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Scientific American Content: Global4Genetic Flotsam Offers Clues to Ocean Biodiversity By analyzing “environmental DNA,” scientists are homing in on marine life in unprecedented detail — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Popular Science2A Unified Theory Of How Soft, Curved Things Wrinkle The theory uses the same equation to explain wrinkles on raisins, fingers, brains, and more.
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Popular Science1The Ebola Vaccine Situation: A Cause For Hope The first report from one of the Ebola vaccines has been released. The data brings us one step closer to widespread protection against this deadly virus.
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News — ScienceDaily1Too many heart failure patients are treated with IV fluids, study finds Many patients hospitalized with severe heart failure are receiving potentially harmful treatment with intravenous fluids, a study has found. Heart failure patients are commonly treated with diuretics to avoid excess fluid buildup and to improve symptoms. However, many hospitalized patients also often receive IV fluids during early care in hospitals. Because the administration of IV fluids may wors
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Scientific American Content: Global5Snow Surveyors Have Fun, But Data Deadly Serious The techniques for collecting snow depth data may be amusing but the data collected determines how much water there will be — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily4Addressing feral cats' diet may help protect native species Because reducing the impacts of feral cats — domestic cats that have returned to the wild — is a priority for conservation efforts across the globe, a research team recently reviewed the animals' diet across Australia and its territorial islands to help consider how they might best be managed.
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News — ScienceDaily2Researchers determine how the brain controls robotic grasping tools Grasping an object involves a complex network of brain functions. First, visual cues are processed in specialized areas of the brain. Then, other areas of the brain use these signals to control the hands to reach for and manipulate the desired object. New findings suggest that the cerebellum, a region of the brain that has changed very little over time, may play a critical role. Findings could lea
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News — ScienceDaily4Which breast cancer patients need lymph nodes removed? Ultrasound narrows it down, study finds Which breast cancer patients need to have underarm lymph nodes removed? New research is narrowing it down: a study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with chemotherapy before surgery need to have all of their underarm nodes taken out. Ultrasound is a useful tool for judging before breast cancer surgery whether chemotherapy eliminated cancer from the underarm ly
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BBC News – Science & Environment1Bloodhound Diary: A couple of sticky issues Gluing together components of the world's fastest car
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Frontiers in Neuroscience1Neurogenic niches in the brain: help and hindrance of the barrier systems Helen B. Stolp and Zoltan Molnar
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Do all roads lead to Rome? The role of neuro-immune interactions before birth in the programming of offspring obesity Christine Jasoni, Dong Won Kim and Tessa Rose Sanders
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Contextual modulation of social and endocrine correlates of fitness: insights from the life history of a sex changing fish Devaleena S Pradhan, Tessa K Solomon-Lane and Matthew Scott Grober
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News — ScienceDaily100+New mechanism of inheritance could advance study of evolution, disease treatment A specific mechanism by which a parent can pass silenced genes to its offspring has been uncovered by researchers for the first time. Importantly, the team found that this silencing could persist for multiple generations — more than 25, in the case of this study.
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Scientific American Content: Global13Our Taste for Alcohol Goes Back Millions of Years Genetics research sheds light on a long human relationship — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Futurity.org3How awe and beauty could boost your health The awe people feel when they connect with nature, art, and spirituality is linked to lower levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines—proteins that tell the immune system to work harder. “Our findings demonstrate that positive emotions are associated with the markers of good health,” says Jennifer Stellar, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Toronto and lead author of the study, which she co
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Players put in less oomph with obese avatars Regardless of their size in real life, women given an overweight avatar in a tennis video game didn’t play as hard as those assigned a slim one, according to a new study. “How we perceive ourselves can have a profound impact even when it is just our virtual self,” says study author Jorge Peña, assistant professor in the communication department at the University of California, Davis. “People can g
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Scientific American Content: Global20Earthly Extremophiles Prompt Speculation about Alien Life Discovery of fish under Antarctic ice may provide clues about ecosystems on Jupiter’s moon Europa and other extraterrestrial environments — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global10World Has Not Woken Up to Water Crisis Caused by Climate Change Water scarcity could lead to conflict between communities and nations as the world is still not fully aware of the water crisis many countries face as a result of climate change, the head of the U.N…. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global8Florida Calls on Civilian "Patrols" to Battle Invasive Pythons Florida wildlife officials are recruiting the general public for "python patrols" that teach them how to identify and even capture some of the hissing, snapping reptiles — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global4China Demand for Tiger Parts Fuelling Poaching Conservationists must try to reduce the demand for tiger parts in China as part of a campaign to save the big cats, wildlife experts warned at an anti-poaching conference — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Scientist – Online news18New Urbanist: The ghosts that keep your house safe Gadgets designed to replicate your presence at home when you're not around could spark a technological arms race between residents and would-be burglars
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Scientific American Content: Global21Eye Tracking in Google Glass: A Window into the Soul? Two scientists weigh in on the privacy implications of eye-tracking technology on head-mounted smart devices — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Scientist – Online news7Let public have greater say over big health data We risk harming the huge potential of mass medical data in health research unless public concerns are properly addressed, says Martin Richards
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New Scientist – Online news53Green light for mission to Jupiter moon Europa Jupiter's icy moon is considered one of the most likely prospects for discovering life in our solar system – and it looks like we're going there
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Scientific American Content: Global17Big Precision Medicine Plan Raises Patient Privacy Concerns White House’s move to develop customized care prompts worries about data security and informed consent — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Scientist – Online news300+Mitochondrial replacement vote: What you need to know The UK parliament votes today on whether DNA from three adults can be used in an IVF technique to prevent rare inherited diseases
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds11Neuroscience: The brain, interrupted Babies are increasingly surviving premature birth — but researchers are only beginning to understand the lasting consequences for their mental development.Nature 518 24 doi: 10.1038/518024a
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New Scientist – Online news47Hottest year on record ramps up the climate pressure UN negotiators should take note. 2014 year was the warmest on record, and climate effects are digging in across the world
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BBC News – Science & Environment100+Drug-delivery engineer wins £1m prize A pioneer of medical technologies that have benefited millions of people is the latest winner of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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BBC News – Science & Environment82Obama seeks to raise Nasa funding US President Obama seeks to raise funding for Nasa in the Fiscal Year 2016 to $18.5bn (£12.3bn).
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BBC News – Science & Environment1K'Innocent' on police photos database Police forces have uploaded up to 18 million "mugshots" to a facial recognition database, many of them of innocent people, Newsnight learns.
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New Scientist – Online news24Queen Elizabeth prizewinner: Put pharmacies on chips Bioengineer Robert Langer, winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, talks about microchips that deliver drugs and battles still to be fought
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New Scientist – Online news2Today on New Scientist All the latest on newscientist.com: urban rabbits downsize warrens, origins of life could be preserved on the moon, microbes built gold hoard and more
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Science25Why We Judge Algorithmic Mistakes More Harshly Than Human Mistakes In many areas, algorithms make fewer mistakes than humans. But new research suggests that we distrust algorithms when they make mistakes, in ways we do not distrust humans who make mistakes.» E-Mail This
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BBC News – Science & Environment3KThree-person babies 'bold step' – debate MPs have begun debating whether to introduce laws in the UK to allow the creation of babies from three people, in what would be a world first.
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BBC News – Science & Environment100+Birds take it in turns to lead Like cyclists in a peloton, birds solve their flocking dilemma by taking it in turns, research reveals.
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BBC News – Science & Environment66VIDEO: MPs to vote on three-person babies MPs will hold a crucial vote on Tuesday to decide whether to allow the creation of babies using DNA from three people.
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BBC News – Science & Environment99VIDEO: How birds take it in turns to lead Like a cycling peloton, birds solve their flocking dilemma by taking it in turns, research reveals.
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News — ScienceDaily500+Biologists partner bacterium with nitrogen gas to produce more, cleaner bioethanol Biologists believe they have found a faster, cheaper and cleaner way to increase bioethanol production by using nitrogen gas, the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, in place of more costly industrial fertilizers. The discovery could save the industry millions of dollars and make cellulosic ethanol — made from wood, grasses and inedible parts of plants — more competitive with corn ethanol a
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News — ScienceDaily8Pregnancy outcomes similar for women with kidney transplants as child, adult Pregnancy outcomes appear to be similar for women who undergo kidney transplants as children or adults, according to an article. Previous studies have reported pregnancy outcomes for women with transplants, regardless of age at transplantation, and it is unclear whether their findings apply to women who received transplants as children.
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News — ScienceDaily14Review of nonmedicinal interventions for delirium in older patients Interventions to prevent delirium that do not involve prescription drugs and have multiple components appeared to be effective at reducing delirium and preventing falls in hospitalized older patients, according to an article.
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News — ScienceDaily5How immune cells hone their skills to fight disease A new study helps explain how booster shots prompt immune "memory" to improve, an important step toward the development of more effective, longer-lasting vaccines. "We can now see the evolution of better protection in single memory cells as they respond to the boost," said the senior author of the new study.
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News — ScienceDaily37New reset button discovered for circadian clock A team of biologists has found a way to use a laser and an optical fiber to reset an animal's master biological clock: A discovery that could in principle be used therapeutically to treat conditions like seasonal affect disorder, reduce the adverse health effects of night shift work and possibly even cure jet lag.
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News — ScienceDaily16Microscopic monitoring may yield big advances in production of consumer products, pharmaceuticals A team of physicists has developed a method to monitor the properties of microscopic particles as they grow within a chemical reaction vessel, creating new opportunities to improve the quality and consistency of a wide range of industrial and consumer products.
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News — ScienceDaily20Turning up heat on plants could help grow crops of the future Crops that can thrive in warming climates are a step closer, thanks to new insights into how temperature and light affect plant development. Scientists studied the effect of light and temperature on seedlings of a small cress plant known as Arabidopsis. They were surprised to find that at high temperatures, light causes seedling stems to develop in the same way that they normally would in shade or
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News — ScienceDaily82Simple intervention can make your brain more receptive to health advice A new discovery shows how a simple intervention — self-affirmation — can open our brains to accept advice that is hard to hear. Psychologists have used self-affirmation as a technique to improve outcomes ranging from health behaviors in high risk patients to increasing academic performance in at risk youth, suggesting that the findings may be applicable across a wide range of interventions.
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News — ScienceDaily42FDA approves new drug for binge eating disorder (BED) The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved lisdexamfetamine dimesylate, under the brand name Vyvanse, to treat moderate to severe binge eating disorder (BED) in adults, a first of its kind prescription drug specifically indicated for BED. Experts say that understanding the differences between obesity and BED is important for clinicians, as BED is an eating disorder that
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News — ScienceDaily19Mercury levels in Hawaiian yellowfin tuna increasing Mercury concentrations in Hawaiian yellowfin tuna are increasing at a rate of 3.8 percent or more per year, according to a new study that suggests rising atmospheric levels of the toxin are to blame.
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News — ScienceDaily25Tree species influence boreal forest fire behavior, subsequent effects on climate For a better understanding of how forest fires behave and interact with climate, scientists are turning to the trees. A new study shows that differences in individual tree species between Eurasia and North America alter the continental patterns of fire — and that blazes burning the hottest actually cool the climate.
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News — ScienceDaily400+Rivers might constitute just 20 percent of continental water flowing into oceans The Amazon, Nile and Mississippi are mighty rivers, but they and all their worldwide brethren might be a relative trickle compared with an unseen torrent below the surface. New research shows that rivers might constitute as little as 20 percent of the water that flows yearly into the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans from the continents. The rest flows through what is termed the 'subterranean estua
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News — ScienceDaily69How 'spontaneous' social norms emerge A scientific explanation has been provided by researchers for how social conventions — everything from acceptable baby names to standards of professional conduct — can emerge suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, with no external forces driving their creation.
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds68Obama budget seeks big boost for science White House plan would increase research and development funding but faces rough road in Congress.Nature 518 13 doi: 10.1038/518013a
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Scientific American Content: Global23Save Libyan Archaeology Plea Issued Savino di Lernia, director of the Archaeological Mission in the Sahara at the Sapienza University of Rome, says violence and unrest threaten World Heritage sites and researchers. Cynthia Graber… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Popular Science2KIn The Future, You Can Control Your Tesla From Your Watch One company has showed off a prototype app for the Apple Watch that will let you control functions of your Tesla Model S—should you be lucky enough to have either.
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Science80How Unboiled Eggs Could Help Fight Food Waste No yolk: Researchers have discovered how to unboil egg whites. The chemical technique could help the food industry and others utilize more enzymes for cheese or beer with less waste.» E-Mail This
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Popular Science400+Do Sharks Make Good Dancers? In the last few moments of last night’s Super Bowl, the Patriots intercepted the ball for the win after a spectacularly bad call by the Seahawks. But neither the Patriots’…
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Science1KHunting For Big Planets Far Beyond Pluto May Soon Be Easier Construction is starting in Chile on a new sort of telescope. One aim is to survey huge swaths of sky for faint signals of a "Planet X" that may be lurking on the farthest edges of our solar system.» E-Mail This
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Science94Lack Of Patients Hampers Ebola Drug And Vaccine Testing Scientists launched a large trial Monday to test two vaccines. But testing Ebola drugs in West Africa is proving more difficult than expected because the disease is disappearing rapidly.» E-Mail This
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Popular Science500+Language Evolution May Depend On Population Size Every year, new words get added to dictionaries around the world, while other words slip from our lexicon. A recent study looked at the rate at which languages pick up or…
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News — ScienceDaily400+Computer chips: Engineers use disorder to control light on the nanoscale A breakthrough could lead to the more precise transfer of information in computer chips, as well as new types of optical materials for light emission and lasers.
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News — ScienceDaily57RNA: The unknotted strand of life It had never been verified before: unlike other biopolymers, RNA, the long strand that is 'cousin' to DNA, tends not to form knots.
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Popular Science2KC-Fu: The Tofu Made Of 100 Percent Mealworm Protein We haven't tasted it yet, but love it already.
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New Scientist – Online news32Thaw point: Why is Antarctica's sea ice still growing? In the waters around the warming continent, the icy grip of winter seems stronger than ever. We explore the mystery of the Southern Ocean sea ice (full text available to subscribers)
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New Scientist – Online news60Formation-flying birds swap places to share out lift Birds that benefit from each other's aerodynamic lift take turns to do the harder work out front – a rare example of reciprocal altruism
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News — ScienceDaily32Toward the next biofuel: Secrets of Fistulifera solaris Biofuels are an attractive alternative to fossil fuels, but a key challenge in efforts to develop carbon-neutral, large-scale methods to produce biofuels is finding the right organism for the job. One emerging candidate is the microalga Fistulifera solaris. An international collaboration of scientists has revealed the genome of F. solaris and provided exciting hints at the roots of its ability to
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News — ScienceDaily8To save your energy while strolling, walk this sway The first people to walk across the original Millennium Bridge may have been unnerved when it began to sway, but the bridge was actually doing them a favor: the swaying enabled them to walk the distance with 5 percent less effort, a new study shows.
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News — ScienceDaily15Whose numbers determine if a targeted cancer therapy is 'worth it? ' "Increasingly physicians are being presented with health economic analyses in mainstream medical journals as a means of potentially influencing their prescribing. However, it is only when you understand the multiple assumptions behind these calculations that you can see that they are by no means absolute truths," says one expert.
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News — ScienceDaily4KMore evidence that musical training protects the brain Scientists have found some of the strongest evidence yet that musical training in younger years can prevent the decay in speech listening skills in later life. "Musical activities are an engaging form of cognitive brain training and we are now seeing robust evidence of brain plasticity from musical training not just in younger brains, but in older brains too," said the study's leader.
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News — ScienceDaily200+Friend, foe or queen? Study highlights the complexities of ant perception Researchers report that trap-jaw ants recognize the unique odor of a fertile queen only if the queen also shares the workers' own chemical cologne — a distinctive blend of dozens of smelly, waxy compounds that coat the ants' bodies from head to tarsus. The discovery offers new insights into how social animals evolved and communicate with others in their group, the researchers say.
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Scientific American Content: Global2KUnderstand the Measles Outbreak with this One Weird Number 15. That’s all you need to know about the measles. OK, that’s not true at all. There's no one weird trick that will give you a flat belly (besides lying face-down on something flat), and… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily9Scalable electric drive for buses, trucks and more Although electric cars meet current trends, driving axles are still too heavy, too expensive and too large for them. To address this situation, researchers have designed an optimized axle module for commercial vehicles. It is powerful, lightweight, compact and cost-effective.
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Popular Science1KWhat Was Northrop Grumman's Super Bowl Ad Selling? The Super Bowl is known almost as much for the advertising spectacle it creates as it is for the game itself. Amidst the usual ads for products like cars, beer, and life…
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Futurity.org12Everyday chemicals linked to earlier menopause Menopause arrives two to four years earlier for women whose bodies contain high levels of chemicals found in plastics, personal care products, common household items, and the environment. Researchers looked at levels in blood and urine of 111 chemicals that are suspected of interfering with the natural production and distribution of hormones in the body. While several smaller studies have examined
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Futurity.org4How does working nights raise diabetes risk? African American women who work night shifts are significantly more likely to develop diabetes than those who have never worked nights. The cause may be sleep cycle disruptions, say the authors of a new study in the journal Diabetologia. The researchers found that the risk of diabetes increased as women spent more years working night shifts. Relative to never having worked nights, the increased ri
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News — ScienceDaily23Winding borders may enhance graphene Theoretical physicists show precise control of grain boundaries in graphene may give it predictable mechanical and semiconducting properties.
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News — ScienceDaily200+Smoke from fires linked to tornado intensity Researchers have found that smoke from fires can intensify tornadoes. They examined the effects of smoke — resulting from spring agricultural land-clearing fires in Central America — transported across the Gulf of Mexico and encountering tornado conditions already in process in the United States.
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Scientific American Content: Global1KGravitational Waves Discovery Now Officially Dead Data from the South Pole experiment BICEP2 and the Planck probe point to galactic dust as a confounding signal — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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BBC News – Science & Environment300+Ex-science chief: GM tech 'is safe' The technology behind GM crops is safe, according to scientific consensus, says the outgoing science adviser to the European Commission.
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News — ScienceDaily27Orangutans take the logging road 'Foot' travel by Borneo's shaggy apes may be evolving more than initially thought, researchers have discovered. The Bornean orangutan not only regularly walks Wehea Forest floors to travel, but also hits newly constructed logging roads, researchers have observed.
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News — ScienceDaily13Study supplies insight into behavior of African monsoon The African monsoon's response to climate forcing is more complicated than previously understood, new research indicates. Current climate models don't do a great job of simulating the complex mechanisms behind the changes. Understanding how the monsoon will respond to gradual increases in greenhouse gases will require a better understanding of the processes, authors of a new study report.
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News — ScienceDaily4Getting yeast to pump up the protein production Researchers have genetically modified yeast to prevent it from metabolizing protein, leading to higher yields of an industrially useful product, they say. A unicellular microorganism, yeast is a top candidate for producing protein because it grows rapidly and needs few resources to thrive. But until now, the scientific community did not realize that yeast reabsorbs more than half of the protein it
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Popular Science2KKraftwerk Fuel Cell Lets You Charge Your Phone With Butane Kraftwerk is a portable fuel cell that turns butane gas into juice for your smartphone, tablet, or other USB device.
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds400+Gravitational-wave hunt enters next phase The landmark BICEP2 result has turned to dust, but the search for primordial cosmic ripples continues.Nature 518 16 doi: 10.1038/518016a
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News — ScienceDaily200+Expert panel recommends new sleep durations The National Sleep Foundation, along with a multi-disciplinary expert panel, issued its new recommendations for appropriate sleep durations. The NSF convened experts from sleep, anatomy and physiology, as well as pediatrics, neurology, gerontology and gynecology to reach a consensus from the broadest range of scientific disciplines. The report recommends wider appropriate sleep ranges for most age
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News — ScienceDaily32Risk for autism increases for abandoned children placed in institutions Children who were abandoned to institutional care have an increased risk for behaviors similar to those seen in children with autism, including impaired social communication, research shows. When these children were moved into child-centered foster family care at a young age, their social behaviors improved.
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News — ScienceDaily40Shrinking range of pikas in California mountains linked to climate change The American pika, a small animal with a big personality that has long delighted hikers and backpackers, is disappearing from low-elevation sites in California mountains, and the cause appears to be climate change, according to a new study. Pika populations were most likely to go locally extinct at sites with high summer temperatures and low habitat area.
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News — ScienceDaily200+Dance of the nanovortices captured and recorded with help of X-ray holography It is a familiar phenomenon: If a spinning top is set in rotation on an inclined surface, it scribes a series of small arches. Researchers have now succeeded in capturing this pattern of movement in a magnetic thin film system — in the form of small magnetic nanovortices. The researchers made a new discovery: The nanovortices possess mass.
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News — ScienceDaily28Physician guidelines for Googling patients need revisions With the Internet and social media becoming woven into the modern medical practice, researchers contend that professional medical societies must update or amend their Internet guidelines to address when it is ethical to 'Google' a patient.
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News — ScienceDaily15Break on through to the other side: How HIV penetrates the blood-brain barrier A new research report solves the mystery of how HIV penetrates the blood-brain barrier by showing that the virus relies on proteins expressed by a type of immune cell, called 'mature monocytes,' to enter the brain. These proteins are a likely drug target for preventing HIV from reaching brain cells.
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News — ScienceDaily11Low birth weight and preeclampsia tend to reoccur in the next generation Researchers will present findings on a study of mothers and daughters where low birth weight and preeclampsia were found to reoccur in the next generation.
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News — ScienceDaily10Pregnancy associated hypertension associated with an increased frequency of subsequent hypertension and metabolic syndrome Researchers have found long term cardiovascular and metabolic abnormalities five to ten years later in women with preeclampsia/gestational hypertension during pregnancy.
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News — ScienceDaily11Impact of probiotics on metabolic health in women with gestational diabetes Researchers have reported on the effect of a probiotic capsule intervention on maternal metabolic parameters and pregnancy outcomes among women with gestational diabetes.
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News — ScienceDaily7Effect of maternal glycemia on childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction Researchers have reported on the impact of maternal glycemia on childhood obesity and metabolic dysfunction.
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News — ScienceDaily2Fetal decent and maternal feedback substantially shortens second stage labor Researchers reported that the use of a system that provides precise measurement of fetal decent and maternal feedback during second stage labor substantially shortens second stage and improves outcomes.
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News — ScienceDaily7The effect of expanded midwifery on Cesarean delivery Researchers will report that changes to the labor and delivery care system can reduce Cesarean delivery rates.
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News — ScienceDaily3STAN as an adjunct to intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring did not improve perinatal outcomes Researchers have reported that use of the ST segment as an adjunct to conventional intrapartum electronic fetal heart rate monitoring did not improve perinatal outcomes or decrease operative deliveries in hospitals in the United States. STAN is used in Europe as an adjunct to conventional intrapartum fetal heart rate monitoring, and was approved by the FDA for use in the US, mostly based on result
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News — ScienceDaily7Augmented labor during childbirth is not associated with increased odds of autism Induced or augmented labor are not associated with increased odds of Autism spectrum disorder.
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News — ScienceDaily4Sequential screening provides better test performance than cell free DNA Researchers have reported that cell free DNA analysis is less effective than sequential screening as primary testing for fetal chromosomal abnormalities.
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New Scientist – Online news40What makes us altruistic – and what's it good for? Two new books use the latest brain science to figure out what makes us behave selflessly – and also suggest practical steps for encouraging it
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News — ScienceDaily13Impact of fetal gender on risk of preterm birth Preterm birth, a delivery before 37 weeks of gestation, is one of the most serious obstetric complications affecting around 15 million pregnancies worldwide with more than one million newborn deaths each year due to complications of prematurity. So far, the underlying causes for preterm birth are still largely unknown. Preterm birth can either occur spontaneously or can be induced for medical reas
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News — ScienceDaily22Interval between first and second pregnancy strongly impacts preterm birth risk The variation of interval from delivery time to conception of the next pregnancy has a strong impact on the risk of preterm birth and low birth weight.
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News — ScienceDaily17Biological markers associated with high-risk pancreatic lesions Pancreatic cancer affects approximately 46,000 people each year in the United States and ranks fourth among the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Only about 6 percent of individuals with pancreatic cancer will live five years after their diagnosis. One reason for this high mortality rate is the lack of effective tools to detect pancreatic cancer early enough to allow its surgical removal. N
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News — ScienceDaily33Commonly used antibiotics with diuretic can double risk of sudden death in older patients The combination of the commonly prescribed antibiotic trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole with the diuretic spironolactone, widely used for heart failure, more than doubles the risk of death for older patients, reports a study.
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News — ScienceDaily9New mechanism of acquired resistance to breast cancer drugs In the search for new approaches to treat ERBB2 positive breast cancers that have become drug-resistant, researchers have discovered a novel cancer resistance mechanism. "Approximately 25% of breast cancers overexpress and depend on the protein ERBB2 for survival," said the lead investigator. "Current therapies take advantage of this by using targeted drugs such as Trastuzumab or La
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News — ScienceDaily8Top 10 challenges facing global pharmaceutical supply chains Global pharmaceutical supply chains are fragmented and lack coordination, facing at least 10 key challenges, according to researchers. Their new article sheds light on the key areas of weakness and what specifically is needed to strengthen the pharmaceutical supply chains.
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News — ScienceDaily18Actions, beliefs behind climate change stance Strategies for building support for climate change mitigation policies should go beyond attempts to improve the public's understanding of science according to new research. Using an online survey of climate change sceptics and believers living in the US, researchers measured differences between the two groups in terms of environmental behaviours, emotional responses, national and global identifica
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News — ScienceDaily5Abnormalities in pregnancies with failures for noninvasive prenatal testing Researchers report on the high rate of chromosomal abnormalities in patients in whom noninvasive prenatal testing fails to provide results.
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News — ScienceDaily3Finding valuable materials in metallurgical dumps Since metallic raw materials are scarce in Germany, it is reliant on imports. Yet some of these valuable materials are lying around unnoticed in dumps. Researchers are now compiling a Germany-wide registry of these resources, which reveals where these deposits are located and what metals they contain.
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News — ScienceDaily24Wrinkle predictions: New mathematical theory may explain patterns in fingerprints, raisins, and microlenses As a grape slowly dries and shrivels, its surface creases, ultimately taking on the wrinkled form of a raisin. Similar patterns can be found on the surfaces of other dried materials, as well as in human fingerprints. While these patterns have long been observed in nature, and more recently in experiments, scientists have not been able to come up with a way to predict how such patterns arise in cur
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News — ScienceDaily60A phone so smart, it sniffs out disease Imagine a smartphone that not only finds the nearest five-star restaurant or hails a cab with a quick click, but also diagnoses illness. New technology would enable smartphones to screen their users' breath for life-threatening diseases, developers report.
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News — ScienceDaily23Laying a foundation for treating ALS, spinal cord injury A unique model for learning more about the role of human astrocytes has been published by researchers. The findings may lay a foundation for the treatment of a number of neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) and debilitating spinal cord injuries.
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News — ScienceDaily25Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia reduces suicidal thoughts in veterans The treatment of insomnia in veterans is associated with a significant reduction in suicidal ideation, researchers say. Results show that suicidal ideation decreased by 33 percent following up to six sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). Further analysis found that the reduction in insomnia severity achieved during CBT-I was associated with a concurrent decrease in the odd
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News — ScienceDaily22Peptide shows promise in penetrating heart attack scar tissue to regenerate cardiac nerves Chemical compound aimed at restoring spinal cord function may have an additional purpose: stopping potentially fatal arrhythmias after heart attack. A special peptide could address a critical cardiac issue by penetrating heart attack scar tissue to regenerate cardiac nerves, scientists report.
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News — ScienceDaily23You can be a coward or a fighter — just pick one and stick with it, says study When the chips are down, having a strong personality may be the difference between thriving and failing, according to new research that studied how aphids reacted when faced with predatory ladybirds. The study suggests that committing to a consistent behavioural type in times of crisis results in the best overall outcome in terms of fitness and reproductive success.
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News — ScienceDaily21Graphene displays clear prospects for flexible electronics Semi-transparent, flexible electronics are no longer just science-fiction thanks to graphene's unique properties, researchers have found. Researchers now show that new 2D 'designer materials' can be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
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News — ScienceDaily19Deep ocean a source of dissolved iron in Central Pacific The deep ocean appears to be a major source of dissolved iron in the central Pacific Ocean. This finding highlights the vital role ocean mixing plays in determining whether deep sources of iron reach the surface-dwelling life that need it to survive.
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News — ScienceDaily9Keep your enemies close? Study finds greater proximity to opponents leads to more polarization Encouraging adversaries to have more interpersonal contact to find common ground may work on occasion, but not necessarily in the U.S. Senate, according to new research.
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New Scientist – Online news28Ozone hole: How we are misled in the fight to cut smog Obama wants to cut ozone pollution, but Republicans are crying foul over the cost. Europe is being tougher… or is it? Much is obfuscation, finds Fred Pearce
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Science9KWhy Cambodians Never Get 'Depressed' In many parts of the world, there's no direct translation for terms like depression or anxiety. Cambodians, for example, say "the water in my heart has fallen." So how does a doctor refill a heart?» E-Mail This
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Scientific American Content: Global7Consumer Electronics in 2015: Building the Internet of Things The 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas kicked off a year that promises to broaden the scope of Internet-connected gadgets and deliver new ways of interacting with… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily1KGlobal warming slowdown: No systematic errors in climate models, comprehensive statistical analysis reveals Skeptics who still doubt anthropogenic climate change have now been stripped of one of their last-ditch arguments: It is true that there has been a warming hiatus and that the surface of Earth has warmed up much less rapidly since the turn of the millennium than all the relevant climate models had predicted. However, the gap between the calculated and measured warming is not due to systematic erro
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News — ScienceDaily62Mining the Moon becomes a serious prospect With an estimated 1.6 billion tons of water ice at its poles and an abundance of rare-earth elements hidden below its surface, the Moon is rich ground for mining.
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News — ScienceDaily12To speed up magma, add water Water dragged into Earth’s interior helps melt rock, but near the Tonga trench there’s the least magma where there’s the most water. A three-dimensional seismic image of the mantle beneath the Lau Basin in the South Pacific has an intriguing anomaly. The image showed the least magma where the scientists expected to find the most. After considerable debate they concluded that magma with a high wate
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News — ScienceDaily23Scientists view effect of whisker tickling on mouse brains Researchers have succeeded in peering into the brains of live mice with such precision that they were able to see how the position of specific proteins changed as memories were forged.
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Scientific American Content: Global63Memcomputers: Faster, More Energy-Efficient Devices That Work Like a Human Brain New types of electronic components, closer to neurons than to transistors, are leading to tremendously efficient and faster “memcomputing” — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global40KChemists Confirm New Type of Bond A “vibrational” chemical bond predicted in the 1980s is demonstrated experimentally — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Popular Science500+5 Ground Animals That Are Cooler Than Groundhogs Happy Micrathena Spider Day!
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New Scientist – Online news200+Dead star leaves behind Jupiter's Ghost Not every star ends with a bang. A beautiful post-mortem portrait reveals a cloud of gas surrounding a jewel-like white dwarf
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News — ScienceDaily19Cyanobacterium found in algae collection holds promise for biotech applications Cyanobacteria are attractive organisms for the bio-production of fuels, chemicals and drugs but have the drawback that most strains in common use grow slowly. Scientists now report that they have recovered a fast-growing strain of cyanobacteria from a stored culture of a cyanobacterium originally discovered in a creek on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in 1955.
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News — ScienceDaily26Illusion aids understanding of autism New research could lead to a better understanding of how the brain works in people with autism. Using the 'rubber-hand' illusion, the researchers examined how adults with autism experienced 'ownership' of a fake prosthetic hand. In the 'rubber-hand' illusion, one of the subject's hands is placed out of sight, while a rubber hand sits in front of them. By stroking the fake hand at the same time as
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Popular Science3KMore Powerful Raspberry Pi 2 Will Run Windows 10 The Maker community has plenty of reason to celebrate with the release of the quad-core Raspberry Pi 2, and a free version of Windows 10 that will run on it.
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News — ScienceDaily21New '2-in-1' test simplifies retina evaluations A new test developed using mice can help measure two important aspects of retinal health–the function of retinal blood vessels and light-detecting cells. This approach opens new possibilities for understanding the molecular changes that occur in retinal disease and for evaluating the benefits of treatment early in the course of disease.
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News — ScienceDaily37How spaceflight ages the immune system prematurely As the world waits to see if Mars One can establish a human colony on Mars, scientists are working to determine the long-term consequences of living in low or no-gravity conditions, such as those that might exist on the trip to another planet. New research shows that spaceflight may be associated with a process of accelerated aging of the immune system.
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News — ScienceDaily13New method shrinks metastatic ovarian cancer and reduces chemotherapy dose New research may eventually help improve the five-year survival rate of ovarian cancer patients by describing a new way of shrinking ovarian cancer tumors while also simultaneously improving drug delivery, scientists report.
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News — ScienceDaily16Laser treatment reverses effects of early age-related macular degeneration During early stages, it might be possible to reverse age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness that is currently irreversible, researchers report. The treatment involving a nanosecond laser may also have further implications for other eye diseases such as diabetic macular oedema, diabetic retinopathy and retinopathy of prematurity.
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News — ScienceDaily8Epigenetic signatures that differentiate triple-negative breast cancers Epigenetic 'signatures' have been identified that could help clinicians tell the difference between highly aggressive and more benign forms of triple-negative breast cancer. The study reveals "distinct methylation patterns" in the primary biopsy breast cancer cells indicating better or worse prognosis.
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds100+Graphene’s cousin silicene makes transistor debut Creation of electronic device using atom-thin silicon sheets could boost work on other flat materials.Nature 518 17 doi: 10.1038/518017a
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Scientific American Content: Global100+Televisions Get Bigger and Greener New technology allows new televisions to be both bigger and more energy efficient than ever before — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Scientist – Online news52Lava could have preserved the origins of life on the moon New experiments suggest that if life-bearing meteorites hit the young, molten moon, they could have been preserved until today
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News — ScienceDaily6Area-wide management a must for Asian citrus psyllid The Asian citrus psyllid can travel at least two kilometers in a twelve-day period, and they are able to traverse potential geographic barriers such as roads and fallow fields, research shows.
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News — ScienceDaily18Confidence in government linked to willingness to vaccinate Confidence in government may play a key role in the public's willingness to get at least some vaccines, a new study suggests. The study found that people trusting the government's ability to deal with an epidemic were almost three times more likely to take the vaccine than were others.
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News — ScienceDaily21Many universities undercount sexual assaults on campus, research finds A pattern of underreporting of on-campus sexual assaults by universities and colleges across the United States has been uncovered by researchers. Some schools have continued to underreport even after being fined for violations of federal law, according to a study.
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News — ScienceDaily14Improving health of marine life, coastal economies Sea turtles and coral reefs may hold the keys to improving Florida's offshore health and economy. Scientists are getting in on the ground floor of a new alliance that aims to improve the health of Tampa Bay's waters.
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News — ScienceDaily13Fewer viral relics may be due to a less bloody evolutionary history Humans have fewer remnants of viral DNA in their genes compared to other mammals, a new study has found. This decrease could be because of reduced exposure to blood-borne viruses as humans evolved to use tools rather than biting during violent conflict and the hunting of animals.
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News — ScienceDaily4Interconnected IT for business models in rural areas More and more people are moving from rural areas to cities, leaving behind crumbling infrastructures that make daily life difficult for those who stay. Some people are bucking this trend. Researchers are now planning to create new business models in rural areas with the help of interconnected IT.
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News — ScienceDaily8Novel technology could combat flight pollution A breakthrough propulsion technology to provide greener air transport could be developed after the underlying engineering was declared a success.
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News — ScienceDaily6Amazon.com benefits from collaboration between competing firms Online-selling pioneer Amazon.com has utilized three individual business models, by means of which it engages in productive cooperation with its competitors. By harnessing its competitors within its own business operations and by looking strategically at customer value, Amazon.com has managed to raise the size of its current markets and to create entirely new markets both for itself and for its co
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News — ScienceDaily200+Bowhunting may have fostered social cohesion during the Neolithic Bowhunting during the Neolithic period may have been one of the pillars of unity as a group of primitive human societies. This is one of the main conclusions reached by a team of Spanish archaeologists that has analyzed the Neolithic bows found in the site of La Draga (Girona, Spain).
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News — ScienceDaily400+Baby's genes, not mom's, may trigger some preterm births Changes in genetic regions in infants linked with an increased risk of premature birth — and the data change the preterm paradigm.
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New Scientist – Online news95Ancient microbes formed Earth's biggest hoard of gold Early life forms may have extracted gold from water and dumped it in South Africa's El Dorado, the source of half the gold ever mined
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New Scientist – Online news200+Wave function gets real in quantum experiment Is the uncertainty that comes with the quantum wave function real or a mathematical quirk? An experiment has found in favour of fuzziness
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Scientific American Content: Global400+Unboiled Egg Untangles a Knotty Protein Problem A new machine could help biotech with a faster, cheaper way to purify proteins — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily26Babies can follow complex social situations Infants can make sense of complex social situations, taking into account who knows what about whom, according to new research.
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Futurity.org59How green tea targets cancer cells A compound found in green tea may be an effective way to kill oral cancer cells without damaging healthy cells. Earlier studies showed the compound called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) killed oral cancer cells, but researchers didn’t how it worked, says Joshua Lambert, associate professor of food science at Penn State University. “EGCG is doing something to damage the mitochondria and that mit
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News — ScienceDaily3Biomarker for high-risk colon cancer metastases developed Unique microRNA signatures in primary colorectal cancers have been discovered, which could predict metastasis in the distant future, scientists report. Results from the study would help determine which colorectal cancer patients have a high risk of developing distant metastases, of which liver metastasis is the most common manifestation, they add.
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Popular Science1KBed Bugs May Be Splitting Into New Species The bed bug may seem like a recent trend. Even if you haven’t personally suffered an infestation, media coverage of the insect’s comeback has been hard to miss. However,…
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News — ScienceDaily25Metformin may lower lung cancer risk in diabetic nonsmokers Among nonsmokers who had diabetes, those who took the diabetes drug metformin had a decrease in lung cancer risk, scientists report. Metformin use for five or more years was associated with a 31 percent decrease in the risk for adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer diagnosed in nonsmokers, and an 82 percent increase in the risk for small-cell carcinoma, a type of lung cancer often di
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News — ScienceDaily16New technique captures real-time diagnostic 3-D images A new technique uses Optical Projection Tomography, which is “similar to X-rays, but uses light,” explains a researcher. With this technique, it is possible to use optical markers which are often used with transgenic animals. One such marker is green fluorescent protein. Thanks to this substance, one can observe the anatomy and functions of living organisms like flies or very small fish.
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News — ScienceDaily35Fitness game for the physically impaired Modern IT has the potential to make fitness training more varied for people with physical limitations. But what exactly is required? Researchers put this question to thalidomide victims, and developed new IT-based fitness training technology in close collaboration with them. The method motivates users with elements found in computer games.
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News — ScienceDaily35Master switch found to stop tumor cell growth by inducing dormancy Commonly used anticancer drugs may help to make tumor cells dormant, scientists report. "Our results explain why some tumor cells scattered through the body are committed to remaining harmless for years, while others cause active disease," said one investigator. "In finding this master switch we found a way to analyze tumor cells before treatment to determine the risk of a cancer re
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News — ScienceDaily6Value of tissue-engineering to repair major peripheral nerve injuries demonstrated Peripheral nerve injury (PNI) is a common consequence of traumatic injuries, wounds caused by an external force or an act of violence, such as a car accident, gun shot or even surgery. In those injuries that require surgical reconstruction, outcomes can result in partial or complete loss of nerve function and a reduced quality of life. But, researchers have demonstrated a novel way to regenerate l
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News — ScienceDaily4Sequencing genetic duplications could aid clinical interpretation To aid in the interpretation of CNVs, researchers have completed detailed maps of 184 duplications found in the genomes of individuals referred for genetic testing. To aid in the interpretation of CNVs, researchers have completed detailed maps of 184 duplications found in the genomes of individuals referred for genetic testing.
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Futurity.org300+Speed drills teach kids to hate math Timed math drills and rote memorization won’t make kids better at math, says an education expert. Students learn math best when they approach the subject as something they enjoy. “There is a common and damaging misconception in mathematics—the idea that strong math students are fast math students,” says Jo Boaler, a Stanford University professor of mathematics education and the lead author on a ne
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Futurity.org100Did DNA links to disease actually help our ancestors? Genetic variations associated with some modern ailments—psoriasis and Crohn’s disease, for example—are so old that they predate the evolution of Neanderthals, Denisovans, and contemporary humans. Scientists are now asking why genetic susceptibilities for these ailments would persist for hundreds of thousands of years, afflicting our ancient ancestors—and us. “Our research shows that some genetic f
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Scientific American Content: Global300+Earth's Water Cycle Measured via Giant Antenna The Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite will help forecast drought and climate change — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily29Supercomputing reveals genetic code of cancer Cancer researchers must use one of the world's fastest computers to detect which versions of genes are only found in cancer cells. Every form of cancer, even every tumor, has its own distinct variants, they report.
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News — ScienceDaily26Urban taste for bushmeat poses threat to Amazonian wildlife Alarming evidence of an under-reported wild-meat crisis in the heart of Amazonia has been uncovered by researchers who interviewed households in two Brazilian 'prefrontier' cities — cities which are surrounded by more than 90 per cent of their original forest cover. They found virtually all urban households in these cities consumed wildlife for food, including fish (99%), bushmeat (mammals and bi
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BBC News – Science & Environment38Ebola: Call for more sharing of science Why isn't more data on Ebola being made public?
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BBC News – Science & Environment100+Inmarsat launches next-gen satellite The UK satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat launches the second of its I5 series of spacecraft – part of its next-generation Global Xpress constellation.
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News — ScienceDaily44Mini synthetic organism instead of test animals In medical research, animal-based experiments have thus far been a necessary evil. Now researchers have developed a highly promising alternative, however: They are developing a mini-organism inside a chip. This way, complex metabolic processes within the human body can be analyzed realistically.
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News — ScienceDaily29Possible cause of IVF failure in some women identified A previously unexplored biological process, which can lead to the failure of embryos to attach to the uterine wall during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), has been identified by researchers. IVF only has around a 25% success rate, researchers report.
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News — ScienceDaily6Protein, skin care and biopesticide products developed from fish filleting residue, rapeseed press cakes Food industry co-streams could be upgraded to more valuable products than the original ones ending up as animal feed, scientists say after developing gentle methods to make good use of fish filleting residues and rapeseed press cakes.
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News — ScienceDaily8Extracorporeal support offers hope for pediatric patients unresponsive to traditional CPR Extracorporeal life support is a promising treatment for pediatric patients in cardiac arrest who are unresponsive to traditional CPR. A new article examines ECPR and addresses ethical principles related to its use and the continued advancement of end-of-life care.
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Futurity.org13Software gauges ‘state of mind’ from selfie video A new computer program could soon analyze your “selfie” videos for clues to mental health. Apps to monitor people’s health can track the spread of the flu, for example, or provide guidance on nutrition and managing mental health issues. Jiebo Luo, professor of computer science at the University of Rochester, explains that his team’s approach is to “quietly observe your behavior” while you use the
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Switched-capacitor realization of presynaptic short-term-plasticity and stop-learning synapses in 28 nm CMOS Marko Noack, Johannes Partzsch, Christian G Mayr, Stephan Hänzsche, Stefan Scholze, Sebastian Höppner, Georg Ellguth and Rene Schüffny
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New Scientist – Online news200+New treatment for endometriosis preserves fertility Two promising new drugs could treat pain and infertility in a common reproductive disease while still allowing women to conceive
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Scientific American Content: Global27Can We Keep Getting Smarter? Ever rising IQ scores suggest that future generations will make us seem like dimwits in comparison — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global400+5 Rocky Planets Found in Ancient Distant Solar System The oldest group of terrestrial worlds now known formed some 11.2 billion years ago, more than six billion years before our sun and planets. Clara Moskowitz reports — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Popular Science1KThe Science Of Decriminalizing Drugs The legal landscape for marijuana has never looked this relaxed.
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Scientific American Content: Global200+Clinic Saves Moms' Lives by Focusing on Familes [Video] Innovative steps attempt to reduce the tragic 25-year climb in U.S. maternal death rates — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global890% of Cities in China Failed to Meet Air Standards in 2014 China said last year it would "declare war on pollution" and it has started to eliminate substandard industrial capacity and reduce coal consumption — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global9Northeast Braces for Second Major Snowstorm in a Week Forecasters said snow was expected to fall as the rate of one to two inches (2.5 to 5 cm) per hour in southern New England at the storm's peak, making for extremely hazardous driving conditions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global33Drought-Hit Pakistan Turns to Solar Water Treatment Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Scientist – Online news66Urban rabbits downsize to smaller, 'studio' warrens The European rabbit is under pressure in the countryside but is successfully embracing city life – with a twist
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Science5KHere's How To End Iowa's Great Nitrate Fight Des Moines, Iowa, wants to control nitrate pollution — often called fertilizer runoff — in nearby rivers. But the best way to reduce it involves planting different crops, not using less fertilizer.» E-Mail This
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds2KElectric algae, capsized icebergs and cosmic pillars January's sharpest science shots, as chosen by Nature' s art team.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16829
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BBC News – Science & Environment500+VIDEO: Secrets of ancient scrolls unlocked Scientists in France have a found a way to look inside fragile charred scrolls from the ancient Roman library in Herculaneum.
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ArXiv Query
Renewal Approach to the Analysis of the Asynchronous State for Coupled Noisy Oscillators We develop a framework in which the activity of nonlinear pulse-coupled oscillators is posed within the renewal theory. In this approach, the evolution of inter-event density allows for a self-consistent calculation that determines the asynchronous state and its stability. This framework, can readily be extended to the analysis of systems with more state variables. To exhibit this, we study a nonl
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News — ScienceDaily500+'Live fast, die young' galaxies lose the gas that keeps them alive Galaxies can die early because the gas they need to make new stars is suddenly ejected, new research suggests. Most galaxies age slowly as they run out of raw materials needed for growth over billions of years. But a pilot study looking at galaxies that die young has found some might shoot out this gas early on, causing them to redden and kick the bucket prematurely.
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News — ScienceDaily59How pancreatic cancer cells sidestep chemotherapy One reason pancreatic cancer can be so challenging to treat is because its cells have found a way to sidestep chemotherapy, research shows. They hijack the vitamin D receptor, normally associated with bone health, and re-purposed it to repair the damage caused by chemotherapy.
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News — ScienceDaily23Researchers develop new instrument to monitor atmospheric mercury A new instrument to monitor atmospheric mercury in the atmosphere has been developed and tested by scientists. The measurement approach is called sequential two-photon laser induced fluorescence (2P-LIF) and uses two different laser beams to excite mercury atoms and monitor blue shifted atomic fluorescence.
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News — ScienceDaily200+DNA clock helps to get measure of people's lifespans A biological clock that provides vital clues about how long a person is likely to live has been discovered by researchers. Researchers studied chemical changes to DNA that take place over a lifetime, and can help them predict an individual's age. By comparing individuals' actual ages with their predicted biological clock age, scientists saw a pattern emerging.
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News — ScienceDaily57Renewable biofuel production avoids competition with food resources The efficient production of both biofuel and animal feed from one crop is now possible, and can be done on a farm without the need for off-site processes. The research demonstrates the practical potential of an alternative to fossil fuels that does not compete with food resources.
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News — ScienceDaily94Repeated head blows linked to smaller brain volume, slower processing speeds The Impact of repeated head blows is evident at relatively young age, researchers report, and is linked to a heightened risk of cognitive impairment. Researchers warn that there do seem to be important indicators of brain damage linked to repeated blows to the head, which could be used to inform future regulations.
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News — ScienceDaily32More than one-third of kids in England are overweight/obese More than one-third of kids in England are overweight/obese, researchers report, however there does seem to be some evidence that rates may be leveling off in younger children.
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News — ScienceDaily10Testing for EGFR mutations, ALK rearrangements is cost-effective in NSCLC. Multiplexed genetic screening for epidermal growth factor receptor and anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene rearrangements and subsequent biomarker-guided treatment is cost-effective compared with standard chemotherapy treatment without any molecular testing in the metastatic non-small cell lung cancer setting in the United States, researchers report.
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News — ScienceDaily73Gut bacteria byproduct linked to chronic kidney disease for the first time For the first time, researchers have linked trimethylamine N-oxide — a gut metabolite formed during the digestion of egg-, red meat- or dairy-derived nutrients choline and carnitine — to chronic kidney disease.
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News — ScienceDaily83A rare glimpse at the elusive Saharan cheetah Research by scientists and conservationists shows that critically endangered Saharan cheetahs exist at incredibly low densities and require vast areas for their conservation. The research also offers some of the world's only photographs of this elusive big cat.
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Science52It's Not All Bad News For Earth's Oceans Ocean habitats seem to be in pretty good shape, according to the latest study of ocean species. NPR's Arun Rath talks to ecologist Douglas McCauley.» E-Mail This
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Scientific American Content: Global2KSugar Beets Make Hemoglobin It’s the latest veggie discovered to produce the protein best known for its role in blood — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global44Dig This: China Cuts Coal Production The biggest single source of global warming pollution actually started to shrink in 2014. David Biello reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Science3KThe Icebergs Are Talking. We Just Have To Listen Glaciers moan and groan. They crackle, fizz and rumble. Researchers say the noises they make might help us understand how fast they're melting.» E-Mail This
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Scientific American Content: Global500+How Mammals Tell Time [Video] Ambient light keeps genes in the brain, liver, pancreas and other tissues in sync with one another — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global500+How to Be a Better Shopper Research from consumer psychology and marketing hints at how to avoid unnecessary spending — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global8Medical Technology, 1915 [Slideshow] The science of healing from a century ago — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Neurocritic
Against Initiatives: "don't be taken in by the boondoggle" …or should I say braindoggle…I've been reading The Future of the Brain, a collection of Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists edited by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman. Amidst the chapters on jaw-dropping technical developments, Big Factory Science, and Grand Neuroscience Initiatives, one stood out for its contrarian stance (and personally reflective tone). Here's Professor Leah Krubit
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Popular Science4Get the dirt on drugs Project: Drugs From Dirt A US research team wants the dirt on you. More accurately, it would like a sample of the dirt from your area, to check it for interesting new…
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New Scientist – Online news100+Virtual hearts get to the crux of sudden cardiac death Watching hundreds of genetically different hearts beating in a supercomputer is helping doctors identify who is at risk from unexpectedly dropping down dead
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Science11KAfter Alzheimer's Diagnosis, 'The Stripping Away Of My Identity' Greg O'Brien talks about how his life has changed in the five years since he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. "More and more I don't recognize people," he says.» E-Mail This
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Deep-brain imaging reveals which nearly identical neurons are associated with specific behaviors submitted by johngmess [link] [1 comment]
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Scientific American Content: Global300+5 New Ways to Pay—without Using Apple or Google While smartphone payment systems battle one another for users, people are finding better ways to transfer funds — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global500+High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same solution when it was described as being cheap medication. Karen Hopkin… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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BBC News – Science & Environment100+VIDEO: Nasa launch to study soil moisture Nasa has launched an Earth-observing satellite, which will measure the amount of moisture in soil.
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BBC News – Science & Environment400+VIDEO: Starlings 'ballet' thrills city People in Norwich have been turning their heads skywards at thousands of starlings performing a "mesmerising murmuration" en route to a new city roost.
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Scientific American Content: Global2KEye-Tracking Test Enters into the Running for an Alzheimer’s Screen The evaluation is one of several prognostic tests undergoing studies — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily100+Gravitational waves from early universe remain elusive A joint analysis of data from the Planck space mission and the ground-based experiment BICEP2 has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the birth of our universe, despite earlier reports of a possible detection. The collaboration between the teams has resulted in the most precise knowledge yet of what signals from the ancient gravitational waves should look like, aiding future s
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News — ScienceDaily200+NASA launches groundbreaking Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory NASA successfully launched its first Earth satellite designed to collect global observations of the vital soil moisture hidden just beneath our feet. The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory now begins a three-year mission that will figuratively scratch below Earth's surface to expand our understanding of a key component of the Earth system that links the water, energy and carbon cycles
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Futurity.org45Why is California crawling with hot pink sea slugs? Along the central and northern California coast, tide pools are crawling with inch-long sea slugs called Hopkins’ Rose. Warm ocean temperatures have triggered a population explosion of the bright pink creatures. The Hopkins’ Rose nudibranch (Okenia rosacea) is common to Southern California but found only sporadically in Central California and rarely north of San Francisco. However, in the past few
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Futurity.org12Will the Great Lakes face a ‘killer shrimp’ invasion? More non-native species have invaded the Great Lakes than any other freshwater ecosystem in the world. Efforts are in place to stem the tide of invasion threats, but the lakes remain vulnerable, say scientists. They’ve issued a forecast for the next 50 years, including new waves of invasions and specific species that could show up. Over the past two centuries, more than 180 non-native species have
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Scientific American Content: Global26Review: Your Brain Books and recommendations from Scientific American MIND — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily100+Hydrogen production in extreme bacterium Scientists have discovered a bacterium that can produce hydrogen, an element that one day could lessen the world’s dependence on oil.
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Science1KWhy Do We Love Football So Much? Theater Tackles Tough Questions A play based on interviews with former NFL players, their families and fans digs deep: What's so fun about a sport that devastates bodies and brains? And what if it can't be made safer?» E-Mail This
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Science34Why Do We Love Football So Much? Theater Tackles Tough Questions A play based on interviews with former NFL players, their families and fans digs deep: What's so fun about a sport that devastates bodies and brains? And what if it can't be made safer?» E-Mail This
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News — ScienceDaily45Ancient deformation of the lithosphere revealed in Eastern China Seismic investigations from the Qinling-Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt in eastern China suggest that this region was affected by extreme mantle perturbation and crust-mantle interaction during the Mesozoic era. The Qinling-Dabie-Sulu orogenic belt formed through the collision between the North and South China blocks, which produced large-scale destruction of the cratonic lithosphere, accompanied by wide
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News — ScienceDaily100+Evidence mounts for quantum criticality theory A new study adds to the growing evidence supporting a theory that strange electronic behaviors — including high-temperature superconductivity and heavy fermion physics — arise from quantum fluctuations of strongly correlated electrons.
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News — ScienceDaily44Radar Images of Near-Earth Asteroid A team of astronomers has made the most detailed radar images yet of asteroid 2004 BL86. The images, which were taken early in the morning on Jan. 27, 2014, reveal the asteroid's surface features in unprecedented clarity.
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Scientific American Content: Global27Smart Keyboard Gets a Charge out of You Researchers have made a secure, waterproof wireless keyboard that gets charged by the action of your fingertips as you type. Larry Greenemeier reports — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global15Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 2: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 2 of… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global17Every Life Has Equal Value, Part 1: Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann Gates Foundation CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Scientific American Editor in-Chief Mariette DiChristina talk about the foundation set forth in its recently released annual letter. Part 1 of 2 — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global7KRegular Walking Can Help Ease Depression By Janice Neumann (Reuters Health) – Moderate-intensity exercise, or even just walking, can improve quality of life for depressed middle-aged women, a large Australian study suggests. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Popular Science1KSkin-Implanted Microchips Open Doors At Swedish Office Complex To hear biohacker Hannes Sjoblad talk about it, getting a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip installed under your skin is like an inoculation against obsolescence.
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Popular Science2KBill Gates Fears A.I., But A.I. Researchers Know Better As Bill Gates joins the ranks of luminaries warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence research, the general obsession with superintelligence is only getting…
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Science4KBy Impersonating Her Mom, A Comedian Grows Closer To Her Human relationships are entanglements, and those connections often aren't clear to us at all. When Maria Bamford impersonated her mom, she realized what she loved about her — and about herself.» E-Mail This
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Popular Science100+How To Build A Cannon That Shoots Wiffle Balls At 50MPH [Video] Chances are, your leaf blower is collecting dust in a garage right now–and it will until this fall. So rescue that yard-clearing device for a far nobler purpose: blasting…
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Popular Science400+The Month In Plague: Measles In Disneyland, Guinea Worm Eradication, And More Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web: In outbreak news A measles outbreak at Disneyland has now infected a reported 100 people in several US states—mostly California—as well as in Mexico. Some experts say the spread is directly related to the anti-vaccine movement, although others point out that it’s a little more complicated. And Vox has a great piec
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Popular Science500+Lunching Lemurs, A Tropical Cyclone, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week
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News — ScienceDaily100+Latent HIV may lurk in 'quiet' immune cells, research suggests HIV can lie dormant in infected cells for years, even decades. Scientists think unlocking the secrets of this viral reservoir may make it possible to cure, not just treat, HIV. Researchers have gained new insight on which immune cells likely do, and do not, harbor this latent virus.
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Scientific American Content: Global14Book Review: The Powerhouse Books and recommendations from Scientific American — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global300+Senators Vote in Circles about Global Warming and the Keystone XL Pipeline The U.S. Senate voted 62 to 36 yesterday to build the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline that would bring oil from tar sands in Canada down through the U.S. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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News — ScienceDaily1KMeteorite may represent 'bulk background' of Mars' battered crust NWA 7034, a meteorite found a few years ago in the Moroccan desert, is like no other rock ever found on Earth. It's been shown to be a 4.4 billion-year-old chunk of the Martian crust, and according to a new analysis, rocks just like it may cover vast swaths of Mars.
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News — ScienceDaily58Stress shared by same-sex couples can have unique health impacts Minority stress — which results from being stigmatized and disadvantaged in society — affects same-sex couples' stress levels and overall health, research indicates. Authors of a new study state that the health effects of minority stress shared by a couple can be understood as distinct from individual stress, a new framework in the field.
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News — ScienceDaily400+Craigslist personals, HIV trends: Entry of site in a community tied to 16 percent increase in HIV Craigslist's entry into a market results in a 15.9 percent increase in reported HIV cases, according to research. When mapped at the national level, more than 6,000 HIV cases annually and treatment costs estimated between $62 million and $65.3 million can be linked to the popular website, the authors state.
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News — ScienceDaily58Study links deficiency of cellular housekeeping gene with aggressive forms of breast cancer A strong link between the most aggressive type of breast cancer and a gene that regulates the body's natural cellular recycling process, called autophagy, has been uncovered by researchers.
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News — ScienceDaily44Fluorescent dyes 'light up' brain cancer cells Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localize and completely resect brain tumors, suggests a new study. Removing all visible areas of cancer (gross total resection) significantly improves survival after brain cancer surgery.
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News — ScienceDaily2HiSIM-SOTB, compact transistor model, selected as international industry standard A new compact transistor model was developed and the framework for realizing a faster design support process and product development for integrated circuits in the ultra-low voltage category was established. The new compact model, HiSIM-SOTB (Hiroshima University STARC IGFET Model Silicon-on-Thin BOX), was developed by Hiroshima University’s HiSIM Research Center in collaboration with its partners
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds1KGravitational waves discovery now officially dead Combined data from South Pole experiment BICEP2 and Planck probe point to Galactic dust as confounding signal.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16830
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Popular Science2KEvidence Of Expanding Universe May Have Been Just Dirt It was a huge win for Big Bang supporters when, in March 2014, a team of astronomers claimed they had found direct evidence to support the concept of cosmic inflation—the…
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Scientific American Content: Global1KRarely Seen Saharan Cheetah Revealed in Incredible Photos It's not easy to get a glimpse of the critically endangered Saharan cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus hecki), the rarest of the six cheetah subspecies. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Popular Science3KSurvey Says Scientists And Public Disagree On Climate Change, GMOs, And More A new set of surveys of scientists and the public finds the two groups have widely different views about scientific issues. Conducted by the Pew Research Center in…
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Scientific American Content: Global100+Super Bowl Team Cities See More Flu Deaths Regions that send a team to the Super Bowl saw on average an 18 percent increase in flu deaths among those over 65, probably because of increased transmission due to gatherings of people at parties… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global9X-Rays at War, 1915 Reported in Scientific American, This Week in World War I: January 30, 1915 X-rays were used for medical operations within a couple of months after they were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen in late… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Scientific American Content: Global500+A Recipe for Photographing Angry Fire Ants This 2007 photograph of a fire ant brandishing her stinger is among the most heavily circulated images from my collection. Since several people have asked how I managed to coax the animal into such a… — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Scientist – Online news8Today on New Scientist All the latest on newscientist.com: pioneers of the bitcoin rush, big bang leak, how metadata reveals your secrets, Möbius strips of light and more
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Science9KJeremy The Koala, Rescued From Australian Brush Fire, Goes Home The animal had suffered burns to his paws in the blaze that swept through the Adelaide area earlier this month. After a full recovery, he has been released back into the wild.» E-Mail This
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Dana Foundation Blog7An Evening at the Rubin Museum: Attached to Touch When I think of grated mountain yam (also known as “tororo”), my mind goes back eight years to when I first tried it in Japan. My great-aunt sent a large cardboard box from the countryside filled with potatoes, carrots, beans, a sack of rice wrapped in cloth, and mountain yams—all harvested that morning. My grandmother grated the tororo over a bowl until it was filled with the slimy, white paste,
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Jeff Zacks' new book Flicker has a lot of great stuff about how the brain processes movies including work on why movies appear to move, which is discussed in this blog entry. submitted by markmana [link] [1 comment]
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Popular Science2KThis Spider Weaves A Web Of Charged Silk Spider silk is legendarily strong and light. So much so, that researchers are incorporating (or, at least, attempting to incorporate) variations of the material into…
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Futurity.org31Gender differences are smaller than we think Although gender plays a big part in our identities, new research finds men and woman aren’t as different as we tend to think. Gender stereotypes can influence beliefs and create the impression that the differences are large, says Zlatan Krizan, an associate professor of psychology at Iowa State University. To separate fact from fiction, Krizan and colleagues conducted a meta-synthesis of more than
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Popular Science1KWatch A Rocket Blast Off Into An Aurora [Video] A few weeks ago, we wrote about an experiment that would launch a probe through an aurora, to try to unravel the Northern Lights' mysterious electrical structure. The…
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New Scientist – Online news71Sync your sport to your body clock for a personal best Larks and night owls perform drastically better if a sporting event is timed to suit their circadian rhythm
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New Scientist – Online news79Cancer-warped skeletons imagined for building design The extreme deformities caused by bone cancer push the human body to its limits. Our amazing ability to adapt could inspire future architecture
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Futurity.org19This is how phishing scams trick you After all the warnings, how do people still fall for email “phishing” scams? New research shows how certain strategies on the part of the scammers can affect recipients’ thinking and increase their chances of falling victim. “Information-rich” emails include graphics, logos, and other brand markers that communicate authenticity, says study coauthor Arun Vishwanath, professor of communication at th
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Ultradian oscillation in expression of four melatonin receptor subtype genes in the pineal gland of the grass puffer, a semilunar-synchronized spawner, under constant darkness Taro Ikegami, Yusuke Maruyama, Hiroyuki Doi, Atsuhiko Hattori and Hironori Ando
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BBC News – Science & Environment1KControllers banking on Philae wake-up The European Space Agency says it will conduct no more dedicated searches for its lost comet lander, and will now wait for the probe itself to call home.
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BBC News – Science & Environment500+'Cold plasma' kills off norovirus Norovirus, the most common cause of gastroenteritis in the world, can be killed with "cold plasma", scientists report.
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Popular Science2KTo Keep Airplanes On The Map, Track Them From Space Two commercial airplanes vanished from radar in 2014. Although the wreckage of AirAsia QZ8501 has been recovered, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still missing, with and…
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Futurity.org60Is this kid too young for football? As the 100 million viewers tuning in to this Sunday’s Super Bowl can attest, Americans adore football. And for many, the love affair begins in childhood. But a new study points to a possible increased risk of cognitive impairment from playing youth football. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine found that former National Football League (NFL) players who participated in tackle foo
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New Scientist – Online news200+The world's wellness obsession has gone too far Being urged to optimise every aspect of our lives to improve well-being is sometimes counterproductive, say André Spicer and Carl Cederström
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New Scientist – Online news100+Leak suggests big bang find was a dusty mistake Details of a new analysis of last year's BICEP2 results have been accidentally leaked – and seem to show that claiming a gravitational wave discovery was jumping the gun
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Futurity.org
Globalization’s first wave wasn’t all positive 150 years ago, the steamship made international trade possible for many countries. Only a few countries benefited from this first wave of globalization, however. Most ended up worse-off, according to a new study. This is proof that international trade doesn’t automatically lead to economic prosperity, says Luigi Pascali, a professor of economics in the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Globa
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Futurity.org10‘Parasitic’ genes let mammals evolve pregnancy Transposons, also called “jumping genes,” were a key part of the evolution of pregnancy among mammals, report scientists. They found thousands of genes that evolved to be expressed in the uterus in early mammals, including many that are important for maternal-fetal communication and suppression of the immune system. “…I guess we owe the evolution of pregnancy to what are effectively genomic parasi
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BBC News – Science & Environment100+Will the falling oil price undermine green energy? What do falling oil prices mean for green energy?
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New Scientist – Online news4Feedback: Nice slice of fried man, Sir? Sex-specific snack suspicion, when ads break the law, getting water from petrol and more (full text available to subscribers)
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds93Obama to seek $215 million for precision-medicine plan Details emerge as White House prepares to release budget request to Congress.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16824
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BBC News – Science & Environment400+Study fells cosmic inflation claim Scientists who claimed to have found direct evidence for a cosmic super-expansion at the Big Bang made no such discovery, a soon-to-be published study will say.
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Science2KCould This Virus Be Good For You? Scientists studying HIV and Ebola have noticed another virus hitching along for the ride in some blood samples. Now they're trying to figure out whether the lurker helps the body fend off disease.» E-Mail This
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Stochastic Wilson-Cowan models of neuronal network dynamics with memory and delay We consider a simple Markovian class of the stochastic Wilson-Cowan type models of neuronal network dynamics, which incorporates stochastic delay caused by the existence of a refractory period of neurons. From the point of view of the dynamics of the individual elements, we are dealing with a network of non-Markovian stochastic two-state oscillators with memory which are coupled globally in a mean
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BBC News – Science & Environment400+Scars reveal ageing whales' secrets Scientists studying one of the most mysterious whale species find they form long-term alliances, sometimes lasting many years.
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Blog » Languages » English3Calling all Mods! New features — /who /warn Hello mods! Eyewire has just implemented some great new features that will bring your modding abilities to the next level. /who Use /who USERNAME to bring up a list of information about a given user. Available to all users: User’s level User’s role (mod, scout, scythe etc.) Whether the user is online, and what channel they are in Available only to mods and admins: User’s name changes Moderatio
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds200+Analysis of trial data revives flu-drug row What are the benefits of Tamiflu, and why is it so controversial?Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16820
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BBC News – Science & Environment42VIDEO: Giant beaked whales show their scars The Baird's beaked whale – one of the most mysterious marine mammals – forms long-term alliances that last many years, footage reveals.
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NeuWrite San Diego21time keeps on slippin’ A few nights ago I made the mistake of baking lasagna while extremely hungry. Each tick of the timer reverberated inside my skull for what seemed like hours, and the cheese just refused to melt. Later that same night I accidentally stayed up until 2 in the morning absentmindedly watching hours of YouTube videos that […]
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Science21KScientists, General Public Have Divergent Views On Science, Report Says A Pew Research Center study shows that the two groups disagree most strongly on the safety of GM foods, the use of animals in research, climate change and human evolution.» E-Mail This
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Science1KFood Industry Drags Its Heels On Recyclable And Compostable Packaging A new report from two environmental groups reviewed the recyclability and compostability of packaging from 47 food companies. It found few examples of companies that have prioritized waste reduction.» E-Mail This
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Futurity.org7You can join the 1 percent, but you can’t stay A typical American has a one in nine shot of hitting the jackpot and joining the wealthiest 1 percent for at least one year of his or her working life, say researchers. There’s bad news, too, however: only an elite few get to stay in that economic stratosphere—and nonwhite workers remain among those who face far longer odds. “Rather than static groups that experience continual high levels of econo
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Futurity.org28These 2 genes trigger deadly ovarian cancer By creating the first mouse model of aggressive ovarian cancer, researchers say they may have uncovered a better way to diagnose and treat it. “It’s an extremely aggressive model of the disease, which is how this form of ovarian cancer presents in women,” says study leader Terry Magnuson, a professor and chair of genetics at the UNC School of Medicine. Magnuson’s team discovered how two genes inte
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New Scientist – Online news26The bitcoin rush: Pioneers on the financial frontier Meet miners, outlaws and sheriffs all striving to get ahead in the volatile new world of virtual money. Financial Times reporter Kadhim Shubber is your guide (full text available to subscribers)
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds100+German police raid animal-research lab Documents seized from Max Planck Institute in Tübingen.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16813
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds100+People can be identified through their credit-card transactions Analysis suggests that making data anonymous is not enough to protect consumers.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16817
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds1KSurvey finds US public still supports science Researchers question meaning of an apparent opinion gap between scientists and the public.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16818
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BBC News – Science & Environment5KChicks place low numbers on the left Scientists in Italy find that baby chickens associate low and high numbers with left and right, respectively – suggesting they may count using a "mental number line" like humans do.
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Science: Current Issue7[Errata] Erratum for the Report: “Multiple nutrient stresses at intersecting Pacific Ocean biomes detected by protein biomarkers” by M. A. Saito, M. R. McIlvin, D. M. Moran, T. J. Goepfert, G. R. DiTullio, A. F. Post, C. H. Lamborg
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Science: Current Issue6[Editorial] Bridging the opinion gap There is a wide opinion gap between scientists and the general public in the United States when it comes to their attitudes about the state of science and science-related policy. According to survey results released this week by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),* when asked whether U.S. scientific achievements are either
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Science: Current Issue
[In Brief] This week's section In science news around the world, the Obama administration announces several big moves on Arctic oil, India rejects a patent on a hepatitis C drug, the World Health Organization embarks on reforms to make it better able to deal with events such as the Ebola epidemic, an Italian court finds three employees of research dog–breeding facility Green Hill guilty of unjustified killing and mistreatment o
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Science: Current Issue
[In Depth] A moment of truth arrives for U.S. ocean science For years, U.S. marine scientists have fretted about the future of their field, watching as federal funding stagnated and the cost of seafloor observatories and other infrastructure steadily eroded the money available for research. But there's been little agreement on how to respond. That changed last week, as an unprecedented, 2-year effort to set priorities for the beleaguered field unveiled som
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Science: Current Issue5[In Depth] India's costly neutrino gamble India's central government this month approved plans to build the India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO), a $244 million facility 1200 meters under a mountain in southern India. Its goal, to determine which of the three types of neutrinos is heaviest and which is lightest, may seem esoteric. But it could help answer other fundamental questions in physics, including how neutrinos acquire mass, whet
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Science: Current Issue
[In Depth] DARPA sets out to automate research The physics Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek has famously predicted that in 100 years, the best physicist will be a machine. Now the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is working toward that vision in a different arena: cancer research. Last summer, the agency launched a $45 million program called Big Mechanism, aimed at developing computer systems that will read research papers on cancer
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Science: Current Issue
[In Depth] Meet two new science spending cardinals in Congress The November elections have meant new federal lawmakers will be overseeing spending for important slices of the U.S. research pie. That includes two key changes in the House of Representatives: Representative Tom Cole (R–OK) will lead the subcommittee that oversees the budget of the National Institutes of Health, and Representative John Culberson (R–TX) will head the panel responsible for NASA and
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Science: Current Issue1[Special Issue News] Credit card study blows holes in anonymity For social scientists, the age of big data carries big promises: a chance to mine anonymized demographic, financial, medical, and other vast data sets in fine detail to learn how we lead our lives. For privacy advocates, however, the prospect is alarming. They worry that the people represented in such data may not stay anonymous for long. A study of credit card data in this week's issue of Science
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Science: Current Issue1[Feature] A new drug war Roughly 2 years ago, recovering cocaine addict Tessa Shlaer went with a friend to the back aisles of an adult superstore in Georgia and bought three clear jars, each containing an ounce of a cloudy white substance. The jars bore different brand names—"Meow Meow," "Bolivian MDPV," and "Miami Ice"—and over the next several days, Shlaer and her friend smoked, injected, a
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Science: Current Issue
[Feature] Alarm over synthetic cannabinoids Grisly media reports of cannibalism and shooting sprees prompted by synthetic cathinones have given them an especially bad reputation, but there's another class of designer drugs worrying drug enforcement and public health officials: synthetic cannabinoids, humanmade chemicals designed to mimic THC, the key psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Sold since the early 2000s under brand names such as
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New Scientist – Online news3KMöbius strips of light made for the first time A decade ago, physicists suggested that certain properties of light can twist into a one-sided loop – now there's proof
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New Scientist – Online news100+Just four credit card clues can identify anyone Without even knowing what someone bought, it's possible to pick their credit card history out of an anonymised pool thanks to the metadata collected by modern devices
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Futurity.org12Why Mars has 2 wildly different hemispheres The two hemispheres of Mars are dramatically different from each other—a characteristic not seen on any other planet in our solar system. Non-volcanic, flat lowlands characterize the northern hemisphere, while highlands punctuated by countless volcanoes extend across the southern hemisphere. Scientists can’t agree on what caused the differences, but ETH Zurich geophysicist Giovanni Leone is offeri
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BBC News – Science & Environment200+Diplodocus v blue whale: Who'd win? Who'd win fantasy fight between diplodocus and blue whale?
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New Scientist – Online news82The Hard Problem is Stoppard's problem with science After a long wait and a great track record transmuting science into art, Tom Stoppard's new play takes on the hard problem of consciousness – and loses
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Futurity.org46‘Safe’ pesticide could be an ADHD culprit New research suggests that a commonly used pesticide found on lawns, golf courses, and vegetable crops may raise the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The pesticide may alter the development of the brain’s dopamine system—which is responsible for emotional expression and cognitive function. Mice exposed to the pyrethroid pesticide deltamethrin in utero and through lactation
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Futurity.org35Donor tissue for joint repair stays fresh for 60 days Currently doctors have to throw away more than 80 percent of donated tissue used for joint replacements because the tissue does not survive long enough to be transplanted. A new way to preserve the tissue means it can last much longer: up to 60 days instead of less than 30. “It’s a game-changer,” says James Stannard, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Missouri School of Medicin
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Perceptual factors contribute more than acoustical factors to sound localization abilities with virtual sources Guillaume Andeol, Sophie Savel and Anne Guillaume
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BBC News – Science & Environment400+Shell revives Arctic drilling plans Royal Dutch Shell revives Arctic drilling plans, despite announcing a $15bn cut in global spending and profit figures that disappointed investors.
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Dana Foundation Blog31Free the Mind: Rewiring the Brain with Contemplative Neuroscience In an article published last week, a team at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge recognized signs of post-traumatic stress disorder in writings dating as far back as 1300 BC. Though they of course did not use that term, recovered accounts of soldiers from ancient Mesopotamia described the familiar symptom of being visited by “ghosts they faced in battle” long after their return from war. Today,
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Neural competition via lateral inhibition between decision processes and not a STOP signal accounts for the antisaccade performance in healthy and schizophrenia subjects Vassilis Cutsuridis
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Science200+U.S. Nuclear Scientist Caught In FBI Sting Is Jailed For Espionage Pedro Leonardo Mascheroni is sentenced to five years after telling FBI agents posing as Venezuelan officials that he could design and supervise the building of 40 nuclear bombs.» E-Mail This
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BBC News – Science & Environment2KUS museums consider London outpost The world's largest museum and research institution could be heading for London as part of a multi-million dollar redevelopment of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
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Science100+Companies Wanting Immediate Sales Should Pass On Super Bowl Ads Researchers asked this question: Is a company better off spending big money for a Super Bowl ad or buying several spots for that same amount of money at a less expensive time of the year?» E-Mail This
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Surfing Brainwaves with EEG: A Classic Tool for Recording Temporal Brain Dynamics submitted by knowingneurons [link] [2 comments]
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Development of modularity in the neural activity of children's brains We study how modularity of the human brain changes as children develop into adults. Theory suggests that modularity can enhance the response function of a networked system subject to changing external stimuli. Thus, greater cognitive performance might be achieved for more modular neural activity, and modularity might likely increase as children develop. The value of modularity calculated from fMRI
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Blog » Languages » English32EyeWire at the Exploratorium Cognitive Technology, a new exhibit at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, invites visitors to experience the epic intersection of neuroscience, art and design. Opening to the public on Jan 31 and created by m0xy and the Cognitive Technologies Group, this collaborative exhibit will feature interactive games on EEG headsets, an Oculus Rift virtual vasculature brain explorer, and 3D neurons mapped by ga
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Science44KRare Fox Takes A Walk In The Park, And Yosemite Staff Cheer It's been nearly 100 years since a sighting of a Sierra Nevada red fox was documented in Yosemite National Park, according to park staff.» E-Mail This
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds100+Mystery childhood paralysis stumps researchers Pathogen related to polio and common cold could be the cause — but little is known for sure.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16812
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Science2KCharles Townes, Laser Pioneer, Black Hole Discoverer, Dies At 99 Physicist Charles Townes died Tuesday. He was a key inventor of the laser and won the Nobel Prize for his discovery in 1964. But his career didn't end there.» E-Mail This
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds100+NIH defends monkey experiments Director Francis Collins says the agency has changed how it conducts controversial studies, but argues the work is necessary.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16814
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Neanderthals gain human neighbour Cranium discovery shows that Homo sapiens was living in Middle East 55,000 years ago.Nature 517 541 doi: 10.1038/517541a
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NatureNews – Most recent articles – nature.com science feeds25‘Gutsy’ university chief to take on China's pollution Tsinghua's Chen Jining is slated to become environmental protection minister as China steps up efforts to clean up its air, water and soil.Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16810
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Inferring and Learning from Neuronal Correspondences We introduce and study methods for inferring and learning from correspondences among neurons. The approach enables alignment of data from distinct multiunit studies of nervous systems. We show that the methods for inferring correspondences combine data effectively from cross-animal studies to make joint inferences about behavioral decision making that are not possible with the data from a single a
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Video Friday: The Structure of the Neocortex — Dr. Clay Reid at the Allen Institute for Brain Science submitted by johngmess [link] [1 comment]
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Your Brain on Multitasking submitted by sportmike617 [link] [1 comment]
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A new paper in JPSP suggests that acting in synchrony increases conformity in the people who perform the movement, but decreases conformity in observers. submitted by markmana [link] [1 comment]
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When you say you 'don't see race', you’re ignoring racism, not helping to solve it submitted by hopbroker [link] [12 comments]
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Preview of ThinkSuite Kickstarter, A Neurofeedback Based Kickstarter! submitted by austingwalters [link] [6 comments]
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ArXiv Query
Temperature manipulation in songbird brain implicates the premotor nucleus HVC in birdsong syntax Behavioral sequences of animals are often structured and can be described by probabilistic rules (or "action syntax"). The patterns of vocal elements in birdsong are a prime example. The encoding of such rules in neural circuits is poorly understood. Here we locate the site of song syntax in the Bengalese finch by rapidly and reversibly manipulating the temperature in the song production
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From dynamics to links: a sparse reconstruction of the topology of a neural network One major challenge in neuroscience is the identification of interrelations between signals reflecting neural activity and how information processing occurs in the neural circuits. At the cellular and molecular level, mechanisms of signal transduction have been studied intensively and a better knowledge and understanding of some basic processes of information handling by neurons has been achieved.
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Inferring and Learning from Neuronal Correspondences We introduce and study methods for inferring and learning from correspondences among neurons. The approach enables alignment of data from distinct multiunit studies of nervous systems. We show that the methods for inferring correspondences combine data effectively from cross-animal studies to make joint inferences about behavioral decision making that are not possible with the data from a single a
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The Beautiful Brain
Answers from the Edge The Edge.org, the online salon for the world’s “most complex and sophisticated minds,” has released the answers to its annual question. This year’s question was What Do You Think About Machines That Think? (“Is AI becoming increasingly real? Are we now in the new era of AI?, ), and there were 186 respondents, including philosopher Daniel Dennett (“The Singularity—an Urban Legend?”), musician Brian
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Dana Foundation Blog
It’s National #DrugFacts Week! This week is National Drug Facts Week, “a national health observance for teens to promote local events that use NIDA science to shatter the myths about drugs.” Be sure to check out the dedicated website to find events in your area, take the National Dug IQ Challenge, and find out how different drugs affect the brain and body. There’s also a Chat Day on Friday, January 30, which is “an annual live
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Consolidating a Link Centered Neural Connectivity Framework with Directed Transfer Function Asymptotics We present a unified mathematical derivation of the asymptotic behaviour of three of the main forms of textit{directed transfer function} (DTF) complementing recent partial directed coherence (PDC) results cite{Baccala2013}. Based on these results and numerical examples we argue for a new directed `link' centered neural connectivity framework to replace the widespread correlation based effective
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Blog » Languages » English7Titan Wars! Awards list Titan Wars have concluded! What a great battle it was! Congratulations to all who participated! Here’s a list of all you great Eyewire Warriors — For Science and Olympus! Evil Cubes Evil Cubes Grand Master galarun, nkem, ronin, a5hm0r, dataminerstarr, Andrearwen, Emeraldstar, Evil Cubes Master scoobi, DannyS, davidheiserca, twister2, ouiz, asitko, aesanta1, lobusparietalis, wolfryder1
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Blog » Languages » English8Training for new Scouts, Scythes and Mods on 1/26/15 and 1/28/15 Congratulations to all our new Scouts, Scythes and Mods on your promotions! To get better acquainted with your new position, attend one of our training periods on either 1/26/15 or 1/28/15. Training sessions will happen over Google Hangouts and will each last approximately 30 minutes. The link to each training session will be posted in Eyewire chat, so please be online a few minutes before your s
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cognitive science
Toward discovering genes affecting cognition submitted by anoyli [link] [comment]
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Gary Lupyan & Andy Clark [in press] Words and the World: Predictive coding and the language-perception-cognition interface submitted by jufnitz [link] [comment]
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How does the mind arise from the brain? submitted by johngmess [link] [12 comments]
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Dana Foundation Blog4Seeking to Reopen Pipelines to New Treatments Slide shown at workshop, courtesy of FasterCures. In the past few years, patients and families have watched as several large drug-makers have trimmed or closed their labs investigating new treatments for brain disorders. Meanwhile the need for preventives and treatments for schizophrenia, depression, bipolar illness, and other ailments remains—and the need for help for people developing Alzheimer’
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ArXiv Query
Ordering Dynamics in Neuron Activity Pattern Model: An insight to Brain Functionality We study the ordering kinetics in $d=2$ ferromagnets which corresponds to populated neuron activities with long-ranged interactions, $V(r)sim r^{-n}$ associated with short-ranged interaction. We present the results from comprehensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulations for the nonconserved Ising model with $nge 2$. Our results of long-ranged neuron kinetics are consistent with the same dynamical behavi
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The AI Revolution the Road to Superintelligence submitted by loose_impediment [link] [14 comments]
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The Heroes of Olympus are victorious! Source In the Elysian fields, the army of Heroes and Gods made their stand against the darkness and won! The battle will become a legend, and the feats of the Heroes will be sung for generations to come. Earth is safe and humanity protected. The army of Heroes and Gods secured the Elysian fields and routed the Titan army back to the depths. With a combination of godly powers from Zeus, Apollo, Are
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The Beautiful Brain
The Theater of Consciousness Tom Stoppard has written his first new play in almost a decade. It will open at the National Theatre in London on January 28, and it’s about…consciousness! The Hard Problem, named for philosopher David Chalmers’ famous formulation of the supreme mystery of qualia, tells the story of a young psychologist at a brain-science institute. According to the overview, the protagonist Hilary “is nursing a
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Dana Foundation Blog13The Art of Losing: Alzheimer’s Awareness in Still Alice Nowadays, it’s not uncommon to witness people documenting their daily rituals—the food they’re eating, the clothes they’re wearing, who they’re with, or where they’re going. At times it feels as though the public is obsessed with preserving these seemingly insignificant moments, as if it’s crucial that not a single detail is forgotten. But for the increasingly large number of people diagnosed with
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Redox-based epigenetic status in drug addiction: a potential contributor to gene priming and a mechanistic rationale for metabolic intervention Malav Suchin Trivedi and Richard Deth
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Reducing the computational footprint for real-time BCPNN learning Bernhard Vogginger, René Schüffny, Anders Lansner, Love Cederström, Johannes Partzsch and Sebastian Höppner
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NeuWrite San Diego4Present you vs. Future you It’s almost the end of January. How are your New Year’s Resolutions holding up? If you haven’t stuck to them, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re in the majority. There are many reasons we don’t meet our well-intentioned goals to go to the gym more, quit smoking, or go to bed earlier at night. One […]
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WIRED » Neuroscience500+How Science Is Helping America Tackle Police Racism The police killings of several unarmed black men in recent months have sparked protests nationwide demanding justice, heightening tensions between police departments and communities. In one narrative, these deaths represent a pattern of racist police officers using unnecessary lethal force against black communities. But that story—of bad people doing bad things—is much too simple, says Phillip […]
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Characterizing the neural correlates of reasoning The brain did not develop a dedicated device for reasoning. This fact bears dramatic consequences. While for perceptuo-motor functions neural activity is shaped by the input's statistical properties, and processing is carried out at high speed in hardwired spatially segregated modules, in reasoning, neural activity is driven by internal dynamics, and processing times, stages, and functional brain
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Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of consciousness? submitted by carsonbiz [link] [145 comments]
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EyeWire’s NIH 3D Printed Neuroscience Collection The NIH recently held its annual 3D Science event in Washington, DC. Speakers ranged from surgeons who 3D print hearts to prepare for surgery to groups that animate macro-molecules within cells. The rate of innovation in scientific visualization is mind blowing! Researchers are now able to turn virtual models into physical objects, aiding in planning complicated, life-saving surgeries or teachin
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Titan Wars: The Final Battle! The Elysian fields—the paradise of old. A place where the souls of those virtuous, brave, and honorable went after life. Source Now Elysium will become a battlefield as the Titans advance, seeking victory against the armies of the Heroes of Earth and Olympus. If the Heroes of Earth win, Elysium remains the paradise that it is. If the Titans win, it will be destroyed along with Olympus and Earth.
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Hector is victorious! Source The Fates Help Us All… Under the command of Hyperion, supreme commander of the Titan army under Cronus, Hector and his team have won the day. Achilles has been defeated by his archnemesis. In the hallowed fields of Elysium, the final battle will take place. Ares and the pantheon of Olympus have arrived. Together, with the Heroes of Earth, they will make their final stand against Cronus and
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Response of the nitrergic system to activation of the neuroendocrine stress axis Hsiao-Jou Cortina Chen, Jereme G. Spiers, Conrad Sernia and Nickolas A. Lavidis
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Integration of modeling with experimental and clinical findings synthesizes and refines the central role of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor 1 in spinocerebellar ataxiaSherry-Ann Brown and Leslie M. Loew
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Computational neurobiology is a useful tool in translational neurology: the example of ataxia Sherry-Ann Brown, Louise D. McCullough and Leslie M. Loew
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Monocyte trafficking to the brain with stress and inflammation: a novel axis of immune-to-brain communication that influences mood and behavior Eric S Wohleb, Daniel B McKim, John F Sheridan and Jonathan P Godbout
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ArXiv Query
Testing quantum-like models of judgment for question order effects Lately, so-called "quantum" models, based on parts of the mathematics of quantum mechanics, have been developed in decision theory and cognitive sciences to account for seemingly irrational or paradoxical human judgments. In this paper, we limit ourselves to such quantum-like models that address order effects. It has been argued that such models are able to account for existing and new e
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Sparse Bayesian Learning for EEG Source Localization Purpose: Localizing the sources of electrical activity from electroencephalographic (EEG) data has gained considerable attention over the last few years. In this paper, we propose an innovative source localization method for EEG, based on Sparse Bayesian Learning (SBL). Methods: To better specify the sparsity profile and to ensure efficient source localization, the proposed approach considers grou
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Impact of hematocrit on measurements of the intrinsic brain Zhen Yang, R. Cameron Craddock and Michael P. Milham
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Output stream of leaky integrate and fire neuron Probability density function of output interspike intervals is found in exact form for leaky integrate and fire neuron stimulated with Poisson stream. The diffusion approximation is not exploited.
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The paradoxical relationship of difficulty and lateral frontal cortex activity Task difficulty is widely cited in current theory regarding cognitive control and fronto-parietal function. Ongoing debate surrounds the extent to which global difficulty across multiple cognitive demands is the main driver of lateral frontal activity. Here, we examine a commonly cited behavioral marker of difficulty in these accounts: time-on-task (ToT), as assessed by response time. Specifically
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Steven Reppert (UMass) Part 1: Neurobiology of Monarch Butterfly Migration: Migration Overview Steven Reppert (UMass) Part 1: Neurobiology of Monarch Butterfly Migration: Migration Overview http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/steven-m-reppert-part-1.html Talk Overview: Reppert begins by describing the amazing long-distance migration of the East… From: iBiology Views: 285 6 ratings Time: 28:10 More in Science & Technology
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Steven Reppert (UMass) Part 2: Monarch Butterfly Migration: A Time-Compensated Sun Compass Steven Reppert (UMass) Part 2: Monarch Butterfly Migration: A Time-Compensated Sun Compass http://www.ibiology.org/ibioseminars/steven-m-reppert-part-2.html Talk Overview: Reppert begins by describing the amazing long-distance migration of the East… From: iBiology Views: 151 5 ratings Time: 46:55 More in Science & Technology
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
Neuromorphic log-domain silicon synapse circuits obey bernoulli dynamics: a unifying tutorial analysis Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Shih-Chii Liu, Giacomo Indiveri and Emmanuel Michael Drakakis
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Frontiers in Neuroscience
A framework for plasticity implementation on the SpiNNaker neural architecture Francesco Galluppi, Xavier Lagorce, Evangelos Stromatias, Michael Pfeiffer, Luis A Plana, Steve B Furber and Ryad Benjamin Benosman
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Activation of endogenous neural stem cells for multiple sclerosis therapy Iliana Michailidou, Helga E De Vries, Elly M Hol and Miriam E. Van Strien
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Blog » Languages » English9Achilles vs Hector: A challenge for the Hero of Heroes! “Hold the line! No retreat, no surrender!” From Ares’ mouth the cry was heard throughout the battlefield and in front of Elysium’s gates. The Heroes of Earth must hold the line against the spawn of Hades and give time for the armies of Olympus to march and join with them for the final confrontation against the Titans. But first, two old, mortal enemies find themselves rematched long after the war
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Blog » Languages » English10Tartarus Cubes Defeated! The Tartarus Cubes have been vanquished! Source The keys have been found! The Heroes of Earth survived the dungeons of Tartarus and managed to recover the keys to Elysium. The Titans and their minions were unable to stop them. However, the returning adventurers would never be the same again. The abyss of Tartarus will haunt them for the rest of their lives. Most accurate amongst them in tracing th
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High Resolution pictures of the Brain
How easy to control your thoughts and emotions submitted by motivizer [link] [1 comment]
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NeuWrite San Diego5What’s app: an insider’s perspective on how to optimize your application to grad school So you’ve decided to apply to graduate school in the sciences. You’ve got all of your deadlines lined up, you’ve added a few new things to your CV, and you’re pretty confident your grades and GRE match the average scores for your program. Importantly, you’ve done research in the field, gotten some experience, and you’re […]
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Blog » Languages » English18Tartarus Cubes revealed! Woe to us all. The Gates of Tartarus have opened. From within, the Titans send forth their armies, along with all of their hatred and malice for humankind. Their goal, you ask? Release from their eternal prison, and vengeance against the gods of Olympus and humanity—but above all else, they seek revenge on Zeus for condemning them to the deepest level of Hades in perpetual suffering. Copyright: W
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NeuWrite San Diego50“Every Science Story is a Detective Story” This week, UCSD, the Kavli Foundation, and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind hosted a visit from the amazing actor Alan Alda and fellows from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science,. In addition to a public lecture and workshops for senior faculty and selected postdoctoral scholars, Mr. Alda was kind enough to take […]
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The Beautiful Brain2The Music of Brain Waves London-based artist Aiste Noreikaite has developed a high-tech device that translates neural processes into sound in real time using EEG technology. According to Noreikaite, the Experience Helmet, which looks like an ordinary white motorcycle helmet, creates an “audible reflection of one’s personal experience of the present moment.” The sounds inside the helmet become higher when users have clear

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