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Stepwise hydride transfer in the biosynthesis of chlorophyllHydride transfer is an important reaction for chemistry (e.g., fuel cells), as well as biology (e.g., respiratory chain and photosynthesis). Often, one partial reaction involves the transfer of a hydride ion (H−). But does this hydride transfer involve one step or several individual steps? In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now provided the first proof of stepwise hydride transfer i
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Sewage and animal waste having serious impact on U.K. coastline, new research concludesAnalysis of fragile seagrass meadows by Cardiff University and Swansea University scientists has shown that consistent pollution from sewage and livestock waste is affecting their survival.
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Why it's too soon to classify gaming addiction as a mental disorderConcerns over the addictive properties of video games are reasonable but there is a lack of rigorous research behind the WHO’s expected classification Video games played on smartphones, tablets, computers and consoles have been a popular form of leisure for some time now. In Europe, recent figures indicate that games are played by more than two thirds of children and adolescents, and a substantia
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Renewing the Contract between Academia and SocietyUniversities owe the public a fresh look at their educational and research missions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Everyday activities associated with more gray matter in brains of older adultsHigher levels of lifestyle physical activity are associated with more gray matter in the brains of older adults, according to a Rush University Medical Center study published in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
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On the Battlefield, Ants Treat Each Other's War WoundsThese ants care for one another.
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Facebook Funded Most of the Experts Who Vetted Messenger KidsEqually notable are the experts Facebook did not consult: Two large nonprofits say they weren’t informed about the app until weeks or days before its debut.
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China Wants to Make a Mark in Space—But It'll Need a Little HelpWhen it comes to space, China has always come in third place. But a new partnership with Luxembourg might launch it into orbit.
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House Conservatives Revolt Over ImmigrationAs is traditional during Infrastructure Week , nobody on Capitol Hill is talking about infrastructure. Instead, lawmakers are zeroing in on immigration and the young undocumented immigrants whose protection from deportation expires in March. But while all eyes are on the Senate’s not-so-freewheeling debate on those issues, the real action is perhaps in the lower chamber. There, House Republicans
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The Color of Blood: Here Are Nature's Reddest Reds (Photos)It's customary to give ravishing red gifts on Valentine's Day — think red roses, red boxes of chocolate or even your heart (figuratively speaking).
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Transgender woman is first to be able to breastfeed her babyAn experimental treatment regimen has enabled a transgender woman to exclusively breastfeed her baby for six weeks, during which time the baby grew healthily
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Monster Antarctic Iceberg Gets Its Big Break in First-of-Its-Kind VideoIceberg A-68, which broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, takes center stage in newly released footage.
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Linking cytosolic and chloroplast ribosome biogenesis in plantsScientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have found that eukaryotic and bacterial growth regulation systems of independent origins are connected to the control of chloroplast rRNA transcription in a primitive red alga.
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Winter Olympics: Could Plastic "Ice" Help Overcome Bias toward Colder Countries?Bobsled, luge and skeleton tracks lined with plastic rather than ice could make those sports more accessible worldwide — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Forskere: Sådan kan træ blive et stærkere byggemateriale end stålEn ny teknik mere end tidobler almindeligt træs styrke.
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Breaking local symmetry—why water freezes but silica forms a glassEveryone knows that water freezes at 0 degrees C. Life on Earth would be vastly different if this were not so. However, water's cousin, silica, exhibits wayward behavior when cooled that has long puzzled scientists.
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Researchers turn fashion waste into multifunctional materialA research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert cotton-based fabric waste, such as unwanted clothing, into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels. The researchers also demonstrated the application of this novel material to keep military water bottles cold and for effective control of rapid blee
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Study: Running helps brain stave off effects of chronic stressThe study, newly published in the journal of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, finds that running mitigates the negative impacts chronic stress has on the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory.
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Most parents don't believe their child's BMI report cardFifty-three percent of parents who receive their child's body mass index (BMI) report card do not believe that it accurately categorizes their child as underweight, normal weight, overweight, or obese, according to research out today in Health Promotion Practice, a SAGE Publishing journal.
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Valentine’s Day seems to cause a mini baby-boom 9 months laterNational Health Service data reveals that around Valentine’s Day there is a 5 per cent rise in the number of babies conceived in England
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China’s reckless attitude to space debris needs to changeRecent near misses show China's pursuit of space prowess seems to trump debris risks. The re-entry of its space station is another looming drama, says Paul Marks
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The Bogus 'Free Speech' Argument Against UnionsFree speech has no fiercer advocate than Professor Eugene Volokh of the University of California at Los Angeles . As a teacher of First Amendment law, director of a First Amendment amicus brief clinic, and a founder of the libertarian-leaning Volokh Conspiracy blog, Volokh lets almost no free-speech sparrow fall anywhere in the U.S. without weighing in, usually against government and in favor of
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Researchers Produce Alpaca Antibodies Using YeastWith multiple applications in biomedicine, the antibodies can now be made quickly, cheaply, and without the need for an alpaca or one of its relatives.
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Gigantisk svaghed i Skype – kaldes 'umulig' at fikseSikkerhedsforsker har kontaktet Microsoft i september om sikkerhedshul i Skype. Men problemet er meget stort, og derfor er der ikke sket meget.
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Peru Moves to Protect ‘One of the Last Great Intact Forests’While the United States may be weakening protections for wilderness, the creation of Yaguas National Park protects millions of acres from development and deforestation.
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The Key To Raising A Happy ChildA new book warns parents: Stop micromanaging your kids. Think of yourself less as their boss, and more like a consultant. (Image credit: Chris Kindred for NPR)
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Tired of texting? Google tests robot to chat with friends for youWith its new Reply system the firm is taking the art of conversion one step forwards – or should that be backwards? Are you tired of the constant need to tap on a glass keyboard just to keep up with your friends? Do you wish a robot could free you of your constant communication obligations via WhatsApp, Facebook or text messages? Google is working on an AI-based auto-reply system to do just that.
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Siemens Gamesa får historisk ordre på verdens største havmølleparkØrsted har valgt Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) til både at levere og servicere 1386 MW vindkraft til 2. fase af Ørsteds gigantiske, britiske havmølleprojekt, Hornsea Two.
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Rumfarts­eventyr får liftoff i nordfynsk hangarOrdrebogen er allerede fuld hos den nystiftede rumfartsvirksomhed Space Compo­site Structure Denmark. Nu vil ejeren sammen med SDU opbygge en hyldevare­produktion af rumfarts­kompositter i en hangar i H.C. ­Andersen-lufthavnen.
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Scientists found an alternative to water chlorinationResearchers of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) have developed a unique device for complex water purification that can improve or, in some cases, replace disinfection with chlorine.
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European officials: Virtual currencies are no way to payEuropean finance officials are underlining their skepticism toward virtual currencies like bitcoin, saying they are risky for investors and inefficient as a way to pay for things.
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High-efficiency, low-cost catalyst for water electrolysisA research team led by Professor Sangaraju Shanmugam of Energy Science and Engineering at DGIST has developed highly efficient, ultra-durable core-shell nanostructured electrocatalyst and successfully replaced the precious anode in water electrolysis, through the collaboration with the research group of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
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Does the Illuminati control the world? Maybe it’s not such a mad idea | Julian BagginiQuestioning the hidden power of elites – whether big pharma or secret societies – is really quite sane If the Illuminati is real, it’s got to be the least secret secret society in the universe. It’s so bad at keeping itself hidden that its existence is proclaimed all over the internet by people whose investigative toolkit consists entirely of Google and a lively imagination. The most recent would
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Tidligere nordkoreansk hacker: Vi hackede kun med ét formålIfølge en afhopper fra Nordkorea er statshackerne fra det lukkede land sjældent ude efter informationer.
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The War on Valentine's Day in IndiaIn the days before Valentine’s Day 2009, members of a group called the Sri Ram Sena dragged several young women out of a pub in Mangalore, a city in southwest India, and beat them. According to the group, whose members lobby, sometimes violently, for the religious and cultural dominance of Hinduism in Indian society, the women had violated the country’s traditional values by hanging out in a bar
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TDC udruller landsdækkende netværk til Internet of ThingsEfter langs tid venten er TDC nu klar til at lancere deres lavfrekvente narrowband IoT-netværk. Storkøbenhavn er allerede dækket og i 2018 bliver netværket landsdækkende
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I dag curler danskerne: Forskere har fundet forklaringen bag stenenes ‘curl’Tidligere forklaringer er på glatis, mener svenske forskere, som forklarer, at roterende curlingsten bevæger sig i en blød bue, fordi de laver ridser i isen.
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Jo, vores etik er i ordenMichael Westermann beskyldninger om mangel på etik blandt de praktiserende ørelæger bygger på misforståelser, manglende information og forkerte data.
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Thyholm er sikret lægehus de næste tre årRegion Midtjylland har netop indgået aftale med Falck Lægehuse, der sikrer borgerne på Thyholm lægehjælp de næste tre år.
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Praksislæge: Nye praksis vil ikke løse problemet med lægemangelRegion Hovedstaden og PLO vil komme den store lægemangel til livs ved at oprette syv nye praksis i hovedstadsområdet. Men praktiserende læge i Ballerup Margith Grønbæk mener ikke, at det vil løse problemet. Løsningen er en anden, siger hun.
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Win Like Flynn: A Bichon Frise Is This Year's Top Dog At Westminster ShowThe white fluff ball rose to the top of the pack among 2,800 entrants at the annual show held at Madison Square Garden in New York. (Image credit: Mary Altaffer/AP)
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Specialuddannelse målrettet sygeplejersker i almen praksis rammer ved siden afDet er svært at se, at sygeplejersker i almen praksis vil få et kompetenceløft af den nye specialuddannelse i borgernær sygepleje, siger formand for sygeplejerskerne i almen praksis og næstformand i PLO.
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Hot stuff: the thermal cameras giving us a new way of seeing our bodiesHow do our bodies regulate themselves – and is it even true that we have a single body temperature? New technology will tell us I’m one of those people who always feels cold. Maybe it’s my upbringing in the chilly north, or maybe it’s down the quirks of my own physiology, but I’m reliably found next to the fire, hiding from draughts that no-one else had noticed, or buried inside enough jumpers to
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Giant London glasshouse to reopen with world's rarest plantsA gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world's largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world's rarest plants following a lengthy facelift.
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Coal-loving Poland struggles with killer smogSmog kills tens of thousands of Poles each year, yet environmental activists say the right-wing government of the coal-loving nation has been dragging its feet on combatting air pollution.
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App delivery boom shakes up China food sectorGuo Bonan has opened several new branches of his "8Peppers" spicy Sichuan-style restaurants across Shanghai since last year, and not one has a dining room.
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Toshiba tips return to black as it sells chip, nuclear unitsTroubled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said on Wednesday it would swing into the black for the full fiscal year as it completes the multi-billion-dollar sale of its chip business to restore its balance sheet.
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Ants nurse wounded warriors back to health: studyAfrican Matabele ants dress the wounds of comrades injured during hunting raids and nurse them back to health, according to an "astonishing" discovery reported Wednesday.
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Uber loss leapt in 2017 as final quarter showed hopeRide-share titan Uber on Tuesday revealed that its losses last year swelled despite signs in the final three months that it was stemming the red ink.
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Hunting wolves in Serbia's southern forestsRifle fire rips through the silence of the forest and fields on the slopes of Jastrebac mountain in southern Serbia. Two wolves have just fallen victim to a legal hunt.
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US IPO for Baidu video unit as Q4 net income flattensChinese search engine giant Baidu will spin off its Netflix-like video arm iQiyi and list it in the US market, the company said in a statement that revealed its net profit grew only one percent during the fourth quarter.
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Major Xerox investor sues to block takeover by FujifilmOne of Xerox's biggest shareholders filed suit Tuesday to challenge the US photocopier and printer maker's planned takeover by Japanese technology firm Fujifilm.
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Report: Fertilizer, manure top Lake Erie phosphorus sourcesA U.S.-Canadian agency says there's little doubt that commercial fertilizer and manure are the top sources of phosphorus pollution in western Lake Erie.
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Decoding behavioral variation in ant clonesGenetically identical clonal ants show surprising diversity in their attraction to sweetness, according to new research in the journal Royal Society Open Science. While differences in behavior and preferences among a species are usually attributed to genetic variation, the cause of multiple phenotypes is less clear-cut for ants that are identical clones.
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Detailed thermal imaging reveals heat map of a badminton player – videoTechnology behind thermal imaging is advancing, enabling cameras to produce a detailed heat map of the human body. In this sequence the blood vessels of a badminton player can been seen expanding, becoming brighter and lighter as the body becomes hotter with movement Hot stuff: the thermal cameras giving us a new way of seeing our bodies Photography: Robert Hollingworth Camera loan: FLIR Thanks t
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Why do women talk so much? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Nichi HodgsonEvery day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries ‘A woman’s tongue wags like a lamb’s tail”, so an old English saying goes, and if you deign to type “why do women …” into Google’s search bar, the search engine will finish your sentence accordingly with “talk so much”. We’ve been brought up to believe that women are the talkat
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Fighting for love: Dominant male pheasants learn fasterDominant male pheasants learn faster than their downtrodden rivals, new research shows.
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Polar vortex defies climate change in the SoutheastOverwhelming scientific evidence has demonstrated that our planet is getting warmer due to climate change, yet parts of the eastern U.S. are actually getting cooler. According to a Dartmouth-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, the location of this anomaly, known as the "U.S. warming hole," is a moving target.
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Carefully managed fire can promote rare savanna speciesCarefully managed fires generate the maximum diversity of birds and mammals in savannas, new research from the University of York suggests.
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Cover crops in nitrogen's circle of lifeA circle of life-and nitrogen-is playing out in farms across the United States. And researchers are trying to get the timing right.
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'Excess emissions' make significant contribution to air pollutionWhen Hurricane Harvey struck Texas in August, industrial facilities in the state shut down, then reopened a few days later. In doing so, they produced nearly 2,000 tons of "excess emissions"—air pollutants in addition to what was allowed as part of their normal operation.
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Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devicesEngineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin film devices – from touch screens to window coatings, according to a new study.
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Carefully managed fire can promote rare savanna speciesIn the first continent-wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing 'pyrodiversity' boosts the variety of species of mammals by around 20 percent and of birds by 30 percent in savannas with high rainfall.
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Watch ants rescue their wounded comrades – videoResearchers have observed African Matabele ants treating their wounded comrades. The ants, frequently injured by termites, appear to apply an antibiotic saliva to the wounds of their injured. Nursing in nature: Matabele ants observed treating injured comrades Continue reading…
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100 dage tilbage: Her er en GDPR-guide til junglen af ændringer i databeskyttelseDatabeskyttelsesforordningen nærmer sig – Version2 giver dig her et overblik over de vigtigste ændringer, som træder i kraft den 25. maj.
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Target of rapamycin: Linking cytosolic and chloroplast ribosome biogenesis in plantsScientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have found that eukaryotic and bacterial growth regulation systems of independent origins are connected to the control of chloroplast rRNA transcription in a primitive red alga.
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Vaginal mesh implants: new material could reduce complicationsAlternative material could replace current controversial implants, which have prompted many complaints of pain and discomfort Scientists believe they have come up with an alternative to the material used in vaginal mesh implants which prompted a huge number of women to complain they had been left in severe pain. Related: Vaginal mesh implants: 'If I lift my leg my whole body shakes' Continue read
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'Evolution in real time': silent crickets still singing for a mateScientists are fascinated that Hawaiian crickets still perform their vigorous mating call, despite having evolved to lose their song to avoid a deadly new parasite Male field crickets traditionally attract a mate by “singing” – creating a sound by rhythmically scraping their wings back and forth. In Hawaii, however, their song attracts a less welcome female: parasitic flies, whose larvae devour a
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Rutgers-led innovation could spur faster, cheaper, nano-based manufacturingEngineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin film devices — from touch screens to window coatings, according to a new study. The 'intense pulsed light sintering' method uses high-energy light over an area nearly 7,000 times larger than a laser t
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'Excess emissions' make significant contribution to air pollutionA study by Indiana University researchers shows that excess emissions — which occur with plant shut-downs, start-ups and malfunctions, and not just in connection with natural disasters — can make serious contributions to overall air pollution.
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Cover crops in nitrogen's circle of lifeA circle of life-and nitrogen-is playing out in farms across the United States. And researchers are trying to get the timing right. The goal is to time nutrient release from cover crops to better match the nutrient needs of specific cash crops.
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Suiker's equations prevent 3-D-printed walls from collapsing or falling over3-D-printed materials commonly are soft and flexible during printing, leaving printed walls susceptible to collapse or falling over. Professor Akke Suiker had a Eureka moment and saw the solution to this structural problem. He developed a model with which engineers can now easily determine the dimensions and printing speeds for which printed wall structures remain stable. His formulae are so eleme
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Climb stairs to lower blood pressure and strengthen leg musclesIf you don't have the time or money for aerobic and resistance training, why not try climbing the stairs? A new study demonstrates that stair climbing not only lowers blood pressure but also builds leg strength, especially in postmenopausal women with estrogen deficiencies who are more susceptible to vascular and muscle problems. The study results are published online today in Menopause, the journ
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Safe-sleep recommendations for infants have not reduced sudden deaths in newbornsAn analysis by investigators from MassGeneral Hospital for Children and Newton-Wellesley Hospital of trends in sudden unexpected infant death finds that the drop in such deaths that took place following release of the 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics 'back to sleep' recommendations, did not occur in infants in the first month of life.
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“We’re in a diversity crisis”: cofounder of Black in AI on what’s poisoning algorithms in our livesTimnit Gebru looks around the AI world and sees almost no one who looks like her. That’s a problem for all of us.
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Caffeine reduces brain blood flow. So how does it energize our minds?While more controlled psychostimulants like amphetamines and cocaine facilitate a rush of blood to the whole brain, caffeine actually restricts blood flow overall. Read More
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Undersøgelse: Headhuntere har fået et nyt yndlingsbytteSelv med få års erfaring bliver flertallet af projektledere forsøgt forført af rekrutteringsagenter fra andre firmaer. Det viser en ny undersøgelse blandt medlemmerne af IDA’s projektlederpanel. Læs også, hvordan du nærmer dig rollen som projektleder.
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Transportminister modsiger den officielle fremskrivning: Vi får elbiler langt hurtigereEnergistyrelsens prognose viser, at kun fire pct. af bilerne på de danske veje vil køre på strøm i 2030. Den vil transportminister Ole Birk Olesen (LA) dog ikke stirre sig blind på, for han ser selv på bilproducenternes investeringer og bruger sin sunde fornuft til at konkludere, at elbilerne kom…
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Australia Diary: Missing a Blue-Tongued FriendA reader discovers her husband had a loyal companion while tending to his garden.
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Building a DNA barcode library for the Canadian flora using herbarium collectionsResearchers have built a DNA barcode library for the vascular plant flora of Canada based entirely on herbarium collections. DNA barcode libraries are important to facilitate plant identification for a variety of studies including analysis and regulation of supplements, food, and environmental or ancient DNA. The scale of the study surpasses previous library-building efforts, providing barcodes fo
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Can't buy me love: Materialism in marriage linked to devaluation of marriageResearchers have provided more insight into what may be one of the roots of the dissatisfaction caused by materialism — a diminished view of the importance of marriage itself.
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New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasmaResearchers used a 'reduced physics' fluid model of plasma turbulence to explain unexpected properties of the density profile inside a tokamak experiment. Modeling plasma's turbulent behavior could help scientists optimize the tokamak performance in future fusion reactors like ITER.
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Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical foodScientists have discovered an extreme lack of genetic diversity and other threats to the future adaptability of domestic chickpeas, the primary source of protein of 20 percent of the world's people. But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in Turkey that hold great promise as a source of new genes for traits like drought-resistance, resistance to pod-boring beetles, and heat tolerance.
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Beetle Liberation Due to RegurgitationThe bombardier beetle can spray its hot brew of toxic chemicals even after bring swallowed, to force a predator into vomiting it back out. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Ants care for wounded comrades by licking their wounds cleanIf a Matabele ant loses a limb in a battle with termites, its nestmates will tend its injuries – a behaviour never before seen in any non-human animal
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Ketone drink could help diabetics by lowering blood sugarFor the first time it has been shown that drinking a ketone supplement can lower blood sugar levels, presenting a potential future method to control spikes in blood sugar experienced by diabetics.
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The 'Black Panther' Director of Photography Is a Cinematic SuperheroRachel Morrison is the first female cinematographer to be nominated for an Academy Award—and continues to blaze a trail.
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New vaginal mesh material could help thousands of women affected by life changing complicationsScientists from the University of Sheffield have developed a material that could be used as an alternative to the current vaginal mesh material, polypropylene, used to treat pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence.
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Fighting for love: Dominant male pheasants learn fasterDominant male pheasants learn faster than their downtrodden rivals, new research shows.
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Shorter time between first medical contact to PCI in heart patients linked to saving livesHeart experts are calling for immediate action following new research in the European Heart Journal that shows every minute counts for patients who suffer the most severe type of heart attack. The study shows numbers of deaths rise steadily and rapidly the longer the time between patients' first contact with a medical professional and when they are treated in hospital with percutaneous coronary in
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Medical care for wounded antsAnts dress the wounds their mates have suffered in battle. Such behavior is believed to be unique among animals.
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Diet or regular? Decoding behavioral variation in ant clonesClonal ants appear to be diverse in responding to sweetened water, suggesting epigenetic regulation in behavioral variation and colony survival.
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'Paramedic ants' observed treating injured comradesThe social insects have been seen cleaning wounds and possibly administering antibiotics to prevent infection When the battle is done the victors head home, their march broken only to gather the wounded, who are hauled back to base for life-saving treatment. Not a heroic scene from the second world war, but the daily grind for African Matabele ants, which leave their nests in the hundreds to laun
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Brain imaging helps redefine intelligenceNYU Langone study offers the first solid evidence that functional MRI scans of brain entropy are a new means to understanding human intelligence.
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Newly discovered gene may protect against heart diseaseScientists have identified a gene that may play a protective role in preventing heart disease. Their research revealed that the gene, called MeXis, acts within key cells inside clogged arteries to help remove excess cholesterol from blood vessels.
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What is a 'normal' blood pressure response during exercise testing?New data suggest that the guidelines used to evaluate an individual's peak blood pressure response during cardiopulmonary exercise testing, which were last updated in 1996 and help doctors screen for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, may need to be revised.
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Ocean winds influence seal pup migrationScientists have confirmed what native Alaskans have observed for centuries — maritime winds influence the travel patterns of northern fur seal pups. New research shows strong winds can potentially displace seal pups by hundreds of kilometers during their first winter migration.
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PFASs, chemicals commonly found in environment, may interfere with body weight regulationA class of chemicals used in many industrial and consumer products was linked with greater weight gain after dieting, particularly among women, according to a new study. The chemicals — perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) — have been linked with cancer, hormone disruption, immune dysfunction, high cholesterol, and obesity.
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Shipping noise can disturb porpoises and disrupt their mealtimeNoise from ships may disturb harbor porpoises enough to keep them from getting the food they need.
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Product labels like ‘Fair Trade’ mean less than you’d thinkBuying ethically sourced products is not as straightforward as it might seem, according to the first large-scale analysis of sustainable sourcing practices. Imagine, for example, you want some chocolate. You scan the market shelf for a bar with a Fair Trade or Rainforest Alliance certification because you don’t want your indulgence to drive labor abuse and deforestation. It’s the right thing to d
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Trilobites: How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls and Keep GoingThe ability of the ancient pests may owe less to their speed than to their tough-shock absorbent exoskeletons. The finding could help engineers design tougher robots.
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Debunked: The Strange Tale of Pope Gregory and the RabbitsScientists have often recounted a story about the domestication of rabbits involving a pope and Lent. But it’s just not true.
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Millennials don’t want to delay spouse, house, kidsMillennials are marrying, buying homes, and starting families later in life. But this group—young adults in their 20s and 30s—hope to reach important life goals at the same age as previous generations, including those now in their 60s, 70s, and older, according to a new study . Researchers found that the ideal timing of major milestones has remained relatively constant across generations. “Millen
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This part of the brain makes fear come flooding backA new discovery pinpoints the part of the brain that triggers fear relapse, a finding that could advance the treatment of disorders like post-traumatic stress disorder. “Patients often undergo exposure therapy to reduce their fear of situations and stimuli associated with trauma,” says Steve Maren, professor of psychological and brain sciences at Texas A&M University. “Although exposure therapy i
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Anne Treisman, Who Studied How We Perceive, Dies at 82Her theories on how the brain sorts the avalanche of sensory input it receives to focus on a particular thing have been foundational in the field.
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Polar vortex defies climate change in the Southeast U.S.Overwhelming scientific evidence has demonstrated that our planet is getting warmer due to climate change, yet parts of the eastern US are actually getting cooler. According to a new study, the location of this anomaly, known as the 'US warming hole,' is a moving target. During the winter and spring, the US warming hole sits over the Southeast, as the polar vortex allows arctic air to plunge into
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Surgical infections linked to drug-resistant bugs, study suggestsPeople having surgery in low income countries are more likely to develop an infection than those in wealthier nations, which may be linked to drug-resistant bacteria, research led by the University of Edinburgh suggests.
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Surgical infections linked to drug-resistant bugs, study suggestsPatients having surgery in low income countries are more likely to develop an infection than those in wealthier nations, which may be linked to drug-resistant bacteria, research suggests.
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Pimavanserin: Relief from psychosis in dementia, without devastating side-effectsNew research led by the University of Exeter Medical School, and published today in Lancet Neurology found that pimavanserin significantly improves psychosis symptoms in people with the condition, without the devastating side-effects of currently used antipsychotics. The research found an even greater benefit in those with the most severe psychotic symptoms.
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The Atlantic Daily: Full of PotentialWhat We’re Following Security Issues: Top officials from the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, and other agencies told the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia plans to interfere with America’s upcoming midterm elections after successfully targeting some states’ voter data in 2018. While the officials called for “a national cry” to inform and warn the public, implementing protections may be up to Presi
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The ‘Screaming Mummy’ Was a Murderer Who Killed HimselfHe's back. Prince Pentawere, a man who tried (probably successfully) to murder his own father, Pharaoh Ramesses III, is back in the news for a "screaming mummy" exhibit.
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Facial attraction: Red-fronted lemurs recognize photos of their own speciesWild red-fronted lemurs (Eulemur rufrifrons) appear to be able to recognize individuals belonging to the same species (conspecifics) from photographs, a study suggests.
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WATCH: 24 of the most famous space launches everSpace SpaceX's Falcon Heavy test is just the latest. On February 6, SpaceX tested its Falcon Heavy rocket, the largest since NASA's Saturn V. In honor of that, here are 24 of the most famous space launches ever.
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China's Secretive Stealth Fighter Is Finally Combat-ReadyChina announced that the J-20, a plane to rival the American F-35, has entered service in the People's Liberation Army with "comprehensive combat capabilities."
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Wray We WereToday in 5 Lines During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on global threats facing the United States, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said he expects Russia will try to disrupt the upcoming midterm elections. FBI Director Chris Wray said President Trump has not “specifically directed” the intelligence community’s efforts to counter future Russian meddling. Wray also told lawmake
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The Great Senate Immigration Debate That Wasn'tThis was supposed to be the week when the Senate strutted its stuff, when the vaunted committee of 100 held an open, freewheeling debate to resolve—for now—the weighty issue of immigration and the fate of 700,000 young undocumented immigrants whose protection from deportation could soon expire. There would be no precooked deals foisted upon senators by their leadership, no pointless political gra
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When Deplorability Is No Longer a DealbreakerLast month, Mollie Hemingway, the Fox News contributor and senior editor at The Federalist , declared herself a Donald Trump supporter for the first time. “I wasn’t a Trump supporter,” the headline of her Washington Post op-ed stated. “I am now.” She cited his actions on judicial nominees, climate policy, regulatory reform, tax cuts, guidelines on how colleges should adjudicate sexual assault, an
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Trilobites: Some Songbirds Have Brains Specially Designed to Find Mates for LifeSystems in the brains of male and female songbirds are well-developed and finely tuned, but the wiring is different.
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Opioid painkillers are prescribed more in northern EnglandThe opioid crisis may have crossed the Atlantic, with signs that opioid painkillers are prescribed more in England in socially-deprived areas in the north
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Newly discovered gene may protect against heart diseaseScientists have identified a gene that may play a protective role in preventing heart disease. Their research revealed that the gene, called MeXis, acts within key cells inside clogged arteries to help remove excess cholesterol from blood vessels.
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Genes could record forensic clues to time of deathScientists have found predictable patterns in the way our genetic machinery winds down after death.
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Understanding a fly's body temperature may help people sleep betterIn findings that one day may help people sleep better, scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence that two anciently conserved proteins in the brains of insects and mammals share a common biological ancestry as regulators of body temperature rhythms crucial to metabolism and sleep. The scientists study fruit flies (Drosophila) and mice to solve mysteries about body temperature rhythms
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Cost-reduction roadmap outlines two pathways to meet DOE residential solar cost target for 2030Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic installations could help the United States meet the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office residential solar photovoltaic cost target by 2030.
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Palm oil in your Valentine's chocolate? BewareA diet rich in saturated fat and sugar not only leads to obesity, it creates inflammation in the nucleus accumbens, a part of the brain that controls mood and the feeling of reward. And this inflammation can lead to depressive, anxious and compulsive behavior and disrupt metabolism,according to a new study.
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New method maps the dopamine system in Parkinson’s patientsWith the aid of a PET camera, researchers have developed a new method for investigating the dopamine system in the brains of patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease. The method measures levels of a protein called dopamine transporter and could lead to improved diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and the development of new treatments.
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Three's company: New alloy sets magnetism benchmarkSpintronics leverages electron spins to enhance solid-state devices by prolonging battery life. Spintronic developments, however, are increasingly running up against the Slater-Pauling limit, the maximum for how tightly a material can pack its magnetization. Now, a new thin film is poised to break through this decades-old benchmark. Researchers now discuss their work constructing a stable thin fil
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Fashion waste turned into multifunctional materialA research team has devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert fashion waste into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels.
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New California ballot initiative could create a utopia for non-evidence based scienceIf a new ballot initiative receives enough signatures California could become a new haven for non-evidence based science. Read More
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A Siri scriptwriter says composing lines for AI is like writing an “absurdist play”
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Trump’s Top Intelligence Officials Contradict Him on Russian MeddlingThe country’s leading intelligence officials said Tuesday that Russia intends to interfere in the upcoming midterm elections. But they wouldn’t discuss in an open setting what the U.S. intelligence community is doing to stop it—or how it could be combatted without the support of the White House. “There should be no doubt that Russia perceives its past efforts as successful and views the 2018 U.S.
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Gene Activity Could Give Clues to Time of DeathRNA-sequencing data reveal that specific tissues have distinct changes in gene expression after an individual has passed away.
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These hackers can help cut your company’s insurance bill
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Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistanceScientists have identified factors which are driving the evolution of herbicide resistance in crops — something which could also have an impact on medicine as well as agriculture.
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Motion capture-like technology for tracking protein shapeResearchers have demonstrated a motion capture-like technology that tracks how proteins fold and change shape using fluorescent probes. The research could lead to improvements in drugs used to treat neurodegenerative diseases, as well as new methods of imaging that may also allow for earlier detection.
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Breaking local symmetry: Why water freezes but silica forms a glassResearchers have simulated water and silica at low temperature. Despite structural similarities, the two liquids act differently when they are cooled: water freezes into ice, while silica continues to supercool, and eventually forms a glass. This arises from poor symmetry-breaking in silica; although atoms arrange properly in the first shell in both liquids, local rotational symmetry is harder to
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Improved prediction of pesticide residuesThe use of pesticides can lead to a build-up of toxic and ecologically harmful residues in the soil. Until recently, it was not possible to ascertain in detail to which pesticides this applies and to what extent. Now, researchers have developed a model which allows the formation of potentially toxic residues to be more accurately predicted.
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Rapid decompression key to making low-density liquid waterWater is so common that we take it for granted. Yet water also has very strange properties compared to most other liquids. In addition to ordinary water and water vapor, or steam, there are at least 17 forms of water ice, and two proposed forms of super-cooled liquid water. New work from high-pressure geophysicists finds evidence of the long-theorized, difficult-to-see low-density liquid phase of
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Oregon woman first known case of human infected with cattle eyeworm speciesA 26-year-old Oregon woman was the first known case of a human being infected with the cattle eyeworm Thelazia gulosa, which normally affects large animals. She was likely infected while being around cows near her rural home, experts conclude.
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Kidney stones on the riseKidney stones are a painful health condition, often requiring multiple procedures at great discomfort to the patient. Growing evidence suggests that the incidence of kidney stones is increasing steadily, especially in women. Researchers investigated the rise in stone formers to determine if this is a new trend, or simply an improvement in the way kidney stones are detected.
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Predictors for infidelity and divorceNew research highlights ways to keep love and also identifies clear predictors for failed relationships.
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Obesity associated with longer survival for men with metastatic melanomaObese patients with metastatic melanoma who are treated with targeted or immune therapies live significantly longer than those with a normal body mass index (BMI), investigators report.
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Polar vortex defies climate change in the SoutheastOverwhelming scientific evidence has demonstrated that our planet is getting warmer due to climate change, yet parts of the eastern US are actually getting cooler. According to a Dartmouth-led study in Geophysical Research Letters, the location of this anomaly, known as the 'US warming hole,' is a moving target. During the winter and spring, the US warming hole sits over the Southeast, as the pola
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Brain imaging helps redefine intelligenceNYU Langone study offers the first solid evidence that functional MRI scans of brain entropy are a new means to understanding human intelligence.
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Why Is It So Easy to Cheat at the Olympics?Thousands of athletes are getting away with doping. Here's how they exploit the system.
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A piece of Mars is going homeSpaceX Tesla E. MuskA chunk of Mars will soon be returning home.
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Materialism in marriage linked to devaluation of marriage: studyMadonna may have loved living in a material world as a material girl, but a recent study shows that married couples should avoid living according to this '80s jam at all costs.
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Candy Heart Messages Getting Stale? Computer-Generated Options Are No HelpComputer programs known as neural networks learn by example. So a researcher plugged in some typical Valentine's Day candy heart messages — and got some weird new word combos. "BEAR WIG," anyone? (Image credit: Melissa Deakin Photography/Getty Images)
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New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasmaResearchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by General Atomics, used a "reduced physics" fluid model of plasma turbulence to explain unexpected properties of the density profile inside a tokamak experiment. Modeling plasma's turbulent behavior could help scientists optimize the tokamak performance in future fusion reactors like ITER.
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True to type: From human biopsy to complex gut physiology on a chipThe small intestine is the main site where we digest and absorb nutrients and minerals from food, and it is also a place where many intestinal infections occur and digestive and inflammatory disorders manifest themselves. To better understand the intestine in its normal and pathological states, researchers have created "organoids" by isolating intestinal stem cells from human biopsy samples. These
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Presence, persistence of estrogens in vernal pools an emerging concernEstrogens in treated wastewater that find their way into temporary wetlands known as vernal pools persist for weeks or even months, according to researchers, who suggest that persistence may have implications for these critical aquatic habitats.
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Cabozantinib shows promise as first line treatment for differentiated thyroid cancerA kinase inhibitor called cabozantinib could be a viable therapy option for patients with metastatic, radioactive iodine-resistant thyroid cancer. In a recent trial tumors shrunk in 34 out of 35 patients who took the drug, and more than half of those patients saw the tumor size decrease by more than 30 percent.
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Mending broken hearts — by reprogramming cellsScientists have reprogrammed ordinary cells called fibroblasts into new and healthy heart muscle cells, and recorded changes that appear to be necessary for this reprogramming.
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Pride tops guilt as a motivator for environmental decisionsA lot of pro-environmental messages suggest that people will feel guilty if they don't make an effort to live more sustainably or takes steps to ameliorate climate change. But a recent study finds that highlighting the pride people will feel if they take such actions may be a better way to change environmental behaviors.
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Sex differences in lifespan: X chromosome not the reasonThe shorter average lifespan of males compared to females appears not to be a result of the fact that males have only one X chromosome. This is the conclusion from a research study on fruit flies.
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Screening for ovarian cancer not recommendedThe US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against screening for ovarian cancer in women without symptoms and who are not known to be at high risk (such as those who have certain hereditary cancer syndromes that increase the risk for ovarian cancer).
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World's biggest city database shines light on our increasingly urbanized planetThe world's largest data platform on cities reveals the planet is even more urbanized than we thought.
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Medical cannabis significantly safer for elderly with chronic pain than OpioidsA new study found cannabis therapy is safe and efficacious for elderly patients who are seeking to address cancer symptoms, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and other medical issues. After six months, more than 18 percent of patients surveyed had stopped using opioid analgesics or had reduced their dosage.
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Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effects: Fresh insightFuture cancer drugs that are activated by light and don't cause the toxic side-effects of current chemotherapy treatments are closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research.
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Study finds depression and fatigue increase women's risk of work-related injuriesWomen who suffer from depression, anxiety, and fatigue are more likely to be injured at work, according to a new study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The study found that these health factors significantly affected women's risk of injury but not men's risk.
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True to type: From human biopsy to complex gut physiology on a chipPublished in Scientific Reports, Donald Ingber's team at the Wyss Institute leverages the organoid approach to isolate intestinal stem cells from human biopsies, but goes on to break up the organoids and culture the patient-specific cells within our Organ Chips where they spontaneously form intestinal villi oriented towards the channel lumen, and the epithelium in close apposition to human intesti
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Presence, persistence of estrogens in vernal pools an emerging concernEstrogens in treated wastewater that find their way into temporary wetlands known as vernal pools persist for weeks or even months, according to researchers, who suggest that persistence may have implications for these critical aquatic habitats.
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Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical foodScientists have discovered an extreme lack of genetic diversity and other threats to the future adaptability of domestic chickpeas, the primary source of protein of 20 percent of the world's people. But they also collected wild relatives of chickpeas in Turkey that hold great promise as a source of new genes for traits like drought-resistance, resistance to pod-boring beetles, and heat tolerance.
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Can't buy me love: Materialism in marriage linked to devaluation of marriageResearchers in BYU's School of Family Life have provided more insight into what may be one of the roots of the dissatisfaction caused by materialism — a diminished view of the importance of marriage itself.
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New turbulent transport modeling shows multiscale fluctuations in heated plasmaResearchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility used a 'reduced physics' fluid model of plasma turbulence to explain unexpected properties of the density profile inside a tokamak experiment. Modeling plasma's turbulent behavior could help scientists optimize the tokamak performance in future fusion reactors like ITER. They discuss their findings in this week's Physics of Plasmas.
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Genetic limits threaten chickpeas, a globally critical foodPerhaps you missed the news that the price of hummus has spiked in Great Britain. The cause, as the New York Times reported on February 8: drought in India, resulting in a poor harvest of chickpeas. Far beyond making dips for pita bread, chickpeas are a legume of life-and-death importance—especially in India, Pakistan, and Ethiopia where 1 in 5 of the world's people depend on them as their primary
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Snapping shrimp may act as 'dinner bell' for gray whales off Oregon coastScientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner bell for eastern Pacific gray whales.
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Powerful LED-based train headlight optimized for energy savingsResearchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8 hours every day, the electricity savings of the new design would reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by about 152 kilograms per year.
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Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of thingsA special-purpose chip hardwired to implement elliptic-curve cryptography in general and the datagram transport layer security protocol in particular reduces power consumption by 99.75 percent and increases speed 500-fold, to help enable the internet of things.
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Apple signs NBA star Durant to produce new TV seriesNBA star Kevin Durant has agreed to co-produce a basketball-themed drama television series that will be part of Apple's original television programming.
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Ocean winds influence seal pup migrationScientists have confirmed what native Alaskans have observed for centuries – maritime winds influence the travel patterns of northern fur seal pups. New research presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting here today shows strong winds can potentially displace seal pups by hundreds of kilometers during their first winter migration.
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Building a DNA barcode library for the Canadian flora using herbarium collectionsThe dry, mothball-scented stacks of a herbarium might seem to be far away from the cutting edge of plant science. However, the curated plant specimens stored there contain irreplaceable genetic, morphological, ecological, and chemical information just waiting to be analyzed with modern techniques. In a new study in a recent issue of Applications in Plant Sciences, Dr. Maria Kuzmina at the Universi
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NASA's longest running survey of ice shattered records in 2017Last year was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA's aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and in
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Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envyScientists are supposed to reach their conclusions after doing research and weighing the evidence but, in economics, conclusions can come first, with economists supporting a thesis that fits their moral worldview. Read More
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Syria's War Is Fueling Three More ConflictsWhen an Israeli jet crashed after being shot down over Syria over the weekend, it marked a serious escalation in the Syrian Civil War. But it also reflected an ongoing reality, one that is growing more dangerous: Syria’s war encompasses at least three other international conflicts, each of which are heating up. In the last few weeks alone, Turkey has clashed with Syrian Kurds and threatened a U.S
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2018 Worldwide Threats Briefing: 5 Takeaways, From Russia to ChinaIn a Senate hearing Tuesday, the heads of the three-letter intelligence agencies detailed their greatest concerns.
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TV's influence on pregnancy, childbirth more powerful than many women admitUC sociology research may reveal a surprisingly stronger-than-expected influence from TV reality shows and other media on pregnant women's perception and management of their pregnancy and childbirth — possibly impacting more highly educated consumers.
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Scientists create most sophisticated human liver model yetScientists have developed the most sophisticated mini-livers to date. These organoids can potentially help scientists better understand certain congenital liver diseases as well as speed up efforts to create liver tissue in the lab for transplantation into patients.
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NASA's longest running survey of ice shattered records in 2017Last year was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA's aerial survey of the state of polar ice.
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The virginity fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken DahlThe hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empower young people through better sex education, debunking the popular (and harmful) myths we're told about female virginity and the hymen.
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China shot down another missile in spaceEastern Arsenal Like a hypersonic bullet hitting another hypersonic bullet. This month, China used a long-range missile to shoot down another long-range missile—in space.
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No, Iran, Lizard 'Spies' Can't Detect UraniumDespite outlandish claims by an Iranian military advisor, lizards have no special attributes or skills that would allow them to detect the location of hidden uranium mines.
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Building a DNA barcode library for the Canadian flora using herbarium collectionsResearchers have built a DNA barcode library for the vascular plant flora of Canada based entirely on herbarium collections. DNA barcode libraries are important to facilitate plant identification for a variety of studies including analysis and regulation of supplements, food, and environmental or ancient DNA. The scale of the study surpasses previous library-building efforts, providing barcodes fo
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Ocean winds influence seal pup migrationScientists have confirmed what native Alaskans have observed for centuries — maritime winds influence the travel patterns of northern fur seal pups. New research presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting here today shows strong winds can potentially displace seal pups by hundreds of kilometers during their first winter migration.
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BBC to ban single-use plastics by 2020 after Blue Planet IIThe move comes after the 'shocking' scale of plastic waste featured on the Blue Planet II series.
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What is a 'normal' blood pressure response during exercise testing?New data from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggest that the guidelines used to evaluate an individual's peak blood pressure response during cardiopulmonary exercise testing, which were last updated in 1996 and help doctors screen for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, may need to be revised.
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Apple CEO leaves investors dangling on future dividend hike (Update)Apple's next big thing will likely be a large dividend increase financed by a tax cut on its overseas profits, but the famously secretive company isn't giving any clues about how big it might be.
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The Unsinkable Benjamin Netanyahu?Benjamin Netanyahu IsraeliIsraeli police recommended Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The announcement signals the culmination of a year-long investigation into the longtime Israeli leader and sparks questions about his ability to remain in power. Netanyahu is insisting he will remain in office. “Over these years, there have been no less than 15
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Astronomers Are Already Planning for the Next 'Pale Blue Dot'In 1977, humans launched twin robotic probes into space several weeks apart. The two Voyager spacecraft barreled away from Earth for a tour of our planet’s siblings in the solar system. At each encounter, the Voyagers set records for the best-looking pictures of these planets humanity had ever taken, far better than anything seen through a telescope. There was Jupiter , furiously churning with ga
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Study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stopsEfforts to stop human-caused earthquakes by shutting down wastewater injection wells that serve adjacent oil and gas fields may oversimplify the challenge, according to a new study from seismologists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas.
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Pregnant women deficient in vitamin D may give birth to obese childrenVitamin D deficiency in pregnant women could preprogram babies to grow into obese children and adults, according to a Keck School of Medicine of USC-led study. Researchers found that 6-year-olds born to mothers with very low vitamin D levels during their first trimester had bigger waists — about half an inch plumper on average — than peers whose mothers had enough vitamin D in early pregnancy. T
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Cancer-killing virus acts by alerting immune systemA new UC San Francisco study has shown that a cancer-killing ('oncolytic') virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine — in addition to killing some cancer cells directly, the virus alerts the immune system to the presence of a tumor, triggering a powerful, widespread immune response that kills cancer cells far outside the virus-infected region.
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Chemical cluster could transform energy storage for large electrical gridsResearchers at the University of Rochester and University at Buffalo believe they have found a promising compound that could transform the energy storage landscape. The compound has properties that make it an ideal candidate material for redox flow batteries.
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SMU study finds earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stopsShutting down oil and gas wastewater injection wells may not stop human-induced earthquakes quickly, say seismologists at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The scientists analyzed earthquakes at DFW Airport that began in 2008 and found that even though wastewater injection was halted after a year, earthquakes continued for at least seven more years. They concluded that high-volume injection,
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Study links 4/20 to an increase in deadly car crashesU.S. drivers faced a 12% greater risk of dying in a car crash on April 20 over the past 25 years. The likely explanation? High drivers. Read More
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Are action films snubbed at the Oscars?Are there really no good action and adventure films anymore, or is there an inherent bias toward them? Read More
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We're told to fear robots. But why do we think they'll turn on us?Technology The robot uprising is a myth. Digital doomsayers have told us to fear robots. But why should we believe beings of our own making will turn on us?
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Brain sciences researcher pinpoints brain circuit that triggers fear relapseScientists have made a breakthrough discovery in the process of fear relapse.
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Intensive agriculture influences US regional summer climate, study findsScientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, not just emissions of greenhouse gases, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study reveals how another type of land use, intensive agriculture, can impact regional climate.
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Plants feel the heat, especially at nightScientists have solved a 79-year-old mystery by discovering how plants vary their response to heat stress depending on the time of day. This understanding could help with breeding commercial crops able to produce higher yields in hotter climates as predicted under climate change.
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Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave CookingThe search for the missing grain led to Trinidad and Thomas Jefferson, and now excitement among African-American chefs.
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Hidden on the Falcon Heavy were the first books for a space libraryOnboard Elon Musks’s Tesla Roadster were hidden the first books of of a library in space. Read More
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How the White House Gamed the Security-Clearance SystemThe Rob Porter fiasco has exposed the White House’s duplicity, disorganization, and disregard for domestic violence, but it has also exposed some of the issues with the system for granting security clearance to federal employees. Until his abrupt resignation last week amid allegations of physical and verbal abuse by two ex-wives , Porter had served as staff secretary, handling classified material
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Gene expression patterns may help determine time of deathInternational team of scientists shows that changes in gene expression in different tissues can be used to predict the time of death of individuals. Their results may have implications for forensic analyses.
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Shifting shorelines at Lake Tahoe caused by ancient lava damsPleistocene basaltic lavas form a small volcanic field that was erupted from seven vents in the northwestern Lake Tahoe basin. Most of these lavas were erupted above the water and produced lava flows that dammed the lake outlet and flowed into an early Lake Tahoe. The resulting steam explosions produced deltas composed of fragmental deposits as well as pillow lavas.
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Missing link to novel superconductivity revealedScientists have discovered a state of magnetism that may be the missing link to understanding the relationship between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity.
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One or more soda a day could decrease chances of getting pregnantA new study has found that the intake of one or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day — by either partner — is associated with a decreased chance of getting pregnant.
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Mini ice age? Why the Sun will lose 7% of its power in about 30 yearsBrrrrrrr. Read More
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An evolutionary perspective on nutrition and social decision making [Social Sciences]We were intrigued by findings reported by Strang et al. (1) that the balance of carbohydrate to protein in a breakfast preparation influenced subsequent human social decision making. Specifically, compared with a low-carbohydrate/high-protein breakfast, consumption of a high-carbohydrate/low-protein breakfast increased participants’ tendency to punish violations of social norms, assessed as…
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Reply to Raison and Raichlen: Why does nutrition impact social decision making? [Social Sciences]In our PNAS article (1), we show how the macronutrient composition of a meal can impact social decision making. Specifically, with a greater protein intake, participants' plasma tyrosine levels were elevated, which resulted in a more tolerant participants’ response toward unfair offers. In other words, with a greater carbohydrate intake,…
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Weighing the evidence for a body mass-regulating gravitostat [Biological Sciences]The intriguing paper by Jansson et al. (1) reports the identification of a body mass-regulating homeostat that operates in rodents independently of leptin. In response to implantation of capsules weighing 15% of body weight the authors observed that ∼80% of this load was offset by a reduction in biological body…
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Reply to Lund: Where does the gravitostat fit in? [Biological Sciences]We appreciate the thoughtful reflection by Jens Lund (1) on different aspects of our recent article in PNAS (2). Lund is right to point out that results from studies of the effects of hypergravity on body mass and body fat in rodents support the gravitostat hypothesis (2). Hypergravity and increased…
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On the complex dynamics of savanna landscapes [Applied Mathematics]Simple mathematical models can exhibit rich and complex behaviors. Prototypical examples of these drawn from biology and other disciplines have provided insights that extend well beyond the situations that inspired them. Here, we explore a set of simple, yet realistic, models for savanna–forest vegetation dynamics based on minimal ecological assumptions….
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RNA force field with accuracy comparable to state-of-the-art protein force fields [Biophysics and Computational Biology]Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has become a powerful tool for characterizing at an atomic level of detail the conformational changes undergone by proteins. The application of such simulations to RNA structures, however, has proven more challenging, due in large part to the fact that the physical models (“force fields”) available…
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Landau-Ginzburg theory of cortex dynamics: Scale-free avalanches emerge at the edge of synchronization [Biophysics and Computational Biology]Understanding the origin, nature, and functional significance of complex patterns of neural activity, as recorded by diverse electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques, is a central challenge in neuroscience. Such patterns include collective oscillations emerging out of neural synchronization as well as highly heterogeneous outbursts of activity interspersed by periods of quiescence,…
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Superresolution imaging of individual replication forks reveals unexpected prodrug resistance mechanism [Chemistry]Many drugs require extensive metabolism en route to their targets. High-resolution visualization of prodrug metabolism should therefore utilize analogs containing a small modification that does not interfere with its metabolism or mode of action. In addition to serving as mechanistic probes, such analogs provide candidates for theranostics when applied in…
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Wireless optoelectronic photometers for monitoring neuronal dynamics in the deep brain [Engineering]Capabilities for recording neural activity in behaving mammals have greatly expanded our understanding of brain function. Some of the most sophisticated approaches use light delivered by an implanted fiber-optic cable to optically excite genetically encoded calcium indicators and to record the resulting changes in fluorescence. Physical constraints induced by the…
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Auxetic metamaterials from disordered networks [Engineering]Recent theoretical work suggests that systematic pruning of disordered networks consisting of nodes connected by springs can lead to materials that exhibit a host of unusual mechanical properties. In particular, global properties such as Poisson’s ratio or local responses related to deformation can be precisely altered. Tunable mechanical responses would…
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Light-enabled reversible self-assembly and tunable optical properties of stable hairy nanoparticles [Engineering]The ability to dynamically organize functional nanoparticles (NPs) via the use of environmental triggers (temperature, pH, light, or solvent polarity) opens up important perspectives for rapid and convenient construction of a rich variety of complex assemblies and materials with new structures and functionalities. Here, we report an unconventional strategy for…
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K63 ubiquitylation triggers proteasomal degradation by seeding branched ubiquitin chains [Biochemistry]Different polyubiquitin chain linkages direct substrates toward distinct cellular pathways. K63-linked ubiquitylation is known to regulate proteasome-independent events such as signal transduction, but its function in the context of heterogeneous ubiquitin chains remains unclear. Here, we report that K63 ubiquitylation plays a critical role in proteasome-mediated substrate degradation by serving..
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Identification of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) binding sites on the branched actin filament nucleator Arp2/3 complex [Biochemistry]Arp2/3 complex nucleates branched actin filaments important for cellular motility and endocytosis. WASP family proteins are Arp2/3 complex activators that play multiple roles in branching nucleation, but little is known about the structural bases of these WASP functions, owing to an incomplete understanding of how WASP binds Arp2/3 complex. Recent…
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Molecular basis for the recognition of the human AAUAAA polyadenylation signal [Biochemistry]Nearly all eukaryotic messenger RNA precursors must undergo cleavage and polyadenylation at their 3′-end for maturation. A crucial step in this process is the recognition of the AAUAAA polyadenylation signal (PAS), and the molecular mechanism of this recognition has been a long-standing problem. Here, we report the cryo-electron microscopy structure…
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High integrin {alpha}V{beta}6 affinity reached by hybrid domain deletion slows ligand-binding on-rate [Biochemistry]The role of the hybrid domain in integrin affinity regulation is unknown, as is whether the kinetics of ligand binding is modulated by integrin affinity state. Here, we compare cell surface and soluble integrin αVβ6 truncation mutants for ligand-binding affinity, kinetics, and thermodynamics. Removal of the integrin transmembrane/cytoplasmic domains or…
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Structures and mechanism of dipeptidyl peptidases 8 and 9, important players in cellular homeostasis and cancer [Biochemistry]Dipeptidyl peptidases 8 and 9 are intracellular N-terminal dipeptidyl peptidases (preferentially postproline) associated with pathophysiological roles in immune response and cancer biology. While the DPP family member DPP4 is extensively characterized in molecular terms as a validated therapeutic target of type II diabetes, experimental 3D structures and ligand-/substrate-binding modes of…
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Mechanism of inhibition of retromer transport by the bacterial effector RidL [Biophysics and Computational Biology]Retrograde vesicle trafficking pathways are responsible for returning membrane-associated components from endosomes to the Golgi apparatus and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and they are critical for maintaining organelle identity, lipid homeostasis, and many other cellular functions. The retrograde transport pathway has emerged as an important target for intravacuolar bacterial pathogens….
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Structure of the fission yeast actomyosin ring during constriction [Cell Biology]Cell division in many eukaryotes is driven by a ring containing actin and myosin. While much is known about the main proteins involved, the precise arrangement of actin filaments within the contractile machinery, and how force is transmitted to the membrane, remains unclear. Here we use cryosectioning and cryofocused ion…
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LncRNA IDH1-AS1 links the functions of c-Myc and HIF1{alpha} via IDH1 to regulate the Warburg effect [Cell Biology]The oncoprotein c-Myc plays an important role in regulating glycolysis under normoxia; yet, in cancer cells, HIF1α, which is essential for driving glycolysis under hypoxia, is often up-regulated even in the presence of oxygen. The relationship between these two major regulators of the Warburg effect remains to be fully defined….
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RGMb protects against acute kidney injury by inhibiting tubular cell necroptosis via an MLKL-dependent mechanism [Cell Biology]Tubular cell necrosis is a key histological feature of acute kidney injury (AKI). Necroptosis is a type of programed necrosis, which is executed by mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL) upon its binding to the plasma membrane. Emerging evidence indicates that necroptosis plays a critical role in the development of…
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Arabidopsis mRNA decay landscape arises from specialized RNA decay substrates, decapping-mediated feedback, and redundancy [Cell Biology]The decay of mRNA plays a vital role in modulating mRNA abundance, which, in turn, influences cellular and organismal processes. In plants and metazoans, three distinct pathways carry out the decay of most cytoplasmic mRNAs: The mRNA decapping complex, which requires the scaffold protein VARICOSE (VCS), removes a protective 5′…
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Effects of rapamycin on growth hormone receptor knockout mice [Developmental Biology]It is well documented that inhibition of mTORC1 (defined by Raptor), a complex of mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), extends life span, but less is known about the mechanisms by which mTORC2 (defined by Rictor) impacts longevity. Here, rapamycin (an inhibitor of mTOR) was used in GHR-KO (growth hormone receptor…
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Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection [Evolution]The origin of mitochondria was a major evolutionary transition leading to eukaryotes, and is a hotly debated issue. It is unknown whether mitochondria were acquired early or late, and whether it was captured via phagocytosis or syntrophic integration. We present dynamical models to directly simulate the emergence of mitochondria in…
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Loss of Capicua alters early T cell development and predisposes mice to T cell lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma [Genetics]Capicua (CIC) regulates a transcriptional network downstream of the RAS/MAPK signaling cascade. In Drosophila, CIC is important for many developmental processes, including embryonic patterning and specification of wing veins. In humans, CIC has been implicated in neurological diseases, including spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) and a neurodevelopmental syndrome. Additionally, we…
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Male-specific IL-33 expression regulates sex-dimorphic EAE susceptibility [Immunology and Inflammation]The cellular and molecular basis of sex-dimorphic autoimmune diseases, such as the CNS demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis (MS), remains unclear. Our studies in the SJL mouse model of MS, experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), reveal that sex-determined differences in Il33 expression by innate immune cells in response to myelin peptide immunization…
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OLT1177, a {beta}-sulfonyl nitrile compound, safe in humans, inhibits the NLRP3 inflammasome and reverses the metabolic cost of inflammation [Immunology and Inflammation]Activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome induces maturation of IL-1β and IL-18, both validated targets for treating acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Here, we demonstrate that OLT1177, an orally active β-sulfonyl nitrile molecule, inhibits activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome. In vitro, nanomolar concentrations of OLT1177 reduced IL-1β and IL-18 release following…
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Anti-PD-1/anti-CTLA-4 efficacy in melanoma brain metastases depends on extracranial disease and augmentation of CD8+ T cell trafficking [Immunology and Inflammation]Inhibition of immune checkpoints programmed death 1 (PD-1) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) on T cells results in durable antitumor activity in melanoma patients. Despite high frequency of melanoma brain metastases (BrM) and associated poor prognosis, the activity and mechanisms of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) in metastatic tumors…
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Platelets release pathogenic serotonin and return to circulation after immune complex-mediated sequestration [Immunology and Inflammation]There is a growing appreciation for the contribution of platelets to immunity; however, our knowledge mostly relies on platelet functions associated with vascular injury and the prevention of bleeding. Circulating immune complexes (ICs) contribute to both chronic and acute inflammation in a multitude of clinical conditions. Herein, we scrutinized platelet…
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E-cigarette smoke damages DNA and reduces repair activity in mouse lung, heart, and bladder as well as in human lung and bladder cells [Medical Sciences]E-cigarette smoke delivers stimulant nicotine as aerosol without tobacco or the burning process. It contains neither carcinogenic incomplete combustion byproducts nor tobacco nitrosamines, the nicotine nitrosation products. E-cigarettes are promoted as safe and have gained significant popularity. In this study, instead of detecting nitrosamines, we directly measured DNA damage induced…
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Disruption of the anaphase-promoting complex confers resistance to TTK inhibitors in triple-negative breast cancer [Medical Sciences]TTK protein kinase (TTK), also known as Monopolar spindle 1 (MPS1), is a key regulator of the spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC), which functions to maintain genomic integrity. TTK has emerged as a promising therapeutic target in human cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Several TTK inhibitors (TTKis) are being evaluated…
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Pyruvate cycle increases aminoglycoside efficacy and provides respiratory energy in bacteria [Microbiology]The emergence and ongoing spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria puts humans and other species at risk for potentially lethal infections. Thus, novel antibiotics or alternative approaches are needed to target drug-resistant bacteria, and metabolic modulation has been documented to improve antibiotic efficacy, but the relevant metabolic mechanisms require more studies. Here,…
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Superior colliculus neuronal ensemble activity signals optimal rather than subjective confidence [Neuroscience]Recent studies suggest that neurons in sensorimotor circuits involved in perceptual decision-making also play a role in decision confidence. In these studies, confidence is often considered to be an optimal readout of the probability that a decision is correct. However, the information leading to decision accuracy and the report of…
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Heterogeneity within the frontoparietal control network and its relationship to the default and dorsal attention networks [Neuroscience]The frontoparietal control network (FPCN) plays a central role in executive control. It has been predominantly viewed as a unitary domain general system. Here, we examined patterns of FPCN functional connectivity (FC) across multiple conditions of varying cognitive demands, to test for FPCN heterogeneity. We identified two distinct subsystems within…
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Effects of the ecto-ATPase apyrase on microglial ramification and surveillance reflect cell depolarization, not ATP depletion [Neuroscience]Microglia, the brain’s innate immune cells, have highly motile processes which constantly survey the brain to detect infection, remove dying cells, and prune synapses during brain development. ATP released by tissue damage is known to attract microglial processes, but it is controversial whether an ambient level of ATP is needed…
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Restoring GABAergic inhibition rescues memory deficits in a Huntington’s disease mouse model [Neuroscience]Huntington’s disease (HD) is classically characterized as a movement disorder, however cognitive impairments precede the motor symptoms by ∼15 y. Based on proteomic and bioinformatic data linking the Huntingtin protein (Htt) and KCC2, which is required for hyperpolarizing GABAergic inhibition, and the important role of inhibition in learning and memory,…
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Entorhinal fast-spiking speed cells project to the hippocampus [Neuroscience]The mammalian positioning system contains a variety of functionally specialized cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) and the hippocampus. In order for cells in these systems to dynamically update representations in a way that reflects ongoing movement in the environment, they must be able to read out the current…
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Path integration in place cells of developing rats [Neuroscience]Place cells in the hippocampus and grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex rely on self-motion information and path integration for spatially confined firing. Place cells can be observed in young rats as soon as they leave their nest at around 2.5 wk of postnatal life. In contrast, the regularly…
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Brain-state dependent astrocytic Ca2+ signals are coupled to both positive and negative BOLD-fMRI signals [Neuroscience]Astrocytic Ca2+-mediated gliovascular interactions regulate the neurovascular network in situ and in vivo. However, it is difficult to measure directly both the astrocytic activity and fMRI to relate the various forms of blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signaling to brain states under normal and pathological conditions. In this study, fMRI and GCaMP-mediated Ca2+…
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TRPV1 channels and the progesterone receptor Sig-1R interact to regulate pain [Pharmacology]The Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) ion channel is expressed in nociceptors where, when activated by chemical or thermal stimuli, it functions as an important transducer of painful and itch-related stimuli. Although the interaction of TRPV1 with proteins that regulate its function has been previously explored, their modulation by…
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Phosphatidylinositol-(4, 5)-bisphosphate regulates calcium gating of small-conductance cation channel TMEM16F [Physiology]TMEM16F, which is activated by elevation of intracellular calcium to trigger phospholipid scrambling and the collapse of lipid bilayer asymmetry to mediate important cellular functions such as blood coagulation, also generates a small-conductance calcium-activated cation current. How TMEM16F activation may be regulated is an open question. By recording TMEM16F Ca2+-activated…
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AtCAP2 is crucial for lytic vacuole biogenesis during germination by positively regulating vacuolar protein trafficking [Plant Biology]Protein trafficking is a fundamental mechanism of subcellular organization and contributes to organellar biogenesis. AtCAP2 is an Arabidopsis homolog of the Mesembryanthemum crystallinum calcium-dependent protein kinase 1 adaptor protein 2 (McCAP2), a member of the syntaxin superfamily. Here, we show that AtCAP2 plays an important role in the conversion to…
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Proȷecting one’s own spatial bias onto others during a theory-of-mind task [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]Many people show a left-right bias in visual processing. We measured spatial bias in neurotypical participants using a variant of the line bisection task. In the same participants, we measured performance in a social cognition task. This theory-of-mind task measured whether each participant had a processing-speed bias toward the right…
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Stimulus generalization as a mechanism for learning to trust [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]How do humans learn to trust unfamiliar others? Decisions in the absence of direct knowledge rely on our ability to generalize from past experiences and are often shaped by the degree of similarity between prior experience and novel situations. Here, we leverage a stimulus generalization framework to examine how perceptual…
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Neuronal control of astrocytic respiration through a variant of the Crabtree effect [Neuroscience]Aerobic glycolysis is a phenomenon that in the long term contributes to synaptic formation and growth, is reduced by normal aging, and correlates with amyloid beta deposition. Aerobic glycolysis starts within seconds of neural activity and it is not obvious why energetic efficiency should be compromised precisely when energy demand…
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DJ-1 deficiency impairs synaptic vesicle endocytosis and reavailability at nerve terminals [Neuroscience]Mutations in DJ-1 (PARK7) are a known cause of early-onset autosomal recessive Parkinson’s disease (PD). Accumulating evidence indicates that abnormalities of synaptic vesicle trafficking underlie the pathophysiological mechanism of PD. In the present study, we explored whether DJ-1 is involved in CNS synaptic function. DJ-1 deficiency impaired synaptic vesicle endocytosis…
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Robust kinase- and age-dependent dopaminergic and norepinephrine neurodegeneration in LRRK2 G2019S transgenic mice [Neuroscience]Mutations in LRRK2 are known to be the most common genetic cause of sporadic and familial Parkinson’s disease (PD). Multiple lines of LRRK2 transgenic or knockin mice have been developed, yet none exhibit substantial dopamine (DA)-neuron degeneration. Here we develop human tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) promoter-controlled tetracycline-sensitive LRRK2 G2019S (GS) and…
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Evidence that asymmetry of the membrane/cytoskeletal complex in human red blood cell ghosts is responsible for their biconcave shape [Physiology]The main conclusion of the results reported in this article is that during centrifugation, sphered red blood cell ghosts become oriented in their attachment to a coverslip such that a dense band within the ghosts lies parallel to the centrifugal field. The result of the orientation of this dense band…
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Centipedes subdue giant prey by blocking KCNQ channels [Physiology]Centipedes can subdue giant prey by using venom, which is metabolically expensive to synthesize and thus used frugally through efficiently disrupting essential physiological systems. Here, we show that a centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans, ∼3 g) can subdue a mouse (∼45 g) within 30 seconds. We found that this observation is…
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Endoplasmic reticulum acyltransferase with prokaryotic substrate preference contributes to triacylglycerol assembly in Chlamydomonas [Plant Biology]Understanding the unique features of triacylglycerol (TAG) metabolism in microalgae may be necessary to realize the full potential of these organisms for biofuel and biomaterial production. In the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii a chloroplastic (prokaryotic) pathway has been proposed to play a major role in TAG precursor biosynthesis. However,…
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Economic value of ecological information in ecosystem-based natural resource management depends on exploitation history [Sustainability Science]Ecosystem approaches to natural resource management are seen as a way to provide better outcomes for ecosystems and for people, yet the nature and strength of interactions among ecosystem components is usually unknown. Here we characterize the economic benefits of ecological knowledge through a simple model of fisheries that target…
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Correction for Murari et al., Climate change and agricultural suicides in India [Correction]LETTER Correction for “Climate change and agricultural suicides in India,” by Kamal Kumar Murari, T. Jayaraman, and Madhura Swaminathan, which was first published December 29, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1714747115 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115:E115). The editors note that, in the first paragraph, lines 5–6, “an increase in 1 °C temperature in…
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Correction for Das, Unfounded assumptions in linking crop-damaging temperature and suicide in India [Correction]LETTER Correction for “Unfounded assumptions in linking crop-damaging temperature and suicide in India,” by Saudamini Das, which was first published December 29, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1715331115 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115:E116). The editors note that, in the first paragraph, line 2, “suicides during 1987–2013” should instead appear as “suicides during 1980–2013.”…
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Correction for Sanderman et al., Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use [Correction]SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE Correction for “Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use,” by Jonathan Sanderman, Tomislav Hengl, and Gregory J. Fiske, which was first published August 21, 2017; 10.1073/pnas.1706103114 (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 114:9575–9580). The authors would like to note the following: “We regret that two small…
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In This Issue [This Week in PNAS]How centipedes slay giant prey Golden head centipede attacks a mouse. Centipedes are known to subdue large prey by using potent, broad-acting venom. However, venom synthesis requires substantial metabolic investment, and the mechanisms of action of centipede venoms remain unclear. Lei Luo et al. (pp. 1646–1651) report that a golden…
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Profile of Steve Granick [Profiles]Steve Granick says a simple underlying principle—the desire for an interesting life with meaningful human relations—has guided his career. During undergraduate study at Princeton University, Granick majored in sociology, mainly because he was interested in literature, humanities, and social sciences. He took just one obligatory science class—introductory physics—and found it…
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Resolving single-actin filaments within the contractile ring of fission yeast [Cell Biology]Cell division is an essential step in the life of all cells. Fungi, amoeboid, and mammalian cells divide by the assembly and constriction of a contractile ring of actin, myosin, and other highly conserved proteins (1). The mechanism of cytokinesis is best understood in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Combined…
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Tobacco smoking, E-cigarettes, and nicotine harm [Medical Sciences]Tobacco smoking has caused more than 20 million premature American deaths in the 50 y after the first US Surgeon General Report of Smoking and Health (1). The recognition of this major health hazard has led to efforts to both prevent the initiation of smoking and aid smokers in quitting,…
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Conceptualizing degrees of theory of mind [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]Successful navigation of the social world requires making accurate inferences about the contents of other people’s minds, being able to represent in one’s own mind the thoughts, beliefs, and intentions of another. This “theory of mind” (ToM) ability allows us to explain and predict others’ behavior in terms of their…
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Unique parasite aDNA in moa coprolites from New Zealand suggests mass parasite extinctions followed human-induced megafauna extinctions [Ecology]Having split early from Gondwana, Zealandia (now modern New Zealand) escaped discovery until the late 13th century, and therefore remains an important glimpse into a human-free world. Without humans or other land mammals, diverse and peculiar birds evolved in isolation, including several flightless moa species, the giant pouakai eagle (Harpagornis…
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Adaptive value of novel MHC immune gene variants [Evolution]The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a core component of the vertebrate immune system and has puzzled immunologists, geneticists, and evolutionary biologists for more than half a century. The so-called classical MHC genes (in humans also called HLA) code for cell surface molecules that present antigens to immune effector cells…
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Iterative near-term ecological forecasting: Needs, opportunities, and challenges [Sustainability Science]Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these trajectories?” Answering these questions requires an ability to forecast ecological processes. Unfortunately, most ecological forecasts focus on centennial-scale climate responses, therefore neither meeting…
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Relevance of packing to colloidal self-assembly [Applied Physical Sciences]Since the 1920s, packing arguments have been used to rationalize crystal structures in systems ranging from atomic mixtures to colloidal crystals. Packing arguments have recently been applied to complex nanoparticle structures, where they often, but not always, work. We examine when, if ever, packing is a causal mechanism in hard…
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Nature and evolution of incommensurate charge order in manganites visualized with cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy [Applied Physical Sciences]Incommensurate charge order in hole-doped oxides is intertwined with exotic phenomena such as colossal magnetoresistance, high-temperature superconductivity, and electronic nematicity. Here, we map, at atomic resolution, the nature of incommensurate charge–lattice order in a manganite using scanning transmission electron microscopy at room temperature and cryogenic temperature (∼93 K). In diffract
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Lysosomal enzyme tripeptidyl peptidase 1 destabilizes fibrillar A{beta} by multiple endoproteolytic cleavages within the {beta}-sheet domain [Biophysics and Computational Biology]Accumulation of amyloid-beta (Aβ), which is associated with Alzheimer’s disease, can be caused by excess production or insufficient clearance. Because of its β-sheet structure, fibrillar Aβ is resistant to proteolysis, which would contribute to slow degradation of Aβ plaques in vivo. Fibrillar Aβ can be internalized by microglia, which are…
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Assembly mechanism of the CARMA1-BCL10-MALT1-TRAF6 signalosome [Biophysics and Computational Biology]The CARMA1–BCL10–MALT1 (CBM) signalosome is a central mediator of T cell receptor and B cell receptor-induced NF-κB signaling that regulates multiple lymphocyte functions. While caspase-recruitment domain (CARD) membrane-associated guanylate kinase (MAGUK) protein 1 (CARMA1) nucleates B cell lymphoma 10 (BCL10) filament formation through interactions between CARDs, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissu
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Method to generate highly stable D-amino acid analogs of bioactive helical peptides using a mirror image of the entire PDB [Biophysics and Computational Biology]Biologics are a rapidly growing class of therapeutics with many advantages over traditional small molecule drugs. A major obstacle to their development is that proteins and peptides are easily destroyed by proteases and, thus, typically have prohibitively short half-lives in human gut, plasma, and cells. One of the most effective…
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High-resolution structure prediction of {beta}-barrel membrane proteins [Biophysics and Computational Biology]β-Barrel membrane proteins (βMPs) play important roles, but knowledge of their structures is limited. We have developed a method to predict their 3D structures. We predict strand registers and construct transmembrane (TM) domains of βMPs accurately, including proteins for which no prediction has been attempted before. Our method also accurately…
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Disease-causing mutation in {alpha}-actinin-4 promotes podocyte detachment through maladaptation to periodic stretch [Cell Biology]α-Actinin-4 (ACTN4) bundles and cross-links actin filaments to confer mechanical resilience to the reconstituted actin network. How this resilience is built and dynamically regulated in the podocyte, and the cause of its failure in ACTN4 mutation-associated focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), remains poorly defined. Using primary podocytes isolated from wild-type (WT)…
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ATR-Chk1 activation mitigates replication stress caused by mismatch repair-dependent processing of DNA damage [Cell Biology]The mismatch repair pathway (MMR) is essential for removing DNA polymerase errors, thereby maintaining genomic stability. Loss of MMR function increases mutation frequency and is associated with tumorigenesis. However, how MMR is executed at active DNA replication forks is unclear. This has important implications for understanding how MMR repairs O6-methylguanine/thymidine…
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Family with sequence similarity 13, member A modulates adipocyte insulin signaling and preserves systemic metabolic homeostasis [Cell Biology]Adipose tissue dysfunction is causally implicated in the impaired metabolic homeostasis associated with obesity; however, detailed mechanisms underlying dysregulated adipocyte functions in obesity remain to be elucidated. Here we searched for genes that provide a previously unknown mechanism in adipocyte metabolic functions and identified family with sequence similarity 13, member…
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Multidimensional photon correlation spectroscopy of cavity polaritons [Chemistry]The strong coupling of atoms and molecules to radiation field modes in optical cavities creates dressed matter/field states known as polaritons with controllable dynamical and energy transfer properties. We propose a multidimensional optical spectroscopy technique for monitoring polariton dynamics. The response of a two-level atom to the time-dependent coupling to…
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Efficiency of quantum vs. classical annealing in nonconvex learning problems [Computer Sciences]Quantum annealers aim at solving nonconvex optimization problems by exploiting cooperative tunneling effects to escape local minima. The underlying idea consists of designing a classical energy function whose ground states are the sought optimal solutions of the original optimization problem and add a controllable quantum transverse field to generate tunneling…
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Inner Workings: How the butterfly got its spots (and why it matters) [Developmental Biology]The colorful canvas of the butterfly wing is an exceptional example of evolutionary innovation and adaptation. Compared with their forebears, whose wings wore patterns of black, brown, and gray, the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) evolved a more varied palette of pigmentation. With the capacity for complex color patterns, such as…
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Endocrine regulation of airway clearance in Drosophila [Developmental Biology]Fluid clearance from the respiratory system during developmental transitions is critically important for achieving optimal gas exchange in animals. During insect development from embryo to adult, airway clearance occurs episodically each time the molt is completed by performance of the ecdysis sequence, coordinated by a peptide-signaling cascade initiated by ecdysis-triggering…
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Field migration rates of tidal meanders recapitulate fluvial morphodynamics [Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences]The majority of tidal channels display marked meandering features. Despite their importance in oil-reservoir formation and tidal landscape morphology, questions remain on whether tidal-meander dynamics could be understood in terms of fluvial processes and theory. Key differences suggest otherwise, like the periodic reversal of landscape-forming tidal flows and the widely…
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Coprolites reveal ecological interactions lost with the extinction of New Zealand birds [Ecology]Over the past 50,000 y, biotic extinctions and declines have left a legacy of vacant niches and broken ecological interactions across global terrestrial ecosystems. Reconstructing the natural, unmodified ecosystems that preceded these events relies on high-resolution analyses of paleoecological deposits. Coprolites are a source of uniquely detailed information about trophic…
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Immunogenetic novelty confers a selective advantage in host-pathogen coevolution [Evolution]The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is crucial to the adaptive immune response of vertebrates and is among the most polymorphic gene families known. Its high diversity is usually attributed to selection imposed by fast-evolving pathogens. Pathogens are thought to evolve to escape recognition by common immune alleles, and, hence, novel…
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De novo mutation in RING1 with epigenetic effects on neurodevelopment [Genetics]RING1 is an E3-ubiquitin ligase that is involved in epigenetic control of transcription during development. It is a component of the polycomb repressive complex 1, and its role in that complex is to ubiquitylate histone H2A. In a 13-year-old girl with syndromic neurodevelopmental disabilities, we identified a de novo mutation,…
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Sirt4 is a mitochondrial regulator of metabolism and lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster [Genetics]Sirtuins are an evolutionarily conserved family of NAD+-dependent deacylases that control metabolism, stress response, genomic stability, and longevity. Here, we show the sole mitochondrial sirtuin in Drosophila melanogaster, Sirt4, regulates energy homeostasis and longevity. Sirt4 knockout flies have a short lifespan, with increased sensitivity to starvation and decreased fertility and…
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Disruption of the ciliary GTPase Arl13b suppresses Sonic hedgehog overactivation and inhibits medulloblastoma formation [Genetics]Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor, and overactivation of the Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling pathway, which requires the primary cilium, causes 30% of MBs. Current treatments have known negative side effects or resistance mechanisms, so new treatments are necessary. Shh signaling mutations, like those that remove…
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Holo-lipocalin-2-derived siderophores increase mitochondrial ROS and impair oxidative phosphorylation in rat cardiomyocytes [Immunology and Inflammation]Lipocalin-2 (Lcn2), a critical component of the innate immune response which binds siderophores and limits bacterial iron acquisition, can elicit spillover adverse proinflammatory effects. Here we show that holo-Lcn2 (Lcn2–siderophore–iron, 1:3:1) increases mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and attenuates mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in adult rat primary cardiomyocy
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Targeting JAK2 reduces GVHD and xenograft rejection through regulation of T cell differentiation [Immunology and Inflammation]Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) signal transduction is a critical mediator of the immune response. JAK2 is implicated in the onset of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), which is a significant cause of transplant-related mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (allo-HCT). Transfer of JAK2−/− donor T cells to allogeneic recipients leads to attenuated…
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Mast cells promote small bowel cancer in a tumor stage-specific and cytokine-dependent manner [Immunology and Inflammation]Mast cells (MCs) are tissue resident sentinels that mature and orchestrate inflammation in response to infection and allergy. While they are also frequently observed in tumors, the contribution of MCs to carcinogenesis remains unclear. Here, we show that sequential oncogenic events in gut epithelia expand different types of MCs in…
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In vivo wireless photonic photodynamic therapy [Medical Sciences]An emerging class of targeted therapy relies on light as a spatially and temporally precise stimulus. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a clinical example in which optical illumination selectively activates light-sensitive drugs, termed photosensitizers, destroying malignant cells without the side effects associated with systemic treatments such as chemotherapy. Effective clinical application…
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Plasticity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis NADH dehydrogenases and their role in virulence [Microbiology]Worldwide control of the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has not been achieved, and the latest statistics show that the TB problem might be more endemic than previously thought. Although drugs and a TB vaccine are available, TB eradication faces the challenges of increasing occurrences of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis…
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Adaptation of commensal proliferating Escherichia coli to the intestinal tract of young children with cystic fibrosis [Microbiology]The mature human gut microbiota is established during the first years of life, and altered intestinal microbiomes have been associated with several human health disorders. Escherichia coli usually represents less than 1% of the human intestinal microbiome, whereas in cystic fibrosis (CF), greater than 50% relative abundance is common and…
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Hippocampal expression of a virus-derived protein impairs memory in mice [Microbiology]The analysis of the biology of neurotropic viruses, notably of their interference with cellular signaling, provides a useful tool to get further insight into the role of specific pathways in the control of behavioral functions. Here, we exploited the natural property of a viral protein identified as a major effector…
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Myopic (HD-PTP, PTPN23) selectively regulates synaptic neuropeptide release [Neuroscience]Neurotransmission is mediated by synaptic exocytosis of neuropeptide-containing dense-core vesicles (DCVs) and small-molecule transmitter-containing small synaptic vesicles (SSVs). Exocytosis of both vesicle types depends on Ca2+ and shared secretory proteins. Here, we show that increasing or decreasing expression of Myopic (mop, HD-PTP, PTPN23), a Bro1 domain-containing pseudophosphatase implicat
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Polaronic behavior in a weak-coupling superconductor [Physics]The nature of superconductivity in the dilute semiconductor SrTiO3 has remained an open question for more than 50 y. The extremely low carrier densities (1018–1020 cm−3) at which superconductivity occurs suggest an unconventional origin of superconductivity outside of the adiabatic limit on which the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) and Migdal–Eliashberg (ME) theories…
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Child first language and adult second language are both tied to general-purpose learning systems [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]Do the mechanisms underlying language in fact serve general-purpose functions that preexist this uniquely human capacity? To address this contentious and empirically challenging issue, we systematically tested the predictions of a well-studied neurocognitive theory of language motivated by evolutionary principles. Multiple metaanalyses were performed to examine predicted links between language…
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Alarm calls evoke a visual search image of a predator in birds [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]One of the core features of human speech is that words cause listeners to retrieve corresponding visual mental images. However, whether vocalizations similarly evoke mental images in animal communication systems is surprisingly unknown. Japanese tits (Parus minor) produce specific alarm calls when and only when encountering a predatory snake. Here,…
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Insecurity, polio vaccination rates, and polio incidence in northwest Pakistan [Social Sciences]Pakistan is one of three countries in which endemic transmission of poliovirus has never been stopped. Insecurity is often cited but poorly studied as a barrier to eradicating polio. We analyzed routinely collected health data from 32 districts of northwest Pakistan and constructed an index of insecurity based on journalistic…
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Statistical tests and identifiability conditions for pooling and analyzing multisite datasets [Statistics]When sample sizes are small, the ability to identify weak (but scientifically interesting) associations between a set of predictors and a response may be enhanced by pooling existing datasets. However, variations in acquisition methods and the distribution of participants or observations between datasets, especially due to the distributional shifts in…
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Automated monitoring of behavior reveals bursty interaction patterns and rapid spreading dynamics in honeybee social networks [Systems Biology]Social networks mediate the spread of information and disease. The dynamics of spreading depends, among other factors, on the distribution of times between successive contacts in the network. Heavy-tailed (bursty) time distributions are characteristic of human communication networks, including face-to-face contacts and electronic communication via mobile phone calls, email, and…
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In effort to treat rare blinding disease, researchers turn stem cells into blood vesselsPeople with a mutated ATF6 gene have a malformed or missing fovea, the eye region responsible for detailed vision. From birth, vision is severely limited, and there is no cure. UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers were the first to link ATF6 to this type of vision impairment. Now, in a study published Feb. 13 in Science Signaling, the team discovered that a chemical that activates ATF6 conv
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PFASs, chemicals commonly found in environment, may interfere with body weight regulationBoston, MA – A class of chemicals used in many industrial and consumer products was linked with greater weight gain after dieting, particularly among women, according to a study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The chemicals — perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) — have been linked with cancer, hormone disruption, immune dysfunction, high cholesterol, and obesity.
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The Happiest States in 2017: Full ListA new poll from Gallup-Healthways shows which states had the highest and lowest well-being in 2017.
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US Happiness Plummeted in 2017: These 21 States Saw Declines in Well-BeingLast year was not a good one for Americans' happiness — a record number of states saw declines in their residents' well-being, according to a new poll.
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Chemicals in packaging, carpets and non-stick pans 'may contribute to obesity'Studies have also linked compounds called perfluoroalkyl substances to cancer, high cholesterol and immune problems Chemicals used to make non-stick pots and pans, stain-resistant carpets, and food packaging may contribute to high levels of obesity by disrupting the body’s ability to burn calories, scientists say. Researchers at Harvard University examined the effects of compounds called perfluor
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Germany eyes free transport to banish air pollution"Car nation" Germany has surprised neighbours with a radical proposal to reduce road traffic by making public transport free, as Berlin scrambles to meet EU air pollution targets and avoid big fines.
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How much can Olympic uniforms help or hurt an athlete?Technology The right tech can make you literally dressed for success. When it comes to Olympic get-ups, it’s about more than just looking good. Just like the athletes that wear them, the apparel that the competitors wear need to perform at…
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US intel chief issues warning about climate changeThe top US intelligence official issued a warning on Tuesday about the dangers of climate change in testimony that was seemingly at odds with the skepticism of President Donald Trump and other members of his administration.
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Engineering the Ice Out of Bobsled, Luge and SkeletonSports Plastic tracks could reduce the cost of Olympic “sliding” events and make the sports more environmentally friendly and accessible. 02/09/2018 Peter Gwynne, Contributor https://www.insidescience.org/news/engineering-ice-out-bobsled-luge-and-skeleton
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Can a cockroach teach a robot how to scurry across rugged terrain?Researchers build a robot that moves more like a cockroach.
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Money only buys happiness for a certain amountThere is an optimal point to how much money it takes to make an individual happy, and that amount varies worldwide, according to new research.
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Graphene on toast, anyone?The same scientists who introduced laser-induced graphene have enhanced their technique to produce what may become a new class of edible electronics.
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The end of yo-yo dieting? Brain switch that controls fat burning uncoveredScientists have discovered a molecular switch in the brain that regulates fat burning — and could provide a way to control weight gain following dieting.
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March Madness mentality: Faced with chance to win, most coaches go for tieWhen faced with a choice between a 'fast' option that offers a greater chance of ultimate victory but also a significant chance of immediate defeat, and a 'slow' option with both a lower chance of winning and a lesser chance of immediate defeat, people often opt for the 'slow' option because of their aversion to sudden death.
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By 2100, arid cities will suffer from more severe heat waves than temperate citiesBy 2100, arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs. The findings highlight the importance of heat-mitigation strategies and infrastructures such as green roofs.
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Vi kender kun en brøkdel af verdens bakterier. Nu har danske forskere fundet en løsningBakterier kan med ny metode identificeres langt hurtigere.
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The American Dream on Thin IceEditor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics coverage . It’s an undeniable fact that the United States’ standing as an international power has taken a serious hit over the past year. And this emerging, still unfamiliar reality is about to be put on full display. As America falls a few notches in the eyes of its peers, Russia and other nations stand to gain in tremendous ways. This di
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Ears for IcarusOn 13 February, a Russian rocket carried the antenna of the Icarus mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The Icarus on-board computer was thus joined by another key component of the orbiting animal tracking system. Using the system developed by scientists from the Max Planck Society in cooperation with the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the German Aerospace Center and the University o
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NASA eyes powerful Tropical Cyclone Gita in the South PacificNASA's Terra satellite provided a visible image of Category 3 Tropical Cyclone Gita as it continues to bring heavy rainfall, powerful winds and storm surge to Fiji Islands after pounding the island of Tonga.
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Russia Can Keep the Peace Between Israel and IranThere are still many unanswered questions about the reported incident with the Iranian drone in northern Israel last week, but two things should be clear. First, the 12-year-old lull between Israel and Hezbollah will come to an end if a new understanding about the rules governing conflict in this region is not reached. And second, Russia will need to help broker that new understanding. As for the
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VIDEO Hovedløs robot-køter springer ud som gentlemanRobothund viser nye galante evner. Nu kan den holde døren for sin armeløse tvilling.
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QUIZ: Hvor meget ved du om Danmarks første computer?I dag fylder computeren DASK 60 år.
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By 2100, arid cities will suffer from more severe heat waves than temperate citiesHeat waves are among the deadliest and most common of environmental extremes. As the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly for cities, where concrete and a dearth of trees create what's known as the urban heat island effect.
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Shifting shorelines at Lake Tahoe caused by ancient lava damsPleistocene basaltic lavas form a small volcanic field that was erupted from seven vents in the northwestern Lake Tahoe basin. Most of these lavas were erupted above the water and produced lava flows that dammed the lake outlet and flowed into an early Lake Tahoe. The resulting steam explosions produced deltas composed of fragmental deposits as well as pillow lavas.
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Snapping shrimp may act as 'dinner bell' for gray whales off Oregon coastScientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner bell for eastern Pacific gray whales, according to new research being presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting here today.
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Winners of the 2018 Underwater Photographer of the Year ContestOrganizers of the Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest have just announced the winning photographers and images for 2018, with German photographer Tobias Friedrich being named Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018. More than 5,000 images were submitted this year by photographers from around the world. Prizes and commendations were handed out in a number of categories including Wide Angl
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Face-recognition software is perfect – if you’re a white manThree leading face-recognition systems correctly identified white men 99 per cent of the time but did badly at identifying women with darker skin
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A single atom is visible to the naked eye in this stunning photoThis photo shows a strontium atom suspended in electric fields. A blue laser makes the tiny dot visible, though it’s only 215 billionths of a millimetre wide
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Skincare science is frivolous and warrants attack, right? WrongIt won't save the world and is misused in adverts but skincare science isn’t nonsense. So why is resurgent interest in it under fire, wonders Lara Williams
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Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realmIn July 2017 a huge iceberg broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, revealing a marine world that was concealed for thousands of years
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Scientists create patterned graphene onto food, paper, cloth, cardboardRice University scientists who introduced laser-induced graphene (LIG) have enhanced their technique to produce what may become a new class of edible electronics.
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The meaning of life according to NietzscheHaving trouble finding the meaning of life? Nietzsche had the same problem. His philosophy offers us a few suggestions for finding the solution. Read More
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Money only buys happiness for a certain amountThere is an optimal point to how much money it takes to make an individual happy, and that amount varies worldwide, according to research from Purdue University.
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UCLA scientists develop low-cost way to build gene sequencesA new method pioneered by UCLA researchers enables an average biochemistry laboratory to make its own gene sequences for only about $2 per gene, a process that previously would require its researchers to pay a commercial vendor $50 to $100 per gene. The approach, described in the journal Science, will make it possible for scientists to mass produce thousands of genes screen for their roles in dise
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Scientists identify immune cascade that fuels complications, tissue damage in chlamydia infectionsResearch in mice pinpoints immune mechanism behind tissue damage and complications of chlamydia infection, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States.Separate immune mechanisms drive bacterial clearance versus immune-mediated tissue damage and subsequent disease.Therapies are needed to avert irreversible reproductive organ damage that can arise as a result of silent infectio
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NIH-funded researchers identify risk factors for sleep apnea during pregnancySnoring, older age and obesity may increase a pregnant woman's risk for sleep apnea — or interrupted breathing during sleep — according to researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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People with autism need protection | LettersReaders air their views on news of bullying in a Somerset care home and the treatment of autistic children in France We were shocked, as the family of a 26-year-old autistic son who has been in four residences since leaving school, to read of the abuse in a National Autistic Society care home ( Somerset care home staff bullied autistic residents, review finds , 9 February). To think that this coul
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Self-driving servicer now baselined for NASA's Restore-L satellite-servicing demonstrationOne test changed the fortunes of an advanced 3-D imaging lidar system now baselined for NASA's Restore-L project that will demonstrate an autonomous satellite-servicing capability.
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Prehistoric Wine Discovered in Inaccessible Caves Forces a Rethink of Ancient Sicilian CultureThe samples represent the oldest vino found in Europe or the Mediterranean region — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Genes remain active after deathCells continue to function even after an individual dies, a discovery that could be developed into a forensic tool.
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This Ancient Society Buried Disabled Children Like KingsAbout 34,000 years ago, a group of hunters and gatherers buried their dead – including two boys with physical conditions – using the utmost care. However, these dead were buried in fairly different ways, a new study finds.
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Photos: 2 Paleolithic Boys Were Buried with Fox Teeth and SpearsAbout 34,000 years ago, a hunter-gatherer group buried two young boys who had physical conditions in elaborate graves.
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Powerful LED-based train headlight optimized for energy savingsResearchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8 hours every day, the electricity savings of the new design would reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by about 152 kilograms per year.
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Cost-reduction roadmap outlines two pathways to meet DOE residential solar cost target for 2030Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic (PV) installations could help the United States meet the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) residential solar photovoltaic cost target by 2030, according to new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
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New sustainable production method could advance plastics and pharmaceuticalsA team of chemical engineers has developed a new, cost-effective method for synthetically producing a biorenewable platform chemical called triacetic acid lactone (TAL) that can be used to produce innovative new drugs and sustainable plastics at an industrial scale.
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'How To Think Like An Anthropologist' — And Why You Should Want ToIn step with Matthew Engelke's book published Tuesday, Barbara J. King says thinking anthropologically has never been more critical than in today's world, where assumptions are made and shared widely. (Image credit: Robert Decelis Ltd/Getty Images)
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How Pitcairn made history on votes for women | Brief lettersVotes for women | Obtaining the pill | Henry Moore sculpture | Asma Jahangir | Ballet reviews | Evolution In 2013 Pitcairn islanders celebrated 175 years of women’s right to vote ( Letters , 10 February). Pitcairn may be small and remote but the islanders are justifiably proud of this contribution to world history. Liz Timms Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland • In 1972, I wasn’t able to have an ev
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NASA eyes powerful Tropical Cyclone Gita in the South PacificNASA's Terra satellite provided a visible image of Category 3 Tropical Cyclone Gita as it continues to bring heavy rainfall, powerful winds and storm surge to Fiji Islands after pounding the island of Tonga.
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Missing link to novel superconductivity revealed at Ames LaboratoryScientists at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a state of magnetism that may be the missing link to understanding the relationship between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity.
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Can a cockroach teach a robot how to scurry across rugged terrain?Researchers build a robot that moves more like a cockroach.
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Shifting shorelines at Lake Tahoe caused by ancient lava damsPleistocene basaltic lavas form a small volcanic field that was erupted from seven vents in the northwestern Lake Tahoe basin. Most of these lavas were erupted above the water and produced lava flows that dammed the lake outlet and flowed into an early Lake Tahoe. The resulting steam explosions produced deltas composed of fragmental deposits as well as pillow lavas.
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Gene expression patterns may help determine time of deathInternational team of scientists led by Roderic Guigó at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona shows that changes in gene expression in different tissues can be used to predict the time of death of individuals. Their results, which are published in Nature Communications this week, may have implications for forensic analyses.
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New study finds sea level rise acceleratingGlobal sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data.
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Cabozantinib shows promise as first line treatment for differentiated thyroid cancerA kinase inhibitor called cabozantinib could be a viable therapy option for patients with metastatic, radioactive iodine-resistant thyroid cancer. In a trial initiated and led by the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, tumors shrunk in 34 out of 35 patients who took the drug, and more than half of those patients saw the tumor size decrease
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In Black Lightning, There’s No Right Way to Fix a CityThis story contains spoilers for the first four episodes of Black Lightning. In the second episode of the new series Black Lightning , Principal Jefferson Pierce addresses a group of parents who have become increasingly concerned about the gang problem in their community. In a spirit of optimism, he quotes Martin Luther King Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice
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Why the seafloor starts movingWhen the seabed loses its stability and starts to move, it often happens in much larger dimensions than landslides ashore — and at slopes with very low gradients. At the same time, discplacement of large amounts of sediment under water scan cause devastating tsunamis. However, why and when submarine landslides develop is hardly understood. Marine scientists have now published possible causes base
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Too much TV at age 2 makes for less healthy adolescentsSkipping breakfast, eating junk food and doing less well in school might all result from watching TV too young, a new study finds.
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Quality toolkit improves care in Indian hospitalsA simple toolkit of checklists, education materials and feedback reporting improved the quality of care, but not outcomes, in a group of 60 hospitals in south India, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA.
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Intensive agriculture influences US regional summer climate, study findsScientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, not just emissions of greenhouse gases, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and Dartmouth College reveals how another type of land use, intensive agriculture, can impact regional climate.
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Graphene on toast, anyone?Rice University scientists who introduced laser-induced graphene have enhanced their technique to produce what may become a new class of edible electronics.
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Brain sciences researcher pinpoints brain circuit that triggers fear relapseSteve Maren, the Claude H. Everett Jr. '47 Chair of Liberal Arts professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, and his Emotion and Memory Systems Laboratory (EMSL) have made a breakthrough discovery in the process of fear relapse.
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Researchers examine electroreception in early vertebratesSharks, as well as a number of other living primitive fishes, have the amazing ability to detect electric fields in their surroundings. This characteristic — called electroreception — is thought to be one of the earliest vertebrate sensory systems to appear, but its origins are mysterious. In the journal Palaeontology, investigators have now reviewed the evidence for all putative electroreceptor
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Investigators highlight potential of exercise in addressing substance abuse in teensExercise has numerous, well-documented health benefits. Could it also play a role in preventing and reducing substance misuse and abuse in adolescents? In a review article recently published in Birth Defects Research, researchers supply a rationale for the use of exercise, particularly assisted exercise, in the prevention and adjunctive treatment of substance-use disorders.
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Lower-dose radiation effective, safe for HPV+ head & neck cancer after induction chemoResults of the phase II OPTIMA clinical trial indicate that patients with head and neck cancers associated with the human papillomavirus (HPV), including those with advanced nodal disease, can receive substantially lower radiation doses safely and effectively if they respond to induction chemotherapy initially.
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Phase II trial shows activity of durvalumab in recurrent/metastatic head and neck cancerAnalysis of the phase II CONDOR trial indicates that the immune checkpoint inhibitor durvalumab is tolerable among heavily pre-treated patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer and has the potential to slow growth in tumors with low or negative expression of the PD-L1 protein.
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Cabozantinib shows significant first-line activity for differentiated thyroid cancerResults of a new phase II clinical trial indicate that cabozantinib offers an active therapy option for patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) that has progressed following surgery and treatment with radioactive iodine (RAI). Thirty-four of 35 patients in the trial experienced a reduction in tumor size following treatment with the targeted kinase inhibitor, and more than half experience
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Nivolumab immunotherapy safe, feasible during chemoradiation for adv. head and neck cancerAnalysis of a clinical trial, RTOG Foundation 3504, finds that nivolumab immunotherapy can be administered safely in conjunction with radiation therapy and chemotherapy for patients with newly diagnosed local-regionally advanced head and neck cancers.
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Plants feel the heatSainsbury Laboratory scientists have solved a 79-year-old mystery by discovering how plants vary their response to heat stress depending on the time of day. This understanding could help with breeding commercial crops able to produce higher yields in hotter climates as predicted under climate change.
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Study maps molecular mechanisms crucial for new approach to heart disease therapyIn this study, published in Cell Reports, two labs at UNC and a group at Princeton University reprogrammed ordinary cells called fibroblasts into new and healthy heart muscle cells, and recorded changes that appear to be necessary for this reprogramming.
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The end of yo-yo dieting? Monash researchers uncover brain switch that controls fat burningScientists have discovered a molecular switch in the brain that regulates fat burning — and could provide a way to control weight gain following dieting.
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Researchers discover new lead-free perovskite material for solar cellsPerovskite solar cells are a promising new low-cost photovoltaic technology, but most contain toxic lead. A team led by Brown researchers has introduced solar cells with a new titanium-perovskite material that gets the lead out.
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Super Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can'tEngineers at Dartmouth College have developed a computer chip that can detect a single particle of light. Cameras with the chip would have visual abilities even a superhero would envy. (Image credit: Jiaju Ma)
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Biologists would love to program cells as if they were computer chipsA startup is selling “circuits” for making drugs and chemicals inside bacteria.
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Russia's Air Industry Is a Victim of Its Own SuccessFour minutes after taking off from Moscow on Sunday afternoon, a Saratov Airlines Antonov An-148 headed for Orsk plummeted 6,000 feet into the ground, killing all 71 one people on board. In the aftermath, the images that appeared on television were all too familiar. Jagged metal scattered in a snowy field. Trees ripped apart, debris hanging from their branches. Police lines and disconsolate relat
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Plants feel the heatIt's not just humans and animals that suffer when the mercury rises, plants feel the heat too. Heat stress is a major issue in agriculture and can significantly reduce crop yield. Even small increases in temperature can affect plant growth and development. While plants cannot move to a shady spot to escape the heat, they have developed strategies to protect themselves from heat stress when the sun
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Why the seafloor starts movingWhen the seabed loses its stability and starts to move, it often happens in much larger dimensions than landslides ashore — and at slopes with very low gradients. At the same time, discplacement of large amounts of sediment under water scan cause devastating tsunamis. However, why and when submarine landslides develop is hardly understood. Marine scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean
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March Madness mentality: Faced with chance to win, most coaches go for tieWhen faced with a choice between a 'fast' option that offers a greater chance of ultimate victory but also a significant chance of immediate defeat, and a 'slow' option with both a lower chance of winning and a lesser chance of immediate defeat, people often opt for the 'slow' option because of their aversion to sudden death.
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BU: One or more soda a day could decrease chances of getting pregnantA new study led by Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) researchers has found that the intake of one or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day — by either partner — is associated with a decreased chance of getting pregnant.
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Pride tops guilt as a motivator for environmental decisionsA lot of pro-environmental messages suggest that people will feel guilty if they don't make an effort to live more sustainably or takes steps to ameliorate climate change. But a recent study from Princeton University finds that highlighting the pride people will feel if they take such actions may be a better way to change environmental behaviors.
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Neutron Lifetime Puzzle Deepens, but No Dark Matter SeenWhen physicists strip neutrons from atomic nuclei, put them in a bottle, then count how many remain there after some time, they infer that neutrons radioactively decay in 14 minutes and 39 seconds, on average. But when other physicists generate beams of neutrons and tally the emerging protons — the particles that free neutrons decay into — they peg the average neutron lifetime at around 14 minute
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A Breast-Cancer Surgeon Returns to Work After Breast CancerEarlier this month, Liz O’Riordan found herself once again, scalpel in hand, staring down at a woman with breast cancer. The patient was 65 years old, and had reacted to her diagnosis with stoicism. Fine, she had said. I have breast cancer. Chop it out and move on. O’Riordan had done just that many times before, in her career as a breast-cancer surgeon. But this case was different. It would be th
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What It Takes to Actually Convict Police of MisconductSomething amazing happened over the course of a recent trial in Baltimore: Witnesses laid out the way that the city’s Gun Trace Task Force acted as a de facto criminal gang , but with the advantages of a police badge and the power of the state. Officers assigned to the unit robbed hundreds of thousands of dollars from drug dealers, pocketing the money. They targeted cars for searches based on mak
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Energy-efficient encryption for the internet of thingsA special-purpose chip hardwired to implement elliptic-curve cryptography in general and the datagram transport layer security protocol in particular reduces power consumption by 99.75 percent and increases speed 500-fold, to help enable the internet of things.
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Interdisciplinary approach yields new insights into human evolutionThe evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes Nicole Creanza, assistant professor of biological sciences. She is the guest editor of a new themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that takes an interdisciplinary approach to human evolution.
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Cost-reduction roadmap outlines two pathways to meet DOE residential solar cost target for 2030Leveraging cost-reduction opportunities in the roof replacement or new construction markets for residential photovoltaic installations could help the United States meet the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office residential solar photovoltaic cost target by 2030, according to new research from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Powerful LED-based train headlight optimized for energy savingsResearchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated 8 hours every day, the electricity savings of the new design would reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide by about 152 kilograms per year.
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Snapping shrimp may act as 'dinner bell' for gray whales off Oregon coastScientists have for the first time captured the sounds of snapping shrimp off the Oregon coast and think the loud crackling from the snapping of their claws may serve as a dinner bell for eastern Pacific gray whales, according to new research being presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting here today.
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Kindred AI is using human pilots to do what robots can’tMeet the man controlling warehouse bots from thousands of miles away.
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New technique shows how 2-D thin films take the heatA new method exposes how 2-D materials react when heated, which could help engineers build sturdy next-gen electronics.
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VIDEO Danmarks første computer fylder 60 årDASK var en moppedreng på 3,5 tons, som fyldte en hel villa. Men den havde en regnekapacitet, som let overgås af en mobiltelefon i dag.
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If We Found Life on Mars, How Would We Know?Despite decades of Red Planet exploration, the protocols for confirming evidence of life there are still quite hazy — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Understanding a fly's body temperature may help people sleep betterIn findings that one day may help people sleep better, scientists have uncovered the first molecular evidence that two anciently conserved proteins in the brains of insects and mammals share a common biological ancestry as regulators of body temperature rhythms crucial to metabolism and sleep. Publishing their data in the journal Genes & Development, the scientists study fruit flies (Drosophila) a
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Palm oil in your Valentine's chocolate?A diet high in saturated fat causes, in addition to obesity and metabolic changes associated with a prediabetic state, anxiodepressive and compulsive behaviors. All of these effects were shown to be tied to inflammation in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain that controls mood and reward. This is revealed by a new study conducted by a team from the CHUM Research Center (CRCHUM) and the Un
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Sleepless in Japan: How insomnia killsLaypeople tend to think that insomnia is usually a symptom of something else, like stress, a bad diet or a sedentary lifestyle, but this may not be true at all. It is possible that insomnia itself causes many of the conditions that it is seen as a symptom of.
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By 2100, arid cities will suffer from more severe heat waves than temperate citiesBy 2100, arid cities like Phoenix will become hotbeds for heatwaves compared to their rural surroundings, while cities on the eastern seaboard will be less severely affected by heatwaves compared to theirs. The findings highlight the importance of heat-mitigation strategies and infrastructures such as green roofs.
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Is cupping therapy effective among athletes?Swimmer Michael Phelps's continued dominance at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics was accompanied by worldwide awareness of cupping.
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Most children with sickle cell anemia not receiving key medication to stay healthyOne of the greatest health threats to children with sickle cell anemia is getting a dangerous bacterial infection — but most are not receiving a key medication to reduce the risk, a new study suggests.
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Three's company: New alloy sets magnetism benchmarkSpintronics leverages electron spins to enhance solid-state devices by prolonging battery life. Spintronic developments, however, are increasingly running up against the Slater-Pauling limit, the maximum for how tightly a material can pack its magnetization. Now, a new thin film is poised to break through this decades-old benchmark. Researchers discuss their work constructing a stable thin film ma
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Screening for ovarian cancer not recommendedThe US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends against screening for ovarian cancer in women without symptoms and who are not known to be at high risk (such as those who have certain hereditary cancer syndromes that increase the risk for ovarian cancer).
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ACA dependent coverage provision associated with increased use of prenatal careThe dependent coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that allowed young adults to stay on their parents' insurance until they were 26 was associated with increased use of prenatal care, increased private insurance payment for births, and a modest reduction in preterm births.
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Google wants your e-mails to be a window to the web
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Professor hopes key to deep-space exploration is the moonThe secret to deep-space exploration could be buried deep within the moon.
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Therapy dogs ease suffering in the I.C.U.Specially trained therapy dogs in the intensive care unit can substantially ease the physical and emotional suffering of patients, say clinicians. Therapy dogs have long been welcome “nonpharmacological interventions” for less sick hospitalized patients, but their presence in the ICU is new for many hospitals. A group of clinicians wrote in an editorial in the journal Critical Care that a therapy
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Would Delivery Drones Be All That Efficient? Depends Where You LiveCalifornia Tech Edelman Bay AreaEnvironmental scientists are using their models to pit drones against delivery trucks.
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UK cryptocurrency firms launch trade bodySeven of Britain's top cryptocurrency firms on Tuesday linked up to create CryptoUK, a trade body that will oversee the controversial sector, amid ongoing jitters over volatile Bitcoin.
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To prevent cyberattacks, paper suggests agency similar to National Transportation Safety BoardAfter arguably the worst year ever for cyberattacks and data breaches, Indiana University research suggests it may be time to create an independent cybersecurity agency board comparable in approach to the National Transportation Safety Board that investigates airplane crashes and train derailments.
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To prevent cyberattacks, agency similar to National Transportation Safety Board suggestedAfter arguably the worst year ever for cyberattacks and data breaches, Indiana University research suggests it may be time to create an independent cybersecurity agency board comparable in approach to the National Transportation Safety Board that investigates airplane crashes and train derailments.
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Penn chemists develop motion capture-like technology for tracking protein shapeResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated a motion capture-like technology that tracks how proteins fold and change shape using fluorescent probes. The research could lead to improvements in drugs used to treat neurodegenerative diseases, as well as new methods of imaging that may also allow for earlier detection.
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SNMMI and ASNC issue joint guidelines for quantification of myocardial blood flow using PETThe Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's (SNMMI) Cardiovascular Council and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) have issued the joint position paper, Clinical Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow Using PET, which was jointly published in the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology and The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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The UN Climate Panel needs more womenNexus Media News The lack of female scientists on the UN's panel of climate scientists is hurting the quality of scientific research. Women are grossly underrepresented on the UN’s panel of climate scientists, and those who do take part risk being marginalized or harassed. This isn’t just a matter of…
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Efter fjernede plakater på DTU: Ny kampagne fokuserer på respekt for andres grænserMindre end en uge efter at DTU’s ledelse pillede plakater mod sexisme ned, bliver problemet igen adresseret. Denne gang med studenterorganisationen PF som afsenderen.
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Three's company: New alloy sets magnetism benchmarkThe burgeoning field of spintronics leverages electron spins—as opposed to their charge—to enhance solid-state devices like hard drives and cell phone components by prolonging battery life. Spintronic developments, however, are increasingly running up against a barrier known as the Slater-Pauling limit, the maximum for how tightly a material can pack its magnetization. Now, a new thin film is pois
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The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better | Marco AlveràWhat is it about unfairness? Whether it's not being invited to a friend's wedding or getting penalized for bad luck or an honest mistake, unfairness often makes us so upset that we can't think straight. And it's not just a personal issue — it's also bad for business, says Marco Alverà. He explains how his company works to create a culture of fairness — and how tapping into our innate sense of wh
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Beware the Northside Skull and Bone GangOn the morning of Mardi Gras, before the first light of dawn, dozens of skeletons flood the streets of the 6th Ward neighborhood of Tremé in New Orleans. For 200 years, its residents have awakened on the first day of the carnival to the clattering of bones and oversized skulls. Embodying the undead is the Northside Skull and Bone Gang, comprised of descendants of Native Americans and slaves. Its
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Big-City Life on Very Little WaterSouth Africa Game ParkCAPE TOWN, South Africa—I was warned right away, at the airport: “We have a water crisis with severe restrictions in place,” read a Buick-sized sign in the arrivals area. So it was true. I had spent the past week in South Africa on a reporting trip and had decided to pass through Cape Town on my way back, in part out of curiosity about the water shortage. The news coverage sounded scary: Because
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ESO's VLT working as 16-meter telescope for first timeThe ESPRESSO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes for the first time. Combining light from the Unit Telescopes in this way makes the VLT the largest optical telescope in existence in terms of collecting area.
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Transatlantic test for Airbus low-cost airlinerThe long-range version of Airbus's updated single-aisle aircraft took off Tuesday on a flight from Paris to New York in what could be a boon for low-cost flights across the Atlantic.
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Ant Species Stay Healthy with Self-Made AntibioticsCould DIY antimicrobials made by ants help humans fight disease?
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Scientists identify factors which drive the evolution of herbicide resistanceScientists from the University of Sheffield have identified factors which are driving the evolution of herbicide resistance in crops — something which could also have an impact on medicine as well as agriculture.
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ESO's VLT working as 16-meter telescope for first timeThe ESPRESSO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes for the first time. Combining light from the Unit Telescopes in this way makes the VLT the largest optical telescope in existence in terms of collecting area.
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Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effects: Fresh insightFuture cancer drugs that are activated by light and don't cause the toxic side-effects of current chemotherapy treatments are closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research made possible by the Monash Warwick Alliance, an intercontinental collaboration between the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia).
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Ryanair drops airfares to Catalonia over secession crisisRyanair said Tuesday it slashed airfares to Catalonia to continue filling its planes, blaming the secession crisis for keeping visitors away.
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Lys bremser elektroner, men teoretikerne er ikke enige om en forklaringUnder påvirkning af et meget kraftigt elektromagnetisk felt vil elektroner udsættes for en såkaldt ‘radiation reaction’, som teoretikerne har svært ved at beskrive. Men nu er fænomenet for første gang studeret i laboratorieforsøg med lasere.
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How to be an academic without working 60 hours a week | Lucy FoulkesA Twitter argument about how many hours academics should work prompted Lucy Foulkes to seek out advice for early career researchers Last week a tweet about academics’ working hours went viral: I tell my graduate students and post-docs that if they’re working 60 hours per week, they’re working less than the full professors, and less than their peers. https://t.co/mapWtvmBWp Continue reading…
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Google takes on Snapchat with its own 'Stories' formatGoogle launched its own "stories" format Tuesday to compete with Snapchat and Instagram with image-driven news articles aimed at mobile phone and tablet users.
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Eclipse season starts for NASA's SDOOn Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a total solar eclipse in space when Earth crossed its view of the Sun. Also known as a transit, Earth's passage was brief, lasting from 2:10 a.m. to 2:41 a.m. EST and covering the entire face of the Sun.
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New model for evaluating rangeland systems launchesRangelands are the dominant land type across the planet and millions of people rely on the natural goods and services and food security the lands provide. A recently released model, G-Range, allows scientists and policymakers to understand how changes in climate will potentially impact rangelands by running global simulations in a single process, rather than repeating hundreds or thousands of proc
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Who should be held responsible for the Aliso Canyon gas leak?A USC-led analysis of the Aliso Canyon gas leak determined corporate dysfunction by the SoCalGas Co. and lax regulatory oversight charted the path to the largest greenhouse gas leak in U.S. history.
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Medical cannabis significantly safer for elderly with chronic pain than opioidsThe new study, published in The European Journal of Internal Medicine, found cannabis therapy is safe and efficacious for elderly patients who are seeking to address cancer symptoms, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, and other medical issues. After six months, more than 18 percent of patients surveyed had stopped using opi
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Eclipse season starts for NASA's SDOOn Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a total solar eclipse in space when Earth crossed its view of the sun.
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New device measures blink reflex parameters to quickly and objectively identify concussionThe Blink ReflexometerTM offers a valid, reliable tool for identifying concussion head injuries, report investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina and The Citadel in the January issue of Cogent Engineering. Comparing blink reflex parameters in football players suspected of having sustained a concussion to healthy players revealed specific, significant differences. Noninvasive and qu
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World's biggest city database shines light on our increasingly urbanized planetThe world's largest data platform on cities, launched by the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, reveals the planet is even more urbanized than we thought.
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Digital liver scanning technology could halve the number of liver biopsies needed in the NHSA study has revealed that a new scanning technology could almost halve the number of liver biopsies carried out on people with fatty liver disease.
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Award winning algorithm could improve accuracy and speed of diagnosis of retinal diseaseA new technique for identifying and diagnosing damage to the human retina has been awarded 'Best Student Paper' at the industry-leading BIOIMAGING 2018 conference in Portugal.
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Light-activated cancer drugs without toxic side effectsFuture cancer drugs that are activated by light and don't cause the toxic side-effects of current chemotherapy treatments are closer to becoming a reality, thanks to new research made possible by the Monash Warwick Alliance, an intercontinental collaboration between the University of Warwick (UK) and Monash University (Australia).
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Blue mussel shape is a powerful indicator for environmental changeTemperature, salinity and food supply are key influences on the shape of common blue mussels (Mytilus spp.), reveals a new study involving scientists from British Antarctic Survey. The research is published this week (12th February 2018) in the journal Scientific Reports.
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The Olympics has been hit by new and destructive malware
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Clues to aging found in stem cells' genomesIn fruit flies, repeating genetic elements shrink with age, but then expand in future generations, a resurgence that may help explain how some cells stay immortal.
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Science self-corrects: Cancer gene does not pass reproducibility testAbout 10 years ago, several labs discovered that a gene called MELK is overexpressed, or turned on to a high degree, in many cancer cell types. This evidence has prompted multiple ongoing clinical trials to test whether drugs that inhibit MELK can treat cancer in patients. Now, researchers report that MELK is not actually involved in cancer. It's a story about how science self-corrects.
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Tasmanian devil populations continue to declineOngoing monitoring of wild Tasmanian devils shows that overall population numbers are continuing to decline, due to the presence of devil facial tumor disease.
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Something Violent Happened to Our Solar System's First Interstellar VisitorAn interstellar object called 'Oumuamua has confounded astronomers ever since it passed through our solar system in October of last year.
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When Modeling the Mississippi River, a Supercomputer Won't DoFiguring out the Mississippi’s hydrodynamics matters so much that Louisiana has dropped $18 million on a 10,800-square-foot model of Big Muddy’s sinuous meanders.
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The Case for the "Self-Driven Child"In a new book, an argument for giving children more of a sense of control over their lives — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Improved prediction of pesticide residuesThe use of pesticides can lead to a build-up of toxic and ecologically harmful residues in the soil. Until recently, it was not possible to ascertain in detail to which pesticides this applies and to what extent. Now, researchers from the UFZ and the Technical University of Denmark, have developed a model which allows the formation of potentially toxic residues to be more accurately predicted.
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Breaking local symmetry: Why water freezes but silica forms a glassUniversity of Tokyo researchers simulated water and silica at low temperature. Despite structural similarities, the two liquids act differently when they are cooled: water freezes into ice, while silica continues to supercool, and eventually forms a glass. This arises from poor symmetry-breaking in silica; although atoms arrange properly in the first shell in both liquids, local rotational symmetr
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Every DIYer should know about these appsDIY Seven essential phone apps for your next project. Need help on your next DIY project? These apps have you covered. They offer everything from inspiration to tutorials to augmented reality tools.
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World's biggest city database shines light on our increasingly urbanised planetThe JRC has launched a new tool with data on all 10,000 urban centres scattered across the globe. It is the largest and most comprehensive database on cities ever published.
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Little ‘toilet paper’ sensor detects heartbeats and blinksEngineers used tissue paper—similar to toilet tissue—to make a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse or a blink of an eye. The sensor, which is light, flexible, and inexpensive, could be used for health care, entertainment, and robotics, researchers say. Tearing tissue paper that’s loaded with nanocomposites and breaking the paper’s fibers makes the paper acts like a sensor. It can
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The UK government had its own AI built to block extremist video
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Claw-like nanowires filter bacteria from bloodA team of researchers from institutions across China has developed a new type of dialyser —one capable of capturing up to 97 percent of bacteria present in a blood sample. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group explains the origins of their device, how the filter was made and how well it worked during testing.
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X chromosome not the reason for sex differences in lifespanThe shorter average lifespan of males compared to females appears not to be a result of the fact that males have only one X chromosome. This is the conclusion from a research study on fruit flies at Linköping University, Sweden. The results have been published in the scientific journal Evolution.
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#EpicDuckChallenge shows we can count on dronesA few thousand rubber ducks, a group of experienced wildlife spotters and a drone have proven the usefulness and accuracy of drones for wildlife monitoring. A new study showed that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting approaches.
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Efforts are needed to tap into the potential of nutraceuticalsA growing demand exists for nutraceuticals, which seem to reside in the grey area between pharmaceuticals and food.
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When it comes to extinction, body size mattersModels for extinction risk are necessarily simple. Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population growth — something that can be broadly applied to infer how much resource loss a species can survive. This week in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of scientists proposes a more nuanced model for extinction that also shows why a
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Rock art: Life-sized sculptures of dromedaries found in Saudi ArabiaAt a remarkable site in northwest Saudi Arabia, archaeologists have discovered camelid sculptures unlike any others in the region. They are thought to date back to the first centuries BC or AD. The find sheds new light on the evolution of rock art in the Arabian Peninsula.
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New models give insight into the heart of the Rosette NebulaNew research offers an explanation for the discrepancy between the size and age of the Rosetta Nebula's central cavity and that of its central stars.
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Improved prediction of pesticide residuesThe use of pesticides can lead to a build-up of toxic and ecologically harmful residues in the soil. Until recently, it was not possible to ascertain in detail to which pesticides this applies and to what extent. Now, researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), working in partnership with colleagues from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), have developed a model
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Physicists extend stochastic thermodynamics deeper into quantum territoryPhysicists have extended one of the most prominent fluctuation theorems of classical stochastic thermodynamics, the Jarzynski equality, to quantum field theory. As quantum field theory is considered to be the most fundamental theory in physics, the results allow the knowledge of stochastic thermodynamics to be applied, for the first time, across the full range of energy and length scales.
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Trump Budget Would Slash Science across AgenciesNASA, NOAA, EPA and the Interior and Energy departments hope Congress will push back — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Google’s Guinea-Pig CityQ uayside is a nondescript, 12-acre chunk of land on the southern edge of Toronto’s downtown. It’s just three miles from my apartment, but getting there takes almost an hour by subway, bus, and foot. When I finally arrive at 333 Lake Shore Boulevard East on a windy day in early January, I find a vacant parking lot full of snow. The abandoned Victory Soya Mills silos loom at its edge—a remnant of
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Kæmpekran er klar til at bygge bro ved FrederikssundSom et Meccano-sæt for viderekomne er en 155 meter lang montagekran nu blevet samlet af ca. 5000 dele og er klar til at samle de 492 broelementer til Kronprinsesse Marys Bro.
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Video: Sådan støbes Frederikssund-broens fundamenterKom med på byggepladsen med projektchef Henrik Vincentsen, som forklarer, hvordan fundamenter og bropiller til Kronprinsesse Marys Bro støbes, og hvordan den 150 meter lange montagekran skal samle brodækket med de 492 præfabrikerede elementer.
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Lægeforeningen kræver læger i sundhedsministerens nye ankenævnSundhedsminister Ellen Trane Nørby (V) lægger op til at etablere et ankenævn for læger og sundhedspersonale, så de kan klage over særligt indgribende afgørelser på tilsynsområdet. Lægeforeningen kræver, at læger får plads i ankenævnet.
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How to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry across North AmericaU.S. natural gas production has boomed in the past decade, driving gas prices sharply downward. Natural gas has become a competitive choice for electricity generation, edging out coal. Because gas contains less carbon than coal, greenhouse gas emissions from power plants have dropped, and the U.S. grid has become cleaner, more efficient and more flexible. More natural gas is also entering the powe
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Rapid decompression key to making low-density liquid waterWater makes up more than 70 percent of our planet and up to 60 percent of our bodies.
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An X-ray camera that can resolve tens of thousands of X-ray colorsNASA is part of an international team developing a cutting edge microcalorimeter X-ray camera that will provide extraordinarily detailed information about energetic cosmic phenomena.
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Technological breakthrough for monitoring and predicting landslidesEngineering and Computer Science student Jonathan Olds was looking for a research project for his Master's and his supervisor, Professor of Network Engineering in the School of Engineering and Computer Science Winston Seah, suggested developing and testing an automated solution for the long-term monitoring of landslides. The result of that research is AccuMM, which Jonathan validated with a pilot
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APSOS in Tibet: Probing the whole atmosphereAn NSFC-funded research facility named 'Atmospheric Profiling Synthetic Observation System' (APSOS) was built at the Yangbajain International Cosmic Ray Observatory in Tibet, China, in late 2017. It aims to deepen our understanding on the interactions within the whole (neutral) atmosphere layers and is now in full operation. International collaborations are strongly encouraged,
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High-efficiency and low-cost catalyst for water electrolysisA research team in DGIST has newly developed metal-rich graphitic nanocarbon layers encapsulated electrocatalysts and introduce as cheapest electrode materials for the cost-effective hydrogen gas generation via water electrolysis. It is expected to be used to replace all the state-of-the-art precious metal electrocatalysts of oxygen evolution reaction (OER).
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New model for evaluating rangeland systems launchesA new global rangeland model allows people to understand how changes in climate will potentially impact rangelands.
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Who should be held responsible for the Aliso Canyon gas leak?A USC-led analysis of the Aliso Canyon gas leak determined corporate dysfunction by the SoCalGas Co. and lax regulatory oversight led to the largest greenhouse gas leak in US history. The study is the first to report what went wrong and why an estimated 97,100 metric tons of methane polluted a Los Angeles neighborhood for four months. The findings have pivotal implications because the US operates
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Too much TV at age 2 makes for less healthy adolescentsSkipping breakfast, eating junk food and doing less well in school might all result from watching TV too young, a Canadian study finds.
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NUS researchers turn fashion waste into multifunctional materialA research team led by Associate Professor Hai Minh Duong and Professor Nhan Phan-Thien from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering has devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert fashion waste into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels.
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Rapid decompression key to making low-density liquid waterWater is so common that we take it for granted. Yet water also has very strange properties compared to most other liquids. In addition to ordinary water and water vapor, or steam, there are at least 17 forms of water ice, and two proposed forms of super-cooled liquid water. New work from Carnegie high-pressure geophysicists finds evidence of the long-theorized, difficult-to-see low-density liquid
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Researcher discusses successful mission to transport the Icarus antennas to the International Space StationSince 13 February, two key components of the Icarus mission have been orbiting in space. Following the on-board computer, which was carried to the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2017, another Soyuz Progress rocket has now transported the antennas of the joint German-Russian Icarus project to the ISS. Martin Wikelski, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell
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Missing link to novel superconductivity revealedScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a state of magnetism that may be the missing link to understanding the relationship between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. The research, recently published in npj Quantum Materials, provides tantalizing new possibilities for attaining superconducting states in iron-based materials.
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Higher temperatures likely to affect sharp-tailed grouse, study findsA study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers has found that predicted increased temperatures across the Great Plains are likely to influence the survival of the sharp-tailed grouse, a native game bird species, by reducing nesting space.
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Cell membrane as material for bone formationThe burst of cells forming cartilage is associated with mineralization during the early stages of bone formation, and nanofragments of the cell membranes can act as nucleation sites for amorphous calcium phosphate, as reported in two studies just published in Integrative Biology and ASC Biomaterials Science and Engineering.
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How Technology Can Make Valentine's Day Much, Much BetterBrain implants could eliminate miscommunication between lovers — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Despite rise in Pacific Northwest fires, critical unburned areas remainWhile increased fire activity has threatened Pacific Northwest forests, University of Idaho researchers have found a silver-lining: the proportion of unburned areas critical for post-fire recovery has remained unchanged.
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Chemists develop motion capture-like technology for tracking protein shapeIn many modern animated movies, the trick to achieving realistic movements for individual characters and objects lies in motion-capture technology. This process often involves someone wearing a tracking suit covered in small, colored balls while a camera captures the position of those colored balls, which is then used to represent how the person is moving.
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Researchers conduct chemical analysis of three chemically peculiar starsResearchers have carried out a chemical abundance analysis of three chemically peculiar stars, HD 51959, HD 88035 and HD 121447. The research, based on spectroscopic data acquired by the Fiber-fed Extended Range Optical Spectrograph (FEROS), finds that the three objects are nitrogen-enhanced barium stars. The results were presented February 5 in a paper published on arXiv pre-print server.
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Opinion: It's time for a more realistic approach to conservationThe tropics are home to the greatest diversity of plants and animals on Earth. Yet many of these hotspots are in war zones that disregard the rules of democracy and nurture an indefinite influence of corruption.
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Better way into brain could cut gene therapy side effectsResearchers have found a structure on the small viruses that deliver gene therapy that makes them better at crossing from the bloodstream into the brain. This is a key factor for administering gene therapies at lower doses to treat brain and spinal disorders, which could reduce the number of adverse side effects, researchers say. Gene therapies could be a way to revolutionize the treatment of man
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Why Neanderthals were good hunters—but lousy artistsNeanderthals had large brains and made complex tools but never demonstrated the ability to draw recognizable images, unlike early modern humans who created vivid renderings of animals and other figures on rocks and cave walls. That artistic gap may be due to differences in the way they hunted, an expert on predator-prey relations and their impacts on the evolution of behavior says. Richard Coss,
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Elongated heads were a mark of elite status in an ancient Peruvian societyElites in ancient Peruvian society developed a signature, stretched-out head shape over several centuries.
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Learning about love from online datingLooking for love online? You may have unwittingly included yourself in a giant science experiment, with some interesting results.
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The surprising academic origins of memesThere's never a dull moment on the internet, and that's got a lot to do with the fact that the content shared online is constantly changing – thanks in part to the creativity of users who remix, parody or caption popular images or videos, to create memes.
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New hole-punched crystal clears a path for quantum lightOptical highways for light are at the heart of modern communications. But when it comes to guiding individual blips of light called photons, reliable transit is far less common. Now, a collaboration of researchers from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), led by JQI Fellows Mohammad Hafezi and Edo Waks, has created a photonic chip that both generates single photons, and steers them around. The devic
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What ancient footprints can tell us about what it was like to be a child in prehistoric timesWestern society has a rather specific view of what a good childhood should be like; protecting, sheltering and legislating to ensure compliance with it. However, perceptions of childhood vary greatly with geography, culture and time. What was it like to be a child in prehistoric times, for example – in the absence of toys, tablets and television?
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OHSU, CDC unravel mysterious eye infectionA 26-year-old Oregon woman was the first known case of a human being infected with the cattle eyeworm Thelazia gulosa, which normally affects large animals. She was likely infected while being around cows near her rural home, experts conclude in a paper published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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Sewage Shows the Way to a Novel Diabetes VaccineViruses found in contaminated water may protect against type 1 diabetes — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How Trump’s budget would hit US science and tech
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Drones that dodge obstacles without guidance can pursue you like paparazziA skilled autopilot function will make drones far more ubiquitous and useful.
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The company that made smartphones smart now wants to give them built-in AIARM’s latest mobile processors are tuned to crunch machine-learning algorithms as efficiently as possible.
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Nyt manifest vil forbedre anvendelsen af data i sundhedsvæsenetEn ny græsrodsbevægelse vil med otte teser i et manifest skabe klarhed over, hvordan kvalitetsdata i sundhedsvæsenet skal forstås og anvendes.
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Crack and cheese: do things really affect your brain 'like drugs'?Claims that cheese, sex and Facebook affect your brain in the same way as drugs fundamentally misunderstand how it all works The internet is a weird place. Part of this is due to how things linger rather than disappear, as they tended to do with more “traditional” media. Nowadays, people’s jobs can (rightly or wrongly) be endangered for tweets they wrote years ago . The adage about “today’s news
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Microtubule bridges organize the cytoskeletons of cells in the early embryoScientists at A*STAR have discovered how cells in the nascent embryo organize the 'bones' that make up the skeleton, known as microtubules. While this discovery has resolved one mystery, it also raises a range of new questions.
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New nanoporous metal foams uses sunlight to clean up waterAtom University of OxfordA researcher from the University of Bath is leading the way in creating a new, more efficient way for the water industry to safely remove micropollutants from water without increasing their carbon footprint.
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Sampling bias might be distorting view of upheaval due to global warmingA small team of researchers from The University of Melbourne, the Georg Eckert Institute and Freie Universität has found problems with research related to assessing the propensity for war amid environmental changes due to global warming. In their paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the group argues that much of current research on the topic suffers from several bias flaws. Cullen
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Molecule Found in Huntingtons Patients Kills Cancer CellsResearchers were able to slow tumor growth in a mouse model of human ovarian cancer.
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Image of the Day: Tardigrades!The microscopic water bears will be featured in an exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History beginning Saturday, February 17.
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Proposed Federal Budget Slashes Funds to EPA, CDCFunds for the NIH and NSF would stay flat, while some agencies, including the FDA and NASA, would see increases.
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Timing is key if marketers want consumers to share their video contentYouTube TV PriceSpend any time online or browsing social media, and you're likely to come across branded video content. Advertisers and marketers want people to not only see their content but to enjoy it so much that they share it with their friends. A new study from the University of Kansas has found that the prominence of the brand and the advertisers' decision to disclose whether the content is branded can hea
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How sharks and other animals evolved electroreception to find their preyMany creatures can use electric fields to communicate, sense predators or stun their prey with powerful electric shocks, but how this ability came about was a mystery.
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Genetic study of soil organisms reveals new family of antibioticsA team of researchers at Rockefeller University has discovered a new family of antibiotics by conducting a genetic study of a wide range of soil microorganism antibiotics. In their paper published in the journal Nature Microbiology, the group describes their study and how well samples of the new antibiotic worked in rats.
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#Brainweek Partner Interview: Cecilia M. FoxThis is the second in a series of Brain Awareness Week partner interviews, in which partners share their experiences and tips for planning successful events. Cecilia M. Fox, Ph.D., is a professor of biological sciences and the director of the Neuroscience Program at Moravian College. She is also president of the Lehigh Valley Society for Neuroscience Chapter. For several years, you’ve organized a
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Miljøstyrelsen til EU: Send os forskning og erfaringer om resistente svampeHar landbruget eller hele samfundet skylden for, at svampe bliver resistente over for azoler? Miljøstyrelsen vil nu indsamle forskning fra andre EU-lande for at få et bedre overblik.
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Stemming the Plastic Tide: 10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the OceansThe Yangtze alone pours up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons into the Yellow Sea — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Amazon fish challenges mutation ideaAmazon Service PrimeStudy of an Amazon fish has challenged ideas about how DNA gathers deadly mutations over time.
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Interdisciplinary approach yields new insights into human evolutionThe evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes Nicole Creanza, assistant professor of biological sciences. She is the guest editor of a new themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, the oldest scientific journal in the world, that focuses on an interdisciplinary approach to human evolution.
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'Smart cane' could one day help flag gait problems, falling risks more quicklyFeeling a little unsteady and don't know why?
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Millions of Americans can't stay home with the flu, so it spreadsHealth In America, paid sick leave is not guaranteed. In the 2009 H1N1 pandemic alone, [estimates suggest that around 5 to 7 million more people got the flu from someone who came to work sick, and that an additional 1,500…
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Clues to aging found in stem cells' genomesIn fruit flies, repeating genetic elements shrink with age, but then expand in future generations, a resurgence that may help explain how some cells stay immortal.
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#EpicDuckChallenge shows we can count on dronesA few thousand rubber ducks, a group of experienced wildlife spotters and a drone have proven the usefulness and accuracy of drones for wildlife monitoring.A University of Adelaide study showed that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting approaches.
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Rocket manElon Musk just launched the world's most powerful rocket. It's only a fraction of what he's up to.
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Gene improves plant growth and conversion to biofuelsA research team led by the University of Georgia has discovered that manipulation of the same gene in poplar trees and switchgrass produced plants that grow better and are more efficiently converted to biofuels.
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Database for steganalysis of forensic evidenceThere is nothing striking or remarkable about the tens of thousands of pictures an Iowa State University research team has spent the past 18 months collecting for a new database.
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Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, roboticsUniversity of Washington engineers have turned tissue paper – similar to toilet tissue – into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement. The sensor is light, flexible and inexpensive, with potential applications in health care, entertainment and robotics.
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Innovative restoration of coral reefs helps protect Caribbean islandsThe catastrophic 2017 hurricane season provided ample demonstrations of the increasing vulnerability of Caribbean populations and infrastructure to natural disasters. Researchers at UC Santa Cruz and the Nature Conservancy have now measured the protective role of coral reefs and field-tested a solution that reduces coastal risks by combining innovative engineering with restoration ecology.
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Intensive agriculture influences U.S. regional summer climate, study findsScientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, and not just greenhouse gas emissions, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems. Now, a new study by researchers at MIT and Dartmouth College reveals how another type of land use, intensive agriculture, can impact regional climate.
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Fake news production and social media 'trolls'A network of digital workers are designing political disinformation campaigns, creating fake news and fanning the flames of public discontent in the Philippines, new research has found.
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Robots Don’t Deserve Workers’ Rights—YetWIRED columnist Jason Pontin on how robotic automation could someday transform human employment—and what we will owe our new AI workers.
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New Study Shows Bay Area Residents Increasingly Distrust Tech CompaniesCalifornia Tech Edelman Bay AreaA new survey shows that California residents—and the Bay Area specifically—has had it up to here with Big Tech.
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Scientists Know How You’ll Respond to Nuclear War—and They Have a PlanUsing data from smartphones, satellites, remote sensors, and census surveys, modelers can create synthetic populations—and watch what they do in a disaster.
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#EpicDuckChallenge shows we can count on dronesA few thousand rubber ducks, a group of experienced wildlife spotters and a drone have proven the usefulness and accuracy of drones for wildlife monitoring.
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Cannibal Sex and Love Darts: Animal Libido Is Not for the Fainthearted [Slide Show]Some creatures have unusual ways of courting their Valentines — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Apple vil skrue ned for opdaterings-ræsetFærre nye features i de kommende styresystemer skal sikre færre fejl — og at firmaet kan levere de lovede nyheder til tiden.
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To Fight Fatal Infections, Hospitals May Turn to AlgorithmsMachine learning could speed up diagnoses and improve accuracy — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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This Electronic Skin May Help Prevent Robots from Crushing UsA metallic robot hand with "Terminator"-like power sounds good for the movies. But what about a real-life future where that android is now cradling your baby or just shaking your hand?
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Tidligere sundhedsborgmester bliver direktør for MødrehjælpenNinna Thomsen (SF), tidligere sundheds- og omsorgsborgmester i København, tiltræder 15. marts som direktør for Mødrehjælpen.
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Sundhedsstyrelsen sender metode for rehabilitering af kræft i høringDet reviderede forløbsprogram for rehabilitering og palliation i forbindelse med kræft beskriver den samlede indsats og skal sikre kvalitet i processen.
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Rock art: Life-sized sculptures of dromedaries found in Saudi ArabiaAt a remarkable site in northwest Saudi Arabia, a CNRS archaeologist and colleagues from the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage have discovered camelid sculptures unlike any others in the region. They are thought to date back to the first centuries BC or AD. The find sheds new light on the evolution of rock art in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Sympathy for Janet on The Good PlaceThis article contains mild spoilers through Season 2 of The Good Place. “I’m not a girl,” Janet, the friendly afterlife robot, tells Jason, her charmingly doltish dead boyfriend, in the second-season finale of The Good Place . “I’m also not just a Janet anymore. I don’t know what I am!” Indeed. What is Janet, now? Among the twists in the season closer for Michael Schur’s breezily profound NBC sit
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Amino Apps Makes the Case for Anonymity OnlineThe saying goes, "On the internet, no one knows you're a dog." Is that a good thing for an app for teens?
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Everyone Hates Silicon Valley, Except Its ImitatorsLeaders behind Silicon Prairie, Silicon Shire, and Silicon Holler say they see the flaws in the nation's tech hub, and hope to avoid the same mistakes.
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The Inevitable Agony of Olympic SpoilersIn the age of push notifications it's nearly impossible not to get spoiled on a big win. Should fans just accept defeat?
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Photos: Stone Age Skulls Found on Wooden StakesOne day, when archaeologists in Sweden were surveying a forest in advance of a construction project, they made a perplexing find — the battered skulls of people who had lived about 8,000 years ago, including two that still had pointed stakes in them.
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Gut Reaction: Does Intense Training Affect Olympic Athletes' Poop?How do Olympic athletes' diets and exercise regimens affect their performance … in the bathroom?
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8,000-Year-Old Heads on Stakes Found in Mysterious Underwater GraveThe discovery of a burial containing 8,000-year-old battered human skulls, including two that still have pointed wooden stakes through them, has left archaeologists baffled, according to a new study from Sweden.
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What will it take to go to Venus?Undeterred by funding woes, scientists are scraping together ideas to tackle heat, pressure and acidity challenges of landing on Venus.
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Life-sized sculptures of dromedaries found in Saudi ArabiaAt a remarkable site in northwest Saudi Arabia, a CNRS archaeologist and colleagues from the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) have discovered camelid sculptures unlike any others in the region. They are thought to date back to the first centuries BC or AD. The find sheds new light on the evolution of rock art in the Arabian Peninsula and is the subject of an article publis
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Klik ikke! Snedig orm hærger FacebookMan skal være særligt kritisk, når man modtager videolinks fra venner.
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Why Culture Clashes at the Olympics MatterDifferences in language and customs will inevitably lead to miscommunications and misunderstandings among the athletes — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A Hot, Dry Winter in California. Could It Be Drought Again?A persistent ridge of air in the Pacific is keeping winter storms away, and the Sierra snowpack, source of much of the state's water, is suffering.
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Will Astronomers Be Ready for the Next 'Oumuamua?It may already have arrived. Here’s how scientists are preparing for the next close encounter — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A synthetic cell that produces anti-cancer drugs within a tumorTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have successfully treated a cancerous tumor using a "nano-factory" – a synthetic cell that produces anti-cancer proteins within the tumor tissue. The research, which was published in Advanced Healthcare Materials, combines synthetic biology, to artificially produce proteins, and targeted drug delivery, to direct the synthetic cell to abnormal tis
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Upscaling turbulence for better laboratory studiesTurbulence in oceans, in the atmosphere or in industry is billions of times stronger than in lab experiments. Simply upscaling the lab results is not an option. Theoretically, however, there is a regime of turbulence in which scaling laws apply. Researchers of University of Twente succeeded in reaching this 'asymptotic ultimate regime' of turbulence by introducing roughness at the surface at which
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Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronicsSince the discovery of the remarkable properties of graphene, scientists have increasingly focused research on the many other two-dimensional materials possible, both those found in nature and concocted in the lab. However, growing high quality, crystalline 2-D materials at scale has proven a significant challenge.
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Researchers find warmer oceans could increase invasive 'sea squirts'They're lovingly called 'sea squirts', but certain marine soft-bodied animals, or tunicates, could cause a giant-sized problem in cold water areas like the Gulf of Maine. New research from the University of New Hampshire shows that with a water temperature increase of just two degrees Celsius (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) predicted in the coming years, the invasive tunicate species Botrylloides viol
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Researchers create DNA wires 100 times more sensitive than other biosensorsScientists in Sweden today reported a nanoengineering innovation that offers hope for treatment of cancer, infections and other health problems – conductive wires of DNA enhanced with gold which could be used to electrically measure hundreds of biological processes simultaneously.
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Ny målemetode skal afsløre mikroplast i drikkevandetEn ny målemetode udviklet af forskere fra Aarhus Universitet skal hjælpe Miljøstyrelsen med at kortlægge omfanget af mikroplast i vores postevand.
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Norge siger ja til Spinraza – på visse betingelserNorske børn med muskelsygdommen spinal muskelatrofi kan nu få behandling med lægemidlet Spinraza. En lang række forudsætninger skal dog være opfyldt.
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Transportable optical clock used to measure gravitation for the first timeA European collaboration involving clock experts from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM) has used a transportable optical atomic clock to measure gravitation for the first time. The results of the experiment were published in Nature Physics.
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Why did gas hydrates melt at the end of the last ice age?Methane hydrates, also known as "burning ice," occur at all ocean margins. The compound of gas and water occurs in the seafloor and it is only stable under relatively high pressures and low temperatures. If the pressure is too low or the temperature too high, the hydrates dissociate (break down), the methane is released and the gas can seep from the seafloor into the ocean. Thus, scientists fear t
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Software package processes huge amounts of single-cell dataScientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München have developed a program that for managing enormous datasets. The software, called Scanpy, is a candidate for analyzing the Human Cell Atlas, and has recently been published in Genome Biology.
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Avoiding increases of extreme heat events over East Asia by 0.5 degrees CThe Paris Agreement adopted by the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in December 2015 officially included the 2 degrees C Global Temperature Target in the conference results and pursued efforts "to limit the level of global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels." At 1.5/2 degrees C temperature warming level, changes in g
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Cultural cross-fertilisation to rescue soilsSharing best practice farming techniques with farmers from different cultures and traditions could help increase the quality of our soils – a vital step in ensuring that we can grow enough food for people in the coming decades.
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South Africa declares drought a 'national disaster'South Africa on Tuesday declared a "national disaster" over a drought that has ravaged parts of the country and threatened to leave the city of Cape Town without domestic tap water.
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UK to unveil new tech to fight extremist content onlineThe British government is unveiling new technology to remove extremist material from social media.
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Educated Is a Brutal, One-of-a-Kind MemoirT ara Westover’s one-of-a-kind memoir is about the shaping of a mind, yet page after page describes the maiming of bodies—not just hers, but the heads, limbs, and torsos of her parents and six siblings, too. The youngest child in a fundamentalist Mormon family living in the foothills of Buck’s Peak, in Idaho, she grew up with a father fanatically determined to protect his family against the “brai
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Goat on a Pile of Scrap LumberThe goat lowers his head like a fur-covered anvil, as if he knows all things in the world change. His eyes are bisected by a horizon line of yellow light. You’re wondering what might happen if you move closer. There’s a language we speak to ourselves and one we use for others. I told you, he’s lowered his head. Nevertheless, you can see for yourself he’s chewing. What he swallows becomes his rumi
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Personfølsom fuldmagt blev tilgængelig for 1.400 personer på sundhed.dkIfølge Digitaliseringsstyrelsen har 14 personer set en helt fremmed persons fuldmagt på sundhed.dk. Sikkerhedshullet er lukket, men det vides endnu ikke helt, hvordan fejlen opstod.
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Why income inequality is not the injustice we perceive it to be"The starting point for understanding inequality in the context of human progress is to recognize that income inequality is not a fundamental component of well-being." Read More
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Norges nye ubåd kan blive den første med lithium-ion-batterier – eller den sidste med blybatterierNorges nye ubåd – den såkaldte 212CD-klasse – kommer midt i et teknologiskifte.
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Forbedringer på vej til medicinhåndtering i SundhedsplatformenDet er for besværligt at håndtere medicin i Sundhedsplatformen. Derfor øremærker Region Hovedstaden og Region Sjælland 15 mio. kr. til forbedringer.
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When it comes to extinction, body size mattersModels for extinction risk are necessarily simple. Most reduce complex ecological systems to a linear relationship between resource density and population growth — something that can be broadly applied to infer how much resource loss a species can survive. This week in Nature Communications, an interdisciplinary team of scientists proposes a more nuanced model for extinction that also shows why a
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'America First' Is Straining Bill Gates's OptimismBill Gates isn’t a big fan of “America First.” In a recent episode of The Atlantic Interview, he told Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic , “the long-term benefit of [nations] trusting each other, even beyond one or two terms of office, is a pretty gigantic thing.” That’s not to say Gates is pessimistic about the future. His and Melinda Gates’s tenth annual letter, released Tues
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Your Besotted Brain: A Neuroscience Love SongA Valentine's music video from Skunk Bear explores the ways your brain and body change when you fall in love — and change again as love deepens and matures. (Image credit: Adam Cole/NPR's Skunk Bear)
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When it comes to extinction, body size mattersOn a certain level, extinction is all about energy. Animals move over their surroundings like pacmen, chomping up resources to fuel their survival. If they gain a certain energy threshold, they reproduce, essentially earning an extra life. If they encounter too many empty patches, they starve, and by the end of the level it's game over.
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Nu mister kineserne også job til robotterFoxconn-datterselskabet Innolux vil fyre 10.000 medarbejdere og erstatte dem med robotter. Samtidig fortsætter Kinas fremstillingsindustri ufortrødent marchen mod en robotdomineret fremtid.
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BILLEDSERIE: Sådan ser vores livsvigtige bakterier udVi forbinder ofte bakterier med sygdom, men faktisk kan vi slet ikke leve uden dem. Rul ned og se de bakterier, der hjælper os.
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Korea's Divided Families Are Hoping for a ReunionEditor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics coverage . In the fall of 2010, in a banquet hall in Kangwon Province in North Korea , South Korean lawmaker Woo Won Shik took a seat at table number 74. He had come with his mother to a government-sponsored meeting for families divided by the Korean War. They were there to meet Woo’s older sister, who had been left behind in North Korea i
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Sky-løsning skal gøre bilbranchen klar til GDPR: Håndtering af samtykke stinker lidtSoftwareløsning skal sørge for, at bilforhandlere ikke får problemer, når de indsamler og opbevarer det kritiske samtykke.
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1.218 droner slår verdensrekord ved vinter-OLIntel sendte 1.218 quadcopter-droner i luften i forbindelse med åbningsceremonien ved vinter-OL i Pyeongchang i Sydkorea. Verdens hidtil største droneshow blev dog ikke sendt live på grund af logistiske problemer.
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Russia launches cargo spacecraft after aborted liftoff (Update)Russia on Tuesday launched an unmanned Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station after a glitch led officials to postpone the planned liftoff two days earlier.
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New models give insight into the heart of the Rosette NebulaA hole at the heart of a stunning rose-like interstellar cloud has puzzled astronomers for decades. But new research, led by the University of Leeds, offers an explanation for the discrepancy between the size and age of the Rosetta Nebula's central cavity and that of its central stars.
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NASA may lose a major space telescope and space station fundingPresident Trump wants to cut back on major NASA projects, including a space telescope to study dark matter and dark energy, and US funding for the space station
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Ransomware lammede fjernvarme-firma: »Selv vores internetadgang har været nede«Isoplus Fjernvarmeteknik har været medtaget af et ransomware-angreb, som også ramte ERP-systemet.
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Ville du designe din baby smukkere eller mere talentfuld, hvis du kunne?Moderne genteknologi kan bruges til at give dit barn fordele i livet. Ville du gøre det, hvis du fik frit valg? Test din egen holdning af.
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Water: Why the taps run dryThe world has abundant freshwater but it is unevenly distributed and under increasing pressure, UN agencies say, as highlighted by the severe shortages in Cape Town.
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For global water crisis, climate may be the last strawBefore man-made climate change kicked in—and well before "Day Zero" in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May—the global water crisis was upon us.
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Virtual field trips: Schools embrace advanced adventuresOn a February afternoon in a Brooklyn classroom, 16-year-old Taylor Engler came face to face with a cow.
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Surprising results from a unique bat study in the US reveal shifting behavioral patterns due to environmental changeHistorical radar data from weather monitoring archives have provided unprecedented access to the behaviours of the world's largest colony of migratory bats and revealed changes in the animals' seasonal habits with implications for pest management and agricultural production.
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Microjet generator for highly viscous fluidsGenerating microjets of highly viscous fluids is important to prevent blurring in key modern applications such as inkjet printing, but such technology is being held back because most printers handle only low-viscosity liquids, e.g. water-based ink. This study proposes a simple structure that uses an impulsive force to generate high-viscosity microjets of fluids similar even to honey, and with non-
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Kidney stones on the rise, Mayo Clinic study findsKidney stones are a painful health condition, often requiring multiple procedures at great discomfort to the patient. Growing evidence suggests that the incidence of kidney stones is increasing steadily, especially in women. Using data from the Rochester Epidemiology Project, Mayo Clinic researchers investigated the rise in stone formers to determine if this is a new trend, or simply an improvemen
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Brancheforening: Skrækscenariet om elvarme holder ikkeMed sænket elvarmeafgift vil varmepumper og fjernvarme være billigere end elvarme for et standard-hus, mener Dansk Energi. Brancheforeningen angriber energiprofessor Henrik Lunds elvarme-scenarie med egne beregninger i hånden.
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When the body attacks the brain: Immune system often to blame for encephalitis, study findsEncephalitis caused by the immune system attacking the brain is similar in frequency to encephalitis from infections.
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Innovative restoration of coral reefs helps protect Caribbean islandsResearchers have measured the protective role of coral reefs and field-tested a solution that reduces coastal risks by combining innovative engineering with restoration ecology.
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Wastewater treatment plants could generate electricityResearchers are working on improving the efficiency of microbial fuel cells (MFC) by using modified graphite felt. Primary results show that the new MFC can generate 20 percent higher voltage than usual cells.
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Researchers raise a 170-million-year question over mysterious moss geneA surprise discovery provides insight into how cells build their external walls and raises questions about a one-of-a-kind, fused gene.
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Study examines shift work and genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetesA new study takes a deep look at the connection between shift work and type 2 diabetes. Investigators leveraged data on hundreds of thousands of people in the UK Biobank to better understand how shift work — especially frequent night work — contributes to the likelihood of type 2 diabetes. The team also developed a genetic risk score for type 2 diabetes, examining genetic data for tens of thousa
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Which commonly prescribed drug is more effective for infants with epilepsy?Levetiracetam was found to be superior to phenobarbital as initial monotherapy for infants with nonsyndromic epilepsy.
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New insight into workings of building blocks of lifePioneering new research could offer a fascinating new insight into how genomic information is read.
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Turbulence: Adequate scaling thanks to surface roughnessTurbulence in oceans, in the atmosphere or in industry, is billions of times stronger than in lab experiments. Simply upscaling the lab results is not an option. Theoretically, however, there is a regime of turbulence in which scaling laws apply. Researchers have succeeded in reaching this 'asymptotic ultimate regime' of turbulence, by introducing roughness at the surface at which turbulent liquid
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New method for waking up devicesA device that's turned off doesn't suck battery life, but it also doesn't work. Now a low-power system that's always on the alert can turn devices on when they are needed, saving energy in the networked internet of things.
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Study shows benefits of exercise can outweigh health effects of severe obesityNew study that shows physical activity may be equally and perhaps even more important than weight for people living with severe obesity.
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Engaging family in care of hospitalized loved ones enhances healing, reduces readmission ratesA voluntary program that allows family members of hospitalized patients to participate in their care enhanced healing and reduced readmission rates.
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California Officials Set Up Invasive Swamp Rodent HotlineNutria can grow up to 2.5 feet, weigh 20 pounds and wreak destruction wherever they go. State authorities believed they were extinct, but recent sightings have led to a call for the public to help. (Image credit: Michael Probst/AP)
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Super-elcykel skal køre 45 km/t på danske cykelstierEn elmotordrevet cykel, der kan køre 45 km/t, skal i en forsøgsordning ikke længere tælle som en stor knallert. Det betyder bl.a., at de kan køre på cykelstien af personer ned til 15 år, som kan nøjes med en cykelhjelm. Cyklistforbundet advarer om, at det vil koste liv.
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Demonstration of a single molecule piezoelectric effectResearchers from IOCB Prague and IP CAS demonstrated for the first time a single molecule piezoelectric effect. The study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society represents a breakthrough in understanding the electromechanical behavior of individual molecules and provides a new concept of the design of molecular motors, sensors and electricity generators at nanoscale.
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Nanoparticles act as surgical blades for improved dental surgeryCurrently, more than 80 nanotechnologies have been approved for a variety of medical applications, from treating cancer to bioimaging to tissue remodeling.
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Oceanographers solve mystery of phytoplankton survival in nutrient-poor PacificUpwelling in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean provides essential nutrients for the region's microscopic plants, but iron – a key ingredient that facilitates nitrogen consumption – is in short supply. To compensate, the phytoplankton band together to recycle the scarce metal and retain it in their upper-ocean habitat, scientists at the University of California, Irvine have discovered.
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3-D NASA animation displays a surface pit eroded by stars in the Orion nebulaWhen professor Frank Israel graduated at Leiden Observatory some forty years ago, little did he know that one of his theories would be making headlines in 2018—in the form of a 3-D animation on the Internet, no less.
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Police in schools—helpful or harmful? It depends on the modelEarlier this month Victorian Opposition Leader, Matthew Guy, announced a plan to place 100 more police officers in schools. This included in 10 "at-risk" secondary schools to "tackle this violent scourge of youth crime, to keep Victorians safe."
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Countries with greater gender equality have lower percentage of female STEM graduatesAlthough women currently are well represented in life sciences, they continue to be underrepresented in inorganic sciences, such as computer science and physics. Now, researchers from the University of Missouri and Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom have found that as societies become wealthier and more gender equal, women are less likely to obtain degrees in STEM. The researchers call
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Can our genes help predict how women respond to ovarian cancer treatment?New research, led by Professor Anna deFazio from the Westmead Institute and Westmead Hospital, has shown that the genes we inherit can have a significant impact on how the body processes chemotherapy drugs, which may lead to different clinical outcomes for ovarian cancer patients.
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Simulations reveal that atomic disorder from radiation can launch a cycle of self-healing in ceramic oxidesScientists discovered a self-healing cycle for defects in ceramics predicted by advanced atomic-level simulations. Irradiation creates defects and causes the ordered atomic structure to become disordered. Simulations showed that creation of a threshold amount of disorder caused the displaced atoms to move faster. This sped up annihilation of the defects and healed the structure.
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American CarnageIn his inaugural address, Donald Trump declared, “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” He knew it would not. We know it did not. “I’ll be able to make sure that when you walk down the street in your inner city, or wherever you are, you’re not going to be shot,” he declared during the campaign. “Your child isn’t going to be shot.” He has not been able to make sure of that––
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Squeezing into the best shapeUntil now, producing liquids that can be shaped and reshaped on demand hasn't been possible. Scientists discovered a simple way to form stabilized droplets in a variety of structures. Tightly packed nanoparticle-polymer assemblies at droplet surfaces were squeezed into desired shapes assemblies with an electric field. This new approach is a simple route to form droplets of one liquid phase in anot
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Current generated when light hits a material reveals electrons behaving like an elusive particleA massless particle, a.k.a. Weyl fermion, predicted nearly 100 years ago, has been found in another corner of physics. Electrons in a semimetal can behave like these particles. They are either right-handed or left-handed—they are mirror images like our hands. Theory predicted that Weyl semimetals could produce handedness-dependent electrical current by shining circularly polarized infrared light o
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Tiny membrane key to safe drinking waterUsing their own specially designed form of graphene, 'Graphair' scientists have supercharged water purification, making it simpler, more effective and quicker.
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White nose syndrome is killing millions of bats via a contagious fungus – here's how to stop itA dangerous fungus has been sweeping across North America with devastating consequences. In the past decade, between 5m and 7m bats in the US and Canada have been wiped out as a result of the fungal disease known as white nose syndrome, which alters their behaviour in potentially deadly ways. But the latest research shows there might be hope for researchers trying to battle the disease, following
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Smart and comfortable new textiles for high-tech clothingUncomfortable, rigid, with low air permeability: textile materials capable of conducting electricity can be awkward for day-to-day use. However, researchers at the University of Bayreuth, Donghua University in Shanghai, and Nanjing Forestry University have now developed new nonwoven materials that are electrically conductive as well as flexible and breathable. This paves the way for comfortable hi
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Small lakes and temporary ponds release CO2 even when dryTemporary lakes and ponds emit CO₂ even when they are dry, and dry areas emit a larger amount of carbon into the atmosphere. This phenomenon, described now for the first time, could have an impact on the global carbon cycle that controls Earth's climate, according to a study led by Biel Obrador from the University of Barcelona and Núria Catalán from the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA).
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Kamikaze sperm and four-headed penises – the hidden ways animals win the mating gameWe all know that individuals fight over potential love interests. Just think of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) scuffling – rather impotently – over Bridget Jones in a fountain. But you might be surprised to hear that the fierce rivalry continues behind the scenes – in the form of sperm competition. This is when the sperm of two or more males compete inside the reproductiv
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Researchers devise a new, inexpensive way to fabricate microneedlesGetting an injection at the doctor's office is never a fun thing, but a new approach is on the horizon, using what are called microneedles, arrays of tiny needles that deliver medication through the skin without causing pain. But fabricating microneedles is costly, requiring cleanrooms and expensive equipment.
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Light-activated drugs could kill cancer with fewer side effectsLight-activated cancer drugs that don’t cause the toxic side effects of current chemotherapy treatments are closer to becoming a reality, a new study suggests. Researchers say they now know more about how a pioneering platinum-based chemotherapy drug candidate— trans,trans,trans- [Pt(N 3 ) 2 (OH) 2 (py) 2 ]—functions when activated by light. “The current shortcomings of most chemotherapeutic agen
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New stem-cell based stroke treatment repairs damaged brain tissueA team of researchers at the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center and ArunA Biomedical, a UGA startup company, have developed a new treatment for stroke that reduces brain damage and accelerates the brain's natural healing tendencies in animal models.
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Could Dogs Help Save the Mongolian Steppe?An American entrepreneur is working to convert Mongolian herders into conservationists by reintroducing the region's traditional livestock protection dog — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Treating addiction in prison cuts O.D. deaths after releaseA treatment program for opioid addiction launched by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections was associated with a significant drop in drug overdose deaths after inmates were released—and contributed to an overall drop in overdose deaths statewide, a new study finds. “We wanted to see if that intervention could impact statewide overdose mortality, and the answer is a resounding yes.” The progr
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Merge assistant for trucks takes over from the driverMerging on the motorway or changing lanes: this may quite literally become an automatism for truck drivers in the long term. Jan Loof, mechanical engineer at Eindhoven University of Technology, has developed a system that can take over the steering and enable a vehicle to automatically merge in traffic. However, the driver will always exercise control of the steering wheel. First tests on the road
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This neurotransmitter may be behind some alcohol cravingsThe neurotransmitter glutamate may play a role in some alcohol cravings, report researchers. Alcohol dependence and alcohol use disorders occur in about 30 percent of all Americans, taking a severe toll on people’s lives, as well as on the health care system and economy. Ninety percent of all attempts to cure the dependence or abuse of alcohol result in relapse within four years. Sights, sounds,
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A magnetic method for polishing metals enables mold templates with microscale featuresInjection molding enables large-scale production of polymer and plastic materials with micrometer-sized features. Now, A*STAR scientists have developed a method for creating mold templates with high precision and few defects.
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Companion robots could help our rural schoolsCompanion robots could be used in rural schools to help motivate students to study science and technology, and to provide comfort, according to University of Auckland research.
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New printing technique uses cells and molecules to recreate biological structuresResearchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a printing technique using cells and molecules normally found in natural tissues to create constructs that resemble biological structures.
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Maximizing the environmental benefits of autonomous vehiclesThe added weight, electricity demand and aerodynamic drag of the sensors and computers used in autonomous vehicles are significant contributors to their lifetime energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study.
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The Real Meaning of Due Process in the #MeToo EraIt took two White House aides resigning after allegations of domestic violence for President Trump to bring up due process. On Saturday, Trump tweeted: Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused – life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer a
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Diversity only marginally boosts accuracy of group's predictionsDiversity for boards, juries and other influential decision-making teams can help ensure that the interests of a diverse population are fairly represented and addressed.
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Scientists develop harvesting robots that could revolutionise farming practicesScientists at the University of Plymouth are developing ground-breaking technology which could assist fruit and vegetable growers with the challenges they face in harvesting crops.
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Could ‘reprogramming’ these cells fix damaged hearts?Scientists hope to one day create new healthy heart muscle cells within a patient’s own ailing heart. A new study reveals key molecular details that should be useful in developing this ambitious approach. In the study, published in Cell Reports , researchers reprogrammed ordinary cells called fibroblasts into new and healthy heart muscle cells, and recorded changes that appear to be necessary for
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Maximizing the environmental benefits of autonomous vehiclesThe added weight, electricity demand and aerodynamic drag of the sensors and computers used in autonomous vehicles are significant contributors to their lifetime energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study.
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New printing technique uses cells and molecules to recreate biological structuresResearchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed a printing technique using cells and molecules normally found in natural tissues to create constructs that resemble biological structures.
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$40 Million Later, A Pioneering Plan To Boost Wild Fish Stocks Shows Little SuccessA California program begun 35 years ago to boost waning white seabass populations became a model for other states. Now the first scientific review finds the program had a stunningly low success rate. (Image credit: Mike Shane/Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute )
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DIY: Sweet BrainsMany of our Brain Awareness Week partners are now hard at work planning their events for March 12-19. Event theme? Check. Venue? Check. Speakers? Check. But what about…food? Our #brainweek partners are by no means responsible for providing food at their activities, but should they want to, here is some sweet inspiration from my kitchen to yours. If you look online, there is no shortage of brain d
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The Anthropology of Social MediaWe often hear broad claims about the impact of Facebook and Twitter on our lives—but that impact can be very radically depending on what sort of community you live in — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Butterfly gardens offer some hope for pollinatorsButterflies will use gardens planted to attract them, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. But the researchers cautioned that butterfly gardens can sometimes have a downside by exposing caterpillars to increased threats from predators or disease.
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Universal basic income policies don't cause people to leave workforce, study findsNew research from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy suggests that a universal basic income would not cause people to leave the workforce.
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What do you get when you cross an airplane with a submarine?Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed the first unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft that is capable of traveling both through the air and under the water – transitioning repeatedly between sky and sea. The EagleRay XAV, which was developed with funding and assistance from Teledyne Scientific, holds promise for use in applications such as tracking and observing wildlife.
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Forsker og OL-atlet udfordrer videnskaben om friktionLina Almind Knudsen kæmper både for at knække gåden bag invaliderende tarmsygdomme og for, at Danmark snupper medaljer i en idrætsgren, hvor forskerne er uenige om forholdet mellem kraftpåvirkning og friktionskoefficienter.
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UK air pollutants continue declineNitrogen pollutants from motor vehicles fell 12% from 2012 to 2016, according to official statistics.
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Image: Vapour trail of the 2013 Chelyabinsk asteroidVapour cloud trail left by the Chelyabinsk asteroid as seen by M. Ahmetvaleev on 15 February 2013.
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Ammonia emissions rise in UK, as other air pollutant levels fallLevels of powerful air pollutant rose by 3.2% from 2015 to 2016 according to government statistics Emissions of ammonia have been on the rise in the UK, new statistics from the government show, even while the amount of other pollutants entering the atmosphere has fallen. Levels of the powerful air pollutant rose by 3.2% from 2015 to 2016, the latest year for which statistics are available, accord
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Study reveals changes in seabirds' diets dating back 130 yearsToday, the Monterey Bay Aquarium introduces another "first" – a new Ocean Memory Lab – as part of its scientific research program to protect the global ocean, its ecosystems and wildlife.
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Researchers publish perspective on fuel cellsFuel cells play a major role in creating a clean energy future, with a broad set of applications ranging from powering buildings to electrifying transportation. But, as with all emerging technologies, researchers have faced many barriers in developing affordable, efficient fuel cells and creating a way to cleanly produce the hydrogen that powers them.
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One big problem with recycling and biofuelResearchers from Karolinska Institutet have developed a quick and non-destructive method to map the carbohydrates of plant matter. By making composition analysis more easy and accessible, this method will help to understand where inefficiencies lie in many processes from paper recycling to the production of biofuel and will eventually lead to less waste and higher quality output.
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Amyloid protein transmission through neurosurgeryAmyloid beta pathology — protein deposits in the brain – might have been transmitted by contaminated neurosurgical instruments, suggests a new UCL-led study.For the paper, published in Acta Neuropathologica, researchers studied the medical records of four people who had brain bleeds caused by amyloid beta build-up in brain blood vessels.All four people had undergone neurosurgery two or three deca
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Can You Find Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster Zooming Through Space in New Video?After a two-day chase, astrophotographer Rogelio Bernal Andreo captured Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster cruising through the solar system.
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The Case of the Sick Americans in Cuba Gets StrangerToward the end of 2016, years into a slow rapprochement between the United States and Cuba, something strange started happening to CIA agents posing as diplomats in Havana. This something may or may not have been a sonic attack. It may or may not have been deployed by Cubans, Russians, Venezuelans, or any other country with whom the United States has beef. A detailed new accounting of the affair
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What Color Is a Tennis Ball?It seemed like an easy question. The query came from a Twitter poll I spotted on my news feed last week, from user @cgpgrey. “Please help resolve a marital dispute,” @cgpgrey wrote. “You would describe the color of a tennis ball as:” green, yellow, or other. Yellow, obviously , I thought, and voted. When the results appeared, my jaw dropped with cartoonish effect. Of nearly 30,000 participants, 5
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How You Could Road Race—and Win—From Your Living RoomVirtual exercise is more immersive, dynamic, and—mercifully—distracting than a traditional treadmill or stationary bike.
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North Korea's Olympic Diplomacy Hasn't Stopped Its HackingDespite its Olympics diplomacy towards the South, the Kim regime is still engaged in brazen cybercrime targeting its neighbor.
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Mystro Lets Drivers Juggle Competing Uber and Lyft RidesMystro gives ride-share drivers more leverage and says it can increase drivers' earnings by 30 percent.
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Amtrak Survived Richard Nixon—Can It Overcome Donald Trump?The latest budget proposal halves the federal government’s Amtrak commitment—including funding for a safer braking system.
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Demonstration of a single molecule piezoelectric effectResearchers from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS (IOCB Prague) and institutional collaborators have demonstrated for the first time a single-molecule piezoelectric effect. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, represents a breakthrough in understanding the electromechanical behavior of individual molecules and provides a new concept of
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New method to replicate harsh conditions for materialsConfining a plasma jet can be stress-inducing, especially on the shielding materials. Noting the limits inherent in the test methods currently used for such materials, Professor Patrizio Antici and his colleagues have proposed a groundbreaking new solution: using laser-accelerated particles to stress test materials subject to harsh conditions. Recently published in the journal Nature Communication
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Enriched Uranium Particle Appears Over Alaska — and No One Knows WhyA research plane detected a single particle of enriched uranium over Alaska's Aleutian Islands. The particle's origin is a mystery.
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Rapid evolution of a calcareous microalgaeWhen simulating future environmental conditions, researchers confront a problem: Laboratory experiments are easy to control and to reproduce, but are insufficient to mimic the complexity of natural ecosystems. In contrast, experiments under real conditions in nature are much more complicated and difficult to control. Scientist of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have combined bo
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Scientists use egg whites for clean energy productionResearchers from the Osaka City University in Japan have developed a way to use egg whites as a substrate to produce a carbon-free fuel. They published their results on February 2nd in Applied Catalysis B.
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Image: Atlantic ship tracksThe Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over the Atlantic Ocean close to Spain and Portugal where the sky not only features clouds but also criss-cross tracks from maritime vessels.
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The search for dark matter—axions have ever-fewer places to hideIf they exist, axions, among the candidates for dark matter particles, could interact with the matter comprising the universe, but at a much weaker extent than previously theorized. New, rigorous constraints on the properties of axions have been proposed by an international team of scientists.
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Budget airline Norwegian says profits grounded by fuel, expansion costsLow-cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle said on Thursday that rising fuel prices and the cost of replacing aircaft and opening up new routes pushed it into the red last year.
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Russian cargo ship docks at International Space StationAn unmanned Russian cargo ship has docked successfully at the International Space Station, delivering a fresh batch of supplies for the crew.
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Recreating outer space plasma systems in the labThermodynamics provides insight into the internal energy of a system and the energy interaction with its surroundings. This relies on the local thermal equilibrium of a system. The application of classical thermodynamics to systems in disequilibrium is challenging. These include granular gas and materials, hard sphere packing in 3-D, and plasma systems.
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Better BeefCan a remade cattle industry save the Amazon rainforest? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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160 meter beton-prop: Tyskere støbte tunnelboremaskine fast for at redde tunnelI næsten et halvt år har en tysk tunnelboremaskine stået faststøbt i en jernbanetunnel. Nu fjernes betonen, så man kan finde ud af hvor skadet maskinen er og genoptage tunnelbyggeriet.
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Overlægeformand om OK18: »Det ser sort ud«Det ser ikke ud til, at overenskomstforhandlingerne mellem de offentlige ansatte herunder læger og arbejdsgiverne kan nå at blive færdige i tide. Det siger formanden for Overlægeforeningen Lisbeth Lintz.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Up About #MeToo, Voting Rights, and MillennialsOn Monday, The Atlantic contributing editor Jeffrey Rosen spoke at length with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the National Constitution Center, where Rosen is president and CEO. In a wide-ranging conversation before a live audience, Ginsburg offered a supportive critique of the #MeToo movement, confessed her affection for Millenials, discussed the Supreme Court cases she’d like to see overturned,
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The Immigration-Reform Bill That Could Actually PassConsider the possibility, slim though it may be, that Donald Trump, the most stridently restrictionist U.S. president in decades, will be the one who breaks the current immigration impasse by signing a DACA amnesty, or, to use the locution preferred by the Trump White House, a DACA solution. How exactly would this come pass? On Wednesday morning, the Trump administration announced that the presid
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The Nancy Pelosi DilemmaH ere,” Nancy Pelosi likes to say, “the currency of the realm is the vote.” With a majority of the votes in Congress, you have power. Without them, you have nothing. Pelosi, the House minority leader, knows it as well as anyone in Washington. She had the votes to make history in 2007 when she became speaker of the House, not only becoming the first woman to hold that title but in the process, ris
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Facebook spammer dig med sms'er, hvis du ikke er aktiv nokHvis du forsøger at højne sikkerheden på din facebookprofil ved at give Facebook dit telefonnummer, risikerer du at udsætte dig selv for en mindre lavine af sms'er, hvis du ikke logger ind nok – og de handler ikke om sikkerhed.
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FBI, CIA og NSA advarer amerikanere mod telefoner fra HuaweiDe amerikanske efterretningstjenester går sammen om at fraråde produkter fra kinesiske Huawei.
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The Final, Terrible Voyage of the 'Nautilus'Kim Wall went for a ride on a submarine, hoping to write a story about a maker of "extreme machines." She never did. I needed to know what happened.
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Facebook sælger app, der sporer alt på din telefonApp gemt inde i Facbook-appen lover at beskytte din færden på nettet, men stjæler selv alle oplysninger om, hvad du foretager dig med din telefon
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Chips skal analysere DNA med lyspartiklerEt engelsk chip-producent bruger lys i stedet for elektricitet til lave hurtige beregninger af genomdata.
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Short kids may have higher future stroke riskBeing a short kid is associated with increased risk of having a stroke in adulthood, according to Danish research published in Stroke, an American Heart Association journal.
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Turning background room temperature heat into energyEvery time we convert energy from one form to another, part of that energy is lost in the form of heat. Trying to efficiently get that energy back is very difficult once it is lost to the environment. Thermoelectric devices can change heat energy into electricity, and vice versa. But to capture energy from heat efficiently, these devices typically need to work at high temperatures with a large tem
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Grundfos: Produkter skal have 3D-printede komponenterPumpeproducenten har en klar ambition om at 3D-­printe komponenter til endelige produkter. Grundfos er overbevist om, det kan lade sig gøre – men det kræver, at man evner at tænke helt anderledes end i dag.
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Amazon primed to hire 2,000 new employees in FranceUS online shopping giant Amazon said Thursday it plans to create 2,000 permanent full-time jobs in France this year as consumers are making more and more of their purchases via the internet.
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Cracking discovery: Japan scientist uses egg white for clean energyA Japanese scientist said Thursday his team has cracked open a method to improve the production of carbon-free energy—by using proteins taken from egg white.
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UK blames Russian military for 'malicious' cyberattackBritain has blamed the Russian government for a global cyberattack that mainly hit businesses in Europe last year, accusing Moscow of "weaponizing information" in a new kind of warfare.
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Could Amazon Flip a State?Could Amazon flip a state? Amid all the public chatter over the company’s search for a second North American headquarters, there’s been strikingly little discussion about the potential political impact. But the choice’s electoral implications could be substantial. Just as Democrats are becoming increasingly reliant on younger, better-educated, and urbanized voters, Amazon’s second headquarters co
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Donald Trump's Language Is Reshaping American PoliticsDo the president’s words matter? In Donald Trump’s first year in office, there has been a surprisingly widespread effort to argue that they do not. Liberals and moderates occasionally insist that the media and the public should shift their attention from the president’s vulgar statements to the real policy work happening at federal agencies. Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, have repeatedly ignore
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What's Actually Behind Cape Town's Water CrisisThe city of Cape Town was plonked by its founders onto a peninsula where the Indian and Atlantic oceans merge, often violently, beneath the imposing banks of Table Mountain. To its north lie the fertile fruit and wine farms that weigh down the city’s restaurant tables with unimaginable bounty. Every day when the clock strikes noon, a canon blast echoes from Signal Hill, a reminder of the city’s c
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What lies beneathWinning photos from the Underwater Photographer of the Year competition
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Great White demystifiedShark diving is helping tourists improve their perception about the largest predatory fish in the world.
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21 dolphins die after washing up on Mexico beachTwenty-one dolphins that were apparently attacked by another species of dolphin have died after washing up on a beach in northern Mexico, authorities said.
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Shellfish reefs: Australia's untold environmental disasterVirtually all of Australia's shellfish reefs have disappeared, making them the country's most threatened ocean ecosystem, scientists said Thursday, calling for more investment to rescue the important marine habitats.
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Qualcomm mulls 'next steps' in Broadcom takeover bidQualcomm said Wednesday its board would "promptly" consider a hostile $121 billion takeover bid by Singapore-based Broadcom following a meeting of top executives of the two computer chipmaking giants.
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Japan's crypto exchange Coincheck sued after hackCryptocurrency traders filed a lawsuit Thursday against Japanese exchange firm Coincheck for freezing withdrawals after hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars in digital assets.
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Ingeniører ved for lidt om 3D-printDer er for få 3D-print-­specialister i Danmark, mener lederen af Grundfos’ 3D-print-afdeling. Bedre uddannelse, både af kommende og ældre ingeniører, er vejen frem.
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China confirms first human case of H7N4 bird fluChina has confirmed the first human case of H7N4 bird flu, prompting Hong Kong to issue a health warning for those travelling to the mainland during the busy Lunar New Year holiday.
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Uber CEO aims to pare losses and get 'the love back'Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is focused on cutting the company's massive losses and "getting the love back" after a year of damaging revelations about the ride-hailing service's sometimes heartless treatment of its employees, drivers, regulators and rivals.
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Airbus profits soar despite new charge on A400M military planeAirbus said Thursday that increased deliveries, windfall gains from divestments and favourable exchange rates enabled profits to take off last year, even though it booked a "substantial" new charge on its A400M military transporter plane.
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Scientists study effects of wildfire management on bird populationsOn the tail of California's most destructive and expensive year of firefighting ever, it might seem obvious that vegetation removal would reduce the risk of such a year happening again. But scientists from the University of Arizona and the University of California, Berkeley, are showing that in chaparral, California's iconic shrubland ecosystem, management can devastate wild bird populations and t
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Pyeongchang Olympics showcases Korean self-driving vehiclesThere's a competition at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that has nothing to do with sports, and plenty to do with jousting between automakers and tech companies over autonomously driving vehicles.
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Friends, Romans, naked wolf-men … why an ancient festival is still controversialThe annual Lupercalia festival turned society upside down – and the location of its starting point is still hotly debated Scenes from films like Gladiator and series such as HBO’s Rome might lead you to think that the ancient Romans were liberal in their view of nudity. In fact the opposite was true. It was only during exceptional occasions that Romans were freed from their social norms – and the
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Tiny membrane makes Sydney Harbour 'drinkable'Sydney's iconic harbour has played a starring role in the development of new CSIRO technology that could save lives around the world.
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Don't blame hurricanes for most big storm surges in NortheastHurricanes spawn most of the largest storm surges in the northeastern U.S., right? Wrong, according to a study by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists.
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Droner er bedre til at tælle end menneskerForskere i Australien har afprøvet forskellige metoder til at tælle dyr i naturen – og dronerne vinder.
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Cleveland Clinic genetic experts call out functional medicine on worthless genetic testing and supplement prescribingCleveland Clinic genetics experts call out functional medicine on worthless genetic testing and dietary supplement prescribing: "Poor science, leading to even worse medicine." Irony meters exploded everywhere.
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Eye exams linked to kids' reading levelsElementary school children who read below grade level may have challenges with their eyesight even if standard tests show they see 20/20, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.
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Don't blame hurricanes for most big storm surges in northeastHurricanes spawn most of the largest storm surges in the northeastern US, right? Wrong, according to a study by Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists. Extratropical cyclones , including nor'easters and other non-tropical storms, generate most of the large storm surges in the Northeast, according to the study in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. They include a freak November
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Eating yogurt may reduce cardiovascular disease riskA new study in the American Journal of Hypertension, published by Oxford University Press, suggests that higher yogurt intake is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk among hypertensive men and women.
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Gulvvarmen, højtaleren, støvsugeren, lyset: Pludseligt endte mit hjem på nettetDet føles både fedt og uhyggeligt, når hjemmet er på nettet.
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Tre snedige måder at blive bedre venner med chefen påMange ledere kan være svære at komme ind på livet af. Men netop dét kan være vigtigt for at løfte din karriere. Derfor har Jobfinder tre ideer til, hvordan I kan få et bedre forhold – uden at din leder fatter mistanke.
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The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s ComplicatedQuinn Norton was hired by the paper of record to write about “the power, culture and consequences of technology.” Then those consequences kicked in.
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New research on the brain's backup motor systems could open door to novel stroke therapiesNew research published in the Journal of Physiology could open the door to new therapies to improve the movement of arms and hands of stroke survivors.
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Higher cigarette taxes may increase use of chewing tobacco and cigars in adolescentsRaising cigarette taxes to combat smoking may increase the use of cigars and smokeless tobacco, such as chewing tobacco, in adolescents according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, involving 499,381 adolescents.
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The reciprocal sum of primitive nondeficient numbersWe investigate the reciprocal sum of primitive nondeficient numbers, or pnds. In 1934, Erdos showed that the reciprocal sum of pnds converges, which he used to prove that the abundant numbers have a natural density. We show the reciprocal sum of pnds is between 0.348 and 0.380.
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Scientists find key proteins control risk of osteoarthritis during agingScientists explain why the risk of osteoarthritis increases as we age and offers a potential avenue for developing new therapies to maintain healthy joints.
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Scientist studies effects of wildfire management on bird populationsOn the tail of California's most destructive and expensive year of firefighting ever, it might seem obvious that vegetation removal would reduce the risk of such a year happening again. But scientists are showing that in chaparral, California's iconic shrubland ecosystem, management can devastate wild bird populations and that fire-risk reduction is only temporary.
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Cardiac macrophages found to contribute to a currently untreatable type of heart failureInvestigators have discovered, for the first time, that the immune cells called macrophages contribute to a type of heart failure for which there currently is no effective treatment.
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Study links fox domestication to gene activity in the pituitary glandA study of foxes offers new insights into the brain changes that occur in wild canids as they become more tame, researchers report. The study links fox domestication to changes in gene activity in the pituitary gland, a brain center that kicks out hormones to regulate various bodily functions, including the stress response.
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Engineers develop smart material that changes stiffness when twisted or bentScientists have developed a rubbery material that transforms itself into a hard composite when bent, twisted or squeezed. The new material could be used in medicine to support delicate tissues or in industry to protect valuable sensors.
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Old-fashioned silicon might be the key to building ubiquitous quantum computersSilicon isn’t yet ideal for creating quantum machines. But the massive manufacturing ecosystem for silicon chips explains why researchers (and Intel) want to overcome its handicaps.
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Here’s a new plan for finding life on other planetsInstead of looking for water as a sign of life on distant exoplanets, scientists should instead look at an exoplanet’s ionosphere, the thin uppermost layer of atmosphere. For decades, astronomers have been searching these distant exoplanets for signs of life, mostly looking for that most essential molecule, water. But Michael Mendillo and his colleagues have a different idea: search for an ionosp
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WATCH: Penguins Carrying Valentines Will Melt Your HeartBiologists at the California Academy of Sciences handed out red felt hearts to African penguin couples in the aquarium. The birds use the romantic treats to woo and court one another. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Estrogens from wastewater linger in vernal poolsEstrogens in treated wastewater that find their way into temporary wetlands known as vernal pools persist for weeks or even months, report researchers. That persistence may have implications for these critical aquatic habitats. An eight-week study of estrogens’ behavior in three vernal pools produced the findings, which provide insight into current treatment inadequacy and water reuse generally.
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Lena Dunham's Hysterectomy: Can It Cure Endometriosis?Actress Lena Dunham has revealed that she recently underwent a hysterectomy to treat crippling pain from endometriosis.
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Rare beach flower returns if nibbling mice lose coverLarge-scale removal of an invasive beach grass pays off for a rare, coastal flowering plant called Tidestrom’s lupine. Deer mice can munch up to three-quarters of its unripe fruits under the cover of that grass. “The key is that you have to have pretty near-complete removal of the above-ground biomass of this plant to remove the hiding place, the refuge (for the mouse),” says Eleanor Pardini, ass
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Asthma linked to infertility but not among women taking regular asthma preventersWomen with asthma who only use short-acting asthma relievers take longer to become pregnant than other women, according to research published in the European Respiratory Journal.
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Musk's Tesla to stay in space for millions of yearsA car launched by Elon Musk could stay in space for millions of years before hitting Earth or Venus.
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The Atlantic Daily: Patience and PainWhat We’re Following Shooting in Florida: Up to 17 people were killed and more were injured when a gunman opened fire at a high school in Parkland, Florida. Here’s what we know. Mass shootings have become an all-too-familiar story in the U.S. , and school shootings in particular are an ever-present fear for many parents. But very little research has been done about the victims who survive, and th
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Another School Shooting—But Who’s Counting?A high-school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon has left 17 people dead and numerous others injured, according to officials. The suspect, a 19-year-old former student named Nikolas Cruz who was expelled for unspecified disciplinary reasons, is in custody, according to officials. As details of the attack emerge, news organizations are engaging in a grim tradition: tallying the
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Cockroaches teach robots to clamber and scurryEngineers are building robots that move more like cockroaches. By studying the pests as they clamber across chasms and over obstacles, roboticists hope to learn some of their locomotion secrets that they can then apply to new robot prototypes. “Where they live, you have all sorts of stuff around you, like dense vegetation or fallen leaves or branches or roots,” says Chen Li, assistant professor o
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New York Will Investigate Reports of Gay Men Denied InsuranceDenying men life or disability policies because they take drugs to prevent H.I.V. is discriminatory and may trigger penalties.
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F.D.A. Approves First Blood Test to Detect ConcussionsThe test may be able to quickly identify people with suspected brain injuries that could be widely used by the Pentagon and in sports.
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Nervous System: Facts, Function & DiseasesThe network of nerves is the body's electrical wiring.
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Beewolves have been successfully using the same antibiotics for 68 million yearsScientists have now found that beewolves, unlike humans, do not face the problem of antibiotic resistant pathogens. These insects team up with symbiotic bacteria which produce up to 45 different antibiotic substances to protect their offspring against mold fungi. This antibiotic cocktail has remained surprisingly stable since the symbiosis emerged, about 68 million years ago.
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Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia riskScientists have more evidence that exercise improves brain health and could be a lifesaving ingredient that prevents Alzheimer's disease.
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Supermassive black hole model predicts characteristic light signals at cusp of collisionA new simulation of supermassive black holes — the behemoths at the centers of galaxies — uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said researchers.
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Fruit fly stem cells offer glimpse of ‘perpetual life’Researchers have discovered that sperm-producing fruit fly stem cells use a genetic trick to stay perpetually young across generations. Certain sections of the fruit fly genome get shorter with age, but, remarkably, some reproductive cells can repair the shrinkage, the researchers report in eLife . This genomic shrinkage may underlie aspects of aging—and hint at ways that select cells might thwar
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Blood thinners may raise stroke risk in over-65s with kidney diseasePeople over 65 years old may be increasing their stroke risk by taking anticoagulants for an irregular heartbeat if they also have chronic kidney disease, finds a new study led by UCL, St George's, University of London and the University of Surrey.
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Study suggests possible link between highly processed foods and cancerA study published by The BMJ today reports a possible association between intake of highly processed ('ultra-processed') food in the diet and cancer.
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Ultra-processed foods may be linked to cancer, says studyFindings suggest increased consumption of ultra-processed foods tied to rise in cancers, but scientists say more research is needed “Ultra-processed” foods, made in factories with ingredients unknown to the domestic kitchen, may be linked to cancer, according to a large and groundbreaking study. Ultra-processed foods include pot noodles, shelf-stable ready meals, cakes and confectionery which con
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What is bitcoin mining and why does it require so much electricity?Once a lucrative exercise anyone could do, bitcoin mining has grown out of control, and governments are weighing what to do. Read More
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Kittens from the same litter don't always have the same parentsAnimals It's called heteropaternal superfecundation. Female cats can be impregnated by more than one male, or tomcat, during a single ovulation period. It’s a phenomenon called “heteropaternal superfecundation.”…
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The Party Is Over for Jacob ZumaAfter nine years in power, Jacob Zuma announced Wednesday he was immediately resigning from the office of president of South Africa. He outlasted scandal after scandal, but could not survive overt rejection by his party. The new leader of the African National Congress, Cyril Ramaphosa, had made clear that Zuma’s time was up, and, had he not resigned, he would have been forced out by a vote of no-
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: 'It Is a Horrible Day For Us'Today in 5 Lines Broward County Superintendent Robert Runcie said there are “numerous fatalities” after a gunman opened fired at a high school in Parkland, Florida, adding “It is a horrible day for us.” President Trump spoke with Florida Governor Rick Scott about the shooting and offered condolences to the families of the victims. Trump addressed former Staff Secretary Rob Porter’s domestic-viole
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Heavy bones, low body weight: New link between bone cells and blood sugar level foundBone cells do not just form new bone, they also influence the blood sugar level. Scientists have now discovered a new mechanism that controls this link. The metabolism of bone cells determines how much sugar they use; if the bone cells consume more sugar than normal, this can lower the glucose level in the blood. This research may contribute to future therapies for conditions such as osteoporosis
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Rapid evolution of a calcareous microalgaeLaboratory experiments are easy to control and reproduce but are insufficient to mimic the complexity of natural ecosystems. In contrast, experiments under real conditions in nature are much more complicated and difficult to control. Scientist have combined both approaches to investigate the response of a major plankton species to increasing ocean acidification.
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Practical work-related tasks may reduce burnout in new employeesA new study suggests that immediately charging new employees with simple, direct and meaningful tasks may be more effective in preventing newcomer burnout in the workplace than providing 'emotional' assistance.
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Nanotechnology could redefine oral surgeryA trip to the dentist or orthodontist usually instills a sense of dread in most patients, and that's before the exam even begins. Add to that the fear of oral surgery with a painful recovery, and many people will avoid these visits at all costs. Now, one group reports a pre-clinical study showing that they could potentially reduce pain and recovery time with the aid of specialized nanotechnology.
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Rat Poison May Have Hidden Cost for BobcatsRat Poison May Have Hidden Cost for Bobcats Skin infections have decimated bobcats in southern California. Now, researchers think rat poison may be to blame. bobcat_cropped.jpg Image credits: Pacific Southwest Region USFWS via Flickr Rights information: C.C. by 2.0 Creature Wednesday, February 14, 2018 – 16:15 Nala Rogers, Staff Writer (Inside Science) — At the start of the 21st century, a healt
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Dwarf planetary systems will transform the hunt for alien lifeIt would be disappointing and surprising if Earth were the only template for habitability in the Universe. Read More
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Tiny membrane key to safe drinking waterUsing their own specially designed form of graphene, 'Graphair', CSIRO scientists have supercharged water purification, making it simpler, more effective and quicker.
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New drug improves motor function of children with genetic disorderChildren with later-onset spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) were more likely to show gains in motor function when treated with a new medication compared to children receiving a sham procedure, according to a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study demonstrates the impact the drug, nusinersen, can have on older patients with this progressive neuromuscular disorder.
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Look to penguins to track Antarctic changesScientists say carbon and nitrogen isotopes found in penguin tissues can indicate shifts in the Antarctic environment.
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How a Student Photographed a Single Atom With a Store-Bought CameraWarning: Atoms on camera may appear larger than they actually are.
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How Much Money Would It Take to Make You Happy? Scientists CalculateMoney may not buy you love, but it turns out that the green stuff can bring happiness, to a point.
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5G debuts at the Winter Olympics and it’s changing how we experience The GamesEvents, entertainment, and transportation are literally being transformed during this year’s Olympics. Read More
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UA scientist studies effects of wildfire management on bird populationsOn the tail of California's most destructive and expensive year of firefighting ever, it might seem obvious that vegetation removal would reduce the risk of such a year happening again. But scientists from the University of Arizona and the University of California, Berkeley, are showing that in chaparral, California's iconic shrubland ecosystem, management can devastate wild bird populations and t
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Majority of Anna's hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathersThe majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail flight feathers, according to a new study.
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Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptionsA comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and 2016 shows that most of the aftershock activity occurred on the margins of the areas where the faults slipped a lot during the main earthquakes. The findings support the idea that the area of large slip during a major earthquake is unlikely to rupture again for a substantial time.
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Countries with greater gender equality have a lower percentage of female STEM graduatesCountries with greater gender equality see a smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), a new study has found. Policymakers could use the findings to reconsider initiatives to increase women's participation in STEM, say the researchers.
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New method to replicate harsh conditions for testing materialsConfining a plasma jet can be stress-inducing… especially on the materials especially for shielding materials. Noting the limits inherent in the test methods currently used for these materials, scientists have proposed a ground-breaking new solution: using laser-accelerated particles to stress test materials subject to harsh conditions.
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Neural networks everywhereSpecial-purpose chip that performs some simple, analog computations in memory reduces the energy consumption of binary-weight neural networks by up to 95 percent while speeding them up as much as sevenfold.
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Gfycat Uses Artificial Intelligence to Fight Deepfakes PornCan a computer spot deepfakes? The GIF website Gfycat says it can.
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A gut reaction…on a chipresearchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Portugal), Boston Children's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have published a study using an organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) model of the human gut that reveals the intestinal blood vessel cells may play an important part in radiation-induced intestinal injury,
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Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, roboticsEngineers have turned tissue paper — similar to toilet tissue — into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement. The sensor is light, flexible and inexpensive, with potential applications in health care, entertainment and robotics.
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Cell biology: Scientists fill in a piece of the copper transport puzzleResearchers have identified the protein that carries copper into mitochondria, where copper is required for the functioning of the cell's energy conversion machinery. The discovery fills in a piece of the puzzle of how copper is distributed and used in the cell.
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Living human tracheasBiomedical engineers are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube structure-without relying on scaffolding strategies currently being investigated by other groups.
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Cutting off cervical cancer's fuel supply stymies tumorsResearchers have shown that cervical tumors that don't respond to radiation may be vulnerable to therapies that also attack the cancer's fuel supply.
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Risk of extreme weather events higher if Paris Agreement goals aren't metThe Paris Agreement has aspirational goals of limiting temperature rise that won't be met by current commitments. That difference could make the world another degree warmer and considerably more prone to extreme weather.
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Personality: Where does it come from and how does it work?How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped in controversy for almost as long as psychology has existed.
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The 'Super-Ranger' badgers that may hold the key to limiting the spread of bovine TBResearchers have discovered a new ranging behavior in male badgers, which will aid the implementation of a nationwide TB vaccination program.
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Light determines the genes that function in plant growthThe xylem is essential for transporting water across the entire plant body. Its development is heavily regulated by VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN (VND) genes. Scientists report a new experimental system that shows three VND genes are necessary for xylem differentiation in cotyledons in darkness but not in light. The study gives clues on how environmental factors can be modified to stimulate plant gr
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Climb stairs to lower blood pressure and strengthen leg musclesIf you don't have the time or money for aerobic and resistance training, why not try climbing the stairs? A new study demonstrates that stair climbing not only lowers blood pressure but also builds leg strength, especially in postmenopausal women with estrogen deficiencies who are more susceptible to vascular and muscle problems.
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Syria's War Has Never Been More InternationalIf the coming defeat of ISIS and rebel forces in Syria was supposed to bring an end to the seven-year conflict there, no one told Iran, Israel, Turkey, Russia, or the United States. Consider the stunning events that have occurred in the last three weeks alone: Last month, Turkey, with Russian approval, launched a military offensive in northwestern Syria against Kurdish fighters it views as terror
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories7
Critics wary as Google's Chrome begins an ad crackdownOn Thursday, Google will begin using its Chrome browser to reshape the web by eradicating ads it deems annoying or otherwise detrimental to users. It just so happens that many of Google's own most lucrative ads will pretty much sail through its new filters.
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Supermassive black hole model predicts characteristic light signals at cusp of collisionA new simulation of supermassive black holes—the behemoths at the centers of galaxies—uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said Rochester Institute of Technology researchers.
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NASA finds strongest storms in weakening Tropical Cyclone SanbaInfrared data from NASA's Terra satellite found the area of strongest storms in weakening Tropical Cyclone Sanba when it was over the island of Palawan.
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Here's what Popular Science editors are reading right nowGadgets "It's some of the best speculative fiction I've ever read." "It's some of the best speculative fiction I've ever read."…
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Faster, cheaper, nano-based manufacturingEngineers are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin film devices — from touch screens to window coatings, according to a new study. The 'intense pulsed light sintering' method uses high-energy light over an area nearly 7,000 times larger than a laser to fuse nanomaterials in seconds.
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Can't get an image out of your head? Your eyes are helping to keep it there.Through brain imaging, scientists have found evidence that the brain uses eye movements to help people recall vivid moments from the past, paving the way for the development of visual tests that could alert doctors earlier about those at risk for neurodegenerative illnesses.
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Running helps brain stave off effects of chronic stressThe study finds that running mitigates the negative impacts chronic stress has on the hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory.
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Shorter time between first medical contact to PCI in heart patients linked to saving livesHeart experts are calling for immediate action following new research in the European Heart Journal that shows every minute counts for patients who suffer the most severe type of heart attack. The study shows numbers of deaths rise steadily and rapidly the longer the time between patients' first contact with a medical professional and when they are treated in hospital with percutaneous coronary in
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Diet or regular? Decoding behavioral variation in ant clonesClonal ants appear to be diverse in responding to sweetened water, suggesting epigenetic regulation in behavioral variation and colony survival.
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Pimavanserin: Relief from psychosis in dementia, without devastating side-effectsNew research has found that pimavanserin significantly improves psychosis symptoms in people with Alzheimer's disease, without the devastating side-effects of currently used antipsychotics. The research found an even greater benefit in those with the most severe psychotic symptoms.
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NASA finds strongest storms in weakening Tropical Cyclone SanbaInfrared data from NASA's Terra satellite found the area of strongest storms in weakening Tropical Cyclone Sanba when it was over the island of Palawan.
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Supermassive black hole model predicts characteristic light signals at cusp of collisionA new simulation of supermassive black holes–the behemoths at the centers of galaxies–uses a realistic scenario to predict the light signals emitted in the surrounding gas before the masses collide, said Rochester Institute of Technology researchers.
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Milky Way ties with neighbor in galactic arms raceAstronomers have discovered that our nearest big neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way.It had been thought that Andromeda was two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that our own galaxy would ultimately be engulfed by our bigger neighbor.But the latest research, published today, evens the score between the two galaxies.
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Can learning stress-reducing techniques help reduce seizures?Learning techniques to help manage stress may help people with epilepsy reduce how often they have seizures, according to a study published in the Feb. 14, 2018, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Stunning Photos Capture Eerie Underwater Shipwrecks
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There's a Reason Roaches Love Banging Their Heads Into WallsCockroaches take a head-on approach to obstacles.
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Is it possible to die from eating too much chocolate? Asking for a friend.Ask Us Anything It would take 7,084 Hershey chocolate kisses to get chocolate poisoning Chocolate contains theobromine. At very high levels it can be toxic to humans, but that requires a lot of chocolate.
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Milky Way ties with neighbor in galactic arms raceAstronomers have discovered that our nearest large neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy, is roughly the same size as the Milky Way. It had been thought that Andromeda was two to three times the size of the Milky Way, and that our own galaxy would ultimately be engulfed by our supposedly bigger neighbour. But the latest research, published today, evens the score between the two galaxies.
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Democratic Task Force Outlines Voting Security Plan, With First Primary Just Weeks AwayThe Congressional Task Force on Election Security announced extensive recommendations for strengthening defense. But most of them won't happen any time soon.
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Back-and-forth exchanges boost children's brain response to languageCognitive scientists have now found that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child's brain, and that this back-and-forth conversation is actually more critical to language development than the '30-million-word gap.'
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Use of immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumorsResearchers have developed a mouse model that mimics advanced human colon cancer. This model has allowed them to study the immune system response for the first time.
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All-terrain microbot moves by tumbling over complex topographyA new type of all-terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications.
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Dance of auroras: First direct observation of electron frolicThe shower of electrons bouncing across Earth's magnetosphere — commonly known as the Northern Lights — has been directly observed for the first time by an international team of scientists. While the cause of these colorful auroras has long been hypothesized, researchers had never directly observed the underlying mechanism until now.
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Better together: Silicon qubits plus light add up to new quantum computing capabilityIn a significant step forward for quantum computing in silicon – the same material used in today's computers — a team has successfully coupled a single electron's quantum information, or spin, to a particle of light, or photon. The goal is to use light to carry quantum information on a futuristic quantum computing chip.
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Cells 'walk' on liquids a bit like geckosResearchers have discovered that cells can 'walk' on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces.
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TSRI scientists find key proteins control risk of osteoarthritis during agingA study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) explains why the risk of osteoarthritis increases as we age and offers a potential avenue for developing new therapies to maintain healthy joints.
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These Pun-Filled Science Twitter Valentines Are Better Than Cherry PiWe may be a bit biased at Live Science, but we think the best Valentine's Day tweets are the science ones.
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Clean plates much more common when we eat at homeWhen people eat at home, there's typically not much left on their plates—and that means there's likely less going to landfills, according to new research from The Ohio State University.
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What's Behind Trump's Rising Popularity?It would be easy to read the headlines this week and conclude that the Trump administration is in even more trouble than normal. The White House still can’t get its story straight on Staff Secretary Rob Porter’s departure amid domestic-violence accusations. Chief of Staff John Kelly seems to be losing support from his subordinates and his boss. And the boss himself is stubbornly refusing to offer
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Pyeongchang 2018: Photos From the First Five DaysAfter five days of competition, Germany leads the Olympic medal standings with 12 total medals, followed by the Netherlands and the United States. High winds have made alpine events difficult and have led to several postponements, but events at the Olympic Sliding Center, Phoenix Snow Park, and other venues have been going smoothly. Here, a look at some of the competition from the first days of t
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WATCH: Ants Act As Medics, Treat Wounds Of Injured Nest-MatesA new study, published on Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B , describes how specific individuals in Matabele ant colonies will clean the wounds of injured ants. (Image credit: Erik T. Frank/Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg )
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The Key to Surviving Superbugs May Be in the Dirt Beneath Our FeetDown in the dirt — and well within our reach — lies what may be a pharmaceutical gold mine.
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New method to replicate harsh conditions for materialsConfining a plasma jet can be stress-inducing… especially on the materials especially for shielding materials. Noting the limits inherent in the test methods currently used for these materials, Professor Patrizio Antici and his colleagues have proposed a ground-breaking new solution: using laser-accelerated particles to stress test materials subject to harsh conditions. Recently published in the
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Clean plates much more common when we eat at homeWhen people eat at home, there's typically not much left on their plates – and that means there's likely less going to landfills, according to new research from The Ohio State University.
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Particulate filter research may enable more fuel-efficient vehiclesResearchers are looking to neutrons for new ways to save fuel during the operation of filters that clean the soot, or carbon and ash-based particulate matter, emitted by vehicles.
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Company partnerships may have in-house ramificationsWhen companies partner with a sports team or a charity, the deal is usually about attracting consumers and strengthening their brands. Inside a company, however, what happens to employee allegiance?
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STANK LOVE, BEAR WIG, and other sayings from AI-generated candy heartsTechnology The list also includes ME LOVE HAVE and HOLE. Happy Valentine's Day. This is what you get when you ask artificial intelligence to write romantic candy heart messages for you.
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Patients with Chagas disease are often infected with an intestinal parasiteIn patients with Chagas disease, the odds of being infected by the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis increases by two-fold, according to a new study. The study underlines the potential benefits of performing a combined screening for both infections among Latin American adults living in Europe.
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Hydrogen transfer: One thing after the otherHydride transfer is an important reaction for chemistry (e.g., fuel cells), as well as biology (e.g., respiratory chain and photosynthesis). Often, one partial reaction involves the transfer of a hydride ion (H(-)). But does this hydride transfer involve one step or several individual steps? In a new study, scientists have now provided the first proof of stepwise hydride transfer in a biological s
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'Green' catalysis technique aims to boost pharmaceutical manufacturing efficiencyAbout 70 percent of pharmaceuticals are manufactured using palladium-driven catalytic processes that are either fast or efficient — but not both. Researchers have now developed a green chemistry method that combines aspects of both processes to improve efficiency at a minimal cost of processing time.
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NASA totals rainfall from destructive Tropical Cyclone GitaTropical Cyclone Gita dropped a lot of rain as it strengthened into a major hurricane in the South Pacific Ocean. NASA's IMERG calculated totals based on satellite observations that revealed over a foot (305 mm) of rain had fallen in various areas.
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New antibiotic family discovered in dirtThe compounds are called malacidins and can kill several stubborn infections, including superbug MRSA.
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Poor fitness linked to weaker brain fiber, higher dementia riskScientists have more evidence that exercise improves brain health and could be a lifesaving ingredient that prevents Alzheimer's disease.
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Turning background room temperature heat into energyResearchers in Japan have developed a way to recover environmental heat with a new type of thin-film thermoelectric cell, based on two different materials that show changes in their redox potential on cycling of temperature.
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More than a well-balanced breakfast: Scientists use egg whites for clean energy productionEggs may soon fuel more than people in the morning. Researchers in Japan have developed a way to potentially use egg whites as a substrate to produce a carbon-free fuel.
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Could sugar chains be the answer to bone growth in osteoporosis?Scientists have shown that altering the structure of sugar chains on the surface of stem cells could help promote bone growth in the body.
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Watching myelin patterns form: Evidence for sheath remodeling revealed by in vivo imagingNerve fibers are surrounded by a myelin sheath. Scientists have now made the first-ever 'live' observations of how this protective layer is formed.
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The Atlantic6
The Atlantic to Host Forum on Women and Children in the Criminal Justice System; February 28 in Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C. (February 14, 2018)– The growing consensus around criminal justice reform is complex: Republicans and Democrats alike support measures like banning the box, reforming bail systems, expanding reentry programs, and changing sentences for nonviolent offenders. But others express concern that reforms might threaten public safety. On Wednesday, February 28, The Atlantic will host “ D
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A Valentine From Boris JohnsonRoses are red, violets are blue Johnson tried to sell Brexit But said nothing new. One can feel for Boris Johnson, on today of all days. The British foreign secretary, a lead campaigner for the Brexit referendum, now finds himself the frustrated suitor of the nearly half of the British public that voted against it. And despite his Valentine’s Day call for unity—his political equivalent of give me
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The Out OlympicsEditor’s Note: Read more of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics 2018 coverage . At the 2014 Olympics where he won the silver medal in slopestyle skiing, Gus Kenworthy toyed with the idea of finishing up one of his runs by skiing up to the crowd of spectators and kissing his boyfriend. It would have been a dramatic way for Kenworthy to become the first openly gay male from the U.S. in Winter Olympics h
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Quantum computers 'one step closer'Quantum computing has taken a step forward with the recent development of a silicon-based programmable quantum processor.
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Cutting off cervical cancer's fuel supply stymies tumorsResearchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that cervical tumors that don't respond to radiation may be vulnerable to therapies that also attack the cancer's fuel supply.
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Possible new principle for cancer therapyA study published in Science Translational Medicine shows that small molecules that specifically inhibit an important selenium-containing enzyme may be useful in combating cancer. When researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden treated cancer in mice using these molecules, they observed rapid tumoricidal effects. Researchers now hope that this new principle for cancer treatment will eventually
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Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptionsA comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and 2016 shows that most of the aftershock activity occurred on the margins of the areas where the faults slipped a lot during the main earthquakes. The findings support the idea that the area of large slip during a major earthquake is unlikely to rupture again for a substantial time.
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More squid, less fish: North Pacific seabirds alter their prey preferencesOver the last 125 years, and particularly after an uptick in industrial fishing since 1950, North Pacific seabirds — typically fish consumers — have shifted their prey preferences, a new study reports; they are eating lower on the food chain, consuming more squid.
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Understanding how the body builds immunity, to build better influenza vaccinesScientists are now equipped with a more detailed picture of the human immune system's response to influenza vaccination, thanks to the results of a new investigation.
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A new class of drug to treat herpes simplex virus-1 infectionResearchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have now identified a small drug molecule that can clear the HSV-1 infection in the cells of the cornea — the clear outer layer of the eyeball — and works completely differently than the currently-available drugs, making it a promising potential option for patients who have developed resistance.
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Risk of extreme weather events higher if Paris Agreement goals aren't metThe Paris Agreement has aspirational goals of limiting temperature rise that won't be met by current commitments. That difference could make the world another degree warmer and considerably more prone to extreme weather.
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How seafloor weathering drives the slow carbon cycleA previously unknown connection between geological atmospheric carbon dioxide cycles and the fluctuating capacity of the ocean crust to store carbon dioxide has been uncovered by two geoscientists from the University of Sydney. Better understanding of the slow carbon cycle will help us predict to what extent the continents, oceans and ocean crust will take up the extra human-induced rise in atmosp
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The 'Super-Ranger' badgers that may hold the key to limiting the spread of bovine TBResearchers have discovered a new ranging behavior in male badgers, which will aid the implementation of a nationwide TB vaccination program, recently announced by the Department of Agriculture, Food and The Marine in Ireland.
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Majority of Anna's hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathersThe majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail flight feathers, according to a study published Feb. 14, 2018, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Youki Yamasaki from Washington State University, US, and colleagues.
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CT scans reveal new muscles in horseshoe crab appendagesDigital dissection shows that two horseshoe crab appendages — the pushing leg and the male pedipalp — each have one more muscle than had been thought, according to a study published Feb. 14, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Russell Bicknell from University of New England, Australia, and colleagues.
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Missing the Paris climate target by just a little means raising the odds of extreme weather by a lotIf global temperatures rise by just one extra degree, expect record-setting heat waves, downpours, and dry spells to become several times more likely.
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Kevin Cramer Moves Closer to Launching a Senate CampaignUpdated at 2:49 p.m. ET Oklahoma oil tycoon Harold Hamm has offered to be North Dakota Representative Kevin Cramer’s finance chair for his potential Senate bid, The Atlantic has learned—the clearest sign yet that Cramer will make a play for Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s seat. According to two Republican sources with direct knowledge, Cramer would also likely face an uncontested primary: Should he deci
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What Iran Is Really Up To in SyriaBEIRUT—On the day Syrian anti-aircraft missiles downed an American-made Israeli F-16 fighter jet, a banner boasting of the feat in both Arabic and Hebrew script went up in a village in southern Lebanon. To the northeast, loyalists of Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, distributed sweets to passersby on the streets of Damascus while the owner of a men’s clothing store put up a sign in his wi
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When Herpes Infects the EyeHerpes simplex virus type 1 is best known as the culprit behind cold sores. When it’s not causing itchy, crusty sores on the mouth, it hides in the bundle of nerves that run through the face. And it’s super common. An estimated 50 to 90 percent of people harbor lifelong infections of HSV-1—largely without incident. But in some cases, HSV-1 can run through that bundles of nerves in the face and er
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How Olympic Athletes Fare in Freezing ColdAthletes at the 2018 Olympic Games are dealing with some bitter-cold temperatures. But does the chill affect athlete's performance?
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CT scans reveal new muscles in horseshoe crab appendagesDigital dissection shows that two horseshoe crab appendages—the pushing leg and the male pedipalp—each have one more muscle than had been thought, according to a study published February 14, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Russell Bicknell from University of New England, Australia, and colleagues.
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Majority of Anna's hummingbirds may have feather mites on their tail feathersThe majority of Californian Anna's Hummingbirds appear to have P. huitzilopochtlii feather mites on their tail flight feathers, according to a study published February 14, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Youki Yamasaki from Washington State University, U.S., and colleagues.
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How seafloor weathering drives the slow carbon cycleA previously unknown connection between geological atmospheric carbon dioxide cycles and the fluctuating capacity of the ocean crust to store carbon dioxide has been uncovered by two geoscientists from the University of Sydney.
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The 'Super-Ranger' badgers that may hold the key to limiting the spread of bovine TBZoologists from Trinity College Dublin, working with a multi-disciplinary team of veterinarians and ecologists from the Department of Agriculture, Food and The Marine (DAFM) and the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), have discovered a brand new 'super-ranging' behaviour in badgers, which has major implications for implementing vaccination programmes to limit the spread of bovine tuberculo
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Risk of extreme weather events higher if Paris Agreement goals aren't metThe individual commitments made by parties of the United Nations Paris Agreement are not enough to fulfill the agreement's overall goal of limiting global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The difference between the U.N. goal and the actual country commitments is a mere 1 C, which may seem negligible. But a study from Stanford University, published Feb. 1
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Analysis of major earthquakes supports stress reduction assumptionsA comprehensive analysis of 101 major earthquakes around the Pacific ring of fire between 1990 and 2016 shows that most of the aftershock activity occurred on the margins of the areas where the faults slipped a lot during the main earthquakes. The findings support the idea that the area of large slip during a major earthquake is unlikely to rupture again for a substantial time.
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NASA totals rainfall from destructive Tropical Cyclone GitaTropical Cyclone Gita dropped a lot of rain as it strengthened into a major hurricane in the South Pacific Ocean. NASA's IMERG calculated totals based on satellite observations that revealed over a foot (305 mm) of rain had fallen in various areas.
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Company partnerships may have in-house ramificationsWhen companies partner with a sports team or a charity, the deal is usually about attracting consumers and strengthening their brands. Inside a company, however, what happens to employee allegiance? That's the question asked by researchers of the University of Oregon and two United Kingdom universities in Academy of Management Review.
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NASA's longest running survey of ice shattered records in 2017Last year was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA's aerial survey of the state of polar ice.
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True to type: From human biopsy to complex gut physiology on a chipOrgan Chip technology using donor-derived human intestinal cells offers advantages over organoids and creates new opportunities for personalized medicine.
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Presence, persistence of estrogens in vernal pools an emerging concernEstrogens in treated wastewater that find their way into temporary wetlands known as vernal pools persist for weeks or even months, according to researchers, who suggest that persistence may have implications for these critical aquatic habitats.
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Top EPA Science Adviser Has History Of Questioning Pollution ResearchMichael Honeycutt, the top toxicologist for Texas, is the latest chair of the EPA's science advisory board. But some scientists warn his views align more with industry than with scientific consensus. (Image credit: David J. Phillip/AP)
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Transgender woman able to breastfeed in first documented caseDoctors hail breakthrough and say case shows ‘modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women’ A 30-year-old transgender woman has been able to breastfeed her child, the first ever case of induced lactation in a transgender woman to be documented in academic literature. Doctors said the case shows “modest but functional lactation can be induced in transgender women”. The accou
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Andromeda galaxy was formed in 'recent' star crash: studyThe Milky Way's neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, was formed in a colossal crash between two smaller star systems no more than three billion years ago when Earth already existed, researchers said Wednesday.
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How to get cleaner air? Germany considers free mass transitHow best to get cleaner air? Some officials in Germany want residents to leave their polluting cars at home.
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New technology combines LEGO bricks and dronesFrom February 15 to 18, children and families visiting the LEGO World expo in Copenhagen, Denmark will have the chance to make their brick-building dreams take flight with a flock of interactive miniature drones developed by the Human Media Lab at Queen's University in Canada in collaboration with the LEGO Group's Creative Play Lab.
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Longer-lived animals have longer-lived proteinsResearchers studying half-lives of evolutionarily related proteins in different species uncovered a link between species lifespan and protein lifespan.
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In effort to treat rare blinding disease, researchers turn stem cells into blood vesselsPeople with a mutated ATF6 gene have a malformed or missing fovea, the eye region responsible for detailed vision. From birth, vision is severely limited, and there is no cure. Researchers were the first to link ATF6 to this type of vision impairment. In a new study, the team discovered that a chemical that activates ATF6 converts patient stem cells into blood vessels.
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Cancer-killing virus acts by alerting immune systemA new study has shown that a cancer-killing ('oncolytic') virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine — in addition to killing some cancer cells directly, the virus alerts the immune system to the presence of a tumor, triggering a powerful, widespread immune response that kills cancer cells far outside the virus-infected region.
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Pregnant women deficient in vitamin D may give birth to obese childrenVitamin D deficiency in pregnant women could preprogram babies to grow into obese children and adults, according to a new study. Researchers found that 6-year-olds born to mothers with very low vitamin D levels during their first trimester had bigger waists — about half an inch plumper on average — than peers whose mothers had enough vitamin D in early pregnancy. These kids also had 2 percent mo
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Earthquakes continue for years after gas field wastewater injection stops, study findsShutting down oil and gas wastewater injection wells may not stop human-induced earthquakes quickly, say seismologists. The scientists analyzed earthquakes at DFW Airport that began in 2008 and found that even though wastewater injection was halted after a year, earthquakes continued for at least seven more years. They concluded that high-volume injection, even for a short time, can induce long-la
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Humpback microbiome linked to seasonal, environmental changesJust like with humans, the skin on marine mammals serves as an important line of defense against pathogens in their environment. A new study sheds light on the skin microbiome—a group of microorganisms that live on skin—in healthy humpback whales, which could aid in future efforts to monitor their health.
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Scientists fill in a piece of the copper transport puzzleResearchers have identified the protein that carries copper into mitochondria, where copper is required for the functioning of the cell's energy conversion machinery. The discovery, published in the Feb. 9 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, fills in a piece of the puzzle of how copper is distributed and used in the cell.
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Smart Swarms Seek New Ways to CooperateIn a lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, physicists run experiments with robots that look as though they came from the dollar store. The robots can’t move through space. They can’t communicate. Mostly they flap their little arms, like beetles stuck on their backs. But put a lot of these objects together and you get something from nothing: They hit each other, nudge each other and tangle w
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Study debunks fishy tale of how rabbits were first tamedA popular tale about rabbit domestication turns out to be fiction.
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Chemical cluster could transform energy storage for large electrical gridsResearchers believe they have found a promising compound that could transform the energy storage landscape. The compound has properties that make it an ideal candidate material for redox flow batteries.
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Scientists identify immune cascade that fuels complications, tissue damage in chlamydia infectionsResearch in mice pinpoints immune mechanism behind tissue damage and complications of chlamydia infection, the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. Separate immune mechanisms drive bacterial clearance versus immune-mediated tissue damage and subsequent disease. Therapies are needed to avert irreversible reproductive organ damage that can arise as a result of silent infect
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Silicon qubits plus light add up to new quantum computing capabilityA silicon-based quantum computing device could be closer than ever due to a new experimental device that demonstrates the potential to use light as a messenger to connect quantum bits of information—known as qubits—that are not immediately adjacent to each other. The feat is a step toward making quantum computing devices from silicon, the same material used in today's smartphones and computers.
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Flying LEGO® Bricks: Drones and LEGO® could be the future of playNew technology combines LEGO® bricks and drones created by Queen's University researcher.
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IRB Barcelona paves the way to the use of immunotherapy to treat aggressive colon tumorsThe researchers developed a mouse model that mimics advanced human colon cancer. This model has allowed them to study the immune system response for the first time.
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Living human tracheasBiomedical engineers at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass. are growing tracheas by coaxing cells to form three distinct tissue types after assembling them into a tube structure-without relying on scaffolding strategies currently being investigated by other groups.
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Monitoring bacteria on whale skinJust like with humans, the skin on marine mammals serves as an important line of defense against pathogens in their environment. A new study sheds light on the skin microbiome–a group of microorganisms that live on skin–in healthy humpback whales, which could aid in future efforts to monitor their health.
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Better together: Silicon qubits plus light add up to new quantum computing capabilityIn a significant step forward for quantum computing in silicon – the same material used in today's computers — a team led by researchers at Princeton University successfully coupled a single electron's quantum information, or spin, to a particle of light, or photon. The goal is to use light to carry quantum information on a futuristic quantum computing chip.
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Deforestation in the tropicsScientists at the UFZ have adapted a method from physics to mathematically describe the fragmentation of tropical forests. In the scientific journal Nature, they explain how this allows to model and understand the fragmentation of forests on a global scale. They found that forest fragmentation in all three continents is close to a critical point beyond which fragment number will strongly increase.
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A gene that increases the risk of pancreatic cancer controls inflammation in normal tissueA group of researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre has now discovered an unexpected link between the two processes: in the pancreas, one of the genes that increases the risk of developing pancreatic cancer also controls inflammation. This finding offers 'a major conceptual change,' explains Paco Real, from the CNIO, which, as well as helping to understand the origin of tumors, s
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Atlas of brain blood vessels provides fresh clues to brain diseasesEven though diseases of the brain vasculature are some of the most common causes of death in the West, knowledge of these blood vessels is limited. Now researchers from Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden present in the journal Nature a detailed molecular atlas of the cells that form the brain's blood vessels and the life-essential blood-brain barrier. The atlas provides new clu
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Dance of aurorasThe shower of electrons bouncing across Earth's magnetosphere — commonly known as the Northern Lights — has been directly observed for the first time by an international team of scientists. While the cause of these colorful auroras has long been hypothesized, researchers had never directly observed the underlying mechanism until now.
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Practical work-related tasks may reduce burnout in new employeesManagers hoping to avoid employee burnout and early turnover try to provide new employees with gentle assistance during their "easing in" period. But a new Tel Aviv University study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology suggests that immediately charging new employees with simple, direct and meaningful tasks may be no less effective in preventing newcomer burnout.
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Would-be social entrepreneurs need more than a kind heartTo want to be a social entrepreneur, empathy is not enough for millennials. They need to feel confident in their ability to solve social problems and feel valued by the people they want to help, according to new research published in the Journal of Business Venturing.
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Cutting off a brain enzyme reversed Alzheimer’s plaques in miceInhibiting an enzyme involved in the production of Alzheimer’s protein globs also made old globs, or plaques, disappear in mouse brains.
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Cape Town is about to run out of water – how did this happen?Cape Town's water reserves are so low that it may soon have to turn off the taps. How did it get this bad, asks Michael Le Page
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Was SpaceX launch about progress in space, or just a giant ad?The Falcon Heavy launch was more than just spectacle – it set the stage for a future Mars mission. Now we need to think about who's in the driver's seat
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Oceans on alien worlds may form when the air explodes in flamesWhen hydrogen and oxygen combine in a planet’s atmosphere, they can ignite into a ball of fire and then leave behind liquid water oceans that would be good for life
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Study links fox domestication to gene activity in the pituitary glandA study of foxes offers new insights into the brain changes that occur in wild canids as they become more tame, researchers report. The study links fox domestication to changes in gene activity in the pituitary gland, a brain center that kicks out hormones to regulate various bodily functions, including the stress response.
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Transgender woman becomes the world’s first to breastfeed babyA transgender woman was able to breastfeed her baby after completing an experimental treatment regimen, but it’s still not clear what the effects of the breastmilk might have on the child. Read More
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Could déjà vu and Nelson Mandela prove that alternate dimensions exist?Are déjà vu and the Mandela Effect related? A theory by physicist Michio Kaku may help explain. Read More
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Don’t get too excited about Western Union testing a cryptocurrency
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Why ecstasy in the U.S. is getting more dangerous by the dayNew infographics present the latest data on ecstasy impurity in the United States. Read More
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Quantum computers go siliconScientists performed the first quantum algorithms in silicon, and probed quantum bits with light.
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Scientists fill in a piece of the copper transport puzzleResearchers have identified the protein that carries copper into mitochondria, where copper is required for the functioning of the cell's energy conversion machinery. The discovery, published in the Feb. 9 issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, fills in a piece of the puzzle of how copper is distributed and used in the cell.
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Michael B. Jordan Is a 'Black Panther' EncyclopediaThe actor who plays Erik Killmonger in the new Marvel movie knows a lot of T'Challa trivia.
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A theory of physics explains the fragmentation of tropical forestsTropical forests around the world play a key role in the global carbon cycle and harbour more than half of the species worldwide. However, increases in land use in recent decades caused unprecedented losses of tropical forest. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have adapted a method from physics to describe the fragmentation of tropical forests mathematically. In t
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Scientists directly observe electron dynamics of the Northern LightsThe shower of electrons bouncing across Earth's magnetosphere, commonly known as the Northern Lights, has been directly observed for the first time by an international team of scientists. While the cause of these colorful auroras has long been hypothesized, researchers had never directly observed the underlying mechanism until now. The results have been published in Nature.
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Engineers develop smart material that changes stiffness when twisted or bentA new smart and responsive material can stiffen up like a worked-out muscle, say the Iowa State University engineers who developed it.
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Thermal blankets melt snow quicklyRemoving snow piled high in parking lots and along roadsides could soon be a far less tedious task. In a study appearing in ACS' journal Langmuir, scientists report that they have tested sunlight-absorbing thermal blankets capable of melting snow three times faster than it would on its own. They say the blankets could slash snow-removal costs and reduce the risk of environmental contamination caus
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NGC 3344 galaxy: A lonely beautyBeauty, grace, mystery—this magnificent spiral galaxy has all the qualities of a perfect galactic Valentine. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 3344 presents itself face-on, allowing astronomers a detailed look at its intricate and elegant structure. And Hubble's ability to observe objects over a wide range of different wavelengths reveals features that would otherwise
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Coffee threatened by climate change, disease, pestsAccording to connoisseurs, the tastiest of coffee beans come from the Coffea arabica shrub, a fragile weakling that is susceptible to diseases and pests. And climate change isn't making things any easier for the plant. An article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, reports that although coffee producers and scientists agree that C. arabi
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All-terrain microbot moves by tumbling over complex topographyA new type of all-terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications.
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Tissue paper sensors show promise for health care, entertainment, roboticsUniversity of Washington engineers have turned tissue paper — similar to toilet tissue — into a new kind of wearable sensor that can detect a pulse, a blink of an eye and other human movement. The sensor is light, flexible and inexpensive, with potential applications in health care, entertainment and robotics.
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Scalable two-dimensional materials advance future-gen electronicsSince the discovery of the remarkable properties of graphene, scientists have increasingly focused research on the many other two-dimensional materials possible, both those found in nature and those concocted in the lab. However, growing high-quality, crystalline 2-D materials at scale has proven a significant challenge.
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Climate change revealed this U.S. military secretNexus Media News Toxic chemicals from hidden military bases now risk leaking. The melting Greenland ice sheet could leaking chemicals that the Army thought would stay frozen in perpetuity.
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Cells 'walk' on liquids a bit like geckosResearchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that cells can 'walk' on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces.
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What It’s Like to Finally Meet After Dating Online for MonthsSeventy years ago, the Yale sociologist John Ellsworth Jr. was researching marriage patterns in small towns and concluded: “People will go as far as they have to to find a mate, but no farther.” This still seems to be the case in 2018. Though the internet allows us to connect with people across the globe near-instantly , dating apps like Tinder prioritize showing us nearby matches, the assumption
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Conservatives Must Save the Republican Party From Itself“The Trump Republican party shames itself every day,” argues The Atlantic writer and David Frum. “Some people think we’d be better off if the GOP just went out of business. That’s dangerous advice.” In this video, which highlights key points from Frum’s article, “An Exit from Trumpocracy,” the self-identifying conservative explains why the Republican party has become “radicalized” and continues t
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AI does grunt work on China's pig farmsAlibaba rolls out a system that analyses pig squeals and coughs to improve pork production.
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Crypto-currency craze 'hinders search for alien life'A scientist says the search for alien intelligence has been hit by a shortage of computer hardware.
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Marine scientists urge protection for endangered shellfish reefsShellfish reefs, formed by oysters or mussels in or near estuaries, have declined by up 99% since British colonisation Marine scientists are lobbying the federal government to ensure protection for Australia’s most endangered – but least known – ocean ecosystem. Shellfish reefs, formed by millions of oysters or mussels clustering together in or near the mouths of estuaries, have declined by up 99
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Back-and-forth exchanges boost children's brain response to languageMIT cognitive scientists have now found that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child's brain, and that this back-and-forth conversation is actually more critical to language development than the '30-million-word gap.'
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Cells 'walk' on liquids a bit like geckosResearchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that cells can 'walk' on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces.
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Engineers develop smart material that changes stiffness when twisted or bentIowa State's Martin Thuo and Michael Bartlett led development of a rubbery material that transforms itself into a hard composite when bent, twisted or squeezed. The new material could be used in medicine to support delicate tissues or in industry to protect valuable sensors.
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Neural networks everywhereSpecial-purpose chip that performs some simple, analog computations in memory reduces the energy consumption of binary-weight neural networks by up to 95 percent while speeding them up as much as sevenfold.
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Personality: Where does it come from and how does it work?How do our personalities develop? What do we come with and what is built from our experiences? Once developed, how does personality work? These questions have been steeped in controversy for almost as long as psychology has existed.
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Countries with greater gender equality have a lower percentage of female STEM graduatesCountries with greater gender equality see a smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), a new study has found. Policymakers could use the findings to reconsider initiatives to increase women's participation in STEM, say the researchers.
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Model of fecal transplantation predicts which bacteria will flourishIn a paper in Cell Host & Microbe, scientists provide a statistical model predicting which bacterial strains will engraft after a fecal transplant. It is the first predictive strategy for developing a synthetic probiotic. The researchers also found that recipients acquired new bacteria that were previously undetected in both the donor and the recipient, suggesting that the post-fecal transplant mi
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What fluffy bunnies can tell us about domestication: It didn't go the way you thinkIt turns out that nobody knows when rabbits were domesticated. Despite a well-cited story of the domestic bunny's origins, a review published on Feb. 14 in Trends in Ecology and Evolution finds that historical and archaeological records and genetic methods all suggest different timeframes for its domestication. But the researchers involved in the study don't think this puzzle is a dead end. Instea
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People Have Believed a Lie About Rabbit Domestication for DecadesIt is often said, in both popular articles and scientific papers, that rabbits were first domesticated by French monks in 600 AD. Back then, Pope Gregory the Great had allegedly decreed that laurices—newborn or fetal rabbits—didn’t count as meat. Christians could therefore eat them during Lent. They became a popular delicacy, and hungry monks started breeding them. Their work transformed the wild
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Sea Slime Can Trigger 65-Foot Mega-TsunamisThe corpses of these tiny creatures ooze out a slimy layer that may explain catastrophic undersea landslides and tsunamis.
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What fluffy bunnies can tell us about domestication: It didn't go the way you thinkIt turns out that nobody knows when rabbits were domesticated. Despite a well-cited story of the domestic bunny's origins, a review published on February 14 in Trends in Ecology and Evolution finds that historical and archaeological records and genetic methods all suggest different timeframes for its domestication. But the researchers involved in the study don't think this puzzle is a dead end. In
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Countries with greater gender equality have a lower percentage of female STEM graduatesCountries with greater gender equality see a smaller proportion of women taking degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), a new study has found. Policymakers could use the findings to reconsider initiatives to increase women's participation in STEM, say the researchers.
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Suiker's equations prevent 3-D-printed walls from collapsing or falling over3-D-printed materials commonly are soft and flexible during printing, leaving printed walls susceptible to collapse or falling over. Scientists have now seen a solution to this structural problem. They developed a model with which engineers can now easily determine the dimensions and printing speeds for which printed wall structures remain stable. The formulae are so elementary that they can becom
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Cover crops in nitrogen's circle of lifeA circle of life-and nitrogen-is playing out in farms across the United States. And researchers are trying to get the timing right. The goal is to time nutrient release from cover crops to better match the nutrient needs of specific cash crops.
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'Excess emissions' make significant contribution to air pollutionA study shows that excess emissions — which occur with plant shut-downs, start-ups and malfunctions, and not just in connection with natural disasters — can make serious contributions to overall air pollution.
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Scientists reveal how much money it takes to be truly happyMoney can’t buy you love? Well, it does buy happiness… up to a certain salary cap Read More
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The Two Things That Will Determine Netanyahu's FateBenjamin Netanyahu IsraeliIsraeli politics generally follow Ecclesiastes: Nothing is terribly new under the sun. Twenty-one years ago, in early 1997, the Israeli police announced its recommendation that Benjamin Netanyahu, then a 47-year-old first-term prime minister, be criminally indicted for breach of public trust. That case involved the appointment of an attorney general who, police suspected, Netanyahu believed would
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The Provocation and Power of Black PantherThis article contains light spoilers. Blackness invites speculation. The very idea of a global African diaspora creates the most fertile of grounds for a field of what-ifs . What if European enslavers and colonizers had never ventured into the African continent? More intriguing yet: What if African nations and peoples had successfully rebuffed generations of plunder and theft? What if the Zulu ha
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Would-be social entrepreneurs need more than a kind heartTo want to be a social entrepreneur, empathy is not enough for millennials. They need to feel confident in their ability to solve social problems and feel valued by the people they want to help, according to new research published in the Journal of Business Venturing.
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A lonely beautyBeauty, grace, mystery — this magnificent spiral galaxy has all the qualities of a perfect galactic Valentine. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 3344 presents itself face-on, allowing astronomers a detailed look at its intricate and elegant structure. And Hubble's ability to observe objects over a wide range of different wavelengths reveals features that would otherw
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Mass. public safety, public health agencies collaborate to address the opioid epidemicA new study shows that public health and public safety agencies established local, collaborative programs in Massachusetts to connect overdose survivors and their personal networks with addiction treatment, harm reduction, and other community support services following a non-fatal overdose.
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The search for dark matter: Axions have ever fewer places to hideIf they existed, axions — one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter — could interact with the matter forming our world, but they would have to do this to a much, much weaker extent than it has seemed up to now. New, rigorous constraints on the properties of axions have been imposed by an international team of scientists responsible for the nEDM experiment.
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This Underwater WWII 'Cemetery' Is Haunting and AmazingA sunken WWII vessel inspired the photographer who snapped a haunting underwater image.
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Opioid addiction treatment behind bars reduced post-incarceration overdose deaths in Rhode IslandA new study suggests that treating people for opioid addiction in jails and prisons is a promising strategy to address high rates of overdose and opioid use disorder.
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Carefully managed fire can promote rare savanna speciesIn the first continent-wide study of the effects of fire on bird and mammal diversity in the African savanna environment, researchers have found that increasing 'pyrodiversity' boosts the variety of species of mammals by around 20 percent and of birds by 30 percent in savannas with high rainfall.
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Surgical infections linked to drug-resistant bugs, study suggestsPeople having surgery in low income countries are more likely to develop an infection than those in wealthier nations, which may be linked to drug-resistant bacteria, research suggests.
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TV's influence on pregnancy, childbirth more powerful than many women admitSociology research may reveal a surprisingly stronger-than-expected influence from TV reality shows and other media on pregnant women's perception and management of their pregnancy and childbirth — possibly impacting more highly educated consumers.
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The HTTPS in your browser's address bar is important for staying safe on the webTechnology Google Chrome will soon clearly indicate that sites without encryption are "not secure." Starting in July 2018, Google Chrome will indicate sites using unencrypted HTTP as "not secure."…
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A New Call to End Legacy AdmissionsUp until now, most of the legal and political fights over college-admissions policies have centered around the use of race as a factor in admissions at selective colleges. But that may be changing. On Wednesday, student groups at 13 elite colleges announced that they are mobilizing against a different type of affirmative-action program: that which privileges the children of alumni. About three-qu
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Muscle more important than fat in regulating heat loss from the handsNew study suggests that people with more muscle mass are less susceptible to heat loss and heat up faster after cold exposure than non-muscular individuals.
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Understanding brain functions using upconversion nanoparticlesScientists have developed a novel approach for deep brain stimulation. The new method utilizes upconversion nanoparticles to allow delivery of visible light deep into the brain to stimulate neural activities in a less-invasive manner. This innovation marks a significant breakthrough in optogenetics, empowering researchers to uncover valuable insights about the brain.
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Organ-on-chip technology enters next stage as experts test hepatitis B virusScientists are testing how pathogens interact with artificial human organs.
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Problems with herbicide-resistant weeds become crystal clearHerbicide-resistant weeds are threatening food security, but researchers are one step closer to a solution after a new discovery. They have now uncovered how penoxsulam, the active ingredient in the world's largest-selling rice herbicide, works.
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Heroin vaccine blocks lethal overdoseScientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe and effective vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block lethal overdose of the drug.
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Recreating outer space in the labThermodynamics provides insight into the internal energy of a system and the energy interaction with its surroundings. This relies on the local thermal equilibrium of a system.
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Fracking tied to reduced songbird nesting successThe central Appalachian region is experiencing the country's most rapid growth in shale gas development, or 'fracking,' but we've known almost nothing about how this is affecting the region's songbird populations — until now. A new study demonstrates that the nesting success of the Louisiana waterthrush — a habitat specialist that nests along forested streams, where the potential for habitat deg
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Study: Rigorous hand hygiene-intervention practices can lower mortality, antibiotic prescription rates in nursing homesInfection prevention practices centered on hand hygiene (HH) protocols can save lives across all healthcare facilities, not just hospital settings. This includes nursing homes, according to a new study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
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Cardiac macrophages found to contribute to a currently untreatable type of heart failureA team of Massachusetts General Hospital investigators has discovered, for the first time, that the immune cells called macrophages contribute to a type of heart failure for which there currently is no effective treatment.
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Study links fox domestication to gene activity in the pituitary glandA study of foxes offers new insights into the brain changes that occur in wild canids as they become more tame, researchers report. The study links fox domestication to changes in gene activity in the pituitary gland, a brain center that kicks out hormones to regulate various bodily functions, including the stress response.
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Hydrogen transfer: One thing after the otherHydride transfer is an important reaction for chemistry (e.g., fuel cells), as well as biology (e.g., respiratory chain and photosynthesis). Often, one partial reaction involves the transfer of a hydride ion (H(-)). But does this hydride transfer involve one step or several individual steps? In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now provided the first proof of stepwise hydride transfer
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Scientists discover new link between bone cells and blood sugar levelBone cells do not just form new bone, they also influence the blood sugar level. Leuven scientists have now discovered a new mechanism that controls this link. The metabolism of bone cells determines how much sugar they use; if the bone cells consume more sugar than normal, this can lower the glucose level in the blood. This research may contribute to future therapies for conditions such as osteop
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Hip hop meets health in a campaign against type 2 diabetesThe Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP), at UC San Francisco, and Youth Speaks, a San Francisco youth development and arts education organization, are releasing four new spoken word videos by young poets from across California as part of a social media-based public health campaign to end type 2 diabetes in youth and young adults.
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Opioid addiction treatment behind bars reduced post-incarceration overdose deaths in RIA new study in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that treating people for opioid addiction in jails and prisons is a promising strategy to address high rates of overdose and opioid use disorder.
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Examination of postincarceration fatal overdoses after addiction treatment medications in correctional systemThere were fewer postincarceration deaths from overdose among recently released inmates after a program was started to provide medications for addiction treatment (including methadone, buprenorphine or naltrexone) in a state correctional system.
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Perspective on fuel cellsResearchers are aiming to tackle a fundamental debate in key reactions behind fuel cells and hydrogen production, which, if solved, could significantly bolster clean energy technologies.
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Small lakes and temporary ponds release CO2 into the atmosphere even when they are dryTemporary lakes and ponds emit CO2 all year –- even when they are dry — and dry areas actually emit a larger amount of carbon into the atmosphere. This phenomenon, described now for the first time, could have an impact on the global carbon cycle that controls Earth’s climate, according to a new study.
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Stress-induced changes in genetic information: New details discovered about the function of a mysterious proteinScientists have researched the function of an enigmatic protein. The biological necessity of this protein, which can chemically alter certain building blocks of the genetic information, has been debated for quite a while. The new study now links the enzymatic action of this protein on small RNA molecules which are important for protein synthesis, to potentially far-reaching consequences for the in
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Video games to improve mobility after a strokeNew research reveals that, after a cerebral infarction, injuries in areas that control attention also cause motility problems. The authors propose to complement physiotherapy with another type of cognitive training, such as video games.
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Medical care for wounded antsAnts dress the wounds their mates have suffered in battle. Such behavior is believed to be unique among animals.
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New lead-free perovskite material for solar cellsPerovskite solar cells are a promising new low-cost photovoltaic technology, but most contain toxic lead. Researchers have introduced solar cells with a new titanium-perovskite material that gets the lead out.
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New insights into human evolutionThe evolution of human biology should be considered part and parcel with the evolution of humanity itself, proposes an assistant professor of biological sciences. She explores an interdisciplinary approach to human evolution.
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Korean DMZ: A Rare Look Inside the 'Scariest Place on Earth'Just 40 miles north of Pyeongchang lies one the world's most dangerous places—and it's also home to an astonishing breadth of wildlife.
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Why I train grandmothers to treat depression | Dixon ChibandaDixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe — for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would never be able to scale traditional methods of treating those with mental health issues, Chibanda helped to develop a beautiful solution powered by a limitless resource: grandmothers. In this extraordinary, inspirational talk, learn more about the friendship bench prog
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Watching myelin patterns form: Evidence for sheath remodeling revealed by in vivo imagingNerve fibers are surrounded by a myelin sheath. Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now made the first-ever "live" observations of how this protective layer is formed. The team discovered that the characteristic patterns of the myelin layer are determined at an early stage. However, these patterns can be adjusted as needed in a process apparently controlled by the nerve cel
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Practical work-related tasks may reduce burnout in new employeesA new Tel Aviv University study suggests that immediately charging new employees with simple, direct and meaningful tasks may be more effective in preventing newcomer burnout in the workplace than providing 'emotional' assistance.
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Could sugar chains be the answer to bone growth in osteoporosis?Scientists at the University of York have shown that altering the structure of sugar chains on the surface of stem cells could help promote bone growth in the body.
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More than a well-balanced breakfast: Scientists use egg whites for clean energy productionEggs may soon fuel more than people in the morning. Researchers from the Osaka City University in Japan have developed a way to potentially use egg whites as a substrate to produce a carbon-free fuel.
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Nanotechnology could redefine oral surgeryA trip to the dentist or orthodontist usually instills a sense of dread in most patients, and that's before the exam even begins. Add to that the fear of oral surgery with a painful recovery, and many people will avoid these visits at all costs. Now, one group reports a pre-clinical study in ACS Nano showing that they could potentially reduce pain and recovery time with the aid of specialized nano
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Who Is Weev, and Why Did He Derail a Journalist's Career?In the span of about six hours yesterday, The New York Times announced the hiring of Quinn Norton as a tech columnist and then apparently fired her. The Times claims that their decision to “go their separate ways” was guided by “ new information ,” revealed through a social-media maelstrom, about slurs Norton had used on Twitter and about her friendship with someone called weev. In October, Norto
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Drone dogfight crowns a winner in the battle against rogue UAVsIllegal or unwanted drones put air travellers at risk, so a competition called DroneClash is calling for new ways to tackle them
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Titanium gets the lead out of perovskite solar cellsResearchers have developed a new titanium-based material that is a good candidate for making lead-free, inorganic perovskite solar cells. In a new paper, which appears in the journal Joule , the researchers show that the material is especially good for making tandem solar cells—arrangements in which a perovskite cells are placed on top of silicon or another established material to boost the overa
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Chocolate Facts, Effects & HistoryChocolate, the most popular sweet treat in the world, makes you feel good and it may be good for you, too.
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Thermal blankets melt snow quicklyRemoving snow piled high in parking lots and along roadsides could soon be a far less tedious task. In a study appearing in ACS' journal Langmuir, scientists report that they have tested sunlight-absorbing thermal blankets capable of melting snow three times faster than it would on its own. They say the blankets could slash snow-removal costs and reduce the risk of environmental contamination caus
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A surprise stimulus helps people stop an actionA new study finds that an unexpected sound causes people to stop an action more often than when they heard no sound at all. The finding could lead to new treatments for patients with motor-control disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and ADHD, as well as address the decline in motor control that accompanies aging.
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Love and fear are visible across the brain instead of being restricted to any brain regionThe brain mechanisms of basic emotions such as anger and happiness are fairly similar across people. Differences are greater in social emotions, such as gratitude and contempt.
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Rotating dusty gaseous donut around an active supermassive black holeHigh resolution observations show a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of such rotating donuts-shape structures was first suggested decades ago, but this is the first time one has been confirmed so clearly. This is an important step in understanding the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies.
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Alzheimer's disease reversed in mouse modelResearchers have found that gradually depleting an enzyme called BACE1 completely reverses the formation of amyloid plaques in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease, thereby improving the animals' cognitive function. The study raises hopes that drugs targeting this enzyme will be able to successfully treat Alzheimer's disease in humans.
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Safe-sleep recommendations for infants have not reduced sudden deaths in newbornsAn analysis of trends in sudden unexpected infant death finds that the drop in such deaths that took place following release of the 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics 'back to sleep' recommendations, did not occur in infants in the first month of life.
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ESO's VLT working as 16-meter telescope for first timeThe ESPRESSO instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile has used the combined light of all four of the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes for the first time. Combining light from the Unit Telescopes in this way makes the VLT the largest optical telescope in existence in terms of collecting area.
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The Anti-Trump Recoil Goes Too FarIn the winter of 1858, Abraham Lincoln answered an admirer seeking advice on the study of law. Where should a beginner start? Lincoln replied by citing a basic library of works by four authors. Two were American; two were English. Lincoln did not assert an “Anglo-American legal tradition.” He took it for granted, as has every American lawyer and judge before and since. Such basic concepts as “tor
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5 science-based tips for happy long-term loveThe authors of a new book on long-term relationships have some science-based advice for maintaining a solid partnership. Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love That Lasts (Tarcher Books, 2018), from husband-and-wife team James Pawelski, a philosopher and professor of practice in the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, and science writer Suzann
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Depression, schizophrenia, autism and other psychiatric disorders show common genetic linkA new study of over 700 human brains has shown a genetic "signature" for common psychiatric disorders. Read More
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Study finds that a surprise stimulus helps people stop an actionA new study from the University of Iowa finds that an unexpected sound causes people to stop an action more often than when they heard no sound at all. The finding could lead to new treatments for patients with motor-control disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and ADHD, as well as address the decline in motor control that accompanies aging. Results published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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Rapid evolution of a calcareous microalgaeWhen simulating future environmental conditions researchers face a problem: laboratory experiments are easy to control and to reproduce, but are insufficient to mimic the complexity of natural ecosystems. In contrast, experiments under real conditions in nature are much more complicated and difficult to control. Scientist of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have combined both ap
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Love on the rocks: Penguins celebrating Valentine's DayPenguins are looking for love with big red hearts at a San Francisco aquarium.
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Fracking tied to reduced songbird nesting successThe central Appalachian region is experiencing the country's most rapid growth in shale gas development, or "fracking," but we've known almost nothing about how this is affecting the region's songbird populations—until now. A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications demonstrates that the nesting success of the Louisiana Waterthrush—a habitat specialist that nests along forested strea
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Why Amazon Pays Some of Its Workers to QuitOn Monday, Amazon reportedly began a series of rare layoffs at its headquarters in Seattle, cutting several hundred corporate employees. But this week, something quite different is happening at the company’s warehouses and customer-service centers across the country: Amazon will politely ask its “associates”—full-time and part-time hourly employees—if they’d prefer to quit. And if they do, Amazon
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Problems with herbicide-resistant weeds become crystal clearHerbicide-resistant weeds are threatening food security, but University of Queensland researchers are one step closer to a solution after a new discovery.
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'Green' catalysis technique aims to boost pharmaceutical manufacturing efficiencyAbout 70 percent of pharmaceuticals are manufactured using palladium-driven catalytic processes that are either fast or efficient – but not both. Researchers at North Carolina State University have now developed a green chemistry method that combines aspects of both processes to improve efficiency at a minimal cost of processing time.
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Satellites helping to preserve the health and beauty of coral reefsCoral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. Known as the "rainforests of the sea," they are home to more than a quarter of all marine species. Yet the beauty and vitality of the coral reef environments are threatened—and the reasons are numerous. Rising water temperatures due to climate change, land-based pollution, and indiscriminate fishing practices are the primary threats to
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Enabling energy efficiency in urban planningA training network has enabled young Europeans to develop urban decision-making tools capable of minimising non-renewable energy use in cities.
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Farewell to a pioneering pollution sensorOn Jan. 31, NASA ended the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer's (TES) almost 14-year career of discovery. Launched in 2004 on NASA's Aura spacecraft, TES was the first instrument designed to monitor ozone in the lowest layers of the atmosphere directly from space. Its high-resolution observations led to new measurements of atmospheric gases that have altered our understanding of the Earth system.
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Absence of warm temperature spikes revealed as driver for vernalisationA new study has uncovered multiple new factors that contribute to the important phenomenon of vernalisation in plants.
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Researchers discover missing ingredient from Earth's continental crustResearchers from Curtin University have identified a missing ingredient in the composition of the continental crust, opening up a new chapter in the Earth's geological history.
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How Bright are LED Flashlights? And What the Heck is a Lumen?Some lights claim they max out at 900 lumens, but you can use a light sensor to make sure for yourself.
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Low-cost way to build gene sequencesA new method enables an average biochemistry laboratory to make its own gene sequences for only about $2 per gene, a process that previously would require its researchers to pay a commercial vendor $50 to $100 per gene. The approach will make it possible for scientists to mass produce thousands of genes and screen for their roles in diseases.
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No, artificial intelligence won't steal your children's jobs—it will make them more creative and productive"Whatever your job is the chances are that one of these machines can do it faster or better than you can."
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Female horse riders want better bra supportThree quarters of female horse riders want bras that better support them, partly for the sake of their health and partly to avoid embarrassment, according to new research.
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How urban farmers are learning to grow food without soil or natural lightGrowing food in cities became popular in Europe and North America during and immediately after World War II. Urban farming provided citizens with food, at a time when resources were desperately scarce. In the decades that followed, parcels of land which had been given over to allotments and city farms were gradually taken up for urban development. But recently, there has been a renewed interest in
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Researchers quantify nutritional value of soil fungi to the Serengeti food webThe complex Serengeti ecosystem, which spans 12,000 square miles extending from northern Tanzania into southwestern Kenya, is home to millions of animals, including 70 species of large mammals. It is a hotspot for mammal diversity—including herbivores such as wildebeest, zebra and gazelles that graze on grasses and trees, as well as lions, crocodiles, leopards and hyenas that survive by preying on
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These Crickets Can’t Sing Anymore—But They’re Still TryingIt took several years for the crickets of Kauai to fall silent. When Marlene Zuk first visited the Hawaiian island in 1991, she heard the insects chirping away, loudly and repeatedly. But every time she went back, the chirping diminished. In 2001, she only heard a single male, apparently singing into the void. The crickets had disappeared from sight, too. But when Zuk returned to Kauai in 2003, s
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How Universities Are Tackling Society's Grand ChallengesA new report documents the ways nearly 20 institutions of higher learning are rallying research communities to take action — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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'Green' catalysis technique aims to boost pharmaceutical manufacturing efficiencyAbout 70 percent of pharmaceuticals are manufactured using palladium-driven catalytic processes that are either fast or efficient — but not both. Researchers have now developed a green chemistry method that combines aspects of both processes to improve efficiency at a minimal cost of processing time.
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Remote jets are clearer nowThe hypothesis that was put to the test in the study states that jet power depends on the magnetic flux and the rotation rate of the black hole. Scientists have come up with the model that can estimate the amount of energy lost by the black hole due to the slowing down of its rotation.
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Workplace environment influences outcomes of an audit, study findsA more positive workplace environment at large companies can likely reduce the cost and length of an audit, according to a study that includes University of Kansas School of Business researchers.
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Delivery drones could reduce emissions—if they’re used properly
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Turning background room temperature heat into energyUniversity of Tsukuba-based researchers developed a way to recover environmental heat with a new type of thin-film thermoelectric cell, based on two different materials that show changes in their redox potential on cycling of temperature.
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Patients with chagas disease are often infected with an intestinal parasiteIn patients with Chagas Disease, the odds of being infected by the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis increases by two-fold, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The study, published in Plos Neglected Tropical Diseases, underlines the potential benefits of performing a combined screening for both infections among Latin American adults living in E
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Organ-on-chip technology enters next stage as experts test hepatitis B virusScientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens interact with artificial human organs.
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Muscle more important than fat in regulating heat loss from the handsNew study suggests that people with more muscle mass are less susceptible to heat loss and heat up faster after cold exposure than non-muscular individuals.
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The reasons that university students do sportThe research shows that female students do it for health reason and male students do it for social relationships that are involved in doing sport. Among those who had stopped doing or never done sport, a lack of time was the main reason.
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Video games to improve mobility after a strokeA joint research by the Basque research center BCBL and the London Imperial College reveals that, after a cerebral infarction, injuries in areas that control attention also cause motility problems. The authors propose to complement physiotherapy with another type of cognitive training, such as video games.
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Understanding brain functions using upconversion nanoparticlesScientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have worked with an international research team to jointly develop a novel approach for deep brain stimulation. The new method utilises upconversion nanoparticles developed by Professor Liu Xiaogang from the Department of Chemistry at NUS Faculty of Science to allow delivery of visible light deep into the brain to stimulate neural activiti
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Recreating outer space in the labThermodynamics provides insight into the internal energy of a system and the energy interaction with its surroundings. This relies on the local thermal equilibrium of a system.
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Heroin vaccine blocks lethal overdoseScientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have achieved a major milestone toward designing a safe and effective vaccine to both treat heroin addiction and block lethal overdose of the drug.
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How to block web pop-ups, alerts, and autoplaying videoDIY Restore the peace and quiet in any web browser. Pestered by sounds, videos, pop-ups and other distractions you don't want? Here's how to quieten down the web.
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China's Dystopian Tech Could Be ContagiousFor all the particularities of life in China, its big cities offer a familiar cosmopolitanism. Teenagers giggle over K-Pop videos in a Chengdu Starbucks. Strollers and dog walkers compete with an almighty clutter of dockless share bikes on the sidewalks of downtown Shenzhen. In Beijing’s trendy Sanlitun district, weekend shoppers size up Uniqlo parkas like bargain hunters anywhere. Here are all t
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Stock market forces can be modeled with a quantum harmonic oscillatorTraditionally, a quantum harmonic oscillator model is used to describe the tiny vibrations in a diatomic molecule, but the description is also universal in the sense that it can be extended to a variety of other situations in physics and beyond. One example of this is illustrated in a new study, in which researchers show that the restoring force in a vibrating quantum harmonic oscillator provides
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Rotating dusty gaseous donut around an active supermassive black holeHigh resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of such rotating donuts-shape structures was first suggested decades ago, but this is the first time one has been confirmed so clearly. This is an important step in understanding the co-evolution of supermassive black ho
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Fracking tied to reduced songbird nesting successThe central Appalachian region is experiencing the country's most rapid growth in shale gas development, or 'fracking,' but we've known almost nothing about how this is affecting the region's songbird populations — until now. A new study demonstrates that the nesting success of the Louisiana waterthrush — a habitat specialist that nests along forested streams, where the potential for habitat deg
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Researchers successfully reverse Alzheimer's disease in mouse modelA team of researchers from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have found that gradually depleting an enzyme called BACE1 completely reverses the formation of amyloid plaques in the brains of mice with Alzheimer's disease, thereby improving the animals' cognitive function. The study, which will be published Feb. 14 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, raises hopes that drugs targeti
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Problems with herbicide-resistant weeds become crystal clearHerbicide-resistant weeds are threatening food security, but University of Queensland researchers are one step closer to a solution after a new discovery.A UQ School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences study led by Associate Professor Luke Guddat uncovered how penoxsulam, the active ingredient in the world's largest-selling rice herbicide, works.
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A map app to track stem cellsResearchers who work with stem cells have ambitious goals. Some want to cure cancer or treat heart disease. Others want to grow the tissues and organs that patients need for transplants. Some groups are even working to develop highly personalized medicines, tailored to an individual's genetics. All of these ideas face a similar hurdle, however: The development of measurement tools for stem cell pr
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Stress-induced changes of genetic information—new details discovered about the function of a mysterious proteinIn a recent study, a research group at MedUni Vienna has published further details about the function of an enigmatic protein. The biological necessity of this protein, which can chemically alter certain building blocks of the genetic information, has been debated for quite a while. The new study now links the enzymatic action of this protein on small RNA molecules which are important for protein
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Trump's Infrastructure Plan Threatens to Leave Little Cities BehindThe White House's proposal might work for wealthier urban areas, but offers little help for cash-poor locales.
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Pinterest Now Lets You Reorder the Pins on Your BoardsToday’s update makes the image-saving service an even more capable productivity tool.
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Eksperter: Her er de ti største udfordringer for robotterHvad der skal til, hvis robotter skal nå væsentlige fremskridt inden for de næste 5-10 år? Et panel af eksperter har udpeget 10 områder, hvoraf de syv er rent teknologiske, mens de tre sidste handler om sociale, medicinske og etiske udfordringer.
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Romeo the FrogWhen forlorn mating calls went unanswered, biologists set him up with an online dating profile.
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Primitive Human Eggs Grown to Full Maturity in the LabThe technique could combat infertility, but it's still not clear whether these eggs are normal and functional.
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Observing a changing platinum electrodeThe surface of platinum electrodes changes much more during use than was previously thought. In a collaboration between the Leiden Institutes of Chemistry and Physics, chemists Leon Jacobse, Yi-Fan Huang and Marc Koper, and physicist Marcel Rost have been able to show this for the first time. Publication in Nature Materials.
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More light shines on Pleistocene extinction event with possible discovery of new genus of horseA group of North American Pleistocene horses was previously identified as different species. Now, mitochondrial and partial nuclear genomic studies support the idea that there is only one species, which belongs to a new genus.
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Tracking ocean salinity from space using colourMeasuring salinity at the ocean's surface is important for tracking global ocean circulation as well as local ecosystem health. A research team from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu have proposed a new method to measure sea surface salinity using ocean colour as a proxy. Reported in the Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, this method could improve monitoring frequency and resolution, particul
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Rotating gaseous donut around an active supermassive black holeHigh-resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of such rotating donuts-shape structures was first suggested decades ago, but this is the first time one has been confirmed so clearly. This is an important step in understanding the co-evolution of supermassive black ho
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Power grid fluctuations hidden in audio recordings proved a powerful tool for police forensicsAudio and video recordings are important sources of evidence in criminal investigations, especially as more electronic devices are in use now than ever before. However, for recordings to be admissible, investigators often need to determine the time they were made, which can be difficult. Now, a team led by Vrizlynn Thing at the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), in collaboration with th
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Secrets of a little-known cancer ally revealedHuman cancers often have a little recognized ally— the increased size and number of a cell's organelles called the nucleolus. The nucleolus is where ribosomes, the cellular protein factories, are made. Ribosomes can also be hijacked by cancer to produce proteins that fuel its growth.
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Graphene on toast could lead to edible electronicsScientists who introduced laser-induced graphene (LIG) enhanced their technique to produce what may become a new class of edible electronics. The chemists, who once turned Girl Scout cookies into graphene , are investigating ways to write graphene patterns onto food and other materials to quickly embed conductive identification tags and sensors into the products themselves. “This is not ink. This
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The Necessity of 'Willful Blindness' in WritingBy Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Colum McCann, George Saunders, Emma Donoghue, Michael Chabon, and more. Doug McLean There’s nothing conventional about Heart Berries , Terese Marie Mailhot’s debut. A little over 100 pages, it’s far short of the 80,000 words most memoirs need to be deemed viable. There’s barely
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Study says deforested areas in the Amazon vulnerable to loss of legal protectionsA study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that protected areas that are deforested are more likely to subsequently lose legal protections.
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Researchers find gene that may greatly increase strawberry productionResearchers at the University of Maryland have identified and isolated a gene that is directly involved in the way strawberry plants grow, spread and produce fruit.
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Image: NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson preparing for spaceIn this image from 2009, NASA astronaut Stephanie Wilson is attired in a training version of her shuttle launch and entry suit, as she participates in a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at the Johnson Space Center in preparation for the STS-131 mission.
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Researchers create predictable patterns from unpredictable carbon nanotubesIntegrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft wings to heat sinks for mobile computing, requires them to be produced in large scale and at low cost. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a promising approach to manufacture CNTs in the needed scales, but it produces CNTs that are too sparse and compliant for most applications.
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Silent singing crickets still going through the motionsA team of researchers with the University of St Andrews and the University of Cambridge, both in the U.K., has found that singing crickets in Hawaii have evolved to silence their singing apparatus but continue to sing inaudibly. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the group describes their study of field crickets living on the island of Kauai and suggest some possibilities for
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Nu kan du få lokal vejrudsigt for 10.000 steder i Danmark – DMI forklarer hvordanFremover dækker DMI Danmark med lokale vejrudsigter for 10.000 steder i landet. De vejrdata, der bruges til at lave prognoserne er de samme som før, men visningen skal give brugerne en mere præcis oplevelse af vejrudsigten.
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Projecting the impacts of climate changeHow might climate change affect the acidification of the world's oceans or air quality in China and India in the coming decades, and what climate policies could be effective in minimizing such impacts? To answer such questions, decision makers routinely rely on science-based projections of physical and economic impacts of climate change on selected regions and economic sectors. But the projections
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A single magnetic skyrmion detected at room temperature for the first timeA team of researchers from CNRS, Thales and the Université Paris-Saclay, all in France has for the first time detected a single skyrmion at room temperature. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the group describes their efforts, what they achieved and future avenues of research efforts.
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Is Art Created by AI Really Art?When AI creates compelling art, the meaning of creativity gets blurred — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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What fossils reveal about the spider family tree is far from horrifying | Susannah LydonRecent fossils in amber tell us how spiders evolved into their modern groups, but the fossil record for arachnids goes much deeper The discovery of a 100m-year-old spider ancestor with a whip-like tail , bearing a more than slight resemblance to everyone’s favourite parasitoid alien – the facehugger – gained a lot of media interest last week. Some arachnologists were upset by both the language of
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Can't get an image out of your head? Your eyes are helping to keep it there.Through brain imaging, Baycrest scientists have found evidence that the brain uses eye movements to help people recall vivid moments from the past, paving the way for the development of visual tests that could alert doctors earlier about those at risk for neurodegenerative illnesses.
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MoveFor most people, common health goals are best approached with as simple a strategy as possible. This avoids cognitive overload and non-compliance. Get the basics right, as there are diminishing returns from increasingly arcane details.
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Six animals having worse sex than you this Valentine’s DayAnimals Sex is terrible for almost all female animals. Sexual pleasure and passion aren’t priorities when a hermaphroditic snail impales its mate with a love dart. Their goals are to make babies and die.
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The Atlantic65
19th-Century Paleontology Was at the Forefront of Big DataIn 1981, when I was 9 years old, my father took me to see Raiders of the Lost Ark . Although I had to squint my eyes during some of the scary scenes, I loved it in particular because I was fairly sure that Harrison Ford’s character was based on my dad. My father was a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, and I’d gone on several field trips with him to the Rocky Mountains, where he seemed
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How the Internal Combustion Engine Keeps Getting BetterAfter more than a century, engineers are still finding ways to squeeze more power from less fuel.
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The Romantic BrainGuest post by Kayt Sukel Image: Seimi Rurup Leading up to Valentine’s Day, you can’t help being inundated with advertisements for cards, chocolates and jewelry–those “perfect” gifts to show that one special person how much you love them. The world has love on the brain. But what are the latest findings regarding the brain in love? Over the past decade, several studies have investigated the neural
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How Fast Can a Marathon Be Run?Is there an absolute minimum time to run a marathon? Will humans ever break the 2 hour mark? What does it take to set a world record marathon time? — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Decoding the Overlap between Autism and ADHDThe two conditions often coincide, but the search for common biological roots turns up conflicting evidence — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Precedent for Trump's Administration Isn't Nixon—It's ClintonHistory is at least as much about the structures of power as it is about the personalities of “great men”—or terrible ones. Of course, a president’s idiosyncrasies matter, and the outsized and outrageous personality of the current president of the United States has riveted the public and press. But most condemnations of President Donald Trump are also, if only implicitly, accusations that his adm
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories5
Micromotors made easyResearchers of the ICN2 Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group led by Prof. Arben Merkoçi have devised a simple manufacturing method for versatile graphene oxide-based micromotors. Requiring no special equipment, it can be used to produce a range of micromotors that can be further tuned for different purposes. Luis Baptista-Pires explains the process in the paper published in Small.
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Science | The Guardian67
Share your questions for scientists aboard an Antarctic expeditionThe Guardian is aboard a Greenpeace ship in the Antarctic. We want to know what questions you’d like to ask experts on the expedition Antarctic exploration brings challenges, but also surprises that can often seem out of this world – according to those lucky enough to experience the adventure. We’d like you to share your thoughts, and questions, as Guardian journalists report direct from the regi
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Researchers clarify dynamics of black hole rotational energyAstrophysicists at MIPT have developed a model for testing a hypothesis about supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The new model enables scientists to predict how much rotational energy a black hole loses when it emits beams of ionized matter known as astrophysical jets. The energy loss is estimated based on measurements of a jet's magnetic field. The paper was published in the jou
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These Citizen-Regulators In Arkansas Defied Monsanto. Now They're Under AttackIn Arkansas, a regulatory committee of farmers and small-business owners banned the latest weed-killing technology from the giant agrichemical company. Monsanto is taking them to court. (Image credit: Dan Charles/NPR)
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'100,000 orangutans' killed in 16 yearsBorneo has lost a "shocking" number of its great apes, according to a new survey of the island.
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Birds and beans: Study shows best coffee for bird diversityIt's an age-old debate for coffee lovers. Which is better: Arabica beans with their sweeter, softer taste, or the bold, deep flavor of Robusta beans? A new study by WCS, Princeton University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison appearing in the journal Scientific Reports has taken the question to unlikely coffee aficionados: birds.
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Spinraza viser effekt til en bredere gruppe af børnNye data peger på, at Spinraza har bredere anvendelse end hidtil antaget.
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Australian fire beetle avoids the heatThe Australian jewel beetle Merimna atrata has several heat sensors. Originally, it was thought to use them to detect forest fires as it lays its eggs in the wood of burned eucalyptus trees. Researchers at the University of Bonn have refuted this hypothesis. Instead, the beetle appears to need its heat sensors for a different purpose: to avoid burning its feet upon landing. The study has now been
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Scientists improve DNA transfer in gene therapyParkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis and many other fatal human diseases are hereditary. Many cancers and cardiovascular diseases are also caused by genetic defects. Gene therapy is a promising possibility for the treatment of these diseases. With the help of genetically modified viruses, DNA is introduced into cells in order to repair or replace defective genes. Via this met
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A new method for detecting levels of an important amino acidA team from the Faculty of Chemistry of MSU and colleagues have suggested a new method for determining levels of cysteine, an amino acid used in many drugs, with the help of gold nanoparticles. Unlike current methods, it does not require complex reactions or expensive equipment. An article with the results of the study was published in Sensors and Actuators B.
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How Two Police Drones Saved a Woman's LifeAfter years of writing critically about police officers using excessive force and police departments abusing surveillance technology, I couldn’t be happier to relay a story in which cops used drones as a tool to help them avoid taking a life. It began when a woman, 57, left Cocoa Beach, Florida, drove all the way to Stafford County, Virginia, pulled into a Walmart parking lot, backed her sedan up
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Birds and beans: Study shows best coffee for bird diversityIt's an age-old debate for coffee lovers. Which is better: Arabica beans with their sweeter, softer taste, or the bold, deep flavor of Robusta beans? A new study by WCS, Princeton University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison appearing in the journal Scientific Reports has taken the question to unlikely coffee aficionados: birds.
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Scientists develop biocompatible anti-burn nanofibers that act as 'living bandages'A group of NUST MISIS's young scientists has presented a new therapeutic material based on nanofibers made of polycaprolactone modified with a thin-film antibacterial composition and plasma components of human blood. Biodegradable bandages made from these fibers will accelerate the growth of tissue cells twice as quickly, contributing to the normal regeneration of damaged tissues, as well as preve
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Transportminister: Færdselslov forhindrer super-elcykler i at brage rundt med 45 km/t i myldretidenOle Birk Olesen understreger, at både cykler og speed pedelecs skal køre efter forholdene på cykelstierne. Ministeren forsøger at dække sig ind under en gummiparagraf, mener cyklistforbund.
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So You Think Someone Might Be Mentally IllIn the years before 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz allegedly killed 17 people in a Florida high school on Wednesday, his behavior was strange, but not necessarily criminal. And not necessarily suggestive of a specific mental illness, either. He seemed fixated on guns and on killing animals , and his mother would sometimes call the police on him in an effort to manage his behavior. Some news reports hav
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Two Swiss Athletes Are First at Olympics Confirmed With NorovirusThe Swiss Olympic delegation, which did not identify the athletes or their sport, said they were sequestered and no longer had symptoms.
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India's top court steps in to help thirsty tech hubIndia's water-starved tech hub Bangalore won a reprieve on Friday when the country's top court altered a river-sharing agreement in its favour, ruling on a bitter dispute that dates back more than a century.
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Science-Based Medicine1
Inside Chiropractic: Yesteryear and TodayIn the 123 years since its inception, the core beliefs of the chiropractic profession have not changed. Chiropractic continues to exist as a form of alternative medicine that embraces a variety of questionable procedures and treatment methods. The chiropractic profession in the United States is still defined by the vertebral subluxation theory that gave it birth and independence as an alternative
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General Electric to sell parts of overseas lighting businessGeneral Electric has reached an agreement to sell its overseas lighting operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Turkey, the conglomerate said Thursday.
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How #MeToo, awareness months and Facebook are helping us healIf we have learned anything on social media in 2017 it's that everything isn't okay. Far from it. But we are finally starting to talk about it – according to researchers at Drexel University who study our relationships with social network sites. Their latest work, an examination of how and why women decide to disclose pregnancy loss on Facebook, sheds light on a shift in our social media behavior
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Women who clean at home or work face increased lung function declineWomen who work as cleaners or regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products at home appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do not clean, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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Radio Atlantic: No Way Out, Part IIn 1987, Jeffrey Young was robbed and killed, and his body was left on a street in the poor neighborhood of West Dallas. Benjamine Spencer was tried and convicted for the attack. Spencer was black, 22 years old, and recently married. Young was 33 and white, and his father was a senior executive for Ross Perot, one of the most prominent businessmen in Dallas. No physical evidence connected Spencer
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Flere biler på vejene: Minister undsiger mål på 120 trafikdræbteTransportminister Ole Birk Olesen erkender, at det bliver så godt som umuligt at nå ned på Færdselssikkerhedskommissionen mål for antallet af omkomne i trafikken. Men det vigtigste for ham er også, at antallet af ulykker pr. kørt kilometer falder. Det har målsætningen dog aldrig forholdt sig til,…
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Endocrine System: Facts, Functions and DiseasesThe endocrine system is a collection of glands that secrete hormones.
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Seabird Feathers Reveal Less Resilient OceanBy analyzing 130 years of seabird feathers, researchers determined that food webs are losing complexity in the Pacific—meaning less resilient ecosystems. Christopher Intagliata reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on Earth and other planetsFossils that preserve entire organisms (including both hard and soft body parts) are critical to our understanding of evolution and ancient life on Earth. However, these exceptional deposits are extremely rare. New Oxford University research suggests that the mineralogy of the surrounding earth is key to conserving soft parts of organisms, and finding more exceptional fossils. Part-funded by NASA,
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Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on Earth and other planetsFossils that preserve entire organisms (including both hard and soft body parts) are critical to our understanding of evolution and ancient life on Earth. However, these exceptional deposits are extremely rare. The fossil record is heavily biased towards the preservation of harder parts of organisms, such as shells, teeth and bones, as soft parts such as internal organs, eyes, or even completely s
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The Flu Vaccine Is Working Better Than Expected, C.D.C. FindsA preliminary analysis finds the vaccine 25 percent effective against this year’s dangerous H3N2 strain, and twice as effective in children.
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Does gender equality result in fewer female STEM grads?As societies become wealthier and more gender equal, women are less likely to obtain degrees in STEM, according to new research. The researchers call this a “gender-equality paradox.” The underrepresentation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields occurs globally. Although women are currently well represented in life sciences, they continue to be unde
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Physicists speed up droplet-wrapping processExperimental physicists report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.
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Hearing loss is common after infant heart surgeryChildren who have heart surgery as infants are at risk for hearing loss, coupled with associated risks for language, attention and cognitive problems, by age four. In a cohort of 348 preschoolers who survived cardiac surgery, researchers found hearing loss in about 21 percent, a rate 20 times higher than is found in the general population. This underscores the importance of early hearing evaluatio
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Student research team accelerates snow melt with 'Melt Mat'Snow storms often leave behind reminders of their presence for days – sometimes weeks – after warmer and sunnier weather returns. Snowbanks, often created by snow plows as they clear major roadways, can linger in parking lots, on sidewalks, and in driveways even when temperatures rise well above freezing.
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Genetics makes Asians, Europeans susceptible to dengue shock syndromeAs globalization and climate change spread tropical diseases around the globe, not all populations are equally susceptible to infection. Gene variants common in people of Asian and European ancestry, for instance, make them more prone than those of African origin to developing severe dengue shock syndrome, according to a new study.
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Consumer and industrial products now a dominant urban air pollution sourceChemical products that contain compounds refined from petroleum, like household cleaners, pesticides, paints and perfumes, now rival motor vehicle emissions as the top source of urban air pollution, according to a surprising new study.
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At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary treeButterflies offer key insights into community ecology, how species originate and evolve, climate change and interactions between plants and insects. But a comprehensive map of how butterflies are related to each other has been lacking — until now.
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White House Blames Russia for NotPetya, the 'Most Costly Cyberattack In History'Russian NotPetya USAfter its negligence on Russian election hacking, the Trump administration is taking Russia's global malware attack more seriously.
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The Empty Rituals of an American MassacreThe financial and political power of the National Rifle Association leaves many politicians terrified of crossing it. And because of its ideological and propaganda power, a segment of Americans now equates any proposed limit on gun use or ownership as a catastrophic step toward the extinction of individual liberties and the dawn of a confiscatory, totalitarian state. Americans recognize that publ
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Building better tiny kidneys to test drugs and help people avoid dialysisA free online kidney atlas built by USC researchers empowers stem cell scientists everywhere to generate more human-like tiny kidneys for testing new drugs and creating renal replacement therapies. The three-study series provides the first cellular and molecular characterization of how the human kidney develops in a mother's womb. The new, open-source data, available at www.gudmap.org, provides th
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Rapid pollution increases may be as harmful to the heart as absolute levelsRapid increases in pollution may be as harmful to the heart as sustained high levels, according to research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology,1 a European Society of Cardiology journal. The authors urgently call for confirmatory studies as even residents of clean air cities could be at risk.
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Research compares mouse and human kidney developmentThree new research articles compare human and mouse kidney development to identify shared and novel features.The studies provide new detailed molecular data to guide future research.The studies revealed deep conservation of certain processes, but also significant differences in gene expression during kidney development, as well as in the timing, scale, organization, and molecular profile of key ce
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Here's What You Can Expect from This Spring's WeatherIs the U.S. heading into a chilly and rainy spring, or a warm and drought-ridden one? The answer, as always, depends on your location, according to the March, April and May weather outlook released today (Feb. 15) by the U.S. Climate Prediction Center.
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Plant survival under high salinity: Plant cell wall sensing mechanismHow cells sense their physical state and compensate for cell wall damage is poorly understood. But a new analysis of plants exposed to salt stress offers the first experimental evidence and molecular mechanisms showing how FERONIA is essential for the cellular responses that ensure survival under high salinity.
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Comes naturally? Using stick insects, scientists explore natural selection, predictabilityPredicting evolution remains difficult. Scientists have studied evolution of cryptic body coloration and pattern in stick insects for insights.
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Student research team accelerates snow melt with 'Melt Mat''The idea for a thermal absorptive blanket is novel, but also very practical,' said Jonathan Boreyko, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics and the team's faculty advisor. 'For novelty's sake, the team really needed to go for a journal publication. For practicality's sake, we went for a patent.'
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Physicists create new form of lightPhysicists have created a new form of light that could enable quantum computing with photons.
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Strong winds send migrating seal pups on lengthier tripsPrevailing winds can send northern fur seal pups on an epic journey.
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US judge sets long sentences for two Russian hackersA US judge sentenced a pair of Russians who led a massive hacking and data breach scheme to lengthy criminal sentences, the US Department of Justice announced Thursday.
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Underwater video shows marine life growing at wind farmOffshore wind proponents are touting new undersea footage that suggests a vibrant marine habitat is growing around the nation's first offshore wind farm—a five-turbine operation off Rhode Island's waters.
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New report: Labs differ widely in BRCA testing protocolsA new article published in npj Genomic Medicine showcases the wide differences in BRCA testing protocols at labs around the world. The article surveyed 86 laboratories around the world about their BRCA testing practices and found that all the labs differed widely in their approach.
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At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary treeFor hundreds of years, butterfly collecting has often inspired a special kind of fanaticism, spurring lengthy expeditions, sparking rivalries and prompting some collectors to risk their fortunes and skins in their quest for the next elusive specimen.
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The Congressional Stalemate Over Guns and Immigration Isn't Going AwayThe dim odds that Congress will respond to the Parkland school massacre with meaningful gun control and the flickering prospects it will pass immigration reform both reflect the same obstacle: the widening trench between the forces of transformation and restoration in American politics. The convergence of the two policy debates today—with the nation reeling from Wednesday’s shooting in Florida an
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Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World NetworksA paper posted online last month has reignited a debate about one of the oldest, most startling claims in the modern era of network science: the proposition that most complex networks in the real world — from the World Wide Web to interacting proteins in a cell — are “scale-free.” Roughly speaking, that means that a few of their nodes should have many more connections than others, following a mat
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Projekt skal forebygge diabetes i udsat boligområde‘Tingbjerg Changing Diabetes’ er et projekt, der har til formål først at bryde sociale barrierer ned for derefter at sætte ind med tiltag, der skal forebygge diabetes og fremme sundheden i et udsat område.
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The Solar Storm Hitting Earth Today Might Look AwesomeThanks to a solar storm, the northern part of North America may see a dazzling auroral display tonight.
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Broadcast camera lenses at the Olympics can cost as much as a LamborghiniTechnology These 59-pound boxes contains lots of glass and a tons of tech. Broadcast lenses like Canon's $222,000 UHD-Digisuper 86 make all that Olympic magic look sharp and clear.
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How the cuttlefish spikes out its skin: Neurological study reveals surprising controlWouldn't it be useful to suddenly erect 3-D spikes out of your skin, hold them for an hour, then even faster retract them and swim away? Octopus and cuttlefish can do this as a camouflage tactic. A new study clarifies the neural and muscular mechanisms that underlie this extraordinary defense tactic.
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Biochemical networks mapped in midgut of Aedes aegypti mosquitoesScientists have mapped for the first time the midgut metabolites of the Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that can transmit viruses that cause dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever to humans.
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Inside the Mind of Amanda Feilding, Countess of Psychedelic ScienceIf LSD is having its renaissance, 75-year-old English countess Amanda Feilding is its Michelangelo.
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6 famous writers who never made a dimeWe all love the art, but we often forget the difficulty of being an artist. Here are some of the most famous, greatest writers of all time who never could quite make a living doing it. Read More
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CRISPR scissors, Cas12a, enables cutting-edge diagnosticsUtilizing an unsuspected activity of the CRISPR-Cas12a protein, researchers created a simple diagnostic system called DETECTR to analyze cells, blood, saliva, urine and stool to detect genetic mutations, cancer and antibiotic resistance and also diagnose bacterial and viral infections. The scientists discovered that when Cas12a binds its double-stranded DNA target, it indiscriminately chews up all
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Eating yogurt may reduce cardiovascular disease riskA new study suggests that higher yogurt intake is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk among hypertensive men and women.
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If Porn Could Be Banned, Why Not AR-15s?Pornography is officially a “public-health crisis” in Utah, according to 2016 legislation. The Republican representative Todd Weiler, who championed the bill and told me at the time that he sees a lot of porn in his Twitter feed, has been working to make it illegal for internet service providers to provide internet that contains porn. When I covered this story it felt like a fringe movement, born
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Researchers challenge claims that sugar industry shifted blame to fatIn recent years, high-profile claims in the academic literature and popular press have alleged that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and emphasize instead the dangers of dietary fat. Historians challenge those claims through a careful examination of the evidence.
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CRISPR-based diagnostic tool advanced, miniature paper test developedThe team that first unveiled the rapid, inexpensive, highly sensitive CRISPR-based diagnostic tool called SHERLOCK has greatly enhanced the tool's power to work with a miniature paper test, similar to a pregnancy test, allowing rapid and simple detection in any setting. Additional features greatly expand both the breadth and sensitivity of the diagnostic information, including the ability to detec
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Specific set of nerve cells controls epileptic seizures' spread through brainExperimental activation of a small set of nerve cells in the brain prevents convulsive seizures in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy among human adults.
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Chemists harness artificial intelligence to predict the future (of chemical reactions)A team of researchers have developed state-of-the-art software to predict reaction yields while varying up to four components. Their software can work for any reaction on any substrate, using Spartan data. The researchers hope it will prove to be a valuable tool in expediting the synthesis of new medicines.
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The Flu Shot Is More Effective Than We Thought This YearIt's been a bad flu season, but this year's vaccine does offer some protection against the nasty bug.
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At last, butterflies get a bigger, better evolutionary treeButterflies offer key insights into community ecology, how species originate and evolve, climate change and interactions between plants and insects. But a comprehensive map of how butterflies are related to each other has been lacking — until now.
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New guideline warns pain benefits of medical cannabis overstatedA new medical guideline suggests Canada's family physicians should take a sober second thought before prescribing medical cannabis to most patients.Published in Canadian Family Physician, "Simplified Guideline for Prescribing Medical Cannabinoids in Primary Care" states there is limited evidence to support the reputed benefits of medical marijuana for many conditions, and what benefits do exist ma
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To Survive, These Animals Must Lose Their CamouflageOn December 4, 1920, a 14-year-old boy saw something extraordinary while walking in the central Wisconsin woods. Snowshoe hares, all of them with vibrant white fur, “were hopping about on fallen leaves that had no snow covering,” he wrote . “The month was unusually mild, with practically no snow until the middle of the period.” It was like a vision: The animals almost glowed against the sullen, e
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Gene-altering treatments are medicine’s best shot yet against Huntington’s diseaseAfter 25 years, scientists are starting to make progress against the devastating illness.
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Will North Korea's Synchronized Cheerleaders Soften the Country's Image?The mystery of the 229-woman squad is hard to ignore.
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Trump Is Looking in the Wrong Direction to Prevent Mass ShootingsIn the aftermath of a mass shooting, hindsight kicks in quickly. Friends, acquaintances, colleagues, or teachers are often able to pinpoint moments where they realized something was wrong with the perpetrator, or simply felt uncomfortable. President Trump picked up on this idea of warning signs in a tweet Thursday morning, responding to the killing of 17 in Parkland, Florida, the day before: So m
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Nominees in the 2018 World Press Photo ContestThe top images being considered to win awards in the 61st annual World Press Photo Contest ​have just been released, with the final announcement of the winners coming on April 12. Jury members selected the nominees in eight categories, including the new environment category, from submissions made by 42 photographers hailing from 22 countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow us to
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NASA's 'Quiet Supersonic' Plane Could Change Airports ForeverNASA's plan to fly a quiet supersonic jet by 2021 could have world-changing consequences for air travel.
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Metabolomics, a promising tool for advancing in treatment personalization of oncological patientsThis review provides specific examples of metabolomics applications in the field of clinical pharmacology and precision medicine with a focus on the therapeutic management of cancer and in the translation of these results to the clinics.
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'Evolutionary rescue' areas for animals threatened by climate changeAs winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons. An international scientific team has set out to discover whether adaptive evolution can rescue these animals in the face of rapidly changing climate.
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Skiing robots get their own Winter Olympics on South Korean mountainMiles away from the site of the site of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea, eight teams raced skiing robots down a mountain for a chance to win $10,000. Read More
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Figure skaters have to train themselves to ignore their natural reflexesScience Brain areas that control movement have to learn new tricks. Figure skating challenges the brain as well as the body.
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Physicists speed up droplet-wrapping processExperimental physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.
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Supermassive black holes are outgrowing their galaxiesThe growth of the biggest black holes in the Universe is outrunning the rate of formation of stars in the galaxies they inhabit, according to two new studies using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes and described in our latest press release.
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Hearing loss is common after infant heart surgeryChildren who have heart surgery as infants are at risk for hearing loss, coupled with associated risks for language, attention and cognitive problems, by age four. In a cohort of 348 preschoolers who survived cardiac surgery, researchers found hearing loss in about 21 percent, a rate 20 times higher than is found in the general population. This underscores the importance of early hearing evaluatio
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UMass Amherst physicists speed up droplet-wrapping processExperimental physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today report that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what once was a painstaking process taking tens of minutes can now be done in a fraction of a second.
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Birds and primates share brain cell types linked to intelligenceIn a new study scientists show that some neurons in bird brains form the same kind of circuitry and have the same molecular signature as cells that enable connectivity between different areas of the mammalian neocortex. The researchers found that alligators share these cell types as well, suggesting that while mammal, bird and reptile brains have very different anatomical structures, they operate
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First Human Case of H7N4 Bird Flu ConfirmedThe woman, a resident of southeast China, has since recovered.
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Transgender Woman Breast-Feeds Baby After Hospital Induces LactationA journal says it’s the first documented case of successful inducement of breast-milk production in a transgender woman.
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Comes naturally? Using stick insects, scientists explore natural selection, predictabilityPredicting evolution remains difficult. Scientists from Utah State University, University of Sheffield, University of Connecticut, University of Notre Dame and Simon Frasier University studied evolution of cryptic body coloration and pattern in stick insects for insights.
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Epilepsy study links mossy brain cells to seizures and memory lossA small group of cells in the brain can have a big effect on seizures and memory in a mouse model of epilepsy. According to a new study in Science, loss of mossy cells may contribute to convulsive seizures in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) as well as memory problems often experienced by people with the disease. The study was funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIND
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The more kinds of bees, the better for humans, Rutgers-led study findsThe bigger the area to pollinate, the more species of wild bees you need to pollinate it.
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Physicists create new form of lightMIT and Harvard physicists have created a new form of light that could enable quantum computing with photons.
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CRISPR-based technology can detect viral DNATechnology that's been used to edit genomes can also spot snippets of DNA. Such detective work may enable rapid, reliable ways to identify infections and cancer.
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Study finds opportunity to increase opioid dependence treatment in Ontario jailsThe study included completion of an online survey by 27 physicians, who reported working in 15 of 26 provincial correctional facilities for adults in Ontario. This included 10 of the 13 facilities with a population of more than 200. The study identified that about half of the physicians prescribed methadone and half prescribed buprenorphine/naloxone to treat opioid dependence.
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CRISPR scissors, Cas12a, enables cutting-edge diagnosticsUtilizing an unsuspected activity of the CRISPR-Cas12a protein, UC Berkeley researchers created a simple diagnostic system called DETECTR to analyze cells, blood, saliva, urine and stool to detect genetic mutations, cancer and antibiotic resistance and also diagnose bacterial and viral infections. The scientists discovered that when Cas12a binds its double-stranded DNA target, it indiscriminately
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Chemists harness artificial intelligence to predict the future (of chemical reactions)A team of researchers from Princeton University and Merck have developed state-of-the-art software to predict reaction yields while varying up to four components. Their software can work for any reaction on any substrate, using Spartan data. The researchers hope it will prove to be a valuable tool in expediting the synthesis of new medicines.
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Biochemical networks mapped in midgut of Aedes aegypti mosquitoesScientists have mapped for the first time the midgut metabolites of the Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that can transmit viruses that cause dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever to humans.
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Specific set of nerve cells controls seizures' spread through brain, Stanford study findsExperimental activation of a small set of nerve cells in the brain prevents convulsive seizures in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy, the most common form of epilepsy among human adults, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
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Researchers advance CRISPR-based diagnostic tool, develop miniature paper testThe team that first unveiled the rapid, inexpensive, highly sensitive CRISPR-based diagnostic tool called SHERLOCK has greatly enhanced the tool's power to work with a miniature paper test, similar to a pregnancy test, allowing rapid and simple detection in any setting. Additional features greatly expand both the breadth and sensitivity of the diagnostic information, including the ability to detec
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Researchers challenge claims that sugar industry shifted blame to fatIn recent years, high-profile claims in the academic literature and popular press have alleged that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and emphasize instead the dangers of dietary fat. In a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York cha
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Research identifies 'evolutionary rescue' areas for animals threatened by climate changeAs winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons. An international scientific team led by University of Montana Professor L. Scott Mills has set out to discover whether adaptive evolution can rescue these animals in the face of rapidly changing climate.
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Consumer and industrial products now a dominant urban air pollution sourceChemical products that contain compounds refined from petroleum, like household cleaners, pesticides, paints and perfumes, now rival motor vehicle emissions as the top source of urban air pollution, according to a surprising NOAA-led study.
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New mutation linked to ovarian cancer can be passed down through dadA newly identified mutation, passed down through the X-chromosome, is linked to earlier onset of ovarian cancer in women and prostate cancer in father and sons. Kunle Odunsi, Kevin H. Eng and colleagues at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, N.Y., report these findings Feb. 15, 2018, in PLOS Genetics.
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Immune system simulation shows need for multi-target treatments for sepsisUsing a computational model of the human immune system, scientists have shown that efforts to combat sepsis might be more effective if they targeted multiple steps in the molecular processes that drive the illness. This finding is presented in PLOS Computational Biology.
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Antioxidant treatment prevents sexual transmission of Zika in miceThe antioxidant drug ebselen can prevent sexual transmission of Zika virus from male to female mice, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Yogy Simanjuntak and colleagues at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. The results hint at a potential role for ebselen in preventing Zika spread among humans.
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Genetics makes Asians, Europeans susceptible to dengue shock syndromeAs globalization and climate change spread tropical diseases around the globe, not all populations are equally susceptible to infection. Gene variants common in people of Asian and European ancestry, for instance, make them more prone than those of African origin to developing severe dengue shock syndrome, according to a new study in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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Strategy in the blink of an eyeIf a brief event in our surroundings is about to happen it is probably better not to blink during that moment. Researchers found that humans unconsciously trade off the loss of information during a blink with the physiological urge to blink.
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Infection outbreaks at hospitals could be reduced by copper-coated uniformsDoctors, nurses and healthcare professionals could soon be wearing uniforms brushed with tiny copper nanoparticles to reduce the spread of bacterial infections and viruses, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli), at hospitals.
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Don't blame hurricanes for most big storm surges in NortheastHurricanes spawn most of the largest storm surges in the northeastern US, right? Wrong, according to a new study. Extratropical cyclones, including nor'easters and other non-tropical storms, generate most of the large storm surges in the Northeast, according to the new study. They include a freak November 1950 storm and devastating nor'easters in March 1962 and December 1992.
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Scientists discover almost 100 new exoplanetsBased on data from NASA's K2 mission an international team of scientists have just confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets, planets located outside our solar system. This brings the total number of new exoplanets found with the K2 mission up to almost 300.
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Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the LineFrom SMS notifications to an egregious number of emails, the social media company's desperation has gone too far.
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Action plan released to conserve one of Africa's richest sites for biodiversityA team of scientists led by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) has developed a conservation blueprint to protect one of the most biodiverse regions in Africa: the Albertine Rift, home to mountain and Grauer's gorillas, golden monkeys, chimpanzees, elephants, and 162 vertebrate, and 350 plant species unique to this region.
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DIY faecal transplants carry risks including HIV and hepatitis, warn expertsFaecal transplants have been used in medical settings to tackle superbugs, but following YouTube videos at home is too risky, say researchers Concerns have been raised about the growing trend for DIY faecal transplants, with experts fearing such attempts could put individuals at an increased risk of HIV and hepatitis as well as conditions ranging from Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis to obesity
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Three photons stick together to create a new form of lightPhotons don’t normally make friends, but now three have been bound together into a brand-new form of light by tricking them into acting like atoms
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Shampoo is causing air pollution, but let’s not lose our headsIn Western cities, household products like deodorants and paints are a bigger source of air pollution than vehicle exhausts – so here’s what we need to do
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Comes naturally? Using stick insects to study natural selection, predictability of evolutionIs evolution predictable? Are changes in a species random or do they happen because of natural selection?
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People are willing to pay more to protect Everglades when they know these two thingsPeople are willing to pay up to $18 annually for the next 10 years to avoid restrictions on how and when they can use water, according to a new study by Florida International University. They are willing to part with even more cash—up to $22 annually—to protect and conserve the nearly 70 threatened and endangered plants and animals that call the Everglades home.
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Amazon to pay $1.2 million in illegal pesticide settlementThe Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced a $1.2 million settlement with Amazon over the sale and distribution of illegal pesticides, one of the largest penalties assessed under federal pesticides laws.
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Chinese New Year: Customs & TraditionsThe Chinese New Year is one of the world's most celebrated festivals.
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Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland ShootingRussian NotPetya USIn the wake of Wednesday's Parkland, Florida school shooting Russian bots have taken to Twitter to stoke the gun control debate.
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Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissionsA gap in emission inventories of urban volatile organic compound (VOC) sources, which contribute to regional ozone and aerosol burdens, has increased as transportation emissions in the United States and Europe have declined rapidly. A detailed mass balance demonstrates that the use of volatile chemical products (VCPs)—including pesticides, coatings, printing inks, adhesives, cleaning agents, and
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Natural selection and the predictability of evolution in Timema stick insectsPredicting evolution remains difficult. We studied the evolution of cryptic body coloration and pattern in a stick insect using 25 years of field data, experiments, and genomics. We found that evolution is more difficult to predict when it involves a balance between multiple selective factors and uncertainty in environmental conditions than when it involves feedback loops that cause consistent ba
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A major chromatin regulator determines resistance of tumor cells to T cell-mediated killingMany human cancers are resistant to immunotherapy, for reasons that are poorly understood. We used a genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 screen to identify mechanisms of tumor cell resistance to killing by cytotoxic T cells, the central effectors of antitumor immunity. Inactivation of >100 genes—including Pbrm1 , Arid2 , and Brd7 , which encode components of the PBAF form of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling
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Wrapping with a splash: High-speed encapsulation with ultrathin sheetsMany complex fluids rely on surfactants to contain, protect, or isolate liquid drops in an immiscible continuous phase. Thin elastic sheets can wrap liquid drops in a spontaneous process driven by capillary forces. For encapsulation by sheets to be practically viable, a rapid, continuous, and scalable process is essential. We exploit the fast dynamics of droplet impact to achieve wrapping of oil
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Natural noncanonical protein splicing yields products with diverse {beta}-amino acid residuesCurrent textbook knowledge holds that the structural scope of ribosomal biosynthesis is based exclusively on α-amino acid backbone topology. Here we report the genome-guided discovery of bacterial pathways that posttranslationally create β-amino acid–containing products. The transformation is widespread in bacteria and is catalyzed by an enzyme belonging to a previously uncharacterized radical S
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Observation of three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear mediumBound states of massive particles, such as nuclei, atoms, or molecules, constitute the bulk of the visible world around us. By contrast, photons typically only interact weakly. We report the observation of traveling three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium where the interactions between photons are mediated by atomic Rydberg states. Photon correlation and conditional phase measurem
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Dentate gyrus mossy cells control spontaneous convulsive seizures and spatial memoryTemporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is characterized by debilitating, recurring seizures and an increased risk for cognitive deficits. Mossy cells (MCs) are key neurons in the hippocampal excitatory circuit, and the partial loss of MCs is a major hallmark of TLE. We investigated how MCs contribute to spontaneous ictal activity and to spatial contextual memory in a mouse model of TLE with hippocampal scl
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Species turnover promotes the importance of bee diversity for crop pollination at regional scalesEcologists have shown through hundreds of experiments that ecological communities with more species produce higher levels of essential ecosystem functions such as biomass production, nutrient cycling, and pollination, but whether this finding holds in nature (that is, in large-scale and unmanipulated systems) is controversial. This knowledge gap is troubling because ecosystem services have been w
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Structures of C1-IgG1 provide insights into how danger pattern recognition activates complementDanger patterns on microbes or damaged host cells bind and activate C1, inducing innate immune responses and clearance through the complement cascade. How these patterns trigger complement initiation remains elusive. Here, we present cryo–electron microscopy analyses of C1 bound to monoclonal antibodies in which we observed heterogeneous structures of single and clustered C1–immunoglobulin G1 (Ig
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Lipopolysaccharide is transported to the cell surface by a membrane-to-membrane protein bridgeGram-negative bacteria have an outer membrane that serves as a barrier to noxious agents in the environment. This protective function is dependent on lipopolysaccharide, a large glycolipid located in the outer leaflet of the outer membrane. Lipopolysaccharide is synthesized at the cytoplasmic membrane and must be transported to the cell surface. To understand this transport process, we reconstitu
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Genomic correlates of response to immune checkpoint therapies in clear cell renal cell carcinomaImmune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the programmed cell death 1 receptor (PD-1) improve survival in a subset of patients with clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). To identify genomic alterations in ccRCC that correlate with response to anti–PD-1 monotherapy, we performed whole-exome sequencing of metastatic ccRCC from 35 patients. We found that clinical benefit was associated with loss-of-
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Enantioselective C(sp3)-H bond activation by chiral transition metal catalystsOrganic molecules are rich in carbon-hydrogen bonds; consequently, the transformation of C–H bonds to new functionalities (such as C–C, C–N, and C–O bonds) has garnered much attention by the synthetic chemistry community. The utility of C–H activation in organic synthesis, however, cannot be fully realized until chemists achieve stereocontrol in the modification of C–H bonds. This Review highligh
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Comment on "Selective anaerobic oxidation of methane enables direct synthesis of methanol"The comment and response concerning the report of oxidation of methane to methanol by water (Reports, 5 May 2017, p. 523) do not fully capture the implications of thermodynamic limitations. A nonisothermal process in which each cycle requires a large temperature swing and permits only substoichiometric methane conversion surely could not be carried out on any practical scale.
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Response to Comment on "Selective anaerobic oxidation of methane enables direct synthesis of methanol"Labinger argues that stepwise reaction of methane with water to produce methanol and hydrogen will never be commercially feasible because of its substoichiometric basis with respect to the active site and the requirement of a large temperature swing. This comment is not touching any new ground, beyond describing the thermodynamic feasibility, thermal cycling, and the role of water as discussed pr
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Probe provides rapid lung investigationScientists develop technology that goes inside the lung to make fast diagnoses of infection.
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In Photos: North Korea's Cheerleading Squad — An Army of BeautiesThis dollhouse-like version of North Korean girls appears in contrast to the nation's isolated, sharp and militant reputation.
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Chemists harness artificial intelligence to predict the future (of chemical reactions)To manufacture medicines, chemists must find the right combinations of chemicals to make the necessary chemical structures. This is more complicated than it sounds, as typical chemical reactions employ several different components, and each chemical involved in a reaction adds another dimension to the calculations.
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CRISPR-based technology can detect viral DNAA powerful genome editing tool can be deployed as an ace DNA detective, able to sniff out DNA snippets that signal viral infections, cancer, or even defective genes.
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New form of light: Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photonsTry a quick experiment: Take two flashlights into a dark room and shine them so that their light beams cross. Notice anything peculiar? The rather anticlimactic answer is, probably not. That's because the individual photons that make up light do not interact. Instead, they simply pass each other by, like indifferent spirits in the night.
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Researchers advance CRISPR-based diagnostic tool, develop miniature paper testThe team that first unveiled the rapid, inexpensive, highly sensitive CRISPR-based diagnostic tool called SHERLOCK has greatly enhanced the tool's power, and has developed a miniature paper test that allows results to be seen with the naked eye—without the need for expensive equipment.
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The more kinds of bees, the better for humans, study findsThe larger an area, the more species of wild bees are needed to pollinate crops, a Rutgers University study shows.
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Biochemical networks mapped in midgut of Aedes aegypti mosquitoesOver the course of one month, three researchers at Colorado State University raised more than 10,000 mosquitoes and dissected more than 2,000 of them, working some days with 500 insects.
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Researchers challenge claims that sugar industry shifted blame to fatIn recent years, high-profile claims in the academic literature and popular press have alleged that the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and emphasize instead the dangers of dietary fat. In a new article in the journal Science, historians at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the City University of New York cha
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Research identifies 'evolutionary rescue' areas for animals threatened by climate changeAs winters arrive later and snow melts earlier, the worldwide decrease in snow cover already may have dramatic impacts on animals that change coat colors with the seasons. An international scientific team led by University of Montana Professor L. Scott Mills has set out to discover whether adaptive evolution can rescue these animals in the face of rapidly changing climate.
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Consumer and industrial products now a dominant urban air pollution sourceChemical products that contain compounds refined from petroleum, like household cleaners, pesticides, paints and perfumes, now rival motor vehicle emissions as the top source of urban air pollution, according to a surprising NOAA-led study.
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Eyewire Winter Games 2018: Accuracy BiathlonOriginating in 18th century Norway, the biathlon has become a winter Olympic event that’s focused on finding the perfect balance of speed and accuracy, just like Accuracy Happy Hours on Eyewire! Contestants strap on cross-country skis and have to travel to a fixed number of checkpoints where they shoot at targets; the athlete with the fastest finishing time wins, but missing a target incurs a tim
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Children's Colorado experts study loss of control eating & bariatric surgery successRecent research led by Thomas H. Inge, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Bariatric Surgery Center at Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado), examined the impact of eating behaviors on success rates related to bariatric surgery in adolescents.
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Household products make surprisingly large contributions to air pollutionA study of smog in the Los Angeles valley finds that paints, fragrances and other everyday items are a growing component of the problem.
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Top telecom regulator faces internal probe: lawmakerChairman Pai FCC Sinclair BroadcastThe top US telecom regulator is the object of an internal watchdog probe into the handling of rule changes that benefitted a politically sensitive merger of two major broadcast operators, a lawmaker said Thursday.
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Suspected Austria bitcoin fraud sparks Europe-wide probeAuthorities investigating a suspected bitcoin-related scam centred in Austria have asked Interpol to help determine whether there might be perpetrators – and victims – of the scheme across Europe.
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Boeing CEO says talks with Embraer making progressPartnership talks between Boeing and Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer are making progress but there is "still work to do," Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg said Thursday.
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Hurricanes Irma and Maria temporarily altered choruses of land and sea animalsAudio recordings of Hurricanes Irma and Maria's passage over Puerto Rico document how the calls of coastal critters changed in response to the deadly storms. The hurricanes caused a major disruption in the acoustic activity of snapping shrimp, a reduction in insect and bird sounds, and potentially an intensification of fish choruses, according to new research.
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Australian fire beetle avoids the heat: Its infrared organs warn the insect of hot surfacesThe Australian jewel beetle Merimna atrata has several heat sensors. Originally it was thought that it uses them to detect forest fires as the insect lays its eggs in the wood of burned eucalyptus trees. Researchers were finally able to refute this hypothesis. Instead, the beetle appears to need its heat sensors for a different purpose: to not burn its feet on landing.
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Asthma medication linked to infertility in womenWomen with asthma who only use short-acting asthma relievers take longer to become pregnant than other women, according to international research.
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Did humans domesticate themselves?Human ‘self-domestication’ is a hypothesis that states that among the driving forces of human evolution, humans selected their companions depending on who had a more pro-social behavior. Researchers have found new genetic evidence for this evolutionary process.
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Male and female brain rhythms show differencesThe electric brain signals, measured by using EEG, of males and females show differences. The difference can't be detected by visual inspection, not even by the trained eye of a neurologist. A 'deep learning' computer is able to find it.
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Not being aware of memory problems predicts onset of Alzheimer's diseaseDoctors who work with individuals at risk of developing dementia have long suspected that patients who do not realize they experience memory problems are at greater risk of seeing their condition worsen in a short time frame, a suspicion that now has been confirmed.
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Short kids may have higher future stroke riskBeing a short kid is associated with increased risk of having a stroke in adulthood, according to new research.
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Maximizing the environmental benefits of autonomous vehiclesThe added weight, electricity demand and aerodynamic drag of the sensors and computers used in autonomous vehicles are significant contributors to their lifetime energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study.
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Geophysicists and atmospheric scientists partner to track typhoons' seismic footprintsClimatologists are often asked, "Is climate change making hurricanes stronger?" but they can't give a definitive answer because the global hurricane record only goes back to the dawn of the satellite era. But now, an intersection of disciplines—seismology, atmospheric sciences, and oceanography—offers an untapped data source: the continuous seismic record, which dates back to the early 20th centur
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Hubble sees Neptune's mysterious shrinking stormThree billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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World's most venomous spiders are actually cousinsTwo lineages of dangerous arachnids found in Australia — long classified as distantly related in the official taxonomy — are, in fact, relatively close evolutionary cousins. The lineages include the most venomous spiders in the world. The findings could help in the development of novel antivenoms, as well as point to new forms of insecticides.
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New hole-punched crystal clears a path for quantum lightOptical highways for light are at the heart of modern communications. But when it comes to guiding individual blips of light called photons, reliable transit is far less common. Now, researchers have created a photonic chip that both generates single photons, and steers them around.
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Hubble sees Neptune's mysterious shrinking stormThree billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm — once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal — is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Geophysicists and atmospheric scientists partner to track typhoons' seismic footprintsA remarkable collaboration between atmospheric science and geophysics could change the way we think about storms and seismicity, and could lead to an answer to the often-asked 'Are hurricanes getting stronger?' The team has identified the seismic footprint of typhoons and hurricanes, which allows climate scientists to add decades to their dataset of powerful storms.
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Induced pluripotent stem cells could serve as cancer vaccineInduced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, are a keystone of regenerative medicine. Outside the body, they can be coaxed to become many different types of cells and tissues that can help repair damage due to trauma or disease. Now, a study in mice suggests another use for iPS cells: training the immune system to attack or even prevent tumors.
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What predicts the quality of children's friendships? Study shows cognition, emotion together playChild development researchers wanted to look at what predicts the quality of children's friendships. The researchers measured a child's cognitions about negative but ambiguous peer events (attribution biases) and the child's tendency to experience and express strong emotions (emotional intensity).
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System draws power from daily temperature swingsA new device can draw power out of the daily cycle of temperature swings to power remote sensors or communications systems.
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I thought VR would make watching Olympic snowboarding awesome. Sadly, it sucked.Virtual-reality programming for the Winter Olympics shows there’s still a long way to go before the tech is ready for prime time.
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Study dispels notion social media displaces human contactEchoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of "social displacement"—the alienation of people from friends and family in favor of Facebook and Twitter.
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Woburn Safari Park: Elephant Tarli survives deadly virusTarli, an endangered Asian elephant, has beaten the odds to overcome an Ebola-like virus.
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Blood-thinning drugs designed to cut stroke risk may actually increase itScientists call for caution in prescribing anticoagulants after some patients with other conditions found to suffer more strokes Blood-thinning drugs may increase rather than cut the risk of stroke in some people over 65 who have an irregular heartbeat and also chronic kidney disease, according to a new study. The researchers are calling on doctors to be more cautious in prescribing the drugs, ca
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Romantic relationships buffer gay and lesbian youth from emotional distressLesbian and gay youth showed significantly less psychological distress and were buffered against the negative effects of bullying and victimization when they were in a relationship than when they were not, reports a new study.The finding is particularly important because prior research has not found a protective effect like this for support from parents and friends.
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Geophysicists and atmospheric scientists partner to track typhoons' seismic footprintsA remarkable collaboration between atmospheric science and geophysics could change the way we think about storms and seismicity, and could lead to an answer to the often-asked 'Are hurricanes getting stronger?' Princeton University's Lucia Gualtieri and Salvatore Pascale led an international team that has identified the seismic footprint of typhoons and hurricanes, which allows climate scientists
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Hubble sees Neptune's mysterious shrinking stormThree billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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New hole-punched crystal clears a path for quantum lightOptical highways for light are at the heart of modern communications. But when it comes to guiding individual blips of light called photons, reliable transit is far less common. Now, a collaboration of researchers from the University of Maryland has created a photonic chip that both generates single photons, and steers them around.
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World's most venomous spiders are actually cousinsTwo lineages of dangerous arachnids found in Australia–long classified as distantly related in the official taxonomy–are, in fact, relatively close evolutionary cousins. The lineages include the most venomous spiders in the world. The findings could help in the development of novel antivenoms, as well as point to new forms of insecticides.
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Probe speeds detection of deep lung infections in patientsA medical imaging technology under development has enabled doctors to see bacteria deep inside patients' lungs for the first time. Fast diagnosis would enable critically ill patients to be given the right medicine quickly and could avoid unnecessary use of antibiotics.
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In 16 years, Borneo lost more than 100,000 orangutansOver a 16-year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover. That's according to estimates showing that more than 100,000 of the island's orangutans disappeared between 1999 and 2015.
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Hunting is changing forests, but not as expectedIn many tropical forests, over-hunting is diminishing the populations of animals who are vital for dispersing the seeds of woody plants. Those same plants are vital for carbon storage and previous theoretical modeling studies predicted dire consequences to defaunation, this research suggests otherwise. Instead the data shows the effects on the ecosystem are less straightforward and less immediatel
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Alzheimer's drug repairs brain damage after alcohol binges in rodentsA drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink.
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Study dispels notion social media displaces human contactEchoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of 'social displacement' — the alienation of people from friends and family in favor of Facebook and Twitter. A new study goes a fair distance toward debunking that notion.
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What to Give Up for Lent? Smoking? Cursing? How About Plastic?The Church of England has issued a “Plastic Lent Challenge,” with six weeks’ worth of ideas for plastic objects to avoid, from wet wipes to toothbrushes.
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Fossil footprints may put lizards on two feet 110 million years agoFossilized footprints found in South Korea could be the earliest evidence of two-legged running in lizards.
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People are slaughtering orangutans and wiping them outThe population of Bornean orangutans fell by almost half in just 16 years, and it was not a sad by-product of deforestation: many apes were killed deliberately
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CRISPR has fixed the genetic cause of a learning disabilityCRISPR gene editing has been used to alleviate the genetic disorder fragile X syndrome, but the technique has only been tried in cells in a dish so far
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Stem cells zapped with radiation can protect mice from cancerInjections of killed stem cells, designed to help the immune system recognise cancers, have been found to protect mice from developing tumours
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Bats’ hairy tongues are perfectly adapted for lapping up nectarIf you're a greedy bat, it helps to have a hairy tongue. The hairs will ensure that you can slurp as much nectar as possible from flowers into your mouth
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Surgical instruments may spread Alzheimer’s proteinsAmyloid protein, which is linked to Alzheimer’s disease, may be spread via surgical implements, but there isn’t evidence yet that this can transmit the disease
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Virtual reality walking stick tutors blind people to cross roadsMicrosoft's “canetroller” offers vibrating feedback in a virtual environment, letting people who are blind experience digital simulations of risky scenarios
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Scientists have developed a lung probe that finds infectionsThe probe provides access deep inside a patient’s lung, which means doctors will be able to diagnose lung conditions much quicker and more accurately.
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The next level of driverless cars: how to solve the problem of humans falling asleepNext wave of development will see drivers only expected to intervene when the car requests it, say researchers Driving down the motorway in a swanky semi-autonomous car, the vehicle is at its own wheel, humming along smoothly. But coming off a slip road it is over to you. The only trouble is, you’ve fallen asleep. The goal of a completely driverless car is considered top of a six-level scale of a
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Can Security Measures Really Stop School Shootings?Researchers argue that an educational approach would work better than “target hardening” — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Young Kids Are Getting The Best Protection From Current Flu VaccineOverall, this season's vaccine is about 36 percent effective in blunting or preventing flu, health officials say. That's better than earlier predictions, and good enough to prevent flu in thousands. (Image credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Want to 3-D-print your next office? Here’s the formula.
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A Gold Medalist With No ArmsBeatrice Vio cultivated a passion for fencing when she was five years old. At 11, she contracted severe meningitis. In the hospital, the doctors gave her an unimaginable choice: Keep her limbs and risk death, or amputate all four to ensure survival. She chose life. Now, Vio is a Paralympic champion and the only fencer in the world who competes without arms or legs. “My strength lies in not thinki
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McDonald's changes its Happy Meal. Here's why my kids still won't get them.600 calories or less for each Happy Meal? Well, it's a start. Read More
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Suomi NPP satellite tracking Tropical Cyclone GitaTropical Cyclone Gita remained a powerful hurricane in the Southern Pacific Ocean when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead and captured a visible image of the storm.
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For tropical forest birds, old neighborhoods matterOld, complex tropical forests support a wider diversity of birds than second-growth forests and have irreplaceable value for conservation, according to an Oregon State University-led exhaustive analysis of bird diversity in the mountains of southern Costa Rica.
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Ruling Out 'Sonic Attack,' Docs Still Mystified by Brain Damage in US Staff in CubaA new report on a group of U.S. embassy workers in Cuba experiencing unexplained concussion symptoms after hearing weird noises only deepens the mystery of the case.
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Hunting is changing forests, but not as expectedWhen it comes to spreading their seeds, many trees in the rainforest rely on animals, clinging to their fur or hitching a ride within their digestive tract. As the seeds are spread around, the plants' prospects for survival and germination are increased.
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Australian fire beetle avoids the heatThe Australian jewel beetle Merimna atrata has several heat sensors. Originally it was thought that it uses them to detect forest fires as the insect lays its eggs in the wood of burned eucalyptus trees. Researchers at the University of Bonn were finally able to refute this hypothesis. Instead, the beetle appears to need its heat sensors for a different purpose: to not burn its feet on landing. Th
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What predicts the quality of children's friendships? Study shows cognition, emotion together playChild development researchers at U of I wanted to look at what predicts the quality of children's friendships. In a recent study published in the journal Child Development, the researchers measured a child's cognitions about negative but ambiguous peer events (attribution biases) and the child's tendency to experience and express strong emotions (emotional intensity).
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System draws power from daily temperature swingsA new device from MIT can draw power out of the daily cycle of temperature swings to power remote sensors or communications systems.
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Scientists unearth secrets of Sir Alexander Fleming's medical breakthroughsA century after Sir Alexander Fleming made two of the most important medical breakthroughs, scientists have unlocked the secret of how his discoveries may contribute to recurrent patient infections.
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Hurricanes Irma and Maria temporarily altered choruses of land and sea animalsAudio recordings of Hurricanes Irma and Maria's passage over Puerto Rico document how the calls of coastal critters changed in response to the deadly storms. The hurricanes caused a major disruption in the acoustic activity of snapping shrimp, a reduction in insect and bird sounds, and potentially an intensification of fish choruses, according to new research presented at the Ocean Sciences Meetin
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Stem Cell Vaccine Protects Mice From CancerStem cells and cancer cells have enough molecular similarities that the former can be used to trigger immunity against the latter.
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UK fracking industry would need strict controls to minimise spill riskStrict controls would be "a necessity" to minimise the risk of spills and leaks from any future UK shale gas industry, according to new research.
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NASA's Aqua satellite finds a wispy Tropical Depression SanbaNASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Sulu Sea as Tropical Depression Sanba continued to weaken.
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Study dispels notion social media displaces human contactEchoing concerns that grew with the World Wide Web itself a decade earlier, the rise of social media has stoked fears of 'social displacement' — the alienation of people from friends and family in favor of Facebook and Twitter.A new study co-authored by a University of Kansas professor goes a fair distance toward debunking that notion.
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Scientists unearth secrets of Sir Alexander Fleming's medical breakthroughsA century after Sir Alexander Fleming made two of the most important medical breakthroughs, scientists have unlocked the secret of how his discoveries may contribute to recurrent patient infections.
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Working in harmony: New insights into how packages of DNA orchestrate developmentNew research from Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah illuminates aspects of how an early embryo, the product of fertilization of a female egg cell by a male sperm cell, can give rise to all the many cell types of the adult animal.
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Birds and primates share brain cell types linked to intelligenceIn a new study scientists from UChicago show that some neurons in bird brains form the same kind of circuitry and have the same molecular signature as cells that enable connectivity between different areas of the mammalian neocortex. The researchers found that alligators share these cell types as well, suggesting that while mammal, bird and reptile brains have very different anatomical structures,
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New CRISPR-Cas9 tool edits both RNA and DNA precisely, U-M team reportsA tool that has already revolutionized disease research may soon get even better, thanks to an accidental discovery in the bacteria that cause many of the worst cases of meningitis.
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New UMass Amherst, Stanford Research identifies plant cell wall sensing mechanismHow cells sense their physical state and compensate for cell wall damage is poorly understood, say authors led by Alice Cheung at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and collaborator José Dinneny from the Carnegie Institute for Science and Stanford University. But their new analysis of plants exposed to salt stress offers the first experimental evidence and molecular mechanisms showing how FER
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Dramatic decline of Bornean orangutansNearly 50 years of conservation efforts have been unable to prevent orangutan numbers on Borneo from plummeting. The latest data published by a team from 38 international institutions, led by researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Liverpool John Moores University in Great Britain,
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Scientists discover the secrets behind the cuttlefish's 3-D 'invisibility cloak'An international team of scientists has identified the neural circuits that enable cuttlefish to change their appearance in just the blink to eye — and discovered that this is similar to the neural circuit that controls iridescence in squids.
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Study of smoking and genetics illuminates complexities of blood pressureAnalyzing the genetics and smoking habits of more than half a million people has shed new light on the complexities of controlling blood pressure, according to a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Induced pluripotent stem cells could serve as cancer vaccine, Stanford researchers sayInduced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, are a keystone of regenerative medicine. Outside the body, they can be coaxed to become many different types of cells and tissues that can help repair damage due to trauma or disease. Now, a study in mice from the Stanford University School of Medicine suggests another use for iPS cells: training the immune system to attack or even prevent tumors.
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The neuroscience of cuttlefish camouflageUnlike squid, bottom-dwelling cuttlefish may be able to put one key aspect of their camouflage on autopilot. Marine Biological Laboratory and University of Cambridge researchers report that these cephalopods can lock in the 3-D textured shape of their dynamic skin for over an hour without nervous system input. This physiology is thought to help cuttlefish save energy as they camouflage from predat
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How the cuttlefish spikes out its skin: Neurological study reveals surprising controlWouldn't it be useful to suddenly erect 3-D spikes out of your skin, hold them for an hour, then even faster retract them and swim away? Octopus and cuttlefish can do this as a camouflage tactic. A new study clarifies the neural and muscular mechanisms that underlie this extraordinary defense tactic, conducted by scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, and the Universit
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In 16 years, Borneo lost more than 100,000 orangutansOver a 16-year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover. That's according to estimates reported in Current Biology on Feb. 15 showing that more than 100,000 of the island's orangutans disappeared between 1999 and 2015.
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Stem cell vaccine immunizes lab mice against multiple cancersStanford University researchers report that injecting mice with inactivated induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) launched a strong immune response against breast, lung, and skin cancers. The vaccine also prevented relapses in animals that had tumors removed. The work appears in the journal Cell Stem Cell on Feb. 15.
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Why Can't the U.S. Treat Gun Violence as a Public-Health Problem?After a deadly shooting, the debate always, it seems, breaks down like this: One side argues for gun control, and the other argues there is no research proving those measures work. There is, in fact, little research into gun violence at all —especially compared to other causes of death in the United States. The modern origins of the impasse can be traced to 1996, when Congress passed an amendment
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Trilobites: Borneo Lost More Than 100,000 Orangutans From 1999 to 2015Deforestation on the island has harmed the primates, but a study found they also disappeared from more intact forests, suggesting people may be killing them.
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Borneo Has Lost 100,000 Orangutans Since 1999That's more than the number of the critically endangered species remaining. The orangutans have been hit hard by deforestation and hunting. The animals are native to the island. (Image credit: Bay Ismoyo /AFP/Getty Images)
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There’s one way to stop school shootings without taking away anyone’s gunsOne achievable solution can stop the epidemic of school shootings in the United States without restricting the guns of law-abiding citizens. Read More
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Trilobites: Nearly 150,000 Orangutans Vanished Over 16 YearsDeforestation on Borneo has harmed the primates, but a study found they also disappeared from more intact forests, suggesting people may be killing them.
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Trilobites: The Cuttlefish, a Master of Camouflage, Reveals a New TrickThese relatives of the octopus and squid save energy by effortlessly extending structures under their skin that help them hide.
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Is China's space laser for real?Eastern Arsenal It's not a Death Star super laser. It's a space broom. China's space laser is for nudging away pieces of space junk, which is increasingly a problem for anyone in orbit.
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Scientists discover the secrets behind the cuttlefish's 3-D 'invisibility cloak'An international team of scientists has identified the neural circuits that enable cuttlefish to change their appearance in just the blink to eye – and discovered that this is similar to the neural circuit that controls iridescence in squids.
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In 16 years, Borneo lost more than 100,000 orangutansOver a 16-year period, about half of the orangutans living on the island of Borneo were lost as a result of changes in land cover. That's according to estimates reported in Current Biology on February 15 showing that more than 100,000 of the island's orangutans disappeared between 1999 and 2015.
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New research identifies plant cell wall sensing mechanismAn international collaboration of plant researchers this week reports yet another newly discovered role for the versatile receptor kinase, FERONIA, in the model plant Arabidopsis. The researchers say it acts as a sensor in the plant cell wall to help maintain its integrity and protect the plant from environmental assaults.
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New CRISPR-Cas9 tool edits both RNA and DNA preciselyA tool that has already revolutionized disease research may soon get even better, thanks to an accidental discovery in the bacteria that cause many of the worst cases of meningitis.
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Birds and primates share brain cell types linked to intelligenceNeuronal cell types in the brains of birds linked to goal-directed behaviors and cognition are similar to cells in the mammalian neocortex, the large, layered structure on the outer surface of the brain where most higher-order processing takes place.
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Just 1 degree changes our risk of severe weatherCurrent commitments won’t meet the Paris Agreement’s aspirational goals of limiting temperature—and that could make the world a degree warmer and considerably more prone to extreme weather. The difference between this UN goal and the actual country commitments is a mere 1 C, which may seem negligible. But a new study in Science Advances finds that even that 1-degree difference could increase the
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The phenomenon of polymorphism in the atomic structure of the methylprednisolone aceponateScientists at Lobachevsky University (UNN) in Nizhny Novgorod are studying physico-chemical properties of steroid hormone crystals. Steroid hormones are a group of physiologically active substances that regulate the processes of vital activity in animals and humans. These include, for example, sex hormones and corticosteroids. In particular, corticosteroids are a subclass of steroid hormones that
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Job One for Quantum Computers: Boost Artificial IntelligenceThe fusion of quantum computing and machine learning has become a booming research area. Can it possibly live up to its high expectations?
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Google Autocomplete Suggestions Are Still Racist, Sexist, and Science-DenyingThe feature suggests that “Islamists are evil” and “Hitler is my hero,” among other offensive prompts.
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‘Suddenly my world would flip’: the woman who is permanently lostSharon’s world is regularly reversed by a rare brain malfunction. Now neurologists, and Wonder Woman, have come to the rescue In 1952, when she was a child, Sharon was playing in the front garden. She was blindfolded while her friends ran around her, laughing, trying not to be caught in a game of blind man’s buff. Sharon grabbed hold of someone’s sleeve and whipped off the scarf that covered her
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What Trump-Era Democrats Can Learn From LBJLast week, Robert Schenkkan’s new play, The Great Society , opened at the Arena Stage in Washington. This riveting sequel to the Tony-award winning All the Way, about the Lyndon Johnson presidency, is a haunting piece of theater for liberals to watch in February of 2018, when President Trump and the Republican Congress have been swinging a political wrecking ball at Barack Obama’s legacy. The two
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Iværksætter fokuserer solen til billig varmeEt helt nyt solfangerprincip er skabt ud fra en teknologi, som manglede et produkt. Men det kræver tålmodighed at være iværksætter inden for energisystemer.
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Ny lægeprotest – denne gang mod sundhedsministeren3.609 læger har skrevet under på et brev, der kalder sundhedsminister Ellen Trane Nørby nedladende, og forlanger større respekt for de danske læger.
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Trump’s Infrastructure Plan May Ignore Climate Change. It Could Be Costly.President Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on rebuilding roads and bridges, but experts say failing to account for climate change will add to costs.
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Bordeaux's 'magnificent' lost vintage pushes small growers to the edgeSurveying a nearly empty cellar, Frederic Nivelle of Bordeaux's prestigious Chateau Climens, reflects on what might have been an outstanding year for the sweet white Sauternes wine.
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Alibaba's Ma hopes Beijing 2022 can be smarter, cheaper, fasterBillionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma foresees an Olympics that is better for fans and athletes and is more economical—and hopes Beijing 2022 will be the pinnacle of that vision.
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Mexico hopes fish farming can help save endangered porpoiseMexico hopes fish farming can help weaken the illegal market for the totoaba fish and help save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise, of which less than 30 survive.
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The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending February 10, 2018)This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv.
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Ugens debat: Gennembrud for SpaceX-raket … Og rækkevidderekord for TeslaEfter flere års forsinkelse sendte Elon Musks rumfartsselskab, SpaceX, tirsdag aften klokken 21.45 dansk tid verdens største raket, Falcon Heavy, ud i rummet fra Kennedy Space Center i Florida. Elon Musks gamle Tesla Road­ster fungerede som missionens ‘pay load’, og rumfartsinteresserede over he…
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Sue The T. Rex Is Making Big Moves With Her Big BonesThe famous fossil calls the Chicago Field Museum home and is moving from the main exhibit hall to a private suite on the second floor. (Image credit: Courtesy of The Field Museum)
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The Genius Within by David Adam review – to what extent is intelligence determined by genes?Zapping his brain and taking ‘smart pills’, Adam’s fascinating history of how we define intelligence raises intriguing questions about our future The old myth that you only use 10% of your brain is obviously rubbish. If an iron spike went through the 90% you never use, why would you care? But what might be true is that we only typically use a small part of our brain’s potential function. What if
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Met Office still 'best forecaster in galaxy' despite BBC rejectionUK weather group’s influence continues to be felt in everything from space missions to farming Frozen ducks’ feet and the flight paths of midges: the uses of forecasts by the Met Office over the 160 years that it has quietly underpinned the fabric of the nation are many and varied. They played a crucial role in D-day and still serve our military today; they keep planes in the sky and space missio
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Trump Won't Declassify Democratic Rebuttal to NunesThe White House has opted not to declassify a memo written by Congressman Adam Schiff and his Democratic colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee until the panel complies with Justice Department and FBI recommendations to redact certain portions of the document. The 10-page document was written in response to a memo written by the committee’s chairman, Devin Nunes, outlining alleged surveil
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Facts About FrackingHydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, is a drilling technique used for extracting oil or natural gas from deep underground.
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Dark matter could be produced by twisted gravitational wavesIf gravitational waves – ripples in space time – have a handedness, primordial particles could interact with them to form a dark matter superfluid that spreads through the cosmos
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This record-breaking photo was taken from 6 billion km awayNew Horizons is one of the furthest spacecraft from Earth. It sent back pictures of two objects in the Kuiper belt, the most distant photographs ever taken
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Birds ‘dream sing’ by moving their vocal muscles in their sleepZebra finches sing during the day, and at night while they sleep their vocal organs act out the motions of singing, a bit like a sleepwalking person
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We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithmWe've never had to deflect an incoming asteroid before it hits Earth, so how do we know the best way to do it? An algorithm says nuclear weapons are the most effective
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The Korean Unification Flag Isn't as Unifying as It SeemsEditor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics coverage . In one of the many overtures of peace agreed upon by Seoul and Pyongyang ahead of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, a reunification flag took the place of the North and South Korean national flags at the opening ceremony on Friday. The symbolism of the flag, which was carried by the joint Korean delegation as it marched, is not s
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Distinctive brain pattern helps habits formWant to work out more? Eat more healthily? Quit smoking? These neurons control the fate of your habits. Read More
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Lower Drug Prices: New Proposals Carry Lots of PromisesThe White House is considering a plan to lower out-of-pocket costs for people in Medicare drug plans, who often pay inflated prices for their drugs.
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The Atlantic Daily: ‘Maybe It’s an Opportunity’What We’re Following Looking at Lawmakers: The U.S. government shut down briefly overnight after Senator Rand Paul held up the vote on a budget bill over concerns about overspending. Even so, the Senate passed the bill around 2 a.m. on Friday, and the House—in spite of an extended opposing speech by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi—followed suit at 5:30. Democratic leaders have recently made substant
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Soft chemotherapy is very effective in older patients when added to targeted treatment in an aggressive breast cancer subtypeA trial published todayin The Lancet Oncology, shows that, in older patients with HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer (an aggressive breast cancer subtype where the cancer has spread to other parts of the body), a combination of a 'soft' chemotherapy with antiHER2 therapy is highly active and has low toxicity, important in a frail population.
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Why your next must-have gadget will probably self-destructMajor advancements in the field of transient electronics have paved the way for gadgets that evaporate. That's important for consumers, and the planet. Read More
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Dust, meteorites, cosmic rays and everything else currently destroying the Tesla in spaceSpace This probably isn't covered under Elon Musk's warranty… SpaceX successfully launched a Tesla Roadster into space—but what will happen to it up there?
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4 questions about the new U.S. budget deal and scienceA new spending package could lead to U.S. science agencies getting a bump in funding.
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Gene therapy researchers find a viral barcode to cross the blood-brain barrierResearchers have discovered a structure on viruses that makes them better at crossing from the bloodstream into the brain – a key factor for administering gene therapies at lower doses for treating brain and spinal disorders. Experiments also showed decreased liver toxicity.
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Lights, camera, action! New endomicroscopic probes visualize living animal cell activityResearchers report they have developed two new endoscopic probes that significantly sharpen the technology’s imaging resolution and permit direct observation of fine tissue structures and cell activity in small organs in sheep, rats and mice.
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These Are the Most Out-of-This-World Photos Ever Taken — LiterallyIt may be blurry, but this image is now the farthest pic ever taken by a spacecraft.
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Elon Musk: the real-life Iron ManRobert Downey Jr used the entrepreneur as a role model for his part in the 2008 film Elon Musk is the archetypal serial entrepreneur, with a string of successes before the startups that would make him famous. Robert Downey Jr turned to Musk for help getting into character as Tony Stark for the 2008 film Iron Man. Musk’s enthusiastic embrace of technology for technology’s sake and his desire to pu
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How Did a Man's Rectum End Up 'Falling Out' of His Body?The man was sitting on the toilet playing games on his phone for half and hour when this happened.
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Placebo pills prescribed honestly help cancer survivors manage symptomsFatigue in cancer survivors is significantly reduced by placebo pill, even when it is known it is a fake pill.
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This A.I. can analyze your blood to predict how long you'll live—and it's freeA company specializing in A.I. medicine will tell you how long you’re likely to live. Read More
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Off BrandToday in 5 Lines President Trump said the departure of staff secretary Rob Porter—who resigned following reports that he had abused two of his ex-wives—was “very sad,” adding that he hopes Porter “will have a wonderful career.” Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand reportedly plans to step down from her role at the Justice Department. Trump signed a sweeping spending bill, reopening the federal
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BRIEF: New Metamaterial Shepherds Sound Across the Water/Air DivideBRIEF: New Metamaterial Shepherds Sound Across the Water/Air Divide The innovation could one day help marine biologists eavesdrop on whales and equip submarines with more sensitive sonar. UnderwaterWhale_topNteaser.jpg Image credits: Damsea via Shutterstock Technology Friday, February 9, 2018 – 17:00 Catherine Meyers, Editor (Inside Science) — Normally, the underwater world is like an acoustic L
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Humans Cared for Sick Puppies Long Ago, Ancient Burial ShowsAncient people likely cared for a sick, domesticated pup for weeks on end before it died about 14,000 years ago during the Paleolithic era, a new study finds.
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The *Waymo v. Uber* Settlement Marks a New Era for Self-Driving Cars: RealityThe lawsuit encapsulated the way this industry used to work, and its end signals a shift into the future.
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Trilobites: At Site of Japanese Volcano’s Supereruption, an Immense Lava Dome LurksScientists are studying the magma plumbing of the scar left by Akahoya eruption 7,300 years ago to help better predict future volcanic activity.
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Virginia aquarium captures video of octopus being bornA remarkable video showing the birth of an octopus at the Virginia Aquarium has been viewed more than 1 million times on social media.
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NSF Will Require Reporting of Sexual HarassmentThe agency could demand institutions it funds to remove researchers who are found guilty of misconduct from NSF-supported projects.
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Primitive Humans Eggs Grown to Full Maturity in the LabSuch a technique could combat infertility, but it's still not clear whether these eggs are normal and functional.
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Using technology to detect hidden threatsSoldiers in combat have to constantly scan their surroundings for improvised explosive devices (IEDs), a signature weapon of modern warfare. These homemade bombs are often hidden—nestled in bushes, buried underground, or sometimes stuffed inside other objects.
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Device that measures cell strength could help identify drugs for asthma, hypertensionEngineers, doctors and scientists at UCLA and Rutgers University have developed a tool that measures the physical strength of individual cells 100 times faster than current technologies.
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Blue Dye Kills Malaria Parasites — But There Is One CatchMethylene blue used to be an anti-malarial treatment but fell out of favor. Researchers wondered, what if it were added to a current medication? (Image credit: Jay Reed/NPR )
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Study: Many parents of children with disabilities don't make care plansMany parents of children with disabilities don't make advance care plans in the event of the parent's or other caretaker's death or disability, according to a new nationwide survey by special education professor Meghan Burke at the University of Illinois.
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Study shows liver cells with whole genome duplications protect against cancerResearchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) at UT Southwestern have discovered that cells in the liver with whole genome duplications, known as polyploid cells, can protect the liver against cancer.
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New brain disease test for Parkinson's, dementia with Lewy bodiesScientists have modified a test for early diagnosis of prion diseases with the goal of improving early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. The group tested cerebral spinal fluid samples from people with Parkinson's disease; people with dementia with Lewy bodies; and controls, some of whom had Alzheimer's disease. The test correctly excluded all the controls and diagnose
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Clock protein controls daily cycle of gene expression by regulating chromosome loopsIt's well known that the human body functions on a 24-hour schedule. The up-and-down daily cycles of a long-studied clock protein called Rev-erb coordinates the ebb and flow of gene expression by tightening and loosening loops in chromosomes, according to new research.
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The Eyewire Winter Games return!Remember the first Eyewire Winter Games? That was all the way back in 2014, coinciding with the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi. Actually, that’s so long ago that many Eyewirers of today hadn’t yet joined! For those who don’t remember, then: it wasn’t our first ever challenge week, but it was an early one, and in fact it lasted two whole weeks. Reminisce here! We’ve come a ways since that time
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Blood test plus ultrasound boosts liver cancer detection by 40 percentCombining ultrasound imaging with a blood test for high alpha fetoprotein (AFP) levels improves detection of early-stage liver cancer by as much as 40 percent, researchers at UT Southwestern's Simmons Cancer Center found.
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A Scandal That Exposes the White House’s ‘Adults’On Friday, as the White House rushed to quell increasing anger about the exit of staff secretary Rob Porter and its handling of domestic violence, President Trump stoked the controversy, suggesting he believed Porter’s denials, despite photographic evidence. “We found out about it recently and I was surprised by it, but we certainly wish him well and it's a tough time for him,” Trump said, in his
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Measurements from 3-D augmented reality holographic models shown to be highly accurateMeasurements taken on projected augmented reality 3-D holographic models were shown to be essentially as accurate as 'gold standard' measurements and nearly approaching that of PACS measurements, according to a study to be presented at the ARRS 2018 Annual Meeting, set for April 22-27 in Washington, D.C.
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Efficient technique discovered for isolating embryonic stem cells in cowsScientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed a highly efficient method of isolating embryonic stem cells in cows. Producing embryonic stem cells from large livestock species like cattle is important for genetic testing, genome engineering, and studying human disease.
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Snacking snakes act as ‘ecosystem engineers’ in seed dispersalDespite the bad rap snakes often get, they are more central to ecology than most people realize. New research reveals that snakes might even play a key role in dispersing plant seeds.
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Waymo vs. Uber Fizzles Just as It Was Getting GoodWell, it’s over. The technology world’s most hotly anticipated trial in years has ended in a settlement: This morning, Uber and Waymo announced that the dispute over an alleged theft of trade secrets would be settled for 0.34 percent of Uber’s equity, valued at about $245 million. Waymo had been seeking about $1 billion in damages. The newish Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi issued a substantial statem
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Ditching Andrew Jackson for Mary JacksonAn elementary school in Utah has traded one Jackson for another in a change that many say was a long time coming. Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City will no longer be named for Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president, whose slave ownership and treatment of Native Americans are often cited in the debate over memorializing historical figures associated with racism. Instead, the school w
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Photos of the Week: Moving a Tyrannosaurus, Philadelphia Victorious, a Drive to MarsThe successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket, an electric car in orbit, colorful Carnival costumes, the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, Turkish Van cats, continued airstrikes in Syria, an earthquake in Taiwan, post-Super Bowl celebrations in Philadelphia, and much more.
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North Korea's Undeserved Olympic GloryEditor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics coverage . After a year of fire-and-fury threatening and nuclear-button measuring , of Little-Rocket-Man and mentally-deranged-dotard name-calling, of apocalyptic warnings about another war on the Korean peninsula, it was heartening to witness. There they were, the South and North Korean Olympic teams marching together in sparkling white j
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A Week Around the World With The AtlanticWhat We’re Writing The Winter Olympics: The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, kicked off today. Here’s a list of the most promising athletes to watch for as the Games get underway, spanning four continents. The Games carry the heavy burden of the world’s hope that sports diplomacy will lead to peace between North and South Korea. But Krishnadev Calamur asks: Do the Olympics really
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Metasurfaces enable improved optical lens performanceProducing the perfect color images we need and love often requires multiple, heavy lenses so that each color focuses in exactly the same plane. Now engineers have developed a new theory that solves the problem using a single thin lens comprised of gradient index materials and metasurface layers to properly direct the light.
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Only one-third of patients diagnosed with depression start treatmentDespite the wide availability of effective treatments for depression and a growing effort nationwide to detect and begin treating depression during primary care visits, only about one-third of individuals newly diagnosed with depression start treatment.
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Global Warming vs. Solar Cooling: The Showdown Begins in 2020The sun may be dimming, temporarily. Don't panic; Earth is not going to freeze over. But will the resulting cooling put a dent in the global warming trend?
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New images reveal how the ear's sensory hairs take shapeOur ability to hear relies on tiny bundles of hair-like sensors inside the inner ear. Scientists have identified a key component of the machinery that makes these bundles grow in an orderly fashion.
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Anker Soundbuds Curve are champions among cheap, wireless headphonesGadgets These $30 headphones can go a long way—just don't tell your audiophile friends. A cheap pair of headphones can be a great investment, even if you're a music snob.
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Printed paper-based device could drug testing more efficient and affordableEngineers have devised a way to make testing for new drugs more efficient and affordable, and reduce the time for helpful medications to reach the public. The printed paper-based device can speed up and improve the accuracy of the drug screening process. Their work could also be used to diagnose diseases, identify environmental contaminants and pinpoint biological warfare agents.
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Improving drone performance in headwindsStability of unmanned aerial vehicles in heavy winds can be improved through rotor placement and angle.
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Organic food provides significant environmental benefits to plant-rich dietsA study of the diets of 34,000 people confirms that a diet high in fruit and vegetables is better for the planet than one high in animal products. The study also finds that organic food provides significant, additional climate benefits for plant-based diets, but not for diets with only moderate contribution from plant products. This is the first-ever study to look at the environmental impacts of b
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Can ultraviolet light fight the spread of influenza?Overhead far-UVC light, a type of ultraviolet light that is harmless to humans, effectively killed airborne flu virus, researchers have found. The lighting may offer a new weapon against the spread of flu virus in public spaces.
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Timing is everything, to our genesScientists discover critical gene activity follows a biological clock, affecting diseases of the brain and body.
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Avoiding blackouts with 100% renewable energyResearchers propose three separate ways to avoid blackouts if the world transitions all its energy to electricity or direct heat and provides the energy with 100 percent wind, water and sunlight. The solutions reduce energy requirements, health damage and climate damage.
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The Government Gets Into the Church-Rebuilding BusinessTucked among the provisions in the budget bill passed by Congress on Friday are new rules about how FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, works with houses of worship. According to the new law, religious nonprofits can’t be excluded from disaster aid just because of their religious nature, which had been the agency’s policy in certain contexts prior to January. The move resolves a long-s
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'Russia Is Our Adversary'Instead of debating whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 elections—in ways that ranged from encouraging incorrect voting methods to promoting fake rallies to sharing false election stories—Americans should be debating how to counter this activity. The 2018 midterm elections are fast approaching, and the threat remains. Before I was elected to represent southwestern Texas in the U
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Are You Addicted to Your Phone?WIRED senior writer Robbie Gonzalez joins us this week to discuss addictive smartphone apps and the science behind technology addiction.
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Earth's Inner Core Shouldn't Technically ExistYep: we're all living on a giant paradox.
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Engineering the Ice Out of Bobsled, Luge and SkeletonEngineering the Ice Out of Bobsled, Luge and Skeleton Plastic tracks could reduce the cost of Olympic “sliding” events and make the sports more environmentally friendly and accessible. Bobsled_topNteaser.jpg Image credits: Tim Hipps via Wikimedia Commons Rights information: Public Domain Sports Friday, February 9, 2018 – 14:30 Peter Gwynne, Contributor (Inside Science) — The sledding events are
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Cockroach ancient geographic and genomic history traced back to last supercontinentArmed with a vast amount of genomic information, a team of researchers has performed the first molecular dating to gain the clearest picture yet of the biogeographical history of cockroaches. They have traced back the key evolutionary time points of the cockroach — all the way back almost 300 million years ago when the Earth's mass was organized into the Pangaea supercontinent.
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Blood sodium levels may affect cognition in older adultsIn generally healthy older men, slightly lower sodium levels in the blood were related to both cognitive impairment and declines in cognitive function over time. Additional studies are needed to determine whether correction of lower serum sodium may influence cognition in older adults.
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Hearing loss linked to poor nutrition in early childhood, study suggestsYoung adults who were undernourished as preschool children were approximately twice as likely to suffer from hearing loss as their better- nourished peers, a new study suggests.
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Scientists take big step toward stopping cancer metastasisNew research may give scientists a chance to target tumors before they metastasize. The study shows that a protein called LTBP3 fuels a chain reaction that leads some early developing tumors to grow new blood vessels. These vessels then act like highways to spread cancer cells throughout the body, seeding metastatic tumors very early on.
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Take a Number: Herpes Is Slowly Retreating, but the Infection Remains CommonAbout half of Americans aged 14 to 49 have HSV-1 or HSV-2. The latter, genital herpes, infects twice as many women as men.
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Routine imaging scans may predict fracture risk in older adultsRoutine body CT scans may help clinicians estimate an individual's risk of future osteoporotic fracture, according to new study.
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Simple rules can help fishery managers cope with ecological complexityA team of ecologists and economists are the first to test whether real-life ecological interactions produce economic benefits for the fishing industry.
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Apalutamide delays progression of nonmetastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancerA multi-institutional phase 3 trial found that treatment with an investigational androgen receptor inhibitor significantly delayed the development of metastasis in patients with prostate cancer that had become resistant to standard androgen-deprivation therapy.
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The Most Interesting Thing Shot into Space This Week Wasn't a TeslaThere was a second payload on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy that launched Tuesday, and it's built to last 14 billion years.
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Why the Asteroid Approaching Earth Was Only Spotted 5 Days AgoNASA didn't spot the asteroid, 2018 CB, that will skim by Earth today until a few days ago. Here's why it snuck under the radar.
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Time's Just About Up to Secure the 2018 Midterm ElectionsThe first primary for the 2018 midterm elections takes place March 6—and many states are still woefully underprepared.
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Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from waterWith two billion people worldwide lacking access to clean and safe drinking water, joint research by Monash University, CSIRO and the University of Texas at Austin published today in Sciences Advances may offer a breakthrough new solution.
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New lithium collection method could boost global supplyWith continual technological advancements in mobile devices and electric cars, the global demand for lithium has quickly outpaced the rate at which it can be mined or recycled, but a University of Texas at Austin professor and his research team may have a solution.
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New malleable 'electronic skin' self-healable, recyclableUniversity of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable 'electronic skin' that has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices.
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Lab-grown eggs could pave way towards new fertility treatmentsHuman eggs have been developed in the lab from their earliest stage to full maturity, in a study that could lead to improved fertility treatments.
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AI computer vision breakthrough IDs poachers in less than half a secondResearchers have long been applying AI to protect wildlife. Initially, computer scientists were using AI and game theory to anticipate the poachers' haunts, and now they have applied artificial intelligence and deep learning to spot poachers in near real-time.
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Safety blunders expose lab staff to potentially lethal diseases in UKExclusive: breaches investigated involve dengue virus, anthrax and other deadly pathogens Safety breaches at UK labs that handle harmful bacteria, viruses and fungi have spread infections to staff and exposed others to potentially lethal diseases, the Guardian has learned. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has investigated a series of mistakes over the past two years that led to scientists fa
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Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from waterWith two billion people worldwide lacking access to clean and safe drinking water, joint research by Monash University, CSIRO and the University of Texas at Austin published today in Sciences Advances may offer a breakthrough new solution.
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News Analysis: Trump, Tell Us About Your Flu ShotOur germophobic president must do more to protect American health.
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Chemist designs diabetic treatment minus harmful side effectsSyracuse University professor Robert Doyle has figured out how to control glucose levels in the bloodstream without the usual side effects of nausea, vomiting or malaise.
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Team Kaiju reigns supreme!We, for one, welcome our new kaiju overlords. The victory in this VS goes to the kaiju! Well fought, one and all. When you’ve dusted yourselves off, take a look at the leaderboard! Artwork by Daniela Gamba
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A fish that barely sleeps could help turn humans into all-night party animalsAnimals The Mexican cavefish have no eyes, little pigment, and require about two hours of sleep per night to survive. The blind Mexican cavefish only needs two hours of sleep a night to survive and thrive—researchers are trying to understand how and why.
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Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cellsUnderstanding how the dynein-dynactin complex is assembled and organized provides a critical foundation to explain the underlying causes of several dynein-related neurodegenerative diseases.
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Aerial imagery gives insight into water trendsResearchers say aerial images taken from drones or helicopters are just as accurate as more conventional field methods used for estimating river discharge.
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Direct link between glands and implanting embryos critical to pregnancyResearchers used 3-D imaging with molecular testing to uncover new insight into the earliest stages of mammalian pregnancy — offering clues to unsolved questions in pregnancy. The scientists demonstrate in mice that glands in the uterus must link and communicate directly with the embryo so it will implant and begin pregnancy.
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Stand-alone system to produce drinking water by means of solar energyResearchers in applied electrochemistry and electrocatalysis have developed a stand-alone system for desalinating and treating water through electrodialysis. The system is directly powered by solar energy and can be applied in off-grid areas.
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Sleepless in Japan: How insomnia killsLay people tend to think that insomnia is usually a symptom of something else, like stress, a bad diet or a sedentary lifestyle, but this may not be true at all. It is possible that insomnia itself causes many of the conditions that it is seen as a symptom of. Using previous research that shows that insomnia causes a decrease in blood flow in the front dorsal lobe of the brain, which correlates wi
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Impact companion animals have on ownersA new study suggests that pets provide benefits to those with mental health conditions.
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This Special UV Light Could Zap Flu Germs from the AirA special type of ultraviolet (UV) light may be able to "zap" flu germs right out of the air, a new study suggests.
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CERN may have just found a hypothetical quasiparticleCERN’s LHC has just found evidence of the odder on quasiparticle after a 44-year search. Read More
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Astrophysicists settle cosmic debate on magnetism of planets and starsUsing one of the world's most powerful laser facilities, a team of scientists experimentally confirmed a long-held theory for cosmic magnetic field generation: the turbulent dynamo. By creating a hot turbulent plasma the size of a penny, that lasts a few billionths of a second, the researchers recorded how the turbulent motions can amplify a weak magnetic field to the strengths of those observed i
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Mysterious lives of narwhalsNarwhals are some of the most elusive creatures in the ocean, spending most of their lives in deep water far from shore. But new research may shed a bit of light on these enigmatic marine mammals.
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Artists envisioned the future of work, and the results are pure fantasyFrom landfill recycler to skyscraper printer: predictions of how you will be employed in 2030.
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Why North Korea has already won the Winter OlympicsThe Olympic Games are the perfect backdrop for international propaganda. Read More
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In a randomized clinical study involving adults age 56 to 71 that recently published in Neurobiology of Aging, researchers found that after cognitive training, participants' brains were more energy efficient, meaning their brain did not have to work as hard to perform a task.submitted by /u/SophiaDevetzi [link] [comments]
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The Flat Earth Society has revealed that SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch was a hoaxSpaceX made history Tuesday after successfully launching its Falcon Heavy rocket into space, but not all are convinced any of that actually happened. Read More
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Winter storm in US Midwest snarls roads, hits flightsA significant winter storm brought heavy snowfalls to parts of the US Midwest on Friday, causing flight cancelations, snarling roads and closing schools.
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Aerial imagery gives insight into water trendsWith an ever-growing human population and its inherent demand for water, there is a critical need to monitor water resources. New technology could make it more feasible than ever to measure changes in the water flow of rivers.
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What Was the Most Influential Act of Protest in History?Gordon S. Wood, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author The protests against the Stamp Act in 1765, which inevitably led to the creation of the United States a decade later. Harry Leslie Smith, World War II veteran, activist, and author, Harry’s Last Stand Like in our own era, corruption and nepotism were ubiquitous in the 16th century. They stifled social and scientific progress. Were it not
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Five rad and romantic ways to turn your home into a karaoke barGadgets On Valentine's Day, warm up those pipes and start serenading. Five rad and random ways to turn your home into a romantic Valentine’s Day karaoke bar so you can serenade your way into their heart.
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New Horizons captures record-breaking images in the Kuiper BeltNASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image – and made history.
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Aerial imagery gives insight into water trendsUSU researchers say aerial images taken from drones or helicopters are just as accurate as more conventional field methods used for estimating river discharge.
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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter preparing for years aheadNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade.
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Airbus to pay 81 mn euros to end German corruption probe (Update)European aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Friday said it had agreed to pay a fine of 81.25 million euros ($99 million) to end a German corruption probe into the 2003 sale of Eurofighter jets to Austria.
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The 'Perfect Human Pathogen' Is Spreading at the Winter OlympicsWhen it comes to human pathogens, norovirus gets the gold.
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Water-soluble warped nanographeneGraphene and its nano-sized little sibling, nanographene, are well known for their remarkable photoelectronic properties. However, biomedical applications are hampered by the insolubility of the materials, especially in water. A Japanese team of scientists has now introduced substituted 'warped nanographene,' which is soluble in a broad range of solvents while maintaining its photophysical propert
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Forging a quantum leap in quantum communicationThe major drawback of quantum communication today is the slow speed of data transfer, which is limited by the speed at which the parties can perform quantum measurements. Researchers have now devised a method that overcomes this.
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Your gadget's next power supply? Your bodySearching for a power outlet may soon become a thing of the past. Instead, devices will receive electricity from a small metallic tab that, when attached to the body, is capable of generating electricity from bending a finger and other simple movements.
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Texas flood: Researchers compare pollution levels before and after Hurricane HarveyRecent years have seen rising interest in improving post-disaster research. Although understanding the wide-ranging effects of disasters is vital for an effective public health response, a lack of baseline data has made it difficult to attribute post-disaster changes in environmental conditions to the impacts of disasters.
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Neanderthals' lack of drawing ability may relate to hunting techniquesVisual imagery used in drawing regulates arm movements in manner similar to how hunters visualize the arc of a spear.
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Clock protein controls daily cycle of gene expression by regulating chromosome loopsIt's well known that the human body functions on a 24-hour schedule. The up-and-down daily cycles of a long-studied clock protein called Rev-erb coordinates the ebb and flow of gene expression by tightening and loosening loops in chromosomes, according to new research.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be: But how many ideas did Shakespeare himself 'borrow'?The game is afoot! It seems Shakespeare borrowed language from his contemporaries more directly than we previously realized. Read More
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Bolivia's lonely frog: Scientists race to find mate for RomeoRomeo, a 10-year-old Sehuencas water frog, has been given a dating profile as part of the search.
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Scientists create functioning kidney tissueScientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science. The study signifies a significant milestone in the development of treatment for kidney disease.
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Inflationary Populism Is Trump's Path ForwardShortly after Trump’s election, the political scientist Mark Blyth argued that the outcome was not an idiosyncratic event, but rather the culmination of a long-brewing revolt against an anti-inflationary regime that had been built up over 30 years by parties of the center-right and center-left. If the inflation of the 1970s made that era a debtor’s paradise, the years since have for the most part
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Photos of the Opening Ceremony of the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter OlympicsScenes of the spectacular performances, fireworks, official proclamations, and the parade of nations that just took place in Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in South Korea, signaling the start of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
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The Quiet Modernism of Pyeongchang's Opening CeremonyEditor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic’s Winter Olympics coverage . If the most memorable Olympics opening ceremonies of recent years have anything in common, it’s an unabashedly bonkers streak. In London in 2012, multiple Mary Poppinses and a stunt double of Queen Elizabeth II descended from the heights of the stadium, while an appearance by the character Mr. Bean ended with a fart noise. In So
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A phone that says “no” to little kid fingersAn algorithm for detecting who’s swiping the screen could help make phones child-proof.
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Uber and Waymo Settle Autonomous Driving Tech Lawsuit for $245 MillionAfter a heated few days in court, Uber and Waymo have agreed to a truce—one that gives Google an added stake in its autonomous vehicle rival.
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Facebook pledges $10 mn for community leadersFacebook said Friday that it will issue up to $10 million (8.2 million euros) in grants to help support and train community leaders around the world.
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Can Figure Skaters Master the Head-Spinning Physics of a Quintuple Jump?As recently as a few years ago, a quintuple jump seemed out of the question. Today? Not so much. Here's what it would take.
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Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cellsOn the cellular highway, motor proteins called dyneins rule the road. Dyneins "walk" along structures called microtubules to deliver cellular cargo, such as signaling molecules and organelles, to different parts of a cell. Without dynein on the job, cells cannot divide and people can develop neurological diseases.
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NASA finds heaviest rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Gita's northern quadrantNASA's GPM core satellite examined rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Gita soon after the storm came together. Tropical Cyclone Gita formed near American Samoa in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean and triggered warnings and watches on Feb. 9. A Tropical Cyclone Warning is in force for Niue.
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US flu season now as bad as 2009 swine flu epidemicSome doctors say this is the worst flu season they have seen in decades. Some people are saying that, too The flu has further tightened its grip on the US This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report on Friday shows one of every 13 visits to the doctor last week was for fever, cough and other symptoms of the flu. That ties the highest level seen in the U
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Microscopic chariots deliver molecules within our cellsUnderstanding how the dynein-dynactin complex is assembled and organized provides a critical foundation to explain the underlying causes of several dynein-related neurodegenerative diseases.
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NASA finds heaviest rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Gita's northern quadrantNASA's GPM core satellite examined rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Gita soon after the storm came together. Tropical Cyclone Gita formed near American Samoa in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean and triggered warnings and watches on Feb. 9. A Tropical Cyclone Warning is in force for Niue.
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Discharge strategies to prevent asthma readmissions'Improving how we care for children who are hospitalized with asthma includes preparing them for a successful return home with the best tools to manage their illness and prevent a future hospital visit,' says Kavita Parikh, M.D., M.S.H.S.
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The small intestine, not the liver, is the first stop for processing fructoseIn mice, fructose gets processed in the small intestine before getting to the liver.
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Is the quantum computer revolution really just five years away?Many of those involved in the race to unleash the power of quantum computing predict it will happen soon. Here's why, says Graeme Malcolm
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Wealth Matters: A Battle Over Diamonds: Made by Nature or in a Lab?The quality of synthetic diamonds has increased to the point where they have made their way into jewelry stores, but buyers may lose out in the end.
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Waymo, Uber end trade secrets theft trial with settlement (Update)Uber Waymo D. KhosrowshahiWaymo and Uber announced an agreement Friday in the blockbuster federal lawsuit over allegedly stolen trade secrets from the former Google self-driving car project.
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Unlimited movie-theater deal could be too good to surviveMoviePass is trying to bring to movie theaters what Netflix did for DVDs and online streaming: Let subscribers watch as many movies as they want for $10 a month.
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Chicken pox vaccine linked with shingles at the vaccination site in some childrenNew research reports several cases of shingles that developed at the original vaccination site in healthy children after they were immunized against chicken pox. Most of these cases were initially misdiagnosed as other skin rashes. While some of these patients underwent tests to help make the diagnosis, all of the children recovered without complications.
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Cool Snake – Warmth-loving Grass Snake survived the Ice Age in Central EuropeUsing genetic analyses, scientists have discovered that not all Grass Snakes retreated to warm southern refugia during the last Central European Ice Age. They offer first evidence for the survival of a warmth-loving, egg-laying reptile during this cold period.
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Amazon is taking package delivery into its own handsUber Waymo D. Khosrowshahi
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Research uncovers the mysterious lives of narwhalsNarwhals are some of the most elusive creatures in the ocean, spending most of their lives in deep water far from shore. But research being presented at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting here on Monday may shed a bit of light on these enigmatic marine mammals.
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Waymo and Uber have reached a settlement in their trade secrets battleUber Waymo D. Khosrowshahi
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Tropical Storm watch up in Guam, NASA sees 02W formTropical Depression 02W formed in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean late on February 8 as NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead.
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Early treatment decisions can alter the course of care for acute pancreatitis patientsManagement and treatment decisions made within the first 48 to 72 hours of hospital admission for acute pancreatitis patients can significantly alter the course of disease and duration of hospitalization. A new clinical guideline from the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), published in Gastroenterology, the official journal of AGA, focuses on the critical decisions made during initial
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Runways, rockets and Russell’s teapot | Brief lettersStonehenge tunnel | Ants and acid | Lost from the Guardian | Yorkshire pudding | Elon Musk Would it be possible to have a free gamble on which major public work will be completed first: the Stonehenge tunnel or Heathrow’s third runway ( First proposals for Stonehenge’s £1.6bn road tunnel revealed , 8 February)? David Prothero Harlington, Bedfordshire • Morwenna Ferrier ( The faddy eater , G2, 8 Fe
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Cuts to Prevention and Public Health Fund Puts CDC Programs at RiskReductions from the budget passed today and a $750-million shift of funds to the Children's Health Insurance Program add pressure to public health initiatives, including immunizations and outbreak responses.
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Tropical Storm watch up in Guam, NASA sees 02W formTropical Depression 02W formed in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean late on February 8 as NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead.
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Research uncovers the mysterious lives of narwhalsNarwhals are some of the most elusive creatures in the ocean, spending most of their lives in deep water far from shore. But research being presented at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting here on Monday may shed a bit of light on these enigmatic marine mammals.
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The new space race: how billionaires launched the next era of explorationThe launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket into deep space has fired dreams of a new era of 21st-century discovery Scientists and aerospace veterans, many of them still in awe at the cascade of smoke and fire, the roar of a 20-story machine hurtling into the sky, and the sight of a billionaire’s electric car floating past Earth, welcomed Elon Musk to the podium in Cape Canaveral this week. “We wa
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Computational Propaganda: Bots, Targeting And The FutureComputational propaganda was invented by people who realized the possibilities emerging from the intersection of new technologies and behaviors they create — and it's frightening, says Adam Frank. (Image credit: Saul Gravy/Getty Images)
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5 steps to disrupting your comfort zone and embracing creativityIn her new book, Creative Change , social psychologist Jennifer Mueller says everyone loves the idea of creativity even while we prefer the status quo. Read More
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A Visual History of SportsTo celebrate the 2018 Winter Olympics, here’s an animated tour of the history of sports. The first recorded sport in history was spear throwing, which arose in 70,000 BC out of a need for ancient hunters to practice their skills. Bowling was the first known ball game, appearing in Egypt in 3,200 BC; later, there was Pitz, played by the ancient Maya in 2,500 BC, followed by Episkyros, known as “co
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Fifty Shades Freed: A SpoilereviewFor reasons that are now obscure to me—and were by definition ill-conceived—I read Fifty Shades of Grey at that terrible moment in American history when it seemed that everyone else was reading it too. I don’t believe that I read either of the book’s sequels, though I can’t attest to that with much confidence. Suffice to say that I made either the wise decision to skip them or the only marginally
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Researchers help robots think and plan in the abstractNew research shows how robots can autonomously construct abstract representations of their surroundings and use them to plan for multi-step tasks.
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California Truck Rules Set Up Potential Conflict with Trump AdministrationThe rules seek to preserve the state’s authority to regulate emissions from two sectors that the administration has backed away from — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Toad Eats Beetle, Immediately Regrets It — Watch Retching AftermathToads might want to be careful what meal they catch with their sticky, pink tongues. It could be a toxic beetle that makes them throw up … and then scurries away to tell the tale, a new study from Japan finds.
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Did We Just Find Exoplanets in Another Galaxy?New observations of a supermassive black hole in a faraway galaxy hint that planets are plentiful throughout the universe — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Meet the Adorable Olympic Mascots, Soohorang and BandabiWhat's the story behind South Korea's Olympic mascots?
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STPS: Det er altid svært at indrømme, at man har taget fejlAnne-Marie Vangsted – vil du ikke nok forklare mig, hvordan du efter døgnvagten med Kristian Rørbæk Madsen kan sige, at du ikke så nogle ulovligheder?
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What Investors Really FearThe Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen by 1,000 points only twice in its 122-year history. The first time was Monday. The second was Thursday. There are two points to make about this. First, stocks have had a miserable week . The Dow erased nearly $3 trillion in wealth with a 10 percent plunge that officially qualifies as what’s called a market “correction.” Second, stocks have had a marvelo
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Meet the birds that work as wingmen for other malesAnimals Welcome to the strange world of cooperative courtship. Sex in the animal kingdom isn’t all about competition. Sometimes males help each other out.
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Lightning nearly struck this kid. What happened?It seemed harmless enough, to play in the rain with an umbrella under an overflowing rain gutter. The thunderstorm was passing and the worst of it was over. Or was it?
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Video: Cifferregnemaskinen DASK var Danmarks første supercomputerI 1956 præsenterede Bent Scharøe Petersen Danmarks første supercomputer DASK i Ingeniøren. Se og hør, hvordan maskinen fungerede. Vi er dykket ned i Ingeniørens arkiver – og det kan du også.
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Routine imaging scans may predict fracture risk in older adultsRoutine body CT scans may help clinicians estimate an individual's risk of future osteoporotic fracture, according to new study results published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
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Hearing loss more likely after undernourished early yearsYoung adults who were undernourished as preschool children are almost twice as likely to suffer from hearing loss as better-nourished peers, a study suggests. The study analyzed the relationship between the hearing of more than 2,200 young adults in Nepal and their nutritional levels as children 16 years earlier. Hearing loss is the fourth-leading cause of disability worldwide, and an estimated 8
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A System So Cold It's HotA System So Cold It's Hot Scientists describe a physical system that is both below “absolute zero” and above “absolute hot” at the same time. topimage.jpg Image credits: Myriams-Fotos via Pixabay Rights information: CC0 Creative Commons Physics Friday, February 9, 2018 – 09:30 Yuen Yiu, Staff Writer (Inside Science) — Can temperature drop below absolute zero? What happens then? Does it pop out a
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Small asteroid to shave safely by Earth FridayAn asteroid bigger than a city bus is on track to zoom by Earth Friday at a safe but close distance, less than one-fifth as far away as the Moon, NASA said.
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3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage | Valarie KaurWhat's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Valarie Kaur asks us to reclaim love as a revolutionary act. As she journeys from the birthing room to tragic sites of bloodshed, Kaur shows us how the choice to love can be a force for justice.
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The Olympics Do Not MatterEditor’s Note: Read all of The Atlantic ’s Winter Olympics coverage . The two greatest moments of the Olympics, the ones that have been passed down through legend and archival footage, involve the Cold War. There was Al Michaels shouting “Do you believe in miracles?” at the 1980 winter games in Lake Placid when the unheralded U.S. hockey team faced—and defeated—the mighty Soviets. There was also
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Striking the right balance between secrecy and accountability when undercover policing goes wrongMedia coverage of alleged historic misconduct by undercover police officers has led to the creation of a public inquiry into undercover policing. The inquiry has highlighted the tension between accountability and secrecy when mistakes have been made.
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Forging a quantum leap in quantum communicationQuantum communication, which ensures absolute data security, is one of the most advanced branches of the "second quantum revolution". In quantum communication, the participating parties can detect any attempt at eavesdropping by resorting to the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics – a measurement affects the measured quantity. Thus, the mere existence of an eavesdropper can be detected by i
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Researchers to develop new allergy relief device using cold plasma technologyResearchers at the University of Liverpool are developing an innovative device that uses cold plasma technology to tackle the problem of airborne allergens in the home.
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Your gadget's next power supply? Your bodySearching for a power outlet may soon become a thing of the past. Instead, devices will receive electricity from a small metallic tab that, when attached to the body, is capable of generating electricity from bending a finger and other simple movements.
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Scientists create functioning kidney tissueScientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science.The study led by Professors Sue Kimber and Adrian Woolf from The University of Manchester, signifies a significant milestone in the development of treatment for kidney disease.
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CNIC scientists describe the mechanism of heart regeneration in the zebrafishA new study published in Nature Communications describes a high level of plasticity among different cell populations in the regenerating zebrafish heart
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Odd gluon compounds may be lurking in the protonsProtons are known to contain quarks and gluons. But are gluons behaving as expected?
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Deadly superbugs are evolving to beat alcohol hand sanitisersAlcohol-based hand sanitisers were introduced in hospitals to stop the spread of drug-resistant superbugs like MRSA. Now it seems the bacteria have got the upper hand
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We need to start taking vaping seriously as a way to save livesE-cigarettes were once seen as a sinister cousin to ordinary smoking. Now doctors in the UK think they could be a public health lifeline
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Improving drone performance in headwindsThe prevalence of multi-rotor drones has increased dramatically in recent years, but in headwinds, they pitch upwards unpredictably. Engineers from Tohoku University, Japan, have shown that angling the rotor blades of a quad-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles by just 20 degrees can reduce pitching by a quarter. Their work is published in the International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles.
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Synthesis of a water-soluble warped nanographene and its application for photo-induced cell deathGraphene and its nano-sized little sibling, nanographene, are well known for their remarkable photoelectronic properties. However, biomedical applications are hampered by the insolubility of the materials, especially in water. A Japanese team of scientists has now introduced substituted "warped nanographene," which is soluble in a broad range of solvents while maintaining its photophysical propert
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Brexit could hit the UK’s advanced manufacturing hard
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Vind og sol-pulje barberes – pengene går til testmøllerEfter pres fra Vindmølleindustrien sender regeringen og Dansk Folkeparti flere penge efter testmøller uden for testcentrene. Pengene tages fra puljen til teknologineutrale sol- og vind-udbud.
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60% of black women killed by police were unarmedBlack people, especially women, are more likely to have been unarmed when killed by police than non-blacks, according to a new study of nationwide data. This risk also appears to increase in police departments with a greater presence of non-white officers, report the researchers. “…the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ slogan of the post-Ferguson movement becomes most relevant when you also ‘say her name.'
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NIH scientists adapt new brain disease test for Parkinson's, dementia with Lewy bodiesNIH scientists have modified a test for early diagnosis of prion diseases with the goal of improving early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. The NIAID-led group tested cerebral spinal fluid samples from people with Parkinson's disease; people with dementia with Lewy bodies; and controls, some of whom had Alzheimer's disease. The test correctly excluded all the control
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Forging a quantum leap in quantum communicationThe major drawback of quantum communication today is the slow speed of data transfer, which is limited by the speed at which the parties can perform quantum measurements. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have devised a method that overcomes this "speed limit", and enables an increase in the rate of data transfer by more than 5 orders of magnitude! Their findings were published today in the journ
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Chicken pox vaccine linked with shingles at the vaccination site in some childrenNew research in Pediatric Dermatology reports several cases of shingles that developed at the original vaccination site in healthy children after they were immunized against chicken pox.
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Water-soluble warped nanographeneGraphene and its nano-sized little sibling, nanographene, are well known for their remarkable photoelectronic properties. However, biomedical applications are hampered by the insolubility of the materials, especially in water. A Japanese team of scientists has now introduced substituted 'warped nanographene,' which is soluble in a broad range of solvents while maintaining its photophysical propert
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A super resolution view of chemical reactionsResearchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences have demonstrated, using a super resolution microscopic technique, how to follow chemical reactions taking place in very small volumes. The method of analysis developed by the Warsaw physicists in collaboration with PicoQuant GmbH is the first to make it potentially possible to observe reactions not only inside
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New discovery offers hope of protecting premature babies from blindnessNow there is hope of a new way to protect extremely premature babies from impaired vision or blindness resulting from the eye disease retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). A study at Sahlgrenska Academy published in JAMA Ophthalmology points to a clear link between ROP and low levels of the fatty acid arachidonic acid, measured in children's blood.
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Mangroves protect coastlines, store carbon – and are expanding with climate changeWith the help of technology, humans can traverse virtually every part of our planet's surface. But animals and plants are less mobile. Most species can only live in zones where temperature and rain fall within specific ranges.
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Riddles in time and spaceWhen archaeologist Simone Mühl returned to the site of her excavations in last summer, she could hardly believe her eyes. The whole area was under water. When she had last seen it, the low mound at the center of the site was surrounded by fields of grain. Now fishing boats were anchored around it. "It was a fascinating sight, for I had never seen the mound like that before," she says. Gird-i Shaml
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Virtual reality training to help catch drug traffickingWorld drug usage is growing significantly every year. So is drug trafficking: Although the value of this market is difficult to calculate, experts evaluate it at approximately USD $400 billion.
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Novel voice recognition technology completes Interpol's legal arsenalWatching mainstream forensics-related TV shows could easily make us believe that there is no piece of evidence stronger than conclusive DNA samples or fingerprints. Yet, that would be forgetting the importance of voice recognition. Thanks to new Speaker-Identification technology and a large database of voices maintained by Interpol, the latter will now become much easier.
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