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An early warning system for damage in composite materials
A team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a tool to monitor changes in widely used composite materials known as fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs), which can be found in everything from aerospace and infrastructure to wind turbines. The new tool, integrated into these materials, can help measure the damage that occurs as they age.
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Fruit flies have a radical strategy for dealing with free radicals
Flies belonging to the genus Drosophila combat oxidative stress by removing excess fat from their blood. This remarkable mechanism proves that evolution has no shortage of answers to a problem that affects all life on Earth.
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Gut bacteria's interactions with immune system mapped
The first detailed cell atlas of the immune cells and gut bacteria within the human colon has been created. The study from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and collaborators revealed different immune niches, showing changes in the bacterial microbiome and immune cells throughout the colon.
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Low folate levels can indicate malnutrition in hospital patients
About 10% of patients who come to complex care hospitals may have low levels of folate and other indicators of malnutrition, investigators say.
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What Science Says About the Potential Healing Effects of Essential Oils
Essential oils smell great. But are they really safe remedies for anxiety, stress, pain and other health problems?
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When less is more: Designer slits make glasslike materials much stronger
By making specially designed slits in Plexiglas, Danish researchers have made it stronger, lighter and more flexible. The new knowledge could be used to make microchips, for example, much more durable.
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Clever Device Generates Electricity From Thin Air
Thin Air A team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have come up with a clever device they dubbed the "air-gen ," which can generate electricity from moisture found in air. According to the team, their discovery could revolutionize green energy by offering some key advantages over other renewable source including sun or wind energy. "We are literally making electricity out of
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Ju mer socker desto färre vitaminer
Ju mer socker vi äter, desto färre vitaminer och mineraler får vi i oss, visar ny forskning från Lunds universitets Diabetescentrum. Men forskarna anser inte att deras studie ensam räcker som underlag för ändra dagens kostrekommendationer om hur mycket tillsatt socker vi bör äta.
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Kritisk sårbarhed i populært WordPress-plugin gør over 100.000 hjemmesider åbne for hackere
Ved at udnytte en sårbarhed i et populært WordPress-plugin kan en uautoriseret bruger slette hele databaser og efterfølgende blive administrator.
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Mediterranean diet promotes gut bacteria linked to 'healthy ageing' in older people
Eating a Mediterranean diet for a year boosts the types of gut bacteria linked to 'healthy' ageing, while reducing those associated with harmful inflammation in older people, indicates a five-country study, published online in the journal Gut.
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Scientists Create Artificial Genome That Can Reproduce
Voight- Kampff German scientists say that for the first time ever, they've created a lab-grown artificial genome that can reproduce itself like a natural one. It's not quite one of those replicants from "Blade Runner," but it's a step toward the holy grail of synthetic biology: fully artificial organisms that can survive and reproduce like the real thing. The Blueprint In a paper published in the
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Scientists pinpoint brain coordinates for face blindness
Danish and Norwegian researchers have moved one step closer to understanding where face blindness stems from in the brain. The condition affects approx. 2% of the population. Although we mainly use the right side of the brain to process visual impressions of faces, the research team has now discovered that an area in the back of the left side of the brain responds differently in people with face b
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Surprising ways to beat anxiety and become mentally strong – according to science
Do you have anxiety? Have you tried just about everything to get over it, but it just keeps coming back? Perhaps you thought you had got over it, only for the symptoms to return with a vengeance? Whatever your circumstances, science can help you to beat anxiety for good. Anxiety can present as fear, restlessness, an inability to focus at work or school, finding it hard to fall or stay asleep at n
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Warming oceans are getting louder (audio available)
One of the ocean's loudest creatures is smaller than you'd expect — and will get even louder and more troublesome to humans and sea life as the ocean warms, according to new research presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020.
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Western diet rich in fat and sugar linked to skin inflammation
Dietary components, rather than obesity itself, may lead to skin inflammation and the development of psoriasis, a study has found.
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Catching light: How cobalt can help utilize visible light to power hydrogen production from water
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) demonstrate the first visible-light photoelectrochemical system for water splitting using TiO2 enhanced with an earth-abundant material—cobalt. The proposed approach is simple and represents a stepping stone in the quest to achieve affordable water splitting to produce hydrogen, a clean alternative to fossil fuel.
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Sars, Ebola og måske coronavirus: Derfor opstår mange sygdomme i flagermus
Flagermusens vilde immunsystem kan tvinge vira til at blive stærkere, viser forskning.
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Having multiple children of same sex 'does not run in family'
Researchers say whether a family has lots of boys or girls, or equal mix, is down to chance Mrs Bennet may have lamented having five daughters and no son in Pride and Prejudice, but it appears that Lizzy and her sisters would be unlikely to produce a similar set of children: research suggests having multiple offspring of the same sex does not run in the family. In the largest study of its kind, r
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Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person's brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to "life imitating art".
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Masking the memory of fear: Treating anxiety disorders such as PTSD with an opioid
While fear memory — or the ability to remember contexts in which to be afraid — is important for survival, too much of it, and an inability to forget contexts that no longer apply, hinders daily activities. Recently, scientists from Japan found that a certain opioid drug can help mask some fear memory without causing undesirable side effects. This could make new therapies possible for anxiety di
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EU rejects Facebook's proposals for online regulation – "It's not for us to adapt to Facebook, it's for this company to adapt to us."
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What is the future of Cybersecurity?
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HPV vaccine hesitancy in Japan could result in 5,000 additional death
The precipitous drop in HPV vaccination rates after suspension of proactive recommendations by the government in 2013 could result in an additional 25,000 cervical cancer cases and more than 5,000 additional deaths among females born between 1994 to 2007 in Japan. However, swift action by the government could mitigate much of this damage according to a study in Lancet Public Health.
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Insufficient evidence backing herbal medicines for weight loss
Researchers from the University of Sydney have conducted the first global review of herbal medicines for weight loss in 19 years, finding insufficient evidence to recommend any current treatments.
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People get their bad vaccine info from social media
People who rely on social media for information may be more likely to be misinformed about vaccines than those who rely on traditional media, according to a new study. The study, which researchers based on nationally representative surveys of nearly 2,500 US adults, found that up to 20% of respondents were at least somewhat misinformed about vaccines. Such a high level of misinformation is "worry
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Study: Social Media Users More Likely to Be Misinformed About Vaccines
Going Viral Right between the conspiracy theorists advocating for drinking bleach and your aunt on the airplane with the essential oils, vaccine misinformation has, in fact, found a home online. A recent survey found 20% of Americans are likely to be misinformed about vaccinations—and that they were more likely to have found their misinformation online than not. Contagious In 2019, the United Sta
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This Deepfake Recasts Back to the Future With Robert Downey Jr.
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Trump Is Going to Cheat
Democratic primary voters care deeply about electability. What most want is simple: a candidate who can beat President Donald Trump in November. So they worry about whether former Vice President Joe Biden will inspire young people, and about whether Senator Bernie Sanders will scare away old people. They debate whether a political revolution is necessary to energize the base, or whether the revol
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Vaccine misinformation and social media
People who rely on social media for information were more likely to be misinformed about vaccines than those who rely on traditional media, according to a new study. The study, based on surveys of nearly 2,500 US adults, found that up to 20% of respondents were at least somewhat misinformed about vaccines.
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Early exposure to household cleaning products is associated with asthma and wheeze in young children
Early exposure of babies to household cleaning products is associated with the development of childhood asthma and wheeze by age 3 years, according to new research in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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Exposure to cleaning products in first 3 months of life increases risk of childhood asthma
The study was published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. It found that young infants (birth to three months) living in homes where household cleaning products were used frequently were more likely to develop childhood wheeze and asthma by three years of age.
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First Swedish transplant of uterus from deceased donor
The Swedish team responsible for uterine transplantation research has, for the first time, transplanted a uterus from a deceased donor. The operation proceeded without complications and the recipient is doing well.
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Så hittar malariamyggan sina offer
Malariamyggor har receptorer på sina antenner och mundelar som känner av koldioxid och kroppslukt. Med dessa sinnen kan en blodtörstande mygghona upptäcka en människa på ganska långt håll. På nära håll är det i stället offrets kroppsvärme som hon orienterar sig efter, men hur detta går till i detalj har varit okänt fram till nu.
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Ny flyvehøjde kan reducere flystribers effekt drastisk
To procent af fly står for 80 procent af klimaeffekten fra flystriber. 2000 fods ændringer i de flys flyvehøjde kan reducere den samlede klimaeffekt med 60 procent.
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Algoritm lär sig diagnostisera genetisk sjukdom
Forskare har hittat ett sätt att använda maskininlärning för att diagnostisera patienter med förhöjda kolesterolnivåer. Algoritmen som tränats med patientdata kan uppskatta sannolikheten för om en patient lider av Familial hypercholesterolemia, en vanlig genetisk sjukdom, eller inte. Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) är en vanlig genetisk sjukdom som drabbar en av 250 personer. Sjukdomen påverka
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A military perspective on climate change could bridge the gap between believers and doubters. Military leaders believe climate change seriously threatens U.S. national security. They contend it is stirring up chaos and conflict abroad, endangering coastal bases and stressing soldiers and equipment
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Authors retract Nature paper on dramatic increases in streamflow from deforestation
The authors of a 2019 Nature paper on hydrology have retracted it after commenters pointed out a slew of errors with the work. The article, "Global analysis of streamflow response to forest management," was written by Jaivime Evaristo, of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, in The Netherlands, and Jeffrey McDonnell, of … Continue reading
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Bushfire crisis hit 75% of Australians: survey
Three in four Australians—almost 18 million people—were affected by the country's deadly bushfire crisis, according to a survey released Tuesday that also pointed to plummeting support for the government and for coal projects.
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Climate change could shrink vital tropical rainfall belt
A tropical rainfall belt providing critical summer rains to billions of people is at risk of shrinking due to future climate warming, according to new research.
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Climate change is not the only threat for our plants
To maintain plant and animal species on earth, we need not only to consider the direct effects of climate change, but we must also take other equally important environmental issues into consideration – such as changes in agricultural and forestry practices and indirect effects of climate such as increased frequencies of fires.
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Climate crisis could cause economic recession 'like we've never seen before', study warns
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Dagens energisystem kraschar i extremväder
Dagens energisystem klarar inte framtidens extremväder. En ökande andel förnybart ökar sårbarheten ytterligare. Men vi slipper bli strömlösa om vi planerar redan nu, menar forskare som räknat på 13 framtida klimatscenarier i 30 svenska städer. Klimatet förändras och vi får räkna med ett allt lynnigare klimat framöver i form av exempelvis fler stormar, fler stekheta, vindstilla sommardagar liksom
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Deadly fires turn Australians into climate change converts, similar to California. Australians revealed the environment was their top concern, with most drawing a connection between climate change, drought and bushfires
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Do the climate effects of air pollution impact the global economy?
Aerosol emissions from burning coal and wood are dangerous to human health, but it turns out that by cooling the Earth they also diminish global economic inequality, according to a new study.
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Earth's glacial cycles enhanced by Antarctic sea-ice
A 784,000 year climate simulation suggests that Southern Ocean sea ice significantly reduces deep ocean ventilation to the atmosphere during glacial periods by reducing both atmospheric exposure of surface waters and vertical mixing of deep ocean waters; in a global carbon cycle model, these effects led to a 40 ppm reduction in atmospheric CO2 during glacial periods relative to pre-industrial leve
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Extreme weather could push the U.S. into recession
Physical climate risk from extreme weather events remains unaccounted for in financial markets, a new paper warns. Without better knowledge of the risk, the average energy investor can only hope that the next extreme event won't trigger a sudden correction, according to the research. "If the market doesn't do a better job of accounting for climate, we could have a recession—the likes of which we'
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From space and with drones, scientists are watching the Arctic get greener. Using satellite data, drones, and on-the-ground fieldwork, vegetation like shrubs, grasses, and sedges are found to be growing more abundant. That's troubling both for the region, and the planet as a whole.
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Global climate frameworks miss the 'big picture' on food, say scientists
Global schemes to fight climate change may miss their mark by ignoring the "fundamental connections" in how food is produced, supplied and consumed, say scientists in a new paper published in the journal Nature Food.
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Global fosforbrist försämrar förmågan att binda koldioxid
Jordens ekosystem absorberar nästan en tredjedel av de växthusgaser som släpps ut av människan. Med fri tillgång till näringsämnen skulle växterna binda ännu mer koldioxid. Forskare undersöker nu vad som begränsar växternas tillgång på kväve- och fosfor globalt. Växter behöver vatten, solljus och koldioxid för att växa. Men också näringsämnen som kväve och fosfor. Ju mer begränsade växter är av k
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How countries respond to weather change
A two degree Centigrade increase in global average temperature will lead to catastrophic consequences for the planet. Humanity has a maximum of 20 to 30 years to prevent this. Georgy Safonov, Director of the HSE Centre for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, studied the impact of warming on countries in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. http://library.fes.de/pdf-file
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How plants in the Amazon are affected by forest disturbance
Study points to significant changes in dispersal and seed traits.
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How should Jeff Bezos invest his $10bn Earth Fund?
Scientists propose best use of funds pledged by Amazon founder to fight climate crisis Amazon revenue to restore the Amazon rainforest? A political war chest in the US to counter the pernicious influence of big oil? Or research funding for "moonshot" technologies to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere? The world's richest man is never going to be short of suggestions for how to spend money,
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Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change
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Jeff Bezos: World's richest man pledges $10bn to fight climate change
The Amazon boss and world's richest man gives 8% of his fortune to fight the planet's "biggest threat".
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Mediterranean rainfall immediately affected by greenhouse gas changes
Mediterranean-type climates face immediate drops in rainfall when greenhouse gases rise, but this could be interrupted quickly if emissions are cut.
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Research: Extreme Weather Could Crash the Economy
Warning Signs If climate change goes unchecked and extreme weather events continue to devastate communities, the global economy could be taken down as collateral damage. Investors and business leaders have been slow to adapt their investments to the risks posed by ongoing climate change and the destructive weather it causes, according to research published Monday in the journal Nature Energy — wh
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The Arctic Is Getting Greener. That's Bad News for All of Us
From space and with drones, scientists are watching the Arctic get greener. That's troubling both for the region, and the planet as a whole.
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The Lancet: World failing to provide children with a healthy life and a climate fit for their future: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet
No single country is adequately protecting children's health, their environment and their futures, finds a landmark report released today by a Commission of over 40 child and adolescent health experts from around the world. The Commission was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet.
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The World's Richest Man Just Pledged $10 Billion to Fight Climate Change
It's called the Bezos Earth Fund.
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To get investors for farm energy projects, account for uncertainty
A new model could boost investment in anaerobic digesters, farm-based sustainable energy projects that generate electricity from manure. The model uses advanced computational techniques to address uncertainty, which would allow investors to more accurately predict whether a project will turn a profit. "Converting animal waste into electricity can be profitable for farmers while also producing env
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Towards a sustainable future — Novel technology to measure energy conversion efficiency
Conversion of energy is a constant process but measuring the efficiency of this conversion is not an easy task. Quantifying the heat emission of the object that absorbs energy has been proven to be a good indicator. Scientists have now devised a technique that can perform this measurement easily and accurately, and this novel technology can shed light on the energy transfer processes in systems ra
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Trump Administration Begins Work on Next National Climate Report
Climate science deniers are hoping to have a hand in the fifth assessment of climate impacts on the U.S., due out in 2022 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Verifying forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings
A new study sought to verify multi-system forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings using hindcasts of four systems archived in the subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction project database.
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Wall Street investors react to climate change
Institutional investors are factoring climate risks into their investment decisions.
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'The disruption is enormous.' Coronavirus epidemic snarls science worldwide
Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed
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Apple's coronavirus sales warning hits global stocks
Nasdaq closes at record despite drop in semiconductor stocks
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Avoid stigmatizing names for 2019 novel coronavirus
Nature, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00458-x
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British couple on Diamond Princess test positive for coronavirus
David and Sally Abel announce positive test, as UK says it is trying to organise evacuation of British passengers Coronavirus outbreak – live updates A British couple who published video diaries from a cruise ship quarantined off the coast of Japan say they have tested positive for the coronavirus, as the UK government announced plans to evacuate citizens from the ship. David Abel wrote in a Face
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China cracks down on dissent over virus outbreak
Activist Xu Zhiyong disappears and access to online information blocked
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Chinese companies sell 'coronavirus bonds'
Issuers from airlines to glassmakers capitalise on new rules to raise cheap cash
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Chinese film director Chang Kai and family die from coronavirus
Four members of same family die during self-quarantine at centre of outbreak in Wuhan A Chinese film director, his sister, mother and father have all died from the coronavirus, the latest high-profile victims of the disease in Wuhan, the city at the centre of the outbreak. Chang Kai, 55, died on 14 February. His parents died over the previous two weeks, after the family spent days together in sel
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Chinese people in UK targeted with abuse over coronavirus
Students and a restaurant worker in Southampton report racist incidents, prompting fears in the community Coronavirus outbreak – live updates A spate of racist incidents linked to the coronavirus outbreak are being investigated by police, prompting fears among members of the Chinese community that they will face abuse if they wear face masks. Chinese students in Southampton have been targeted wit
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Coronavirus causes mild disease in four in five patients, says WHO
Covid-19 not as deadly as Sars, figures show, and children not affected in same way as adults Coronavirus – latest updates Covid-19, the new coronavirus that has killed nearly 1,800 people in China, causes only mild disease in four out of five people who get it, the World Health Organization has said. "It appears that Covid-19 is not as deadly as other coronaviruses, including Sars and Mers," sai
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Coronavirus creates oil 'contango' as supertanker rates dive
China's shutdown has cut price of oil and the tankers that carry it
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Coronavirus forces Apple to warn over iPhone sales
Disruption in China will cause worldwide fallout as supply chain stutters
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Coronavirus hits return to work at Apple's biggest iPhone plant
Huge factory complex struggles to move to full production after extended holiday for lunar year
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Coronavirus live updates: China deaths rise by 98 amid Cambodia ship concerns – latest news
UK trying to track passengers who disembarked from MV Westerdam and Apple warns of iPhone shortages as economic impact deepens. Follow the latest news and updates here Apple warns of iPhone shortages amid factory shutdown UK trying to contact passengers who left MV Westerdam Virus causes mild disease in four out of five patients, says WHO What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptom
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Millions Across China Are Under Lockdown
At least 150 million people in China — over 10 percent of the country's population — face restrictions on how often they can leave their homes.
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Coronavirus outbreak: passengers prepare to leave Diamond Princess – live updates
Deaths in China from the virus have risen above 2,000 after a 40% spike in fatalities in Hubei province – but new cases in the province are down. Follow all the latest news here China's handling of the virus is a diplomatic challenge for the WHO Chinese people in UK targeted with abuse over outbreak 12.43am GMT Stock markets in Asia are in positive territory today after a dip yesterday caused lar
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Coronavirus: global solutions to prevent a pandemic
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Coronavirus: Largest study suggests elderly and sick are most at risk
The deadliness of the virus advances progressively with the age of the patient, research suggests.
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DARPA Aims To Have Coronavirus Therapy Shortly After Outbreak's Start
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency supports a pandemic preparedness program that is designed to respond rapidly to an emerging threat such as the coronavirus.
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Hospital Director Dies in City Where the Coronavirus Originated
The director of a hospital in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak began, has died after contracting the disease. Chinese state media confirmed the death of neurosurgeon Liu Zhiming, who was the director of Wuhan Wuchang Hospital. That makes him the latest of at least six health workers killed by the pneumonia-like virus, Time reports . In the Chinese cities hit hardest
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How a Pharmacy Handles Mask Hoarders and Coronavirus Fears
At a small pharmacy in Hong Kong, part of the job has become calming nervous customers desperate for supplies.
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Investors hunt alt-data to track coronavirus effects
Analytics companies mine figures on everything from traffic jams to food orders in China
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Photos: Life in the Time of Coronavirus
The ongoing outbreak of COVID-19 (formerly called the 2019 novel coronavirus) in China and some neighboring countries has led to unprecedented efforts to isolate, control, and halt the spread of the virus that has now infected more than 73,400 people, and caused at least 1,875 deaths since December of 2019. Across much of China, travel is restricted and residents remain in their homes, and the ec
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Sanofi Announces It Will Work with HHS to Develop Coronavirus Vaccine
The vaccine likely won't be ready to test in people for at least a year — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Senior Doctor in Wuhan Outbreak Dies from Coronavirus
Liu Zhiming is the eighth frontline health-care worker to die from COVID-19, and hundreds more have been infected.
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Senior Wuhan doctor dies from coronavirus as authorities start to 'round up' patients
In city of 11m, officials threaten with punishment those who delay reporting symptoms Coronavirus outbreak – live updates One of Wuhan's most senior doctors has died after contracting the coronavirus as authorities began a sweeping campaign inside the city to seek out patients infected with the virus. Liu Zhiming had taken part in the battle against the virus from the start and had made important
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South Korea warns of economic 'emergency' from coronavirus
Seoul sounds the alarm a day after analysts warn a recession is likely in Japan
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The (un)usual suspect — novel coronavirus identified
The 2019 novel coronavirus (CoV) causes fatal pneumonia that has claimed over 1300 lives, with more than 52000 confirmed cases of infection by February 13, 2020, all in the span of just over a month. But, what is this virus? Is it a new virus altogether? Where did it come from? Scientists from top research institutes in China teamed up to answer these questions, and this pioneering study has been
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: MAGA vs. the Coronavirus
It's Tuesday, February 18. In today's newsletter: Why the coronavirus outbreak could bring out the worst in Trump. Plus: Is Bernie Sanders as polarizing as elite Democrats claim he is? * « TODAY IN POLITICS » (HAPPY TOGETHER / SHUTTERSTOCK / ARSH RAZIUDDIN / THE ATLANTIC ) The Trump administration isn't ready for the coronavirus. The outbreak of COVID-19, as the illness is now called, has thrown
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The coronavirus and its impact on global supply chains
Coronavirus is quite rightfully receiving ample attention from healthcare perspective. One less discussed aspect is its potential effect on global supply chains.
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The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Bring Out the Worst in Trump
When a senior White House aide would brief President Donald Trump in 2018 about an Ebola-virus outbreak in central Africa, it was plainly evident that hardships roiling a far-flung part of the world didn't command his attention. He was zoning out. "It was like talking to a wall," a person familiar with the matter told me. Now a new coronavirus that originated in China is confronting him with a po
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The Latest Drug Trials for Coronavirus
Under careful watch of the World Health Organization, doctors will test a range of COVID-19 therapies, including HIV and flu antivirals, blood plasma infusions, and traditional Chinese medicines.
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The next pandemic is inevitable. Are we prepared?
There is no way to completely stop a pandemic from coming, says former United Nations medical officer and a key player in the World Health Organization's (WHO) smallpox eradication program in South Asia, Larry Brilliant. Being prepared and having a good public health infrastructure are necessary to reduce impact. Pandemics like ebola are more likely to start at the edges of poor countries, away f
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Tulane math professor leads effort to map spread of coronavirus
Hyman says mathematical modeling can help public health officials prepare the medical care and allocate resources needed to confront the epidemic.
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Virus exposes western universities' reliance on China
Travel bans prevent students from starting courses and squeeze college funding
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Want to stay healthy? Learn to wash your hands the right way.
Just keep soaping. (DepositPhotos/) Whether you're anxious about the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 or simply fretting over the usual spread of seasonal influenza, there is a simple and easy way to reduce your risk of catching communicable diseases: washing your hands. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls hand washing "one of the most important steps we can take to avo
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Activation of mosquito immunity blocks the development of transmission-stage filarial nematodes [Immunology and Inflammation]
Mosquito-borne helminth infections are responsible for a significant worldwide disease burden in both humans and animals. Accordingly, development of novel strategies to reduce disease transmission by targeting these pathogens in the vector are of paramount importance. We found that a strain of Aedes aegypti that is refractory to infection by…
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Adolescent male chimps still need their mamas
Even kids who are nearly grown still need a parental figure to help them navigate the long path to adulthood—and our closest animal relatives are no exception.
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Facilitative and synergistic interactions between fungal and plant viruses [Microbiology]
Plants and fungi are closely associated through parasitic or symbiotic relationships in which bidirectional exchanges of cellular contents occur. Recently, a plant virus was shown to be transmitted from a plant to a fungus, but it is unknown whether fungal viruses can also cross host barriers and spread to plants….
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Privacy Activists Plan to Auction Off Trump, Other World Leaders' DNA
An anonymous group of digital privacy activists calling itself the Earnest Project claims that it gathered DNA samples from a long list of world leaders — and plans to auction it off. The group says it got the genetic samples by collecting scooped up things like loose hairs, used utensils and wine glasses, and other objects from the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, according to On
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This edible blob filled with water means you don't need a plastic bottle. The package, which is also compostable, is made from seaweed and plant extracts. You simply bite the corner off and drink.
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We finally know how millipedes have sex, thanks to glowing genitals
Millipedes are usually too shy to mate above ground, but this species has no issue getting it on in a petri dish. (Stephanie Ware, Field Museum/) After much anticipation, we now know exactly how millipedes have sex. With the help of imaging techniques that take advantage of glowing millipede tissues, researchers have illuminated this arthropod's intricate mating process. This finding marks the co
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Why do we cry – and what can we learn from our tears?
Weeping is informed by everything from culture and identity to social standing – and studying it could help us better understand ourselves It is common for people to scoff at tears as a behaviour and a subject of investigation. Tears are, they say, feminine, self-indulgent and melodramatic. It is not hard to notice, in those beliefs, the patriarchal assumptions about what should be valued and wha
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Wild Birds Remember a Novel Task for Nearly Two Years
A population of North Island robins in a New Zealand sanctuary provides a unique system for investigating the memory skills of birds in the wild.
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Memory games: Eating well to remember
A healthy diet is essential to living well, but should we change what we eat as we age? Researchers have found strong evidence of the link between food groups and memory loss and its comorbidities. Her findings point to a need for age-specific dietary guidelines as the links may vary with age — people aged 80+ with a low consumption of cereals are at highest risk of memory loss and comorbid heart
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Testing during studying improves memory and inference
A new study by the Human Memory and Cognition Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by psychology professor Aaron Benjamin, has found that learning by testing yourself improves your ability to make inferences about the subject matter as compared to rote restudy. The study "Long-term Inference and Memory Following Retrieval Practice" was published in Memory & Cognition.
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What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms?
What are the symptoms of the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, how many people have died and when should you call a doctor? Find all our coronavirus coverage here How to protect yourself from infection It is caused by 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 w
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What the coronavirus crisis tells us about Chinese governance
Errors made in tackling the outbreak expose the basic flaws of the political system
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When will the coronavirus outbreak peak?
Nature, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00361-5 Officials want to know but predictions vary wildly, from now to after hundreds of millions of people are infected.
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Why coronavirus superspreaders may mean we avoid a deadly pandemic
The covid-19 virus may mostly be transmitted by superspreaders, which means it might be easier to contain the outbreak and prevent it going pandemic
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WHO: Hackere bruger Corona-virus til at franarre dig oplysninger
Hackerne udgiver sig for at være World Health Organization, når de forsøger stjæle information og installere malware. Det fortæller den rigtige World Health Organization.
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50,000-year-old remains suggest Neanderthals buried their dead
A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in a cave in Iraq shows signs of having been deliberately buried – more evidence our cousin species behaved a little like we do
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6 Best Trackers (2020): GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and Cellular
These are the best Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and cellular clips to ensure that you never lose anything ever again.
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65,000-year-old plant remains show the earliest Australians spent plenty of time cooking
Australia's first people ate a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and other plant foods, many of which would have taken considerable time and knowledge to prepare, according to our analysis of charred plant remains from a site dating back to 65,000 years ago.
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7 philosophers who were exiled from their societies
Many thinkers have been killed for their ideas. Some got away with exile. Most of the ones we'll look at here were driven out by the government, but others fled for their own safety. The fact that some of these thinkers are still famous centuries after their exile suggests they might have been on to something, even if their countrymen disagreed. It's no secret that people often have a difficult t
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7 powerful books that bring the UN's sustainable development goals to life
Reading, studies show, increases empathy and charitable thinking . Fiction has even been credited with helping readers improve their understanding of others and make changes in their own lives. The UN has identified 17 interconnected goals for a sustainable future, from tackling poverty to climate action. The aim is to achieve all of these goals by 2030. Unesco's Cities of Literature have picked
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A blueprint for building transgender health programs in primary care
Leading educators and clinical experts on transgender health care from Harvard, Fenway Health, and The Fenway Institute address access issues for transgender patients seeking care by providing a plan to integrate gender-affirming hormone therapy, surgical referrals, or wrap-around services into primary care.
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A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included) | Lauren Sallan
In this hilarious, whirlwind tour of the last four billion years of evolution, paleontologist and TED Fellow Lauren Sallan introduces us to some of the wildly diverse animals that roamed the prehistoric planet (from sharks with wings to galloping crocodiles and long-necked rhinos) and shows why paleontology is about way more than dinosaurs.
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A comparative study on the mechanical, physical and morphological properties of cement-micro/nanoFe3O4 composite
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59846-y A comparative study on the mechanical, physical and morphological properties of cement-micro/nanoFe 3 O 4 composite
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A Dream Not Deferred
Lebanese-born medical researcher Huda Zoghbi surmounted civil war and daunting scientific challenges to unravel mysteries of crippling neurological disorders.
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A new way to monitor cancer radiation therapy doses
More than half of all cancer patients undergo radiation therapy and the dose is critical. Too much and the surrounding tissue gets damaged, too little and the cancer cells survive.
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A Photographer Has Spent 20 Years Documenting Stillbirths
Since 1997, Todd Hochberg has been going to hospitals to photograph families after the death of a baby. These requests come at all times of day and night—more often at night, it seems, when it is a stillbirth. If he can, Hochberg will be there for the birth itself, and then in the emotional hours after as parents see and hold and even bathe their dead child while saying goodbye. For parents, thes
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A real global player: Previously unrecognised bacteria as a key group in marine sediments
Marine sediments cover more than two thirds of our planet's surface. Nevertheless, they are scarcely explored, especially in the deeper regions of the oceans. For their nutrition, the bacteria in the deep ocean are almost entirely dependent on remnants of organisms that trickle down from the upper water layers. Depending on how they process this material, it either remains in the depths of the oce
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A self-adjusting platinum surface for acetone hydrogenation [Engineering]
We show that platinum displays a self-adjusting surface that is active for the hydrogenation of acetone over a wide range of reaction conditions. Reaction kinetics measurements under steady-state and transient conditions at temperatures near 350 K, electronic structure calculations employing density-functional theory, and microkinetic modeling were employed to study this…
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A shift in shape boosts energy storage
More efficient photocatalysts could unlock the potential of solar energy.
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A story ancient and modern
Skull from famous cave may settle longstanding debate about Neanderthals.
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A study of catalysts for synthesizing ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene
A chemist from RUDN University as a part of a team of researchers has synthesized new highly active catalysts for the production of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene, which is necessary in the production of bulletproof vests, pipes, parachutes, prostheses and much more. The use of the new catalysts will significantly reduce the production cost of this type of polyethylene. The article was p
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A Stunning Neanderthal Skeleton Was Just Unearthed at a Famous Burial Site
Maybe they buried their dead with flowers.
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A.I. app could assist doctors in brain tumor survival prediction
Artificial intelligence can help doctors and patients with meningiomas make better treatment decisions, according to a new study. Meningiomas are tumors that arise from the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. They are the most common primary central nervous system tumor, with an incidence of 8.14 per 100,000 population. While they generally have better outcomes than other brain tumor
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Acoustically powered surface-slipping mobile microrobots [Engineering]
Untethered synthetic microrobots have significant potential to revolutionize minimally invasive medical interventions in the future. However, their relatively slow speed and low controllability near surfaces typically are some of the barriers standing in the way of their medical applications. Here, we introduce acoustically powered microrobots with a fast, unidirectional surface-slipping…
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Advance in next-generation lithium metal batteries
A research team has developed a way to address a major safety issue with lithium metal batteries – an innovation that could make high-energy batteries more viable for next-generation energy storage.
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Affordable air purifiers for pet owners
Keep visitors' allergies at bay. (Depositphotos/) Pet owners are used to existing inside a mini-dust cloud of fur and dander that follows them around like they're Pig-Pen from the Peanuts cartoons. It's on your clothes, it covers every piece of furniture you own, and it's in the air you breathe. Lint rollers and vacuum cleaners can help with the first two, but for the last one, you need an air pu
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Africa, a Thunder and Lightning Hot Spot, May See Even More Storms
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After free lunch from drug firms, doctors increase prescriptions
Doctors prescribe more branded medications after marketing visits by the makers of those drugs, new research co-authored by a Cornell University economist confirms.
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AI and the future of your mind
Susan Schneider, associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science and director of the AI, Mind and Society (AIMS) Group at UConn, has gained a national and international reputation for her writing on the philosophical implications of artificial intelligence (AI). She writes about the nature of the self and mind, AI, cognitive science, and astrobiology in publications including the New York
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AI, the Transcription Economy, and the Future of Work
If you want to understand how technology is changing our job prospects, take a look at the folks who transcribe audio recordings into text.
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Airbus' Maveric Brings B-2 Bomber Style to Passenger Jets
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All-digital histopathology by infrared-optical hybrid microscopy [Medical Sciences]
Optical microscopy for biomedical samples requires expertise in staining to visualize structure and composition. Midinfrared (mid-IR) spectroscopic imaging offers label-free molecular recording and virtual staining by probing fundamental vibrational modes of molecular components. This quantitative signal can be combined with machine learning to enable microscopy in diverse fields from cancer…
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Amazon forest disturbance is changing how plants are dispersed
New research finds tropical forest disturbance goes beyond species loss and includes a shift towards smaller seeds and an increase in the proportion of trees dispersed by animals, impacting how the ecosystem functions.
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An intelligent and compact particle analyzer
In many industrial and environmental applications, determining the size and distribution of microscopic particles is essential. For example, in the pharmaceutical industry, inline measurement and control of particles containing various chemical ingredients (before consolidation in tablets) may critically enhance the yield and quality of the final medical product. Also, the air we breathe, water we
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An ontogenetic switch drives the positive and negative selection of B cells [Immunology and Inflammation]
Developing B cells can be positively or negatively selected by self-antigens, but the mechanisms that determine these outcomes are incompletely understood. Here, we show that a B cell intrinsic switch between positive and negative selection during ontogeny is determined by a change from Lin28b to let-7 gene expression. Ectopic expression…
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Anatomy of a selectively coassembled {beta}-sheet peptide nanofiber [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Peptide self-assembly, wherein molecule A associates with other A molecules to form fibrillar β-sheet structures, is common in nature and widely used to fabricate synthetic biomaterials. Selective coassembly of peptide pairs A and B with complementary partial charges is gaining interest due to its potential for expanding the form and…
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Ancient plant foods discovered in Arnhem Land, Australia
The new study includes the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens use of plant foods outside Africa and the Middle East.
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Andrew Sabisky: No 10 adviser resigns over alleged race comments
Andrew Sabisky said that he wanted to help the government, "not be a distraction".
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Angry Nerd: Don't Fall for the Quantum Con
Quantum cryptography is clever and impressive, but companies calling it "unbreakable" and "unhackable" turns me into Shrödinger's sourpuss.
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Anisotropic viscoelastic phase separation in polydisperse hard rods leads to nonsticky gelation [Chemistry]
Spinodal demixing into two phases having very different viscosities leads to viscoelastic networks—i.e., gels—usually as a result of attractive particle interactions. Here, however, we demonstrate demixing in a colloidal system of polydisperse, rod-like clay particles that is driven by particle repulsions instead. One of the phases is a nematic liquid…
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Another important reason to stay fit: your independence
Everyone suffers from sarcopenia: the loss of muscle mass and strength due to age. While there are numerous benefits to exercise, an important one is remaining independent well into old age. Weightlifting is essential for keeping muscle mass and strength as the decades go by. The myriad benefits of exercise are well-documented. From physical strength and emotional control , to warding off cogniti
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Antarctic Killer Whales May Travel Great Lengths for Healthy Skin
Researchers suggest that a previously unidentified factor may drive whales to migrate. KillerWhales.jpg Killer whales in the waters of Antarctica's Gerlache Strait Image credits: robert mcgillivray/Shutterstock Creature Tuesday, February 18, 2020 – 15:45 Jesse Kathan, Contributor (Inside Science) — Many whale species thrive in the frigid waters of the poles, which are more abundant in fish and
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Antioxidant in mushrooms may relieve features of 'pregnancy hypertension'
A new study in rats suggests that the natural antioxidant L-ergothioneine could alleviate the characteristics of pre-eclampsia.
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Apple warning, Bezos climate fund, EU v Facebook
Apple warns on iPhone sales as coronavirus disrupts supply chain
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APS tip sheet: Capturing election interference
New model analyzes characteristics of the 2016 election and surrounding social media activity.
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APS tip sheet: Harnessing radar echoes for future neutrino detection
New high energy neutrino detection method could lead to a neutrino telescope able to observe neutrinos with energies beyond the current observable range.
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APS tip sheet: The new fate of the kaon
Preliminary reports of an extremely rare decay of a subatomic particle called the kaon could challenge the standard model of particle physics.
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Archaeologists receive letter from biblical era
"And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls therein…" —Joshua, 10:32
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Areas near concentration camps give more electoral support to the far right
The study, which focused on the federal elections in Germany held in 2013 and 2017, involved Toni Rodon, professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF, together with researchers from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Army researchers develop efficient distributed deep learning
A new algorithm is enabling deep learning that is more collaborative and communication-efficient than traditional methods.
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Asylum law in Germany: Fragmented, confusing and full of holes
The research report 'Refugee Protection in Germany' by the EU project 'Multilevel Governance of Migration (RESPOND)' paints a gloomy picture of the human rights protection for asylum seekers in Germany. Among other things, the authors speak of a 'differential exclusion' of ever larger groups from German asylum law on the basis of more or less arbitrary criteria. Professor Sabine Hess from the Univ
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Atomic structures mapped in measles, mumps, flu and RSV
Northwestern University researchers have, for the first time, determined the 3-D atomic structure of a key complex in paramyxoviruses, a family of viruses that includes measles, mumps, human parainfluenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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Australia Wants to Help NASA Build Space Station Using Robots
Aussie Space Robots The Western Australian government has announced the opening of a brand new nationally-funded space robotics center as part of a partnership with NASA, in Perth, Australia. Technology developed there could pave the way for remotely operated robots that are capable of constructing a new space station orbiting the Moon, according to WAtoday . "Almost everything in the new mission
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Australian food from 65,000 years ago
Charred plant remains provide new clues about diet, technology and culture.
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Author Correction: Comparison of different smartphone cameras to evaluate conjunctival hyperaemia in normal subjects
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60004-7
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Author Correction: Efficient Alpha Radiation Detector using Low Temperature Hydrothermally Grown ZnO:Ga Nanorod Scintillator
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60513-5
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Author Correction: Extreme temperature impairs growth and productivity in a common tropical marine copepod
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60005-6
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Author Correction: Halszkaraptor escuilliei and the evolution of the paravian bauplan
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60007-4
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Author Correction: Hesperidin and capsaicin, but not the combination, prevent hepatic steatosis and other metabolic syndrome-related alterations in western diet-fed rats
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60110-6
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Author Correction: Hox gene expression determines cell fate of adult periosteal stem/progenitor cells
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59764-z
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Author Correction: Pattern invariance for reaction-diffusion systems on complex networks
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60111-5
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Author Correction: Serial dependence in a simulated clinical visual search task
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60115-1
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Author Correction: Visualization and quantification of the degenerative pattern of the talus in unilateral varus ankle osteoarthritis
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60514-4
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Authorship: protocols should include citizen scientists
Nature, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00422-9
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B cells may travel to remote areas of the brain to improve stroke recovery
New research shows that the immune system may target other remote areas of the brain to improve recovery after a stroke.
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Backyard gardeners can act to help bee populations
Chemicals are routinely applied around residential landscapes to kill insect pests and troublesome weeds, but many are indiscriminate and devastate pollinators in the process.
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Bacteria get free lunch with butterflies and dragonflies
For humans, trade is second nature and civilizations have flourished and fallen with the fate of their trade. In fact, the mutual scratching of backs is a cornerstone of many animal societies. On the other hand, deep and sustained mutualisms across species were long thought to be quirks of evolution, where radically different players managed to stick together and trade for mutual benefit. Famous e
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Best milk frothers for homemade espresso drinks
Become a latte artist. (Kukuh Pangestu Adhi via Unsplash/) Some coffee drinks cost more than a breakfast sandwich. Yet who can resist the delicious combination of espresso and milk that offers what we need to get us through another work day. Can you put a price on a drink that starts to taste like hope? You can, apparently, and it's rapidly approaching $6. Fortunately, making your espresso drinks
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Beta-arrestin-2 increases neurotoxic tau driving frontotemporal dementia
The protein β-arrestin-2 increases the accumulation of brain-damaging tau tangles, a cause several forms of dementia, by interfering with removal of excess tau from the brain, a new study by the University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine found. The research suggests a new treatment approach that could be preventive for those at risk or with mild cognitive impairmen
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BGI has a talk next week claiming $100 for a whole-genome DNA sequencing
BGI has a talk next week at a major sequencing meeting claiming $100 for a genome — I will not be there but am very curious how plausible this is & what Illumina's response will be. submitted by /u/remotemass [link] [comments]
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Bill Gates and Elon musk shared their thoughts on AI
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Biodegradable packaging developed for organic beauty market
New, biodegradable packaging has been developed to help cosmetics firms meet customers' demand for environmentally-friendly packaging.
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Bioinspired programmable wettability arrays for droplets manipulation [Engineering]
The manipulation of liquid droplets demonstrates great importance in various areas from laboratory research to our daily life. Here, inspired by the unique microstructure of plant stomata, we present a surface with programmable wettability arrays for droplets manipulation. The substrate film of this surface is constructed by using a coaxial…
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'Birth Settings' report explores medical disparities of childbirth in the US
A report released earlier this month dives deep into the ongoing inequities surrounding childbirth in the US, with Oregon emerging as a leading example of how to do better.
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Black Death mass grave discovered at 14th-century monastery hospital
A mass burial of bodies, known to be victims of the Black Death, has been discovered at the site of a 14th-century monastery hospital at Thornton Abbey, Lincolnshire.
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Body composting promises a sustainable way of death
The science behind turning your body into fertile soil
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Breaking the communication code
Ever wonder how mice talk to each other. We don't have a dictionary quite yet, but UD neuroscientist Josh Neunuebel and his lab have linked mice chatter (their ultrasonic vocalizations) with specific behaviors. It's a significant advance of our understanding of communication science.
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British radio antenna arrives at space station
The UK's first industrial contribution to the orbiting platform will improve its communication links.
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BU study: Late fall may be best time of year to try to conceive
First-of-its-kind study accounts for when couples are most likely to start trying to conceive, finding couples conceive quicker in late fall and early winter, especially in southern states.
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Butiker måste ha alternativ när betalsystemen kraschar
Störningar i betalsystemlösningar är inte bara bankernas problem. Störningarna visar också på vikten av butikernas beredskap för betalsystemstörningar, enligt forskning vid Högskolan i Skövde. De omfattande it-problemen som nyligen drabbade Swedbank visar hur sårbart vårt samhälle är för störningar. Vi kan inte handla mat, tanka bilen eller hämta ut mediciner. Debatten kretsar i stor utsträckning
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By 2030 modern proteins will supply 70% of the US beef & dairy market reducing the need for cows by 50%
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Can metformin reduce obesity in children and adolescents?
A new study has shown metformin — a glucose-lowering drug commonly used to treat diabetes — to be effective at lowering some measures of obesity in children and adolescents.
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Cancer immunotherapy target helps fight solid tumors
Yvonne Chen engineers immune cells to target their most evasive enemy: cancer. New cancer immunotherapies generate immune cells that are effective killers of blood cancers, but they have a hard time with solid tumors.
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Cancer screening among women prescribed opioids
US women who take prescription opioids are no less likely to receive key cancer screenings when compared to women who are not prescribed opioids.
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Canine olfactory detection of a vectored phytobacterial pathogen, Liberibacter asiaticus, and integration with disease control [Agricultural Sciences]
Early detection and rapid response are crucial to avoid severe epidemics of exotic pathogens. However, most detection methods (molecular, serological, chemical) are logistically limited for large-scale survey of outbreaks due to intrinsic sampling issues and laboratory throughput. Evaluation of 10 canines trained for detection of a severe exotic phytobacterial arboreal…
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Certification as a medical home: Does it make a difference in diabetes care?
Practices certified as medical homes have more systems and improved performance for diabetes care, but the differences are modest.
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Clean Up Your Act With a Bidet for Any Budget
According to the CDC, the average person leaves a little something behind—0.14 grams of something—when they wipe. There's an appliance for that.
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Cofilin-induced structural changes in actin filaments stay local [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Actin is a major cytoskeletal protein that plays crucial roles in a number of biological events involving force generation and shape changes. Actin monomers are polymerized into actin filaments, which serve as a core of the actin cytoskeleton together with many associated proteins. Although purified actin can be spontaneously polymerized…
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Cognitive behavior therapy for diabetes self-management leads to improved outcomes
A peer-delivered program for managing diabetes and chronic pain was shown to be beneficial for rural adults in communities that might otherwise lack access to physician-led services.
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Combining microenvironment normalization strategies to improve cancer immunotherapy [Engineering]
Advances in immunotherapy have revolutionized the treatment of multiple cancers. Unfortunately, tumors usually have impaired blood perfusion, which limits the delivery of therapeutics and cytotoxic immune cells to tumors and also results in hypoxia—a hallmark of the abnormal tumor microenvironment (TME)—that causes immunosuppression. We proposed that normalization of TME using…
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Community LGBTQ supportiveness may reduce substance use among sexual minority adolescents
A new research study provides novel insights into community-level predictors of lifetime substance use among a sample of 2678 sexual minority adolescents.
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Comparison of primary care in hospital- and community-based practices
Understanding the strengths of each practice type with respect to patient experience may inform future efforts to improve the patient experience overall.
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Complications of measles can include hepatitis, appendicitis, and viral meningitis, doctors warn
The complications of measles can be many and varied, and more serious than people might realise, doctors have warned in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating a series of adults with the infection.
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Conformational spread and dynamics in allostery of NMDA receptors [Neuroscience]
Allostery can be manifested as a combination of repression and activation in multidomain proteins allowing for fine tuning of regulatory mechanisms. Here we have used single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (smFRET) and molecular dynamics simulations to study the mechanism of allostery underlying negative cooperativity between the two agonists glutamate…
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Control of XPR1-dependent cellular phosphate efflux by InsP8 is an exemplar for functionally-exclusive inositol pyrophosphate signaling [Biochemistry]
Homeostasis of cellular fluxes of inorganic phosphate (Pi) supervises its structural roles in bones and teeth, its pervasive regulation of cellular metabolism, and its functionalization of numerous organic compounds. Cellular Pi efflux is heavily reliant on Xenotropic and Polytropic Retrovirus Receptor 1 (XPR1), regulation of which is largely unknown. We…
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Controlling the messenger with blue light
IBS scientists have developed a new optogenetic tool to visualize and control the position of specific messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules inside living cells. Using this approach, published in Nature Cell Biology and the research highlights section of Nature Reviews Genetics, the authors revealed something new about cell migration that could not have been discovered with previously available methods.
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Cool Butterfly Effect: Insect Equipment Could Inspire Heat-Radiating Tech
Butterfly wings contain complex thermodynamic structures that can teach us to make efficient—and colorful—cooling materials — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Correcting the jitters in quantum devices
Labs around the world are racing to develop new computing and sensing devices that operate on the principles of quantum mechanics and could offer dramatic advantages over their classical counterparts. But these technologies still face several challenges, and one of the most significant is how to deal with "noise"—random fluctuations that can eradicate the data stored in such devices.
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Correction for Heng et al., BBX4, a phyB-interacting and modulated regulator, directly interacts with PIF3 to fine tune red light-mediated photomorphogenesis [Corrections]
PLANT BIOLOGY Correction for "BBX4, a phyB-interacting and modulated regulator, directly interacts with PIF3 to fine tune red light-mediated photomorphogenesis," by Yueqin Heng, Yan Jiang, Xianhai Zhao, Hua Zhou, Xuncheng Wang, Xing Wang Deng, and Dongqing Xu, which was first published November 27, 2019; 10.1073/pnas.1915149116 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A….
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Correction for Wang et al., Uncovering the functional residues of Arabidopsis isoprenoid biosynthesis enzyme HDS [Corrections]
BIOCHEMISTRY Correction for "Uncovering the functional residues of Arabidopsis isoprenoid biosynthesis enzyme HDS," by Jin-Zheng Wang, Yongxing Lei, Yanmei Xiao, Xiang He, Jiubo Liang, Jishan Jiang, Shangzhi Dong, Haiyan Ke, Patricia Leon, Philipp Zerbe, Youli Xiao, and Katayoon Dehesh, which was first published December 26, 2019; 10.1073/pnas.1916434117 (Proc. Natl. Acad….
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Creating custom light using 2-D materials
Finding new semiconductor materials that emit light is essential for developing a wide range of electronic devices. But making artificial structures that emit light tailored to our specific needs is an even more attractive proposition. However, light emission in a semiconductor only occurs when certain conditions are met. Today, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in co
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Creating custom light using 2D materials
Making artificial structures that emit light tailored to our specific needs is an even more attractive proposition. However, light emission in a semi-conductor only occurs when certain conditions are met. Researchers (UNIGE) have discovered an entire class of two-dimensional materials that are the thickness of one or a few atoms. When combined together, these atomically thin crystals are capable o
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Crops provide chimpanzees with more energy than wild foods
A new study has found that cultivated foods offer chimpanzees in West Africa more energetic benefits than wild foods available in the region. The findings have made a significant development for our further understanding into human-primate coexistence and can help to inform conservation efforts for future improvement, particularly in locations where agricultural expansion is encroaching on tropica
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CT scanning an ancient armored reptile
The aetosaurs were heavily armored reptiles that lived in many parts of the world in the Triassic period, some 225 million years ago. For the first time, a student at the University of Bristol has CT scanned a specimen to understand how the armor worked.
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Cutting-edge food processors for every kind of cook
Make it easier to eat your veggies. (Depositphotos/) Cooking show chefs are masters of illusion. We feel like we are watching someone quickly and easily prepare a meal, yet the preparation between each step is edited out for a seamless experience without any of the tedium of slicing and chopping. The closest us home chefs can get to TV magic is a good food processor, which grinds, chops, peels, g
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Cyber researchers at Ben-Gurion University fool autonomous vehicle systems with phantom images
In a new research paper, ;Phantom of the ADAS,' the researchers demonstrated that autopilots and advanced driving-assistance systems (ADASs) in semi-autonomous or fully autonomous cars register depthless projections of objects (phantoms) as real objects. They show how attackers can exploit this perceptual challenge to manipulate the vehicle and potentially harm the driver or passengers without any
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Daily briefing: Step inside Japan's trio of big-physics experiments
Nature, Published online: 17 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00461-2 Take a rare look inside the world's largest neutrino detector, the world's most advanced gravitational-wave detector and the experiment that could revolutionize particle physics. Plus, dozens of COVID-19 coronavirus clinical trials take off in China and reintroduced bison churn up bones of their ancestors in Canada.
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Dansk forsker i isolation på 'Hvide Mars': Tester menneskets robusthed på lange rum-missioner
PLUS. Nadja Albertsen har som udsendt for ESA som den første dansker brugt et år på Antarktis for at undersøge, hvordan psyken og fysikken klarer mange måneder i mørke og isolation.
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Dark biological superoxide production as a significant flux and sink of marine dissolved oxygen [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]
The balance between sources and sinks of molecular oxygen in the oceans has greatly impacted the composition of Earth's atmosphere since the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis, thereby exerting key influence on Earth's climate and the redox state of (sub)surface Earth. The canonical source and sink terms of the marine oxygen…
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'Dark Emulator' churns out virtual universes in seconds, so scientists can probe large-scale dark matter structures that may be key to galaxy formation. Being fed real observational data, it was able to predict 3-dimensional patterns of galaxy distribution to within a 2 percent margin of error.
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Declines in heart attacks greater among men than women
In a study published in the American Heart Association scientific journal Circulation, Kaiser Permanente research scientists report a steady decline in heart attacks for both men and women enrolled in the health system from 2000 to 2014, although that rate of decline slowed among women in the last 5 years of the study.
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Defective HIV-1 proviruses produce viral proteins [Immunology and Inflammation]
HIV-1 proviruses persist in the CD4+ T cells of HIV-infected individuals despite years of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) with suppression of HIV-1 RNA levels <40 copies/mL. Greater than 95% of these proviruses detected in circulating peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) are referred to as "defective" by virtue of having large…
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Deliver Us, Lord, From the Startup Life
In the Midwest, Christian entrepreneurs are searching for relief from the corrosive grind of company-building—while some faith leaders preach the gospel of crushing it.
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Despite a marked reduction in the prevalence of dementia, the number of people with dementia is set to double by 2050 according to new Alzheimer Europe report
Today, at a European Parliament lunch debate, Alzheimer Europe launched a new report presenting the findings of its collaborative analysis of recent prevalence studies and setting out updated prevalence rates for dementia in Europe. The report findings show that, despite a marked reduction in the prevalence of dementia, the number of people with dementia is nonetheless set to double by 2050.
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Development of an antibody cocktail for treatment of Sudan virus infection [Microbiology]
Antibody-based therapies are a promising treatment option for managing ebolavirus infections. Several Ebola virus (EBOV)-specific and, more recently, pan-ebolavirus antibody cocktails have been described. Here, we report the development and assessment of a Sudan virus (SUDV)-specific antibody cocktail. We produced a panel of SUDV glycoprotein (GP)-specific human chimeric monoclonal antibodies…
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Disaster-zone research: no need for a customized code of conduct
Nature, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00459-w
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Disentangling the taxonomy of the subfamily Rasborinae (Cypriniformes, Danionidae) in Sundaland using DNA barcodes
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59544-9
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Drosophila YBX1 homolog YPS promotes ovarian germ line stem cell development by preferentially recognizing 5-methylcytosine RNAs [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
5-Methylcytosine (m5C) is a RNA modification that exists in tRNAs and rRNAs and was recently found in mRNAs. Although it has been suggested to regulate diverse biological functions, whether m5C RNA modification influences adult stem cell development remains undetermined. In this study, we show that Ypsilon schachtel (YPS), a homolog…
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Drought slashes Australian crop output to record low
Australia's hottest and driest year on record has slashed crop production, with summer output expected to fall to the lowest levels on record, according to official projections released Tuesday.
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Dynamic clamp constructed phase diagram for the Hodgkin and Huxley model of excitability [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Excitability—a threshold-governed transient in transmembrane voltage—is a fundamental physiological process that controls the function of the heart, endocrine, muscles, and neuronal tissues. The 1950s Hodgkin and Huxley explicit formulation provides a mathematical framework for understanding excitability, as the consequence of the properties of voltage-gated sodium and potassium channels. The Hodg
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Dynamics and clustering of IRE1{alpha} during ER stress [Cell Biology]
Cellular integrity is critically dependent on maintaining protein homeostasis. Proteotoxic stresses challenging this balance elicit regulated protective responses essential for organismal fitness. Approximately one-third of synthesized proteins are secreted from cells and undergo biogenesis in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Upon import into the ER, these proteins are engaged by chaperone…
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Dålig samhällsstyrning begränsar tillgången på rent vatten
Kvaliteten på ett lands dricksvatten beror ofta på om samhället är korrupt eller inte. En studie från Göteborgs universitet visar att demokratier med en dysfunktionell statsförvaltning är lika dåliga på att tillhandahålla rent vatten som auktoritära regimer. En vanlig uppfattning är att demokratier är bättre än andra styrelseskick på att förse medborgarna med grundläggande samhällstjänster som ex
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Ecological drivers of bacterial community assembly in synthetic phycospheres [Ecology]
In the nutrient-rich region surrounding marine phytoplankton cells, heterotrophic bacterioplankton transform a major fraction of recently fixed carbon through the uptake and catabolism of phytoplankton metabolites. We sought to understand the rules by which marine bacterial communities assemble in these nutrient-enhanced phycospheres, specifically addressing the role of host resources in…
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Economic conditions are such that even so-called scientific journals are trying to go onto pay per view. They publish generalities and claims freely, like advertisements, but if you want to look at the data they used to generate their claims, you'll pay first thank you very much.
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Ed Dwight Was Going to Be the First African American in Space. Until He Wasn't
The Kennedy administration sought a diverse face to the space program, but for reasons unknown, the pilot was kept from reaching the stars
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Effect of nanoencapsulation on volatile constituents, and antioxidant and anticancer activities of Algerian Origanum glandulosum Desf. essential oil
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59686-w
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Eggshells indicate dinosaurs were warm-blooded
Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, according to a new technique that analyzes the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells. "Dinosaurs sit at an evolutionary point between birds, which are warm-blooded, and reptiles, which are cold-blooded. Our results suggest that all major groups of dinosaurs had warmer body temperatures than their environment," says lead author Robin Dawson, a postdoctoral research associate
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Eksperter sår tvivl om sundhedsministers svar om nedlagte hospitalssenge
Sundhedsminister Magnus Heunicke (S) og hans embedsfolk får kritik for svar om nedlæggelsen af tusindvis af sengepladser. Ifølge Heunicke følger han bare vejledningen fra ministeriets ekspertpanel – men den forklaring afvises af ministerens egen ekspert.
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Elder-friendly care after emergency surgery greatly improves outcomes for older patients
Tailoring care for older patients who have had emergency surgery can reduce complications and deaths, decrease the length of hospital stays and cut down on the need for alternate care at discharge, according to a new study led a University of Alberta researcher.
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Electric bacteria create currents out of thin—and thick—air
Film of protein wires harnesses ambient moisture to make electricity
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Electrochemically-stable ligands bridge the photoluminescence-electroluminescence gap of quantum dots
Nature Communications, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14756-5 New design principles for bridging the photoluminescence and electroluminescence of colloidal quantum dots are needed. In this work, the authors report electrochemically-inert ligands as a general material-design strategy for realizing high-performance LEDs based on quantum dots.
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Elon Musk Disses Bill Gates
Underwhelming When Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced that he had bought Porsche's Taycan electric car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to disparage his fellow billionaire. "My conversations with Gates have been underwhelming," Musk tweeted , in response to an account that had mused about why Gates had chosen a Porsche over a Tesla. Context Collapse As Bloomberg pointed out , Gates also p
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Elon Musk just criticized the artificial intelligence company he helped found — and said his confidence in the safety of its AI is 'not high'
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Elon Musk says all advanced AI development should be regulated, including at Tesla – TechCrunch
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Elon Musk: Everyone, "Including Tesla," Needs AI Regulation
The Quote Via TechCrunch , Elon Musk, Monday night, on Twitter (of course): All orgs developing advanced AI should be regulated, including Tesla — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 17, 2020 The Context Musk was responding to a massive feature story published in the MIT Technology Review about OpenAI , the AI research lab founded in part by Elon Musk, alongside others. The lab operates with the missi
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Elongation factor-Tu can repetitively engage aminoacyl-tRNA within the ribosome during the proofreading stage of tRNA selection [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
The substrate for ribosomes actively engaged in protein synthesis is a ternary complex of elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), aminoacyl-tRNA (aa-tRNA), and GTP. EF-Tu plays a critical role in mRNA decoding by increasing the rate and fidelity of aa-tRNA selection at each mRNA codon. Here, using three-color single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy…
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Empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest
Researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person's ability to feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they are resting rather than while they are engaged in specific tasks.
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Endocrine Society updates osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline
The Endocrine Society today announced an update to its osteoporosis Clinical Practice Guideline to include recommendations for romosozumab, a new medication that was approved last year to treat postmenopausal women at high risk of fracture.
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Energistyrelsen forventer 111.800 elbiler i 2025: »Ikke realistisk,« mener eksperter
PLUS. Energistyrelsen forventer, at der vil være over syv gange så mange elbiler indregistreret på de danske landeveje i 2025 som i dag. Men det er ganske enkelt urealistisk med den nuværende lovgivning, lyder det fra eksperter.
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Energy dissipation bounds for autonomous thermodynamic cycles [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
How much free energy is irreversibly lost during a thermodynamic process? For deterministic protocols, lower bounds on energy dissipation arise from the thermodynamic friction associated with pushing a system out of equilibrium in finite time. Recent work has also bounded the cost of precisely moving a single degree of freedom….
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Engineering stable radicals using photochromic triggers
Nature Communications, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14798-9 Long-standing radical species have raised noteworthy concerns in organic chemistry and but there remains a substantial challenge to produce long-standing radicals by light. Here, the authors demonstrate a stable dithienylethene derived photochromic radical for detection of peroxides and ozone.
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Enigmatic small primate finally caught on film in Taita, Kenya
Good news from the Kenyan Taita Hills: the Taita mountain dwarf galago still survives. This was confirmed by researchers working at the University of Helsinki Taita Research Station.
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Entanglement of propagating optical modes via a mechanical interface
Nature Communications, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14768-1 Applications of quantum information processing require distribution of quantum states for linking nodes in networks and mechanical oscillators can create versatile links. Here, the authors describe continuous variable entanglement between two optical modes mediated by a mechanical oscillator.
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Environmental solutions to go global
New Australian technology that could fix some of the world's biggest environmental pollution problems — oil spills, mercury pollution and fertiliser runoff — will soon be available to global markets following the signing of a landmark partnership with Flinders University.
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Escaping the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation
As NASA's Space Launch System moves closer to reality, we all move closer to the dream of permanent outposts in space — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's surface show not only the fading red supergiant but also how its apparent shape is changing.
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Essential Gear For Keeping Your Workspace Tidy
Whether you toil at home or in an open-plan office, these tools will keep your desk clean and your mind clear.
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Evidence that Criegee intermediates drive autoxidation in unsaturated lipids [Environmental Sciences]
Autoxidation is an autocatalytic free-radical chain reaction responsible for the oxidative destruction of organic molecules in biological cells, foods, plastics, petrochemicals, fuels, and the environment. In cellular membranes, lipid autoxidation (peroxidation) is linked with oxidative stress, age-related diseases, and cancers. The established mechanism of autoxidation proceeds via H-atom abstrac
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EVs Finally Get Some Love from the Most Important JD Power Study
2018 Nissan Leaf Fans of EVs say reliability is part of their charm: no combustion engine, fewer moving parts, no muffler or catalytic converter, less wear and tear on the brakes. Now there's proof from the most recent JD Power Vehicle Dependability Study: The Nissan Leaf (main photo) ranks as the most reliable car in its class and two other EVs, the BMW i3 and the Chevrolet Bolt EV, are in the t
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Excellent TV soundbars for audio that lives up to the video
Sound on. (Depositphotos/) Although televisions have advanced by leaps and bounds in most departments—it's difficult to find a set that isn't an 4K smart TV with a multitude of built-in streaming apps—they still tend to lag in the sound department. The internal speakers of most TVs just aren't up to the level of the visuals. Perhaps it's because the makers assume you'll be looking to bring in a l
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Exploring Natural Clusters of Chronic Migraine Phenotypes: A Cross-Sectional Clinical Study
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59738-1
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Fast-charging, long-running, bendy energy storage breakthrough
A new bendable supercapacitor made from graphene, which charges quickly and safely stores a record-high level of energy for use over a long period, has been developed.
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Feedback culture: When colleagues become competitors
Competitive behavior among employees may be triggered by the type of feedback they have received. These are the findings of a study conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the IESE Business School in Barcelona. The results have been published in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
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FIFA commits to carbon-neutral 2022 football World Cup. FIFA wants to "set a benchmark for environmental stewardship" during the next football World Cup "by implementing leading sustainable building standards, waste and water management
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Fifteen years and 20 million insects: Sweden documents its insect fauna in a changing world
The Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) was launched in 2003 with the aim of making a complete list of the insect diversity of Sweden. Over the past fifteen years, an estimated total of 20 million insects, collected during the project, have been processed for scientific study. Recently, the team behind this effort published the resulting inventory in the open-access journal Biodiversity Data Journ
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Fijian farming ants resolve the guns-or-butter dilemma for their crop plants [Evolution]
Abilities to cultivate or manage members of other species evolved repeatedly, and in a few taxa the managed symbionts were domesticated, representing one of the great innovations in evolution (1, 2), one which transformed human history (3, 4). For early farmers, to what extent were agricultural practices tailored to local…
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Fireproof, lightweight solid electrolyte for safer lithium-ion batteries – American Chemical Society
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First baby is born through new egg-freezing technique
Cancer patient's immature eggs were collected, matured in lab and frozen for use five years on A woman who was left infertile by cancer treatment has given birth to a baby after her immature eggs were collected, matured in a lab and frozen for use five years later. Fertility specialists at Antoine Béclère University hospital in Clamart near Paris said the healthy boy, named Jules, was the first b
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First glimpse of body's 'steering wheel' joint sparks hope
For the first time, scientists have found a way to reveal the mechanics of the human body's 'steering wheel' — the subtalar joint.
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First research results on the 'spectacular meteorite fall' of Flensburg
A fireball in the sky, accompanied by a bang, amazed hundreds of eyewitnesses in northern Germany in mid-September last year. The reason for the spectacle was a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere and partially burning up. Planetologists have been studying a part of the meteorite. They found out that the meteorite contains minerals that formed under the presence of water on small planetesima
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First Solar Orbiter instrument sends measurements
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday 13 February providing a confirmation to the international science teams that the magnetometer on board is in good health following a successful deployment of the spacecraft's instrument boom.
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Fish farmers seek new weapons to fight thriving parasites
Salmon farmers battling large numbers of parasites that flourish on fish farms are seeking—and finding—new ways to cut their losses and protect marine wildlife.
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Fish-passage project could open upper Green River to salmon and steelhead
Salmon and steelhead could once again inhabit more than 100 miles of the upper Green River watershed now that the entire Washington congressional delegation has backed restarting a federal project to allow fish to pass the Howard Hanson Dam.
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Flere speciallæger er en nødvendighed
Der er brug for bl.a. flere praktiserende læger, psykiatere og lungemedicinere, skriver formanden for Lægeforeningens Uddannelsesudvalg.
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Floating Farms Point the Way to Alternative Food Ecosystems
Thirty-four heifers aboard a stable in Rotterdam harbor show that cow buoys could provide a creative way to boost food security.
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For the love of fangirls | Yve Blake
When you think of fangirls, what comes to mind: large swaths of fandom (usually for a boyband) whose feelings culminate in tears and joyful screams? Perhaps you grimace or roll your eyes at the thought. In this fun, lively talk, playwright Yve Blake asks us to reevaluate our reaction to the misunderstood passion and power of fangirls, emphasizing why we should all embrace our own unbridled enthusi
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Formation of stable aggregates by fluid-assembled solid bridges [Applied Physical Sciences]
When a colloidal suspension is dried, capillary pressure may overwhelm repulsive electrostatic forces, assembling aggregates that are out of thermal equilibrium. This poorly understood process confers cohesive strength to many geological and industrial materials. Here we observe evaporation-driven aggregation of natural and synthesized particulates, probe their stability under rewetting, and…
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Found in Space: 100 Energetic Photons
Originally published in May 1962 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Foxn4 is a temporal identity factor conferring mid/late-early retinal competence and involved in retinal synaptogenesis [Neuroscience]
During development, neural progenitors change their competence states over time to sequentially generate different types of neurons and glia. Several cascades of temporal transcription factors (tTFs) have been discovered in Drosophila to control the temporal identity of neuroblasts, but the temporal regulation mechanism is poorly understood in vertebrates. Mammalian retinal…
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From 'living' cement to medicine-delivering biofilms, biologists remake the material world
Engineered microbes shift from making molecules to materials
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Functional connectivity predicts changes in attention observed across minutes, days, and months [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
The ability to sustain attention differs across people and changes within a single person over time. Although recent work has demonstrated that patterns of functional brain connectivity predict individual differences in sustained attention, whether these same patterns capture fluctuations in attention within individuals remains unclear. Here, across five independent studies,…
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Förstelärare ger positiva skolresultat
Förstelärarreformen skulle göra läraryrket attraktivt och höja elevers resultat på sikt. Den omdebatterade reformen infördes 2013, och innebar att ett antal lärare hos varje skolhuvudman skulle utses till förstelärare. Uppdraget innebar i korthet ett större ansvar för att utveckla undervisningen och ett lönelyft på 5000 kronor i månaden.
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Gaining more control over fuel cell membranes
More organization at the molecular level could improve the efficiency of membranes used in the hydrogen fuel cells that provide energy to electric cars and other industrial applications, according to a review published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.
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Gene tests for heart disease risk have limited benefit
Genetic tests to predict a person's risk of heart disease and heart attack have limited benefit over conventional testing.
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Gene therapy can protect against ALS and SMA-related cell death
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University of Milan in Italy have identified a gene in human neurons that protects against the degeneration of motor neurons in the deadly diseases ALS and SMA. Gene therapy in animal models of these diseases was shown to protect against cell death and increase life expectancy. The study is published in the eminent journal Acta Neuropathologic
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Generating realistic stock market data for deeper financial research
Financial markets are among the most well-studied and closely watched complex systems in existence. This rich literature on market modeling and analysis has led to many important innovations, such as automated tools for detecting market manipulation. But a large gap still exists between the current state-of-the-art and the powerful insights needed to fully understand the complex dimensions of mark
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Genes from scratch: Far more common and important than we thought
Scientists have discovered that de novo genes — genes that have evolved from scratch — are both more common and more important than previously believed.
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Geometriske mønstre stopper revner i glas – og mikrochips
Ved at skære bestemte geometriske strukturer ned i glaslignende materialer som plexiglas og siliciumhalvledere kan forskere forbedre brudstyrken og bremse revner.
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Getting a grip: An innovative mechanical controller design for robot-assisted surgery
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of controller for the robotic arm used in robotic surgery. Their controller combines the two distinct types of gripping used in commercially available robotic systems to leverage the advantages of both, reducing the efforts of the surgeon and providing good precision.
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GI societies issue updated colorectal cancer screening recommendations
These evidence-based recommendations support closer follow-up after colonoscopy screenings for some groups, less intense follow-up for others, and provide guidance for removing colorectal polyps.
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Giving good bacteria an edge in making cheese
When unpasteurized milk is used to make cheese, the result is a product with more complex flavors, meaning many consumers seek out cheese made from "raw" milk. However, if the milk was contaminated, the cheese it's used for can harbor pathogens that make people sick. This is where "protective cultures" can help.
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Glioblastomas exploit truncated O-linked glycans for local and distant immune modulation via the macrophage galactose-type lectin [Immunology and Inflammation]
Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain malignancy, for which immunotherapy has failed to prolong survival. Glioblastoma-associated immune infiltrates are dominated by tumor-associated macrophages and microglia (TAMs), which are key mediators of immune suppression and resistance to immunotherapy. We and others demonstrated aberrant expression of glycans in different cancer types. These…
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GP care is valuable for children with life-limiting conditions reducing the need for A+E
Regular involvement of a GP in the care of children and young people with life-limiting conditions can reduce hospital admissions, a new study has found.
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Green approach accelerates process optimization and retrieval of 'switchable' solvents
Researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new, green technology for both accelerated screening and retrieving "switchable" solvents used in green chemistry applications. The new approach makes the screening process hundreds of times faster and drastically accelerates the rate at which solvents can be retrieved from solution.
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Habitat fragmentation imperils Madagascar's large-bodied lemurs
A new study in the American Journal of Primatology highlights the critical need for conservation efforts to protect lemurs on Madagascar. This unique ecosystem is home to more than 110 species of lemurs, but approximately 95 percent are threatened with extinction, making them the most vulnerable mammal group on Earth.
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Hardy microbe's DNA could be a time capsule for the ages
Artist and DNA storage pioneer says microbes entombed in salt could preserve a lasting record of humanity
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Heal quicker, better with a proper brace
Brace yourself, correctly. (Depositphotos/) If you've sprained a wrist or are dealing with a troublesome knee, you'll want to find a good brace. This is especially true if you're physically active and find that your injury bugs you when you move or play sports. Here we've compiled a list of ace braces for a variety of ailments and pains. Tried and true. (Amazon /) If you've ever sprained a joint,
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Health coaching shown to improve inhaler use among low-income copd patients
Researchers conclude that improved inhaler technique and adherence are one of multiple factors contributing to long-term COPD outcomes, but their research has confirmed one technique–use of lay health coaches–that may help patients get optimal benefit from their COPD medications.
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Heated tobacco devices making inroads among young adults, study finds
Heated tobacco devices — which heat rather than burn tobacco to create a vapor — are the next products being pushed by the tobacco industry. A new study finds that the products are making inroads among young adults, with some users saying they have never used other tobacco products.
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Heavy backpack? Good for you
Rice kinesiologists found specific health deficits in home-schooled adolescents compared to their peers in public schools.
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Helpful oxygen carriers
Researchers discover a new biochemical compound that can break down environmental pollutants.
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Here's how many pollution-related deaths your state is exporting or importing
Air doesn't stay contained within state lines (JuniperPhoton/) Air pollution isn't just a local problem. Tailpipe emissions within a city affect the lungs of those living in the vicinity, but wind can also carry particles like ozone and particulate matter into the airways of people hundreds of miles away. A new study, published Wednesday in Nature , reveals just how much pollution the Lower 48 st
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Highly sensitive sensors show promise in enhancing human touch
People rely on a highly tuned sense of touch to manipulate objects, but injuries to the skin and the simple act of wearing gloves can impair this ability. In this week's Applied Physics Reviews, scientists report the development of a new tactile-enhancement system based on a highly sensitive sensor. The sensor has remarkable sensitivity, allowing the wearer to detect the light brush of a feather.
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High-Reynolds-number fractal signature of nascent turbulence during transition [Engineering]
Transition from laminar to turbulent flow occurring over a smooth surface is a particularly important route to chaos in fluid dynamics. It often occurs via sporadic inception of spatially localized patches (spots) of turbulence that grow and merge downstream to become the fully turbulent boundary layer. A long-standing question has…
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High-throughput quantitative microscopy-based half-life measurements of intravenously injected agents [Engineering]
Accurate analysis of blood concentration and circulation half-life is an important consideration for any intravenously administered agent in preclinical development or for therapeutic application. However, the currently available tools to measure these parameters are laborious, expensive, and inefficient for handling multiple samples from complex multivariable experiments. Here we describe a…
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Hippocampal avoidance during WBRT reduces risks on NRG Oncology trial
Results from the NRG Oncology clinical study NRG-CC001 concluded that lowering radiotherapy dose to hippocampal stem cells improves cognitive and patient-reported outcomes for patients with brain metastases.
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Holstein steers that get hormone implants perform as well as implanted beef cows
Holstein steers that get hormone implants grow faster than those that do not receive the implants, and they get as big as beef cattle breeds, according to Penn State researchers, who say that's good news for dairy farmers struggling to keep their operations financially viable.
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Hospitality, not medical care, drives patient satisfaction
Patients' ratings of hospitals and willingness to recommend them have almost no correlation to the quality of medical care provided or to patient survival rates, according to new Cornell University research.
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Hospitals with internationally trained nurses have more stable, educated nursing workforces
Having more nurses trained outside of the United States working on a hospital unit does not hurt collaboration among healthcare professionals and may result in a more educated and stable nursing workforce, finds a new study by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing published in the journal Nursing Economic$.
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How a Dispute over a Single Number Became a Cosmological Crisis
Two divergent measurements of how fast the universe is expanding cannot both be right. Something must give—but what? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How gliding animals fine-tuned the rules of evolution
A study of gliding animals has challenged the idea that evolutionary innovations—adaptations that bring new abilities and advantages—spur the origin of other new body types and other characteristics in descendent species. The research, undertaken by evolutionary biologists at UNSW Sydney and universities in the US and Spain, examined the key innovation of gliding in two types of gliding animals: '
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How language proficiency correlates with cognitive skills
An international team of researchers carried out an experiment at HSE University demonstrating that knowledge of several languages can improve the performance of the human brain. In their study, they registered a correlation between participants' cognitive control and their proficiency in a second language.
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How laser pulses can manipulate magnetization via ultrafast transfer of electrons
Combining experiment and theory, researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics have disentangled how laser pulses can manipulate magnetization via ultrafast transfer of electrons between atoms.
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How low oxygen levels in the heart predispose people to cardiac arrhythmias
Low oxygen levels in the heart have long been known to produce life-threatening arrhythmias, even sudden death. Until now, it was not clear how. New findings reveal the underlying mechanism for this dangerous heart disorder.
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How malaria detects and shields itself from approaching immune cells
Malaria parasites can sense a molecule produced by approaching immune cells and then use it to protect themselves from destruction, according to new findings.
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How many gender subtypes exist in the brain?
In a new paper, published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researchers argue that there are at least nine directions of brain-gender variation.
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How Sugar's Bacteria Could Point the Way to More Efficient Agriculture
New research proves the power of beneficial bacteria and fungi that help sugarcane grow larger and rebound from stress faster
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How surfboards connect us to nature | Yves Béhar
Here's how the surfboard changed our relationship to water, according to fuseproject founder Yves Béhar.
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How Technology Explodes the Concept of 'Generations'
Immense changes show us, year after year, that we are basically the same as ever, just reacting to the curves of life well out of our control.
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How the compass unlocked the world | David Biello
"Everything that we think of as world history would not have taken place without the compass." TED science curator David Biello explains how the device changed our relationship to the world.
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How to choose specific drugs for specific patients with depression?
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Hsp47 promotes cancer metastasis by enhancing collagen-dependent cancer cell-platelet interaction [Medical Sciences]
Increased expression of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in circulating tumor cells (CTCs) suggests potential function of cancer cell-produced ECM in initiation of cancer cell colonization. Here, we showed that collagen and heat shock protein 47 (Hsp47), a chaperone facilitating collagen secretion and deposition, were highly expressed during the epithelial-mesenchymal transition…
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Hubble turns lens towards gender bias, yielding lessons for Earthlings
Researchers used 'dual-anonymization' techniques to close the gender gap around who gets time on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Human Composting is Better for the Environment
Up In Smoke As if living with a carbon footprint wasn't a nuisance enough, it turns out the way you leave your life can have an impact on the Earth as well. One new funeral option: Human composting, which is exactly what it sounds like, is becoming more available, and according to a recent interview in the BBC, it may be better for the environment as well. Carbon Foot-print In May 2019, Washingto
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Human MutL{gamma}, the MLH1-MLH3 heterodimer, is an endonuclease that promotes DNA expansion [Biochemistry]
MutL proteins are ubiquitous and play important roles in DNA metabolism. MutLγ (MLH1–MLH3 heterodimer) is a poorly understood member of the eukaryotic family of MutL proteins that has been implicated in triplet repeat expansion, but its action in this deleterious process has remained unknown. In humans, triplet repeat expansion is…
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Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware
The lax security of supply chain firmware has been a known concern for years—with precious little progress being made.
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Hurricane Harvey tops league of most extreme US weather this decade
A top ten of record-breaking US weather events of the last decade reveals Hurricane Harvey is the most extreme of the decade, and similar others were among the costliest and deadliest on record, according to magazine Weatherwise.
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if we combined all the advance medical technologies, it is already theoretically possible to make someone biologically immortal?
If we throw all those organ planting, blood transfer and those stem cells therapies into one human being, is it already enough for him to live forever if we ignore fetal accidents. submitted by /u/853240936 [link] [comments]
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IHG Hong Kong sales tumble two-thirds after unrest
Crowne Plaza owner reports hit from anti-government demonstrations in territory
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Image of the Day: Brainless Frogs
Without a brain, the frog embryo immune system doesn't receive the signals it needs to mobilize macrophages and fight infections.
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Immunity key to motor neurone disease treatment
Customised immune-blocking medication may be the key to treating patients with motor neurone disease (MND), which currently has no cure and limited therapeutic options.
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Impacts of current and future large dams on the geographic range connectivity of freshwater fish worldwide [Environmental Sciences]
Dams contribute to water security, energy supply, and flood protection but also fragment habitats of freshwater species. Yet, a global species-level assessment of dam-induced fragmentation is lacking. Here, we assessed the degree of fragmentation of the occurrence ranges of ∼10,000 lotic fish species worldwide due to ∼40,000 existing large dams…
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In acoustic waves, engineers break reciprocity with 'spacetime-varying metamaterials'
Reciprocity isn't always a good thing.
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In This Issue [This Week in PNAS]
Parental speaking style and child language development Parentese influences language development in infants. Image courtesy of Pixabay/ReadyElements. Across cultures, adults often use "parentese," a speaking style characterized by exaggerated intonation, high pitch, and slow tempo, when interacting with young children. Previous studies have suggested that children who hear more parentese…
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Individual-specific functional connectivity of the amygdala: A substrate for precision psychiatry [Neuroscience]
The amygdala is central to the pathophysiology of many psychiatric illnesses. An imprecise understanding of how the amygdala fits into the larger network organization of the human brain, however, limits our ability to create models of dysfunction in individual patients to guide personalized treatment. Therefore, we investigated the position of…
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Industrial Revolution Pollution Found in Himalayan Glacier
Ice cores from a Tibetan glacier reveal the first deposits of Industrial Revolution pollution starting in layers deposited in about 1780.
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Industrial Revolution Pollution Found in Himalayan Glacier
Ice cores from a Tibetan glacier reveal the first deposits of Industrial Revolution pollution starting in layers deposited in about 1780. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Infographic: The Modern Human Body
The last few years have yielded new insights into human anatomy. Explore this interactive graphic to learn about some of these discoveries.
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Inorganic ions regulate amorphous-to-crystal shape preservation in biomineralization [Chemistry]
Calcified minerals in biogenic materials often play a utilitarian role, such as structural supports in bone, teeth, and shells, where the crystals are arranged in well-ordered arrays (1, 2). The ability of organisms to produce single crystalline scaffolds and hierarchical architectures with unique features, such as bent or spheroidal shapes,…
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Insects' ability to smell is phenomenally diverse, a new protein structure hints at how
Even though they don't have conventional noses, insects have adapted to smell odors in nearly every imaginable niche. Mosquitoes find us by our odor molecules binding to odor receptors on their antennae, bees are drawn to flowers the same way, whereas ticks detect an approaching host using receptors on their forelegs. Insects' ability to smell is uniquely adapted to their needs and habitats and Va
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Integrated functional genomic analyses of Klinefelter and Turner syndromes reveal global network effects of altered X chromosome dosage [Genetics]
In both Turner syndrome (TS) and Klinefelter syndrome (KS) copy number aberrations of the X chromosome lead to various developmental symptoms. We report a comparative analysis of TS vs. KS regarding differences at the genomic network level measured in primary samples by analyzing gene expression, DNA methylation, and chromatin conformation….
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Intelligent control of mode-locked femtosecond pulses by time-stretch-assisted spectral analysis
Researchers in China led by Lilin Yi at Shanghai Jiao Tong University developed apparatus and software algorithms allowing automatic 'intelligent control' over the femtosecond pulses generated by mode-locked fiber lasers. The system can manipulate key aspects of the wavelength range and composition of the pulses – technically their 'spectral width' and 'spectral shape' — more effectively than pre
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Introducing the March 2020 Issue
A cosmic crisis, what's in wildfire smoke, a new hope for rare diseases, and more — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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It Takes Less Than 30 Days to Compost a Human Body
In a small trial of deceased volunteers, a Seattle-based company called Recompose demonstrates that its method for "natural organic reduction" of a human body completely breaks down soft tissue.
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IU researcher makes skin cancer discovery
An Indiana University cancer researcher has identified eight new genomic regions that increase a person's risk for skin cancer. Jiali Han, Ph.D., and colleagues discovered eight new loci–locations on a person's genome–that are susceptible to the development of squamous cell skin cancer.
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IVF-barn löper större risk att dö
Siffran kan låta oroväckande: 45 procent ökad risk att dö under första året för barn som kommit till genom in vitro-fertilisering, IVF. – Men man ska komma ihåg att risken ändå är mycket liten, säger Kenny Rodriguez-Wallberg, forskare i reproduktionsmedicin vid Karolinska institutet i Solna. Sverige är ett av länderna i världen med lägst spädbarnsdödlighet, drygt två dödsfall per tusen födda. Så d
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IVF-conceived children have somewhat higher mortality risk in their first weeks of life
Children conceived with assisted reproductive techniques including IVF have a somewhat higher mortality risk during their first weeks of life than children conceived naturally, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. The researchers link the increased risk to a higher degree of premature births in IVF children and emp
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Jaguar Land Rover rushes parts out of China in suitcases
Carmaker moves to prevent UK shutdown as coronavirus threat grows
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January/February 2020 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
Annals of Family Medicine is a peer-reviewed, indexed research journal that provides a cross-disciplinary forum for new, evidence-based information affecting the primary care disciplines.
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Jesse Kathan
Contributor is a science journalist based in Santa Cruz, California. They hold a bachelors in wildlife biology from the University of California, Davis and is currently completing a masters in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. When not writing, they like reading science fiction and making soup. Follow them on twitter @jessekathan . Author social media Twitter Aut
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John Bolton Hints at How Much More He Still Has to Tell
DURHAM, N.C.—John Bolton has been called many things over his long career, plenty of them unflattering, but he has seldom been accused of being bashful about stating his opinions. Yet in an interview at Duke University on Monday, his first public remarks since the impeachment inquiry into President Trump began, the former national-security adviser tried something new: saying as little as possible
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Journal retracts hotly contested paper on vaping and heart attacks
The Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA) today retracted a paper it published last year claiming that vaping was linked to heart attacks. The paper, by Dharma Bhatta and Stanton Glantz of the University of California, San Francisco, has faced a barrage of criticism since its publication last June — and Glantz's claims, in … Continue reading
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Just under half of the world's annual GDP is now covered by nations, regions and cities that are legislating for a net-zero emissions target. 49% of GDP, representing more than $39trn, is now covered by regions with an actual or intended net-zero target
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Kidney patients benefit using organs from Hepatitis C-infected donors
Kidney patients benefit by accepting kidneys from donors with hepatitis C, according to a University of Cincinnati physician-researcher. Making the choice reduces organ wait time for kidney patients while saving money over the long run. It also improves the quality of life and life expectancy for kidney patients.
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Konstruktionsfejl fra 1954: Langebro kræver akut renovering
Københavns Kommune lægger op til at bruge 36 mio. kr. på at ordne akutte problemer. En totalrenovering af Langebro vil koste kommunen over 300 mio. kr.
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Kv2.1 channels play opposing roles in regulating membrane potential, Ca2+ channel function, and myogenic tone in arterial smooth muscle [Physiology]
The accepted role of the protein Kv2.1 in arterial smooth muscle cells is to form K+ channels in the sarcolemma. Opening of Kv2.1 channels causes membrane hyperpolarization, which decreases the activity of L-type CaV1.2 channels, lowering intracellular Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) and causing smooth muscle relaxation. A limitation of this model is…
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Lab-made molecules store image of Picasso drawing
Storing image files in mixtures containing custom-synthesized small molecules is a milestone for molecular data storage, researchers report. In all, the researchers stored more than 200 kilobytes of data, which they say is the most stored to date using small molecules. That's not a lot of data compared to traditional means of storage, but it is significant progress in terms of small molecule stor
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Lasers and terahertz waves combined in camera that sees 'unseen' detail
A team of physicists has successfully developed the first nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation.
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Later school start times reduce car crashes, improve teen safety
A study found that later school start times were associated with a significant drop in vehicle accidents involving teen drivers.
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Leaking away essential resources isn't wasteful, actually helps cells grow
Experts have been unable to explain why cells from bacteria to humans leak essential chemicals necessary for growth into their environment. New mathematical models reveal that leaking metabolites — substances involved in the chemical processes to sustain life with production of complex molecules and energy — may provide cells both selfish and selfless benefits.
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Light moves spins around
Combining experiment and theory, researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics have disentangled how laser pulses can manipulate magnetization via ultrafast transfer of electrons between different atoms.
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Light-sheet fluorescence imaging goes more parallelized
In pursuit of 3D visualization of cells and organisms with minimal invasiveness and high spatiotemporal resolution, researchers demonstrated a new form of light-sheet imaging, coined CLAM, which allows scan-free, parallelized 3D fluorescence imaging that results in an even slower rate of photobleaching than scanning light-sheet imaging, yet without sacrificing the image speed and resolution. Readi
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Listen: How women made the Montgomery bus boycott a reality
While most people know about Rosa Parks' role in the Montgomery bus boycott, women's behind-the-scenes organizing efforts made the boycott successful, an expert explains. "People know about Rosa Parks. People know about Martin Luther King Jr.—and they should. And they know that it was the Montgomery bus boycott that ignited a certain kind of Southern civil rights movement," says Ula Taylor, a pro
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Listeria monocytogenes exploits host exocytosis to promote cell-to-cell spread [Microbiology]
The facultative intracellular pathogen Listeria monocytogenes uses an actin-based motility process to spread within human tissues. Filamentous actin from the human cell forms a tail behind bacteria, propelling microbes through the cytoplasm. Motile bacteria remodel the host plasma membrane into protrusions that are internalized by neighboring cells. A critical unresolved…
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Live shows get your heart racing – scientists prove it
UCL scientists measured heart rates and sweat glands of audiences and found live shows caused much greater response Science has proved what theatre and concert-goers have long known. When it comes to emotional impact, watching a live performance is so much more thrilling than a version on screen. Scientists from University College London (UCL) measured heart rates and sweat glands of audience mem
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Locust swarms arrive in South Sudan, threatening more misery
Swarms of locusts which are wreaking havoc across East Africa have now arrived in South Sudan, the government said Tuesday, threatening more misery in one of the world's most vulnerable nations.
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Locust swarms: South Sudan latest to be hit by invasion
The ravenous pests have devoured crops and pasture threatening a food crisis in East Africa.
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LOFAR pioneers new way to study exoplanet environments
sing the Dutch-led Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope, astronomers have discovered unusual radio waves coming from the nearby red dwarf star GJ1151. The radio waves bear the tell-tale signature of aurorae caused by an interaction between a star and its planet. The radio emission from a star-planet interaction has been predicted for over thirty-years but this is the first time astronomers
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Long-term multi-wavelength observations shed more light on blazar 1ES 1215+303
An international team of astronomers has performed a decade-long, multi-wavelength monitoring campaign of the blazar 1ES 1215+303. Results of this extensive study provide more insights into the nature of emission from this source. The research is detailed in a paper published February 10 on arXiv.org.
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Long-term offenders have different brain structure, study says
Study found differences compared with those who did not offend or who only transgressed as adolescents Parents should not worry about their teenagers' delinquent behaviour provided they were well behaved in their earlier childhood, according to researchers behind a study that suggests those who offend throughout their life showed antisocial behaviour from a young age and have a markedly different
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Low-dose methotrexate associated with small increase in some adverse events
A pre-specified secondary analysis of a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial found that low-dose methotrexate (LD-MTX) was associated with a small to modest increase in the risk for some adverse events, including skin cancer and gastrointestinal, infectious, pulmonary, and hematologic effects in patients at risk for heart disease. The risk for kidney-related side-effects was decreased.
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LTE vulnerability: Attackers can impersonate other mobile phone users
Exploiting a vulnerability in the mobile communication standard LTE, also known as 4G, researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum can impersonate mobile phone users. Consequently, they can book fee-based services in their name that are paid for via the mobile phone bill — for example, a subscription to streaming services.
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M2 amphipathic helices facilitate pH-dependent conformational transition in influenza A virus [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
The matrix-2 (M2) protein from influenza A virus is a tetrameric, integral transmembrane (TM) protein that plays a vital role in viral replication by proton flux into the virus. The His37 tetrad is a pH sensor in the center of the M2 TM helix that activates the channel in response…
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Made in China 2025
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Marmots need not worry about being an 'older mum'
Having an older mother works out better for future generations of marmot daughters.
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Mass grave shows how Black Death devastated the countryside
Grave in Lincolnshire dates to medieval pandemic of 1348 and reveals rural plague catastrophe A mass grave containing the remains of dozens of victims of the Black Death offers chilling new evidence of the speed and scale of the devastation the plague brought to rural England, according to archaeologists. The grave, discovered in a remote corner of rural Lincolnshire, has been dated to the 14th c
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Mathematical Glossolalia
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Mating squid don't stop for loud noises
Loud hammering noises like pile driving disrupt the mating behavior of longfin squid, but the cephalopods seem to get acclimated to the incessant noise, according to new research presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting this week.
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Mayo researchers create, test AI to improve EKG testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
An approach based on artificial intelligence (AI) may allow EKGs to be used to screen for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the future. With hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the heart walls become thick and may interfere with the heart's ability to function properly. The disease also predisposes some patients to potentially fatal abnormal rhythms. Current EKG technology has limited diagnostic yield for t
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Measuring the effectiveness of high-performance Co-Optima biofuels on suppressing soot formation at high temperature [Engineering]
Soot emissions in combustion are unwanted consequences of burning hydrocarbon fuels. The presence of soot during and following combustion processes is an indication of incomplete combustion and has several negative consequences including the emission of harmful particulates and increased operational costs. Efforts have been made to reduce soot production in…
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Minister vil bryde monopol: Reparatører må selv hente genbrugs-egnede hvidevarer
PLUS. Miljøministeren vil bryde producenternes monopol på at indsamle affald og foreslår, at særlige reparatører får ret til at håndtere det. Rigtigt skridt, lyder det fra branchefolk.
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Minke whales are struggling to communicate over the din of ocean noise
Natural and human-made sounds can interfere with their social interactions
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miRNA-1-3p is an early embryonic male sex-determining factor in the Oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis
Nature Communications, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14622-4 In insects, Y chromosome-linked male determining factor can determine sex, but the sex determination factor of the Oriental Fruit fly is unknown. Here the authors show that an autosomal-derived miR-1-3p is enriched in males, suppressing the expression of Bdtra, which is required for female sex determination.
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Mismatches between demographic niches and geographic distributions are strongest in poorly dispersed and highly persistent plant species [Ecology]
The ecological niche of a species describes the variation in population growth rates along environmental gradients that drives geographic range dynamics. Niches are thus central for understanding and forecasting species' geographic distributions. However, theory predicts that migration limitation, source–sink dynamics, and time-lagged local extinction can cause mismatches between niches and…
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MIT's Ground-Penetrating Radar Looks Down for Perfect Self-Driving
Ground-penetrating radar may soon be the sensor that makes your car autonomous in all weather conditions. It turns out that when you scan the 10 feet below the roadway surface, you get a unique identifier that is accurate to an inch or two. Mapping cars would scan the roadways once, then your self-driving car with its own ground-penetrating radar would rescan as you drive, matching its real-time
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Moderate intensity exercise can benefit memory performance
University of Kent research has found that moderate intensity exercise such as brisk walking, water aerobics or cycling can have the most beneficial effect on memory performance. These findings suggest that it is not necessary for people to carry out highly strenuous exercise to achieve observable improvements in long-term memory, as moderate exercise can have a more positive influence.
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MoEDAL hunts for dyons
A magnetic monopole is a theoretical particle with a magnetic charge. Give it an electric charge, and you get another theoretical beast, dubbed a dyon. Many "grand unified theories" of particle physics, which connect fundamental forces at high energies into a single force, predict the existence of dyons, but no experiments at particle accelerators have so far searched for these hybrid particles—un
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More of Africa's leading economies are already looking to wind to power their homes
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More purple than blue: Religiously unaffiliated vary in political beliefs
For decades, research examining the intersection of religion and politics counted the religious "nones"—or the unaffiliated—as a small, homogeneous and liberal group, and conservatives have treated them as such.
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More time between prostate cancer screenings could improve outcomes
A new study in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published by Oxford University Press, finds significant benefits to lengthening the amount of time between prostate cancer screenings for men.
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Movement of a liquid droplet on MoS2 generates over 5 volts of electricity
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MRI method provides unprecedented insight into the brain's wiring network
Thoughts, sensations, and emotions zap across the brain via a meshwork of fine nerve fibers called axons. Axon size is crucially important for general brain function as well as in certain neurological conditions. Experts have been striving to establish a means to noninvasively measure these fibers for many years. An international team of researchers has now developed a novel MRI method that manage
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Multi-Dimensional Data (as used in Tensors) – Computerphile
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Mystery virus found with mostly unknown DNA
A virus has been found whose DNA is 90% absolutely unfamiliar. Scientists have no real idea what it developed from, or how. Viruses used to be thought of as simple, jumbles of things — not so much any more. In Lake Pampulha in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, scientists found an amoeba virus unlike anything seen before. Named after Yara , the mother of waters in Brazilian mythology, 90 perce
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NAD deficiency due to environmental factors or gene-environment interactions causes congenital malformations and miscarriage in mice [Medical Sciences]
Causes for miscarriages and congenital malformations can be genetic, environmental, or a combination of both. Genetic variants, hypoxia, malnutrition, or other factors individually may not affect embryo development, however, they may do so collectively. Biallelic loss-of-function variants in HAAO or KYNU, two genes of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) synthesis…
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Nanolaminate-based design for UV laser mirror coating
The demand for laser-resistant mirror coatings is increasing in inertial confinement fusion, extreme light infrastructure and other laser applications. The ideal UV laser mirror (UVLM) coating requires high reflectivity with large bandwidth and high laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT). Unfortunately, these requirements are difficult to satisfy simultaneously. This is due, for example, to the fac
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NASA finds wind shear doing in Tropical Storm Gabekile
Winds outside of Tropical Storm Gabekile are ripping the storm apart. NASA's Aqua satellite provided a visible image of the storm that showed strong northwesterly wind shear was adversely affecting the storm.
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Nasa's 2020 rover: Can we finally answer the big question about Mars? The rover will trundle across Jezero Crater screening rocks for evidence of former or present life. How will people react if it finds something intriguing imprinted in billions-of-years-old rock on another planet?
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NASA's SuperCam Set to Look for Evidence of Life On Mars
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Natural sugars in breastmilk linked to early childhood height and weight
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) found in breastmilk may influence a child's growth from infancy through early childhood, according to a new study.
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Natural variation in DNA methylation homeostasis and the emergence of epialleles [Genetics]
In plants and mammals, DNA methylation plays a critical role in transcriptional silencing by delineating heterochromatin from transcriptionally active euchromatin. A homeostatic balance between heterochromatin and euchromatin is essential to genomic stability. This is evident in many diseases and mutants for heterochromatin maintenance, which are characterized by global losses of…
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Neuroscientists discover 'engine of consciousness' hiding in monkeys' brains
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New adventures in beds and baths for spaceflight
ESA is expanding its bedrest program that allows researchers to study how human bodies react to living in space—without leaving their bed.
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New artificial neural network model bests MaxEnt in inverse problem example
NCCR MARVEL researchers at EPFL's Chair of Computational Condensed Matter Physics (C3MP) and colleagues have developed an artificial neural network (ANN) model that may serve as a basis for solving inverse problems. Their approach reaches the same level of accuracy as the now commonly used maximum entropy (MaxEnt) method for low-noise data, performs significantly better than this standard techniqu
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New biochemical compound breaks down environmental pollutants
Researchers discover a new biochemical compound that can break down environmental pollutants.
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New BNEF League Table shows global wind turbine commissioning increased 21% to nearly 61GW in 2019, with Danish manufacturer Vestas once again taking the top supplier spot
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New catalyst recycles greenhouse gases into fuel and hydrogen gas
Scientists have taken a major step toward a circular carbon economy by developing a long-lasting, economical catalyst that recycles greenhouse gases into ingredients that can be used in fuel, hydrogen gas, and other chemicals. The results could be revolutionary in the effort to reverse global warming, according to the researchers.
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New chip brings ultra-low power Wi-Fi connectivity to IoT devices
More portable, fully wireless smart home setups. Lower power wearables. Batteryless smart devices. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ultra-low power Wi-Fi radio developed by UC San Diego engineers. It enables Wi-Fi communication at 5,000 times less power than commercial Wi-Fi radios.
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New cholesterol-lowering guidelines would increase cost of treatment
The financial burden on health systems would drastically increase if new European expert guidelines for cholesterol-lowering treatment were implemented, according to a new simulation study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, published in the European Heart Journal. The findings highlight an urgent need for cost-effectiveness analysis given the current cost of the proposed treatment
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New computational tools identify alternative splicing changes in aggressive cancers
A multi-institutional group of researchers led by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has linked a strong cancer driver gene to changes in proteins that regulate alternative splicing. The researchers created new computational tools and biological model systems for the study. This collaborative research, led by Yi Xing, PhD, at CHOP and Owen Witte, MD, at the University of California, Los An
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New Data Backs Up Details in a Fatal 2018 Tesla Model X Crash
Newly released documents confirm that the driver experienced a glitch multiple times before the deadly crash, though it's unclear whether he reported it to Tesla.
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New Discoveries in Human Anatomy
Using advanced microscopy and imaging techniques, scientists have revealed new parts of the human body and overturned previous misconceptions.
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New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery
Jupiter's moon Io — the solar system's most volcanic world — has inspired a new way to find distant exoplanets. As the moon orbits Jupiter, it tugs on the planet's magnetic field, generating bright auroras in Jupiter's atmosphere. Even if we couldn't see Io itself, the enormous auroras, pulsing to the beat of a hidden orbiting body, would tell us that something was out there. Scientists have long
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New green technology generates electricity 'out of thin air'
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New guidelines on aspirin in primary prevention
New guidelines recommend aspirin use in primary prevention for people ages 40 to 70 years old who are at higher risk of a first cardiovascular event, but not for those over 70. Yet, people over 70 are at higher risks of cardiovascular events than those under 70. As a result, health care providers are understandably confused about whether or not to prescribe aspirin for primary prevention of heart
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New high-throughput method to study gene splicing at an unprecedented scale
Genes are like instructions, but with options for building more than one thing. Daniel Larson, senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute, studies this gene "splicing" process, which happens in normal cells and goes awry in blood cancers like leukemia. Larson, postdoctoral associate Yihan Wan, and colleagues developed a new technique to study gene splicing at an unprecedented scale, reve
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New insight into how stem cells interact with breast cancer cells
A Loughborough University Ph.D. student has provided new insight into how breast cancer cells interact with cells in our body by using a novel 3-D model.
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New space weather advisories serve aviation
A new international advisory system is working to keep aircraft crew and passengers safe from space weather impacts, thanks in part to the efforts of a team of CIRES and NOAA developers, forecasters, and scientists in Boulder, Colorado.
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New technique tracks individual protein movement on live cells
The piece of gold that Richard Taylor was thrilled to track down weighed less than a single bacterium. Taylor, a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute, was working to follow individual nanogold-labeled molecules that move just nanometers, billionths of a meter. The resulting microscopy technique, developed under Professor Vahid Sandoghdar and colleagues, can follow proteins at microsecon
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New tool to study how neuronal networks recover their function after neuron loss
A multidisciplinary study led by UB researchers has developed a new experimental tool that enables the application of focalized damage on an in vitro neuronal network of only a few millimetres and record the evolution of the whole network. One of the main conclusions is that the network quickly activates self-regulation mechanisms that reinforce the existing connections and restore the functionali
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New Uber Rules, Bomber-Inspired Jet Design, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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New VA/DoD guidelines address sleep-related issues in military personnel, veterans
Military service is a risk factor for sleep disorders. Recognizing this, the US Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense issued new guidelines for assessing and treating insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea in military personnel and veterans.
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Newly Named Chibanian Age Demarcates Earth's Last Magnetic Flip
The time period, which spans 770,000 to 126,000 years ago, started with a reversal of the planet's magnetic field.
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News Feature: Editing the microbiome [Microbiology]
After years of monitoring the body's microbial communities, researchers are now starting to modify them to treat disease. Put the gut microbes from an obese mouse into the body of a lean one, and the latter will pack on weight—even without changes to its diet, activity, or other habits (1)….
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NIH study supports new approach for treating cerebral malaria
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health found evidence that specific immune cells may play a key role in the devastating effects of cerebral malaria, a severe form of malaria that mainly affects young children. The results, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggest that drugs targeting T cells may be effective in treating the disease. The study was supported by the NIH I
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NIH-funded study links natural sugars in breastmilk to early childhood height and weight
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) found in breastmilk may influence a child's growth from infancy through early childhood, according to a study supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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North Island robins found to have long term memory
A pair of researchers at Victoria University of Wellington has found that North Island robins have long-term memory. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Rachael Shaw and Annette Harvey describe experiments they conducted with the birds and what they learned from them.
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Notre Dame physicists see nuclear wobbling in one isotope of gold
University of Notre Dame researchers and collaborators recently discovered that some nuclei wobble on their intermediate axes.
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Novel quantum effect found: Spin-rotation coupling
Imagine a dancer en pointe, spinning on her own axis while dancing on a rotating carousel. She might injure herself when both rotations add up and the angular momentum is transferred. Are similar phenomena also present in quantum mechanical systems?
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Np4A alarmones function in bacteria as precursors to RNA caps [Biochemistry]
Stresses that increase the cellular concentration of dinucleoside tetraphosphates (Np4Ns) have recently been shown to impact RNA degradation by inducing nucleoside tetraphosphate (Np4) capping of bacterial transcripts. However, neither the mechanism by which such caps are acquired nor the function of Np4Ns in bacteria is known. Here we report that…
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NUS researchers identify novel protein to prevent neuropathy from chemotherapy
A team of researchers from the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine has identified a novel protein that would prevent the development of neuropathy, a major side effect of chemotherapy, in cancer patients.
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Något högre dödlighetsrisk för IVF-barn
De första veckorna av livet är något mer riskfyllda hos barn som skapats på konstgjord väg. Risken för dödlighet är dock fortfarande liten.
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Off-grid sanitation systems show promise, despite toilet paper
As legend has it, when French workers felt their livelihoods threatened by automation in the early 1900s, they flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word sabotage.
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Old Irish 'clachan' found in South Australia
The oldest known Australian example of a communal type of Irish settlement has been 'unearthed' in a dusty paddock in rural South Australia.
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Older mothers produce more successful daughters [Ecology]
Annual reproductive success and senescence patterns vary substantially among individuals in the wild. However, it is still seldom considered that senescence may not only affect an individual but also affect age-specific reproductive success in its offspring, generating transgenerational reproductive senescence. We used long-term data from wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer)…
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On the collision of rods in a quiescent fluid [Applied Physical Sciences]
Rods settling under gravity in a quiescent fluid can overcome the bottleneck associated with aggregation of equal-size spheres because they collide by virtue of their orientation-dependent settling velocity. We find the corresponding collision kernel Γrods=lβ1ΔρVrodg/(16Aμ), where l, A, and Vrod are the rods' length, aspect ratio (length divided by width),…
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Opioid Signaling: Think Again
Opioids are some of the most effective and most problematic drugs in the entire pharmacopeia. For severe, intractable pain we really have nothing to match them, despite decades of searching for alternatives. The history of research for new pain medications itself calls for pain medication, because it is a tapestry of expensive late-stage clinical failures. All sorts of receptors, enzymes, ion cha
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Organic-cation intercalation: An effective strategy for manipulating band topology and superconductivity
In a recent article published in Science Bulletin, researchers developed an effective organic-cation intercalation strategy to manipulate the interlayer coupling of layered materials, and obtain a class of organic-inorganic hybrid crystals with tailored topological properties and enhanced superconductivities.
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Oversight of fishing vessels lacking, new analysis shows
Policies regulating fishing in international waters do not sufficiently protect officials who monitor illegal fishing, the prohibited dumping of equipment, or human trafficking or other human rights abuses, finds a new analysis by a team of environmental researchers.
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Packing structure of semiflexible rings [Applied Physical Sciences]
Unraveling the packing structure of dense assemblies of semiflexible rings is not only fundamental for the dynamical description of polymer rings, but also key to understand biopackaging, such as observed in circular DNA of viruses or genome folding. Here we use X-ray tomography to study the geometrical and topological features…
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Pancreatic cancer 'time machine' exposes plot twist in cell growth and invasion
A pancreatic cancer 'time machine' engineered by Purdue University researchers has revealed that the disease is even more unpredictable than previously thought: cancer cells promote each other's invasiveness when they grow together.
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Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves
Nature, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00436-3 As civilization seems to be lurching towards a cliff edge, historical case studies are giving way to big data in authors' search for understanding. By Laura Spinney
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Paramedical Tattoos: Ink Artists' Latest Innovation to Aid Body Trauma
Instead of expensive or risky cosmetic surgeries, people are taking a new approach to covering up injuries: "paramedical" tattoos. Tattoo artists have offered post-mastectomy tattoos to breast cancer survivors for years. Now, artists have started expanding outward to other medical procedures, The New York Times reports . A man who lost two fingertips in a workplace got fingernails tattooed on. A
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Parent coaching increases conversational turns and advances infant language development [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]
Parental language input is one of the best predictors of children's language achievement. Parentese, a near-universal speaking style distinguished by higher pitch, slower tempo, and exaggerated intonation, has been documented in speech directed toward young children in many countries. Previous research shows that the use of parentese and parent–child turn-taking…
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Parkinson's disease protein structure solved inside cells using novel technique
The top contributor to familial Parkinson's disease is mutations in leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), whose large and difficult structure has finally been solved, paving the way for targeted therapies.
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People living with HIV diagnosed with COPD 12 years younger than HIV-negative people
Researchers analyzed incidences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among adults 35 years and older who were living with and without HIV between 1996 and 2015 in Ontario – where over 40 per cent of Canadians living with HIV reside. People in Ontario living with HIV had a 34 per cent higher incidence rate of COPD and were diagnosed with the disease about 12 years younger than HIV-negati
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Phosphoproteomic analysis of protease-activated receptor-1 biased signaling reveals unique modulators of endothelial barrier function [Pharmacology]
Thrombin, a procoagulant protease, cleaves and activates protease-activated receptor-1 (PAR1) to promote inflammatory responses and endothelial dysfunction. In contrast, activated protein C (APC), an anticoagulant protease, activates PAR1 through a distinct cleavage site and promotes anti-inflammatory responses, prosurvival, and endothelial barrier stabilization. The distinct tethered ligands form
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Physicists see nuclear wobbling in one isotope of gold
Nuclei can be round, like a soccer ball, or oblong, like a football. Others are slightly oblong but misshapen, like a potato. One of the only two ways to observe the third shape, rarely encountered, is when the nucleus wobbles like a lopsided top.
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Positive allosteric modulation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 restrains neuroinflammation [Pharmacology]
l-tryptophan (Trp), an essential amino acid for mammals, is the precursor of a wide array of immunomodulatory metabolites produced by the kynurenine and serotonin pathways. The kynurenine pathway is a paramount source of several immunoregulatory metabolites, including l-kynurenine (Kyn), the main product of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) that catalyzes the…
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Potato plants at highest risk of potato virus Y infection during first three weeks
Potato virus Y is the most economically important and devastating aphid-transmitted virus, affecting both tuber yield and quality. The virus is also a major cause of seed potato degeneration, which leads to regular flushing out of seed potatoes after limited field production cycles. There is no remedy for this virus and once a plant becomes infected, it stays sick for life.
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Predicting immunotherapy success
Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have now identified new markers that can help predict which patients have a better chance for a positive response to immunotherapy treatments.
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Primary care patients assess econsult model for provider-to-specialist consultations
A study across five academic medical centers examined the reaction of patients to the use of an electronic consultation (eConsult) service for primary care provider-to-specialist consultation.
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Profile of Susan P. Harrison [Profiles]
Susan P. Harrison, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), has made seminal contributions to basic, theoretical, and conservation ecology. Her research, which includes studies concerning the spatial dynamics of plant and animal communities, large-scale diversity patterns, natural climatic variability, and anthropogenic…
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Protection of cochlear synapses from noise-induced excitotoxic trauma by blockade of Ca2+-permeable AMPA receptors [Neuroscience]
Exposure to loud sound damages the postsynaptic terminals of spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) on cochlear inner hair cells (IHCs), resulting in loss of synapses, a process termed synaptopathy. Glutamatergic neurotransmission via α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid (AMPA)-type receptors is required for synaptopathy, and here we identify a possible involvement of GluA2-lacking Ca2+-pe
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Proteins containing ubiquitin-like (Ubl) domains not only bind to 26S proteasomes but also induce their activation [Biochemistry]
During protein degradation by the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway, latent 26S proteasomes in the cytosol must assume an active form. Proteasomes are activated when ubiquitylated substrates bind to them and interact with the proteasome-bound deubiquitylase Usp14/Ubp6. The resulting increase in the proteasome's degradative activity was recently shown to be mediated by Usp14's…
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Publisher Correction: Data-driven acceleration of photonic simulations
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59308-5
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Publisher Correction: Floquet-state cooling
Scientific Reports, Published online: 19 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60117-z
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Publisher Correction: Spatio-temporal expression of ANK2 promotes cytokinesis in oocytes
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60116-0
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Quantum Internet: the next global network is already being laid. There has been rapid progress in the development of quantum communication networks, and a master network to unite them all called the Quantum Internet.
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Readmission risk increases for elderly patients with geriatric-specific characteristics
Researchers have examined new geriatric-specific characteristics that appear to raise the risk of elderly surgical patients having an unplanned hospital readmission within a month of initially leaving the hospital.
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Real-time particle-by-particle detection of erythrocyte-camouflaged microsensor with extended circulation time in the bloodstream [Engineering]
Personalized medicine offers great potential benefits for disease management but requires continuous monitoring of drugs and drug targets. For instance, the therapeutic window for lithium therapy of bipolar disorder is very narrow, and more frequent monitoring of sodium levels could avoid toxicity. In this work, we developed and validated a…
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Reconstructing the diet of fossil vertebrates
Paleodietary studies of the fossil record are impeded by a lack of reliable and unequivocal tracers. Scientists from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, the MPI for Chemistry and the Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) in Mainz have now tested a new method, the isotope analysis of zinc isotopes from the tooth enamel of fossil mammals, and found it to be well suited to expand our knowledge about
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Record-breaking quantum memory brings quantum internet one step closer
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Regular perturbation on the group-velocity dispersion parameter for nonlinear fibre-optical communications
Nature Communications, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14503-w Nonlinear effects have been studied in optical fiber communications channels under various specified parameter regimes. Here, the authors develop an approximate model via perturbation that is more accurate for the highly nonlinear regime.
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Remarkable nucleation and growth of ultrafine particles from vehicular exhaust [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]
High levels of ultrafine particles (UFPs; diameter of less than 50 nm) are frequently produced from new particle formation under urban conditions, with profound implications on human health, weather, and climate. However, the fundamental mechanisms of new particle formation remain elusive, and few experimental studies have realistically replicated the relevant…
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Renault brand Dacia set to introduce the cheapest electric car in Europe with €11,000 ($12,000) price tag.
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Repair of a previously uncharacterized second host-range gene contributes to full replication of modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) in human cells [Microbiology]
Modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA), a widely used vaccine vector for expression of genes of unrelated pathogens, is safe, immunogenic, and can incorporate large amounts of added DNA. MVA was derived by extensively passaging the chorioallantois vaccinia virus Ankara (CVA) vaccine strain in chicken embryo fibroblasts during which numerous mutations…
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Repairing actively pumping heart tissue with mussel-inspired tissue adhesive
If the heart muscle is damaged, repairing the constantly active organ is a challenge. Empa researchers are developing a novel tissue adhesive inspired by nature, which is able to repair lesions in muscle tissue. They have taken advantage of the incredible ability of marine mussels to adhere to any kind of surface.
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Reply to Tran et al.: Dimeric KRAS protein-protein interaction stabilizers [Physical Sciences]
We thank Tran et al. (1) for their appreciation of our open innovation platform (https://opnme.com/) and interest in our manuscript (2) in which we demonstrate that the small-molecule KRAS inhibitor BI-2852 reduces pERK (EC50 = 6 µM) and inhibits proliferation (EC50 = 7 µM) in NCI-H358 cells. Tran et al….
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Reply to Weihmann: Fifty gazelles do not equal an elephant, and other ecological misunderstandings [Biological Sciences]
Weihmann's (1) comment on our recent paper (2) presents a misunderstanding of the principles of large herbivore ecology and the African fossil record. We welcome this opportunity to correct certain misunderstandings, focusing here on the two most important issues. Our previous work shows that the richness of megaherbivores (>1,000 kg)…
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Reproductive genome from the laboratory
Max Planck researchers have for the first time developed a genome the size of a minimal cell that can copy itself.
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Research reveals how ski tourism operators can protect profits despite climate change
Research by Cass Business School academics has presented a methodology for identifying how winter tourism operators can protect themselves against the risk of decreasing visitor numbers to ski destinations and lost revenues.
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Research suggests no difference in morning versus evening dosing for warfarin
Patients taking warfarin to reduce the risk of stroke and pulmonary embolisms are often advised to take the medication in the evening. A new study shows evidence that morning versus evening dosing has insignificant bearing on how long the drug provides the most benefit for preventing adverse health events.
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Research suggests statins could lower ovarian cancer risk
A genetic study has found evidence to suggest that women who take statins in the long term could be less likely to develop ovarian cancer.
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Research team works to develop new ways to detect air pollutants
With a $2.3 million award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, an interdisciplinary team of Virginia Tech researchers led by Masoud Agah, the Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to revolutionize a testing process for these harmful pollutants, in particular for truck drivers.
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Researcher Warns That Sex Robots May Cause Psychological Damage
Red Flags Once again, scientists are calling for a moratorium on sex robots built to replace human relationships . Unless authorities impose strong regulations on the budding industry, experts told the BBC they can see a future where robots built to look like children or programmed to play the part of a rape victim could enable sexual violence against real-world victims. It's a disturbing image —
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Researchers apply new technology to identify plant pathogen strains in Virginia
Genetic sequencing technologies are powerful tools that are used for the early detection and precise identification of pathogens; they have shown great improvement over the past 20 years. Using these novel technologies, scientists can identify pathogens down to their distinct DNA sequences, without the time- and labor-intensive need to grow pathogens in the lab.Scientists at Virginia Tech are taki
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Researchers combine lasers and terahertz waves in camera that sees 'unseen' detail
A team of physicists at the University of Sussex has successfully developed the first nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation.
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Researchers discover how cells clear misfolded proteins from tissues
Researchers in Japan have identified a new quality control system that allows cells to remove damaged and potentially toxic proteins from their surroundings. The study, which will be published Feb. 18, 2020 in the Journal of Cell Biology, finds that the Clusterin protein and heparan sulfate proteoglycans combine to bring misfolded proteins into cells for degradation. The findings may lead to new t
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Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function
After a week on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers scored worse on memory tests Consuming a western diet for as little as one week can subtly impair brain function and encourage slim and otherwise healthy young people to overeat, scientists claim. Researchers found that after seven days on a high fat, high added sugar diet, volunteers in their 20s scored worse on memory tests and found
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Researchers have invented a brick that can build itself
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Researchers make solar efficiency breakthrough
Fast conversion makes technology more viable, they say.
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Researchers report on helical soft-X-ray beams
Controlling the properties of light is of great importance for many areas of physics, including imaging and nanolithography. But for short wavelengths, such as soft X-ray radiation, such control over the phase of light has remained elusive.
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Researchers show advance in next-generation lithium metal batteries
A Washington State University research team has developed a way to address a major safety issue with lithium metal batteries – an innovation that could make high-energy batteries more viable for next-generation energy storage.
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Researchers show how Ebola virus hijacks host lipids
Robert Stahelin studies some of the world's deadliest viruses. Filoviruses, including Ebola virus and Marburg virus, cause viral hemorrhagic fever with high fatality rates. Stahelin, professor at Purdue University, examines how these viruses take advantage of human host cells.
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Reshaping modern play spaces for children's health
A world first review of the importance of nature play could transform children's play spaces, supporting investment in city and urban parks, while also delivering important opportunities for children's physical, social and emotional development.
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Restoration work inside Pompeii's House of Lovers – in pictures
The ancient Roman city's House of the Lovers has reopened to the public 40 years after it was severely damaged in 1980 by an earthquake Pompeii's House of Lovers reopens to public Continue reading…
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Return to Shanidar: Surprise Neanderthal Skeleton Find at Famous 'Flower Burial' Site
More than half a century after Neanderthals were first found at the site, researchers discover another skeleton there.
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Rhizosphere microbiome mediates systemic root metabolite exudation by root-to-root signaling [Plant Biology]
Microbial communities associated with roots confer specific functions to their hosts, thereby modulating plant growth, health, and productivity. Yet, seminal questions remain largely unaddressed including whether and how the rhizosphere microbiome modulates root metabolism and exudation and, consequently, how plants fine tune this complex belowground web of interactions. Here we…
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Risk factors for endometrial cancer
An analysis of 149 scientific studies has identified 24 genetic variants which predispose women to endometrial cancer.
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Road salt harmful to native amphibians, new research shows
The combined effects of chemical contamination by road salt and invasive species can harm native amphibians, according to researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York.
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Role of a DEF/Y motif in histone H2A-H2B recognition and nucleosome editing [Biochemistry]
The SWR complex edits the histone composition of nucleosomes at promoters to facilitate transcription by replacing the two nucleosomal H2A-H2B (A-B) dimers with H2A.Z-H2B (Z-B) dimers. Swc5, a subunit of SWR, binds to A-B dimers, but its role in the histone replacement reaction was unclear. In this study, we showed…
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Rules of life: From a pond to the beyond
In a recent study published in the journal eLIFE a team of researchers, including lead author Jordan Okie of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration and senior author Jim Elser of the School of Life Sciences, conducted experiments in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Mexico. Their goal was to shed light on how fundamental features of an organism's genome – its size, the way it
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Russian Intelligence Is Snooping Around Undersea Internet Cables
Wiretapping GRU, Russia's foreign intelligence service, has reportedly dispatched agents to inspect the undersea internet cables that connect Europe and North America. These undersea fiber-optic cables are the crucial infrastructure between internet, phone, and other digital networks. And Russia's presence near cables in Ireland — a crucial hub — has Irish police concerned that GRU agents could t
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Saliva can be used to predict excess body fat in teenagers
Brazilian researchers found the level of uric acid in saliva to be a good indicator of body fat percentage in a study designed to identify reliable biomarkers that can be used to develop quick noninvasive tests for early detection of chronic diseases.
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Sarcophagus dedicated to Romulus discovered in Roman forum
Archaeologists excavating the Roman Forum have discovered an underground shrine dedicated to Romulus, the founder of the ancient city.
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Scholars Debate Causes of Women's Underrepresentation in STEM
Two new commentaries on a contested 2018 study about gender disparities in STEM fields clash over whether sex differences or social inequalities are to blame for the lack of women scientists and engineers.
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Science shouldn't be for sale – we need reform to industry-funded studies to keep people safe | Carey Gillam
We must be able to trust the integrity of scientific research as we work to protect our families and our planet Not again. News out of Europe last week revealed that more than 20 scientific studies submitted to regulators to prove the safety of the popular weedkilling chemical glyphosate came from a large German laboratory that has been accused of fraud and other wrongdoing. The findings come ami
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Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device that uses a natural protein to create electricity from moisture in the air, a new technology they say could have significant implications for the future of renewable energy, climate change and in the future of medicine.
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Scientists Built a Genius Device That Generates Electricity 'Out of Thin Air'
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Scientists create supersensitive nanomaterials for DNA diagnostics and targeted drug delivery
In 1900, German physician Paul Ehrlich came up with the notion of a "magic bullet." The basic idea is to inject a patient with smart particles capable of finding, recognizing, and treating a disease. Medicine has pursued the magic bullet ever since.
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Scientists develop molecular 'fishing' to find individual molecules in blood
Like finding a needle in a haystack, Liviu Movileanu can find a single molecule in blood. Movileanu, professor at Syracuse University, and recently graduated Ph.D. student Avinash Thakur will present their research on Monday, February 17 at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society in San Diego, California. Their new technology has wide-ranging applications from diagnostic tests to drug d
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Scientists discover Neanderthal skeleton that hints at flower burial
The fossils found in Iraqi cave provide fresh evidence the species buried their death with mortuary rituals A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave, already famous for fossils of these cousins of our species, is providing fresh evidence that they buried their dead – and intriguing clues that flowers may have been used in such rituals. Scientists said they had discovered the well-preserv
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Scientists discover that human cell function removes extracellular amyloid protein
The accumulation of aberrant proteins in the body will cause various neurodegenerative diseases. Amyloid β is a known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. The research team led by Eisuke Itakura, Chiba University, gained new knowledge of the functions that human cells have for maintaining homeostasis. The team discovered a system in which cells could capture, degrade and remove aberrant extracellu
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Scientists Jump-Started Consciousness in Monkeys by Pinpointing This Brain Region
In 1991, a devastating car crash left 32-year-old Munira Abdulla with severe brain injuries and in a deep coma. Doctors thought she had no chance of recovery. Yet her story blew up when, miraculously, her brain somehow "rebooted" nearly three decades later. Although disoriented, she was able to call out her son's name and engage in familiar prayer rituals. Munira's case is extraordinary. Regainin
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Scientists make fresh call for policy makers to protect pollinators
Pollinating insects could thrive if improvements are made to agri-environment schemes across Europe, according to a new collaborative study involving scientists from Trinity.
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Scientists may have a way to let preemies breathe easier
The continuing epidemic of pre-term births includes this stark reality: tiny, fragile babies are born with underdeveloped lungs and prone to lifelong respiratory infections and related chronic illnesses. Researchers report new findings in Immunity that that will help in the development of new and cost effective methods to boost innate lung immunity in preterm babies.
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Scientists pioneer new way to study exoplanets
A team of scientists using the Low Frequency Array radio telescope in the Netherlands has observed radio waves that carry the distinct signatures of aurorae, caused by the interaction between a star's magnetic field and a planet in orbit around it.
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Scientists unlock low-cost material from solar cells to manipulate light for industry
Crystal materials used in the solar-cell industry known as perovskites have been discovered to be cheap alternatives to shape laser light with potential application in industries as diverse as telecommunications, medical diagnostics and consumer electronics.
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Scientists: Estonia has the most energy efficient new nearly zero energy buildings
A recent study carried out by an international group of building scientists showed that Estonia is among the countries with the most energy efficient buildings in Europe. The analyses of the NZEB energy performance requirements and reference apartment buildings in four countries (Estonia, Norway, Finland and Sweden) showed that the nearly zero energy buildings constructed in Estonia are most energ
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Seeding oceans with iron may not impact climate change
A new MIT study suggests that iron fertilization may not have a significant impact on phytoplankton growth, at least on a global scale.
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Selective targeting of nanomedicine to inflamed cerebral vasculature to enhance the blood-brain barrier [Chemistry]
Drug targeting to inflammatory brain pathologies such as stroke and traumatic brain injury remains an elusive goal. Using a mouse model of acute brain inflammation induced by local tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), we found that uptake of intravenously injected antibody to vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 (anti-VCAM) in the…
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Selective targeting of TET catalytic domain promotes somatic cell reprogramming [Cell Biology]
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family enzymes (TET1, TET2, and TET3) oxidize 5-methylcytosine (5mC) and generate 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (5hmC) marks on the genome. Each TET protein also interacts with specific binding partners and partly plays their role independent of catalytic activity. Although the basic role of TET enzymes is well established now, the…
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Set a global target for ecosystems
Nature, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00446-1 The conservation community must be able to track countries' progress in protecting wetlands, reefs, forests and more, argue James Watson and colleagues.
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SETI Scientist: Nobody Takes Alien Hunting Seriously
Intelligent Life Anthony Beasley, director of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, told the BBC that the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI) should be taken far more seriously, and given the governmental support and funding it deserves. His comments were made at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle last week.
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Shale gas development has limited effects on stream biology and geochemistry in a gradient-based, multiparameter study in Pennsylvania [Environmental Sciences]
The number of horizontally drilled shale oil and gas wells in the United States has increased from nearly 28,000 in 2007 to nearly 127,000 in 2017, and research has suggested the potential for the development of shale resources to affect nearby stream ecosystems. However, the ability to generalize current studies…
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Shape-preserving amorphous-to-crystalline transformation of CaCO3 revealed by in situ TEM [Chemistry]
Organisms use inorganic ions and macromolecules to regulate crystallization from amorphous precursors, endowing natural biominerals with complex morphologies and enhanced properties. The mechanisms by which modifiers enable these shape-preserving transformations are poorly understood. We used in situ liquid-phase transmission electron microscopy to follow the evolution from amorphous calcium carbo
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Shocking Chicago meatpacking pics shifted public policy
The 1905 story about the Chicago meatpacking industry that inspired Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle also shows the power of photojournalism, a study argues. The research looks back at a series of early 20th-century articles in The Lancet , which British scientists, sanitarians, and physicians were reading. Journalist Adolphe Smith wrote the articles, which offered a shocking look at Chicago's m
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Should animals with human genes or organs be given human rights?
Gene-edited pigs and brain implants are blurring the lines of what it means to be human, so our morals and laws may need to change to include beings that are "substantially human"
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Simple, fuel-efficient rocket engine could enable cheaper, lighter spacecraft
Researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines work.
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Singapore's empty airport highlights coronavirus impact on Asia
Outbreak is hitting some of the world's busiest aviation and maritime trade corridors
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Six-Word Sci-Fi: The Next Great Crowdsourced Project
Each month we publish a six-word story—and it could be written by you.
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Smell loss is an invisible disease with devastating impacts
Smell loss leaves sufferers vulnerable to environmental hazards, such as spoiled food and gas leaks. (pathdoc/Shutterstock/) Carl Philpott is a professor of Rhinology and Olfactology at the University of East Anglia. This story originally featured on The Conversation . Losing your sense of smell or having it "disturbed" is not as rare as you might think: One in 20 people experience it at some poi
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Smog veils Central Asia cities as smoky stoves choke locals
Snow-capped peaks used to be clearly visible from the streets of Almaty and Bishkek, two of the largest cities in Central Asia that both lie in plains surrounded by mountains.
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Social factors play a key role in missed well-child care visits
Despite the benefits of well-child care visits (WCV), up to half of WCVs are missed. A team of researchers and pediatricians at Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Washington, and the University of Vermont sought to understand the challenges that prevent families from attending their child's scheduled appointment.
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Software smelter to robotter sammen til én
PLUS. Hvad får man, hvis man sætter selvkørende hjul under en robotarm? Det har den tre år gamle fynske robotvirksomhed Enabled Robotics fundet ud af.
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Solar technology breakthrough at the University of Queensland
UQ researchers have set a world record for the conversion of solar energy to electricity via the use of tiny nanoparticles called 'quantum dots'. The technology has a huge range of potential applications, including the possibility to use it as a flexible, transparent skin to power cars, planes, homes and wearable technology.
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Sons accelerate maternal aging in a wild mammal [Evolution]
Aging, or senescence, is a progressive deterioration of physiological function with age. It leads to age-related declines in reproduction (reproductive senescence) and survival (actuarial senescence) in most organisms. However, senescence patterns can be highly variable across species, populations, and individuals, and the reasons for such variations remain poorly understood. Evolutionary…
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South American volcano showing early warning signs of 'potential collapse,' research shows
One of South America's most prominent volcanoes is producing early warning signals of a potential collapse, new research has shown.
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SpaceX announces partnership to send four tourists into deep orbit
SpaceX announced a new partnership Tuesday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private citizen before them, in a mission that could take place by 2022 and easily cost more than $100 million.
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SpaceX has plans to fly space tourists twice as high as the ISS
SpaceX and the space tourism firm Space Adventures have announced a plan to fly paying customers into Earth orbit, higher than the International Space Station
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SpaceX Just Announced They'll Send Space Tourists Deeper Into Orbit Than Ever Before
Farther than any rich person has gone before.
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SpaceX re-useable rocket misses landing ship
SpaceX successfully launched its latest cluster of high-speed internet satellites into orbit Monday but was unable to land its rocket booster on an autonomous ship, missing a key milestone.
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SpaceX Says It Will Launch Space Tourists as Soon as Next Year
Space Tourism 2021 SpaceX announced a partnership this week with space tourism Space Adventures to start launching passengers to orbit aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft starting as early as 2021, TechCrunch reports . SpaceX says it will send four privately-paying space tourists to orbit the Earth for five days in its Crew Dragon capsule between "late-2021 and mid-2022," according to CNBC . "This hi
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SpaceX signs deal to fly 4 space tourists around Earth in about two years
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SpaceX Will Fly 4 Space Tourists in Dragon Capsule
SpaceX has been working toward a crewed NASA launch to the International Space Station (ISS) for years, but that's not the company's only plan for human spaceflight. Today, SpaceX and Space Adventures have announced a partnership that will bring Elon Musk's company fully into the world of space tourism. Within two years, SpaceX will send four civilians into orbit aboard its Dragon capsule . Space
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Spatial distribution of oncocerid cephalopods on a Middle Devonian bedding plane suggests semelparous life cycle
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59507-0
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Spatiotemporal dynamic monitoring of fatty acid-receptor interaction on single living cells by multiplexed Raman imaging [Applied Biological Sciences]
Numerous fatty acid receptors have proven to play critical roles in normal physiology. Interactions among these receptor types and their subsequent membrane trafficking has not been fully elucidated, due in part to the lack of efficient tools to track these cellular events. In this study, we fabricated the surface-enhanced Raman…
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Species richness and composition are not sufficient for determining the functionality of ancient ecosystems [Biological Sciences]
Taking into account the effect of climatic changes over the last few millions of years on fauna both worldwide and in eastern Africa, hardly anyone would challenge the ecosystem shift addressed recently by Faith et al. (1). In eastern Africa, diminishing precipitation triggered the expansion of C4 grassland; reduced net…
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Splice switching an oncogenic ratio of SmgGDS isoforms as a strategy to diminish malignancy [Cell Biology]
The chaperone protein SmgGDS promotes cell-cycle progression and tumorigenesis in human breast and nonsmall cell lung cancer. Splice variants of SmgGDS, named SmgGDS-607 and SmgGDS-558, facilitate the activation of oncogenic members of the Ras and Rho families of small GTPases through membrane trafficking via regulation of the prenylation pathway. SmgGDS-607…
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SR-FACT microscopy reveals the landscape of the cellular organelle interactome
The emergence of superresolution (SR) fluorescence microscopy has rejuvenated the search for new cellular sub-structures and dynamic intermediates. However, limited by the broad emission spectrum of fluorophores and excessive phototoxicity, SR fluorescence microscopy can only be used to highlight a handful of biomolecules simultaneously and is incapable of providing a holistic map of the cellular
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Stability by fluctuation: topological materials outperform through quantum periodic motion
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered that applying vibrational motion in a periodic manner may be the key to preventing dissipations of the desired electron states that would make advanced quantum computing and spintronics possible.
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Startling New Photos Reveal The World's Only Known Pink Manta Ray
"I thought my camera was playing up."
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Stenalderkost indeholdt farligt høje niveauer af tungmetaller
Spis som i stenalderen, lyder et af tidens livsstilsråd. Men tager man det alt for bogstaveligt, risikerer man et farligt indtag af tungmetaller, viser forskning.
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Stop dirty lenses from ruining your photos
Unless you're Kylo Ren, you probably don't have an army of Stormtroopers to clean your lenses for you. So you might as well just learn how to do it yourself. (James Pond via Unsplash/) My grandmother always told me to wear clean underpants everyday in case I got hit by a car—and to keep my camera lens clean in case I needed to take a good photo. Granted, I made that last part up, but the fact tha
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Stop or go: The cell maintains its fine motility balance with the help of tropomodulin
Tropomodulin maintains the fine balance between the protein machineries responsible for cell movement and morphogenesis. Disturbances in this balance are common in many diseases, for example, invasive cancers.
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Stress in small children separated from their parents may alter genes
Several studies show that small children cared for outside the home, especially in poor quality care and for 30 or more hours per week, have higher levels of cortisol than children at home.
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Striking essential oil: tapping into a largely unexplored source for drug discovery
Scientific Reports, Published online: 18 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59332-5
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Study finds association between cleaning products and childhood asthma
Canadian researchers call for better information on packaging.
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Study finds empathy can be detected in people whose brains are at rest
UCLA researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person's ability to feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they are resting rather than while they are engaged in specific tasks.
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Study identifies risk factors for endometrial cancer
An analysis of 149 scientific studies has identified 24 genetic variants which predispose women to endometrial cancer.
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Study investigates rates of adverse events for common rheumatoid arthritis drug
Investigators have been able to far more accurately determine rates of adverse events for people taking methotrexate, finding small-to-moderate elevations in risks for skin cancer, gastrointestinal, infectious, lung, and blood adverse events.
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Study of stone-age engravings suggests they were created with aesthetic intention
A team of researchers from Denmark, Australia and South Africa has found evidence that suggests stone-age etchings found at two sites in South Africa were created with aesthetic intention and that they evolved over time. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes experiments they carried out with volunteers looking at reproductions of stone-age
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Study reveals how low oxygen levels in the heart predispose people to cardiac arrhythmias
Low oxygen levels in the heart have long been known to produce life-threatening arrhythmias, even sudden death. Until now, it was not clear how. New findings, in a study led by Steve A. N. Goldstein, MD, PhD, vice chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of California, Irvine, and distinguished professor in the UCI School of Medicine Departments of Pediatrics and Physiology & Biophysics, re
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Study reveals how too much fluoride causes defects in tooth enamel
Exposing teeth to excessive fluoride alters calcium signaling, mitochondrial function, and gene expression in the cells forming tooth enamel — a novel explanation for how dental fluorosis, a condition caused by overexposure to fluoride during childhood, arises. The study, led by researchers at NYU College of Dentistry, is published in Science Signaling.
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Study reveals origin of endangered Colombian poison frog hybrids
The origin of an understudied hybrid population of poisonous frogs—highly endangered colorful animals that live deep in the Colombian jungle—is the result of natural breeding and not caused by wildlife traffickers moving them, a University of Saskatchewan (USask) study shows.
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Study suggests later school start times reduce car crashes, improve teen safety
A study published online as an accepted paper in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that later school start times were associated with a significant drop in vehicle accidents involving teen drivers.
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Study: Difference in breast milk concentrations impacts growth up to age 5
In a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine confirmed the findings of previous pilot studies that found an association between human milk concentrations and infant weight and body composition.
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Study: inequality between men and women dramatic in Houston-area
A new study by the University of Houston Institute for Research on Women, Gender & Sexuality (IRWGS) reports that women lag far behind men on multiple fronts in Harris County. Women are almost 50% more likely to live in poverty than men and the wage gap for men and women by race and ethnicity is considerably greater here than nationally. The report presents both new and summary analyses of select
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Sudden cardiac death often a woman's first sign of heart disease
New research from the Center for Cardiac Arrest Prevention at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai shows that rates of sudden cardiac arrest are rising following decades of a downward trend. While this disturbing uptick was observed in both sexes, in women the increase was mostly among those whose sudden cardiac arrest was the first manifestation of heart disease. In men, the increase was mos
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Survey finds Americans strongly support organ and tissue donation for research
A strong majority of Americans agree that organ and tissue donation for research contributes to health and medical breakthroughs and acknowledge significant shortfalls for donation. This is according to a new survey released today commissioned by Research!America in partnership with The National Disease Research Interchange (NDRI).
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Sussex researchers combine lasers and terahertz waves in camera that sees 'unseen' detail
A team of physicists at the University of Sussex has successfully developed the first nonlinear camera capable of capturing high-resolution images of the interior of solid objects using terahertz (THz) radiation.
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Svensk lovforslag skal give politi lov til at hacke telefoner med malware
Et nyt lovforslag skal give svensk politi lov til at hacke mistænktes telefoner med malware. Forslaget forventes at blive vedtaget i Riksdagen torsdag.
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Synaptotagmin 1 oligomers clamp and regulate different modes of neurotransmitter release [Neuroscience]
Synaptotagmin 1 (Syt1) synchronizes neurotransmitter release to action potentials (APs) acting as the fast Ca2+ release sensor and as the inhibitor (clamp) of spontaneous and delayed asynchronous release. While the Syt1 Ca2+ activation mechanism has been well-characterized, how Syt1 clamps transmitter release remains enigmatic. Here we show that C2B domain-dependent…
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Synonymous codon substitutions perturb cotranslational protein folding in vivo and impair cell fitness [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
In the cell, proteins are synthesized from N to C terminus and begin to fold during translation. Cotranslational folding mechanisms are therefore linked to elongation rate, which varies as a function of synonymous codon usage. However, synonymous codon substitutions can affect many distinct cellular processes, which has complicated attempts to…
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Systems analysis for a new Arctic
A major new report highlights new and emerging policy trends in the Arctic, a region on the front lines of climate change, geopolitics, and global governance.
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Tailoring spontaneous infrared emission of HgTe quantum dots with laser-printed plasmonic arrays
Near-to-mid infrared colloidal quantum dots offer a promising platform towards the realization of many useful devices including emitters, detectors, security and sensor systems. Normally, physics imposes some fundamental limitations at longer wavelengths, and their performance decreases as the radiative emission rate of the quantum dots drops. Scientists from Hong Kong/China, Russia and Australia
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