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'Fight or Flight' Nerves Make Mice Go Gray
A new study in mice concludes stress can cause gray hair—and credits overactive nerves with the change in hue. Karen Hopkin reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Molecular switch mechanism explains how mutations shorten biological clocks
A new study of molecular interactions central to the functioning of biological clocks explains how certain mutations can shorten clock timing, making some people extreme 'morning larks' because their internal clocks operate on a 20-hour cycle instead of being synchronized with the 24-hour cycle of day and night. Researchers found that the same molecular switch mechanism affected by these mutations
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Passive Desalination Record – 5.78 liters per sunlit hour per square meter (about 1.52 gallons per hour per 11 square feet) of solar collecting area.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/passive-solar-powered-water-desalination-0207 – MIT claims they have broken the record (by more than twice). The system delivered pure water that exceeded city drinking water standards, at a rate of 5.78 liters per square meter (about 1.52 gallons per 11 square feet) of solar collecting area. This is more than two times as much as the record amount previously produced by
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Researchers asked older adults about the strategies they use for combatting loneliness. Here's what they said.
In an ever-more connected world, it would be easy to assume that loneliness was on its way out — after all, we now have unlimited opportunity to communicate with almost anyone we want at any time we please. But, in fact, it's still rife: according to the Campaign To End Loneliness , over nine million people in the UK describe themselves as "always or often lonely." Age has an impact here, too: an
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S. Korean researchers develop artificial cornea with reduced organ rejec…
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Take care because these habits destroy the brain!
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Tiny 2-billion-year-old fossil blobs may be the oldest complex cells
Fossils of single cells found in China are 2 billion years old, making them the oldest eukaryotic cells in the fossil record and possibly our distant relatives
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US military face recognition system could work from 1 kilometre away
The US Special Operations Command is developing a portable face-recognition system designed to identify people 1 kilometre away. It could also be used by law enforcement
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Fylder 15 år: Fem måder YouTube har ændret verden på
Banede vejen for streamningrevolutionen, dræbte MTV og gav os sociale computerspil.
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'Det har jeg set i en video': Derfor trives konspirationsteorier på YouTube
Det er bare mere fascinerende at tro på, at Jorden er flad.
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Journalism is an 'attack surface' for those who spread misinformation
For all the benefits in the expansion of the media landscape, we're still struggling with the spread of misinformation — and the damage is especially worrisome when it comes to information about science and health. Dan Gillmor, co-founder of the News Co/Lab at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will discuss his work on improving media literacy
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The Infinite Monkey Cage (Podcast) discussing why people believe in conspiracy theories: "They ask whether being irrational is our default setting"
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France Confirms First Death in Europe From coronavirus
The death of an 80-year-old Chinese tourist in a Paris hospital was the first known fatality from the new virus outside Asia.
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Remdesivir prevents MERS coronavirus disease in monkeys
The experimental antiviral remdesivir successfully prevented disease in rhesus macaques infected with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to a new study. Remdesivir prevented disease when administered before infection and improved the condition of macaques when given after the animals already were infected.
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coronavirus Live Updates: France Reports First Death Outside Asia
The French health minister said the man was an 80-year-old tourist from Hubei who had been hospitalized since Jan. 25.
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First coronavirus death confirmed in Europe.
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What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms?
What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, and should you call a doctor? Find all our coronavirus coverage here How to protect yourself from infection It is a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the
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coronavirus Live Updates: Xi Began Fighting Virus Earlier Than Known
Chinese state media released evidence that the country's leader, Xi Jinping, issued internal orders about the coronavirus epidemic in early January, about two weeks before his first public remarks.
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Pressure grows on UK to rescue citizens from coronavirus-stricken ship
Passengers on Diamond Princess liner 'disillusioned' with government over lack of action • All the day's developments Pressure is growing on the British government to airlift citizens stranded on a cruise ship stricken by coronavirus, after a Chinese tourist in France became the first person to die from the disease in Europe. The US announced late on Friday that it would be evacuating more than 4
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Chinese tourist in France becomes Europe's first coronavirus fatality
French health minister confirms death of man from virus that has killed more than 1,500 people around world coronavirus: latest updates – live Europe has recorded its first coronavirus fatality, a Chinese tourist in France, it has been confirmed. The death of the 80-year-old man, who was visiting Paris with his daughter when he was taken to hospital three weeks ago after falling ill, also marks t
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Biologists rush to re-create the China coronavirus from its DNA code
Synthetic versions of the deadly virus could help test treatments. But what are the risks when viruses can be synthetized from scratch?
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One Wuhan family's tale of quarantine, followed by infection … and tragedy
Liu Mengdi could only look on as her relatives were ravaged by the virus. Now she has been warned to stop posting about their trauma coronavirus latest – live Liu Mengdi, 25, has been keeping a diary of the past few weeks as the coronavirus has ravaged her home town of Wuhan. "Today is the sixth day of the Wuhan lockdown [the city has been under quarantine for the last three weeks]. I thought my
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Pressure grows to rescue Britons on liner stricken by coronavirus
US plan to airlift Americans from Diamond Princess adds urgency to pleas for evacuation from UK passengers Pressure is growing on the British government to airlift UK citizens stranded on a cruise ship stricken by coronavirus, as a Chinese tourist in France yesterday became the first person to die from the disease in Europe . The US announced late on Friday that it would be evacuating more than 40
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France reports first coronavirus death outside Asia
China's foreign minister slams global overreaction to outbreak and insists it is under control
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More than 80 clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments
Nature, Published online: 15 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00444-3 As HIV drugs, stem cells and traditional Chinese medicines vie for a chance to prove their worth, the WHO attempts to bring order to the search.
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Chinese asset managers prop up coronavirus-hit funds
Capital pledges from 39 groups total $350m in order to bolster investor confidence
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China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.
This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and the Pulitzer Center . The Amazon tends to evoke an Edenic vision—of a mysterious and impenetrable land, pregnant with beasts from jaguars to anacondas, rich with undiscovered flora. But parts of it are incongruous with this reputation, where big rig trucks rumble past dilapidated, grime-covered gas stations, and where land once thick with b
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Opinion: Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk [Opinion]
The United Nations (UN) launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to address an ongoing crisis: human pressure leading to unprecedented environmental degradation, climatic change, social inequality, and other negative planet-wide consequences. This crisis stems from a dramatic increase in human appropriation of natural resources to keep pace with rapid…
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'Baby Talk' Can Help Kids Learn Language (Oh Yes It Can!)
The more 'parentese' there is at home, the more likely a child is to have an advanced vocabulary later on.
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Smelling your lover's shirt could improve your sleep
The scent of a romantic partner can improve sleep, suggests new psychology research.
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The precise meaning of emotion words is different around the world
When you can't quite put your finger on how you're feeling, don't worry — there may be a non-English word that can help you out. There are hundreds of words across the world for emotional states and concepts, from the Spanish word for the desire to eat simply for the taste ( gula ) to the Sanskrit for revelling in someone else's joy ( mudita ). But what about those words that exist across many la
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200 – 400 Nuclear reactors to be decommissioned by 2040, only 53 reactors are scheduled to be built within the same time.
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3 Strategies for Eating Healthier–Which One Works Best?
There's new research on the most effective strategies for changing behavior. Which one is best at helping you eat healthier? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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37 Best Presidents' Day Sales (2020): Mattresses, Kitchenware, Tech
We found the best tech bargains for the long holiday weekend from Apple, Amazon, Fitbit, and more.
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5200-year-old grains in the eastern Altai Mountains redate trans-Eurasian crop exchange
Cereals from the Fertile Crescent and broomcorn millet from northern China spread across the ancient world, integrating into complex farming systems that used crop-rotation cycles enabled by the different ecological regions of origin. The resulting productivity allowed for demographic expansions and imperial formation in Europe and Asia. In this study, scientists illustrate that people moved these
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A nanobody targeting the LIN28:let-7 interaction fragment of TUT4 blocks uridylation of let-7 [Biochemistry]
The LIN28:pre-let-7:TUTase ternary complex regulates pluripotency and oncogenesis by controlling processing of the let-7 family of microRNAs. The complex oligouridylates the 3′ ends of pre-let-7 molecules, leading to their degradation via the DIS3L2 exonuclease. Previous studies suggest that components of this complex are potential therapeutic targets in malignancies that aberrantly…
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Abraham Lincoln's Radical Moderation
Cecilia Carlstedt I n the opening days of the Civil War, long before Saturday Night Live appropriated the idea, Louis Trezevant Wigfall earned the distinction in Washington, D.C., of being the Thing That Wouldn't Leave. Elected to the United States Senate from Texas to fill a vacancy in 1859, Wigfall wasted no time in making himself obnoxious to his colleagues and the public alike. He was lavish
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Americans Are Suckers for a Certain Kind of Grifter
I met Michael Avenatti exactly once, in the green room of MSNBC's Morning Joe in New York on March 16, 2018. That hour's guests were three: Avenatti, me, and the monstrously productive legal scholar Cass Sunstein, who had just edited a book on authoritarianism. Avenatti, not yet at the apogee of his fame, went first. He began the interview with officious and dramatic lawyer-speak ("I cannot say a
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An artificial intelligence predicts the future
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Artificial intelligence can spot when correlation means causation (Correlation can mean causation)
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Artificial intelligence finds disease-related genes
An artificial neural network can reveal patterns in huge amounts of gene expression data, and discover groups of disease-related genes. The scientists hope that the new method can eventually be applied within precision medicine and individualized treatment.
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Astronomers to sweep entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life
Project is collaboration between privately-funded firm and New Mexico observatory Astronomers will sweep the entire sky for signs of extraterrestrial life for the first time, using 28 giant radio telescopes in an unprecedented hunt for alien civilisations. The project is a collaboration between the privately-funded Seti Institute and the Very Large Array observatory in New Mexico, one of the worl
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Astronomers want public funds for intelligent life search
Astronomers want more public funds to help search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
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Australian bushfires extinguished, but climate rows rage on
Australia's "black summer" of devastating bushfires is finally coming to a close, but bitter arguments over how to tackle climate-fuelled disasters are raging on.
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Autophagy degrades liquid droplets, but not aggregates, of proteins
Autophagy is a mechanism through which cellular protein is degraded. Selective autophagy had been thought to prevent the onset of diseases, but the state of proteins in which they could be efficiently degraded had been unclear. A team of scientists has discovered that autophagy is effective for selectively degrading protein in a state of liquid droplet that is formed through liquid-liquid phase se
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Bile duct cancer treatment potential boost from tailored medication — study
Treatment of patients suffering from bile duct cancer could be improved by tailoring medication to the levels of a key protein in people with the disease, according to new research.
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Bloomberg Flunks the Wokeness Test
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Is the American left about to prioritize virtue signaling over keeping an unqualified monomaniac from a second term as president? This is what would happen if Michael Bloomberg's failed stop-and-frisk policy is treated as automatically disqualifying him from serious consideration as the Democratic presidential nominee. When Bloomberg was mayor of New York City, the police department dramatically
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Breakthrough Listen releases 2 petabytes of data from SETI survey of Milky Way
Breakthrough Listen, based at UC Berkeley, announced its second major release of SETI data: a radio survey of the plane of the Milky Way and the galactic center. The public is urged to search the data for signals from intelligent civilizations. A former Berkeley undergraduate initiated the analysis by looking at emissions from 20 nearby stars that could see Earth transiting our sun. The VLA also s
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Britain sets new daily record for wind generation, topping 44% of country's electricity consumption
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Christina Koch and Jessica Weir: The Stellar Women of the ISS
These astronauts are out of this world and breaking new ground for space science.
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Coastal floods warning in UK as sea levels rise. In some locations it will mean bigger, stronger defences but in others the conclusion may be that it's better for people to move inland
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Cognitive control of orofacial motor and vocal responses in the ventrolateral and dorsomedial human frontal cortex [Neuroscience]
In the primate brain, a set of areas in the ventrolateral frontal (VLF) cortex and the dorsomedial frontal (DMF) cortex appear to control vocalizations. The basic role of this network in the human brain and how it may have evolved to enable complex speech remain unknown. In the present functional…
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Computer simulations visualize how DNA converts cells into stem cells
Researchers have revealed how an essential protein helps to activate genomic DNA during the conversion of regular adult human cells into stem cells.
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Computer-generated genomes
Professor Beat Christen, ETH Zurich to speak in the AAAS 2020 session, 'Synthetic Biology: Digital Design of Living Systems.' Christen will describe how computational algorithms paired with chemical DNA synthesis enable digital manufacturing of biological systems up to the size of entire microbial genomes. He will present insights related to the design, building and testing of a computer-generated
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Consider workplace AI's impact before it's too late, study says
The consequences of workplace automation will likely impact just about every aspect of our lives, and scholars and policymakers need to start thinking about it far more broadly if they want to have a say in what the future looks like, according to a new article.
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Corporate Landlords Aren't the Real Culprit
In the fall of 2019, the private-equity company Blackstone Group went on a shopping spree, purchasing three apartment buildings in the Los Angeles metro area. For $177 million, Blackstone became the landlord for nearly 500 households . Over the past several years, the company has been steadily acquiring a portfolio totaling more than 40,000 apartments across some of the country's tightest, costli
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Cults Are Scarier Without Magic
Evil groups, like the one in the movie 'Midsommar,' are more horrifying when they demonstrate the situations people will put themselves in.
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Differences in airway size develop during puberty
Sex differences in airway size are not innate, but likely develop because of hormonal changes around puberty, reports a new study.
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Drought in Poland could lead to skyrocketing food prices. The index for the end of January shows a slight improvement, but in order to sufficiently replenish water resourced in Poland, light rain would have to fall constantly for 60 days
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Dynamic motility selection drives population segregation in a bacterial swarm [Applied Physical Sciences]
Population expansion in space, or range expansion, is widespread in nature and in clinical settings. Space competition among heterogeneous subpopulations during range expansion is essential to population ecology, and it may involve the interplay of multiple factors, primarily growth and motility of individuals. Structured microbial communities provide model systems to…
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Earth's cousins: Upcoming missions to look for 'biosignatures' in exoplanet atmospheres
University of Washington astronomer Victoria Meadows answers questions about characterizing the atmospheres of terrestrial and potentially Earth-like exoplanets, and searching for signs of life on these worlds, ahead of her talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Seattle. Meadows will present in the 'Detecting Life and Extraterrestrial Technologies' sessio
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Eco-friendly way to stop mosquitoes
An innovative — and inexpensive — technique targets mosquito larvae where they live.
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Energized by enzymes — nature's catalysts
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are using a custom virtual reality app to design an artificial enzyme that converts carbon dioxide to formate, a kind of fuel. PNNL's Wendy Shaw and Aaron Appel organized a session at the 2020 #AAASmtg and invited colleagues from across the nation to share what they've learned.
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EU research head optimistic on post-Brexit future
The future scientific relationship is the European Research Council's biggest challenge, new head says.
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Factories reimagined
Factories in the future will definitely look different than today. As the fourth industrial revolution transforms manufacturing from mass production to mass customization, factory workers will increasingly need to apply new ICT to work remotely, collaborate with robots or use AI-based assistants, to increase their performance while developing further their creative, innovative and improvisational
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First Government Psychedelics Decriminalization Panel Holds Historic Meeting In Denver
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Fragile topology: Strange electron flow in future materials
Crystalline materials known as topological insulators conduct surface current perfectly, except when they don't. In two new studies published in the journal Science, researchers explain how these 'fragile' poorly conducting topological states form, and how conductivity can be restored.
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From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan
The United Arab Emirates used a novel approach to build the Hope spacecraft, which launches for the red planet this summer.
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Galactic cosmic rays affect Titan's atmosphere
Planetary scientists have revealed the secrets of the atmosphere of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. The team found a chemical footprint in Titan's atmosphere indicating that cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System affect the chemical reactions involved in the formation of nitrogen-bearing organic molecules. This is the first observational confirmation of such processes, and impacts the
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Handling hecklers: Lessons from a comedian
Not every audience member who speaks out during a comedy show is a heckler. But there's a way to test the waters without upsetting your audience, says comedian Paul F. Tompkins. By engaging in a civil way with the person who spoke out, you either give them an opportunity to add more fun to the show, or they'll reveal their true colors. If the person ends up being a heckler after you've attempted
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Hollywood and Gun Violence
Movies alone don't cause people to misuse firearms—but if they even just contribute, the film industry should take responsibility — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How High Maintenance Creates Ethical Tension
As the highbrow salad chains that have gobbled up Manhattan pursue the exclusionary dream of a cashless society , TV's loveliest vision of New York City still indulges the romance of little green bills. In the second episode of the fourth season of High Maintenance , the show's star weed dealer ("the Guy," played by Ben Sinclair) refunds a few bucks to a client whose rug is soiled by the Guy's do
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How to donate a piece of your brain to science—while you're still alive
Living donors are becoming key to understanding the human brain
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Ingeniører fejrer 100-året for H.C. Ørsteds opdagelse af elektromagnetismen
Ørsteds opdagelse af sammenhængen mellem elektricitet og magnetisme er den betydningsfuldeste fund, det er faldet i nogen danskers lod at gøre.
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Insta360 One R Review: A Smarter, Modular Action Camera
The company's latest shooter blends the best of action and 360-degree cameras into one sweet, modular package.
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It's Bernie Versus Mike Now
RALEIGH, N.C. — If the Democratic contest isn't a two-man race, don't tell the two men who think they're leading it. In dueling rallies in North Carolina's Research Triangle late this week, the emerging front-runner Bernie Sanders and the emerging non-Sanders alternative Mike Bloomberg each made the case that he should be the nominee—and that the other man should not. Neither named the other as t
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Key modifier identified in large genetic deletion related to neurodevelopmental disorders
Neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia and autism, likely result from complex interactions that modify the effects of individual genes, according to new research.
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Lessons from the ancient philosophers to help improve our lives today
We are meant to have desires and should worry less, said Aristotle, while Epicurus cautioned that most of the stuff we think we want won't make us happy Four hours spent wandering the aisles of Ikea for nothing. My boyfriend and I had long since stopped talking. I was ready to slap the next person who uttered a Swedish word. As I pushed my heaving cart into another room full of boxes I took a dee
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Local structure of Sr2CuO3.3, a 95 K cuprate superconductor without CuO2 planes [Physics]
The local structure of the highly "overdoped" 95 K superconductor Sr2CuO3.3 determined by Cu K X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) at 62 K in magnetically oriented samples shows that 1) the magnetization is perpendicular to the c axis; 2) at these levels of precision the Cu sublattice is tetragonal in…
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Looking for aliens who might be looking for us
Data from a massive search for cosmic radio emission released Feb 14. by the Breakthrough Listen Initiative has allowed astronomers to look for technological signatures of extraterrestrial civilizations that might be looking for us.
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Making the internet more energy efficient through systemic optimization
Researchers recently completed a 5-year research project looking at how to make fibre optic communications systems more energy efficient. Among their proposals are smart, error-correcting data chip circuits, which they refined to be 10 times less energy consumptive.
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Medicin minskar risken för sexuella övergrepp
En spruta med ett läkemedel mot prostatacancer kan minska risken för att män med pedofil störning förgriper sig på barn. Det visar en ny studie från Karolinska institutet.
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Mending a broken heart, the bioengineering way
Bioengineers have developed a prototype patch that does the same job as crucial aspects of heart tissue. Their work essentially takes us one step closer to being able to mend a broken heart.
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NASA Captures Rare Photo of a Dust Devil Swirling on The Surface of Mars
It's a harsh planet.
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Nearly 100 Cities Are Considering Decriminalizing Psychedelics, Map Shows
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New CRISPR-based tool can probe and control several genetic circuits at once
Every cell in our body has a computer-like control system that sends biological signals through thousands of circuits to monitor the cell's needs and regulate its responses.
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New material has highest electron mobility among known layered magnetic materials
A new material has properties that make it a promising candidate for new areas like magnetic twistronic devices and spintronics, as well as advances in data storage and device design.
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New technologies, strategies expanding search for extraterrestrial life
New technologies that enable new strategies are revitalizing the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), by not only augmenting the traditional search for intelligently-generated radio signals but also allowing searches for other signs of life and technological activity.
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Novel targeted drug shows promise in advanced kidney cancer
Scientists report promising activity of a novel drug that targets a key molecular driver of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) in patients with metastatic disease.
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Ny MgO-sag placerer ansvar og millionbøde hos entreprenør
PLUS. Entreprenør fik godkendt brug af MgO i vindspærreplader af totalrådgiver, men kommer stadig til at stå med erstatningsansvaret
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Organ-specific signature profiles for blood vessel cells
Researchers have discovered that endothelial cells have unique genetic signatures based on their location in the body.
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Physically producing computer-generated artificial genomes to understand DNA
The molecular blueprint of life is stored in DNA within the genome. The digital revolution in biology, driven by DNA sequencing, enables scientists to read the genomes of the many microbes and multicellular organisms that populate our world. Today, DNA sequences of over 200,000 microbial genomes are deposited in digital genome databases and have exponentially increased the understanding of how DNA
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Please advance this topic to speed up the global adoption of Universal Basic Income, the first step to a Star Trek future…
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Preclinical study links human gene variant to THC reward in adolescent females
A common variation in a human gene that affects the brain's reward processing circuit increases vulnerability to the rewarding effects of the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis in adolescent females, but not males, according to preclinical research. As adolescence represents a highly sensitive period of brain development with the highest risk for initiating cannabis use, these findings in mi
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PRR proteins of the circadian clock call time on shade avoidance [Commentaries]
Light limitation represents a significant threat to plant survival. Shade-intolerant species have, therefore, evolved mechanisms to detect and avoid shading by neighbors. Plants detect the proximity and density of neighboring vegetation by monitoring alterations in light quality (1). Phytochrome photoreceptors detect changes in the ratio of red (R) to far-red…
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Rajendra Pachauri, 79, Dies; Led Nobel-Winning Climate Agency
Sharing the prize with Al Gore, his U.N. organization was recognized for its work on global warming, but his career was undone by harassment accusations.
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Reasons why megaprojects fail
Academics have identified 18 reasons why megaprojects such as HS2 and Crossrail often fail, as well as 54 preventative solutions. For the first time, academics developed a systematic literature review of the causes and cures of poor megaproject performance. They identified six key themes and looked at areas where a project might fail, analyzing the problems and solutions.
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Reinventing food: The coming disruption. This is the greatest change to food production since domestication.
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Researchers devise approach to reduce biases in computer vision data sets
Addressing problems of bias in artificial intelligence, computer scientists have developed methods to obtain fairer data sets containing images of people. The researchers propose improvements to ImageNet, a database of more than 14 million images that has played a key role in advancing computer vision over the past decade.
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Resource potential of a Venus colony
Working on the idea of some kind of acid resistant floating colony in Venus atmosphere, would Venus actually be a resource rich location for a colony? It seems that the ambient heat of the planet makes it a virtually unlimited source of power for any convection based engine. And could the elements of the atmosphere be potentially useful and flexible for creating a wide range of chemicals, carbon
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Rick Breaks His Water Line | Gold Rush
While trying to improve the water pump's efficiency, Rick inadvertently breaks the water line with his excavator! Stream Full Episodes of Gold Rush: https://go.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_Rush https
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'Rosetta stone' for urban scaling makes sense of how cities change across time and space
New work reconciles divergent methods used to analyze the scaling behavior of cities.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Versus the Equal Rights Amendment
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is probably the last person anyone would expect to stand in the way of final ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. No living woman is more closely associated with the decades-long push to enshrine gender equality into U.S. law than the 86-year-old jurist and feminist icon. But Ginsburg is no fan of the recent efforts to revive the ERA long after the expiration of
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Scientists May Have Found a Way to Treat All Cancers… By Accident | SciShow News
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Se én million fugle samlet til ædegilde: 'Det er en vild oplevelse'
De små, orange kvækerfinker samler sig i millionstore flokke, når de skal putte.
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Sex robots may cause psychological damage
US researchers call for more regulation around the sale of sex robots with artificial intelligence.
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Study on the cognitive signatures of 'minds under siege' suggests that even in populations exposed to substantial violence and fear, poverty is a specific pathway to working memory deficit, though no association was found between exposures to trauma and executive functions.
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Taiwanese military chooses Tesla model 3 for it's EV Fleet
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The Antarctica factor: Model uncertainties reveal upcoming sea level risk
Within this century already, due to Antarctica alone global sea level might rise up to three times as much as it did in the last century. This is a finding of an exceptionally comprehensive comparison of state-of-the-art computer models from around the world.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: A Front-Row Seat to the Return of ISIS
It's Friday, February 14. In today's newsletter: An inconvenient truth—about the return of ISIS. Plus: Berniebros vs. Berniephobes. Members of our politics team are out on the campaign trail this weekend. This newsletter will return on Tuesday, after President's Day, with the latest on 2020. * « TODAY IN POLITICS » (ALI HASHISHO / REUTERS) "ISIS is still very much intact." The prime minister of I
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The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality
Cancer medicine generates enormous revenues but marginal benefits for patients — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory says the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe needs to be taken more seriously. – "time for SETI to come in from the cold and be properly integrated to all other areas of astronomy".
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The End of Australia as We Know It
What many of us have witnessed this fire season feels alive and monstrous. With climate change forcing a relaxed country to stumble toward new ways of work, leisure and life, will politics follow?
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Will Probably Collapse This Decade
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The Guardian view on looking for aliens: friends in the sky? | Editorial
Recent discoveries in space and Earth sciences have provided encouragement to searchers for distant civilisations Is there anybody out there? For centuries human beings have wondered, although the ways in which we have gone about this have varied, encompassing spiritual and metaphysical questions as well as scientific ones. As we have gained greater understanding of the universe, however, our sear
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The Lancet Oncology: Young cancer survivors face higher risk of severe health problems in later life than the general population, study suggests
Cancer survivors who are diagnosed during adolescence or early adulthood (age 15-20 years) are at increased risk of premature death compared to the general population. They have an elevated risk of severe or life-threatening conditions compared to a sibling control group, according to an observational study of more than 10,000 cancer patients from 27 academic institutions in the USA and Canada, pu
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The Mulatta Unmasks Herself to Her Husband
Edinburgh, 1826 For all the faith in argument in principle in reason for all the books you hand me bid me read for all in the dark I pretend for all the pursuit of equality of righteousness and good for all the rights of man the vindication of woman for all in the dark I pretend we are for all the moral cause abolition the struggle for freedom for all in the dark I pretend we are just for all the
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The paradox of dormancy: Why sleep when you can eat?
Why do predators sometimes lay dormant eggs — eggs which are hardy, but take a long time to hatch, and are expensive to produce? That is the question that SUTD researchers set out to answer in a recent paper.
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The physics behind iconic NBA slam dunks
Joel Embiid of the Philadelphia 76ers pulls his 7-foot frame into a well-balanced dunk form. (Liu Jialiang/Deposit Photos/) Had it not been for the cameras tracking his every move, Michael Jordan's jam from the free throw line during the 1987 NBA Slam Dunk Contest would be the stuff of myth. Instead, it has turned His Airness into a model for students of physics as well as students of the game. J
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The 'Robo Revenge' App Makes It Easy to Sue Robocallers
Mac malware, a Bitcoin mixer, and more of the week's top security news.
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The Ticket: A Historic Vote on Equal Rights, and Hopes for Gun Control
For the first time yesterday, Jennifer Wexton got to use the gavel. The freshman Democratic congresswoman from Virginia presided over a floor debate on a bill to advance the Equal Rights Amendment. "This wins the prize for the coolest thing I've gotten to do as a member of Congress," she told Edward-Isaac Dovere on the latest episode of The Ticket: Politics From The Atlantic . Listen to the full
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The US Army wants more soldiers, and it's using esports to put a 'finger on the pulse' of potential recruits. One of its most innovative methods may be the Army Esports Team, which draws on the Army's own gamers to attract young Americans.
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This Cyberpunk Bracelet Jams Any Spying Microphones Nearby
"Bracelet of Silence" A team of computer science professors at the University of Chicago have invented a special bracelet that jams any nearby microphones, including the ones in smart speakers and assistants, The New York Times reports . The admittedly chunky "bracelet of silence" features 24 speakers capable of emitting imperceptible ultrasonic signals. Any nearby microphones detect these high f
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This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through February 15)
3D PRINTING 3D Printers Are Finally Starting to Work More Like Star Trek's Replicators Andrew Liszewski | Gizmodo "…researchers from EPFL's Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices have developed a new method allowing stereolithography printers to create tiny but detailed 3D objects in a manner of seconds—not hours." ROBOTICS Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Is Surprisingly Good at Pulling a Rickshaw J
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T-Mobile and Sprint may be cleared to merge, but users are left with unclear signals
Sprint's 5G towers showed up for this year's Super Bowl. (Sprint/) It's only fitting that T-Mobile and Sprint would get final judge's approval for their massive merger during the week of Valentine's Day. While that telecom romance is clearly the big story of the week, it wasn't the only thing happening in the world of tech. Here are a few highlights from the past week—we'll get to the romantic co
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To help wildlife move, researchers map both natural and legal boundaries
Researchers have developed a way to find the path of least resistance in creating wildlife corridors by mapping not only habitat but also the types of legal authority governing the landscape. They demonstrate this by mapping the streams in an entire county in northeastern Washington that stretches from the Rocky Mountain foothills to the Cascades.
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Ugens debat: Brændeovne satte fut i debatten
Regeringen foreslår, at ældre brændeovne skal udskiftes ved boligsalg. Det ramte et velkendt ømt punkt i debatten på ing.dk.
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UK: Cheshire East scheme to fuel bin lorries with hydrogen will boost air quality. "Ansa will produce its own hydrogen fuel on-site to use on lorries which have been converted for it – with the clean energy source only emitting water from the tailpipe."
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'Universiry of Maine's Climate Future' documents progression of accelerating change. Findings include faster rates of warming along the coast compared to interior and northern Maine, and changes in Maine winters. Average minimum temperatures in Maine are warming 60% faster than average maximums.
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Unraveling mechanisms of ventricular enlargement linked to schizophrenia
Scientists have implicated two microRNAs in the biological processes that underlie the ventricle enlargement observed in models of schizophrenia.
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Vexed by Missed Deliveries? Data-Savvy Tech Can Help
New services aim to ensure packages reach the right destination, on time, and preferably where someone is there to accept them.
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We Just Got Our Closest Look Yet at a Strange 'Golf Ball Asteroid'
Holes the size of small cities.
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Weekend reads: How to squander a $10 million grant; paid to publish; funding lotteries
Before we present this week's Weekend Reads, a question: Do you enjoy our weekly roundup? If so, we could really use your help. Would you consider a tax-deductible donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week at Retraction Watch featured: the retraction of a Nature paper by Harvard researchers; 13 … Continue reading
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Weird Video of Scientists Dropping Ice Down a Super Deep Hole Is Totally Mesmerising
The strangest sound you'll hear today.
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What Abu Dhabi's City of the Future Looks Like Now
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What happens when all the tiny satellites we're shooting into space get hacked? Hackers could shut them down—or turn them into weapons by jamming or spoofing the signals from satellites, creating havoc for critical infrastructure. This includes electric grids, water networks, and transport.
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What if cocaine could be made less euphoric so that a single-use by a recovering addict doesn't result in a full-blown relapse? Scientists recently published progress toward making this idea a reality – a gene therapy that would treat cocaine addiction by making cocaine less rewarding.
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What we don't know about wildfire smoke is likely hurting us
Wildfires may affect our lungs and immune systems long after the blaze dies down
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When will humans be able to upload our consciousness?
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Why Bill Gates thinks gene editing and artificial intelligence could save the world
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Wind and batteries saved the day when storm cut South Australia adrift
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Wind delays Northrop Grumman's supply run to space station
High wind delayed Northrop Grumman's supply run to the International Space Station on Friday.
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