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Quarantine on cruise ship resulted in more Corona patients
The cruise ship Diamond Princess was quarantined for over two weeks resulting in more coronavirus infected passengers than if they would have disembarked immediately. Rather the opposite to what was intended. This according to a study conducted at Umeå University in Sweden.
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Officials Confirm That a Dog Tested Positive For Coronavirus
The deadly COVID-19 epidemic might not just be a human problem. On Friday, CNBC reports , officials at the World Health Organization confirmed that mouth and nose swabs from a dog in Hong Kong found low concentrations of the virus, which they characterized as a "weakly positive" result. According to the Wall Street Journal , the dog in question is a Pomeranian belonging to a 60-year-old woman who
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Physiotherapy could be done at home using virtual reality
Virtual reality could help physiotherapy patients complete their exercises at home successfully thanks to researchers who managed to combine VR technology with 3D motion capture.
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Did a Woman Get Coronavirus Twice? Scientists Are Skeptical
News reports claim that a Japanese patient was reinfected with Covid-19. But there are other possibilities, like a bad test or a flare-up of the original disease.
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Migrants aren't spreading the coronavirus – but nationalists are blaming them anyway | Daniel Trilling
Politicians across Europe have been quick to exploit the outbreak by heaping suspicion on the most marginalised When I give talks on Europe's "refugee crisis" I often start by showing a photograph of a rescue boat arriving at the port of Augusta in Sicily, in 2015. It shows a teenage girl of African or Middle Eastern origin looking quizzically at a European official covered from head to toe in whi
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About That Corona Poll …
Americans Corona Beer
H ave you heard that 38 percent of Americans won't drink Corona beer, because they are afraid of contracting the coronavirus? For the past hours, this finding has spread across the internet like wildfire (or, more apt, a dangerous disease). CNN, the New York Post , and Vice all wrote up the poll. On Twitter, where "38% of Americans" was the top national trend for parts of the day, many writers wi
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A Promising Antiviral Is Being Tested for the Coronavirus–but Results Are Not Yet Out
The drug remdesivir is effective against many other viruses, and some experts are optimistic that it—or similar compounds—may work for the pathogen responsible for COVID-19 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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AJR: Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) imaging features overlap with SARS and MERS
Although COVID-19's imaging features are variable and nonspecific, the findings thus far do show "significant overlap" with those of severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome. According to AJR, the early evidence suggests that initial chest imaging will show abnormality in at least 85% of patients, with 75% of patients having bilateral lung involvement initially that m
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Are UK and NHS prepared for the coronavirus?
Despite signs some health infrastructure under strain, infection-control measures appear to be working
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As Coronavirus Looms, China Bans Videogame "Plague Inc."
Game Plan In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, China has banned the popular game "Plague Inc.," which simulates a fictional pandemic, and removed it from the local version of the Apple App Store. "We have some very sad news to share with our China based players," reads a statement by game studio Ndemic Creations. "We've just been informed that 'Plague Inc.' 'includes content that is illegal in
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BA parent IAG and easyJet report tumbling demand as virus spreads
Airlines seek to implement measures to cushion blow on profits
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Backchat: Covering coronavirus
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00598-0 Nick Howe hosts our roundtable discussion, with guests Ewen Callaway, Nisha Gaind, and David Cyranoski.
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BASF warns of 'significant impact' from coronavirus
German chemicals group blames Brexit and trade tensions for earnings fall
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Buying the coronavirus dip would be bold indeed
The global economy was already looking a bit ropey and vulnerable to shocks
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China bans cash rewards for publishing papers
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00574-8 New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.
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China Removed a Pandemic-Themed Game From Its iOS App Store
*Plague Inc*. saw a spike in popularity around the world following initial reports of the Covid-19 outbreak.
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Companies put debt sales on hold as virus bites
Bankers say at least 10 US bond issuers held off from deals this week as costs climbed
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Companies reveal stark initial effects from coronavirus fallout
Airlines suffer most, but tech, food and leisure sectors hit by disrupted supply chains
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Conspiracy beliefs could increase fringe political engagement, shows new study
New research appearing in Social Psychological and Personality Science finds that when studying an average person, conspiracy beliefs lead to more willingness for engagement in 'non-normative' roles, like illegally blocking a public entryway, while avoiding more typical political engagement, such as voting.
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Containing methane and its contribution to global warming
Methane is a gas that deserves more attention in the CLIMATE debate as it contributes to almost half of human-made global warming in the short-term. A new IIASA study shows that it is possible to significantly contribute to reduced global warming through the implementation of available technology that limits methane release to the atmosphere.
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Coronavirus is the first test for AI, robots, and drones that can prevent pandemics – The coronavirus is putting a lot of new tech, including robots and artificial intelligence, on display.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: W.H.O. Warns Outbreak Has 'Pandemic Potential'
More than a dozen countries recorded their first cases in the past 48 hours, as the W.H.O.'s director general said the battle against the disease had reached a 'decisive point.'
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Coronavirus may create lasting workplace change
Business leaders are thinking creatively to adapt to the evolving crisis
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Coronavirus pandemic threatens to knock $1 trillion off global economy
Financial markets around the world have suffered their worst week since the 2008 financial crash, as the economic impact of the coronavirus edging towards a pandemic becomes clearer
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Coronavirus prompts crisis for travel industry
Airlines count cost of cancellations but videoconferencing booms
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Coronavirus spreads around the world – in pictures
As cases of people infected with the coronavirus or Covid-19 grow rapidly in Italy, Iran and South Korea, the rest of the world is bracing for a pandemic Continue reading…
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Coronavirus Takes Down Geneva, 2020's Biggest Auto Show
2019-GIMS-Geneva The 2020 Geneva Motor Show got the hook early Friday in the wake of the Swiss government's concerns about coronavirus and a ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people. The show's first events were scheduled for Sunday, with media days beginning Monday, and public days from March 5-15. As of Thursday, show organizers had been reassuring exhibitors, the media, and the public that
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Coronavirus: Doubts cast on Fed's ability to handle a pandemic
Investors increase bets the US central bank will soon cut interest rates in response
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Coronavirus: how markets woke up to the threat
Global stocks in fastest fall since the Great Depression in 1933
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Coronavirus: how the outbreak is changing global politics
The epidemic could weaken Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, feed conspiracy theories and lead to closed borders
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Coronavirus: US locks down largest overseas army base
Move in South Korea poses challenge to military's readiness, experts say
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COVID-19 a reminder of the challenge of emerging infectious diseases
The emergence and rapid increase in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, pose complex challenges to the global public health, research and medical communities, write federal scientists from NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Their commentary
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Covid-19 Is Traveling Along the New Silk Road
A striking overlap exists between the path of today's viral spread and the path of the Black Death in the 1300s.
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Crispin Odey profits in deep coronavirus sell-off
Hedge fund manager's bets against oil stocks and Tesla come good amid deep sell-off
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Donald Trump's war on coronavirus is just his latest war on truth | Jonathan Freedland
The president is reacting to this disaster the way authoritarians always do – by covering up the facts and dodging the blame The coronavirus crisis is a war against a disease, but it's also the most serious battle yet in the war on truth. That much was clear from the start, as China moved to hush up the first outbreak and gag the doctor who had spotted it. It was a classic case of what we might ca
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Drug meant for Ebola may also work against coronaviruses
Researchers who have discovered why the drug remdesivir is effective in treating the coronaviruses that cause Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) expect it might also be effective for treating patients infected with the new COVID-19 strain.
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Ebola co-discoverer Peter Piot on how to respond to the coronavirus
The 'Mick Jagger of microbes' on a life of fighting disease — and the severity of the current crisis
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Everything to know about coronavirus testing
Strict rules exist around who can get screened for COVID-19. (CDC/) For the first time, a person in the United States has tested positive for the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and officials aren't sure how they caught the disease, the Centers for Disease Control confirmed on February 26 . The sick person— a woman in Northern California —hadn't recently traveled to China or any region hit
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FDA Identifies First Drug Shortage Blamed on Coronavirus–but Won't Name the Drug
The agency says patients can use alternatives while it works with manufacturers to mitigate the situation — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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First British coronavirus death confirmed
Man died after catching virus while quarantined on Diamond Princess cruise ship, says Japanese health ministry Coronavirus – latest updates A British man who was quarantined on a cruise ship in Japan has died from coronavirus. The Japanese ministry of health said the man was the sixth passenger from the Diamond Princess cruise ship to have died. The ship had been quarantined off the coast of Japa
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FT View: the global struggle to contain coronavirus
Social distancing measures will play an important role in delaying a pandemic
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Global stocks set for worst week since 2008 financial crisis
Japanese shares slide into correction territory following rout on Wall Street
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Government's Mixed Messages on Coronavirus Are Dangerous: Experts
Administration officials have given contradictory statements about how COVID-19 will affect the US, and it is not clear who is leading the infectious disease response effort, critics say.
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Handwashing 101: A Guide To Proper Washing (And Drying)
Coronavirus fears have health professionals talking once again about the importance of washing your hands. Here's a primer on the proper technique — and some of the science — of cleaning up.
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He Drove Her to the Hospital. She Gave Him the Coronavirus.
Taxi and bus drivers are on the forefront of the spread of the coronavirus in Asia, even as a tourism downturn hurts their business.
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How A Coronavirus Blood Test Could Solve Some Medical Mysteries
Researchers in Asia are using a blood test that identifies people who've previously been exposed to the new coronavirus. In the U.S., that kind of test isn't yet available. (Image credit: Jane Barlow /WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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How the coronavirus shattered market complacency
Shrugging off risks at the start of the year has proven costly
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How to prepare for a viral outbreak like COVID-19
It's good to have your supplies in one easy-to-find location. (milan degraeve via Unsplash/) Viruses love us. That's a fact. Every year, run-of-the-mill respiratory diseases like the common cold and the flu infect millions of people, and once in a while, brand new afflictions like the coronavirus dubbed COVID-19 rise up and grab headlines worldwide. While the fatality rate for most of these illne
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How to prepare for the coronavirus like a pro
Some of the smartest people I know are getting ready for a crisis—including me.
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How to tell if a cold is COVID-19
If you're sick, try to stay home. (Unsplash/) The CDC calling the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 across the United States "inevitable" has understandably triggered a decent amount of anxiety. While COVID-19—which is thought to have originated in Wuhan, China back in December after jumping from an as-yet-unconfirmed animal host—has a troubling fatality rate of around 2 percent (based on
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How to Think About the Plummeting Stock Market
Over the past week, stock markets around the world plunged as distressing news about the spread of the novel coronavirus continued to accumulate. In the United States, the three major stock indexes—the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Nasdaq Composite, and the S&P 500—fell more than 10 percent below their recent peaks, a sharp decline that qualifies in Wall Street terminology as a market "correc
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Italy under lockdown: 'My town is shocked and scared'
Residents of northern towns describe life under quarantine
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Mark Carney warns coronavirus will hit the UK economy
Bank of England governor's prediction raises expectations of an interest-rate cut next month
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Martin Rowson on the impact of coronavirus on the global markets – cartoon
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Military to help NHS cope with major coronavirus outbreak
Contingency plans for pandemic emerge as UK confirms 20th case of Covid-19 Coronavirus – latest news The UK is facing its first significant test of how to contain a potential coronavirus outbreak after the government confirmed a 20th victim of Covid-19 and details of its contingency planning for an upsurge in cases began to emerge. The further patient in England is the first to catch the illness
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More Companies Drop Out of GDC Over Coronavirus Fears
The annual Game Developers Conference is still scheduled to go on as planned, even though companies like Amazon and Blizzard won't be there.
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New Zealand confirms first coronavirus case
A recent arrival from Iran who travelled to Auckland via Bali has tested positive and is improving Latest Covid-19 news New Zealand confirmed its first coronavirus case Friday, saying a recent arrival from Iran who travelled to Auckland via Bali had tested positive. Health officials said the person, aged in their 60s, was being treated in Auckland City Hospital. Continue reading…
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Nigeria confirms first coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa
Stock market losses deepen worldwide, as officials confirm 20 new cases in France Coronavirus outbreak – latest news Nigeria has reported the first confirmed case of coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa, as investor alarm over a potential global pandemic deepened stock market losses around the world. Nigerian officials said the case involved an Italian citizen who entered the country on 24 February
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Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) imaging features overlap with SARS and MERS
Although COVID-19's imaging features are variable and nonspecific, the findings thus far do show "significant overlap" with those of severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome. The early evidence suggests that initial chest imaging will show abnormality in at least 85% of patients, with 75% of patients having bilateral lung involvement initially that most often manife
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People are Using Memes to Cope With Coronavirus Panic
No, alcohol does not kill coronavirus — at least, not like that . Both news and misinformation about the global COVID-19 outbreak are spreading rapidly — and in their wake are memes. One of the more prolific examples, appearing to depict CNN lead political anchor Wolf Blitzer, above an altered chyron which reads "Alcohol kills coronavirus." The image appears frequently on Twitter, where netizens
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Rolls-Royce issues upbeat outlook despite coronavirus
Engineering group cuts operating losses and reports higher than expected free cash
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Soaring demand for travel insurance as coronavirus spreads
GoCompare reports 277 per cent spike in policy sales in past seven days
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: The American Workplace Isn't Ready for the Coronavirus
It's Friday, February 28. South Carolina's open primaries on Saturday are the final test before Super Tuesday. And President Trump said he would nominate the House Republican John Ratcliffe as director of intelligence (if this sounds familiar, it's because we've been here before). In the rest of today's newsletter: The guessing game of the stock market in the time of coronavirus fears. Plus: Is t
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Amazon Pulled Over 1 Million Items Capitalizing on Coronavirus
The retail giant says it penalizes sellers who violate its policies, but some merchants say enforcement seems haphazard.
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Anak Krakatau: Lightning frenzy points to scale of volcanic plume
The 2018 volcanic eruption put so much ice into the sky it set off a huge display of lightning.
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The coronavirus alarm points to broader credit shakeout
Investors will need to wait months before the full impact can be assessed
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The Gig Economy Has Never Been Tested by a Pandemic
The shadow of the new coronavirus finally reached American shores this week, as markets jittered downward and new cases crept up. The scope of any outbreak here is not clear, but experts suspect that the virus will become widespread . While the disease, known as COVID-19, is a global phenomenon, the response to it is necessarily local, and divvied up among more than 2,600 local health departments
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The Guardian view on the coronavirus outbreak: leadership is required | Editorial
Managing the economic and health risks of Covid-19 is difficult. In the UK, as elsewhere, ministers must step up A passenger on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan became the first Briton to die of the Covid-19 coronavirus on Friday. Further UK cases beyond the 20 already confirmed are expected, while countries including Mexico, Nigeria and Denmark have announced their first positive tests.
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The Problem With Telling Sick Workers to Stay Home
As the coronavirus that has sickened tens of thousands in China spreads worldwide, it now seems like a virtual inevitability that millions of Americans are going to be infected with the flu-like illness known as COVID-19. Public-health officials in the United States have started preparing for what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling a " significant disruption " to daily life
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Top stories: Coronavirus' next phase, glowing newts, and Japan's cruise ship fiasco
This week's top Science news
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Trump 'could suck coronavirus out of 60,000 people' and he'd still be criticized – Huckabee
Top Republican on Fox News defends Trump and Mike Pence Vice-president leading coronavirus containment effort in US Whistleblower: US coronavirus staff were untrained and unprotected Donald Trump could "personally suck" the coronavirus "out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world, suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the ocean and spit it out, and he would be accused of pollut
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UK coronavirus cases rise to 19 as fears of global crisis grow
Boris Johnson to chair emergency Cobra meeting after first patient reported in Wales Coronavirus – live updates The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the UK has increased in the past 24 hours to 19, including the first reported in Wales, as it was announced Boris Johnson is to chair a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee. The three cases confirmed on Friday came within a day of three o
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UK's 20th coronavirus case is first to catch illness in Britain
Man from Surrey is now in isolation unit at Guy's and St Thomas' hospital in London Coronavirus – latest updates A man from Surrey has been taken to a hospital isolation unit after becoming the UK's 20th confirmed case of coronavirus. He is the first patient in England to catch the illness in the UK. The chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said it was unclear whether they contracted it dire
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UN biodiversity summit could move from China due to coronavirus
A major United Nations biodiversity summit to negotiate plans to stop the loss of species around the world could be moved from China because of the coronavirus outbreak
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What is coronavirus and what should I do if I have symptoms?
What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, and should you call a doctor? Find all our coronavirus coverage here How to protect yourself from infection Coronavirus – latest updates 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 eit
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Whistleblower: US Gov May Have Helped Spread Coronavirus
A whistleblower has come forward with some serious allegations, claiming that the US government may have inadvertently helped spread the deadly COVID-19 outbreak inside US borders by breaking protocol, according to an exclusive report by The Washington Post and a followup by The New York Times . It's an accusation that will likely cause problems for the White House, which is already struggling to
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WHO Special Adviser: Trump's Coronavirus Remarks Were "Incoherent"
A special adviser to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) roasted U.S. President Donald Trump's response to the global coronavirus outbreak during an appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball" this week. "I found most of what he said a little incoherent," said Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health policy adviser in the Obama White House. "You know, [Trump's] a guy that admitted that h
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Why Bats Are Breeding Grounds for Deadly Diseases Like Ebola and SARS
Bats are the source of more dangerous viruses than any other mammal. Evolutionary tricks and fierce immune systems make them the perfect hosts.
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With Spread All but Certain, Nations Gird for Coronavirus Impact
Amid a lingering mixture of uncertainty and fear, governments must weigh the potential benefits of epidemiological interventions against the costs of disrupting daily life. Some have erred on the side of disruption, even before an outbreak, while others — including the U.S. — are still considering options.
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Yes, it is worse than the flu: busting the coronavirus myths
The truth about the protective value of face masks and how easy it is to catch Covid-19 Many individuals who get coronavirus will experience nothing worse than seasonal flu symptoms, but the overall profile of the disease, including its mortality rate, looks more serious. At the start of an outbreak the apparent mortality rate can be an overestimate if a lot of mild cases are being missed. But th
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Bernie Sanders has an audacious—and hugely expensive—CLIMATE plan
But it restricts some of the tools we may need to rapidly cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Binge watching TV isn't as bad for the CLIMATE as some reports suggest
Two analyses suggest earlier studies overestimated CO2 emissions due to the massive growth in internet traffic and video streaming, but they are still substantial
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CLIMATE change threatens relationship between polar bears and ringed seals
The iconic relationship between polar bears and ringed seals is changing in western Hudson Bay, and even though the bears are eating fewer ringed seals, the seals should refrain from celebrating.
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CLIMATE change: Modeling the problem, searching for solutions
At the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver, researchers will share their CLIMATE work, including: decoding the CLIMATE system's behavior, a new approach to CLIMATE modeling, a novel material that can morph from cornstarch to industrial plastic and then back into an edible again, using satellite imaging to promote high-yield organic farming, and making the case for innovation via
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CLIMATE lawsuits are breaking new legal ground to protect the planet
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00175-5 Despite recent defeats, activists are optimistic that courts will provide relief from CLIMATE change.
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Greta Thunberg Bristol CLIMATE strike: 'The world is on fire'
The teenage activist was welcomed by some 15,000 people at the event in Bristol.
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Heathrow airport expansion ruled unlawful on CLIMATE change grounds
The UK government's approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow is unlawful because it doesn't consider the Paris CLIMATE deal, the Court of Appeal has ruled
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Research identifies CLIMATE change fingerprints and emitters' liability
On 26 February during her visit to Fiji, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced $2 million in New Zealand funding towards the relocation of the island's communities displaced by CLIMATE change.
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To 11 million Brazilians, the Earth is flat
Sitting by a model of the Earth shaped like a pancake, Brazilian restaurant-owner Ricardo lets out an exaggerated laugh: "'Hahaha!' That's how people react when you tell them the Earth is flat," he says.
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Twitter Verifies Fake Congressional Candidate Invented by Teen
Minimal Effort In about a half hour, a high schooler created a website and Twitter account for an entirely-fictional Congressional candidate named Andrew Walz. Shortly thereafter, Twitter verified the made-up politician. The student told CNN Business that he was bored and, after reading about misinformation, wanted to kick the tires of Twitter's verification system. It's a fun experiment — with a
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Ability to Take on Diverse Roles May Be Key to Which Animals Survive Mass Extinction
An analysis spanning geologic history found that species able to occupy different ecological niches have a survival edge — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Accidental discovery: Some cat food manufacturers regularly change ingredient composition
A study that set out to measure how much wildlife domestic cats eat to supplement the food they are given by their owners was unsuccessful due to an unexpectedly high variability in cat food ingredients. This accidental discovery suggests that some cat food manufacturers regularly change ingredient composition, even within the same flavors of cat food.
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Actin filaments control the shape of the cell structure that divides plant cells
A Japanese research group using microscopic video analysis provides deeper insight into the mechanics of plant cell division. Their analysis shows that actin filaments control the shape of cell structures, called phragmoplasts, that create the partition between two dividing plant cells. The discovery is expected to lead to a better understanding of plant cell division mechanisms.
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Advancing gene therapies: PIP pip hurray!
A new compound has the potential to bind to DNA and activate genes, which could lead to new treatments for cancers and hereditary diseases. Zutao Yu, Ganesh Pandian Namasivayam, and Hiroshi Sugiyama of Kyoto University's Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) collaborated with colleagues in Japan and the USA to design and test a compound that could target specific DNA sequences and recruit gene
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AI Is an Energy-Guzzler. We Need to Re-Think Its Design, and Soon
There is a saying that has emerged among the tech set in recent years: AI is the new electricity. The platitude refers to the disruptive power of artificial intelligence for driving advances in everything from transportation to predicting the weather . Of course, the computers and data centers that support AI's complex algorithms are very much dependent on electricity. While that may seem pretty
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An Alcoholic Parent Can Affect How a Child's Brain Switches Tasks
Such children's neural circuits do not transition properly from an active state to a resting one — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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An iron-clad asteroid
Itokawa would normally be a fairly average near-Earth asteroid—a rocky mass measuring only a few hundred metres in diameter, which orbits the sun amid countless other celestial bodies and repeatedly crosses the orbit of the Earth. But there is one fact that sets Itokawa apart: in 2005 it hosted a visit from Earth. The Japanese space agency JAXA sent the Hayabusa probe to Itokawa, which collected s
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Antioxidant supplements do not improve male fertility, NIH study suggests
Antioxidant supplements do not improve semen quality among men with infertility, according to a new study supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development .
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Artificial intelligence can scan doctors' notes to distinguish between types of back pain
Mount Sinai researchers have designed an artificial intelligence model that can determine whether lower back pain is acute or chronic by scouring doctors' notes within electronic medical records, an approach that can help to treat patients more accurately, according to a study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research in February.
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Asteroid impact enriches certain elements in seawater
Researchers found two processes immediately after the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact that likely supplied chalcophile elements to the ocean, i.e., impact heating and acid rain. The former produced iron oxides/hydroxides and released chalcophile elements from the struck rock. Iron oxides/hydroxides could have carried chalcophile elements to the seafloor. Acid rain could have supplied some chalcophi
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Astronomers Detect Largest-Ever Explosion in the Universe
Astronomers observing the universe have detected some massive bursts of energy over the years, but nothing compares with the blast recently spotted by scientists at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. The explosion some 390 million light-years away is the largest ever recorded . The epicenter of the eruption appears to be a supermassive black hole , but the team is still puzzli
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Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized world
University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kepler mission.
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Australia's catastrophic fish die-off: What has happened since 2019
As this summer draws to a close, it marks just over a year since successive fish death events at Menindee in Lower Darling River made global headlines.
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Bandicoot digs: The little marsupial burrows that keep Australia's soil healthy
On Churchill Island, southeast of Melbourne, small cone-shaped, shallow holes (digs) puncture the grass. They're widespread, and reveal moist soil below the surface. A soil heap at the entrance of a dig is a sign it was made recently.
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Cartilage cells, chromosomes and DNA preserved in 75-million-year-old baby duck-billed dinosaur
In a paper published online in National Science Review, an international team of scientists present evidence of fossilized cell nuclei and chromosomes within preserved cartilage in a baby duck-billed dinosaur. This dinosaur belongs to Hypacrosaurus and comes from a nesting ground discovered in 1988 by paleontologist Jack Horner in Late Cretaceous sediments of Northwest Montana.
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Cat food mystery foils diet study
How a study aimed at assessing the wildlife impacts of domestic cats was foiled by the mysterious ingredients of cat food.
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Decoding the Vaginal Microbiome
The most detailed map of its kind catalogues the sequences of about a million bacterial, viral and fungal genes — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Deep-sea coral gardens discovered in the submarine canyons off south Western Australia
Stunning 'gardens' of deep-sea corals have been discovered in the Bremer Canyon Marine Park by Australian and international scientists during an oceanographic expedition aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's R/V Falkor.
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Discovering what makes durian stink
Researchers at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (Leibniz-LSB@TUM) have confirmed the presence of the rare amino acid ethionine in a plant — or more precisely, in the fruit of the durian tree. Despite its pungent odor, durian is very popular in Southeast Asia. As the team of scientists has shown, the amino acid plays a key role in the formation o
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DNA discovery can lead to new types of cancer drugs
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that our cells replicate their DNA much more loosely than previously thought. The new knowledge might be useful for developing novel treatments against aggressive forms of cancers.
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DNA-opdagelse kan føre til ny type kræftmedicin
Forskere fra Københavns Universitet har opdaget, at vores celler replikerer deres DNA meget mere…
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Eating a vegetarian diet rich in nuts, vegetables, soy linked to lower stroke risk
People who eat a vegetarian diet rich in nuts, vegetables and soy may have a lower risk of stroke than people who eat a diet that includes meat and fish, according to a study published in the February 26, 2020, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Ebikes freed my commute from the tyranny of traffic
Commuting 30 miles each way to and from work becomes much more manageable aboard a Class 3 ebike. (Stephen Krcmar/) This story originally featured on Cycle Volta . Ever since my first job—as a paperboy—bikes and bike commuting have been a big part of my professional life. I took that first gig delivering newspapers because it was something I could do on my Mongoose. Since then, I've worked as a b
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Ecologically diverse clades dominate the oceans via extinction resistance
A paper on animal biodiversity pattern by a team of researchers led by the Biology Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilos is featured in the February 28, 2020 issue of the journal Science.
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Forskere opdager den største eksplosion i universet siden Big Bang
Eksplosionen er fem gange kraftigere end den tidligere rekordholder.
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From fermented foods and beverages to cosmetics: Discovering the world of yeasts
Milk yeast may have originated from an accidental encounter between a fruit fly and milk thousands of years ago, eventually leading to the creation of dairy products like yogurt, a new study suggests.
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Futureproof jobs
Some insight from Reddit. I'm looking at a career change. I've spent 15 years in the oil and gas industry, first as a pipefitter and now as a safety manager. I gross about $90k/year at 50 – 70 hours a week. The future is coming and oil and gas will have a limited part in that future. I can see the writing on the wall. I'm looking for a career that I can get perhaps 20 years out of, but the world
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Gene therapy generates new neurons to treat Huntington's disease
Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare disease with chorea movement and caused by Huntingtin (Htt) gene mutation and neurodegeneration. A research group led by Dr. Gong Chen has developed a novel gene therapy to regenerate functional new neurons in mouse models of HD. The work has been published in Nature Communications on February 27, 2020.
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Gene therapy shows promise for a disease that steals young men's vision
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00533-3 Trial shows the safety of a treatment for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa.
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Genetic signature boosts protein production during cell division
A research team has uncovered a genetic signature that enables cells to adapt their protein production according to their state. The researchers of the University of Basel's Biozentrum report in Genome Biology that this newly discovered mechanism plays a role in the regulation of protein production during cell division.
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GPS for chromosomes: Reorganization of the genome during development
The spatial arrangement of genetic material within the cell nucleus plays an important role in the development of an organism. A research team from the University of Basel, in collaboration with scientists from Harvard University, has developed a method to trace the chromosomes in individual cells. Using this method, they have now been able to demonstrate that chromosomes reorganize during embryon
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Highlighting product greenness may put consumers off buying
New research suggests that companies looking to promote their latest environmentally friendly product should downplay its green credentials if they want consumers to buy it.By highlighting green attributes through advertising, in some situations firms risk generating associations with weak product performance, say researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and University of Leeds. This i
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How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer
The iconic stripes of zebrafish are a classic example of natural self-organization. As zebrafish embryos develop, three types of pigment cells move around the skin, eventually jostling into positions that form body-length yellow and blue stripes.
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How I Broke the Cycle of Stress
A technique called "goal diversification" turned out to be surprisingly effective — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How much does black carbon contribute to CLIMATE warming?
Black carbon particles — more commonly known as soot — absorb heat in the atmosphere. For years, scientists have known that these particles are having an effect on Earth's warming CLIMATE, but measuring their exact effect has proved elusive.
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Hunter-gatherer networks accelerated human evolution
Humans began developing a complex culture as early as the Stone Age. This development was brought about by social interactions between various groups of hunters and gatherers, a UZH study has now confirmed. The researchers mapped the social networks of present-day hunter-gatherers in the Philippines and simulated the discovery of a medicinal plant product.
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Kids eat more calories in post-game snacks than they burn during the game
A new study led by Brigham Young University public health researchers finds the number of calories kids consume from post-game snacks far exceeds the number of calories they actually burn playing in the game.
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Lava fortæller 600 års historie: Sådan har mennesker ødelagt dele af naturen på tropeø
Menneskers ankomst på øen Réunion udryddede både dyr og frugttræer.
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Looking through MudPIT for protein interactions
The instructions of life encoded in our genes are decoded through the translation into mRNA, which then instructs the synthesis of proteins. Because mRNA translation is an essential process, it is carefully coordinated through "translational control." However, defects in translational control and protein synthesis lead to many pathologies, which makes mRNA translation an important therapeutic targ
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Male-killing bugs hold key to butterflies' curious color changes
It is a spectacular butterfly breed with an intriguing back story—now scientists have revealed how male-killing bacteria are helping to create a dazzling hybrid of the African monarch.
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Microalgae: Future food for thought
They're responsible for more than 75 percent of the Earth's oxygen supply, but often get no credit for it.
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Naked mole rats migrate above ground with no help from the moon
A new study considers the role of the moon in driving a particularly rare occurrence: the solo journey of a naked mole rat from one underground colony to start a new one.
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New platform for engineering ribosomes to 'cook new cuisines'
Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University have developed a system that can rapidly create cell-free ribosomes in a test tube, then select the ribosome that can perform a certain function.
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New sense discovered in dog noses: the ability to detect heat
Sensory ability may help canines track their prey
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New study explains why superconductivity takes place in graphene
Graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms, has many extreme electrical and mechanical properties. Two years ago, researchers showed how two sheets laid on top of each other and twisted at just the right angle can become superconducting, so that the material loses its electrical resistivity. New work explains why this superconductivity happens in a surprisingly high temperature.
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New study reveals what fish are up to under the ice
Ever wondered how fish spend the winter? Using new technology, researchers from U of T Mississauga have taken a peek beneath the winter ice to reveal surprising new information about aquatic environments in winter.
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New tool aims to assist military logistics in evacuating noncombatants
Researchers have developed a computational model that can be used to expedite military operations aimed at evacuating noncombatants, disaster response or humanitarian relief.
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Not falling far from tree: Ecologists study seed-to-seedling transitions
Why are there so many species of plants? Why do some plants thrive, while others don't?
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Paleontologists discover why the oceans are so diverse
Slow, steady evolution in animal groups that contain many different ecological lifestyles has been a key buffer against extinction, the new research shows.
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Physiotherapy could be done at home using virtual reality
Virtual reality could help physiotherapy patients complete their exercises at home successfully thanks to researchers at WMG, University of Warwick, who managed to combine VR technology with 3D motion capture.
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Reconfigurable chiral microlaser by spontaneous symmetry breaking
A team of researchers led by Professor Xiao Yun-Feng and Professor Gong Qihuang at Peking University has demonstrated a spontaneously symmetry-broken microlaser in an ultrahigh-Q WGM microcavity, exhibiting reconfigurable propagating directions of the chiral laser.
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Russian scientists create solar panel by combining protein and quantum dots. The creators believe that it has great potential for solar energy and optical computing.
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Scientific Rebel Freeman Dyson Dies
The iconoclastic physicist rejected the idea of an endpoint to the human quest for knowledge and happiness. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientists come up with nanoconcrete for casting under negative temperature conditions
Engineers from Far Eastern Federal University Military Training Center (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia) together with colleagues from RUDN University have developed a concrete mixture with nano additives for monolithic construction up to ten stories high. The concrete casting is possible within a very humid CLIMATE and negative temperature down to minus 5-degrees centigrade. Given that, the constructed
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Scientists design way to use harmless bacteria to detect heavy metals in drinking water
When it comes to testing drinking water for dangerous contaminants, such as heavy metals like lead or cadmium, continuous testing directly from faucets people drink from is important. Yet, very little of this kind of water testing is done. A team from UC San Diego and the campus spinout Quantitative BioSciences is working to improve the situation.
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Sidelining Scientists Can Only Make COVID-19 Worse
We need to hear about the risks directly from the experts, not through the filter of politicians — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Socks that will keep your feet warm and toasty
The best socks for all occasions. (Les Triconautes via Unsplash/) As Marie Kondo would say, your socks work hard for you—they spend all day in between your feet and shoes, getting bunched and twisted, while you walk and work. Buying socks may seem like a bore, but we should all respect the process that gets us this important accoutrement. Not looking to do a bunch of sock technology research? Don
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Stable conditions during cell division
Errors during cell division can trigger the development of cancer. No wonder that this central process is controlled by multiple regulators and guards. Alex Bird's research group at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology has discovered a hitherto unknown key player and how it provides the necessary stability to the distribution process of the genetic information by repurposing a long-stu
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Stress-relief substrate helps OLED stretch two-dimensionally?
Highly functional and free-form displays are critical components to complete the technological prowess of wearable electronics, robotics, and human-machine interfaces. A KAIST team created stretchable OLEDs (Organic Light-Emitting Diodes) that are compliant and maintain their performance under high-strain deformation. Their stress-relief substrates have a unique structure and utilize pillar arrays
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Study shows rapid sea level rise along Atlantic coast of North America in 18th century
Sea levels along a stretch of the Atlantic coast of North America in the 18th century were rising almost as fast as in the 20th century, a new study has revealed.
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Sugar gets the red light from consumers in new study
Researchers have found that sugar content is the most important factor for people when making healthy food choices — overriding fat and salt.
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SUWA: A hyperstable artificial protein that does not denature in high temperatures above 100C
Proteins denature, or "cook" in heat, irreversibly changing their structure, like how an egg boils or a slab of sirloin turns to steak. This prevents proteins from being used in applications where they would need to withstand heat. Scientists have had high expectations for proteins to be used in nanotechnology and synthetic biology. A new hyperstable artificial protein constructed at Shinshu Unive
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Taking a bite out of food waste: Scientists repurpose waste bread to feed microbes
Food waste is a serious economic and environmental problem. Researchers have developed a protocol using waste bread as a medium to grow microorganisms for the fermented food industry. They tested more than 40 different kinds of growing conditions to find the best combination that would maximize bread waste and cut costs compared to conventional media. The patent-pending process can be used in indu
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The enemy within: How a killer hijacked one of nature's oldest relationships
Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of nature's most enduring mutual relationships.
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The first Cell Atlas for the human Thymus
For the first time, scientists from the VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent University, The Wellcome Sanger Institute (UK), and Newcastle University (UK) have composed a complete map of the cells in the developing human thymus. This novel approach with single cell resolution allowed them to identify more than 50 different cell states in the human thymus which dynamically change in abundanc
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The Gene Gap: who decides what happens next? – Science Weekly podcast
Gene-editing technologies have the power to change life as we know it. This week on the podcast, we're bringing you another episode from our Common Threads series, this time about power. Who has the authority to speak for our species and to make decisions? Are we well informed, and who holds the power to inform us? To listen to episodes one and three, search 'The Gene Gap: Common Threads' wherever
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The United States badly bungled coronavirus testing—but things may soon improve
A faulty reagent in a test kit and bureaucratic hurdles have slowed testing for the virus that causes COVID-19
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There's a fly in my waffle! Scientists experiment with larva fat to replace butter
Fat from larvae could be a more sustainable alternative to dairy, say researchers Scientists at Ghent University in Belgium are experimenting with larva fat to replace butter in waffles, cakes and cookies, saying using grease from insects is more sustainable than dairy produce. The researchers soak black soldier fly larvae in a bowl of water, put it in a blender to create a smooth greyish dollop
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This beetle got a boost when it partnered up with antifungal bacteria
Life is tough if you're a beetle.
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This MIT Scientist Is Building Batteries Using Modified Viruses
Virus Builders Over the past decade, MIT bioengineering professor Angela Belcher has been working on a battery-building technology that works by conscripting millions of zombie viruses to repeat a simple task, Wired reports . Belcher first manipulates genetically engineered bacteriophages to infect a bacterium, thereby creating millions of copies of themselves — and coercing them into creating a
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This Parasite Doesn't Need Oxygen to Survive
But that's not the weirdest thing about this jellyfish cousin that turns up in the muscles of salmon.
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Tracking down the mystery of matter
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before. In the process they found out that the elementary particle has a significantly smaller electric dipole moment than was previously assumed. With that, it has also become less likely that this dipole moment can help to explain the origin of all matter in the universe. The researche
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Two sides of a coin: Our own immune cells damage the integrity of the blood-brain barrier
Researchers have shown that microglia, a class of immune cells in the brain, regulate the permeability of the brain's protective barrier in response to systemic inflammation. During inflammation, microglia initially protect the barrier's integrity, but they can later reverse their behavior and increase the barrier's permeability.
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Ultrafast probing reveals intricate dynamics of quantum coherence
Ultrafast, multidimensional spectroscopy unlocks macroscopic-scale effects of quantum electronic correlations.
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Unique material could unlock new functionality in semiconductors
If new and promising semiconductor materials are to make it into our phones, computers, and other increasingly capable electronics, researchers must obtain greater control over how those materials function.
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Uppfostran i kärnfamilj gör fåglar grupp-smarta
Fåglar som föder upp sina ungar i kärnfamiljsliknande grupper utvecklar en större mångfald av egenskaper jämfört med de arter som föder upp sina ungar i grupper av individer, som tillfälligt träffas under parningssäsongen. Det visar en studie från Lunds universitet. Det är forskare vid Lunds universitet och Oxford University fördjupat sig i hur världens olika fågelarter föder upp sin avkomma. Fok
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Video: Researching how microplastics can end up in farmland
Freya Radford is a PhD student in Geography and Environmental Science. She is researching micro-plastic pollution in agricultural land through organic fertilisers made from sewage sludge.
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Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light
Scientists have measured a property of the neutron — a fundamental particle in the universe — more precisely than ever before.
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'Surfing attacks' could let hackers read your texts
Ultrasonic waves can activate Siri on your cellphone and have it make calls, take images, or read the contents of a text to a stranger, researchers report. All that can be done without the phone owner's knowledge, too. Attacks on cell phones aren't new, and researchers have previously shown that ultrasonic waves can be used to deliver a single command through the air. The new research, however, e
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150.000 danskere kan miste tv-signalet om en måned
Ældre fjernsyn, der ikke kan modtage DVB-T2-signaler, går helt i sort fra 31. marts, når 700 MHz-frekvensbåndet overgår til mobilt bredbånd, blandt andet 5G. Kulturministeriet vurderer, at op mod 150.000 danskere bliver ramt.
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5 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Already Changing Cinema
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A 3-point plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050
Every January Larry Fink, the head of the world's largest funds manager, BlackRock, sends a letter to the chief executives of major public companies.
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A cappella shows why the brain splits music and speech
A new study uses a cappella to show how the brain decodes music and speech in different hemispheres. Researchers created 100 a cappella recordings, each of a soprano singing a sentence. They then distorted the recordings along two fundamental auditory dimensions: spectral and temporal dynamics, and had 49 participants distinguish the words or the melodies of each song. They conducted the experime
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A chiral switchable photovoltaic ferroelectric 1D perovskite
Spin and valley degrees of freedom in materials without inversion symmetry promise previously unknown device functionalities, such as spin-valleytronics. Control of material symmetry with electric fields (ferroelectricity), while breaking additional symmetries, including mirror symmetry, could yield phenomena where chirality, spin, valley, and crystal potential are strongly coupled. Here we repor
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A CRISPR-Cas9-based reporter system for single-cell detection of extracellular vesicle-mediated functional transfer of RNA
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14977-8 Extracellular vesicles (EV) facilitate intercellular transfer of biological material including RNA, but the regulatory mechanisms for their formation and transfer are incompletely known. Here the authors develop a CRISPR-based reporting system to detect the transfer of guide RNAs and identify genes not previ
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A massive star's dying breaths
Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of the Sun dies, it goes out in spectacular fashion. With its brightness recently dipping to the lowest point in the last hundred years, many space enthusiasts are excited that Betelgeuse may soon go supernova, exploding in a dazzling displ
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A new approach to both high safety and high performance of lithium-ion batteries
We present a novel concept to achieve high performance and high safety simultaneously by passivating a Li-ion cell and then self-heating before use. By adding a small amount of triallyl phosphate in conventional electrolytes, we show that resistances of the passivated cells can increase by ~5 x , thereby ensuring high safety and thermal stability. High power before battery operation is delivered
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A new template for nonspherical viral nanocages
In nature, viruses use nanocages to protect their genome. Some of these viruses can be disassembled into protein units to remove their genome. These protein units can then be reassembled into nanocages by other templates, the so-called virus-like particles. For her Ph.D. thesis, University of Twente candidate Shuqin Cao worked on a new template for these virus-like particles to use them in several
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A Popular Class of Antibiotics May Increase Risk of Birth Defects
A new study in the British Medical Journal has revealed a possible association between taking a popular antibiotic during early pregnancy and major congenital malformations.
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A real life experiment illuminates the future of books and reading
Books are always transforming. The book we hold today has arrived through a number of materials (clay, papyrus, parchment, paper, pixels) and forms (tablet, scroll, codex, kindle).
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AI just found a new type of antibiotics that works on drug-resistant strains of various pathogens when tested in mice. It was named halicin — after HAL, the AI system in 2001: A Space Odyssey. It may save your life one day.
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'Altered Carbon' Got a Season 2 Revamp—and It's Just What the Show Needed
Following a rocky first season, the neo-noir adaptation gets a major sleeve upgrade for Season 2—both in front of the camera, and behind it.
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An experimental test of the geodesic rule proposition for the noncyclic geometric phase
The geometric phase due to the evolution of the Hamiltonian is a central concept in quantum physics and may become advantageous for quantum technology. In noncyclic evolutions, a proposition relates the geometric phase to the area bounded by the phase-space trajectory and the shortest geodesic connecting its end points. The experimental demonstration of this geodesic rule proposition in different
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Ancient forests that power the modern world
Ancient mossy forests from millions of years ago created the planet's finite amount of fossil fuels. (Photo by Pascal Meier on Unsplash/) The following is an excerpt adapted from The Story of More by Hope Jahren. Once upon a time, there was a broad and fathomless ocean. Beneath the waves swirled the currents that flushed saltwater in magnificent gushes. Deep in the dense, cold darkness, the seafl
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Annexin A5 as an immune checkpoint inhibitor and tumor-homing molecule for cancer treatment
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14821-z AnnexinV has been shown to bind phosphatidylserine expressed by chemotherapy-induced apoptotic cells increasing their immunogeneicity. Here, the authors demonstrate in a preclinical tumor model that fusing tumor-antigen peptide to Annexin V enhances its efficacy when administered after chemotherapy and with
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Anomalies in structure of polyvalent metal melts explained
Metals and their alloys are the main structural materials of modern civilization. The properties of metal melts are well studied. However, according to Anatoly Mokshin, one of the co-authors of the publication, Chair of the Department of Computational Physics at Kazan Federal University, for more than 25 years, scientists from all over the world have been trying to explain experimentally observed
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Answer these 4 questions to become a better leader
The difference between mediocre, good, and great leaders lies in how they answer a few key questions regarding vision, intent, plans of action. According to executive coach Peter Fuda, great leaders are not only able to answer the where, what, and how of a business plan, but they can also articulate why the business should exist beyond capitalistic goals. All other things being equal, it's the mo
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Are you a 'cultural fit' for your job? Companies want to know whether candidates will suit their way of working. Now they are increasingly asking algorithms to take on this task.
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Army called in to help drought-hit New Zealand towns
New Zealand has deployed soldiers to help prevent drought-stricken North Island towns from running dry as authorities consider imposing water restrictions in Auckland, the country's largest city.
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Artificial Intelligence is now helping poor shrimp farmers combat their biomass problem by using cameras that can see through muddy water – AI is now entering the aquaculture space
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Author Correction: The Reprimo gene family member, reprimo-like (rprml), is required for blood development in embryonic zebrafish
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59857-9 Author Correction: The Reprimo gene family member, reprimo-like ( rprml ), is required for blood development in embryonic zebrafish
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Automated volumetric radiomic analysis of breast cancer vascularization improves survival prediction in primary breast cancer
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60393-9
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Autonomous vehicles and Australian roads: Are they ready for each other? Research project final report.
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Avgiftsfri kollektivtrafik inget mirakelmedel
Avgiftsfri kollektivtrafik är inget mirakelmedel för att minska bilresor. Det behövs också ett väl fungerande kollektivtrafiksystem. Det menar forskare i en ny rapport från Sveriges nationella centrum för forskning och utbildning om kollektivtrafik, K2. Från och med den 1 mars 2020 blir det helt avgiftsfritt för alla att resa kollektivt i Luxemburg. Motivet är framförallt att minska trycket på e
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Baidu/tech groups: traffic warning
Higher online traffic does not equate to higher income for search platforms
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Betelgeuse: A massive star's dying breaths
Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of the Sun dies, it goes out in spectacular fashion. With its brightness recently dipping to the lowest point in the last hundred years, many space enthusiasts are excited that Betelgeuse may soon go supernova, exploding in a dazzling displ
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Bioethicists Criticize WHO's Malaria Vaccine Trial
The study, conducted in Malawi, Kenya, and Ghana, did not obtain informed consent from each parent whose child participated, but rather considered consent "implied" because of the particular experimental design.
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Book Review: A Starry-Eyed Vision of the Future
In "The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives," Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler predict the many transformative changes coming our way in the next decade or so, from flying cars to robot surgeons and vertical farming.
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Books Briefing: The Uncut History of Black Life
The scholar Carter G. Woodson, who's known as "the father of black history" and the creator of what would become Black History Month, dedicated his life's work to promoting the study of black people and their accomplishments. In his seminal book The Mis-Education of the Negro , Woodson makes the argument that African Americans have to learn about their history in order to help heal their inherite
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BP, Eni, Equinor, Shell and Total join forces to store emissions under the North Sea. The Net Zero Teesside project aims to decarbonise local industry by building a transportation and storage system to gather industrial carbon dioxide, compress it and store it safely in reservoirs under the sea
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Call Them Quasars–for No Good Reason
Originally published in December 1963 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Canada's 'dynamic' plan to protect endangered right whales rests on robots
Drones, submarine gliders will keep close watch for leviathans
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Cancer mechanics: How physical cues influence cell migration, metastasis, and treatment
New research on the tumor mechanical microenvironment will be presented at the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver. Highlights include a study that looks at how the anisotropy of the extracellular matrix affects cancer cell migration, a novel optical tweezer-based tool that probes mechanical cues, and a model to find the best place within a tumor to inject a chemotherapy drug.
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Challenges and opportunities for women in physics
Women in the United States hold fewer than 25% of bachelor's degrees, 20% of doctoral degrees and 19% of faculty positions in physics. At the American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver, scientists will present unique approaches to engage women in science as they pursue their education and throughout every stage of their careers.
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Chemotaxis-driven delivery of nano-pathogenoids for complete eradication of tumors post-phototherapy
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14963-0 The presence of several biological barriers impede the efficacy of nano-mediated drug delivery for solid cancer therapy. Here, the authors develop a nano-pathogenoid system that targets circulating neutrophils and show that it overcomes these biological barriers and improves tumour targeting and efficacy.
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Children of color more likely to die of cancer
Racial and ethnic minority children and adolescents with cancer are at higher risk of death than non-Hispanic white children and adolescents, a new study shows. The study also finds evidence for larger disparities in survival for more treatable cancers. There's strong evidence that socioeconomic status plays a role as well, researchers say. "The results suggest that there are modifiable racial an
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Children who read books daily score higher in school tests, vast new study states
What children choose to read outside school directly influences their academic performance, according to a major new study led by the University of Malaga and UCL, and published in the peer-reviewed journal Oxford Review of Education.
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China's Rover Finds Layer of Dust Almost 12 Metres Deep on The Far Side of The Moon
That's a whole lot of dust.
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Clinical factors during pregnancy related to congenital cytomegalovirus infection
A group led by researchers from Kobe University has illuminated clinical factors that are related to the occurrence of congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in newborns. They revealed that fever or cold-like symptoms during pregnancy, and threatened miscarriage or threatened premature labor in the second trimester were associated with CMV infection in newborns.
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Cognitive Science, Anxiety, Meaning, and Wisdom with John Vervaeke
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C-Thru, an edge-finding AR eyepiece lets firefighters see through smoke
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Daily briefing: Economists and scientists, assemble
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00602-7 Economists and scientists must join forces once more to save the world. Plus: the first coronavirus cases in sub-Saharan Africa and South America, and scientists dive into the oceans' mysterious twilight zone.
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Dangerzone Lets You Open Email Attachments Safely
Dangerzone takes potentially malicious files and safely sanitizes them for you.
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Danmark er blevet et vandland – hvad kan vi gøre ved det?
PLUS. ANALYSE: Den rekordvåde vinter har skabt rekordstore oversvømmelser. Vandet skal væk fra byerne og andre steder, hvor det gør skade. Men denne klimasikring kommer typisk enten i karambolage med EU's miljøregler – eller også er den meget dyr.
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Danmark uenig med EU om skadelige stoffer i madplast
PLUS. Fire salte skal fremover være lovlige at bruge i den plast, vi bruge til mad. DTU mener at risikovurderingen fra EU er for dårlig.
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Data centers aren't the energy hogs we thought
Although demand for data has increased rapidly, massive efficiency gains by data centers have kept their energy use roughly flat over the past decade, researchers report. The researchers caution, however, that the industry and government shouldn't let the results lull them into complacency. To find their results, the researchers developed the most detailed model to date of global data center ener
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Dave's Problematic Pay Dirt | Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine
After a great start, thick clay in the pay dirt clogs the sluice, forcing Dave Turin and his crew to quickly troubleshoot the land and get the operation back on the gold. Stream Full Episodes of Dave Turin's Lost Mine: https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/gold-rush-dave-turins-lost-mine/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoldRush/
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Debat: Ansigtsgenkendelse – er det godt eller skidt?
PLUS. Vi er nødt til at stille en række kritiske spørgsmål, før vi indfører ansigtsgenkendelse over en bred kam.
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Diane Keaton's Very Different Kind of Memoir
Memoir is a slippery, intimate craft. To trust the memoirist, a reader must believe in the author's ability to remember with some degree of clarity. But when writing her new book, Brother & Sister , the Oscar-winning actor Diane Keaton rejected the fidelity of her own memory altogether—in part because the story she wanted to tell isn't solely her own. Keaton's second memoir examines her strained
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Digital twins of hearts could help diagnose and treat cardiac disease
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Direct Kerr frequency comb atomic spectroscopy and stabilization
Microresonator-based soliton frequency combs, microcombs, have recently emerged to offer low-noise, photonic-chip sources for applications, spanning from timekeeping to optical-frequency synthesis and ranging. Broad optical bandwidth, brightness, coherence, and frequency stability have made frequency combs important to directly probe atoms and molecules, especially in trace gas detection, multiph
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Downplaying product greenness could increase sales
New research suggests that companies looking to promote their latest environmentally friendly product should downplay its green credentials if they want consumers to buy it.
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Därför lär forskare föräldrar prata bebisspråk
Bebisar som får höra bebisspråk utvecklar ett större ordförråd och har lättare att lära sig förstå och prata. I en ny studie fick föräldrar öva på hur de bäst pratar med sina bebisar. Spela videon för att se hur det gick till.
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Eksperter: Se på svenskerne, når I skal planlægge fremtidens trafik
PLUS. Klima og miljø skal fylde mere i de samfundsøkonomiske regnemetoder. Men helhedsplaner er lige så vigtige, mener to transporteksperter, der skeler til svensk model.
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Elliptical Bloch skyrmion chiral twins in an antiskyrmion system
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14925-6 Skyrmions and anti-skyrmions often exist in distinct material systems. Here, the authors observe elliptical skyrmions and anti-skyrmions with opposite topological charges in one tetragonal Heusler compound Mn1.4Pt0.9Pd0.1Sn with D2d symmetry.
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Energinet kritiserer tilsyn for afslag på billig el-balancering
PLUS. I en usædvanligt skarp pressemeddelelse konstaterer Energinets direktør, at det nordiske energitilsyns afvisning af forslaget om en fælles balancering af de nordiske elsystemer vil fordyre den grønne omstilling.
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Evaluating physicochemical properties of crude oil as indicators of low-salinity–induced wettability alteration in carbonate minerals
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60106-2
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Even damaged livers can handle life-saving medication
Doctors used to make patients with drug-induced liver injury stop taking all their medications until the liver healed, but this could be dangerous. Now, researchers report in two recent papers that people with diabetes, hypertension and depression might be able to continue taking life saving medications even while they heal from drug-induced liver injuries.
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Examining ice giants of our solar system
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will unlock secrets of the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune.
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Examining ice giants with NASA's Webb telescope
Far-flung Uranus and Neptune—the ice giants of our solar system—are as mysterious as they are distant. Soon after its launch in 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will change that by unlocking secrets of the atmospheres of both planets.
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Examining sterically demanding lysine analogs for histone lysine methyltransferase catalysis
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60337-3
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Experts warn Australia at risk from drought, rising water levels
Leading water and coastal engineering experts from the University of Western Australia warn one of the biggest risks facing Australia is water security, with some regional towns experiencing water shortage to the point where they are unable to respond to bushfires and coastal areas at risk from rising sea levels.
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Fast cars and chocolate bars: Bringing physics to the public
Physics is more than black holes, quarks and dark matter. It plays an integral role in our daily lives, from understanding election interference to how we cook spaghetti. Science communicators at the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver will present unique and engaging approaches to leverage popular culture to bring physics to life in a way that intrigues, fascinates, and mobiliz
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February's Fascinating Science Pictures
This month's pictures feature coronavirus preparations, a robot that catches jellyfish, and a calm cat. crop_radiocat.jpg A cat, listening to the radio. Image credits: Abi Tansley Culture Friday, February 28, 2020 – 16:00 Abigail Malate, Staff Illustrator (Inside Science) — This month, we take a look at new pictures from across the science world. In Chile, an astronomy observatory captured a st
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Fed to 'act as appropriate' to support economy
US central bank calls spread of coronavirus an 'evolving risk' but says fundamentals still strong
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Fighting Coal Was Supposed to Lift Bloomberg. Here's Why It Didn't.
The former New York mayor is "a victim of the CLIMATE debate moving much faster than the positive realities he helped shape," one analyst said.
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First Food in Space: Toothpaste Tubes of Applesauce and Beef
Astronaut food has drastically improved over the decades, but the monotony of the menu remains a challenge for long-term spaceflight.
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For a Bright Future of Work, We Must Get Better at Collaborating With Machines
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For kids, food insecurity is about more than hunger
For children, food insecurity means not only hunger, but also sadness and stress, a new study shows. Parents who experience food insecurity might think they're protecting their kids from their family's food situation if they eat less or different foods so their kids don't have to. But, children may know more about food insecurity—the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity
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Forget Chess—the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D
Some artificial intelligence experts think role playing adventure games will help machines learn to be as clever as we are.
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Free lists of grants and fellowships around the world available online
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00599-z Three searchable databases provide information on global opportunities for graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members.
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Gadget Lab Podcast: There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Silicon Valley's influence over American workplace culture is now complete. Also, we bring you up to date on the latest cybersecurity news.
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Generalized Andersons theorem for superconductors derived from topological insulators
A well-known result in unconventional superconductivity is the fragility of nodal superconductors against nonmagnetic impurities. Despite this common wisdom, Bi 2 Se 3 -based topological superconductors have recently displayed unusual robustness against disorder. Here, we provide a theoretical framework that naturally explains what protects Cooper pairs from strong scattering in complex supercond
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Genetic 'fingerprints' implicate gut bacterium in bowel cancer
A common type of bacteria found in our guts could contribute to bowel cancer, according to new research. Scientists have shown that a toxin released by a strain of E. coli causes unique patterns, or 'fingerprints,' of DNA damage to the cells lining the gut.
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Gentrification vs. sustainable neighborhood development in Sunset Park, Brooklyn
May 2020 will see Memorial Day, three primary elections and graduation at Columbia University. Newly graduated Columbia students will flock out of their dorm rooms and into the greater New York City area with their freshly printed diplomas and Pantone-292 gowns. But they will take something much more significant with them into their Brooklyn apartments: gentrification.
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German inflation and jobless figures boost eurozone
Optimistic turn expected to be shortlived as coronavirus threatens growth
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Ghost Stories Keep the Roma Alive
For 500 years, the Latvian Roma people have been collecting berries in the Kurzeme forest. As one woman puts it, "a Roma without forest isn't a Roma." The woman is part of a Roma family that Astra Zoldnere follows in her short documentary Blueberry Spirits. "It wasn't easy to earn their trust," she told me. "I had to live with them in the forest for a while." Zoldnere traded in their currency—sto
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Glowing Amphibians Extremely Common
A study of the animals using blue light reveals what humans are not able to see with the naked eye.
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Gravitationsvågor skvallrar om osynliga svarta hål
Det är bara extrema händelser där enorma massor är inblandade, som ger tillräckligt starka gravitationsvågor för att de ska kunna fångas upp av instrument här på jorden. De vågor som hittills har upptäckts har kommit från svarta hål eller neutronstjärnor, som rör sig mot varandra i en inåtgående spiralrörelse tills de kolliderar och smälter ihop. Även supernovaexplosioner förväntas ge upphov till
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Greta Thunberg in Bristol: 'The world is on fire'
The Swedish teen environmental campaigner rallies protesters ahead of a march through the city.
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Helical quantum Hall phase in graphene on strontium titanate
Materials that exhibit topological phases can be classified by their dimensionality, symmetries and topological invariants to form conductive-edge states with peculiar transport and spin properties. For example, the quantum Hall effect can arise in two-dimensional (2-D) electron systems subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. When distinct characteristics of quantum Hall systems are compared
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Here's What Happens When an Algorithm Determines Your Work Schedule – Companies have promised to improve automated systems that dictate work shifts. They're still making workers miserable.
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Heunicke grillet i nyt samråd om supersygehuse
Sundhedsminister Magnus Heunicke (S) fik hård kritik for ikke at stille op til interview i sag om supersygehuse. Han lovede at lytte til kritikken, men da Dagens Medicin mødte ham uden for døren, var der ingen kommentarer.
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How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years
Happy February 29! It doesn't come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it.
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How ACA associated with out-of-pocket spending by patients with traumatic injuries
This observational study with nearly 6,300 patients who visited the emergency department or who were hospitalized for a traumatic injury examined how implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) was associated with out-of-pocket and premium spending among those patients.
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How advances/discoveries in one technology/field could mean a leap in other discoveries/tech – where can a find a model of this and why aren't we talking about this phenomena more?
So like a betting system.. think odds on … Like an interconnected stock market. If one discovery is made by researches – then this discovery and repeatable experiment with validated results would mean a massive leap in other research or currently technological advance. If we're thinking about futurists timelines.. then people like Ray Kurzweil etc.. may actually make sense.. or even be slightly
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How Did Belief Evolve?
An anthropologist traces the development of Homo sapiens' most creative and destructive force, from the making of stone tools to the rise of religions.
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How does the brain put decisions in context? Study finds unexpected brain region at work
When crossing the street, which way do you first turn your head to check for oncoming traffic? This decision depends on the context of where you are. A group of scientists has been studying how animals use context when making decisions. And now, their latest findings have tied this ability to an unexpected brain region in mice, previously thought to primarily guide and plan movement.
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How Facial Recognition Technology Could Change College Campuses Completely
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How North Korean Hackers Rob Banks Around the World
They scored $80 million by tricking a network into routing funds to Sri Lanka and the Philippines and then using a "money mule" to pick up the cash.
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How pest management strategies affect the bottom line
Concern regarding impacts of pesticides on the environment and human health has led to the development of integrated pest management (IPM) programs. A component of these programs involves the use of observation of pest populations in the field to direct timing of pesticide applications. Central to the concept of IPM is the use of an economic threshold of a population level where an application of
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How sound and visual effects on slot machines increase the allure of gambling
The sights and sounds of winning on a slot machine may increase your desire to play — and your memories of winning big, according to new research.
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How to make healthy financial choices every day, according to a financial psychologist
There is a psychological connection between your emotions and your spending habits. Many people live in a "reactionary" mode where they spend money in reaction to the day's events. Living in "intention mode" can help you reframe daily financial decisions – "how will this get me closer to my future goals?" Financial psychologist Dr. Tracy Thomas shares her tips for harnessing the power of emotion
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Hunter-gatherers facilitated a cultural revolution through small social networks
Hunter-gatherer ancestors, from around 300,000 years ago, facilitated a cultural revolution by developing ideas in small social networks, and regularly drawing on knowledge from neighbouring camps, suggests a new study by UCL and University of Zurich.
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Idiosyncratic Tox
It's our high failure rate in clinical trials that makes the drug industry what it is. And two of the biggest factors in that failure rate are picking the wrong targets/mechanisms, and unexpected toxicity. The first is clearly a failure of our understanding of human biology, and the only remedy I can see for that is for us to understand more about it. A slow process, that. The second would certai
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Illegal metal-detecting at English Heritage sites doubles in two years
Public urged to help tackle rise in nighthawking blamed on organised crime Organised crime is being blamed for a rise in illegal metal-detecting at heritage sites, including one of England's finest medieval castles and the battlefield of Hastings. English Heritage said December last year was the worst month for such incidents in more than four years and there were more than double the number of i
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Illuminating numerical study on light propagation in nonlinear optical fibers
More than 99% of our Internet data is carried by optical fibers but with our data demands increasing, we are pushing our existing fiber networks to their limits. One way to increase the capacity of fibers is to transmit signals with a higher power, but this is usually avoided as transmissions can become distorted. To help with this, researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology have developed
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Image of the Day: Bubble Suckers
Unable to break through the water's surface, tadpoles have a unique workaround for breathing air.
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Image: Andros, Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian
Andros Island, the largest island of the Bahamas, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. This image was processed in a way that included the near-infrared channel, which highlights the island's vegetation in bright red.
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Immunology: Tonsils as a testbed
Biomedical researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have isolated immune cells from human tonsils obtained following routine surgery, and used them to analyze aspects of the immune response and test the effects of anti-inflammatory agents at the cellular level.
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Immunterapiforsker får EliteForskerpris
Professor Sine Reker Hadrup er én af fem EliteForsk-prismodtagere i 2020. Hun får prisen for sit bidrag til forståelsen af, hvordan immunsystemet kan målrettes til at genkende og ødelægge kræftceller.
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Improved yields in African project areas
Only two years in, InnovAfrica-farmers practicing diverse maize-legume and Brachiaria grass production are experiencing increased yields.
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In Naples, Faith Substitutes for What Science Can't Foresee
Because volcanic eruptions are tricky to predict, some Neapolitans—who are sandwiched between two volcanoes—take solace in Catholic miracles.
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In situ electrochemical conversion of CO2 in molten salts to advanced energy materials with reduced carbon emissions
Fixation of CO 2 on the occasion of its generation to produce advanced energy materials has been an ideal solution to relieve global warming. We herein report a delicately designed molten salt electrolyzer using molten NaCl-CaCl 2 -CaO as electrolyte, soluble GeO 2 as Ge feedstock, conducting substrates as cathode, and carbon as anode. A cathode-anode synergy is verified for coelectrolysis of sol
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Inhalation therapy shows promise against pulmonary fibrosis in mice, rats
A new study shows that lung stem cell secretions — specifically exosomes and secretomes — delivered via nebulizer, can help repair lung injuries due to multiple types of pulmonary fibrosis in mice and rats.
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Innovative switching mechanism improves ultrafast control of microlasers
The all-optical switch is a kind of device that controls light with light, which is the fundamental building block of modern optical communications and information processing. Creating an efficient, ultrafast, and compact all-optical switch has been recognized as the key step for the developments of next-generation optical and quantum computing. In principle, photons don't interact with one anothe
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Intuit and Credit Karma's $7B Deal Means Bigger Data. Is That Better?
Antitrust regulators say they're interested in data-driven mergers. Now we'll see how serious they are.
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Iron powder as the battery of the future
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Iron whiskers on asteroid Itokawa indicate sulfide destruction by space weathering
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14758-3 The authors here investigate troilite (FeS) grains recovered from the regolith of asteroid Itokawa. Finding wide-spread occurrence of metallic iron whiskers, the authors suggest them to be a decomposition product formed through irradiation of the sulfide by energetic ions of the solar wind.
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Italian Giant Eni Sees Oil Peak Just Six Years Away. It targets an 80% cut in net emissions by 2050. That commitment illustrates the mounting pressure on oil companies to act on CLIMATE change
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Javelinas Like This? Baby, They Were Born to Run
A short video of a hog-like creature sprinting down the streets of Tucson, Ariz., took off this week. It was wonderful.
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KIST develops biofuel production process in cooperation with North American researchers
Biofuel is often touted as a clean fuel, but the fact that it is made using food sources is a major drawback. To address this issue, there has been continuous research on the development of second-generation biofuels using lignocellulosic biomass. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology(KIST) recently announces that it has developed an effective biofuel production process through the KIST-UB
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Lady Gaga's 'Stupid Love' Is a Glorious Comeback
The title of Lady Gaga's fantastic new single, "Stupid Love," riffs on a concept she's sung about many times before. A "stupid love" sounds like it could be a "bad romance," diseased and vengeful . It might be the fleeting roar of a-p-p-l-a-u-s-e . "All I ever wanted was love," she now croons, but listeners know that in the past she's accepted a perfect illusion , a hit of dope , and the kiss of
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Landbrug og Fødevarer politianmeldt for at destruere prøver fra svin
Den næststørste importør af dansk svinekød, Kina, vil ikke have kød fra svin med lungesygdommen PRRS. Ifølge Landbrug & Fødevarer er der sket en beklagelig fejl.
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Life, Suffering , Virtual Universe's and The Still Undisguised/Unseen Impact On Society
I was a abused frequently as a child and I have tried to live life the best I can. Still people wont stop beating, abusing, bullying me. I have explored many faiths, mythology, psychology and philosophy's as to find ways to get over or accept the difficulty's of life. I am also not alone and people have it worse than even me. The reason this is important is because if its one day cheap to run man
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Light-induced assembly of living bacteria with honeycomb substrate
Some bacteria are recognized to produce useful substances and electric currents, offering a promising solution to environmental and energy problems. However, applications of high-performance microbial devices require a method to accumulate living bacteria into a higher-density condition in larger substrates. Here, we propose a method for the high-density assembly of bacteria (10 6 to 10 7 cells/c
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Local Berry curvature signatures in dichroic angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy from two-dimensional materials
Topologically nontrivial two-dimensional materials hold great promise for next-generation optoelectronic applications. However, measuring the Hall or spin-Hall response is often a challenge and practically limited to the ground state. An experimental technique for tracing the topological character in a differential fashion would provide useful insights. In this work, we show that circular dichroi
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Love Is Blind Was the Ultimate Reality-TV Paradox
This story contains spoilers for the first season of Love Is Blind. It's a safe bet that Geoffrey Chaucer didn't have a reality-dating TV series in mind when he wrote The Canterbury Tales , the 14th-century story collection that first popularized the phrase "love is blind." In Chaucer's original chronicle, "The Merchant's Tale," an elderly man named January forsakes all reason when he falls for M
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Læger om LPR-problemer: Vi famler i blinde
Så længe det nye landspatientregister ikke får valide data vil læger rundt om på hospitalerne ikke kunne tjekke, om nye former for behandling har den ønskede effekt. Patienter risikerer at blive skadet uden at det bliver opdaget, advarer lægerne.
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Lækkede dokumenter: Danske myndigheder på kundeliste hos firma, der genkender ansigter med AI
Clearview AI har kunder i hele verden og samarbejder også med danske politimyndigheder og/eller andre offentlige myndigheder i landet, viser lækkede dokumenter. Rigspolitiet afviser at have brugt Clearview AI's applikation.
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Mangedobling af CO2-pris skal gøre trafikken grønnere
PLUS. I Sverige koster det 4.900 kr. at udlede et ton CO2, når man regner på samfundsøkonomiske omkostninger af ny infrastruktur. I Danmark koster det højst 427 kr.
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Massive protostar keeps growing despite ionization heating by ultraviolet light
A gigantic embryonic star is still getting bigger, even though it propels vast plumes of hot gas away from itself, RIKEN astronomers have found. The discovery could help to solve an enduring mystery about how massive stars grow so large.
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Melittin-lipid nanoparticles target to lymph nodes and elicit a systemic anti-tumor immune response
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14906-9 The bee venom melittin has anti-tumor properties but is unsuitable for therapeutic use on its own. Here, the authors generate melittin-nanoparticles and demonstrate that the nanoparticles reduce tumor growth and generate an anti-tumor immune response.
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MOFs of the future: Converting crystalline metal-organic frameworks into glass or liquid
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous, crystalline materials that can trap compounds within their molecular cavities, giving them a wide range of applications in gas storage and separation, carbon capture, and in the catalysis of chemical reactions, to name a few. A new range of applications are now being investigated by converting crystalline MOFs into liquid and/or glassy states.
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Molecular defect-containing bilayer graphene exhibiting brightened luminescence
The electronic structure of bilayer graphene can be altered by creating defects in its carbon skeleton. However, the natural defects are generally heterogeneous. On the other hand, rational bottom-up synthesis offers the possibility of building well-defined molecular cutout of defect-containing bilayer graphene, which allows defect-induced modulation with atomic precision. Here, we report the con
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Mysterious cat food ingredients wrecked wildlife research
Researchers set out to determine how much wildlife outdoor cats eat to supplement their cat food. Instead, they discovered that cat food ingredients are mysteriously variable. The accidental discovery suggests that some cat food manufacturers regularly change ingredient composition, even within the same flavors of cat food. Feral cats are responsible for several native wildlife declines, like the
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Mysterious Faded Star Betelgeuse Has Started to Brighten Again
'Orion's shoulder' had reached unprecedented dimness in mid-February, leaving astronomers befuddled — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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NASA Wants You to Photograph Starlink Satellites With Your Smartphone
SpaceX and others plan to launch thousands of new satellites into low-Earth orbit, creating streaks that cut through astronomers' images. Now NASA's education office is asking citizen scientists to help document the problem.
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Navy arms destroyers with new laser weapons
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Neuron-specific analysis of histone modifications with post-mortem brains
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60775-z
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New research uncovers potential pathway to slowing Alzheimer's
Overcoming the loss of a process in the brain called "RNA editing" may slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease and other synaptic disorders, a study shows. RNA editing, a genetic mechanism essential in the connection between nerve cells in the brain, is deregulated in people with Alzheimer's. A scientific team has replicated this deregulated process in the brains of mice, and discovered it led to
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New state-of-the-MOF materials
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous, crystalline materials that can trap compounds within their molecular cavities, giving them a wide range of applications in gas storage and separation, carbon capture, and in the catalysis of chemical reactions, to name a few. A new range of applications are now being investigated by converting crystalline MOFs into liquid and/or glassy states.
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Next stop, hydrogen-powered trains
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Nootropics Won't Make You Smarter, but They Can Help You Reach Your Max Potential
Futurism fans: To create this content, a non-editorial team worked with an affiliate partner. We may collect a small commission on items purchased through this page. This post does not necessarily reflect the views or the endorsement of the Futurism.com editorial staff. More and more people are turning to nootropics , or smart drugs, in an effort to improve cognitive function. And there's certain
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Old weapon, new target: Dasatinib against angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma
Researchers from the University of Tsukuba have shown by in vivo experimentation on a mouse model that angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma is highly dependent on T-Cell Receptor Signaling. Further trials also suggest that dasatinib, by targeting the TCR pathway, improved outcomes in both the mouse model and in a clinical trial of five patients who relapsed or were refractory to conventional therapy
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Oncotarget | SLC25A32 sustains cancer cell proliferation by regulating flavin adenine nucleotide (FAD) metabolism
Oncotarget Volume 11 Issue 8 reported that while it is known that cancer cells require one-carbon and FAD-dependent mitochondrial metabolism to sustain cell proliferation, the role of SLC25A32 in cancer cell growth remains unexplored.
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Outcomes of Florida law restricting opioid prescribing for acute pain
Some states have enacted laws restricting opioid prescribing for the treatment of acute pain and this research letter assess the outcomes associated with Florida's restriction law.
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Outdoor Research MicroGravity Jacket Review: A Soft Hard-Shell
This versatile jacket from Outdoor Research uses a special material that makes it great for a variety of conditions and activities.
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Outsmarting pathogens
A new influenza strain appears each flu season, rendering past vaccines ineffective. Antibiotic resistant 'superbugs' quickly develop genetic resistance to existing drugs. Rapidly changing viruses and bacteria complicate vaccine and drug research. Scientists at the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver will share their work on the emergence and evolution of modern pathogens.
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People in rural areas more likely to die of preventable causes, according to the CDC
A CDC report found a large and consistent urban-rural gap when it comes to preventable deaths. The gap results from many factors, from lifestyle choices to a lack of quality health care. Expert recommendations are varied but focus on education, preventative screening, and other methods of cultivating America's medical deserts. Western culture has a habit of idealizing rural life. The tradition of
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Persistent coherence of quantum superpositions in an optimally doped cuprate revealed by 2D spectroscopy
Quantum materials displaying intriguing magnetic and electronic properties could be key to the development of future technologies. However, it is poorly understood how the macroscopic behavior emerges in complex materials with strong electronic correlations. While measurements of the dynamics of excited electronic populations have been able to give some insight, they have largely neglected the in
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Photos of the Week: Carnival Colors, Medieval Combat, Avalanche Training
Recovery on Australia's Kangaroo Island, coronavirus containment efforts in China, Biathlon World Championships in Italy, fashion shows in Paris, fighting in Syria, bobsled competition in Germany, rioting in New Delhi, President Trump's visit to India, the "Leaning Tower of Dallas" in Texas, and much more
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Physicist And Iconoclastic Thinker Freeman Dyson Dies At 96
Dyson's ideas often occupied a space between science fiction and science. He helped design, among other things, a nuclear reactor that could be safely operated "even in the hands of an idiot." (Image credit: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
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Physicists may have accidentally discovered a new state of matter. The possibilities are endless.
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Physicists model the supernovae that result from pulsating supergiants like Betelgeuse
Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of the Sun dies, it goes out in spectacular fashion. With its brightness recently dipping to the lowest point in the last hundred years, many space enthusiasts are excited that Betelgeuse may soon go supernova, exploding in a dazzling displ
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Physics meets brain science in Denver
Understanding the brain has been one of science's greatest challenges. Each discovery only seems to raise countless other questions about the inner workings of this incredibly complex organ. Brain research brings together disciplines like neuroscience, medicine, biochemistry, and even physics. At the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver, scientists will present their latest resea
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Plasma jet deceleration could be caused by the interaction with the stars
Manel Perucho, professor of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Valencia has proposed an explanation for the origin of the deceleration of plasma jets (loss of speed along the matter and energy channels emanating from the central regions of an active galaxy), a subject that has been debated in recent decades.
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PODCAST: Den store tabel: Hvad koster en motorvej i virkeligheden?
Miljø- og klimahensyn skal spille en større rolle, når man udregner den samfundsøkonomiske gevinst ved investeringer i motorveje og jernbane, mener regeringen. Men hvordan ser regnestykket ud i dag? EU-Kommissionen vil bringe Europa i teten inden for AI.
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Potash fertilizer promotes incipient salinization in groundwater irrigated semi-arid agriculture
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60365-z
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Powered by hydrogen, Hyundai's trucks aim to conquer the Swiss Alps. Hyundai's hydrogen-powered 18-tonne trucks are set to hit the roads in Switzerland next month
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Printer toner linked to genetic changes, health risks in new study
According a new study, the microscopic toner nanoparticles that waft from laser printers may change our genetic and metabolic profiles in ways that make disease more likely.
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Publisher Correction: Direct thermal neutron detection by the 2D semiconductor 6LiInP2Se6
Nature, Published online: 29 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2065-7 Publisher Correction: Direct thermal neutron detection by the 2D semiconductor 6 LiInP 2 Se 6
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Publisher Correction: Misophonia is associated with altered brain activity in the auditory cortex and salience network
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-59862-y
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Quantum researchers able to split one photon into three
Researchers report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of its kind, used the spontaneous parametric down-conversion method (SPDC) in quantum optics and created what quantum optics researchers call a non-Gaussian state of light. A non-Gaussian state of light is considered a critical ingredient to gain a quantum advantage.
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Rapid transit in the left-sided colon is related to poor defecatory function at early period after stoma closure
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60808-7
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Rare disease in children: the key role of a protein revealed
Professor Stéphane Lefrançois, a researcher at the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), is working on Batten disease, a neurodegenerative genetic disease that primarily affects children. His research focuses on the most common form of the disease — Batten CLN 3 — which is caused by mutations in the protein of the same name and for which there is still no cure. They recently pub
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Reconfigurable symmetry-broken laser in a symmetric microcavity
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14861-5 The directional lasing emission in whispering gallery microcavities typically resorts to breaking the structure symmetry. Here the authors demonstrate a reconfigurable symmetry-broken microlaser in a symmetric ultrahigh-Q whispering gallery microcavity, in which a chirality of lasing fields is empowered spon
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Rehabiliteringscenter vil udvikle individuelle tilbud til ældre kræftpatienter
Center for Kræft og Sundhed i Københavns Kommune arbejder på projekt, hvis mål er at udvikle værktøjer, som kan bruges til en højere grad af individualiserede rehabiliteringstilbud til kræftpatienter.
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Reinforcement-learning AIs are vulnerable to a new kind of attack
Adversarial attacks against the technique that powers game-playing AIs and could control self-driving cars shows it may be less robust than we thought.
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Research reveals workplace safety and health implications of outsourcing
Workplace safety and health challenges from outsourcing across several sectors and industries have been revealed as part of a new study by Cranfield University.
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Researchers announce progress in developing an accurate, noninvasive urine test for prostate cancer
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have made significant progress toward development of a simple, noninvasive liquid biopsy test that detects prostate cancer from RNA and other specific metabolic chemicals in the urine.
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Rice cookers that ensure a perfect bowl every time
Sauce it up. (Pille-Riin Priske via Unsplash/) Rice is a staple in kitchens around the world because it's delicious, super easy to cook, and goes well with just about everything. Used in dishes ranging from sweet to savory, nearly 500 million tons of this mighty grain are consumed every year, accounting for one-fifth of all human caloric intake worldwide. For a quick and fuss-free companion to an
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Robotic exoskeletons are storming out of sci-fi and onto your squishy human body
Delta demoed its Sarcos Guardian tech at CES this year. (Stan Horaczek /) Forklifts and remote-controlled robots are great for brute force power. They can easily lift 200-pound objects, but that strength typically comes at the cost of dexterity. Utah-based robotics company Sarcos, however, wants to put the humans inside the machines to handle the heavy lifting and the delicate details of industri
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Robotic seals and bionic limbs: How Japan is creating opportunity for medtech
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Robots aren't taking our jobs — they're becoming our bosses
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Robust solid catalyst provides high yields of esters by continuous flow
Recalling basic textbook chemistry has enabled RIKEN researchers to develop a better solid catalyst for producing important industrial chemicals known as esters. This advance promises to benefit the manufacture of fuels, pharmaceuticals, resins, paints, adhesives and perfumes.
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Rocket start-up Astra tries back-to-back launches to win $12 million
A space flight start-up called Astra is about to attempt to launch two small rockets into orbit over a few weeks to win $12 million from the US military
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Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra Review: Nearly Perfect, but Too Pricey
Its size, some camera snags, and an absurd price tag stand in the way of Samsung's phone from reaching magnificence.
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Say goodbye to power outages, says UBC Okanagan engineer
With the goal of eliminating brownouts and blackouts, new research from UBC's Okanagan School of Engineering is redesigning how electricity is distributed within power grids.The research describes a power system operation that will consist of multiple microgrids–separate grids operating like individual islands that can disconnect from the main power supply and run independently.
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Scalable Majorana vortex modes in iron-based superconductors
The iron-based superconductor FeTe x Se 1– x is one of the material candidates hosting Majorana vortex modes residing in the vortex cores. It has been observed by recent scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurement that the fraction of vortex cores having zero-bias peaks decreases with increasing magnetic field on the surface of FeTe x Se 1– x . The hybridization of two Majorana vortex modes canno
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Scientists discover new 'Jekyll and Hyde' immune cell
Scientists have identified a rare, new cell in the immune system with 'Jekyll and Hyde properties.' These cells play a key protective role in immunity to infection but — if unregulated — also mediate tissue damage in autoimmune disorders. The findings should help us design more effective vaccines to prevent infections such as MRSA, and may also assist help us develop of new therapies for autoimm
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Scientists discover three genes associated with fatal lung disease
Researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have discovered parts of the DNA that put some people at higher risk of an incurable lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The findings are published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine today.
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Seamless multimaterial 3D liquid-crystalline elastomer actuators for next-generation entirely soft robots
Liquid-crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are excellent soft actuator materials for a wide range of applications, especially the blooming area of soft robotics. For entirely soft LCE robots to exhibit high dexterity and complicated performance, several components are typically required to be integrated together in one single robot body. Here, we show that seamless multicomponent/multimaterial three-di
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Selling online? Here are 50+ tools digital entrepreneurs need in one smart package
The Zuitte bundle gathers more than 50 tools for building and managing online sales. The suite features SEO and email marketing tools, CRM managers, social media aids and more. A $9,480 value, the full package is available now for just $199. You can buy a hammer—and a screwdriver, and pliers, and a wrench, and a trusty drill. But if you need a bunch of quality tools, it's usually a lot easier to
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Sexist ideologies may help cultivate the "dark triad" of personality traits
The "dark triad" of personality traits — narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism — do not make for the nicest individuals. People who score highly on the dark triad are vain, callous and manipulative. They adopt a so-called "fast-life" strategy, characterised by impulsivity, opportunism and selfishness. Such individuals can succeed in the workplace, while failing to get on with others. They'
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Short Wave Celebrates Black Excellence In Science
To close out Black History Month, Short Wave is highlighting just a few of the many incredible black scientists we've featured so far on the show. (Image credit: Kristen Uroda for NPR)
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Snygg tandbrygga kväver balans mellan material och styrka
Det krävs rätt balans mellan material och design för att tandersättningar ska bli hållfasta, starka och snygga. Tandläkaren och forskaren Fahad Bakitian har undersökt alternativen för patienter som behöver en ny brygga eller krona. – Av de keramiska material som finns tillgängliga idag finns inget som uppfyller alla kraven, säger Fahad Bakitian som nu disputerar vid Malmö universitet. Estetik i
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Software error grounds pigeon-smarts paper
Pigeons definitely get a bad rap. Some might consider them mere rats with wings, purveyors of pestilence, distributors of dung, but rock doves aren't, well, as dumb as their name might suggest. Pigeons are perhaps the world's most accurate homers, they seem to have an innate knack for game theory and they can detect breast … Continue reading
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Spin and explore one of the world's oldest globes
A new 3D digital model allows puts the Hunt-Lenox Globe, one of the oldest globes in existence, on view online. The New York Public Library holds more than 46 million items in its research collections. The Hunt-Lenox Globe is one of the greatest treasures of that vast archive. It's a tiny, bronze-alloy orb, no bigger than a grapefruit. Dating from about 1510, it's also one of the earliest globes
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Stem rust resistance in wheat is suppressed by a subunit of the mediator complex
Nature Communications, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14937-2 Stem rust is an important disease of wheat and resistance present in some cultivars can be suppressed by the SuSr-D1 locus. Here the authors show that SuSr-D1 encodes a subunit of the Mediator Complex and that nonsense mutations are sufficient to abolish suppression and confer stem rust resistance.
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Stråling fra nye 5G-master er ikke i nærheden af at være en fare for mennesker
Det viser målinger taget i 16 byer rundt omkring i England.
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Student Discovers 17 Planets, One of Which Could Host Life
Planet Party By combing through data collected by NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, University of British Columbia astronomy PhD candidate Michelle Kunimoto discovered evidence of an impressive 17 new exoplanets — including a roughly Earth-sized world found in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water could exist. "This planet is about a thousand light years aw
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Study reveals link between income inequality and French kissing
Income inequality may be linked to how often people French kiss, according to a worldwide study by Abertay University.
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Study: Anxious preschoolers have worse relationships with teachers
Children with sadness and anxiety are more likely to experience relationships that deteriorate with their preschool teachers, a University of Alberta researcher has found.
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Sugar-poor diets wreak havoc on bumblebee queens' health
A new study shows that without adequate sugar, a bumblebee queen's fat body, which functions like a human liver, does not correctly produce enzymes required for healthy metabolism and detoxification from pesticides.
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Superconducting praseodymium superhydrides
Superhydrides have complex hydrogenic sublattices and are important prototypes for studying metallic hydrogen and high-temperature superconductors. Previous results for LaH 10 suggest that the Pr-H system may be especially worth studying because of the magnetism and valence-band f -electrons in the element Pr. Here, we successfully synthesized praseodymium superhydrides (PrH 9 ) in laser-heated d
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'Surfing attack' hacks Siri, Google with ultrasonic waves
Using ultrasound waves propagating through a solid surface, researchers were able to read text messages and make fraudulent calls on a cellphone sitting on a desk up to 30 feet away.
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Sustainable start-ups should consider corporate venture capital first
Urgent issues like the CLIMATE crisis, environmental degradation threatening millions of species, social inequality and other challenges mean that the global economy needs to immediately transform itself to become sustainable.
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Tablet thought to have guarded tombs after Jesus's death may not be what it seems
Chemical analysis suggests famous "Nazareth inscription" was made in Greece
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Team develops biofuel production process in cooperation with North American researchers
Biofuel is often touted as a clean fuel, but the fact that it is made using food sources is a major drawback. To address this issue, there has been continuous research on the development of second-generation biofuels using lignocellulosic biomass.
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Tesla "big battery" in Australia is becoming a bigger nightmare for fossil fuel power generators
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Tetraspanin-6 negatively regulates exosome production [Cell Biology]
Exosomes, extracellular vesicles (EVs) of endosomal origin, emerge as master regulators of cell-to-cell signaling in physiology and disease. Exosomes are highly enriched in tetraspanins (TSPNs) and syndecans (SDCs), the latter occurring mainly in proteolytically cleaved form, as membrane-spanning C-terminal fragments of the proteins. While both protein families are membrane scaffolds…
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The caved-in roof of a lava tube could be a good place to explore on Mars
Want to look inside a deep, dark pit on Mars? The scientists and engineers from the NASA's HiRISE Camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have done just that.
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The Costs of Spying
Privacy advocates were right all along: The costs of one of the most controversial spy programs revealed by Edward Snowden far outweighed its benefits. That's obvious from a 103-page study of recent efforts to log, store, and search phone metadata––e.g., the time a call was made, its duration, and the phone numbers involved––about most calls that Americans made or received. Researchers at the con
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The enhancement of plant secondary metabolites content in Lactuca sativa L. by encapsulated bioactive agents
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60690-3
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The era of quantum supremacy is here
Google made headlines in late 2019 with an experiment that demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time. Their quantum computer, the Sycamore Processor, took a mere 200 seconds to perform a computation that would have taken a traditional computer 10,000 years. Members of the research team — Pedram Roushan, Zijun Chen, and Kevin Satzinger — will discuss this groundbreaking feat at the 2020 A
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The EU Might Make Personal Electronics Use Replaceable Batteries
Reuse, Reduce A draft plan reveals that the European Union might enact a law forcing all smartphones, wireless earbuds, and tablets to use replaceable batteries. While tech companies like Apple are pushing back against the proposed regulation — difficult-to-replace batteries generally translate into increased sales and repair fees — Business Insider reports that the EU is looking for ways to take
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The FCC Fines Wireless Companies for Selling Users' Location Data
FCC AT&T Verizon Sprint
The proposed fines—against T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint—total more than $200 million for their role in breaches of privacy.
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The Future of Technology – Grasp it with both hands.
https://youtu.be/xge0Diwr60M Technology we once thought to be science-fiction is arriving quicker than we imagined. From jetpacks to reusable rockets and even to playing god with gene sequence editing with Crispr cas-9. We need to grasp these advancements with both hands to secure the best future that we can. submitted by /u/ShaunATBrainfart [link] [comments]
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The genetics of situs inversus without primary ciliary dyskinesia
Scientific Reports, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/s41598-020-60589-z
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The Intersected States of America
Sometimes a union does not feel very united — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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'The Invisible Man' Isn't Real, but This Invisibility Technology Is
A new take on H.G. Wells' classic novel is in theaters, but how far has real-life cloaking tech come?
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The Long Path out of the Vulnerability Disclosure Dark Ages
Letting a company know about flaws in their products has gotten easier since 2003—but not by much.
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The Mysterious Meaning of the Second Amendment
What does the Second Amendment mean? This question is at the center of one of the most divisive debates in modern American constitutional law. The amendment itself contains 27 words: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This provision references both the collective right of a militia and
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The new burger chef makes $3 an hour and never goes home. (It's a robot) – A human doing the same job costs $4,000 to $10,000 or more a month, depending on a restaurant's hours and the local minimum wage. And robots never call in sick.
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The Noninevitability of Life
In a vast game of chance and competition, things can get ugly — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Ocean's Swirling Currents Are Migrating Poleward
The shift, which may be linked to CLIMATE change, can affect sea levels and the distribution of heat and nutrients — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Path to AGI
I've been waiting for years to hear a path to Strong AI or Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). We know that AI is growing faster and faster. But as of yet, I've not seen a convincing case for how we could create AGI. And that was true until 2 days ago… This is a very technical video but I got through it. Here are a few key insights from what I could understand: Current AI bases its decisions
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The phase stability network of all inorganic materials
One of the holy grails of materials science, unlocking structure-property relationships, has largely been pursued via bottom-up investigations of how the arrangement of atoms and interatomic bonding in a material determine its macroscopic behavior. Here, we consider a complementary approach, a top-down study of the organizational structure of networks of materials, based on the interaction betwee
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The serendipitous discovery of a new green chemistry method
Dr. Petri Turhanen was working on a synthesis of a modified version of the biological molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP), when he discovered that the cation exchange resin he was using was unintentionally producing another molecule. Closer investigation revealed that the molecule had been iodinated, meaning an iodine atom had been added. This specific reaction is challenging to perform using cu
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The White House Is Censoring Its Top Infectious Disease Expert
Moving forward, any government official who wants to talk about the COVID-19 outbreak will need Vice President Pence's explicit approval. As the White House sorts out the details of its coronavirus response plan — it took several days just to figure out who was in charge — it's also clamping down on messaging, according to The New York Times . Specifically, that means that Anthony Fauci, a leadin
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Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson dies at 96
Physicist Freeman Dyson 96
Dyson lecturing at IAS. (Dan Komoda/Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ USA/) Theoretical physicist Freeman J. Dyson, known for his work across multiple scientific disciplines, passed away on February 28 in Princeton, NJ according to a press release put out by the Institute for Advanced Study . Born in 1923 in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England, Dyson did his undergraduate studies at Cambridg
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This AI Company Is Trying To Fix Physician Burnout – An Interview With Dr. Nathan Gunn, COO Of Suki.ai
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Three unique MIDI keyboards that will change the way you make music
Other ways to play. (Amazon/) Every once in a while, there comes along a spin on a classic tool that's so innovative and off-the-wall that it can shift the entire way you work. In the world of music and art, that's especially true—and a unique take on a musical instrument can move the bar on creativity and help artists break new ground in a big way. Keyboards have come a long way since the days o
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Three-dimensional graphene nanoribbons as a framework for molecular assembly and local probe chemistry
Recent advances in state-of-the-art probe microscopy allow us to conduct single molecular chemistry via tip-induced reactions and direct imaging of the inner structure of the products. Here, we synthesize three-dimensional graphene nanoribbons by on-surface chemical reaction and take advantage of tip-induced assembly to demonstrate their capability as a playground for local probe chemistry. We sh
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Toward ultimate nonvolatile resistive memories: The mechanism behind ovonic threshold switching revealed
Fifty years after its discovery, the ovonic threshold switching (OTS) phenomenon, a unique nonlinear conductivity behavior observed in some chalcogenide glasses, has been recently the source of a real technological breakthrough in the field of data storage memories. This breakthrough was achieved because of the successful 3D integration of so-called OTS selector devices with innovative phase-chan
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Toymakers search for magic touch
Sales dip for second year as retailers bemoan lack of exciting products
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Tracking communication networks and the diffusion of information
Tracking communication and movement in this hyperconnected world can seem overwhelming. People (and things) share information through countless platforms. Networks online and off both impact how people live their lives and interact with their surroundings. Scientists will present their findings on the dynamics and structure of communication at the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting.
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Turbulence generation through an iterative cascade of the elliptical instability
The essence of turbulent flow is the conveyance of energy through the formation, interaction, and destruction of eddies over a wide range of spatial scales—from the largest scales where energy is injected down to the smallest scales where it is dissipated through viscosity. Currently, there is no mechanistic framework that captures how the interactions of vortices drive this cascade. We show that
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Twisted 2-D material gives new insights into strongly correlated 1-D physics
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg, the RWTH Aachen University (both in Germany) and the Flatiron institute in the U.S. have revealed that the possibilities created by stacking two sheets of atomically thin material atop each other at a twist are even greater than expected.
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Unintended pregnancy rates higher among women with disabilities, study says
Pregnancies among women with disabilities are 42% more likely to be unintended than pregnancies among women without disabilities, says a new report published in the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
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Unlocking animal behavior through motion
Using physics to study different types of animal motion, such as burrowing worms or flying flocks, can reveal how animals behave in different settings. By using principles and technology from fields like fluid mechanics, scientists can track and measure animals in motion. At the 2020 American Physical Society March Meeting in Denver, researchers will present the various ways they quantify animal m
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Unraveling turbulence
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) may have identified a fundamental mechanism by which turbulence develops by smashing vortex rings head-on into each other, recording the results with ultra-high-resolution cameras, and reconstructing the collision dynamics using a 3D visualization program. Coupled with the analysis of numerical simulations
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Upscaling Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Using Topaz Video Enhance AI
Last year, we covered one man's efforts to upscale Star Trek: Deep Space Nine using Topaz Gigapixel AI. If you've ever attempted to watch DS9 on Netflix or Amazon, you know how hard it is to get a decent version of the show. The version of DS9 that you can stream via online services sucks, to put it kindly. The streamed version of the show ranges from slightly worse to much worse than what you'd
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US Claims China Fired Laser Weapon at Navy Spy Plane
Energy Warfare The U.S. Navy claims that a Chinese warship fired a laser weapon at one of its surveillance aircraft last week. "Weapons-grade lasers could potentially cause serious harm to aircrew and mariners, as well as ship and aircraft systems," read the Navy's statement, according to CNN . Razzle Dazzle According to the Navy, the Chinese weapon was a "dazzler" laser, intended to blind sensor
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Video of 6-year-old girl's arrest shows the perils of putting police in primary schools
When states like Florida pass laws to put more police officers in schools, the idea is to keep kids safe.
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Video: Operation IceBridge completes 11 years of polar surveys
For eleven years from 2009 to 2019, the planes of NASA's Operation IceBridge flew above the Arctic, Antarctic and Alaska, gathering data on the height, depth, thickness, flow and change of sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets.
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Waiting for a receding tide to turn
Mike Mackenzie's daily analysis of what's moving global markets
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Wanted: Healthy Brains. Brain banks have struggled to convince unaffected individuals to donate, hampering studies on "cognitively normal" neurodevelopment and aging.
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Watch as Dust Devils Leave Eerie Streaks Across This Martian Crater
Shaping the planet's surface.
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Weighing 101
Download this infographic from A&D Weighing to learn how to measure weight with accuracy and precision!
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What Happened in Delhi Was a Pogrom
The violence unleashed against Muslims in Delhi by armed Hindu mobs during President Donald Trump's visit to India is a portent and a lesson. As Trump sat down to dine with India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, Hindus in the same city were beating and shooting Muslims, and Muslims were fighting back, trying to defend their homes and businesses from looters and arsonists. More than 40
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What you get with your game console subscription service
Access more. ( João Ferrão via Unsplash/) Gamers of a certain age will remember that you once had to buy a game console, and then you bought games for that console on cartridges (and then later on discs) which you manually inserted into the system (blowing on it first, to ensure it would function properly) and then played. When you were done playing, the console was switched off and wasn't needed
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What you need to know about stalkerware | Eva Galperin
"Full access to a person's phone is the next best thing to full access to a person's mind," says cybersecurity expert Eva Galperin. In an urgent talk, she describes the emerging danger of stalkerware — software designed to spy on someone by gaining access to their devices without their knowledge — and calls on antivirus companies to recognize these programs as malicious in order to discourage ab
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When a Supervolcano Erupted, These Ancient People Survived the Blankets of Ash
An eruption in Sumatra might have made life more difficult in modern-day India, but it probably didn't wipe out all residents.
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When AI Can't Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead – Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it.
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Why online shopping can be the eco-friendly choice
Nature, Published online: 28 February 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00562-y Dropping money at bricks-and-mortar shops can have a bigger carbon footprint than some forms of e-commerce.
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Why philosophy is an ideal travel companion for adventurous minds
In 2019, there were 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals globally—and, given that the planet only holds 7.7 billion humans, this figure alone suggests that a lot of us are traveling. The World Tourism Organization reports two major motivations for this—"travel to change": the quest for local experiences, authenticity, transformation and "travel to show": the desire for Instagramable moments
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Wildness in parks can make you feel better
Experiencing wildness is particularly important for physical and mental health, according to a new study on urban parks. As metropolises balloon with growth and sprawl widens the footprint of cities around the world, access to nature for people living in urban areas is becoming harder to find. If you're lucky, a pocket park might be installed next to a new condominium complex on your block, or pe
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World Bank's $500m pandemic scheme accused of 'waiting for people to die'
Bonds designed to provide fast funding for poor countries branded 'obscene' because of complex payout criteria A flagship $500m World Bank scheme to help the poorest countries deal with a health emergency is "too little too late" for the coronavirus outbreak, say health experts. The first pandemic emergency financing (PEF) bonds were launched in 2017 by Jim Yong Kim, the bank's president at the t
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Would you tell your innermost secrets to Alexa? How AI therapists could save you time and money on mental health care
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You Can't Buy Memes
Bloomberg Democratic
Yesterday, WorldStar Hip Hop, the content aggregator and music blog with 22.1 million followers on Instagram, posted a video of a boy taking his girlfriend's photo while she poses in front of a graffitied wall. As the video goes on, the camera zooms in on the boy's phone screen, and rather than images of a young woman in a baggy sweatshirt, it shows only the words "This is a bloomberg ad." The ca
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Är det bara underhållning vi vill ha av museet?
Museer och andra kulturinstitutioner levererar allt mer underhållning och upplevelser. Men vad händer om museibutiken blir viktigare än utställningen? I en ny bok diskuteras marknadiseringen som sker inom kultursfären. Idéer om marknadsekonomi präglar idag både statliga och privatfinansierade kulturinstitutioner. Förutom att locka fler besökare genom attraktiva utställningar är sponsring och arra
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Brain Scans Reveal a New Schizophrenia Type That Almost Looks Like a 'Healthy' Brain
This could be extremely useful.
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How computational modeling can force theory building in psychological science
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Why Mars Needs a Leap Year, Too
Alien civilizations on other worlds would need much more awkward contortions to their calendars than we make here on Earth.
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