithms Resolution limit of image analysis algorithms, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08689-x The resolution limitations when using the ubiquitous algorithms that process images obtained using modern techniques are not straightforward to define. Here, the authors examine the performance of localization algorithms and use spatial st
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Stress-induced inactivation of the Staphylococcus aureus purine biosynthesis repressor leads to hypervirulence
Stress-induced inactivation of the Staphylococcus aureus purine biosynthesis repressor leads to hypervirulence Stress-induced inactivation of the Staphylococcus aureus purine biosynthesis repressor leads to hypervirulence, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08724-x PurR acts as transcriptional repressor of purine biosynthesis genes in some bacterial species. Here, the auth
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A functional subset of CD8+ T cells during chronic exhaustion is defined by SIRPα expression
A functional subset of CD8 + T cells during chronic exhaustion is defined by SIRPα expression A functional subset of CD8 + T cells during chronic exhaustion is defined by SIRPα expression, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08637-9 SIRPa is most commonly known as a phagocytosis inhibitory receptor expressed by myeloid cells. Here the authors show SIRPa is expressed on a su
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Amine-responsive cellulose-based ratiometric fluorescent materials for real-time and visual detection of shrimp and crab freshness
Amine-responsive cellulose-based ratiometric fluorescent materials for real-time and visual detection of shrimp and crab freshness Amine-responsive cellulose-based ratiometric fluorescent materials for real-time and visual detection of shrimp and crab freshness, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08675-3 Simple, fast, and accurate detection of food freshness has great sign
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Disulfide-mediated conversion of 8-mer bowl-like protein architecture into three different nanocages
Disulfide-mediated conversion of 8-mer bowl-like protein architecture into three different nanocages Disulfide-mediated conversion of 8-mer bowl-like protein architecture into three different nanocages, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08788-9 Shape transformation of proteins created by design in the laboratory is challenging. Here, the authors present a disulfide-mediat
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Mutation of a single residue promotes gating of vertebrate and invertebrate two-pore domain potassium channels
Mutation of a single residue promotes gating of vertebrate and invertebrate two-pore domain potassium channels Mutation of a single residue promotes gating of vertebrate and invertebrate two-pore domain potassium channels, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08710-3 Mutations that modulate the activity of ion channels are essential tools to understand the biophysical determ
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Barcoding reveals complex clonal behavior in patient-derived xenografts of metastatic triple negative breast cancer
Barcoding reveals complex clonal behavior in patient-derived xenografts of metastatic triple negative breast cancer Barcoding reveals complex clonal behavior in patient-derived xenografts of metastatic triple negative breast cancer, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08595-2 Triple negative breast cancers (TNBC) disseminate and metastasise, but the clonal relationship of m
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Single gametophyte sequencing reveals that crossover events differ between sexes in maize
Single gametophyte sequencing reveals that crossover events differ between sexes in maize Single gametophyte sequencing reveals that crossover events differ between sexes in maize, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08786-x Meiotic crossover (CO) landscape differs inter- and intra-species, as well as between sexes. Here, the authors show that male meiosis produces more COs
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Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization
Researchers have uncovered new evidence about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations.
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Artificial intelligence can predict survival of ovarian cancer patients
Researchers have created new machine learning software that can forecast the survival rates and response to treatments of patients with ovarian cancer.
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'Cellular barcoding' reveals how breast cancer spreads
A cutting-edge technique called cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancer from the main tumour into the blood and other organs. Dr Delphine Merino, Dr Tom Weber, Professor Jane Visvader, Professor Geoffrey Lindeman and Dr Shalin Naik led the highly collaborative research that involved breast cancer biologists, clinician scientists
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A method using electroporation for the protein delivery of Cre recombinase into cultured Arabidopsis cells with an intact cell wall
A method using electroporation for the protein delivery of Cre recombinase into cultured Arabidopsis cells with an intact cell wall A method using electroporation for the protein delivery of Cre recombinase into cultured Arabidopsis cells with an intact cell wall, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-38119-9 A method using electroporation for the protein delivery of Cre reco
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The Expression and Transfer of Valence Associated with Social Conformity
The Expression and Transfer of Valence Associated with Social Conformity The Expression and Transfer of Valence Associated with Social Conformity, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-019-38560-4 The Expression and Transfer of Valence Associated with Social Conformity
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Temporal and Effort cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms
Temporal and Effort cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms Temporal and Effort cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-38284-x Temporal and Effort cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms
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Genome-wide identification, characterization, interaction network and expression profile of GRAS gene family in sweet orange (Citrus sinensis)
Genome-wide identification, characterization, interaction network and expression profile of GRAS gene family in sweet orange ( Citrus sinensis ) Genome-wide identification, characterization, interaction network and expression profile of GRAS gene family in sweet orange ( Citrus sinensis ), Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-38185-z Genome-wide identification, characterizat
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Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster
Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster , Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-019-38843-w Differing effects of age and starvation on reproductive performance in Drosophila melanogaster
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Spring Based Connection of External Wires to a Thin Film Temperature Sensor Integrated Inside a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell
Spring Based Connection of External Wires to a Thin Film Temperature Sensor Integrated Inside a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Spring Based Connection of External Wires to a Thin Film Temperature Sensor Integrated Inside a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-019-39518-2 Spring Based Connection of External Wires to a Thin Film Temperature Sensor Integrated Inside a
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A signal processing method for alignment-free metagenomic binning: multi-resolution genomic binary patterns
A signal processing method for alignment-free metagenomic binning: multi-resolution genomic binary patterns A signal processing method for alignment-free metagenomic binning: multi-resolution genomic binary patterns, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-38197-9 A signal processing method for alignment-free metagenomic binning: multi-resolution genomic binary patterns
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Dynamics of soil microbial communities following vegetation succession in a karst mountain ecosystem, Southwest China
Dynamics of soil microbial communities following vegetation succession in a karst mountain ecosystem, Southwest China Dynamics of soil microbial communities following vegetation succession in a karst mountain ecosystem, Southwest China, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-018-36886-z Dynamics of soil microbial communities following vegetation succession in a karst mountain ecos
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Værksted bag bremseproblemer hos politiet: »Det skulle vi have gjort bedre«
Politiets biler i to politikredse har i flere måneder været ramt af bremseproblemer på grund af fejl hos værkstedskæde.
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Hacker stjæler 127 millioner brugeroplysninger fra otte hjemmesider
Efter at have stjålet 620 millioner brugeroplysninger fra 16 forskellige hjemmesider, så samme hacker til igen. Denne gang mod otte nye hjemmesider.
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Trump's Emergency Declaration Is a Test Republicans Didn't Want to Take
There was a climactic moment Thursday afternoon as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on the Senate floor that President Donald Trump would sign a compromise deal on border-security funding, but would also declare a national emergency to try to build his wall. What happens next will be a test of the mettle of Republicans in the Senate—though if the past is any indication, it's likely to be
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A new 2-D material uses light to quickly and safely purify water – In tests, it killed 99.9999 percent of the bacteria in contaminated water
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Trilobites: Searching Tardigrades for Lifesaving Secrets
Researchers are drawing inspiration from the proteins that they think let hearty water bears cheat time by decelerating their biology.
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Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization
Researchers have uncovered new evidence about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations.
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Surprise findings turn up the temperature on the study of vernalization
Researchers have uncovered new evidence about the agriculturally important process of vernalization in a development that could help farmers deal with financially damaging weather fluctuations.
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Jo, patienterne har brug for en reform
Alt for mange patienter oplever, at der ikke er et trygt og godt samspil mellem sygehuset og de primære aktører i primærsektoren.
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'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes. The 16-year-old welcomed the huge mobilisation planned in the UK, which follows demonstrations by tens of thousands of school and university students in Australia, Belgium, U.S.A and more than a dozen other countries.
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Egypt is building a new capital from scratch, specifically for the government, military and foreign investors.
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Fabrikken, der eksploderede: Din antibiotikakur hænger i en tynd, kinesisk tråd
Danmark er afhængig af antibiotika fra fabrikker i Kina.
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Hør ugens podcast: Livsfarlige politibiler og behov for én ny vindmølle i timen
Politibiler i to politikredse har kørt rundt med alvorlige fejl på bremserne i 2018, og vi skal bygge én vindmølle i timen de næste ti år, hvis vi skal gøre os forhåbning om at nå Parisaftalens mål i 2050.
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Eagle rescued after huge ice ball grows on its tail
A bald eagle had to be rescued after a 20cm ice ball grew on its tail.
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Drone disrupts flights from Dubai
Suspected drone activity briefly disrupted flight departures Friday from Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international traffic, the airport said.
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Alibaba takes stake in Chinese video platform Bilibili
Alibaba has bought an eight percent stake in Chinese online video sharing and entertainment service Bilibili for an undisclosed amount, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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European car sales begin 2019 in reverse
European car sales fell by 4.6 percent in January from the same month last year, an industry body said Friday, in another worrying sign of economic slowdown.
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Stort EU-projekt med KU-forskere skal forske i leversygdomme
På tværs af Europa skal Københavns Universitet sammen med 21 andre universiteter,…
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Victory or catastrophe? Amazon's pull-out leaves New York dividedAmazon HQ2 NYC LIC
Thousands of lost jobs or a victory against a monolith: reactions were sharply divided Thursday after Amazon abandoned its plans for a new headquarters in New York.
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Tiny particles can switch back and forth between phases
Three years ago, when Richard Robinson, associate professor of materials science and engineering, was on sabbatical at Hebrew University in Israel, he asked a graduate student to send him some nanoparticles of a specific size.
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Thousands of students are set to go on strike at 11am on Friday as part of a global youth action over climate change. Strikes are taking place in 60 towns and cities across the country from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands.
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China and India Are Literally Making Earth Greener
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Object-recognition AI – the dumb program's idea of a smart program: How neural nets are really just looking at textures — "Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Don't ask these models"
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Bremsefejl på politibiler: »De er livsfarlige at køre med, og vi fraråder al kørsel i bilen«
PLUS. Værkstedskæde har begået samme fejl i to forskellige politikredse. Det har ført til flere tilfælde af bremsesvigt i trafikken.
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Woman With Womb Transplanted From Deceased Donor Successfully Gives Birth
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Facebook taps user data to defend workers from threat
Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said Thursday in response to media reports of the security tactic.
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The Cholesterol Controversy
Why is cholesterol so much more controversial than the other cardiac risk factors? A review of cholesterol's troubled and contentious history might help us understand where many of the cholesterol controversies originated… and why it's time to let them pass into history.
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The future of work – Accelerating Change!
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AI Offers Billions in Untapped Value for the Circular Economy
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Report: Facebook, FTC discussing 'multibillion dollar' fineFacebook FTC Dollar Fine
A report says Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission are negotiating a "multibillion dollar" fine for the social network's privacy lapses.
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US judge rules against butterfly sanctuary opposed to Trump's wall
A US judge ruled Thursday against a butterfly sanctuary that had sued to keep President Donald Trump's proposed border wall from cutting the refuge in two.
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Facebook taps user data to defend workers from threat
Facebook gathers intelligence from its platform to identify people who threaten the firm or its workers, the social network said Thursday in response to media reports of the security tactic.
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Hong Kong seizes $1m of rhino horn in record airport haul
Two men carrying at least 24 severed rhino horns were arrested in Hong Kong airport by customs officers who said it was their largest ever seizure of rhino contraband smuggled by air passengers.
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Roblox, the game platform teaching young kids to code
With its Lego-like avatars and easy-to-learn coding for budding programmers, the online gaming app Roblox has cornered the market in younger gamers, with 80 million monthly users, many of them under 16.
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US judge rules against butterfly sanctuary opposed to Trump's wall
A US judge ruled Thursday against a butterfly sanctuary that had sued to keep President Donald Trump's proposed border wall from cutting the refuge in two.
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Hong Kong seizes $1m of rhino horn in record airport haul
Two men carrying at least 24 severed rhino horns were arrested in Hong Kong airport by customs officers who said it was their largest ever seizure of rhino contraband smuggled by air passengers.
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Tasmania fires may 'wipe out' ancient species
Tasmania's ancient rainforest and alpine flora species face an uncertain future, scientists have warned, after out-of-control bushfires consumed vast tracts of wild bushland.
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In America, high-speed train travel is off track
California's suspension this week of a high-speed rail project underscores the up-hill battle the modern mode of transport faces in the United States—including myriad cultural, political and economic obstacles.
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Fears flood water runoff could 'smother' Barrier Reef
Runoff from recent floods in northern Australia is flowing onto parts of the Barrier Reef, scientists said Friday, starving coral of light and providing fodder for the predatory crown-of-thorns starfish.
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Prickly pears: 'humble' cactus brings hope to Algeria
For generations Algerians like the Gueldasmi family have barely eked out a living growing prickly pear fruits, but thanks to the cactus's new found virtues their lives are steadily improving.
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Prickly pears: 'humble' cactus brings hope to Algeria
For generations Algerians like the Gueldasmi family have barely eked out a living growing prickly pear fruits, but thanks to the cactus's new found virtues their lives are steadily improving.
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»Det mest effektive inddrivelsesværktøj« kan ikke bruges i flere år med PSRM
Tilbageholdelse af løn betragtes som det bedste værktøj til at inddrive de 116 milliarder kroner, som staten stadig har ude at svømme. Men lønindeholdelse ikke været teknisk muligt siden 2015, og selv med PSRM vil der gå år, før det kan bruges.
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Brain Scans Reveal Why "Night Owls" Have It Rough in a 9-to-5 Society: Study – The results explain why we need to "create more flexibility in our society."
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Overlæge om resistente bakterier: Vi er nødt til at forstå truslen
I dag dør omkring 120 danskere årligt af infektioner med multiresistente bakterier. Andre steder i verden ser det langt værre ud.
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Obduktioner afslører oversete dobbeltdiagnoser
Antallet af borgere med både psykisk sygdom og stofmisbrug er meget højere end hidtil antaget, viser omfattende retsmedicinsk studie. I stedet for at få behandling, der retter sig mod begge deres lidelser, falder disse borgere mellem to stole i behandlingssystemet, der enten er rettet mod psykisk sygdom eller misbrug, advarer forskningsleder.
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Amazon's exit could scare off tech companies from New York
Amazon jilted New York City on Valentine's Day, scrapping plans to build a massive headquarters campus in Queens amid fierce opposition from politicians angry about nearly $3 billion in tax breaks and the company's anti-union stance.
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'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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'Seeing' tails help sea snakes avoid predators
New research has revealed the fascinating adaptation of some Australian sea snakes that helps protect their vulnerable paddle-shaped tails from predators.
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Napster co-founder chides Elon Musk: worry about gene editing, not AI
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Nigeria's Militarized Democracy Faces a Test at the Polls
ABUJA —Politics in Nigeria can be like General Hospital or Coronation Street —a long-running soap opera in which the cast rarely changes. Except here, it's all about the military. In 1979, General Olusegun Obasanjo handed over power to Nigeria's first democratically elected government. The parade ending 13 years of military rule was organized by a young colonel, Abdusalam Abubakar. The elected ad
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Personal and social factors impact return to work after ill-health
Support from managers and colleagues, as well as a positive attitude, are most likely to enable a more long-term return to work for employees after a sickness absence, according to a new review of research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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Cross Section: Paul Davies – Science Weekly podcast
Nicola Davis talks to the theoretical physicist Paul Davies, who has been trying to find the solution to one of humankind's trickier questions – what is life? Paul joins Nicola in studio to talk about his new book The Demon in the Machine . In it, he looks at whether or not we have all of the tools necessary to come up with answer to what life actually is. He suggests we may need something fundam
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Cross Section: Paul Davies – Science Weekly podcast
Nicola Davis talks to the theoretical physicist Paul Davies, who has been trying to find the solution to one of humankind's trickier questions – what is life?
13h
New molecular blueprint advances our understanding of photosynthesis
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have used one of the most advanced microscopes in the world to reveal the structure of a large protein complex crucial to photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into cellular energy.
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Researcher designs data visualization of carbon footprints
A Columbia researcher affiliated with the Data Science Institute has created a data-visualization tool that shows the carbon footprints of hundreds of consumer products. The tool makes it easy for everyone to explore the products' carbon-emission levels and the various strategies that companies are employing to reduce emissions.
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New molecular blueprint advances our understanding of photosynthesis
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have used one of the most advanced microscopes in the world to reveal the structure of a large protein complex crucial to photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into cellular energy.
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Død krop vidner lige så godt som en levende
Retsmedicinere kan hos afdøde stole på gængse markører for det metabolske syndrom, som f.eks. stort taljemål og for højt blodsukker. Det viser ny dansk forskning.
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Psykofarmaka i hjertevæv kan være årsag til pludselig død
Koncentrationen af psykofarmaka, der kan udløse alvorlige hjerterytmeforstyrrelser, svinger ifølge nyt ph.d.-studie i retskemi voldsomt hos obducerede psykisk syge og er hos nogle op til 20 gange højere end det, der regnes for normale værdier i blodet. Det kan være en kilde til uforklarlige dødsfald, advarer retskemiker.
13h
It's a Bird. It's a Tesla. No, it's an Arcimoto.
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Faulty Cell Cleanup in The Brain Could Contribute to Alzheimer's, Study Shows
This could be an important clue.
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Samarbejde griber usete diabetes- og hjertepatienter
På Nordsjællands Hospital finder et systematisk samarbejde om opsporing af diabetes og hjerte-kar-sygdom de patienter, der ellers går under radaren. Arbejdet giver så god klinisk mening, at det kan gå hen og blive standardbehandling, lyder det fra lægerne.
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»Jeg trives heldigvis rigtig godt i kaos«
Lise Tarnow håber som chef for Region Sjællands udgave af et Steno-center at udjævne uligheden i diabetesbehandlingen i en geografisk udfordret region. Og at SDCS kan bringe arbejdsglæden og den faglige stolthed tilbage til et sundhedsvæsen, som efter hendes opfattelse hænger i neglene.
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New study shows hidden genes may underlie autism severity
Scientists at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have implicated a largely hidden part of the human genome in the severity of autism symptoms, a discovery that could lead to new insights into the disorder and eventually to clinical therapies for the condition.
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Immune stimulant molecule shown to prevent cancer
An immune checkpoint molecule developed for cancer immunotherapy also protects against future development of multiple types of cancer when administered by itself. The recombinant protein molecule SA-4-1BBL has been used to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of cancer vaccines with success in pre-clinical animal models. Surprisingly, when the researchers treated normal, healthy mice with SA-4-1BBL al
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OSA patients with excessive daytime sleepiness at greatest risk of cardiovascular disease
Adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) who experience excessive sleepiness while awake appear to be at far greater risk for cardiovascular diseases than those without excessive daytime sleepiness, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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Our Oceans Are Full of Nurdles, And They're Not as Cute as They Sound
They're also known as 'mermaid tears'.
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Why won't I buy a beer on an airplane?
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New research, February 4-10, 2019
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Upscaling from the grassroots: potential aggregate carbon reduction from community-based initiatives in Europe Climate change communication An assessment of public perceptions of climate change risk in three western US cities Climate change perceptions and their individual-level determinants: A cross-European analysis The psycho
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Telemedicin kan give tryghed og store besparelser
Nordjysk forsøg med telemedicin viser, at sundhedsvæsenet kan spare 40.000 kr. om året pr. hjertepatient. Frem for helbredsmæssige gevinster ved telemedicin bør sundhedsvæsenet fokusere på besparelser og øget tryghed hos borgerne, mener sundhedsøkonom Lars Ehlers.
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Udskriv så det valg
Regeringen skubber sundhedsvæsenet foran sig i et mere og mere skingert forspil til valgkamp. Lad os få valget overstået, så de topprofessionelle medarbejdere i sundhedsvæsenet kan få ro til deres arbejde.
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Så snakker vi ikke mere om det, før den næste klinikchef siger op
Problemet med prioritering i sundhedsvæsenet 'løses' med tomme ord, utilstrækkelige ekstrabevillinger og grønthøsterbesparelser. Og hvis det går, som det plejer i et valgår, så slutter debatten, når en mere presserende dagsorden rydder nyhedsfladen.
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Can we repair the brain? The promise of stem cell technologies for treating Parkinson's disease
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Værkstedsfejl: Politiets biler ramt af bremsesvigt
Politibiler i to politikredse har i store dele af 2018 kørt udrykningskørsel med fejl på bremserne til fare for politibetjente og andre trafikanter.
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Mere åbenhed om samarbejde med medicinindustrien
Både patienter og samfund stor gavn af et godt samarbejde mellem sundhedspersoner og virksomheder, som udvikler ny medicin og sundhedsteknologi. Det er dog en forudsætning, at der er åbenhed og transparens om samarbejdet, og at sundhedspersonerne ikke påvirkes af økonomiske interesser. Derfor skal alle i sundhedsvæsenet og industrien have kendskab til og efterleve habilitetskravene.
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Elon Musk backed AI fake text generator may be too dangerous to release. Gathered data by trawling Reddit.
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What's your guess for the date we reach singularity?
Mine is purely out of speculation and the current state of AI, but I'd say 2050. submitted by /u/Beepboopbop8 [link] [comments]
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Climate Change Hearings Signal Congress Is Willing to Address the Issue Again
Climate change is real. It's happening now. And it presents significant problems for the U.S. across multiple facets of society, according to a panel of climate and policy experts that testified before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The testimonials were part of the House Science Committee's first full hearing of the 116th Congress and one of only a
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Let's Talk About The U.K.'s Sudden Move To Field A Drone Swarm Squadron
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Johnson & Johnson to pay $5+ billion for under-the-radar robotics company – It's a surprising sticker price, but there's a good reason companies are forking over big money for robotics outfits.
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Researchers find how to add more "love hormone" to your relationships
Leisure activities can help release more oxytocin, say researchers. Oxytocin is a hormone linked to social and sexual interaction. Couples who took art classes and played board games together released oxytocin. None With Valentine's Day upon us, are you looking for a way to bring more love into your relationship? Take an art class or pick up a new board game to play together. This advice comes co
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Opportunity Mars rover dies after fifteen years
Opportunity overturns
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Huge Earthquake in Bolivia Has Revealed Vast Mountain Ranges Below Earth's Surface
A glimpse into a lost world.
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Molecular mechanism and history of non-sense to sense evolution of antifreeze glycoprotein gene in northern gadids [Evolution]
A fundamental question in evolutionary biology is how genetic novelty arises. De novo gene birth is a recently recognized mechanism, but the evolutionary process and function of putative de novo genes remain largely obscure. With a clear life-saving function, the diverse antifreeze proteins of polar fishes are exemplary adaptive innovations…
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Extreme diversification of floral volatiles within and among species of Lithophragma (Saxifragaceae) [Evolution]
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how complex traits of multiple functions have diversified and codiversified across interacting lineages and geographic ranges. We evaluate intra- and interspecific variation in floral scent, which is a complex trait of documented importance for mutualistic and antagonistic interactions between plants, pollinators,…
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WNK4 kinase is a physiological intracellular chloride sensor [Medical Sciences]
With-no-lysine (WNK) kinases regulate renal sodium-chloride cotransporter (NCC) to maintain body sodium and potassium homeostasis. Gain-of-function mutations of WNK1 and WNK4 in humans lead to a Mendelian hypertensive and hyperkalemic disease pseudohypoaldosteronism type II (PHAII). X-ray crystal structure and in vitro studies reveal chloride ion (Cl−) binds to a hydrophobic…
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Three-dimensional optical trapping and orientation of microparticles for coherent X-ray diffraction imaging [Applied Physical Sciences]
Optical trapping has been implemented in many areas of physics and biology as a noncontact sample manipulation technique to study the structure and dynamics of nano- and mesoscale objects. It provides a unique approach for manipulating microscopic objects without inducing undesired changes in structure. Combining optical trapping with hard X-ray…
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Generalizing the effects of chirality on block copolymer assembly [Chemistry]
We explore the generality of the influence of segment chirality on the self-assembled structure of achiral–chiral diblock copolymers. Poly(cyclohexylglycolide) (PCG)-based chiral block copolymers (BCPs*), poly(benzyl methacrylate)-b-poly(d-cyclohexylglycolide) (PBnMA-PDCG) and PBnMA-b-poly(l-cyclohexyl glycolide) (PBnMA-PLCG), were synthesized for purposes of systematic comparison with polylactide
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Concentric organization of A- and B-type lamins predicts their distinct roles in the spatial organization and stability of the nuclear lamina [Cell Biology]
The nuclear lamina is an intermediate filament meshwork adjacent to the inner nuclear membrane (INM) that plays a critical role in maintaining nuclear shape and regulating gene expression through chromatin interactions. Studies have demonstrated that A- and B-type lamins, the filamentous proteins that make up the nuclear lamina, form independent…
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Mobile platform for rapid sub-picogram-per-milliliter, multiplexed, digital droplet detection of proteins [Medical Sciences]
Digital droplet assays—in which biological samples are compartmentalized into millions of femtoliter-volume droplets and interrogated individually—have generated enormous enthusiasm for their ability to detect biomarkers with single-molecule sensitivity. These assays have untapped potential for point-of-care diagnostics but are currently mainly confined to laboratory settings, due to the instrumen
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Six6 and Six7 coordinately regulate expression of middle-wavelength opsins in zebrafish [Neuroscience]
Color discrimination in the vertebrate retina is mediated by a combination of spectrally distinct cone photoreceptors, each expressing one of multiple cone opsins. The opsin genes diverged early in vertebrate evolution into four classes maximally sensitive to varying wavelengths of light: UV (SWS1), blue (SWS2), green (RH2), and red (LWS)…
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Microscopic description of acid-base equilibrium [Chemistry]
Acid–base reactions are ubiquitous in nature. Understanding their mechanisms is crucial in many fields, from biochemistry to industrial catalysis. Unfortunately, experiments give only limited information without much insight into the molecular behavior. Atomistic simulations could complement experiments and shed precious light on microscopic mechanisms. The large free-energy barriers connected to.
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Insulin signaling in the hippocampus and amygdala regulates metabolism and neurobehavior [Neuroscience]
Previous studies have shown that insulin and IGF-1 signaling in the brain, especially the hypothalamus, is important for regulation of systemic metabolism. Here, we develop mice in which we have specifically inactivated both insulin receptors (IRs) and IGF-1 receptors (IGF1Rs) in the hippocampus (Hippo-DKO) or central amygdala (CeA-DKO) by stereotaxic…
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Multiple interactive memory representations underlie the induction of false memory [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
Theoretical and computational models such as transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) and global matching models have emphasized the encoding–retrieval interaction of memory representations in generating false memories, but relevant neural mechanisms are still poorly understood. By manipulating the sensory modalities (visual and auditory) at different processing stages (learning and test) in the…
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Fate mapping reveals the age structure of the peripheral T cell compartment [Applied Mathematics]
Accumulating evidence indicates that the immune system does not develop in a linear fashion, but rather as distinct developmental layers formed from sequential waves of hematopoietic stem cells, each giving rise to unique populations of immune cells at different stages of development. Although recent studies have indicated that conventional CD8+…
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Opposite regulation of Wnt/{beta}-catenin and Shh signaling pathways by Rack1 controls mammalian cerebellar development [Neuroscience]
The development of the cerebellum depends on intricate processes of neurogenesis, migration, and differentiation of neural stem cells (NSCs) and progenitor cells. Defective cerebellar development often results in motor dysfunctions and psychiatric disorders. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie the complex development of the cerebellum will facilitate the development of…
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Phosphoregulated FMRP phase separation models activity-dependent translation through bidirectional control of mRNA granule formation [Biochemistry]
Activity-dependent translation requires the transport of mRNAs within membraneless protein assemblies known as neuronal granules from the cell body toward synaptic regions. Translation of mRNA is inhibited in these granules during transport but quickly activated in response to neuronal stimuli at the synapse. This raises an important question: how does…
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Unraveling materials Berry curvature and Chern numbers from real-time evolution of Bloch states [Physics]
Materials can be classified by the topological character of their electronic structure and, in this perspective, global attributes immune to local deformations have been discussed in terms of Berry curvature and Chern numbers. Except for instructional simple models, linear response theories have been ubiquitously used in calculations of topological properties…
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Five computational developability guidelines for therapeutic antibody profiling [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Therapeutic mAbs must not only bind to their target but must also be free from "developability issues" such as poor stability or high levels of aggregation. While small-molecule drug discovery benefits from Lipinski's rule of five to guide the selection of molecules with appropriate biophysical properties, there is currently no…
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Self-assembled ruthenium (II) metallacycles and metallacages with imidazole-based ligands and their in vitro anticancer activity [Chemistry]
Six tetranuclear rectangular metallacycles were synthesized via the [2+2] coordination-driven self-assembly of imidazole-based ditopic donor 1,4-bis(imidazole-1-yl)benzene and 1,3-bis(imidazol-1-yl)benzene, with dinuclear half-sandwich p-cymene ruthenium(II) acceptors [Ru2(µ-η4-oxalato)(η6-p-cymene)2](SO3CF3)2, [Ru2(µ-η4-2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzoquinonato)(η6-p-cymene)2](SO3CF3)2 and [Ru2(µ-η4-5,8-dio
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Evolution of resilience in protein interactomes across the tree of life [Evolution]
Phenotype robustness to environmental fluctuations is a common biological phenomenon. Although most phenotypes involve multiple proteins that interact with each other, the basic principles of how such interactome networks respond to environmental unpredictability and change during evolution are largely unknown. Here we study interactomes of 1,840 species across the tree…
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Mitochondrial small heat shock protein mediates seed germination via thermal sensing [Plant Biology]
Seed germination is an energy demanding process that requires functional mitochondria upon imbibition. However, how mitochondria fine tune seed germination, especially in response to the dynamics of environmental temperature, remains largely unknown at the molecular level. Here, we report a mitochondrial matrix-localized heat shock protein GhHSP24.7, that regulates seed germination…
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Local frustration around enzyme active sites [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Conflicting biological goals often meet in the specification of protein sequences for structure and function. Overall, strong energetic conflicts are minimized in folded native states according to the principle of minimal frustration, so that a sequence can spontaneously fold, but local violations of this principle open up the possibility to…
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Netflix's Hollywood offices locked down amid fruitless search for gunman – CNET
Netflix employees told to shelter in place during search.
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Au Revoir, Airbus A380
It was so huge that it required a whole special bespoke transportation logistics setup, but no one wanted to buy it.
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Finding suggests ways to promote adult heart tissue regeneration
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Racial Disparities In Cancer Incidence And Survival Rates Are Narrowing
African-Americans still have the highest death rate and the lowest survival rate of any U.S. racial or ethnic group for most cancers. But the "cancer gap" between blacks and whites is shrinking. (Image credit: Siri Stafford/Getty Images)
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Elephant Weight Cycles with New Teeth
Elephants have six sets of teeth over their lives, sometimes two sets at once. At those times, they can extract more nutrition from food and put on weight. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Elephant Weight Cycles with New Teeth
Elephants have six sets of teeth over their lives, sometimes two sets at once. At those times, they can extract more nutrition from food and put on weight.
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Personal and social factors impact return to work after ill-health
Support from managers and colleagues, as well as a positive attitude, are most likely to enable a more long-term return to work for employees after a sickness absence, according to a new review of research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA).The review evaluated the impact of personal and social factors on sustainable return to work after ill-health due to musculoskeletal disorders, such as
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Get fit for a fit gut
Research published in Experimental Physiology has suggested that the efficiency with which we transport oxygen to our tissues (cardiorespiratory fitness) is a far greater predictor of gut microbiota diversity than either body fat percentage or general physical activity.
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Elephant Weight Cycles with New Teeth
Elephants have six sets of teeth over their lives, sometimes two sets at once. At those times, they can extract more nutrition from food and put on weight. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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People Keep Finding Human Feet on The Shores of This Peaceful Canadian Province
Over and over again.
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Why is this copy of Super Mario Bros. worth $100,000? We asked a buyer
Collectors say still-sealed test-market game is gaming's Action Comics No. 1.
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LIGO gravitational waves: Black hole detectors to get upgrade
The UK and US governments announce a £25m project to improve the sensitivity of the LIGO facilities.
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Deadly Disease Caused by Raw Milk Has Already Put 19 US States on High Alert
It's not like people weren't warned…
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The Senate's Russia Probe Is Facing a Reckoning
About two years ago, Republican Representative Devin Nunes, then the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, went on a "midnight run" to the White House that changed everything . Nunes embarked on the late-night excursion just as the panel he oversaw was opening an investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. He then used the information he'd obtained from White House so
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New molecular blueprint advances our understanding of photosynthesis
Researchers have used one of the most advanced microscopes in the world to reveal the structure of a large protein complex crucial to photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into cellular energy. The finding will allow scientists to explore for the first time how the complex functions, and could have implications for the production of a variety of bioproducts, including plasti
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Gravitational-wave observatory LIGO set to double its detecting power
Gravitational-wave observatory LIGO set to double its detecting power Gravitational-wave observatory LIGO set to double its detecting power, Published online: 15 February 2019; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-00573-4 A planned US$35-million upgrade could enable LIGO to spot one black-hole merger per hour by the mid-2020s.
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Turns Out We Were Wrong About When Our Galaxy Will Collide With Andromeda
But there's still time to prepare.
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The Atlantic Daily: Prime Location
What We're Following Amazon announced Thursday that its expansion of a second headquarters in New York wouldn't happen after all (its plans for the D.C. suburbs remain intact). The deal fell through after intense opposition from activists and politicians, the latest sign that cities are souring on the tech industry. That this activism somehow proved victorious could signal the start of a broader
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Immersive virtual reality therapy shows lasting effect of treatment for autism phobias
New research shows that the Blue Room, an immersive virtual reality treats 45 percent of children with autism freeing them from their fears and phobias — and that the treatment lasts.
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Researchers reveal brain connections that disadvantage night owls
'Night owls' — those who go to bed and get up later — have fundamental differences in their brain function compared to 'morning larks,' which mean they could be disadvantaged by the constraints of a normal working day.
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This Person Does Not Exist – A.I. generated faces of people that do not exist
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Robots with digital faces look funny but is the AI technology safe?
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They've Taken America's Temperature — and It's Running High
Data from Kinsa, which makes internet-connected smart thermometers, indicates it's a bad year for colds, but not the flu.
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US Facebook fine over privacy could be in billions: reports
A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday.
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Top 5 anarchist plots in American history
Anarchism isn't always violent, but there's a reason why that stereotype has stuck. Throughout history, anarchists have tried to bomb and assassinate different targets – including Barack Obama. Here are 5 notable anarchist plots, ranging from centuries-old bombings to modern-day assassination attempts. None Anarchists are typically thought of as violent terrorists, planting bombs or smashing shop
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Hip, hip, hooray! Global study finds high success rate for hip and knee replacements
After reviewing thousands of case studies going back 25 years across six countries, generalisable survival data is now available for the first time to estimate how long hip and knee replacements are likely to last.
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Simple bile acid blood test could tell risk of stillbirth
Clinical researchers at Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College London have found a better way to measure the risk of stillbirth for women with a common liver disorder through a simple blood test.
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The Lancet: General anesthesia is unlikely to have lasting effects on the developing brains of young children
A single hour of general anaesthesia in early infancy — longer than is necessary to perform the most common types of minor surgeries in childhood — does not result in measurable neurodevelopmental or behavioral problems up to the age of 5 years, according to the first randomized trial of its kind involving 722 infants in seven countries, published in The Lancet.
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Interval training may shed more pounds than continuous moderate intensity workout
Interval training may shed more pounds than a continuous moderate intensity workout, suggests a pooled analysis of the available evidence, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
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US older women three times as likely to be treated for osteoporosis as men
Older women in the US are three times as likely to be treated for osteoporosis as men of the same age, reveals research published online in the Journal of Investigative Medicine.
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How Do I (Safely) Use Dating Apps?
Happy Love Day! (Ugh) Here's how to get started with Tinder, Bumble, and so on
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Radio Atlantic: Pecker Pics and Tabloid Tricks
The Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently accused the National Enquirer of "extortion and blackmail" over private photos of him obtained by the tabloid. In a Medium post , Bezos shared emails from the Enquirer threatening to publish the photos unless he accedes to its demands. How did a celebrity magazine get into the rough and tumble world of extortion? On this week's Radio Atlantic , Alex Wagner i
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Why Amazon canceled its plan to build HQ2 in NYC
Amazon had spent years on a controversial campaign to select cities where it plans to build giant corporate campuses. In November, the retail giant announced plans to build its so-called HQ2 in Virginia and New York. On Thursday, Amazon cancelled its plans to build in New York following backlash from local lawmakers, union leaders, and protestors. None Amazon has cancelled its plans to build a he
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Futurithmic – a new digital publication
We just launched a new editorial independent publication for Nokia Networks, that aims to explore the implications of the technology decisions we make today on the outcomes of tomorrow. We're looking for contributors who are passionate about a myriad of subjects, including privacy and IoT. submitted by /u/missrogue [link] [comments]
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Here's why ultra-processed foods are so bad for your health
Health These packaged foods can increase overall risk of death. Increasing the amount of ultra-processed foods that you eat also shortens your life, according to a new study. The research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, tracked…
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What socialism is — according to Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders has been calling himself a democratic socialist since the 1960s. Bernie's use of the word "socialist" has attracted both love and ire from the left. His definition of socialism is vague, but is the basis for many peoples' understanding of the concept. The unexpected level of serious consideration that many Americans are giving to socialism is due, in large part, to the
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The human circuit
In order to understand how our brains work, scientists have often made use of the fact that other animals share brains that seem similar to ours. We learned how neurons work by studying the squid, how vision and locomotion work by studying cats, and now look to mice and rats to gain insight into how computations are performed in groups of neurons. However, the danger of such an approach is that i
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First shots with Canon's EOS RP affordable full-frame mirrorless camera
Gadgets Our initial thoughts on Canon's new full-frame mirrorless camera. We spent a day shooting with the new Canon EOS RP camera. This is what we think so far.
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When research participation pays, some people lie
Offering compensation can be an important tactic to attract potential participants for enrollment in research studies, but it might come at a cost. A new study found that up to 23 percent of respondents lied about their eligibility to participate in a survey when offered payment, even small amounts.
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Oldest Americans most focused on reducing food waste
The vast majority of Americans are paying attention to reducing food waste with the oldest being the most cognizant, according to the latest poll.
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Dog burial as common ritual in Neolithic populations of north-eastern Iberian Peninsula
Coinciding with the Pit Grave culture (4200-3600 years before our era), coming from Southern Europe, the Neolithic communities of the north-eastern Iberian Peninsula started a ceremonial activity related to the sacrifice and burial of dogs. The high amount of cases that are recorded in Catalonia suggests it was a general practice and it proves the tight relationship between humans and these animal
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Hop to it: Researchers evaluate rabbits' evolved resistance to myxoma virus
Researchers have validated the role of specific rabbit genes in contributing to this acquired resistance.
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Lipoproteins behave 'almost like a tiny Velcro ball'
Setbacks in drug trials aiming to raise HDL have led researchers to reassess the particle's effects on heart health. A study combining proteomics and mouse genetics may help researchers understand researchers understand the proteins in the particle, how they get there and how they determine HDL function.
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Academics Confirm Major Predictive Policing Algorithm is Fundamentally Flawed – PredPol uses an algorithm based on earthquake prediction to "predict crime." Academics say it's simplistic and harmful.
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Shaping light lets 2D microscopes capture 4D data
Researchers have created a method to design custom masks that transform 2D fluorescent microscopy images into 3D movies.
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The U.S. is About to Hit Facebook With a Multi-Billion Dollar Fine
Massive Fine Facebook's sketchy history with users' privacy rights is finally starting to catch up with it. The Washington Post reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Facebook are negotiating over a "multi-billion dollar fine" to settle the FTC's investigation into the social network's shady privacy practices. The Commission's investigation began almost a year ago , when the Cambridg
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Researchers Create 'Rat Cyborgs' That People Control With Their Minds
I'll just come right out and say it: Scientists have created human-controlled rat cyborgs. Lest you think this is some media sensationalism at work, here's the actual title of the paper under discussion, which came out last week in Scientific Reports: "Human Mind Control of Rat Cyborg's Continuous Locomotion with Wireless Brain-to-Brain Interface." That pretty much says it all. Some of this tech —
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Better red than dread: Barrier keeps batteries safe
A layer of red phosphorus in rechargeable lithium metal batteries can signal when damaging dendrites threaten to create a short circuit. The strategy, which does not require a third electrode, could help bring more powerful lithium metal batteries to market.
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Multitasking increases in online courses compared to face-to-face
The phenomenon of multitasking across three or four internet-connected devices simultaneously is increasingly common. Researchers were curious to know how often this happens during online education, a method of delivering college and even high school courses entirely via an internet-connected computer as opposed to a traditional face-to-face course with a teacher physically present.
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Massive Bolivian earthquake reveals mountains 660 kilometers below our feet
Geophysicists used data from an enormous earthquake in Bolivia to find mountains at the base of the mantle's transition zone, located 660 kilometers below our feet. Their statistical model didn't allow for precise height measurements, but these mountains may be bigger than anything on the surface of the Earth. The researchers also examined the top of the transition zone (410 km down) and did not f
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Delays in banning wildlife trade put hundreds of species at risk
From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific knowledge, according to a new study.
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Shaping light lets 2D microscopes capture 4D data
Researchers have created a method to design custom masks that transform 2D fluorescent microscopy images into 3D movies.
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New molecular blueprint advances our understanding of photosynthesis
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used one of the most advanced microscopes in the world to reveal the structure of a large protein complex crucial to photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into cellular energy. The finding will allow scientists to explore for the first time how the complex functions, and could have implications for the production of a
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Study on measles transmission in China have implications for controlling the epidemic worldwide
A new study on the measles epidemic in China has far-reaching implications for eliminating the infection globally. Using a new model-inference system developed at the Columbia Mailman School, the researchers were able to estimate population susceptibility and demographical characteristics in three key locations in China, in a period that spans the pre-vaccine and modern mass-vaccination eras.
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Measles Cases Rise in Outbreaks in Ukraine, Philippines
The World Health Organization reports that a number of countries are experiencing "sizeable" numbers of the infection due to a failure to vaccinate.
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Photos From the Opportunity Rover's Mission on Mars
Scientific highlights and snapshots from the journey of NASA's long-lasting robotic explorer.
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Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes
In a finding that has implications for how scientists calculate natural greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds that water levels in small lakes across northern Canada and Alaska vary during the summer much more than was assumed.
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Spintronics by 'straintronics'
Data storage in magnetic media is very energy consuming. Novel materials could reduce the energy needed to control magnetic memories thus contributing to a smaller carbon footprint of the IT sector. Now an international team has observed at the HZB lightsource BESSY II a new phenomenon in iron nanograins: whereas normally the magnetic moments of the iron grains are disordered at room temperature,
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Can we repair the brain? The promise of stem cell technologies for treating Parkinson's disease
Cell replacement may play an increasing role in alleviating the motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) in future. Writing in a special supplement to the Journal of Parkinson's Disease, experts describe how newly developed stem cell technologies could be used to treat the disease and discuss the great promise, as well as the significant challenges, of stem cell treatment.
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Ultra-lightweight ceramic material withstands extreme temperatures
Researchers have created an extremely light, very durable ceramic aerogel. The material could be used for applications like insulating spacecraft because it can withstand the intense heat and severe temperature changes that space missions endure.
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Novel software offers possible reduction in arrhythmic heart disease
Potentially lethal heart conditions may become easier to spot and may lead to improvements in prevention and treatment thanks to innovative new software that measures electrical activity in the organ.
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Satellite images reveal interconnected plumbing system that caused Bali volcano to erupt
A team of scientists has used satellite technology provided by the European Space Agency to uncover why the Agung volcano in Bali erupted in November 2017 after 50 years of dormancy.
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Only 'modest' improvement in heart failure survival rates since 2000
Survival after a diagnosis of heart failure in the United Kingdom has shown only modest improvement in the 21st century and lags behind other serious conditions, such as cancer, finds a large study.
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Richard Branson: World's wealthiest 'deserve heavy taxes' if they fail to make capitalism more inclusive – Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is part of the growing circle of elite business players questioning wealth disparity in the world today.
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Renewable energy will be world's main power source by 2040, says BP – Renewable energy sources will be the world's main source of power within two decades and are establishing a foothold in the global energy system faster than any fuel in history, according to BP.
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Startup will store energy by forcing compressed air in a defunct zinc mine – a sort of physical battery (as opposed to a chemical battery) that uses excess electricity to compress air. When more electricity is needed, the compressed air is heated, which drives a turbine as it expands.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Emergency Contact
What We're Following Today It's Thursday, February 14. President Donald Trump plans to sign the congressional deal to avert a government shutdown, but the White House says Trump will "take another executive action—including a national emergency" in order to bypass Congress for border-wall funding. ( Here's a refresher on the legal showdown that might result. ) Meanwhile, William Barr was sworn in
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When Sex Is Excruciating
When the filmmaker Sindha Agha first went to the doctor about her pain, she experienced a phenomenon familiar to many women—she was not taken seriously. Then, it happened again. And again. "It took me nearly 15 years of going to doctor after doctor to finally receive adequate treatment," Agha told The Atlantic . "It's absurd that most people have never heard of a condition that one in 10 women ha
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Smugglers are profiting from our failure to define endangered species
There are calls to improve a treaty on the international trade in endangered species but there is no standard way to define species, says Stephen Garnett
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Qobuz's hi-res music streaming service launches in the US
French streaming music outfit Qobuz (pronounced co-buzz) is now available publicly in the US. The hybrid streaming service and download store, which claims to be the first and only certified …
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Schizophrenia's surprising link to the gut
For decades, researchers have tried in vain to answer the question: What causes schizophrenia? At the same time, we've developed a growing understanding of how intimately linked the bacteria in our gut and our brains are. New research shows that schizophrenics have vastly different microbiomes, potentially uncovering a cause of — and maybe a future cure to — schizophrenia. None Researchers have t
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The Everyday Visionary Planner helps you stay focused and motivated
Save 30 percent on this revolutionary planner. Save 30 percent on this revolutionary Everyday Visionary Planner helps you stay focused and motivated.
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Improved RNA data visualization method gets to the bigger picture faster
Like going from a pinhole camera to a Polaroid, a significant mathematical update to the formula for a popular bioinformatics data visualization method will allow researchers to develop snapshots of single-cell gene expression not only several times faster but also at much higher-resolution. This innovation by mathematicians will reduce the rendering time of a million-point single-cell RNA-sequenc
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