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More than half of college football athletes have inadequate levels of vitamin DMore than half of college football athletes participating in the NFL Combine had inadequate levels of vitamin D, and this left them more susceptible to muscle strains and 'sports hernia,' according to researchers.
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Telecom policy tilts in favor of industry under Trump's FCCTrumpism is slowly taking hold on your phone and computer, as the Federal Communications Commission starts rolling back measures that upset the phone and cable industries.
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Why every day should be Baby Day at the theatreToo often theatres neglect younger audiences, but Belfast’s Young at Art festival shows how vital new recruits are to the future of the arts It’s Sunday afternoon on a bright spring day, and the foyer of the Lyric Belfast is stuffed with prams and families. In the main house, Cahoots NI ’s production of Nivelli’s War, a stirring tale of wartime friendship and survival, has just finished. The stud
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Marijuanaville Trademark Denied for Similarities to Margaritaville, a 'State of Mind Inspired by Margaritas'Margaritaville Casino at Flamingo Las Vegas during the property’s grand opening celebration October 14, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Flamingo Las Vegas) With legalization sweeping the country, the number of trademark filings for marijuana-related products are through the roof. But when a shop recently tried to register Marijuanaville, Jimmy Buffett contested t
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Miner Finds Enormous 706-Carat Diamond, Promptly Hands It Over to the GovernmentImage: AP A pastor and independent miner in Sierra Leone has unearthed an uncut 706-carat diamond estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars. The pastor turned the diamond over to the government in hopes that the proceeds from its sale will help the impoverished country. But given the history of this former “blood-diamond” nation, what happens from here is anyone’s guess. Discovered by art
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Is writer’s block a real thing, or just a figment of the imagination?Diagnosing yourself as having writer’s block, rather than just not currently writing, will make matters worse ‘What do you do when you get writer’s block?” someone asked me the other day. I was happy to answer. I get up from my desk and wander around with a self-pitying expression on my face, sometimes clutching at my scalp in an agonised fashion. I buy sour gummy chews and eat too many; I compul
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Governments must keep reforming to win back voters' trust, says OECDThinktank says progress has slowed and governments must push through change or face sluggish growth and inequality Governments must push through more fundamental reforms to boost growth, cut inequality and protect workers from rapid changes in technology if they are to win back the trust of voters, the west’s leading economics thinktank has warned. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and De
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This Silly Button From Logitech Made My Smart Home Fun AgainAll images: Adam Clark Estes I have issues with smart home technology . The promise of a Jetsons -style, automated living environment has never been closer, but the experience basically sucks right now. After spending a few weeks with a programmable button by Logitech, however, I feel suddenly hopeful. The button is called the Pop Home Switch . It’s a delightfully simple gadget that can communica
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Bournemouth v Swansea City: match previewBournemouth are in danger of being drawn into a relegation scrap, while Swansea continue their own bid to escape the drop. Josh King’s hat-trick in a chaotic encounter with West Ham gave Eddie Howe’s side their first league win of 2017 last weekend following an eight-game barren streak. Swansea have lost their past three away matches, since winning at Anfield, and travel without key full-backs Ky
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My boyfriend and I have great sex, but sometimes I wonder if that is all we haveHe doesn’t want children and I am mostly resigned to that and would prefer to have someone in my life. But I worry that I am just settling, or using him. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader My partner and I met more than a decade ago when I was in my late 20s and he was in his 30s. He was my second boyfriend but, although we shared interests and tastes, I didn’t find him attractive. The sex, howeve
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Karen Elson: ‘At school they said: You’re not fit to model socks’She has been one of the world’s top models since the 90s. Now she wants to focus on her children and her music – and reveals how witchcraft influenced her new album This season’s trends, as worn by Karen Elson Karen Elson is sitting on a couch in a members’ club in Soho, flame-red hair almost matching the vintage upholstery, sipping tea with all the poise you’d expect of a woman with 20 years’ mo
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Peru floods kill 67 and spark criticism of country's climate change preparednessDevastating downpour, caused by high ocean temperatures, could not have been predicted, president said, months after state of emergency declared for wildfires Sixty-seven people have been killed and thousands more forced to evacuate by intense rains which damaged 115,000 homes and destroyed more than 100 bridges in Peru’s worst floods in recent memory. “We are confronting a serious climatic probl
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Royal Ballet triple bill review – gripping vision of the refugee crisisRoyal Opera House, London Set to Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern is brave and beautiful alongside work by Christopher Wheeldon and David Dawson It’s been 18 years since a woman last choreographed a ballet for the Opera House main stage. But as Crystal Pite breaks that unconscionably dry spell, the brave, gripping and beautiful work she has created could not be
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Lifehacker The Real History of St.Lifehacker The Real History of St. Patrick’s Day | io9 Why Ego the Living Planet Looks a Lot Like Kurt Russell In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Kotaku Here Is A Good Video Game Kid | The Garage Cars From the 1990s Are The Best To Wrench On |
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Stop killing lions for their bones to make bogus aphrodisiacsThe export of lion skeletons to China for use in 'aphrodisiac' wines threatens the survival of the king of the beasts, says Richard Schiffman
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Song to Song Is a Dizzying Romance With Little to SayWith the release of Song to Song, it’s time to come up with a name for this creatively fertile, aggressively poetic period in the beloved auteur Terrence Malick’s career. Much like The Tree of Life , To the Wonder , and Knight of Cups , his new film is light on plot and heavy on portentous voice-over. The characters are thinly defined at best, but they’re also all the camera cares about, emphatic
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Nordmænd er negative over for FM-slukKun tre ud af ti nordmænd er positive over for DAB-teknologien, som de i år bliver tvunget til at skifte til fra FM-radioen. Hver tiende i landets første DAB-område har valgt at droppe radiolytning helt.
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Fashion picks: utility with a feminine touch – in picturesPracticality is back – but with added femininity. Think parachute silks, soft drapes and cream leather Read more from the spring/summer 2017 edition of The Fashion , our biannual fashion supplement Continue reading…
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The week in wildlife – in picturesNesting bald eagles, Adélie penguins and a newly hatched Komodo dragon are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world Continue reading…
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Watching the orbital angular momentum of plasmons on a nanoscale with subfemtosecond time resolutionA team of scientists has been able to reveal, for the first time, the dynamics of the orbital angular momentum of plasmons. The researchers used a combination of extremely high-quality single crystals of gold, ultrafast laser pulses and an electron microscope.
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Doctors Warn Climate Change Threatens Public HealthPhysicians are noticing an influx of patients whose illnesses are directly or indirectly related to global warming — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Theresa May's difficult week could be more than just a glitchElection expenses scandal and Sturgeon’s ambush see PM’s reputation as a safe pair of hands questioned as never before Theresa May launched a slick new government website on Thursday, promising a “plan for Britain”, but for the first hour or so it just displayed an error message. Technical gremlins can attack at any time, but somehow the glitch felt symbolic of the prime minister’s week. Continue
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May and Sturgeon are battling for Scotland’s future. Who will blink first? | Lesley RiddochWith few economic downsides so far, many Scots hoped they could ignore the Brexit process. The battle over a second referendum will make that impossible What’s a year or two between friends? Quite a lot, it seems – and even longer between sworn political enemies. Theresa May got her own back on the first minister of Scotland by refusing her request for a second independence referendum before Brexi
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The First 3D Printed Cheese Was as Bizarre As You’d ExpectImage: Alan Kelly et al Imagine a future in which humans can produce a vast variety of foods with all sorts of textures and shapes at the flick of a switch. Just throw a mix into your 3D printer, and, presto, gooey gorgonzola globules! Crunchy candy cubes! Incredible! That future is not quiiiite here yet. But it could be close. Scientists at the University College, Cork in Ireland wondered how th
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Burrowing Under Luminous Ice to Retrieve MusselsWhen the winter tide goes out on a northern Canadian bay, some Inuit clamber into the ice caves below to harvest fresh food.
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Did local weather give your nose its shape?Researchers have found evidence for natural selection’s role in the evolution of nose shape in people. They say the shape of someone’s nose and that of their parents was formed by a long process of adaptation to our local climate. “We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation in things like skin color, hair color, and the face itself,” says Mark Shriver, pro
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Politics quiz: Scottish independence, budget U-turns and BrexitIt’s been a lively week in UK politics, from article 50 machinations to arguments over a second Scottish independence referendum Who said she might quit as an MP after one term, saying of Westminster: “Professionally, it is more just that so little gets done. It is so old and defunct in terms of its systems and procedures – a lot of the time, it is just a waste of time.” Boris Johnson Mhairi Blac
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Wi-Fi on rays of light: 100 times faster, and never overloadedSlow Wi-Fi is a source of irritation that nearly everyone experiences. Researchers have come up with a surprising solution: a wireless network based on harmless infrared rays. The capacity is not only huge (more than 40Gbit/s per ray) but also there is no need to share since every device gets its own ray of light.
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Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino hopes Harry Kane could make swift return from injury• England striker expected to be out for six weeks with ankle problem • ‘We need to assess day by day. He’s positive’ Mauricio Pochettino believes that Harry Kane’s positive mindset could allow the Tottenham Hotspur striker to make a swift return from his ankle ligament injury. Kane limped off early in last Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final win over Millwall after rolling the ankle and Tottenham antic
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Penn researchers find patients' annual financial burden under Medicare Part D is 'too much too soon'A study released today by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania documents the patient out-of-pocket cost burden under Medicare prescription drug plans (known as Medicare Part D) and finds that despite having insurance, Medicare patients using specialty drugs paid thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs in a calendar year. Study authors also propose po
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Osteoporosis drug found safe in long-term trialA new study provides reassuring information about the short-term and long-term safety of denosumab, a monoclonal antibody that is used to treat postmenopausal osteoporosis.
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JNeurosci: Highlights from the March 15 issueCheck out these newsworthy studies from the March 15, 2017, issue of JNeurosci. Media interested in obtaining the full text of the studies should contact media@sfn.org.
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Banedanmark afviser risiko ved at installere ufærdigt signalsystemDanmark udruller som det eneste land i Europa et nyt togsignalsystem over hele landet, før EU’s krav til systemet er kendt. Det har allerede skabt fordyrelser. Men Banedanmark afviser, at der kan opstå yderligere problemer.
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Immune cell drives heart failure in miceA new study in mice reveals that eosinophils, a type of disease-fighting white blood cell, appear to be at least partly responsible for the progression of heart muscle inflammation to heart failure in mice.
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Man arrested in Birmingham NatWest after bank worker held at gunpointSixty-year-old man pulled weapon from bag before holding employee in interview room, say West Midlands police A man has been arrested after police were called to reports of an armed man inside a branch of NatWest in Birmingham. Police marksmen sealed off the bank in the Northfield area of the city after receiving an emergency call at 11.45am on Friday. Continue reading…
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CO2 emissions stay same for third year in row – despite global economy growingInternational Energy Agency report puts halt in emissions from energy down to growth in renewable power Carbon dioxide emissions from energy have not increased for three years in a row even as the global economy grew, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said. Global emissions from the energy sector were 32.1bn tonnes in 2016 , the same as the previous two years, while the economy grew 3.1%, the
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Germany to test dialect analysis software on asylum-seekersGermany plans to test software that can automatically recognize a person's dialect to help determine whether asylum-seekers are really where they claim they're from.
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UN body urges China to act as bird flu deaths spikeThe UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year.
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Nanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cellsFive years ago, the world started to talk about third-generation solar cells that challenged the traditional silicon cells with a cheaper and simpler manufacturing process that used less energy.
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Scientists reveal open-ringed structure of Cdt1-Mcm2-7 complexScientists from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology(HKUST) and Tsinghua University have revealed the open-ringed structure of the Cdt1-Mcm2-7 complex as a precursor of the MCM double hexamer (DH).
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Why water splashes: New theory reveals secretsThe reason why raindrops and spilled coffee splash has been revealed by scientists. The new theory uncovers – for first time – what happens in space between liquid drop and surface to cause splash. A microscopic layer of air – 50 times smaller than a human hair – trapped between liquid and surface can prevent liquid spreading on surface. In their new report, scientists compare the scale of this 1c
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West Ham United v Leicester City: match previewAtlético Madrid can wait. Leicester City cannot afford to take their eye off the ball in the Premier League. Three points above the bottom three, they remain in a relegation fight despite reaching the Champions League quarter-finals thanks to Tuesday’s win over Sevilla. Craig Shakespeare will be confident of extending his winning start and West Ham United’s indifferent recent form means a fourth
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Clueless Is, Like, Totally Gonna Be a Comic BookAll Photos Courtesy BOOM! Studios Okay, so you’re probably going, “Is this, like, another Clueless tie-in or what?” But seriously, it’s actually a way normal way to continue the iconic ‘90s film. That’s right, Clueless is getting a comic book sequel. No buggin’. Boom Studios is bringing back the girls from Beverly Hills for an all-new adventure, written by total Betties Amber Benson (Tara from Bu
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New Cholesterol Drug Lowers Risk of Heart Attack and StrokeIt remains to be seen whether the treatment, which was effective in a large clinical trial, will live up to its promise — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Can quantum theory explain why jokes are funny?Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke. Thus far, models have not been able to fully account for the complexity of humor or exactly why we find puns and jokes funny, but a research article recently published in Frontiers in Physics suggests a novel approach: quantum theory.
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Nobel laureate, poet and playwright Derek Walcott dead, aged 87Walcott, who died in Saint Lucia, was famous for his monumental body of work that wove in Caribbean history, particularly his epic Omeros The poet and playwright Derek Walcott, who moulded the language and forms of the western canon to his own purposes for more than half a century, has died aged 87. His monumental poetry, such as his 1990 epic Omeros, a Caribbean reimagining of The Odyssey, secur
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Brexit diaries: 'We are at a turning point in the UK's political history'A second vote on Scottish independence splits opinion – as does the chancellor’s failure to mention Brexit in his budget The pattern has been the same among our Brexit diarists for the past 10 weeks: Theresa May is felt to be significantly outperforming Jeremy Corbyn when it comes to her approach to the EU across most leavers and remainers, Conservative and Labour supporters. This week the score
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Vern Cotter and Scotland aim to sign off against Italy with a farewell flourishNew Zealand-born coach has overseen a marked improvement and two more tries on Saturday would beat their Six Nations record of 11 set in 2016 When Vern Cotter was told in the autumn that Scotland would not be renewing his contract as coach, the New Zealander remarked with typical understatement that he was disappointed. As his side go into the final weekend of the Six Nations in sight of finishing
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Raheem Sterling in shape to show Liverpool he made the right moveThe forward can expect abuse from away fans when Manchester City host his former club on Sunday but his form under Pep Guardiola and strength of character indicate he can make an impact when it matters most It is a little under two years since Raheem Sterling made the move which, perhaps more than any other, has come to define him. It wasn’t a drop of the shoulder or a sprint past a full-back or a
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Experience: I reached both the north and south polesI couldn’t feel my legs or my toes, but what I feared most was failing I was 18 years old, fit, strong and ambitious. I played rugby and squash, and wanted to be a professional golfer. I was really competitive; I still am. One day on the squash court, I fell down for no apparent reason. I jumped up and got on with the game, but soon after I noticed a deterioration in my health. I saw multiple spe
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Trump Turnberry, Ayrshire: ‘I’m drooling with the wrong kind of anticipation’ – restaurant review‘I can’t hate the whole glittery, meretricious shebang, because the staff are lovely’ Obviously I go to Trump Turnberry with prejudices fully erect. Of all the lies the orange plank spouts on an hourly basis, I particularly enjoyed his “The people of Scotland love Trump International Golf Links” and “I have a 93% approval rating in Scotland” tweets. Newsflash: there is nothing the people of Scotl
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The Best Relationship Show on TV Isn’t Even About People—It’s About PhonesEven better in its second season, Netflix's Love wins by exploring the spaces between two people—and how we communicate across them. The post The Best Relationship Show on TV Isn't Even About People—It's About Phones appeared first on WIRED .
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Siri’s Not Even the Best iPhone Assistant AnymoreAn update to Amazon's iOS app puts iPhone and iPad owners just two taps away from a voice assistant that surpasses Siri in significant ways. The post Siri's Not Even the Best iPhone Assistant Anymore appeared first on WIRED .
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3D Printing Cheese for Science | VideoScientists are 3D printing cheese and comparing it to regular, processed cheese. As one does.
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‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’: Official Trailer | VideoThe original HBO film “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” based on the bestselling nonfiction book by journalist Rebecca Skloot, debuts on HBO Apr. 22, 8:00PM ET.
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Transcatheter aortic valve replacement as effective as surgery in intermediate patientsMedtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) today unveiled first-ever clinical data from the Surgical Replacement and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (SURTAVI) Trial, which was presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 66th Annual Scientific Session and published simultaneously in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
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Study: More than half of college football athletes have inadequate levels of vitamin DMore than half of college football athletes participating in the NFL Combine had inadequate levels of vitamin D, and this left them more susceptible to muscle strains and 'sports hernia,' according to researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.
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Nanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cellsNanotube film may resolve longevity problem of challenger solar cellsResearchers lengthened the lifetime of perovskite solar cells by using nanotube film to replace the gold used as the back contact and the organic material in the hole conductor.
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New study finds people who have high levels of two markers at high risk of adverse heart eventsNew research suggests that GlycA, a newly identified blood marker, and C-reactive protein both independently predict major adverse cardiac events, including heart failure and death. Patients who have high levels of both biomarkers are at especially high risk.
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Routine blood tests can help measure a patient's future risk for chronic disease, new study findsA new study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City finds that combining information from routine blood tests and age of primary care patients can create a score that measures future risk of chronic disease.
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Cholesterol-Slashing Drug Can Protect High-Risk Heart Patients, Study FindsPatients who took the drug, Repatha, were significantly less likely to have heart attacks or strokes, researchers concluded. But its high cost will be an issue.
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Flexibility is key in mechanism of biological self-assemblyA new study has modeled a crucial first step in the self-assembly of cellular structures such as drug receptors and other protein complexes, and found that the flexibility of the structures has a dramatic impact on how fast two such structures join together.
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Sell birth control pills over the counter to teens?Decades of research suggest it’s safe to sell birth control pills over the counter rather than by prescription, even for teenagers. A team of experts reviewed the research and found evidence that teens are capable of safely and properly using oral contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies. “Our review strongly suggests that giving teens easier access to various contraceptives will not lead t
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Mpow's $11 Bluetooth Headphone Carrying Case Includes A Battery To Charge Your 'BudsMpow Portable Battery Case for Bluetooth Headphones , $11 with code SDPHVWJX The advent of inexpensive Bluetooth headphones has been a net positive, but there’s no getting around it: They’re a pain in the ass to charge. Luckily, Mpow’s new headphone carrying case includes a built-in 800mAh battery and microUSB cable, so you can recharge your earbuds while simultaneously keeping them from getting
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Scrapping first-class train carriages leaves us all in thirdTransport minister Chris Grayling has proposed that overcrowding on trains should be eased by replacing first class with more standing room. Are the carriages relics of a bygone time, or do they have a present-day use? One of the smaller puzzles of a postwar childhood was the mystery of the missing class. Railway carriages had “1st” and “3rd” painted on their doors – first class and third class –
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The ‘rape rule’ for tax credits tramples the rights of children it’s meant to protect | Susanna RustinIt beggars belief that a government that claims to take sex crime seriously would rush through legislation with so much potential for harmful consequences We don’t like to think too much (or at all) about our parents having sex, because it makes us feel weird. Freud called parental intercourse the primal scene , and believed our buried knowledge of how we came to be created was the root of much un
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'Four-minute warning: time to boil your last egg' – 100 years of anti-war protestsFrom Paul Nash’s barbed wire truths to Tony Blair’s blazing selfie, the Imperial War Museum is exploring anti-war art and demos. What difference did they make? “Don’t you hear the H-bomb’s thunder / Echo like the crack of doom?” This song is painful as well as rousing when heard now on film footage of the first Aldermaston marches of 1958 and 1959; they look like a vision of lost innocence. This
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ALMA's ability to see a 'cosmic hole' confirmedResearchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio "hole" around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion light-years away. This is the highest resolution image ever taken of such a hole caused by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect (SZ effect). The image proves ALMA's high capability to investigate the distribution and temperature of gas around galaxy clusters thr
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UK government halts its YouTube ads after some appear on extremist videos [Update](credit: Rego Korosi ) YouTube and Google have some explaining to do to the government of the United Kingdom. According to a report by UK publication The Times , government-funded advertising has appeared in front of extremist videos on YouTube. The UK government has summoned Google to explain why taxpayer funded-advertising was allowed to roll on videos by "rape apologists, anti-Semites, and ban
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CO2 emissions from energy remain flat for third year runningCarbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector have not increased for three years in a row even as the global economy grew
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Tie-by-tie tactical analysis: Champions League quarter-finals | Michael CoxWill Barcelona be able to cope with Alex Sandro over two legs and will Bayern benefit from Carlo Ancelotti’s tactical consistency against his former club? This is a contest between the two biggest overachievers in Europe’s major leagues – and Atlético Madrid’s shock 2013-14 La Liga victory acted as something of an inspiration for Claudio Ranieri, himself a former Atlético manager. Continue reading
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The University of Michigan’s Plan to Increase DiversityANN ARBOR, Mich.—Jacqueline Graniel spent her whole childhood in Southern California assuming other families also lived paycheck to paycheck. Now, as she studies for both a medical degree and a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, she has found that some of her classmates avoid the stress of renting and dealing with landlords by simply buying houses, sometimes with help from their parents. That’s
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"Turceasca" | Silk Road EnsembleGrammy-winning Silk Road Ensemble display their eclectic convergence of violin, clarinet, bass, drums and more in this energetic rendition of the traditional Roma tune, "Turceasca."
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Scientists reveal open-ringed structure of Cdt1-Mcm2-7 complexScientists from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology(HKUST) and Tsinghua University have revealed the open-ringed structure of the Cdt1-Mcm2-7 complex as a precursor of the MCM double hexamer (DH). The intrinsic coiled structures of the precursors provide valuable insights into the DH formation, and suggests a spring-action model for the MCM during the initial origin melting and the su
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Flexibility is key in mechanism of biological self-assemblyA new study has modeled a crucial first step in the self-assembly of cellular structures such as drug receptors and other protein complexes, and found that the flexibility of the structures has a dramatic impact on how fast two such structures join together.
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PCSK9 inhibitior bococizumab produces varying resultsResearchers report that bococizumab had short-term benefits on lowering cholesterol levels and significantly reduced the risk of cardiovascular events by 21 percent compared to placebo among those who had baseline LDL cholesterol levels of greater than 100 mg/dL. However, the cholesterol lowering effect tended to diminish over time in some patients and bococizumab did not reduce cardiovascular eve
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Self-expanding TAVR as good as surgery in intermediate-risk patientsTwo-year data reveal no difference in the combined rate of stroke and death from any cause when comparing the use of self-expanding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with standard open-heart surgery in intermediate risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session.
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PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab reduces adverse cardiovascular eventsPatients treated with evolocumab had a 15 percent reduction in the risk of major cardiovascular events, defined as the composite of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction, stroke, hospitalization for unstable angina, or coronary revascularization Evolocumab reduced the more serious key secondary endpoint, which was a composite of heart attack, stroke or cardiovascular death, by 20 percent.
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PCSK9 inhibition with bococizumab yields mixed resultsIn a clinical program that was terminated early, the experimental PCSK9 inhibitor bococizumab, when given on top of effective statin therapy, had widely varying effects on LDL cholesterol levels and had no benefit on cardiovascular events among those with LDL lower than 100 mg/dL. However, in patients at high cardiovascular risk who had baseline LDL of greater than 100 mg/dL, bococizumab significa
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Imagine if all our childhood TV favourites went ‘dark and gritty’ | Phoebe-Jane BoydPower Rangers is getting a Hollywood makeover, with more adult themes, primary colours removed and a 12A certificate. But why stop there? Nothing, no matter how silly or saccharine, can’t be reformed into some 12A vaguely violent and sexy blue-filtered blandness in some desperate attempt to appeal to the “teen market”. As the reimagined Power Rangers movie coming to cinemas next week is set to pro
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America Only Voted for Weird-Ass Birds as Its New Monopoly TokensFor the second time in the past few months, Americans went to the polls and voted in a way that will have half the country scratching its heads. Kicking the classic boot, wheelbarrow, and thimble tokens to the curb, the nation has chosen to replace those classic Monopoly tokens with a rubber ducky, a penguin, and a T-rex. Throughout the month of January, anyone with an internet connection and an
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How News Organizations Inadvertently Spread "Alternative Facts"The way they construct stories makes it likely that readers will believe things that aren’t true — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Command, Control, Communication, Electricity, 1917Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: March 17, 1917 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A good night’s sleep is like hitting the jackpotWorking on getting a better night’s sleep can lead to optimal physical and mental well-being over time—but quality of sleep is more important than quantity. For a new study, researchers analyzed the sleep patterns of more than 30,500 people in UK households over four years and discovered that better sleep leads to levels of mental and physical health comparable to those of somebody who’s won a ja
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Best photos of the day: freediving and St Patrick's DayThe Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including a baby pygmy hippo, a landslide in Peru, and the SNP spring conference Continue reading…
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