Scientists developed a new lithium-sulphur battery with a capacity five times higher than that of lithium-ion batteries, which maintains an efficiency of 99% for more than 200 cycles, and may keep a smartphone charged for five days. It could lead to cheaper electric cars and grid energy storage.
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Found: Crater From Asteroid Impact That Covered 10% of Earth's Surface in Debris
The crater sits beneath a plain of hardened lava formed after the meteorite's impact.
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Frances Arnold retracts paper
A Nobel laureate is being praised for retracting a scientific paper that was not reproducible.
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Prominent cancer researcher loses nine papers, making 10
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) has retracted nine papers in bulk by a group of cancer researchers in New York led by the prominent scientist Andrew Dannenberg. The work of Dannenberg's group at Weill Cornell — and the figures in particular — has been the subject of scrutiny on PubPeer for more than two … Continue reading
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Nissan Exec Suggests EV Charging Is Too Hard for Women
The Worst Hey ladies, back me up: Isn't it just the worst when you go to charge your electric car and the cable is so darn heavy . Sometimes it feels like your dainty little lady arms are liable to just fall right off under the weight. That's the bizarre kind of conversation Ivan Espinosa, global product strategist for Japanese automaker Nissan , apparently believes female owners of the company's
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The past, present and future of nicotine addiction | Mitch Zeller
Tobacco use remains the leading cause of preventable disease and death in the United States, killing more people each year than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murder and suicide combined. Follow health policy expert Mitch Zeller into the murky depths of the tobacco industry as he details the sordid history of nicotine addiction — and invites us to imagine a world where policy change
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Excellent earplugs for everyday situations
These options can protect your eardrums from unnecessary damage. (Claire Benoist/) Standing too close to the speakers at a concert or heavy machinery at work can permanently damage your hearing. A solid set of plugs will protect your eardrums, but ensuring you have enough noise reduction is crucial. Consider these options—each blocks an increasing number of decibels—for everything from flying to
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5 Things That Will Help Keep Your Microbiome Healthy
A healthy diet and lifestyle will help keep your gut microbes — and you — happy.
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The Steady State: When Astronomers Tried to Overthrow the Big Bang
Some astronomers didn't like the religious implications of a universe with a beginning. Their alternative was the so-called "steady state model."
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Yale study urges lifesaving drug treatment to combat Ukraine's HIV epidemic
A new study led by Yale University researchers finds that scaling up use of methadone and buprenorphine could greatly reduce HIV transmission rates and prevent deaths in Ukraine.
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How to Make a Tree With Fractals
A physicist dilates on the delights of nature's intricate geometry.
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Iran may launch "destructive" cyberattacks against the US, experts warn
"Disruptive and destructive" cyberattacks could be the fallout after President Trump targeted Iran's military leader in a drone strike.
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Hermit crabs may offer insights into wealth inequality
Hermit crabs can teach us about wealth inequality, according to a new study. The distribution of the empty snail shells in which hermit crabs live was surprisingly similar to the distribution of wealth in human societies, the research finds. "Although people and hermit crabs are unlike in many ways, there is one big similarity: humans and hermit crabs both have possessions," says lead author Ivan
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The Australian Wildfires Are So Bad You Can See Them From Space
Big Picture Australia is in the midst of an environmental catastrophe, with raging wildfires making parts of the nation look like a blood-red apocalyptic hellscape. As dramatic as the scene on the ground might be, though, the view from above may be even more disturbing — as images of the wildfires taken from space show the full extent of the devastation. View from Above On Friday, Business Inside
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Water lily genome holds clues to flower plant evolution
The genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering plants. Researchers used high-throughput next-generation sequencing technology to read out the water lily's ( Nymphaea colorata ) genome and transcriptome—the set of all genes expressed as RNAs. The unusual high quality and depth of coverage of the sequence allowed the researchers to
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The Books Briefing: On Self-Progress
While resolutions are notorious for being abandoned not far into the new calendar year, really any time of year is a good time to refine the way you inhabit the world. When going through her midlife crisis at age 50, the writer Alison Gopnik said the philosopher David Hume's A T reatise of Human Nature— which argues that the beauty of life is the experience of living itself, without concern for t
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Johnson & Johnson Sued Over Baby Powder by New Mexico
The lawsuit claims the company targeted minority women and children despite being aware of the risk of asbestos in talc.
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How Iran's Hackers Might Strike Back After Soleimani's Assassination
From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal.
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Trump Cultivated His Own Credibility Crisis on Iran
Updated on Friday, January 3, 2019, at 3:37 p.m. ET. More so than any other president in the modern era, Donald Trump has made his administration a one-man spectacle. He hires and fires officials on impulse, demonstrating at every turn that the people under him are disposable and he's the only figure who counts. Should the conflict with Iran escalate into a hot war, Trump will be the one who need
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A new battery could keep your phone charged for five days
An ultra-high capacity lithium-sulphur battery that could keep a smartphone charged for five days may pave the way for cheaper electric cars
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China has made huge strides cleaning up its polluted rivers
Pollutants in Chinese rivers fell by 63 per cent over 15 years, and oxygen in the water increased – which suggests strict regulations are working
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A molecule in your skin may explain why some cosmetics cause rashes
People's skin can become inflamed when they wear cosmetics because a molecule in the skin triggers an immune response – but the reaction may be reversible
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Beware Tyrannosaurus Rex Teenagers and Their Growth Spurts
Fossils that some scientists thought to be a separate species were likely adolescent Tyrannosaurus rexes, a new study says.
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The case of the elusive Majorana: The so-called 'angel particle' is still a mystery
A 2017 report of the discovery of a particular kind of Majorana fermion–the chiral Majorana fermion, referred to as the 'angel particle'–is likely a false alarm, according to new research.
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Clusters of gold atoms form peculiar pyramidal shape
Freestanding clusters of twenty gold atoms take the shape of a pyramid, researchers discovered. This is in contrast with most elements, which organize themselves by forming shells around one central atom. The team of researchers led by KU Leuven published their findings in Science Advances.
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Supercharging tomorrow: Monash develops world's most efficient lithium-sulfur battery
Monash University researchers are on the brink of commercializing the world's most efficient lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four times, and power Australia and other global markets well into the future.
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China's inland surface water quality significantly improves
A new study shows that China's inland surface water quality improved significantly from 2003-2017, coinciding with major efforts beginning in 2001 to reduce water pollution in the country.
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Oregon scientist shows possible path to improved bone-repair procedures
Researchers are closer to improved spinal fusion procedures and repairing broken or defective bones. In a preclinical study, researchers reduced undesired bone growth outside of targeted repair areas in rat femurs by delivering bone morphogenetic protein combined with a new biomaterial made from heparin.
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Study explains why some creams and cosmetics may cause a skin rash
Some compounds found in many personal care products displace natural fat-like molecules in skin cells, which may explain how they cause an allergic skin rash.
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'Molecular missing link' may explain allergic reactions to personal care products
Investigators have uncovered a new molecular mechanism by which common components of consumer products can trigger an immune response, highlighting a specific molecular connection that may explain the mystery behind these cases of ACD.
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Segway's S-Pod Brings the Hoverchairs From 'WALL-E' to Life – You'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand up.
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Scientists create a new, laser-driven light sail that can stabilize itself by diffracting light as it travels through the solar system and beyond.
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Former GAM chief: Beware the dark side of mind-reading AI – Science fiction has a warning about developing mind-reading technology without any proper framework for how to control it — it should be heeded
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AECEA says China will add up to 31 GW of solar in 2020
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Workplace Wellness Comes for the Working Class
In the last days of 2019, as millions of Americans were contemplating their resolutions for the year ahead, the moving-and-storage company U-Haul set one for all of its future employees. The company announced that starting February 1, it will stop hiring people who use nicotine in the 21 states where such a prohibition is legal, including Texas, Florida, and Massachusetts. Seventeen of those stat
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Chinas improving inland surface water quality since 2003
Increased human activity threatens inland water quality in China. Major efforts have been made to alleviate water pollution since 2001. Understanding how water quality responds to these forces can help to guide future efforts to maintain water security and sustainability. We here analyzed the nationwide variability of inland water quality across China from 2003 to 2017 and its responses to anthro
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Stick-slip dynamics of cell adhesion triggers spontaneous symmetry breaking and directional migration of mesenchymal cells on one-dimensional lines
Directional cell motility relies on the ability of single cells to establish a front-rear polarity and can occur in the absence of external cues. The initiation of migration has often been attributed to the spontaneous polarization of cytoskeleton components, while the spatiotemporal evolution of cell-substrate interaction forces has yet to be resolved. Here, we establish a one-dimensional microf
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An electrically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor green laser
Surface-emitting semiconductor lasers have been widely used in data communications, sensing, and recently in Face ID and augmented reality glasses. Here, we report the first achievement of an all-epitaxial, distributed Bragg reflector (DBR)–free electrically injected surface-emitting green laser by exploiting the photonic band edge modes formed in dislocation-free gallium nitride nanocrystal arra
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The genetic mechanism of selfishness and altruism in parent-offspring coadaptation
The social bond between parents and offspring is characterized by coadaptation and balance between altruistic and selfish tendencies. However, its underlying genetic mechanism remains poorly understood. Using transcriptomic screens in the subsocial European earwig, Forficula auricularia , we found the expression of more than 1600 genes associated with experimentally manipulated parenting. We iden
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N-induced lattice contraction generally boosts the hydrogen evolution catalysis of P-rich metal phosphides
P-rich transition metal phosphides (TMPs) with abundant P sites have been predicted to be more favorable for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysis. However, the actual activities of P-rich TMPs do not behave as expected, and the underlying essence especially at the atomic level is also ambiguous. Our structural analysis reveals the inferior activity could stem from the reduced overlap of at
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Summer soil drying exacerbated by earlier spring greening of northern vegetation
Earlier vegetation greening under climate change raises evapotranspiration and thus lowers spring soil moisture, yet the extent and magnitude of this water deficit persistence into the following summer remain elusive. We provide observational evidence that increased foliage cover over the Northern Hemisphere, during 1982–2011, triggers an additional soil moisture deficit that is further carried o
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Citrus polymethoxyflavones attenuate metabolic syndrome by regulating gut microbiome and amino acid metabolism
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is intricately linked to dysregulation of gut microbiota and host metabolomes. Here, we first find that a purified citrus polymethoxyflavone-rich extract (PMFE) potently ameliorates high-fat diet (HFD)–induced MetS, alleviates gut dysbiosis, and regulates branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) metabolism using 16 S rDNA amplicon sequencing and metabolomic profiling. The metabo
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Present-day volcanism on Venus as evidenced from weathering rates of olivine
At least some of Venus' lava flows are thought to be 2 O 3 ). With increasing alteration, the VNIR 1000-nm absorption, characteristic of olivine, also weakens within days. Our results indicate that lava flows lacking VNIR features due to hematite are no more than several years old. Therefore, Venus is volcanically active now.
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Inverse design of porous materials using artificial neural networks
Generating optimal nanomaterials using artificial neural networks can potentially lead to a notable revolution in future materials design. Although progress has been made in creating small and simple molecules, complex materials such as crystalline porous materials have yet to be generated using any of the neural networks. Here, we have implemented a generative adversarial network that uses a tra
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Bio-coal: A renewable and massively producible fuel from lignocellulosic biomass
Development of renewable energy is essential to mitigating the fossil fuel shortage and climate change issues. Here, we propose to produce a new type of energy, bio-coal, via a fast pyrolysis coupled with atmospheric distillation process. The high heating values of the as-prepared bio-coals from the representative biomass are within 25.4 to 28.2 MJ kg –1 , which are comparable to that of the comm
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Heparin-mediated delivery of bone morphogenetic protein-2 improves spatial localization of bone regeneration
Supraphysiologic doses of bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) are used clinically to promote bone formation in fracture nonunions, large bone defects, and spinal fusion. However, abnormal bone formation (i.e., heterotopic ossification) caused by rapid BMP-2 release from conventional collagen sponge scaffolds is a serious complication. We leveraged the strong affinity interactions between heparin
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Expansion-tolerant architectures for stable cycling of ultrahigh-loading sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries
Lithium-sulfur batteries can displace lithium-ion by delivering higher specific energy. Presently, however, the superior energy performance fades rapidly when the sulfur electrode is loaded to the required levels—5 to 10 mg cm –2 — due to substantial volume change of lithiation/delithiation and the resultant stresses. Inspired by the classical approaches in particle agglomeration theories, we fou
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Unraveling the atomic structure, ripening behavior, and electronic structure of supported Au20 clusters
The free-standing Au 20 cluster has a unique tetrahedral shape and a large HOMO-LUMO (highest occupied molecular orbital–lowest unoccupied molecular orbital) gap of around 1.8 electron volts. The "magic" Au 20 has been intensively used as a model system for understanding the catalytic and optical properties of gold nanoclusters. However, direct real-space ground-state characterization at the atom
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China's inland surface water quality significantly improves
A new study shows that China's inland surface water quality improved significantly from 2003-2017, coinciding with major efforts beginning in 2001 to reduce water pollution in the country.
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The Schism at the Heart of the Open-Source Movement
For the past two years, software engineers and systems administrators from San Jose to Seattle have engaged in the tech industry's latest rite of passage: reading the news to discover that their employer contributed to something they find unethical. In 2018, Google workers learned of the company's secret U.S. military contract and state-censorship search project in China from media reports. In Fe
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Now the Courts Will Decide Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees
A California law aimed at requiring gig economy companies to classify workers as employees took effect January 1. That hardly settled the matter.
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Water lily genome expands picture of the early evolution of flowering plants
The newly reported genome sequence of a water lily sheds light on the early evolution of angiosperms, the group of all flowering plants.
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Segway's New "Personal Transporter Pod" Looks Really Familiar
Déja Vu It seems life really does imitate art — for better or worse. On Friday, Segway-Ninebot announced several new transportation products it plans to unveil at next week's Consumer Electronics Show — and as pointed out by Wired , one of them looks eerily similar to the hover chairs featured in the post-apocalyptic Pixar film "WALL-E." Segway S-Pod The device is called the Segway S-Pod, and lik
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Keep your valuables safe with these nifty belts and bags
Go worry-free on your next vacation. (Ferran Feixas via Unsplash/) Money belts are a must for traveling; they keep your important documents, money, and cards safe, secure, and in order. Take advantage of the certainty these products bring beyond travel, from outdoor exercise to nights on the town. Depending on where you're going and what you're carrying, you'll want to factor in size, how easy th
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Tweeting the Talmud
"The words of the Torah should be burned rather than entrusted to women." This is the stinging opinion of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, a second-century Jewish scholar, as expressed in the Talmud, a 63-volume work of intricate Jewish legal debates, composed from the second to sixth centuries and redacted in Babylonia. Only a few women are mentioned in its 2,711 pages. The very same sage elsewhere s
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Ice on Earth's rivers is in rapid decline
The amount of ice in the Earth's rivers has declined rapidly over the past three decades, and the trend is likely to continue, researches report. Rivers that seasonably freeze over drain more than a third of the Earth's land mass. Examining more than 400,000 satellite images over the past 34 years, researchers found that the overall amount of river ice has declined, and will almost certainly cont
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2D and 3D combo could keep Moore's Law going
Ultra-compact, yet high-performing electronic chips could overcome the challenges that face conventional integrated circuits and maintain Moore's Law indefinitely, researchers say. To create the chips, researchers would take advantage of relatively new and promising two-dimensional (2D) materials and combining them with monolithic 3D (M3D) integration practices. Moore's Law says that the number o
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Our newest alien comet may have been born out of a dying star's vomit
Cosmic gunk expelled from a dying star like this one in the Aquarius constellation might be able to congeal into a comet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/) Just about every clump of ice, rock or gas in our solar system, from Halley's comet to Earth to Jupiter, formed the same way: from a swirling cloud of dust and gas left over after the birth of the sun. So when astronomers spotted an unknown object coming sc
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Color-Changing Fibers Unravel a Knotty Mystery
Mathematicians are devising new techniques to better predict how to tie strong knots that are useful in climbing and sailing — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Color-Changing Fibers Unravel a Knotty Mystery
Mathematicians are devising new techniques to better predict how to tie strong knots that are useful in climbing and sailing — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Study: US presidents play surprising role in driving corporate social responsibility
A new study by San Francisco State University Assistant Professor of Management Nara Jeong suggests that CEOs look to the White House for leadership on social responsibility—but not the way you might expect. It turns out that corporate leaders are less likely to act on their values when they're in agreement with the president. And their social responsibility efforts increase when they don't agree
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Study: US presidents play surprising role in driving corporate social responsibility
A president's political party plays a big role in corporate social responsibility efforts, reveals new research from San Francisco State's Lam Family College of Business.
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Dominic Cummings wants 'weirdos' to help run the UK. Will it work?
A senior adviser to the UK's prime minister suggests policy-making can be improved by training AI on government data, but the researchers he cites say they aren't so sure
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Kunstig intelligens bedre til at opdage brystkræft end britiske og amerikanske læger
Der er dog et stykke vej til, at teknologien kan bruges i Danmark, siger ekspert.
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Syd Mead, 86, Maker of Future Worlds in 'Blade Runner' and More, Dies
In a wide-ranging career, he designed cars, restaurants and, most notably, the otherworldly look of science-fiction movies.
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Harvard Researchers Find Microbial Toxin in JUUL Pods
A team of scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found traces of two microbial toxins, endotoxin and glucan, in vaping company Juul's nicotine vaping pods. Endotoxin is a microbial agent and a component of the exterior cell wall of certain types of bacteria, including E. coli. Luckily, endotoxin levels were found to be below the limit of detection in Juul's pods according to
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Australia Is Blazing Into the Pyrocene—the Age of Fire
Australia's bushfires have scorched millions of acres, putting millions of people at risk. Welcome to the hellish future of life on Earth.
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Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime
There was a case for killing Major General Qassem Soleimani. For two decades, as the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, he executed Iran's long game of strategic depth in the Middle East—arming and guiding proxy militias in Lebanon and Iraq that became stronger than either state, giving Bashar al-Assad essential support to win the Syrian civil war at the cost of half a million liv
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Researchers develop predictive tools to tackle childhood diarrheal disease outbreaks
In 2006, more than 400 children under the age of 5 died during an outbreak of diarrheal disease in Botswana. In what was a 25-fold increase in diarrheal disease mortality for this age group, citizens of the country were devastated.
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Self Driving Cars can Cruise to avoid paying for parking.
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Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
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Vietnam water shortages warned as reservoirs run dry. Some reservoirs in the northern part of the region had fallen to 66 per cent capacity, reported the irrigation department.
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A Road Map to 100 Percent Renewable Energy in 139 Countries by 2050
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This Three-Wheeled Trike Boasts a Sub-4-Second 0-60MPH Time & A 1,000-Mile Range
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2020 in foresight: Flying taxis, self-driving tech consolidation and other predictions
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2010 – 2019: The rise of deep learning
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Hydrogen Startup develops solid Hydrogen storage solution
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This is what it looks like when the climate crisis destroys your home
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Tech's Biggest Leaps From the Last 10 Years, and Why They Matter
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Researchers develop predictive tools to tackle childhood diarrheal disease outbreaks
In 2006, more than 400 children under the age of 5 died during an outbreak of diarrheal disease in Botswana. In what was a 25-fold increase in diarrheal disease mortality for this age group, citizens of the country were devastated.
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Microbes from humics lakes produced omega-3 fatty acids from microplastics
The environmental fate of microplastics has been difficult to trace. A research group led by the University of Jyväskylä used carbon isotope labeling to follow the fate of polyethylene in the food chain. For the surprise of the researchers, plastic carbon was transformed even to beneficial fatty acids, omega-3 and omega-6, by the microbes originating from humic lakes. The research was published in
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Virtual Music Star Hatsune Miku to Perform at Coachella
On Thursday, organizers announced the 2020 lineup for arguably the most-hyped music festival in the world: Coachella. As rumored, Rage Against the Machine, Frank Ocean, and Travis Scott are set to headline the April event — but sharing the stage with some of the biggest artists alive today will be one who isn't alive at all: virtual pop star Hatsune Miku. Miku is a blue-haired, computer-generated
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Eight apps to make your New Year resolutions stick
The year is just beginning. You've got this. (Li Zhongfei via Deposit Photos/) When it comes to trying to improve your life and well-being in 2020, know that you're not alone—help is on hand from your friends, your family, and yes, even your smartphone. No matter what your aims are, tap on your app store and give yourself a better chance of becoming part of that 20 percent that actually succeeds
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EPA Science Board Criticizes Proposed Regulatory Rollbacks
Most of the panel's members were appointed by the Trump administration.
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The Advances that Will Shape Life Sciences in the 2020s
Systems biologist Steven Wiley says advancements in two areas–single-cell biology and CRISPR–are poised to transform research.
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Volcanic ash reveals historic eruption's epic scale
Nature, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03930-5 The explosive outburst in what is now Peru was much bigger than scientists had realized.
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Mineral-coated sand soaks up water pollution
Engineers have developed a mineral-coated sand that can soak up toxic metals like lead and cadmium from water. Along with its ability to destroy organic pollutants like bisphenol A, this material could help cities tap into stormwater, an abundant but underused water source. Researchers knew that the naturally occurring minerals they coated onto sand could react with organic contaminants like pest
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A prospective three-year follow-up study on the clinical significance of anti-neuronal antibodies in acute psychiatric disorders
Scientific Reports, Published online: 31 December 2019; doi:10.1038/s41598-019-56934-6
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Versatile bile acids
Could bile acids — the fat-dissolving juices churned out by the liver and gallbladder — also play a role in immunity and inflammation?The answer appears to be yes, according to two separate Harvard Medical School studies published in Nature.
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Researchers develop predictive tools to tackle childhood diarrheal disease outbreaks
Kathy Alexander, a professor of fish and wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech discovered an astonishing and robust link between environmental change and environmental dynamics, which ties human health to the health of the ecosystem. With this knowledge, researchers will be able to predict when diarrheal disease will reoccur.
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Kids twice as likely to eat healthy after watching cooking shows with healthy food
Television programs featuring healthy foods can be a key ingredient in leading children to make healthier food choices now and into adulthood. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, found kids who watched a child-oriented cooking show featuring healthy food were 2.7 times more likely to make a healthy food choice than those who watched a different ep
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Time for a closer look at Pyrethroid insecticides
Columbia professors offer their perspective on a recent study on Pyrethroid, among the most widely used insecticides for public health control of vector-borne illnesses, including West Nile virus. While the insecticides are generally regarded as posing low health risks to humans in ordinary exposure situations, results show a 50 percent increase in total mortality and three-fold increase in heart
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Brain Scientists Tap Secrets of Staying Healthy While Aging
Promoting "healthspan" involves exercise and games — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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MIT: A "Dynamo" Inside the Moon Shut Down a Billion Years Ago
Moon Energy Billions of years ago, scientists believe that the Moon had a magnetic field, much like Earth's. But that field shut down at some point — and a team of MIT scientists now say it was because of a crystallizing iron core that shut down an ancient "dynamo" inside the natural satellite about a billion years ago. One Billion Years "The magnetic field is this nebulous thing that pervades sp
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Low-commitment fire pits for nights spent with friends (and their ghost stories)
Where the best conversations happen. ( Sanjeev Grover via Unsplash/) Nothing makes a camping trip or a night out in the backyard more enjoyable than a meal and conversation enjoyed around a fire. Fire-gazing was even once a form of flame-based reverie, in which one stared into the amorphous nature of jumping flames and saw arbitrary images. Get yourself a fire pit, give yourself a break from star
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Brain Scientists Tap Secrets of Staying Healthy While Aging
Promoting "healthspan" involves exercise and games — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Mathematics of Opt Art
In his new book, Robert Bosch explains the optimization tools he uses to create intricate and playful images — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Research offers new way to assess an organization's public relations
Communication and marketing experts place great weight on an organization's relationship with its public stakeholders, and a new tool allows organizations to better measure and describe the nature of these relationships.
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Less offspring due to territorial conflicts
Both humans and chimpanzees can be extremely territorial, and territorial disputes between groups can turn violent, with individuals killing each other. In humans, such between-group competition can escalate to war and devastating loss of human life. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology studied wild Western chimpanzees to find out whether territorial behavior may
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Less offspring due to territorial conflicts
Both humans and chimpanzees can be extremely territorial, and territorial disputes between groups can turn violent, with individuals killing each other. In humans, such between-group competition can escalate to war and devastating loss of human life. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology studied wild Western chimpanzees to find out whether territorial behavior may
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Breakthrough study on molecular interactions could improve development of new medicines
A first-of-its-kind study on molecular interactions by biomedical engineers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering will make it easier and more efficient for scientists to develop new medicines and other therapies for diseases such as cancer, HIV and autoimmune diseases.
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There's lots of 'hidden' innovation in rural areas
A more comprehensive measure of innovation suggests it isn't exclusive to big cities. The "hidden" innovation of rural areas brings economic benefits to businesses and communities, according to researchers, whose findings will help decision makers think in new ways about innovation and how they can support it. "The way we traditionally measure innovation is very narrow, and focuses primarily on n
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Air pollution can worsen bone health
A new study by the CHAI Project with over 3,700 people in India associates air pollution with a higher risk to develop osteoporosis.
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Sound bars for space-saving audio excellence
Upgrade your sound. (Amazon/) We can create exceptionally clear recordings in surround sound with incredible special effects—but we often listen to media through compressed streaming files on tiny devices, with even tinier speakers. Sound bars are a great middle ground to appreciate everything your TV has to offer without turning your living room into a multi-channel speaker showroom. These super
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Breakthrough study on molecular interactions could improve development of new medicines
A first-of-its-kind study on molecular interactions by biomedical engineers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering will make it easier and more efficient for scientists to develop new medicines and other therapies for diseases such as cancer, HIV and autoimmune diseases.
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Air ambulance services seriously overcharge patients
The charges for air ambulance services in 2016 hovered between 4.1 and 9.5 times the rate Medicare allows, a new study shows. Publicly insured and in-network patients generally escaped paying full cost, but uninsured and out-of-network patients likely received bills for the whole amount. For-profit companies primarily run air ambulance services in the US—and charges usually consist of an initial
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Air pollution exposure may make our bones become weaker
A study of 3700 people suggests that exposure to air pollution is linked to lower bone mineral content. This may make people more likely to develop osteoporosis
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T. rex teens looked wildly different than the adults we're familiar with
What T-rex looked like during its teen years—whether it was a mini version of its adult self or distinctively shaped—has been an ongoing controversy in the paleontology world. There's a reason that Tyrannosaurus rex has earned its reputation as the king of dinosaurs. Its massive size and powerful, bone-crunching jaws made T-rex a force to reckon with (or, more likely, flee from). But the species
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Ocean Acidification Threatens the U.S. Economy
A new federal report points to major potential losses in key fisheries and protective coral reefs — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The "opportunity gap" in US public education — and how to close it | Anindya Kundu
How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep students from thriving in the United States — and shows how closing this "opportunity gap" means valuing public education for what it really is: the greatest investment
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Marketing tool measures PR in good times and bad
A new tool allows organizations to better measure and describe the nature of an organization's relationship with its public stakeholders to inform public relations and marketing. "Traditionally, these relationships are measured using questionnaires, which provide only a static snapshot of how one party viewed an organization," says coauthor Yang Cheng, an assistant professor of communication at N
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Breakthrough study on molecular interactions could improve development of new medicines
A first-of-its-kind study on molecular interactions by biomedical engineers in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering will make it easier and more efficient for scientists to develop new medicines and other therapies for diseases such as cancer, HIV, and autoimmune diseases.
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A NASA Astronaut Got a Blood Clot In Space
During a long-term mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA astronaut developed a blood clot in their jugular vein, the space agency has revealed. With the closest emergency room a Soyuz rocket ride away, NASA had to call up an expert. "When the astronaut called my home phone, my wife answered and then passed the phone to me with the comment, 'Stephan, a phone call for you from spac
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Using gene therapy to treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy
A new study shows the feasibility of using gene therapy to treat the progressive neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
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Radical treatment of chronic oral infection before stem cell transplantation not necessary
A recently published study indicates that oral infections seem to have no association with the risk of stem cell transplantation patients dying of or getting a serious infection within six months of the procedure.
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Research identifies changes in neural circuits underlying self-control during adolescence
Penn researchers applied tools from network science to identify how anatomical connections in the brain develop to support neural activity underlying executive function.
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Novel human virus? Pneumonia cases linked to seafood market in China stir concern
The health department of Wuhan initially reported 27 cases, but on Friday upped the number to 44
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Q&A: How climate change, other factors stoke Australia fires
Australia's unprecedented wildfires are supercharged thanks to climate change, the type of trees catching fire and weather, experts say.
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Less offspring due to territorial conflicts
Territorial conflicts can turn violent in humans and chimpanzees, two extremely territorial species. An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has studied the effects of territoriality on female reproductive success in wild Western chimpanzees and found that high neighbor pressure at times when females typically reproduce
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Research offers new way to assess an organization's public relations
Communication and marketing experts place great weight on an organization's relationship with its public stakeholders, and a new tool allows organizations to better measure and describe the nature of these relationships.
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Working toward protective values for metals in aquatic systems based on the latest science
In a newly published series appearing in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, researchers describe the current state of the science, the challenges, and science-based best practices for modeling the influence of water chemistry on the toxicity of metals, which is a critical step in calculating protective metal concentrations in water for the protection of aquatic life.
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How diet affects mental health — what's the evidence?
A new expert review confirms that diet significantly influences mental health and wellbeing, but cautions that the evidence for many diets is comparatively weak. This, the most up to date overview of the new field of Nutritional Psychiatry, is produced, by the Nutrition Network of the ECNP and is published in the peer-reviewed journal European Neuropsychopharmacology.
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Laundry accessories to make your life a little easier
Take a load off. (Nik MacMillan via Unsplash/) Laundry is the chore that never ends. You've probably done it so many times that you don't even think about it anymore—and it's easy to miss the little tweaks that can save time, money, and your back. Here are a few products that fix common problems and make a dreary chore just a bit more bearable. Put these cuties to work. (Amazon/) Keep wet clothes
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Older People Need Geriatricians. Where Will They Come From?
The medical profession has been troubled for years by a persistent shortage of doctors who treat the oldest and sickest patients.
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Excellent ultra-thin laptops for working on the go
Dependable without being bulky. (Bench Accounting via Unsplash/) With the rise of freelancing, side hustles, and streaming entertainment, having a good laptop is essential to both work and play. When your smartphone's screen size and iPad's app choice just don't cut it, a zippy laptop with a lot of storage and minimal bulk is ideal. These four excellent options offer the best hardware and softwar
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How the extinction of Ice Age mammals may have forced humans to invent civilization
Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilization—harvesting, then domestication of crop plants—began only around 10,000 years ago, with the first civilizations appearing 6,400 years ago.
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Qassem Soleimani Haunted the Arab World
A protester hits a poster of Qassem Soleimani during anti-government protests in Baghdad in November 2019. (Associated Press) BEIRUT—As soon as Qassem Soleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was confirmed dead, lawyers and lawmakers in Washington began their debates. Was the strike that killed him legal? How would the attack play into the political cyc
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The World's Largest Floating Wind Farm Is Here – Located off the coast of Portugal, the WindFloat Atlantic wind farm connected to the grid on New Year's Eve, meet Portugal's goal to become carbon-neutral by 2050.
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EU Patent Office Rejects Two Patent Applications In Which An AI Was Designated As The Inventor
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UK Royals' "Earthshot Prize" Aims to Save the Planet by 2030
Tipping Point On Tuesday, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced the Earthshot Prize , an initiative designed to solve Earth's greatest environmental problems before 2030. "The earth is at a tipping point," Prince William said in a statement , "and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet or we remember our unique power as human beings and our co
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Why more couples are choosing to live apart
For many couples, moving in together signifies a big step in the relationship. Traditionally, this meant marriage, although nowadays most cohabit before getting married, or splitting up. But there is a third choice: living apart together.
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Tech's Biggest Leaps From the Last 10 Years, and Why They Matter
As we enter our third decade in the 21st century, it seems appropriate to reflect on the ways technology developed and note the breakthroughs that were achieved in the last 10 years. The 2010s saw IBM's Watson win a game of Jeopardy, ushering in mainstream awareness of machine learning, along with DeepMind's AlphaGO becoming the world's Go champion. It was the decade that industrial tools like dr
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Electron 'track switch' sheds light on photosynthesis
Researchers have reversed electrons' course in the reaction center of photosynthetic bacteria—advancing understanding of the earliest light-driven events of photosynthesis. Photosynthetic organisms have a switch point that's similar to a split in train tracks where a train always goes right. After sunlight is absorbed, energy transfers rapidly to a protein called the reaction center. From this po
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One-step generation of zebrafish carrying a conditional knockout-knockin visible switch
Here researchers report an efficient non-HR-based method for generating zebrafish carrying a CKO and knockin (KI) switch (zCKOIS) coupled with dual-color fluorescent reporters. Using this strategy, they generated hey2zCKOIS which served as a hey2 KI reporter with EGFP expression. Upon Cre induction in targeted cells, the hey2zCKOIS was switched to a non-functional CKO allele hey2zCKOIS-inv associa
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Color superlensing to assist in surpassing diffraction barrier
The research was supported by a Russian Science Foundation's grant under the title 'Synthesis and research of a new class of nanocomposite ceramics with degenerate dielectric permeability for opto-plasmonic applications.'
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Researchers identify key structure of C. difficle bacteria that could lead to future treatments
Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and their colleagues have identified the structure of the most lethal toxin produced by certain strains of Clostridium difficile bacteria, a potentially deadly infection associated with the use of antibiotics. The researchers mapped out the delivery and binding components of the toxin, which could pave the way for new drugs to neutrali
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The Complicated Role of Iron in Ocean Health and Climate Change
Iron dust may have played a significant role in the last ice age, and it could be an important factor in mitigating future global temperature increases
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The Couples Who Sleep 'Together' Over Videochat
Kaci Alvarez, a 20-year-old journalism student living in Ontario, Canada, used to watch YouTube videos before going to bed. Her ears ring, and she found that the sounds of some online videos, especially the voice of a YouTuber named Ryan Klepacs, relieved the din. Two years ago, after Alvarez tuned into a live video Q&A that Klepacs hosted for fans, the two met, and they quickly started dating de
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Mystiske dronesværme overflyver Colorado og Nebraska
Hverken offentlige myndigheder eller private har taget ansvaret for flere ugers natlige flyvninger med store fastvingede droner over USA's Midtvesten.
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The Top 10 Weather and Climate Stories of 2019
Near-record Arctic melting, a bountiful but deadly monsoon and three highly destructive tropical cyclones highlight the earth's second warmest year on record — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Buyers should beware of organic labels on nonfood products
Product labels offer valuable information to consumers, but manufacturers can misuse them to increase profits. This is particularly true for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's organic label.
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Planetary nebula WR 72 has hydrogen-poor knots, study finds
Using the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic and imaging observations of the planetary nebula WR 72. They discovered hydrogen-poor knots in the central part of the nebula, which could be helpful in improving knowledge about the nature of this object. The finding is detailed in a paper published December 23 on arXiv.org.
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Pollution from Heathrow detected in central London
In a study published in Environment International researchers from King's have, for the first time, measured ultrafine particles (UFP) in European cities and detected emissions from airports.
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Looking back at a New Horizons New Year's to remember
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
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Proteins writhe like snakes to help fold up DNA
A look at the dynamics of essential proteins that help DNA fold into its compact, functional form in chromosomes reveals that a key protein's "coiled coils" braid around each other and writhe like snakes as they form bigger loops in the DNA. The loops, in turn, bring together sites on DNA that regulate the transcription of genetic messages. While the loops and their functions are becoming better
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'Super' simulations offer fresh insight into serotonin receptors
Scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a way to detect the molecular mechanism by which 5HT3A, a serotonin receptor located at the neuron synapse, is activated. Having a molecular model of this activation will allow the testing of pharmaceuticals inhibitors using computer models instead of traditional experiments
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Ferocious fires in Australia intensify
As the New Year starts, the outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim. These huge and disastrous fires continue to burn ferociously and with abandon, and reports have come out that the fires have actually intensified in the last 12 hours. NOAA-NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured imagery of the fires and the resultant billowing smoke cascading off the edge of Australia on
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'Super' simulations offer fresh insight into serotonin receptors
Scientists at the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered a way to detect the molecular mechanism by which 5HT3A, a serotonin receptor located at the neuron synapse, is activated. Having a molecular model of this activation will allow the testing of pharmaceuticals inhibitors using computer models instead of traditional experiments
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This Tiny Particle Accelerator Fits on a Microchip
For Ants Particle accelerators are usually large. The Large Hadron Collider, for instance, is 17 miles in circumference. But now a team of scientists at Stanford have created a silicon chip that can act as a particle accelerator — and it's only 30 micrometers long, about the width of a human hair. Smallville On the most basic level, particle accelerators are machines that speed up beams of charge
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Hispanic neighborhoods may need more CPR training
People in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods are less likely to receive CPR from a bystander, a new study shows. The findings confirm that the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood where a person experiences sudden cardiac arrest has a lot to do with whether they will survive the event, researchers say. "Identifying these disparities highlights an important public health problem and leads us to thi
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A Very Public Retraction. Good.
Word came out yesterday from Frances Arnold of Caltech (via her Twitter account ) that she and her co-authors are retracting this paper from Science . The retraction notice itself has the details: After publication of the Report "Site-selective enzymatic C‒H amidation for synthesis of diverse lactams" ( 1 ), efforts to reproduce the work showed that the enzymes do not catalyze the reactions with
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Families of kids with autism face burnout and false accusations
Families of children with autism face high physical, mental, and emotional burdens, are sometimes face ridicule and accusations of child abuse, according to a new small study. The study surveyed 25 caregivers of 16 children ages 2 to 20 with autism spectrum disorder to evaluate how their care affected their family dynamics, physical and mental health, and social functioning. The researchers also
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Public Health Depends on Reproducible Research
To fight emerging microbial threats, scientists need to work with materials they can count on — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Over 65,000 hen to be culled in bird flu outbreak in Poland
Authorities in western Poland say they have ordered the culling of at least 65,000 hen at a farm affected by bird flu that seems to have spread from the east.
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Over 65,000 hen to be culled in bird flu outbreak in Poland
Authorities in western Poland say they have ordered the culling of at least 65,000 hen at a farm affected by bird flu that seems to have spread from the east.
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A pilot passed out while flying an F-15 over Oregon. Here's what happened next.
An F-15C on an unrelated flight in Nevada in November, 2019. (US Air Force / Airman 1st Class Bryan Guthrie/) In late March of 2019, in a military operating area over Oregon, a student pilot and an instructor were conducting a two-aircraft training mission on basic fighter maneuvers. Each aviator was in their own F-15C jet. It was early afternoon, and the aircraft were at about 18,000 feet. The s
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Amazing cows hold promise in pioneering sustainable food systems of the future
In today's climate change narrative, animal-based agriculture often endures criticism for its alleged contributions to the global problem. With some naysayers ranking the industry second only to the population explosion as a root contributor to global warming and other weather-related devastation, the concern for how food is—and can be—produced has become even more pressing.
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Research sheds light on the moon's dark craters
The next wave of robots to fly to Mars in 2020 could offer scientists an unprecedented understanding of Earth's closest neighboring planet. But there are still mysteries to be solved much closer to home, on Earth's own moon.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to … compost? An ecofriendly burial in just 4 weeks
In Australia, interment in a cemetery or a churchyard has been the most common choices for in-ground burial. Over the past 20 years, though, burial has become a less accessible and more costly option for many people. This is because increasing numbers of deaths have created a boom in demand for burial plots and cemeteries are fast running out of space.
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Everyone wants meaning in their work—but how do you define it?
The end of the year and the dawning of a new one can be a great time to examine happiness and well-being. That quest for meaning will often turn its attention to the workplace.
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Science Conferences Are Stuck in the Dark Ages
Exhausting, expensive, and exclusive, these conferences needs to be modernized. The future of science depends on it.
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Segway's S-Pod Brings the Hoverchairs From 'WALL-E' to Life
You'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand up.
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Public Health Depends on Reproducible Research
To fight emerging microbial threats, scientists need to work with materials they can count on — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sonos om indbygget forældelse: Vi følte, at det var det mest ansvarlige
Smarte højttalere, som er mere end ti år gamle, vil ikke levere den oplevelse, som vores kunder forventer. Sådan begrunder Sonos, hvorfor nogle af modellerne bliver gjort ubrugelige, når kunderne køber nye.
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Twinkling lights to brighten up every space
Illuminate your life. (Anshu A via Unsplash/) Few things can brighten the mood of a home, yard, or office like a string of old-fashioned twinkle lights. There's a reason they're popular for the holidays, but there are no rules against keeping these warm and cozy accent bulbs up all year round. If you've got a dark corner in your living room, or your windows are looking bland, or maybe you want to
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Why Fireworks Look So Bad on TV
Watching fireworks on television is nothing like watching them in real life. Televised fireworks aren't very attractive compared with the experience of watching them live, with dull colors and muted explosions. Best-case, they look flat and uninspiring. Worst-case, they can look like badly rendered CGI. A recent Wired UK article dives into why fireworks are so hard to get right, even on modern te
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Indigenous song keepers reveal traditional ecological knowledge in music
Since the beginning of time, music has been a way of communicating observations of and experiences about the world. For Indigenous Peoples who have lived within their traditional territories for generations, music is a repository of ecological knowledge, with songs embedding ancestors' knowledge, teachings and wisdom.
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A new study finds research gaps in environmental science disciplines across the Arctic
Global warming is driving rapid environmental change in the Arctic. "To understand these changes, field measurements that adequately represent environmental variation across the Arctic as a whole are crucial," says Ph.D. student Anna-Maria Virkkala from the University of Helsinki.
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Climate change: Three ways to market the science to reach the skeptics
Climate change skeptics may be a minority, but they are a sizable one. One in five Americans think that climate change is a myth, or that humans aren't responsible for it. What's more, they're backed up by many in the Middle East and parts of Asia, especially China. They're a vocal minority too—and with the ear of the US president, they are therefore a serious obstacle to collective climate action
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Forget fast cars and shiny Rolexes: Rch people used to show off their wealth with pineapples and celery
A stack of pancakes ladened with syrup, a frothy latte posed next to a white MacBook, a deep pan pizza oozing with cheese. Instagram has made "food porn"—images that portray food in an appetizing or aesthetically appealing way—commonplace. Food is now the most photographed subject on the platform, and #food, #foodporn, #instafood and #yummy are all among the most popular hashtags.
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Novel immunotherapy saves a dog from rare cancer
A novel immunotherapy treatment has saved family dog Griffin from a rare type of cancer, thanks to collaborative research at The University of Queensland.
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Novel immunotherapy saves a dog from rare cancer
A novel immunotherapy treatment has saved family dog Griffin from a rare type of cancer, thanks to collaborative research at The University of Queensland.
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Alien life is out there, but our theories are probably steering us away from it
If we discovered evidence of alien life, would we even realize it? Life on other planets could be so different from what we're used to that we might not recognize any biological signatures that it produces.
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Evidence suggests ancient impact crater buried under Bolaven volcanic field
A team of researchers with members from Singapore, the U.S., Thailand and Laos has concluded that the impact point of a meteorite that struck the Earth approximately 790,000 years ago lies buried beneath a volcanic field in southern Laos. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group outlines four lines of evidence that point to the Bolaven volcanic field a
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Robert Moir on Infectious Alzheimer's
The late researcher shared his thoughts on the pathogenesis of the neurodegenerative disease.
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Border walls could have unintended consequences on trade, study finds
Three decades ago, the world was home to fewer than a dozen border walls. Now, their numbers have swelled to more than 50. In a supposed era of openness and collaboration, why are these structures not only persisting, but proliferating?
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Fertilizer sourced from sewage sludge
Germany's new Waste and Sewage Sludge Ordinance requires large sewage treatment plants to recover phosphates from sewage sludge or ashes as of 2032. Conventional recovery technologies are costly and chemical-laden. A new technology now offers a more affordable, pollution-free alternative. Fraunhofer researchers helped scale up the process.
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New agents to fight multidrug-resistant germs
Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise worldwide. Fraunhofer scientists have joined forces with partners in the Phage4Cure project to explore alternatives to antibiotics. One objective is to vanquish multidrug-resistant pathogens with viruses called bacteriophages. Another is to see these phages approved to treat the dreaded hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most frequent bacterial cause
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Superconductor or not? Exploring the identity crisis of this weird quantum material
Northeastern researchers have used a powerful computer model to probe a puzzling class of copper-based materials that can be turned into superconductors. Their findings offer tantalizing clues for a decades-old mystery, and a step forward for quantum computing.
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Scientists pin down timing of lunar dynamo's demise
A conventional compass would be of little use on the moon, which today lacks a global magnetic field.
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Should We Sequence the Genome of Every Newborn?
Yes, but only if we do it in targeted ways that are attentive to the needs of babies, families and health systems — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New agents to fight multidrug-resistant germs
Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise worldwide. Fraunhofer scientists have joined forces with partners in the Phage4Cure project to explore alternatives to antibiotics. One objective is to vanquish multidrug-resistant pathogens with viruses called bacteriophages. Another is to see these phages approved to treat the dreaded hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the most frequent bacterial cause
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Kids with and without disabilities play together in iGYM
A new augmented reality game system called iGYM aims to create a truly inclusive environment for kids with and without disabilities to play and exercise together. While adaptive sports like powerchair football provide invaluable opportunities for children with mobility disabilities to participate in athletic events, these games are not designed for competitive play between kids with disabilities
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From service to science: NIH shifts focus of mentoring network aimed at boosting grantee diversity
Research gets lion's share of funding for the National Research Mentoring Network 2.0
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1917 Is a Visual Feat and a Bad Movie
Hollywood has long excelled at mining beauty from war . Some of moviemaking's most indelible images have come from dramatizations of battle, from the early Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front to Christopher Nolan's 2017 blockbuster, Dunkirk . Taking any situation, such as the horrifying trench combat of the First World War, and turning it into cinema will smooth away some of the crueler r
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To Store Renewable Energy, Try Freezing Air: renewable electricity from solar or wind to freeze air into a liquid state where it can be kept for hours or even weeks. The frozen air is allowed to warm and turn itself back into a gas. It expands so quickly it spins a turbine for an electric generator.
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Norway records warmest ever January day at 19C – Western Norway is experiencing a rare heatwave for early January, at a time when temperatures should normally be below freezing. The highest temperature of 19C (66F) – more than 25C above the monthly average – a taste of a warmer future.
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Technology in 2050: will it save humanity – or destroy us? Amid the calamitous effects of climate change, artificial intelligence could make the difference between a livable future or a dystopian one
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Rise of #MeTooBots: scientists develop AI to detect harassment in emails – the bots can monitor and flag communications between colleagues and are being introduced by companies around the world.
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Broadest ever therapeutic HPV vaccine to be tested in clinical trial – Treatment could clear up persistent infections and reduce risk of cervical cancer
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Do Forest fires make 1 trillion trees non-viable as climate change remediation?
The Trillion Tree campaign aims to buy us 20 years time by sequestering carbon in 1 trillion new trees, by generating and reforesting massive tracts of land which is now used for grazing and grasslands. However, as the fires in Australia shows, those dense forests would be incredibly vulnerable to fire contagion, especially as the climate dries. So, do massive forest fires make the Trillion Tree
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What CRISPR-baby prison sentences mean for research
Nature, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00001-y Chinese court sends strong signal by punishing He Jiankui and two colleagues.
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Gadget Lab Podcast: CES 2020 Preview
The Gadget Lab crew discusses what they expect to see next week in Las Vegas: facial-recognition tech, 5G everywhere, and self-driving scooters galore.
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Golden Rice Approved in Philippines
This is a quick follow up in the golden rice story (golden rice is a GM rice with added beta carotene, a precursor to vitamin A). I have written about it here , here , and most recently here . The news is that the Philippines have just approved golden rice as safe for human and animal consumption. The US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have already approved golden rice, but these approvals wer
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Image of the Day: Shrinking Dinosaurs
As dinosaurs got smaller, their metabolism increased, paving the way for bird evolution.
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Can Exercise Explain the Health Benefits of Natural Environments?
Researchers found that people who spend more time outdoors also spend more time being active and socializing, but it probably doesn't account for all of the health boost associated with green spaces.
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Should We Sequence the Genome of Every Newborn?
Yes, but only if we do it in targeted ways that are attentive to the needs of babies, families and health systems — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Svensk studie: Hver vesterlænding bruger energi som en dinosaurus på 30.000 kg
Forskere fra KTH i Sverige har omregnet vores samlede energiforbrug per person til madkalorier for at se, hvor store vi ville være, hvis vi spiste hele forbruget. Svaret er: 12 meter høje.
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Ny milepæl for dna-computer: Kan udregne kvadratroden af 900
Amerikanske forskere har skabt en computer af dna, der udregner kvadratrødder og giver svar i form af et lyssignal.
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Australia fires: A visual guide to the bushfire crisis
High temperatures and strong winds forecast for the weekend create further fire risk.
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Tackling the Earth's orbiting space junk
How the Japanese firm Astroscale is set to start cleaning up the Earth's orbiting space debris.
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How to watch the Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of 2020
The Quadrantid meteor shower has a short peak period that lasts only a few hours, so midnight on 3 January is the best time to view in the UK
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Two Questions to Ask Now That Qassem Soleimani Is Dead
Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps's Quds Force who was killed in Iraq yesterday, was the most successful military figure of his time. One should grade success not in absolute terms, but by how much is done with how little — and on that scale, Soleimani was a prodigy. The end of his career is as pivotal in the region as the retirement of an athlete who has d
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Putting off old age on the Norwegian shelf
Sand in the oil stream with the risk of well collapse is a well-known problem when sandstone reservoirs approach depletion. Advanced sensors and a super machine are helping research scientists to find the threshold at which profitable production ceases. This can increase the lifetime of reservoirs.
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Wildlife ravaged by Australia fires could take decades to recover
The bushfires raging across Australia have had a devastating impact on the country's unique flora and fauna, with some estimates putting the death toll at nearly half a billion animals in one state alone, and experts believe it could take decades for wildlife to recover.
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What is the lifespan of volcanic islands like Hawaii and the Galapagos?
When a hot plume of rock rises through the Earth's mantle to puncture the overlying crust, it can create not only a volcanic ocean island, but also a swell in the ocean floor hundreds to thousands of kilometers long. Over time the island is carried away by the underlying tectonic plate, and the plume pops out another island in its place. Over millions of years, this geological hotspot can produce
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Heaven Found Inside the Sun
Originally published in September 1869 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A new mathematical model predicts a knot's stability
In sailing, rock climbing, construction, and any activity requiring the securing of ropes, certain knots are known to be stronger than others. Any seasoned sailor knows, for instance, that one type of knot will secure a sheet to a headsail, while another is better for hitching a boat to a piling.
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Canadian CEOs make 200 times more than average worker: study
The 100 highest-paid CEOs in Canada made 227 times more than the average worker in 2018, an unprecedented high, according to a report published Thursday.
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Renewed fire threat sparks exodus to Australian cities
Beleaguered Australian communities braced for yet more catastrophic bushfire conditions expected on Saturday, as Australia's navy evacuated around one thousand people from a southeastern town.
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TikTok's First Transparency Report Doesn't Tell the Full Story
The app says it didn't receive any requests for user information from China during the first half of 2019. That might not reassure skeptics.
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'1917' Is a Movie That Feels Like a Videogame—in a Good Way
Director Sam Mendes' World War I epic is edited to look like one continuous shot. The strange thing is, that totally works.
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Biggest bloom: 'world's largest' flower spotted in Indonesia
Indonesian conservationists say they've spotted the biggest specimen ever of what's already been billed as one of the world's largest flowers.
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Study unveils the nature of young stars near the cometary globule CG 30
Using the High-Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES), astronomers from Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta have investigated the nature of young stars near the cometary globule CG 30. The new study, presented December 20 on arXiv.org, provides important information about the properties of 21 young stars in this area.
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Britain temperature records tumbled in 2019
Britain recorded its highest ever summer and winter temperatures in 2019, ending one of the hottest decades in history, the Met Office said Friday.
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Scientists Spot Addiction-Associated Circuit in Rats
Rats show changes in compulsive behavior when a brain connection is turned on or inhibited — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Biggest bloom: 'world's largest' flower spotted in Indonesia
Indonesian conservationists say they've spotted the biggest specimen ever of what's already been billed as one of the world's largest flowers.
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Scientists Spot Addiction-Associated Circuit in Rats
Rats show changes in compulsive behavior when a brain connection is turned on or inhibited — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientists Spot Addiction-Associated Circuit in Rats
Rats show changes in compulsive behavior when a brain connection is turned on or inhibited — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Scientists at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics have developed a unique laser technology for the analysis of the molecular composition of biological samples. It is capable of detecting minimal variations in the chemical make up of organic systems.
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Broadest ever therapeutic HPV vaccine to be tested in clinical trial
Treatment could clear up persistent infections and reduce risk of cervical cancer The broadest vaccine yet that could clear up persistent HPV infections and reduce the risk of women developing cervical cancer is to be tested in a clinical trial. Human papillomavirus infections are common and are generally cleared by the body. However, about 10% of infections are not cleared, with persistent infec
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Climate signals detected in global weather
In October this year, weather researchers in Utah measured the lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of October in the U.S. (excluding Alaska): -37.1 degrees C. The previous low-temperature record for October was -35 degrees C, and people wondered about the relationship to climate change.
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Topological semimetals can generate sizable transverse thermoelectric figure of merit
The thermoelectric conversion efficiency of a particular material is determined by the value of its thermoelectric figure of merit zT. It is a complex function of the absolute temperature and several pertinent transport properties including the Seebeck coefficient, the electrical and thermal conductivities. These quantities are usually measured in parallel to each other, reflecting the longitudina
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Hiring hack: How to better evaluate your candidates
In business, the role of a leader is often misunderstood. A true leader takes care of their people, especially when considering new hires. Leaders should take hiring decisions as seriously as adoption. Protecting the culture you've cultivated is more important than acquiring skills.
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Atlantic and Pacific oscillations lost in the noise
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) do not appear to exist, according to a team of meteorologists who believe this has implications for both the validity of previous studies attributing past trends to these hypothetical natural oscillations and for the prospects of decade-scale climate predictability.
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Tumorerne forsvandt: RNA-vaccine kan booste kampen mod de svære kræftformer
Tyske forskere har formået at fremstille en gruppe immunceller, som binder sig til en række faste tumorer. Tilføjelse af en RNA-vaccine giver cellerne ekstra kræfter.
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First evidence found of tool use by seabirds
Three researchers from the University of Oxford and the South Iceland Nature Research Centre have found evidence of tool use by puffins—the first evidence of tool use by any seabird. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annette Fayet, Erpur Snær Hansen and Dora Biro describe their evidence of puffins using sticks to scratch a part of their body.
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Australia's coal and gas industry companies should be slapped with a levy to help pay for the skyrocketing costs of climate-change driven disasters such as bushfires, a think tank says.
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A rise in air temperature from climate change is leading to birch trees growing at higher altitudes than previously. The tree line is moving up mountains at a rate of half a metre a year, say researchers
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EUV: Lasers, plasma, and the sci-fi tech that will make chips faster | Upscaled
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Astrophysicist believes he's found a way to travel back in time.
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Facebook's Chief Scientist: Mass Adoption of AR Is 10 Years Away, AR Will Replace The Mobile Phone, VR Will Replace the PC
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First evidence found of tool use by seabirds
Three researchers from the University of Oxford and the South Iceland Nature Research Centre have found evidence of tool use by puffins—the first evidence of tool use by any seabird. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annette Fayet, Erpur Snær Hansen and Dora Biro describe their evidence of puffins using sticks to scratch a part of their body.
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KU-stresskursus fik sygemeldte forsikringskunder tilbage til arbejdslivet
Danske forskere samarbejder direkte med forsikringsselskaberne om at hjælpe stressramte med at genfinde…
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Headless Body in Cave Is Identified as 1916 Ax Murder Suspect
The case of Joseph Henry Loveless, who sawed his way out of jail in 1916, is among the oldest solved using genetic genealogy.
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Quadrantids Meteor Shower 2020: Watch It Peak in Night Skies
Meteor showers can light up night skies from dusk to dawn, and if you're lucky you might be able to catch a glimpse.
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A wind-albedo-wind feedback driven by landscape evolution
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13661-w Wind changes the surface of the Earth, but the surface characteristics of the planet also impact the winds above it. Here, the authors propose a feedback process in which wind erosion in the western Gobi Desert alters the thermal properties of the surface, which in turn increases near-surface winds.
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Conditional control of RNA-guided nucleic acid cleavage and gene editing
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13765-3 Constituitively active CRISPR systems have the risk of adverse off-target effects. Here the authors use chemical masking and activation of gRNA to control activity.
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Polydiacetylene-based ultrastrong bioorthogonal Raman probes for targeted live-cell Raman imaging
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13784-0 Raman probes which operate in the cellular silent region are of interest for live cell imaging. Here, the authors report on the development of a water soluble polydiacetylene Raman probe with enhanced Raman signal in the silent region which can be functionalised for organelle targeting and demonstrate applica
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African cratonic lithosphere carved by mantle plumes
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13871-2 Cratons represent the ancient cores of continental plates and are generally thought to have been stable since the Archean. Here however, the authors combine seismic analysis with kimberlite data to infer complete destruction of cratonic lithosphere in some places of the African continent.
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Accurate quantification of circular RNAs identifies extensive circular isoform switching events
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13840-9 Quantification and characterization of circRNAs in sequencing data remains challenging, hindering efforts to understand their roles and regulation. The algorithm introduced here enables accurate circRNA quantification and permits insight into competitive splicing between linear and circular isoforms.
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A deep-learning technique for phase identification in multiphase inorganic compounds using synthetic XRD powder patterns
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13749-3 Identifying the composition of multiphase inorganic compounds from XRD patterns is challenging. Here the authors use a convolutional neural network to identify phases in unknown multiphase mixed inorganic powder samples with an accuracy of nearly 90%.
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Interpreting pathways to discover cancer driver genes with Moonlight
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13803-0 Identification of cancer driver genes, especially those that can act as tumour suppressors or oncogenes depending on context, remains a challenge. Here, the authors introduce Moonlight, a tool that integrates multi-omic data to address this challenge and identify numerous dual-role cancer genes.
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Epigenetics meets proteomics in an epigenome-wide association study with circulating blood plasma protein traits
Nature Communications, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13831-w DNA methylation is associated with complex traits and the expression of genes and proteins. Here, Zaghlool et al. perform epigenome-wide association studies for 1,123 plasma proteins, replicate obtained protein (p)QTMs in an independent cohort and find overlap of pQTMs with expression QTMs and previously repo
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Atlantic and Pacific oscillations lost in the noise
The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) do not appear to exist, according to a team of meteorologists who believe this has implications for both the validity of previous studies attributing past trends to these hypothetical natural oscillations and for the prospects of decade-scale climate predictability.
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The Soleimani Killing Is a Turning Point
Of the most feared terrorist leaders the United States has hunted and killed this century—from Osama bin Laden to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—no death ever had the significance of the one America just dealt. The killing of Iran's Quds Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, in a U.S. strike yesterday in Baghdad wasn't just the targeted assassination of a state military leader. It marked a dangerous new chapt
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Bilister fravælger fortsat den nye betalingsbro ved Frederikssund
PLUS. Der passerer fortsat kun omkring 2.500 biler om dagen over Kronprinsesse Marys Bro, en syvendedel af trafikken på den gamle og gratis bro. Bestyrelsesformand afviser, at det giver grund til bekymring.
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How a New Wave of Orbiting Sentinels Is Changing Climate Science
A new generation of advanced remote-sensing satellites is compiling a granular record of what is happening in the world's most distant and difficult-to-reach latitudes in the climate-change era. Two NASA probes, Grace-Fo and ICESat-2, are collecting data on some of Earth's fastest-disappearing ice sheets.
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Belching in a good way: How livestock could learn from Orkney sheep
The sheep of North Ronaldsay could teach other livestock how to belch in a way less harmful to the climate.
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Phone number theft through SIM-jacking is on the rise in the UK
There have more than 300 cases since April 2019 of attackers trying to gain control of UK mobile phone numbers by obtaining porting authorisation codes (PACs)
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The scientist powering drones with 'happy gas'
The hydrogen-powered drone which could revolutionise the travel industry.
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OnePlus Concept One: Details, Specs, Disappearing Camera
OnePlus Concept 8 7
The phone uses electrochromic glass to pull off its vanishing act. Just don't expect to get your hands on one anytime soon.
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An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace
Cash is gradually dying out. Will we ever have a digital alternative that offers the same mix of convenience and freedom?
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'Millions of sparks': Weather raises Australia's fire danger
Navy ships plucked hundreds of people from beaches and tens of thousands were urged to flee Friday before hot weather and strong winds in the forecast worsen Australia's already-devastating wildfires.
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Halvdelen af Danmarks elforbrug kommer nu fra vind og sol
Vindmølleparken Horns Rev 3 og mere blæsevejr gør, at grøn energi dækker halvdelen af elforbruget i Danmark.
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Indonesia capital floods leave 43 dead, 397,000 displaced
The death toll from floods in Indonesia's capital rose to 43 on Friday as rescuers found more bodies amid receding floodwaters, disaster officials said.
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Google viste ejere af kinesiske kameraer billeder fra vildtfremmede hjem
Google har lukket ned for at tilknytte kameraer fra kinesiske Xiaomi til Google Home, efter at en sikkerhedsbrist gjorde, at flere brugere så billeder fra andres kameraer i stedet for deres egne.
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Softwareingeniør: Alt for nemt at få adgang til persondata fra zoo-årskort
Københavns Zoo har anvendt postnummer som password for adgang til årskortindehaveres persondata.
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Mind Control for the Masses—No Implant Needed
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India to roll out one Nuclear reactor every year
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Since the 19th Century, when islanders built a stone wall to confine a flock of sheep to the shoreline, it has survived on seaweed alone – and it now seems that this special diet could hold the key to greener, more climate-friendly livestock farming.
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Did a Nissan exec really just say that EV charging is too difficult for women? "The location and weight of the charging cable make it too unwieldy, especially for women."
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Researchers advance performance benchmark for quantum computers
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a quantum chemistry simulation benchmark to evaluate the performance of quantum devices and guide the development of applications for future quantum computers.
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Study confirms climate change impacted Hurricane Florence's precipitation and size
A study led by Kevin Reed, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (SoMAS) at Stony Brook University, and published in Science Advances, found that Hurricane Florence produced more extreme rainfall and was spatially larger due to human-induced climate change.
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Nigerian communities struggle with devastating oil spills
Martha Alfred used to harvest 20 bags of cassava each year before an oil spill forced her to abandon her field and hawk roasted fish to survive.
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Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
It turns out the coiled snakes often used to symbolize medical knowledge are more than apt. They also mimic a key to life itself.
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Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
It turns out the coiled snakes often used to symbolize medical knowledge are more than apt. They also mimic a key to life itself.
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Math test score gap between white and non-white students in Brazil due to complex factors
School test scores often show gaps in performance between white and non-white students. Understanding the complex reasons behind this can help reduce those gaps and promote social equality, explains Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning, associate professor of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois.
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First reported occurrence and treatment of spaceflight medical risk 200+ miles above earth
Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine's branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead author of a paper describing a previously unrecognized risk of spaceflight discovered during a study of astronauts involved in long-duration missions. The paper details a case of stagnant blood flow resulting in a clot in the inter
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Plants can improve your work life
A study out of the University of Hyogo in Awaji, Japan, details the stress-reducing benefits to office workers that even a small plant situated within easy viewing can impart.
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Study finds dopamine, biological clock link to snacking, overeating and obesity
During the years 1976 through 1980, 15% of U.S. adults were obese. Today, about 40% of adults are obese. Another 33% are overweight.
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Plants can improve your work life
A study out of the University of Hyogo in Awaji, Japan, details the stress-reducing benefits to office workers that even a small plant situated within easy viewing can impart.
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Study finds dopamine, biological clock link to snacking, overeating and obesity
During the years 1976 through 1980, 15% of U.S. adults were obese. Today, about 40% of adults are obese. Another 33% are overweight.
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A quantum breakthrough brings a technique from astronomy to the nano-scale
Researchers at Columbia University and University of California, San Diego, have introduced a novel "multi-messenger" approach to quantum physics that signifies a technological leap in how scientists can explore quantum materials.
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Innovation is widespread in rural areas, not just cities
Conventional measures of innovation suggest that only big cities foster new ideas, but a more comprehensive measure developed at Penn State shows that innovation is widespread even in rural places not typically thought of as innovative. This "hidden" innovation brings economic benefits to businesses and communities, according to researchers, whose findings will help decision makers think in new wa
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Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future
The global low-carbon revolution could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are put in place to ensure a sustainable supply of rare minerals and metals, a new academic study has warned.
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Climate crisis fuels year of record temperatures in UK, says Met Office
Global heating blamed as summer and winter records tumble in 2019 A series of high temperature records were broken in the UK in 2019 as a consequence of the climate crisis, the Met Office has said. The hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK was exceeded on 25 July in Cambridge, where the thermometer hit 38.7C (101F). The record for the hottest February day was also broken, with Kew Gardens i
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Break the cycle: how to stop having the same argument again and again and again
Few things are more frustrating than re-running the same fight with your partner or family. Here's how to resolve it once and for all If you have been in a relationship for a year or more, you will know exactly what "that argument" is. It is the one that keeps going round and round, always ending where it started. "You never pick up your dirty clothes, even though you know it drives me crazy." "Y
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The State of the National
T he National Theatre barely sleeps. The last bar staff leave the hulking building on the south bank of the River Thames in Central London at 3 a.m. The first goods trucks arrive at 6 a.m. Rufus Norris doesn't sleep much either. All artistic directors are plate spinners, but being in charge of the National, which employs about 4,000 people, is particularly demanding. Norris is the closest thing B
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Photos of the Week: Hogmanay Fire, London Bubble, Icy Trees
Bushfires across Australia, snowfall in Afghanistan, New Year's Eve celebrations in New York, ski jumping in Germany, the Mars 2020 Rover in California, the "Els Enfarinats" battle in Spain, the Rose Parade in California, the Polar Bear plunge on Coney Island, and much more.
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Science can help us adapt to climate change, but first we have to admit it is happening – Research has found social barriers are the biggest obstacle to effective action, based on eight years of consultations with about 2,000 scientists
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When Black Mirror's Arkangel technology becomes reality and what it could lead to.
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A new gene therapy appears to serve as a functional cure for the most common type of hemophilia, with patients who received the one-time IV therapy with more than 90% decrease in bleeding events 2 to 3 years after treatment, reports the early clinical trial in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Klar til kæmpe stjerneskuds-show? I nat kommer årets mest intense meteorsværm
Du får masser af muligheder for at ønske, når meteorsværmen Kvadrantiderne er over os.
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Happy New Year from the Science Weekly podcast
Happy New Year from the Science Weekly team. There is no new episode this week as we all take a festive break. The team will be back with a new episode on Friday 10 January Continue reading…
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Scientists find a new use for already known anti-cancer drugs
The world scientific community is waging a difficult and prolonged war on cancer. New research in the field of immunogenic cell death can extend the area of drugs application and ensure patients' protection from relapse after therapy.Cancer treatment is not just the removal of the tumor cells from the body, and chemotherapy. The doctors' aim is to provide a scenario that would prevent tumor cells
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Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future
The global low-carbon revolution could be at risk unless new international agreements and governance mechanisms are put in place to ensure a sustainable supply of rare minerals and metals, a new academic study has warned.
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Happy New Year from the Science Weekly podcast
Happy New Year from the Science Weekly team. There is no new episode this week as we all take a festive break. The team will be back with a new episode on Friday 10 January. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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Science: what breakthroughs will the 2020s bring?
From cancer cures to robot helpers, the decade promises major developments
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You Traveled Far in 2019
Getting around the sun last year was some trip.
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You Traveled Far in 2019
Getting around the sun last year was some trip. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Signal-skandalens skrækeksempel: Nyt sikringsanlæg er blevet forsinket over 20 gange
PLUS. Et nyt sikringsanlæg på Randers Station skulle være taget i brug i august 2018, men er fortsat ikke færdigt. Derfor bliver det højst benyttet fem år, inden det skal skrottes igen.
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The Blob
Beware! Imagine you are on a trip to Paris. There is so much to see and do, but you decide to go to the local zoo. You are walking around, admiring all the interesting animals. There are beautiful big cats lounging about. There are enormous giraffes feeding on plants. You feast your […]
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Iran Loses Its Indispensable Man
The United States has killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force. The United States is now in a hot war with Iran after having waged war via proxies for the past several decades. This doesn't mean war, it will not lead to war, and it doesn't risk war. None of that. It is war. I don't claim to be an expert on Iran—when I served as dep
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Climate change: Last decade UK's 'second hottest in 100 years'
The year 2019 saw several high temperature records in the UK – concluding a record-breaking decade.
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Environmental crimes
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Opinion: Why having robot co-workers might make you less prejudiced
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Robots Stole Blue Collar Jobs, Now AI Is Coming for White Collar Workers
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A Hidden Underground Chamber Has Been Found in The Palace of Emperor Nero
Welcome to the Sphinx Room.
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We Just Found Out About Leopard Slug Sex And It's So Weird That We're Mesmerised
Can't. Stop. Watching.
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We Just Got More Evidence Our Leading Hypothesis About Alzheimer's Could Be Wrong
Time to look elsewhere?
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Biophysical principles of choanoflagellate self-organization [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Inspired by the patterns of multicellularity in choanoflagellates, the closest living relatives of animals, we quantify the biophysical processes underlying the morphogenesis of rosette colonies in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. We find that rosettes reproducibly transition from an early stage of 2-dimensional (2D) growth to a later stage of 3D…
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Structure of the cell-binding component of the Clostridium difficile binary toxin reveals a di-heptamer macromolecular assembly [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
Targeting Clostridium difficile infection is challenging because treatment options are limited, and high recurrence rates are common. One reason for this is that hypervirulent C. difficile strains often have a binary toxin termed the C. difficile toxin, in addition to the enterotoxins TsdA and TsdB. The C. difficile toxin has…
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The formation of the thumb requires direct modulation of Gli3 transcription by Hoxa13 [Developmental Biology]
In the tetrapod limb, the digits (fingers or toes) are the elements most subject to morphological diversification in response to functional adaptations. However, despite their functional importance, the mechanisms controlling digit morphology remain poorly understood. Here we have focused on understanding the special morphology of the thumb (digit 1), the…
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Impaired endothelium-mediated cerebrovascular reactivity promotes anxiety and respiration disorders in mice [Neuroscience]
Carbon dioxide (CO2), the major product of metabolism, has a strong impact on cerebral blood vessels, a phenomenon known as cerebrovascular reactivity. Several vascular risk factors such as hypertension or diabetes dampen this response, making cerebrovascular reactivity a useful diagnostic marker for incipient vascular pathology, but its functional relevance, if…
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A de novo peroxidase is also a promiscuous yet stereoselective carbene transferase [Biochemistry]
By constructing an in vivo-assembled, catalytically proficient peroxidase, C45, we have recently demonstrated the catalytic potential of simple, de novo-designed heme proteins. Here, we show that C45's enzymatic activity extends to the efficient and stereoselective intermolecular transfer of carbenes to olefins, heterocycles, aldehydes, and amines. Not only is this a…
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An anticancer gold(III)-activated porphyrin scaffold that covalently modifies protein cysteine thiols [Chemistry]
Cysteine thiols of many cancer-associated proteins are attractive targets of anticancer agents. Herein, we unequivocally demonstrate a distinct thiol-targeting property of gold(III) mesoporphyrin IX dimethyl ester (AuMesoIX) and its anticancer activities. While the binding of cysteine thiols with metal complexes usually occurs via M–S bond formation, AuMesoIX is unique in…
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Bile acids and ceramide overcome the entry restriction for GII.3 human norovirus replication in human intestinal enteroids [Microbiology]
Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) cause sporadic and epidemic outbreaks of gastroenteritis in all age groups worldwide. We previously reported that stem cell-derived human intestinal enteroid (HIE) cultures support replication of multiple HuNoV strains and that some strains (e.g., GII.3) replicate only in the presence of bile. Heat- and trypsin-treatment of bile…
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Rotary catalysis of bovine mitochondrial F1-ATPase studied by single-molecule experiments [Biochemistry]
The reaction scheme of rotary catalysis and the torque generation mechanism of bovine mitochondrial F1 (bMF1) were studied in single-molecule experiments. Under ATP-saturated concentrations, high-speed imaging of a single 40-nm gold bead attached to the γ subunit of bMF1 showed 2 types of intervening pauses during the rotation that were…
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Improved protein structure prediction using predicted interresidue orientations [Biophysics and Computational Biology]
The prediction of interresidue contacts and distances from coevolutionary data using deep learning has considerably advanced protein structure prediction. Here, we build on these advances by developing a deep residual network for predicting interresidue orientations, in addition to distances, and a Rosetta-constrained energy-minimization protocol for rapidly and accurately generating structure…
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Robust hepatitis E virus infection and transcriptional response in human hepatocytes [Microbiology]
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is the causative agent of hepatitis E in humans and the leading cause for acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The virus is classified as a member of the genus Orthohepevirus A within the Hepeviridae family. Due to the absence of a robust cell culture model for HEV…
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How the brain can create sound information via lip-reading
Brain activity synchronizes with sound waves, even without audible sound, through lip-reading, according to new research.
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Health ranks as top concern for veterans immediately after military service
In a survey of nearly 10,000 veterans newly separated from military service, most were satisfied with their work and social well-being, but more than half reported chronic physical health problems, and a third reported chronic mental health conditions.
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Climate change impacted Hurricane Florence's precipitation and size
A new modeling framework showed that Hurricane Florence produced more extreme rainfall and was spatially larger due to human-induced climate change.
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Snake-like proteins can wrangle DNA
Theoretical simulations suggest structural maintenance of chromosome proteins coil not only around each other but also around the strands of DNA they help manipulate. These strands are formed into loops that regulate transcription and other cellular processes.
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Canada – Robots unlikely to cause mass layoffs: federal documents say
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'The salt they pump back in kills everything': is the cost of Chile's fresh water too high? | The Guardian
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Samsung and LG go head to head with AI-powered fridges that recognize food
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Tænkeboks: Kun et ulige antal lys kan brænde ned samtidig
Sidste opgave før juleferien gik ud på at finde et antal ens lys, n, der vil kunne brænde ned samtidig, når man den første aften tænder det ene lys og lader det brænde i en time, anden aften tænder man 2 passende valgte lys og lader dem brænde i en time osv., indtil man sidste aften tænder alle l…
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Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Keep Appearing at Night Over Colorado
Officials are warning people not to shoot them down.
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13 essential travel products available under $30
This holiday season is expected to break records for domestic road travel. More Americans are planning to travel abroad in 2020. These affordable products will make your next trip less stressful and more efficient. None As we enter a new year and a new decade, it's time once again to set goals and plan for the coming months. For many professionals and families, a recurring resolution is to travel
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Half the amount of chemo prevents testicular cancer from coming back, new trial shows
Testicular cancer can be prevented from coming back using half the amount of chemotherapy that is currently used, a new clinical trial has shown. The new trial showed that giving men one cycle of chemotherapy was as effective at preventing men's testicular cancer from coming back as the two cycles used as standard.
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Author Correction: Weak average liquid-cloud-water response to anthropogenic aerosols
Nature, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1838-3
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Publisher Correction: In vivo imaging of mitochondrial membrane potential in non-small-cell lung cancer
Nature, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1890-z
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Author Correction: Molecular architecture of lineage allocation and tissue organization in early mouse embryo
Nature, Published online: 03 January 2020; doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1887-7
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According to Research, Here's What's Likely to Happen in The '20s. And It's Not Great
War never changes.
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Yes, An AI-Generated Blog Can Rank Well in Google — And That's Scary
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Why the world is waiting for Betelgeuse to go supernova
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CIA troubled as biometric tracking and digital footprints pull spies from the shadows
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