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How central are female characters to a movie?A new study — which creates automatic tools for signal analysis and linguistic assessment — uncovers how media communicates about gender, race and age finding that in the majority of films, females roles are not central to the plot.
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Netflix drama '13 Reasons Why' linked to suicidal thoughtsA new study has delved into Americans' internet search history in the days after Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' series aired, and found that queries for suicide and how to commit suicide spiked in the show's wake.
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Tobacco industry steps up tactics to reduce impact of display banTobacco manufacturers are offering retailers incentives to promote their products in a bid to mitigate the effects of the advertising ban, a new study has found.
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U.S. states find rewards from high-tech investments, given time and patienceStates have spent millions to develop high-tech industry, with its promise of good jobs and economic growth. And the public investment generally pays off, including in places that might seem less than ideal, according to a national study of such investments in the 1980s and 1990s. The key for these state programs is often time, patience and modest expectations, says the study's lead author.
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Carrion flies used to survey tropical forest mammalsScientists have tested a new technique: recruiting carrion-eating flies to detect mammals. This new method surpasses standard techniques, detecting more species than researchers could count along trails or photograph with hidden cameras.
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New drug may treat and limit progression of Parkinson's diseaseResearchers have developed a new drug that may limit the progression of Parkinson's disease while providing better symptom relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of people with the disease.
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New insights into gastrointestinal dysfunction in Parkinson's patientsConstipation is one of the most common non-motor related complaints affecting Parkinson's disease (PD) patients.
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U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are AbandonedTwo South Carolina utilities said they would halt construction on a pair of reactors, dealing a major blow to the future of American nuclear power.
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How camouflaged birds decide where to blend inAnimals that rely on camouflage can choose the best places to conceal themselves based on their individual appearance, new research shows.
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Trump urged to declare national emergency over US opioid epidemic Report from Chris Christie panel lays out stark depiction of addiction crisis Overdoses are claiming the lives of 142 Americans every day President Trump is being urged to declare a federal state of emergency to address the epidemic of opioid overdoses that is claiming as many American lives as the terrorist attacks on 9/11 every three weeks. Related: Route to recovery: how people overcome an opi
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A closer look at osteoporosis medication's mechanisms may improve outcomesOsteoporosis is the primary cause of bone fractures in the elderly, reflecting an imbalance between osteoclasts, bone-degrading cells, and osteoblasts, bone-building cells. Teriparatide is the only FDA-approved treatment for osteoporosis that increases osteoblast activity and lifespan. Medical researchers now report that teriperatide treatment also stimulates the formation of new osteoblasts. Howe
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Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first timeA large species of green algae was discovered alive in North America for the first time ever, with the only previous record being fossils dating back to the time of the dinosaurs.
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Coordinated care organizations lead to more timely prenatal carePregnant women on Medicaid are more likely to receive timely prenatal care following Oregon's implementation of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, which are regional networks of health care providers who work together to treat patients, a new study has shown.
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Single-photon emitter has promise for quantum info-processingScientists have produced the first known material capable of single-photon emission at room temperature and at telecommunications wavelengths.
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New tactic to curb obesity: Address physician biasAn educational initiative is reducing medical students' negative attitudes toward people with obesity, a finding researchers hope will translate into better outcomes for patients struggling with weight, according to new research.
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New technique enables photographers to adjust image compositions after captureWhen taking a picture, a photographer must typically commit to a composition that cannot be changed after the shutter is released. For example, when using a wide-angle lens to capture a subject in front of an appealing background, it is difficult to include the entire background and still have the subject be large enough in the frame.
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L.A. to Host the 2028 Summer Olympics Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics after reaching an agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the office of L.A City Council President Herb Wesson confirmed Monday. The deal will be formally announced at a Monday evening news conference and reviewed by the Olympic council later this week. The decision was widely anticipated, given that L.A. and Paris were the onl
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Niagara Falls: Smelly black water shocks visitorsThe local water board apologises for "causing alarm" with discharge from sewage tank maintenance.
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Tech's Biggest CEOs Are Too Chickenshit to Defend Net Neutrality Photo: Getty Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee invited the CEOs of Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google’s parent company Alphabet to take part in discussions about net neutrality. Telecoms were also invited and the two groups were expected to play good cop/bad cop on the issues. Now, the committee has extended the RSVP deadline because apparently no one wants to show up. Accordi
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Tobacco industry steps up tactics to reduce impact of display banTobacco manufacturers are offering retailers incentives to promote their products in a bid to mitigate the effects of the advertising ban, a University of Stirling study has found.
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Stranger Things Producer Shawn Levy Had to Move Mountains to Get the Rights to 'Thriller' Image: Netflix At the recent San Diego Comic-Con, we got a chance to talk to Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy moments after the awesome season two trailer dropped. Naturally, the first word on our lips was “Thriller”—and as Levy revealed, the iconic Michael Jackson song almost didn’t make it into the clip. We have to agree — it’d be a great trailer no matter what, but Vincent Price’s
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Rare 'Balloon Syndrome' Causes Hedgehog to Puff Up Like a Beach BallWhat do you do when find a puffed-up, beach ball-size hedgehog? You take it to the vet to be deflated.
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Are yearly TB tests too much for health workers? Tuberculosis is a recognized hazard for health care workers, but screening them every year—the current practice in the Canada and the United States—is costly, has very limited health benefits. and should be reconsidered, according to a new study. Health agencies in North America should consider switching to a targeted strategy focusing on high-risk health care workers only, advise the researchers
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To Build a Smarter Chatbot, First Teach It a Second LanguageTranslation can help an algorithm’s overall language skills.
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Trump's Opioid Commission Calls for a State of Emergency A government opioid commission chaired by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has called for President Trump to declare a state of emergency in dealing with the opioid epidemic, which now kills more than 100 Americans daily. Such a declaration, which several states have already made, “would empower your cabinet to take bold steps and would force Congress to focus on funding and empowering the exec
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Molecules that Could Form Membranes Found Above TitanVinyl cyanide is thought to rain down onto Saturn's largest moon, though whether the molecule self-assembles into membrane-like structures is unclear.
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Inattention, poor memories shape inflation expectationsPeople have a haphazard approach to assessing inflation, research shows. Most citizens only pay attention to the topic intermittently, and they overestimate how bad inflation will become.
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Earth-like atmosphere may not survive Proxima b's orbitAn Earth-like planet outside the solar system may not be able to keep a grip on its atmosphere, leaving the surface exposed to harmful stellar radiation and reducing its potential for habitability.
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It's something in the water: Scientists extract hydrogen as potential fuel sourceA new technique that helps extract hydrogen from water efficiently and cheaply has now been developed by a team of scientists.
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How DNA damage turns immune cells against cancerThe delayed arrival of immune cells after cancer therapy is well documented and critical for responses to chemotherapy and radiation, yet the events underlying their induction remain poorly understood. Now, researchers have discovered how DNA damage is a clarion call for the immune system.
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Spanking can be detrimental for children's behavior, even 10 years laterPhysical discipline experienced during infancy can negatively impact temperament and behavior among children in the fifth grade and into their teenage years, new research indicates.
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How to Build Resilience in MidlifeThere are active steps you can take during and after a crisis to speed your emotional recovery.
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Big data approach can predict toxicity of chemicals, save animalsExperts from across India will gather from July 31-Aug. 1 at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi for a national conference, 'Breaking Barriers Through Bioinformatics and Computational Biology,' to share information on the latest developments in this area.
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Blood biomarkers may help diagnose chronic fatigue syndromeThe severity of chronic fatigue syndrome, also called myalgic encephomyelitis, has been linked to higher levels of 17 inflammation biomarkers in the blood
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Study reinforces the Amazon forest's importance in regulating atmospheric chemistryAirborne measurements show that the Amazon rainforest emits three times more isoprene than was previously estimated. Isoprene is one of the main precursors of ozone and indirectly influences the balance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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For infants with skull flattening, earlier helmet therapy gives better resultsFor infants with skull flattening related to sleep position, starting helmet therapy at a younger age, especially before 24 weeks, increases the treatment success rate, suggests a study in the August issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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Undocumented immigration doesn't worsen drug, alcohol problems in US, study indicatesDespite being saddled with many factors associated with drug and alcohol problems, undocumented immigrants are not increasing the prevalence of drug and alcohol crimes and deaths in the United States, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Convicted Criminal Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona is now a convicted criminal. The longest-serving lawman of the state’s most populous county, where he became a national figure known for immigration raids and sweeps aimed at rounding up illegal migrants, was found guilty Monday of contempt of court. He faces up to six months in jail. The ruling was made by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, and sentencing coul
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Depravity Is Downstream of Donald Trump On Sunday, Breitbart published a column by Susan Berry, who began by invoking the web site’s late founder: “Andrew Breitbart famously said , ‘Politics is downstream of culture,’” she began, using the hyperlink to direct readers to this Red State post : Andrew Breitbart, the late ever-controversial right-wing gonzo journalist (not to be confused with the dreary Trump-propaganda organ that now bear
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'There are things worse than death': can a cancer cure lead to brutal bioweapons? John Sotos, chief medical officer at Intel, paints a dark picture of technology turned to nefarious purposes, with tailored diseases rewriting genomes on the fly Splitting the atom brought humanity nuclear power and nuclear weapons. A cure for cancer could have the same potential for pushing humanity to new highs – or terrifying lows. According to John Sotos, the chief medical officer of Intel, t
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Kitchen sponges are festering germ dens—and sanitizing them doesn’t help Enlarge / Some germy places in the house include the kitchen faucet and sponges. Typically people wash their hands after handling raw meat in the kitchen and frequently use sponges or cloths to wipe germs from surfaces in the kitchen. (Photo by Zbigniew Bzdak/Chicago Tribune/MCT via Getty Images) (credit: Getty | MCT ) Scientists have long thrown shade at the unassuming kitchen sponge. The househ
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iPhone 8 Leak: How an iOS Developer Discovered Apple's Slip-UpInside Apple's big cellphone self-own.
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Reddit Raised $200 Million And Is Redesigning to Look More Like Facebook Image: Reddit/Gizmodo Reddit, the “front page of the internet,” is about to catch up with the rest of the internet with a slick redesign, thanks to $200 million in new venture funding. The news aggregation and discussion site is now worth $1.8 billion after receiving funding from investment firms Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, as well as Fidelity Investments, Y Combinator President Sam
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Apple can’t end lawsuit over “breaking” FaceTime on iPhone 4, judge rules Enlarge / The iPhone 4S. (credit: Andrew Cunningham ) Back in February 2017, two Californians sued Apple in a proposed class-action lawsuit over the fact that the company disabled an older version of iOS. Disabling the outdated iOS had the effect of making FaceTime stop working on the customers' iPhone 4 devices. According to a ruling issued last Friday by a federal judge in San Jose, California,
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A closer look at osteoporosis medication's mechanisms may improve outcomesOsteoporosis is the primary cause of bone fractures in the elderly, reflecting an imbalance between osteoclasts, bone-degrading cells, and osteoblasts, bone-building cells. Teriparatide is the only FDA-approved treatment for osteoporosis that increases osteoblast activity and lifespan. This week in the JCI, Henry Kronenberg and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital report that teriperatide
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The Gulf Crisis, as Told Through Cartoons In May, on his first official trip overseas, President Donald J. Trump engaged in good-natured chinwag with Arab presidents and emirs, and even bobbed his head along to a traditional Saudi sword dance in Riyadh. Perhaps the most memorable image of his Mideast sojourn was a comical photo-op with the Saudi king, the Egyptian president, and a certain glowing orb as they announced the launch of joint
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Understanding how fishers fish on coral reefs can inform fishery management strategiesA study of spearfishing on a Caribbean coral reef illustrates how understanding the process of fishing can help in developing management strategies to address overfishing and coral reef protection worldwide. Understanding which fish are targeted, when, why and where in a coral reef habitat, are important details that extend beyond catch limits or even bans that so often define fishing regulations.
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Genetic testing helps detect cause of early life epilepsyA new study supports routine genetic testing for initial evaluation of seizures as the first step toward precision medicine and improved outcomes.
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Rare Conjoined Bat Twins Found in BrazilConjoined twins are rare, but the condition is likely no rarer in bats than in any other mammals.
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HBO programming stolen in cyberattackHBO has had some of its programming stolen in what is being described as a cyber incident.
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Cable company Charter says no interest in buying SprintCharter, one of the largest cable companies in the U.S., says it's not interested in buying wireless carrier Sprint.
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Discharge turns water at base of Niagara Falls blackThe water near the base of Niagara Falls turned an alarming shade of black before tourists' eyes following a foul-smelling discharge from a wastewater treatment plant.
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Threat of a bitcoin split avoided, for nowOn the eve of a major change in bitcoin, a threat of a split in the digital currency has been avoided—for now.
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Biofeedback technology helping improve balance in Parkinson's patientsUniversity of Houston researchers in the Department of Health and Human Performance are helping patients with Parkinson's disease regain stable balance and confidence in performing daily activities in their own homes. A research team is developing the Smarter Balance System (SBS), a smartphone-based biofeedback rehabilitation system that guides patients through a series of balance exercises using
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All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited Enlarge / The first batch of production Tesla Model 3s, ready to be handed over to their new owners. (credit: Tesla) Last Friday, Tesla's new Model 3 electric vehicle finally hit the streets. At an event in California , the company handed over the first few production vehicles, a process that will continue for quite some time as Tesla fills what could be half-a-million prospective orders on its b
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Structural and functional MRI in children resuscitated after drowning pinpoints site of anoxic brain injuryStructural and functional MRI in children resuscitated after drowning pinpoints the site of anoxic brain injury to regions controlling movement, while providing strong evidence that networks controlling perception and cognition remain largely intact.
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Mental health visits spike prior to burn injury, indicating opportunity for interventionIn a new study examining the relationship between mental health and burn injury, researchers note that burn injuries may be preventable through increased access to high-quality mental health care. The study's findings also show that burn injury victims experience significantly increased rates of self-harm after their injuries.
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Climate change expected to increase premature deaths from air pollutionFuture climate change, if left unaddressed, is expected to cause roughly 60,000 deaths globally in the year 2030 and 260,000 deaths in 2100 due to climate change's effect on global air pollution, a new study estimates.
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Higher dementia risk associated with birth in high stroke mortality statesIs being born in states with high stroke mortality associated with dementia risk in a group of individuals who eventually all lived outside those states? A new article suggests it might be.
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Astronomers discover 'heavy metal' supernova rocking outAn extraordinarily bright supernova occurred in a surprising location, astronomers have found. This 'heavy metal' supernova discovery challenges current ideas of how and where such super-charged supernovas occur. In the past decade, astronomers have discovered about 50 supernovas, out of the thousands known, that are particularly powerful. Following the recent discovery of one of these, the resear
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Formation of porous crystals observed for the first timeFor the first time, scientists have observed the formation of a crystal gel with particle-level resolution, allowing them to study the conditions by which these new materials form.
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Benefits of dikes outweigh costs, suggests studyIn the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists has concluded, on a global scale, that the economic and long-term benefits of building dikes to reduce flood damage far outweigh their initial cost.
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'Invasive' species have been around much longer than believedThe pollen record of a plant that is currently being eradicated extends much further back than the 100 years it is believed to be growing in the Lesotho Highlands, a new study concludes. The research confirms that a shrub believed to be an invasive in the eastern Lesotho Highlands has been growing in the region for over 4,000 years.
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Biofeedback technology helping improve balance in Parkinson's patientsUniversity of Houston researchers in the Department of Health and Human Performance are helping patients with Parkinson's disease regain stable balance and confidence in performing daily activities in their own homes. A research team is developing the Smarter Balance System (SBS), a smartphone-based biofeedback rehabilitation system that guides patients through a series of balance exercises using
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What's Left to Sanction in North Korea? The Trump administration’s public response to North Korea’s latest ICBM test has been to criticize China for not doing enough to pressure its client in Pyongyang. President Trump said China was doing “ nothing ” on North Korea while “our foolish past leaders have allowed them to make hundreds of billions of dollars a year in trade.” (Xinhua, the state-run Chinese news agency, rejected that linkag
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Trilobites: Chop Off This Worm’s Head and It Can Still Detect LightPlanarian flatworms can react to light when they lose their heads and brains, and gradually regain their ability to distinguish different hues as they regenerate their bodies.
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Farmer suicides rise in India as climate warms, study showsWhen Rani's husband died by drinking pesticide, he left the family in debt. But even if they could pay off the loans, Rani said their farming days are over.
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'Game of Thrones' script leaked after HBO hackHBO said Monday its network was victimized by a cyberattack, and media reports said the hack resulted in the leak of a script of the popular series "Games of Thrones" and content from other productions.
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Monitor Your Home From Anywhere With Yi's Security Camera, Now Just $29 Yi Home Camera , $29 with code 4OQZ2K88 Yi, manufacturer of your favorite affordable action cam, also makes a home IP security camera, and you can pick it up for just $29 today with promo code 4OQZ2K88, the best deal we’ve ever seen. The Yi Home Camera includes all the basic features you’d expect, including two-way audio, automatic activity alerts to your phone, and remote monitoring. And unlike
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Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first timeImagine you're at work and suddenly, a cheetah pokes its head through your window.
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Irwin moving in post-Tropical Storm Hilary's wakeSatellite imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite showed two areas of circulation in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. One of the areas was the remnant circulation from former Tropical Storm Hilary and the other was Tropical Storm Irwin, located southeast of Hilary.
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Research Finds Disturbing Suicide Search Trends Following Release of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why Image: Netflix 13 Reasons Why, Netflix’s recent drama about the suicide of a teen, was a big hit when it premiered in March, but it also inspired fierce debate among critics about whether its depiction of suicide was irresponsible. Now, new research shows a significant uptick in suicide-related searches after the show premiered, a finding that one expert says confirms his worst fears. The researc
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Rusting fool's gold in glaciers a sign of increased carbonOxidation of pyrite shows glaciers contribute to the Earth's carbon cycle feedback.
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Study finds cardiac complications high after orthopedic surgery for heart disease patientsA new study published in the HSS Journal, the leading journal on musculoskeletal research, sheds light on reducing cardiac complications in orthopedic surgery. The study found the incidence of myocardial ischemia, defined by an elevated troponin level, after major orthopedic surgery in patients with cardiac risk factors is high. HSS researchers recommend a simple blood test to measure troponin, an
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New drug may treat and limit progression of Parkinson's diseaseResearchers at Binghamton University have developed a new drug that may limit the progression of Parkinson's disease while providing better symptom relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of people with the disease.
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Supreme Court rulings can signal a shift in societal normsWhen the Supreme Court issued its 2015 ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, Americans understood the decision as a signal of Americans' increasing support of same-sex marriage, according to a study published by Princeton University.
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NASA tests the Webb telescope's communication skillsNASA called, and the Webb telescope responded. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently completed its Ground Segment Test Number 1 (GSEG-1), for the first time confirming successful end-to-end communication between the telescope and its mission operations center.
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Citizen science volunteers driven by desire to learnPeople who give up their time for online volunteering are mainly motivated by a desire to learn, a new study has found.
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Towards a safe and scalable cell therapy for type 1 diabetes by simplifying beta cell differentiationWith the vision of providing a cell therapy for type 1 diabetes patients, scientists have identified a unique cell surface protein present on human pancreatic precursor cells providing for the first time a molecular handle to purify the cells whose fate is to become cells of the pancreas — including insulin-producing cells.
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Glaciers may have helped warm EarthWeathering of Earth by glaciers may have warmed the planet over eons by aiding the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. A new study shows the cumulative effect may have created negative feedback that prevented runaway glaciation.
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Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, human autismHoney bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues — the presence of an intruder or of a queen larva, for example — share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study. Genes most closely associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans are regulated differently in unresponsive honey bees than in their more responsive nest mates, the study foun
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Study highlights underlying mechanisms of fractures associated with osteoporosis drugThere is no disputing that the use of bisphosphonates — with brand names such as Fosamax, Boniva and Reclast — is proven to combat bone loss and fragility fractures in millions of osteoporosis patients for whom a fracture could be debilitating, even life-threatening.
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Bold new approaches needed to shrink Gulf of Mexico dead zone and meet elusive goalsShrinking the annual Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' down to the size of Delaware will require a 59-percent reduction in the amount of nitrogen runoff that flows down the Mississippi River from as far away as the Corn Belt.
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Understanding how fishers fish on coral reefs can inform fishery management strategiesA Dartmouth study of spearfishing on a Caribbean coral reef illustrates how understanding the process of fishing can help in developing management strategies to address overfishing and coral reef protection worldwide. Understanding which fish are targeted, when, why and where in a coral reef habitat, are important details that extend beyond catch limits or even bans that so often define fishing re
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Country Music And Brain Research Come Together At Nashville Summer Camp Researchers in Nashville are tapping into a country music camp to learn more about Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. Many people who have it love music but don't know why. (Image credit: Emily Siner/WPLN)
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Scientists Edge Closer To Elusive Lab Test For 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' Stanford University scientists have found an array of proteins in the blood whose levels correlate closely with the severity of symptoms of the mysterious illness that's increasingly known as ME/CFS. (Image credit: Malte Mueller/Getty Images)
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Sensor traps light to help detect drugs and doping A new device improves on the sensitivity and versatility of sensors that detect doping in athletics, bomb-making chemicals, or traces of drugs. It could also cut costs. To conduct these kinds of searches, scientists often shine light on the materials they’re analyzing. This approach is known as spectroscopy, and it involves studying how light interacts with trace amounts of matter. One of the mor
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Coral disease outbreaks fluctuate with El Niño years, new research findsOccurrences of three common diseases affecting Caribbean corals spike during El Niño years, an alarming association given how climate change may boost the intensity of El Niños.
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Methane-eating microbes may reduce release of gases as Antarctic ice sheets meltLurking in a lake half a mile beneath Antarctica's icy surface, methane-eating microbes may mitigate the release of this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as ice sheets retreat.
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Glaciers may have helped warm EarthIt seems counterintuitive, but over the eons, glaciers may have made Earth warmer, according to a Rice University professor.
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Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, human autismHoney bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study. Genes most closely associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans are regulated differently in unresponsive honey bees than in their more responsive nest mates, the study found.
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Bold new approaches needed to shrink Gulf of Mexico dead zone and meet elusive goalsShrinking the annual Gulf of Mexico "dead zone" down to the size of Delaware will require a 59-percent reduction in the amount of nitrogen runoff that flows down the Mississippi River from as far away as the Corn Belt.
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Projected precipitation increases are bad news for water qualityIncreased precipitation from a changing climate could pollute US waterways with excess nitrogen, increasing the likelihood of severe water quality impairment from coast to coast, according to a new study by scientists Eva Sinha and Anna Michalak of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Venkatramani Balaji of Princeton University.
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Spanking can be detrimental for children's behavior, even 10 years laterResearchers at the University of Missouri have found that physical discipline experienced during infancy can negatively impact temperament and behavior among children in the fifth grade and into their teenage years.
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The undertaker's censusScientists working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama tested a new technique: recruiting carrion-eating flies to detect mammals. This new method surpasses standard techniques, detecting more species than researchers could count along trails or photograph with hidden cameras.
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Blowing Out Birthday Candles Is Grosser Than You ThinkIt's hard to turn down birthday cake, but a new study might have you thinking twice about taking a slice.
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Human Genetic Variation May Complicate CRISPRSlight sequence differences confound target sites in precision genome-editing, a study shows.
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NASA-NOAA satellite sees Typhoon Noru in infrared lightNASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Noru that showed the structure and cloud top temperatures of the powerful thunderstorms circling its eye.
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Single-photon emitter has promise for quantum info-processingLos Alamos National Laboratory has produced the first known material capable of single-photon emission at room temperature and at telecommunications wavelengths.
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Advancing public engagement at the Ecological Society of AmericaThis year, the annual meeting of the ESA in Portland, Ore., Aug. 6-12, 2017, will be the locus of multiple efforts to train and connect ecologists who are deeply interested in public engagement of their research. Special sessions that feature case studies of successful engagement events, approaches and protocols will be offered.
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Coordinated care organizations lead to more timely prenatal carePregnant women on Medicaid are more likely to receive timely prenatal care following Oregon's implementation of coordinated care organizations, or CCOs, which are regional networks of health care providers who work together to treat patients, a new study has shown.
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How DNA damage turns immune cells against cancerThe delayed arrival of immune cells after cancer therapy is well documented and critical for responses to chemotherapy and radiation, yet the events underlying their induction remain poorly understood. Now, Penn researchers have discovered how DNA damage is a clarion call for the immune system.
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Domestic violence twice as likely to start for pregnant women after HIV diagnosisFor women who have never experienced intimate partner violence before, a diagnosis of HIV during pregnancy means that they are twice as likely to experience violence after their child is born, a new study found.
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Dinosaur-era plant found alive in North America for first timeA large species of green algae was discovered alive in North America for the first time ever, with the only previous record being fossils dating back to the time of the dinosaurs.
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Follow professional advice on antibiotics | LettersThe idea that patients should stop taking antibiotics ‘when they feel better’ is too subjective, say representatives of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy We welcome the debate sparked by your article ( Keep taking the tablets? Antibiotics rule could be wrong , 27 July). The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) is keen to safely reduce the overall use of antibiotic
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A Conversation With: Dr. Raj Panjabi Goes the Last Mile in LiberiaA charity dispatches community health workers to the most remote communities in Africa — beyond “the last mile” of the organized health care system.
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New statistical model examines massive amounts of data to automatically spot anomaliesWith the number of security breaches and cyber-attacks on the rise, cyber-security experts may soon have a new tool in the fight against online threats. Scientists have developed a new statistical method for monitoring networks to automatically detect 'strange behavior' and ultimately prevent intrusion.
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Coral disease outbreaks fluctuate with El Niño years, new research findsDisease outbreaks in corals have followed El Niño-fueled coral bleaching events in the past, leading to speculation about the connection between the diseases and the El Niño cycles. This new study confirms the speculation.
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Refuting the idea that mutations cause cancerMedical researchers offer evidence that it is forces of evolution driven by natural selection acting in the ecosystem of the body that, in the presence of tissue damage, allow cells with dangerous mutations to thrive.
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Picture perfectWhen taking a picture, a photographer must typically commit to a composition that cannot be changed after the shutter is released. For example, when using a wide-angle lens to capture a subject in front of an appealing background, it is difficult to include the entire background and still have the subject be large enough in the frame.
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It's something in the water: LLNL scientists extract hydrogen as potential fuel sourceLawrence Livermore scientists have developed a technique that helps extract hydrogen from water efficiently and cheaply.
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Nesat landfall in ChinaNASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of Tropical Storm Nesat after it made landfall its second and final landfall in eastern China.
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Irwin moving in post-Tropical Storm Hilary's wakeSatellite imagery from NOAA's GOES-West satellite showed two areas of circulation in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. One of the areas was the remnant circulation from former Tropical Storm Hilary and the other was Tropical Storm Irwin, located southeast of Hilary.
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Energy storage solution combines polymers and nanosheetsA new, lightweight composite material for energy storage in flexible electronics, electric vehicles and aerospace applications has been experimentally shown to store energy at operating temperatures well above current commercial polymers, according to a team of Penn State scientists. This polymer-based, ultrathin material can be produced using techniques already used in industry.
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Researchers develop technology to make aged cells youngerResearchers at Houston Methodist have made a surprising discovery leading to the development of technology with the ability to rejuvenate human cells. Taking a different approach to age-reversal at a cellular level, Dr. John P. Cooke and his colleagues studied cells from children with progeria, a rare condition marked by rapid aging. Their findings appear online July 31 and in print Aug. 8 in the
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Earliest Crossing of the Northwest Passage Ever The Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica just set a new record, sailing through the Northwest Passage above North America earlier than ever before. It took 24 days at sea to travel the 6,215 miles (10,000 kilometers) from Alaska to Greenland, arriving on July 29. Arctic sea ice has been melting sooner every year, opening the route earlier and for a longer time each summer. A team from the Associated Pr
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Game of Thrones Leak Puts Unreleased Script and Other HBO Shows OnlineThis hack could go way deeper than Game of Thrones
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Citizen science volunteers driven by desire to learnPeople who give up their time for online volunteering are mainly motivated by a desire to learn, a new study has found.The research surveyed volunteers on 'citizen science' projects and suggests that this type of volunteering could be used to increase general knowledge of science within society.
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Inattention, poor memories shape inflation expectationsA new study co-authored by an MIT economist reveals that people have a haphazard approach to assessing inflation. Most citizens only pay attention to the topic intermittently, and they overestimate how bad inflation will become.
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Study finds promise in new tactic to curb obesity: Address physician biasAn educational initiative at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine is reducing medical students' negative attitudes toward people with obesity, a finding researchers hope will translate into better outcomes for patients struggling with weight, according to research published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.
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Google’s new scheme to connect online to offline shopping scrutinized Enlarge / Physical home button surrounded by typical Android capacitive buttons. A privacy advocacy group has filed a formal legal complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to begin an investigation "into Google’s in-store tracking algorithm to determine whether it adequately protects the privacy of millions of American consumers." In the Monday filing, the Electronic Priv
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Newly discovered lymph hydraulics give tunas their fancy movesThere’s still some anatomy to discover in fishes as familiar as bluefin and yellowfin tunas.
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Politics splits what we mean by words like ‘deal’ New research finds a split between the same words presidential candidates from the United States’ two major political parties used and what those words mean. This semantic divide appears to be growing, add the researchers, which may continue to make the possibility of dialogue difficult, if not impossible. “In a lot of ways, it’s worse than speaking two different languages.” “This work was actual
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Into a competitive world, guppies are born not just bigger, but more matureWhen scientists took a deeper look into a classic example of parenting strategy in nature, they found that what really matters may be more than what meets the eye.
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Kepler data may hold a Neptune-sized surprise, our first exomoon Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ) One of the most important things we've learned from the Kepler mission is that, in many ways, our Solar System isn't unique. Lots of stars have planets, many have multiple planets, and the list of planets includes many with sizes and densities similar to our eight planets. But there are lots of details of our own planets, like the composition and presence of at
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Sprint still seeks merger partner after being rejected by Charter Enlarge (credit: Mike Mozart ) Cable company Charter Communications said it has no interest in buying Sprint. After reports that Sprint owner SoftBank proposed a merger with Charter, the cable company said it will move forward in its plan to offer wireless service without buying the carrier. "We understand why a deal is attractive for SoftBank, but Charter has no interest in acquiring Sprint," Ch
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Will Healthcare Inequality Cause Genetic Diseases to Disproportionately Impact the Poor? Artwork via Angelica Alzona/Gizmodo Today in America, if you are poor, you are also more likely to suffer from poor health. Low socioeconomic status—and the lack of access to healthcare that often accompanies it—has been tied to mental illness , obesity , heart disease and diabetes , to name just a few. Imagine now, that in the future, being poor also meant you were more likely than others to suf
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Among gun owners, culturally tailored suicide prevention messages work bestGun owners are much more receptive to suicide-prevention messages tailored to respect their rights as firearms enthusiasts than they are to messages that use language that aims to be culturally neutral, a study published last week suggests.
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New system could remove two water pollutants from ag fieldsAlgae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico use up the majority of the oxygen in the water, leading to massive "dead zones" that cannot support fish or other wildlife. The culprit? Nitrate, running off agricultural fields through tile drainage systems. But nitrate is only part of the problem. Algae in freshwater lakes and ponds flourishes when exposed to a different pollutant, phosphorus, and the tiniest a
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Five advanced Google Chrome hacks to level up your browsing DIY Search harder, better, faster. The world's most popular web browser has a few tricks up its sleeves. Dig under the skin of Google Chrome with these hidden features, expert tips, and upgrades.
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New optical device could help detect drugs, bomb-making chemicals and moreScientists searching for traces of drugs, bomb-making components and other chemicals often shine light on the materials they're analyzing.
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New and novel technologies successfully demonstrated in soilborne disease studySudden Death Syndrome (SDS), a prominent soilborne disease of soybean, can be devastating. Yield losses from SDS can reach 100%, depending on the soybean variety affected and stage of development when symptoms appear.
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Stem cells may help improve corneal wound healingA new review is the first to directly examine the role of various stem cells in the healing of wounded cornea, the outermost part of the eye.
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Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation systemArctic sea ice is not merely a passive responder to the climate changes occurring around the world, according to new research. Scientists say the ongoing Arctic ice loss can play an active role in altering one of the planet's largest water circulation systems: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
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Statistical analysis for optimal immunization: New insights into T cell developmentWhen T cells encounter an antigen, they proliferate and produce various types of daughter cells. Medical researchers have now refuted the prevailing hypothesis that this immune response is largely predetermined by the individual structure of the T cell receptor. Instead, the influence of the T cell receptor can be described only in probabilistic terms. Such mathematical models may help to improve
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Materials emitted by water pipe-repair method may pose health risksNew research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential health and environmental concerns for workers and the public.
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3-D MRI predicts pregnancies complicated by fetal growth restrictionUsing three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging, a research team characterized the shape, volume, morphometry and texture of placentas during pregnancy and, using a novel framework, predicted with high accuracy which pregnancies would be complicated by fetal growth restriction.
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States find rewards from high-tech investments, given time and patienceStates have spent millions to develop high-tech industry, with its promise of good jobs and economic growth. And the public investment generally pays off, including in places that might seem less than ideal, according to a national study of such investments in the 1980s and 1990s. The key for these state programs is often time, patience and modest expectations, says University of Illinois sociolog
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Refuting the idea that mutations cause cancerWriting today in the journal Cancer Research, James DeGregori, Ph.D., deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center offers evidence that it is forces of evolution driven by natural selection acting in the ecosystem of the body that, in the presence of tissue damage, allow cells with dangerous mutations to thrive.
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Methane-eating microbes may reduce release of gases as Antarctic ice sheets meltA new paper co-author by a University of Florida researcher reveals that a lake beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet contains large amounts of methane and describes how methane-eating microbes may keep the climate-warming gas from entering the atmosphere.
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Statistical analysis to explain mechanism in state of general anesthesiaEmery Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, will present new insight involved in conducting and analyzing experiments in this field July 31 at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings
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Shared housing, shared behavior in mouse model of autismMice genetically modified to model autism spectrum disorders (ASD) cause changes in the behavior of their unmodified littermates when housed together. The findings, published in eNeuro, show how social environment shapes behaviors characteristic of mouse models for ASD and have implications for the interpretation of results obtained from mouse models of psychiatric disorders.
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One-nanometer trimetallic alloy particles createdScientists have succeeded in developing precisely controlled alloy nanoparticles 'multimetallic nanoclusters (MNCs)' made of three metals: copper, platinum, and gold. They also discovered that MNCs show catalytic activity that is 24 times greater than commercially available carbon-supported platinum catalysts in the oxidization of hydrocarbons using oxygen in the air.
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Statistical analysis to explain mechanism in state of general anesthesiaAlthough the mechanisms by which anesthetic drugs induce the state of general anesthesia have been considered one of the biggest mysteries of modern medicine and science, new research is deciphering this unknown. Emery Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Warren M. Zapol Professor
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Availability of cheap tobacco undermining efforts to cut smokingNew research highlighting how cheap tobacco is undermining public health initiatives designed to reduce smoking.
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How mice babies ensure mother's protectionThe calls of new-born mice draw the attention of their mother. A group of neuronal cells in the brain stem, which coordinate exhalation and tension of muscles in the larynx is essential for this process. Without these cells, the mice are mute. The cries of human babies may well depend on similar connections, which could also be impaired in speech disorders.
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Someone Hacked Into HBO and Is Now Releasing Game of Thrones Info Image: HBO It’s cyber deja vu time in Hollywood. HBO just confirmed that hackers broke into their servers and stole an unknown quantity of data. Now, unreleased episodes of Ballers and Room 104 have appeared online as well a script that looks an awful lot like next week’s Game of Thrones episode. This is not a drill. “HBO recently experienced a cyber incident, which resulted in the compromise of
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UK minister to meet Silicon Valley over online extremismBritain's interior minister Amber Rudd will meet with tech leaders in California's Silicon Valley this week to try and combat online content inciting extremism, the government said Monday.
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High altitude research aircraft explores the upper levels of the Asian MonsoonThe Asian Monsoon System is one of the Earth's largest and most energetic weather systems, and monsoon rainfall is critical to feeding over a billion people in Asia. An international team of scientists led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is now conducting the first-ever scientific mission to the upper levels of the monsoon system, using a high-
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FCC says its specific plan to stop DDoS attacks must remain secret Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Nicholas Rigg) The Federal Communications Commission has told members of Congress that it won't reveal exactly how it plans to prevent future attacks on the public comment system. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Democratic lawmakers have been exchanging letters about a May 8 incident in which the public comments website was disrupted while many people were trying to file
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Yellowstone grizzlies removed from threatened species listFor the second time in a decade, the U.S. government has removed grizzly bears in the Yellowstone region from the threatened species list.
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Into a competitive world, guppies are born not just bigger, but more matureThroughout nature, moms engage in a trade-off: Churn out a bevy of offspring and hope for the best, or have fewer kids but invest more in their survival. Trinidadian guppies provide a model example of this pervasive parenting poser, but a new study by Brown University researchers provides uniquely deep insight into how guppy moms equip their babies for the environment they'll face.
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New statistical model examines massive amounts of data to automatically spot anomaliesWith the number of security breaches and cyber-attacks on the rise and reports of the financial burden of these varying from $400 billion a year to $2.1 trillion by 2019, cyber-security experts may soon have a new tool in the fight against online threats. Patrick Rubin-Delanchy, Heilbronn Research Fellow in Statistics at the University of Oxford, will present a new statistical method for monitorin
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Scientists challenge next-generation sequencing dogmaNext-generation sequencing — the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel — has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything from locating mutations that cause human disease to determining how a newly discovered animal fits into the tree of life. But a study published today in the journal Scientific Reports reveals that a f
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Did you solve it? Are you smarter than a forester? The answers to today’s puzzles Earlier today in my puzzle blog I asked the following problems about planting trees on an island: (For the purposes of this puzzle the island is empty apart from the trees, and a tree is hidden only when it lies directly behind another tree from the perspective of the observer). Continue reading…
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Leaf beetles: Even a tiny dose of pesticide will impair reproductionOne finding is that leaf beetles lay roughly 35 per cent fewer eggs after coming into contact with traces of a frequently used pesticide: a pyrethroid. The researchers also showed that female offspring develop malformations through the poison. The biologists have published their study in the journal Environmental Pollution.
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Niantic cancels European Pokémon Go gatherings after Chicago fiasco Enlarge / Much of Europe will have to wait for Niantic's planned Safari Zone events. Niantic's first attempt at a live Pokémon Go gathering in Chicago last week went so badly that attendees are organizing a class-action lawsuit after shoddy cell reception prevented most of the 20,000 attendees from playing the game during the paid event. In the wake of that fiasco, the Pokémon Go developers are p
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Super Rare Atari 2700 Found At California Thrift Store Image via eBay According to Redditor L064N , he was shopping at a thrift store in Oceanside, California last week when he came across a very strange Atari console. Some quick Googling told him it was a rare prototype for the Atari 2700, an un-produced wireless follow-up to the 2600. He bought it for $30. And then he sold it on eBay for $3,000 . Advertisement Planned for release in 1981, the Atari
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Making dew droplets so small, they're invisibleBy better understanding the behavior of water in its smallest form, researchers could be improving the efficiency of removing condensation in a major way.
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Public trust in science spiked after media coverage of Zika vaccine trialDoes a scientific breakthrough increase confidence in science? The question is raised by a study of public attitudes about trust in science following media coverage of the Zika vaccine trial in 2016.
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The new yellow sea snake assumes an unusual ambush postureCarrying its petite frame and all-yellow skin, the recently scrutinized sea snake populations from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, already seem different enough to be characterized as a new subspecies. However, their most extraordinary trait is only exposed at night when the serpents go hunting for small fish as they hang upside down just below the water surface assuming a peculiar sinusoidal ambush post
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Heavier Asian Americans seen as 'more American,' study saysWhat makes people look "American"? The way they dress? Maybe their hairstyle, or mannerisms? How much they weigh?
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Forget That Big Iceberg–A Smaller One in the Arctic Is More TroublingA chunk of ice the size of three Manhattans just broke free in the Arctic, and it has a much clearer link to climate change — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Air-Breathing Fish 'Hibernate' in Pods on Dry Land (Video)Most fish would be left high and dry during arid drought periods when bodies of water shrink and disappear — but African lungfish aren't most fish.
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How Exercise Fights InflammationA new review explains exactly how exercise works to lower inflammation in your body.
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New MRI contrast agent tested on big animalsThe top causes of death worldwide, ischemic heart diseases and stroke, together with another major source of illness, that is cancer, require proper imaging of blood vessels. A team formed by the Center for Nanoparticle Research, within the Institute for Basic Science, in collaboration with scientists at Anhui Provincial Hospital and Seoul National University Hospital, have tested a new non-toxic
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Bummer News For Future Humans Hoping to Escape to Europa Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech Humans hoping to launch themselves to another planet or even into the Sun are sadly out of luck—for now. But in a few billion years, when the Sun becomes a red giant and destroys our terrestrial oceans, future folk will hypothetically be able to make their homes elsewhere. Saturn and Jupiter’s icy moons—Enceladus and Europa, respectively— have topped the list for future Ea
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New Canadian study calls for targeted screening of high-risk healthcare workers for tuberculosisTuberculosis is a recognized hazard for healthcare workers, but the annual screening strategy currently in place in Canada and the United States is costly with very limited health benefits and should be reconsidered, According to a new study led by a team from the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. The findings suggest health agencies in North America should con
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Leaf beetles: Even a tiny dose of pesticide will impair reproductionThe number of insects in Germany is declining rapidly – in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, it has dropped by three-quarters within only 25 years. In a new study, biologists at Bielefeld University show the effects of pesticides and how even slight traces lead to long-term damage to beetles.
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Gallium in lunar samples explains loss of moon's easily vaporized elementsA pair of researchers with Institut Universitaire de France has found more evidence of a large evaporative event in the moon's past. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, Chizu Kato and Frédéric Moynier describe their study of gallium isotopes from lunar samples, what they found, and why they believe it sheds some light on how the moon was formed.
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New Technique Creates Stunning 3D Images of Live Insects (Image: D. Poinapen et al., 2017) When taking high-resolution 3D scans of insects, scientists typically have to kill their test subjects, which isn’t always ideal. By taking advantage of an insect’s ability to survive oxygen-poor conditions, scientists have now used carbon dioxide to keep bugs in a state of suspended animation for upwards of seven hours at a time—and with no apparent side effects
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Turning pine into graphene lets it carry electricity Scientists have turned wood into an electrical conductor by making its surface graphene. Chemist James Tour of Rice University and his colleagues used a laser to blacken a thin film pattern onto a block of pine. The pattern is laser-induced graphene (LIG), a form of the atom-thin carbon material discovered at Rice in 2014. “It’s a union of the archaic with the newest nanomaterial into a single co
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Women show cognitive advantage in gender-equal countriesWomen's cognitive functioning past middle age may be affected by the degree of gender equality in the country they live in, according to new findings.
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Quasars may answer how starburst galaxies were extinguishedAstronomers have located quasars inside four dusty starburst galaxies. The observations suggest quasars may starve this type of galaxy of energy needed to form stars.
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Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation systemArctic sea ice is not merely a passive responder to the climate changes occurring around the world, according to new research.
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Materials emitted by water pipe-repair method may pose health risksNew research is calling for immediate safeguards and the study of a widely used method for repairing sewer-, storm-water and drinking-water pipes to understand the potential health and environmental concerns for workers and the public.
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Systems medicine roadmap update published by the CASyM consortiumThe development of a strategic roadmap represents a core objective of the CASyM project. Clinical needs are the main driver of this roadmap, that functions as an overarching conceptual framework and guide for citizens, policy-makers, funders, scientists, clinicians and industry. The underlying foundation of the CASyM roadmap is a framework of research priorities for developing and structuring syst
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Statistical analysis for optimal immunization: New insights into T cell developmentWhen T cells encounter an antigen, they proliferate and produce various types of daughter cells. A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now refuted the prevailing hypothesis that this immune response is largely predetermined by the individual structure of the T cell receptor. Instead, the influence of the T cell receptor can be described only in probabilistic terms. Such mathematic
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Cells that stand in the way of HIV cure: Discovery expands understanding of marrow's roleNew research into HIV's hiding places reveals new clues about exactly how it persists in the body for years, in hematopoietic progenitor cells in the bone marrow. The discovery could speed the search for drugs that can flush HIV out of its long-term hideouts and cure an infection for good.
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Loss of Arctic sea ice impacting Atlantic Ocean water circulation systemArctic sea ice is not merely a passive responder to the climate changes occurring around the world, according to new research. Scientists at Yale University and the University of Southampton say the ongoing Arctic ice loss can play an active role in altering one of the planet's largest water circulation systems: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
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Cell senescence is regulated by innate DNA sensingEPFL scientists have made new insights into the control of cell senescence, which is intimately linked to the development of cancer and aging.
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New MRI contrast agent tested on big animalsExperiments in dogs, rabbits and monkeys show the efficacy and biocompatibility of a new MRI/MRA contrast agent in detecting stroke. This T1 MRI contrast agent based on ultrasmall iron oxide nanoparticles could become a possible alternative to clinically used gadolinium-based agents.
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People with autism are less surprised by the unexpectedAdults with autism may overestimate the volatility of the world around them, finds a new UCL study published in Nature Neuroscience.
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Netflix drama '13 Reasons Why' linked to suicidal thoughtsA new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine and led by San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health Associate Research Professor John W. Ayers delved into Americans' internet search history in the days after Netflix's '13 Reasons Why' series aired, and found that queries for suicide and how to commit suicide spiked in he show's wake.
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Internet searches for suicide after '13 Reasons Why'Internet searches about suicide were higher than expected after the release of the Netflix series '13 Reasons Why' about the suicide of a fictional teen that graphically shows the suicide in its finale, according to a new research letter published by JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Earth likely to warm more than 2 degrees this centuryA new statistically-based analysis, rather than the previous scenarios, shows a 90 percent chance that average warming this century will be greater than 2 degrees Celsius. It finds only 1 percent chance that warming will be less than 1.5 C.
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Two degrees of warming already baked inEven if humans could instantly turn off all our emissions of greenhouse gases, the Earth would continue to heat up about two more degrees Fahrenheit by the turn of the century, according to a sophisticated new analysis.
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Bubbles help new catalysts self-optimizeScientists predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost. In the process, they also created a simplified model for testing next-generation catalysts.
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Study opens new drug therapy targets in a range of diseasesScientists have a better understanding of the immune system at a molecular level, thanks to University of Queensland-led research that may now lead to a range of new treatments for disease. The research provides a new foundation for therapeutic strategies against a wide range of diseases and infections, said Professor Bostjan Kobe.
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Genetic testing helps detect cause of early life epilepsyStudy supports routine genetic testing for initial evaluation of seizures as the first step toward precision medicine and improved outcomes.
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Other planets may never be as hospitable as Earth: studyScientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability to host liquid water—the key ingredient for life.
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Are the world's highest paid football players overpaid? Big data says yesComputer scientists used machine learning and data science to analyze the salaries of professional football players. A computational model was developed to show the world's most overpaid and underpaid players, and to identify skills that can earn footballers more Euros.
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Your Kitchen Sponge Contains More Bacteria Than Any Other Object in Your House Image: Spongebob/Nick/Screenshot By this point, it shouldn’t surprise you to know that the world is full of bacteria. But the numbers can still be baffling. Take your body: it probably has 37 trillion cells or so, and maybe the same number of bacterial cells. Now think about your kitchen sponge. Advertisement I don’t care if you want to think about it or not. You’re thinking now. And based on a n
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Photons direct photons, giving hope for all-optical quantum logic Photons, always surprising . (credit: mit.edu ) All the early quantum computing work was done with light. Light is very easy to manipulate: a few mirrors, crystals, and light detectors and you to can have your very own quantum computer. Over the last two decades, though, that's changed. Almost all the major developments have used things like ions, rings of superconducting current, or defects in c
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Science Says _13 Reasons Why_ May Be the Public Health Scare People ThoughtGoogle searches for all things suicide spiked in the wake of the Netflix original series premiere, according to new research.
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Poland to keep logging in ancient forest despite EU orderPoland will keep logging in the ancient forest of Bialowieza despite an order from the EU's top court to halt the practice, the country's environment minister said Monday.
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Climate change expected to increase premature deaths from air pollutionA new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimates that future climate change, if left unaddressed, is expected to cause roughly 60,000 deaths globally in the year 2030 and 260,000 deaths in 2100 due to climate change's effect on global air pollution.
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Bubbles help new catalysts self-optimizeScientists at Rice University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have predicted and created new two-dimensional electrocatalysts to extract hydrogen from water with high performance and low cost.
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How camouflaged birds decide where to blend inAnimals that rely on camouflage can choose the best places to conceal themselves based on their individual appearance, new research shows.
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Benefits of dikes outweigh costs—effective measures for reducing future floodingIn the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists—including the University of Bristol—has concluded, on a global scale, that the economic and long-term benefits of building dikes to reduce flood damage far outweigh their initial cost.
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Formation of porous crystals observed for the first timeScientists at the University of Bristol have, for the first time, observed the formation of a crystal gel with particle-level resolution, allowing them to study the conditions by which these new materials form.
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Scientists watch 'artificial atoms' assemble into perfect lattices with many usesSome of the world's tiniest crystals are known as "artificial atoms" because they can organize themselves into structures that look like molecules, including "superlattices" that are potential building blocks for novel materials.
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Earth likely to warm more than 2 degrees this centuryWarming of the planet by 2 degrees Celsius is often seen as a "tipping point" that people should try to avoid by limiting greenhouse gas emissions.But the Earth is very likely to exceed that change, according to new University of Washington research. A study using statistical tools shows only a 5 percent chance that Earth will warm 2 degrees or less by the end of this century. It shows a mere 1 pe
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One-nanometer trimetallic alloy particles createdA researcher group of Tokyo Institute of Technology succeeded in developing precisely controlled alloy nanoparticles 'multimetallic nanoclusters (MNCs)' made of three metals: copper, platinum, and gold. They also discovered that MNCs show catalytic activity that is 24 times greater than commercially available carbon-supported platinum catalysts in the oxidization of hydrocarbons using oxygen in th
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Breakthrough software teaches computer characters to walk, run, even play soccerComputer characters and eventually robots could learn complex motor skills like walking and running through trial and error, thanks to a milestone algorithm.
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Clues Emerge in Mystery of Flickering QuasarsSome of the universe's most luminous objects have disappeared much faster than expected — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Black-Hole Hunter Peering Into the Heart of Our Galaxy If you cast an observational lasso into the center of the Milky Way galaxy and pull it closed, you will find a dense, dark lump: a mass totaling some four million suns, crammed into a space no wider than twice Pluto’s orbit in our solar system. In recent years, astronomers have come to agree that inside this region is a supermassive black hole, and that similar black holes lurk at the cores of ne
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Archaeologists at Angkor Wat find large buried statueArchaeologists at Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex studying the site of a hospital from eight to nine centuries ago say they have found a large statue in their excavations.
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Availability of cheap tobacco undermining efforts to cut smokingNew research in the Journal of Nicotine & Tobacco Research highlighting how cheap tobacco is undermining public health initiatives designed to reduce smoking.
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Stem cells may help improve corneal wound healingA new review is the first to directly examine the role of various stem cells in the healing of wounded cornea, the outermost part of the eye.
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Exercise in early life has long-lasting benefitsThe researchers, from the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland, found that bone retains a "memory" of exercise's effects long after the exercise is ceased, and this bone memory continues to change the way the body metabolises a high-fat diet.
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Rice University chemists make laser-induced graphene from woodRice University scientists have made a form of graphene that can be cut with a table saw. They turned pine into laser-induced graphene and used it to make proof-of-concept electrodes for water splitting and supercapacitors.
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Towards a safe and scalable cell therapy for type 1 diabetes by simplifying beta cell differentiationWith the vision of providing a cell therapy for type 1 diabetes patients, scientists at the University of Copenhagen have identified a unique cell surface protein present on human pancreatic precursor cells providing for the first time a molecular handle to purify the cells whose fate is to become cells of the pancreas — including insulin-producing cells.
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Metal instability achieves energy-efficient nanotechnologyOsaka University and Italian researchers show their nanowire resonators can be used to miniaturize energy-efficient electronics
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Aalto-1 satellite sends first image — the camera developed by VTTThe photograph was taken with the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed hyperspectral camera's secondary camera.
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Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal (volume 2 issue 3) publishedThe new journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications has just published the third issue of Volume 2. This issue brings together a diverse set of papers from authors from China, Chile, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States.
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Want to sound cleverer than Jacob Rees-Mogg? Here are five long words to drop into conversation The record for the longest word spoken in parliament has been broken with pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis – but there are plenty of alternatives Is this the first sign of Moggmentum draining away? We can but hope. Jacob Rees-Mogg , the MP for North East Somerset and the 18th century, has been knocked off his perch as utterer of parliament’s longest word. Michael Bryan’s use of “pneu
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Predicting the properties of subatomic particles using large scale computer simulationsPredicting the properties of subatomic particles before their experimental discovery has been a big challenge for physicists. In a recent paper published on 28 July in Physical Review Letters Nilmani Mathur from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, and M. Padmanath, a former student from TIFR, have predicted the quantum numbers of five Ω0c baryons which have recently been discovered
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Asteroid flyby will test NASA’s defense skills For the first time, NASA will use an actual asteroid for an observational campaign to test its network of observatories and scientists who work on planetary defense. The asteroid, named 2012 TC4, will do a close flyby on October 12, 2017, but don’t worry. It doesn’t pose a threat to Earth. This animation depicts the safe flyby of asteroid 2012 TC4 as it passes under Earth on October 12, 2017. (Cr
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Rare whole genome duplication during spider evolution could reveal more about animal diversificationIn collaboration with scientists from the U.K., Europe, Japan and the United States, researchers at the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered a whole genome duplication during the evolution of spiders and scorpions. The study appears in BMC Biology.
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The new yellow sea snake assumes an unusual ambush postureCarrying its petite frame and all-yellow skin, the recently scrutinized sea snake populations from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, already seem different enough to be characterized as a new subspecies. However, their most extraordinary trait is only exposed at night when the serpents opportunistically feed on small fish by hanging upside down from the water surface, assuming a peculiar sinusoidal ambush
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Astronomers discover 'heavy metal' supernova rocking outMany rock stars don't like to play by the rules, and a cosmic one is no exception. A team of astronomers has discovered that an extraordinarily bright supernova occurred in a surprising location. This "heavy metal" supernova discovery challenges current ideas of how and where such super-charged supernovas occur.
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Study Tracks Gender Ratios at ConferencesWhile men make up the majority of invited speakers at four major virology conferences, recent trends demonstrate a greater inclusion of women.
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Segregated cities have more noise pollution As white people move out of neighborhoods, noise pollution rises. And noise pollution is inescapable in segregated cities, where it is worse for everyone, according to the first breakdown of noise exposure along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines in the United States. A new study is the first to examine noise pollution nationally through the lens of racial disparities and the extent to which
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Clear evidence points to Majorana fermions After an 80-year quest, researchers have discovered evidence of particles that are their own antiparticles. These “Majorana fermions” could one day help make quantum computers more robust. In 1928, physicist Paul Dirac made the stunning prediction that every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle—its identical twin but with opposite charge. When particle and antiparticle met the
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Neil Armstrong's Solid Gold Moon Lander Replica Stolen From Museum Photo: Cartier Collection It’s been a bad couple of weeks for priceless artifacts from NASA history. First, a moon-dusted sample bag from Apollo 11 was privately auctioned , and now a solid gold moon lander replica that was gifted to Neil Armstrong in 1969 has been stolen from his museum. On Sunday, a NASA investigator worried that the thieves don’t even know what they have on their hands. On Fri
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How central are female characters to a movie?A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL)—which creates automatic tools for signal analysis and linguistic assessment —uncovers how media communicates about gender, race and age finding that in the majority of films, females roles are not central to the plot.
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How mice babies ensure mother's protectionThe calls of new-born mice draw the attention of their mother. A group of neuronal cells in the brain stem, which coordinate exhalation and tension of muscles in the larynx is essential for this process. Without these cells, the mice are mute. These are the results of a study by a research team at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, which appears in the journal PNAS. The cries of human babies may w
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Astronomers discover 'heavy metal' supernova rocking outA team of astronomers led by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered that an extraordinarily bright supernova occurred in a surprising location. This 'heavy metal' supernova discovery challenges current ideas of how and where such super-charged supernovas occur. In the past decade, astronomers have discovered about 50 supernovas, out of the thousands known, that are particul
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P-values, hypotheses and inference … new appraoches to reproducibility at JSM 2017Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics and political science and director of the Applied Statistics Center at Columbia University; Blake McShane, associate professor of marketing at Northwestern University; and Jeffrey Leek, associate professor in the department of biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, will present new approaches to addressing the 'reproducib
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Are the world's highest paid football players overpaid? Big data says yesSome professional European football players are earning jaw-dropping salaries while other athletes on the same football pitch earn much less. This may lead many football fans, wondering if these athletes are worth such high paychecks. For example, FC Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi earns some hundreds of thousands more than other players.
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Watch This Heroic Captain Use His Boat's Powerful Jet Stream to Put Out a Massive Fire GIF GIF: Facebook It doesn’t take long for a grass fire to turn into a raging inferno that sweeps through entire forests, so a pair of quick-thinking boaters in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, used their jet boat to create a massive rooster tail that helped douse the flames before firefighters arrived on scene. Tasha Hunt and Koyne Watson’s were taking their 1987 Eliminator Scorpion jet boat
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FDA Plans to Regulate Nicotine Levels in CigarettesThe agency hopes to bring the substance down to “nonaddictive” levels, but there’s no consensus on what those are — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Nanowire resonators can be used to miniaturize energy-efficient electronicsComputers that fit in our pockets, television screens no thicker than a door, and cars only slightly bigger than their passengers, technology is constantly getting smaller. A major reason for this miniaturization is the development of nano-size resonators, which convert small levels of electrical power into mechanical oscillations at high frequencies.
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Muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis useA new study reveals a dampened physiological response to stress in chronic cannabis users. This is the first study to examine the effects of acute stress on salivary cortisol levels in chronic cannabis users compared to non-users.
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Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-goingEven among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise did little to make their commitment stick, according to a new study.
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Research models spread of disease through aquatic communitiesThe interaction of species within an ecosystem is important in predicting how they will respond when diseases are introduced, Bournemouth University (BU) modelling has found.
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How central are female characters to a movie?A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) — which creates automatic tools for signal analysis and linguistic assessment — uncovers how media communicates about gender, race and age finding that in the majority of films, females roles are not central to the plot.
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An evolutionary breakpoint in cell divisionJapanese researchers from Osaka University have discovered that the interaction between two proteins, M18BP1/KNL2 and CENP-A, is essential for cell division in various species except for mammals including humans.
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More rain for the Red Sea if El Niño breezes inModeling leads to a better understanding of the role El Niño plays in increasing rainfall along the Red Sea coast.
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Nature provides a key to repelling liquidsA nature-based technique paves the way for cheaper and environmentally friendly liquid-repellent materials.
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'Hidden' experiences of men forced to have sex with women revealedThe most frequent strategy used by women forcing men to have sex with them against their will is blackmail and threats, according to researchers at Lancaster University. This accounted for the experiences of more than one-fifth of the men who completed an online survey, the first of its kind in the UK, examining the extent of men who have been 'forced to penetrate' women.
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Artificial skin could allow robots to feel like we doArtificial skin with post-human sensing capabilities, and a better understanding of skin tissue, could pave the way for robots that can feel, smart-transplants and even cyborgs.
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Anonymity, scoundrels, and free speechChristoph Bezemek of the Institute of Public Law and Political Science, at the University of Graz, Austria, tells a tale of his school history teacher who purported that only "scoundrels" sent letters to a newspaper anonymously. His teacher's argument being that public discourse as a democratic society's bonding agent and so those who wish their voice to be heard should not hide behind a veil of a
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The Space Junk Problem Is About to Get a Whole Lot GnarlierThousands and thousands of satellites are set to launch before 2025. Things just got real in low Earth orbit.
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This $590,000 iPhone Robbery Sounds Like the Craziest Heist Movie Image: YouTube / Romanian Police A year-long manhunt ended last weekend, when police arrested a gang of five Romanian stunt thieves near a large collection of Van Gogh paintings in the Netherlands. In their hideout, the cops found $590,000 worth of iPhones that the suspects allegedly lifted off the back of a truck—while it was barreling down a highway. Dutch press are calling the highway maneuver
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Novel porous rhodium catalystsScientists have succeeded in developing rhodium nanomaterials with uniform nanopores (mesoporous rhodium) using polymeric templates.
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An evolutionary breakpoint in cell divisionResearchers have discovered that the interaction between two proteins, M18BP1/KNL2 and CENP-A, is essential for cell division in various species except for mammals including human.
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People find it difficult to judge how good their intuitions areWhether people believe they are 'intuitive' or not may have no bearing on how they perform in tasks that require intuition, according to new research.
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Scientists discover biomarkers which could lead to better treatments for CF patientsResearchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which affects children and young adults, leaving them with lifelong health complications including digestive problems and persistent lung infections. The findings shed new light on the underlying mechanisms of CF and could lead to improved prognosis and better therapies for a disease which is quite va
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What caused the world's greatest extinction?Researcher offers new clues to what may have triggered the world's most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago.
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Improving habitats for batsThe effects of 160 years of woodland creation on bats has been revealed by a natural experiment.
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Using step width to compare locomotor biomechanics between dinosaurs and modern bipedsRemember the classic flocking scene from Jurassic Park? Alan and the kids are walking over a grassy plain. A flock of ostrich-like dinosaurs appear. Alan is amazed at how similar their movements are to a flock of birds, while the kids are more concerned that they are flocking in their direction…
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Russian official on new US sanctions and NASA: “Nothing lasts forever” Enlarge / Expedition 52-53 crewmembers Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (left), Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Randy Bresnik of NASA, were all smiles last week before their launch. (credit: NASA) Last Thursday, the United States overwhelmingly passed a new round of sanctions against Russia, taking the executive actions made by then presiden
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Aardvarks' fate points to worrying consequences for wildlife, due to climate changeAardvarks prove to be highly susceptible to the warmer and drier climates that are predicted for the western parts of southern Africa in the future. During the study of a number of aardvarks by researchers of the Brain Function Research Group at the University of the Witwatersrand, all but one of the study animals — as well as other aardvarks in the area — died because of a severe drought, with
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Scientists map the distribution of antimicrobial resistance across Chinese major citiesProfessor ZHU Yongguan from the Institute of Urban Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his collaborators recently conducted a nationwide survey of antimicrobial resistance elements in China's urban sewage and showed that the distribution of antimicrobial-resistant genes (ARG) was characterized by the well-known 'Hu Huanyong line,' which delineates a striking difference in the distri
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The new yellow sea snake assumes an unusual ambush postureCarrying its petite frame and all-yellow skin, the recently scrutinized sea snake populations from Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica, already seem different enough to be characterized as a new subspecies. However, their most extraordinary trait is only exposed at night when the serpents go hunting for small fish as they hang upside down just below the water surface assuming a peculiar sinusoidal ambush post
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Public trust in science spiked after media coverage of Zika vaccine trialDoes a scientific breakthrough increase confidence in science? The question is raised by a study of public attitudes about trust in science following media coverage of the Zika vaccine trial in 2016.
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Magnon circular birefringence: Polarization rotation of spin waves and its applicationsAn international team of researchers from Thailand, USA and Japan, has conducted a thorough study of an exotic behavior of material called 'noncentrosymmetric antiferromagnet.'
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'Invasive' species have been around much longer than believedA new study, Chrysocoma ciliata L. (Asteraceae) in the Lesotho Highlands: an anthropogenically introduced invasive or a niche coloniser?, published in Biological Invasions, confirms that a shrub believed to be an invasive in the eastern Lesotho Highlands has been growing in the region for over 4,000 years.
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Predicting the properties of subatomic particles using large scale computer simulationsPredicting the properties of subatomic particles before their experimental discovery has been a big challenge for physicists. Now, scientists from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research have predicted the quantum numbers of five Ω_c^0 baryons which have recently been discovered by an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These results will help in understanding the nature of strong
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Deadline for race to host EU agencies after BrexitEuropean Union countries faced a deadline Monday to submit their bids to host the post-Brexit locations of key banking and medical agencies currently based in London.
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Climate change threatens some of the world's best winesMillions of people across Europe have experienced soaring temperatures in the summer of 2017, with sizzling barbeques, good food, and fine wine. But as both global and regional records are broken, the wine growers supplying these summer feasts are feeling the effects of climate change on their trade.
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Why plants represent 'untapped potential' for innovative drug discoveryThe field of medicine has come a long way from using heroine as a cough remedy or magnet therapy to improve blood flow. These outdated methods were put to bed decades ago. But there are plenty of ancient medicinal practices that have stood the test of time. In fact, many of the life-saving pharmaceuticals we rely on today are derived from plants first discovered by indigenous communities.
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What's the best way to rank research institutes?(Phys.org)—Assessing and ranking research institutes is important for awarding grants, recruiting employees, promoting institutes, and other reasons. But finding a fair and accurate method for assessing the performance of research institutes is challenging due to the many factors involved, such as the number of published papers and citations, the unreliability of some citations, and the fact that
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New research could make dew droplets so small, they're invisibleBy better understanding the behavior of water in its smallest form, a Virginia Tech professor and his undergraduate student could be improving the efficiency of removing condensation in a major way.
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What does trophy hunting contribute to wild lion conservation?Trophy hunting of lions, the killing of selected individual animals for sport, is highly controversial, and there is much debate about what it contributes to conservation. A new article highlights significant 'unknowns' that thwart conservationists from making any robust conclusions.
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Metal instability achieves energy-efficient nanotechnologyResearchers show their nanowire resonators can be used to miniaturize energy-efficient electronics.
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Image of the Day: Release Your InhibitionsA drug commonly used to treat clinical depression sets its effects in motion by hampering the release of an inhibitory neurotransmitter in mice.
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Indien sætter solceller på togeneIndens statsejede jernbaneselskab, Indian Railways, har som de første i verden idriftsat tog, der bliver drevet af solceller.
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Always take the weather with youThe advent of mobile communications devices and in particular the internet-connected smart phone and tablet means that users can have access to almost any information they desire with the tap or swipe of a screen. That evergreen conversational topic, the weather forecast, is perhaps one of the most universally accessed pieces of information that people access. Now, writing in the International Jou
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Making clothes from milkIn the EU, residents waste an estimated 88 million tonnes of food every year, according to the latest estimates. That is roughly 170 kilogrammes per person. But what if scientists could turn some of that waste into useful products?
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Scientists develop ranking system to scale the impact of alien speciesA transparent ranking system for measuring the socio-economic impact of plants and animals that are introduced by humans to areas where they do not naturally occur (termed "aliens") has been developed by an international team of scientists, from UCL, Université de Fribourg and Stellenbosch University.
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Chemists make laser-induced graphene from woodRice University scientists have made wood into an electrical conductor by turning its surface into graphene.
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What does trophy hunting contribute to wild lion conservation?Trophy hunting of lions, the killing of selected individual animals for sport, is highly controversial, and there is much debate about what it contributes to conservation. A new article highlights significant 'unknowns' that thwart conservationists from making any robust conclusions.
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Breakthrough software teaches computer characters to walk, run, even play soccerComputer characters and eventually robots could learn complex motor skills like walking and running through trial and error, thanks to a milestone algorithm developed by a University of British Columbia researcher.
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New research could make dew droplets so small, they're invisibleVirginia Tech researchers expect that the findings will maximize the efficiency of jumping-droplet condensers, which could make power plants more efficient and enable robust anti-fogging and self-cleaning surfaces.
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Why your muscles hurt so much the day after you work out Ask Us Anything Next time: Slow and steady. It may seem counterproductive to not push yourself to the limit when trying to get fit, but slow and steady wins the race when it comes to avoiding soreness. Read on.
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The Space Launch System—the most powerful rocket ever builtNASA is in an awkward in-between time right now. Since the beginning of the space age, the agency has had the ability to send its astronauts into space. The first American to go to space, Alan Shepard, did a suborbital launch on board a Mercury Redstone rocket in 1961.
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The Super Cute Porgs of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Will Give BB-8 a Run for Its MoneyIf there's a cuteness race in the world of Star Wars, these puffin-like creatures could take the lead in December.
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Discovery and Scripps seek to tie up in $12 billion TV dealDiscovery Communications will buy Scripps Networks for close to $12 billion, tying together two powerful stables of TV shows ranging from Animal Planet to the Food Network.
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Blade Runner 2049 Will Be Missing One Much-Hated Element From the Original Image: Warner Bros. Joe Mangianello is very close-lipped about The Batman . Some Marvel concept has been revealed to the world at large. And news about when Misha Collins will return to Supernatural . Spoilers ahead! Blade Runner 2049 In an interview with Collider , Denis Villeneuve confirmed there will be no narration in the film. That’s a joke I made with Harrison Ford when he came to do his AD
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WSU study shows muted stress response linked to long-term cannabis useA new study by Washington State University psychology researchers reveals a dampened physiological response to stress in chronic cannabis users. This is the first study to examine the effects of acute stress on salivary cortisol levels in chronic cannabis users compared to non-users.
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Are the world's highest paid football players overpaid? Big data says yesComputer scientists used machine learning and data science to analyze the salaries of professional football players. A computational model was developed to show the world's most overpaid and underpaid players, and to identify skills that can earn footballers more Euros.
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Touring senior centers, interacting with residents positively impacts health studentsA new study has found that a community-based service learning experience involving greater interaction with older adults had a positive impact on career development for medical residents (physicians who have graduated from medical school and are starting work at a healthcare facility under supervision).
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ISIS Attacks the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul Afghan official say they killed three militants who attacked the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul Monday, an operation that highlights the precarious security situation in the Afghan capital 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in which a suicide bomber detonated a device outside the entrance to the embassy. Three militants then entered the compound and engaged i
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Jellyfish blooms linked to offshore gas platforms and wind farmsVast blooms of jellyfish are becoming increasingly common – perhaps because human-made offshore platforms act as ideal nursery grounds for young jellies
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Snakebites are rarer than you think, but CPR can save your lifeDespite the common belief that Australia has some of the most venomous snakes in the world, our new research shows being bitten by a snake is uncommon in Australia and dying from a snakebite is very rare.
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The complete history of the IBM PC, part two: The DOS empire strikes Nota bene: This is the concluding part of the surprisingly interesting history of the IBM PC. You should probably read part one of the story if you haven't already. In November 1979, Microsoft's frequent partner Seattle Computer Products released a standalone Intel 8086 motherboard for hardcore hobbyists and computer manufacturers looking to experiment with this new and very powerful CPU. The 808
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Pig-hunting dogs and humans are at risk of a disease that can cause miscarriages and infertilityA disease called swine brucellosis is emerging in New South Wales, carried by feral pigs. Endemic to feral pigs in Queensland, and sometimes infecting the dogs used to hunt them, it can be transmitted to humans through blood contact with infected pigs. A number of people have already been infected in NSW.
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Amazon's Blowing Out The Last Of Their Fire HD 10s For $120, While Supplies Last Refurb Amazon Fire HD 10 , $120 Amazon appears to have killed off the Fire HD 10, which is a shame, because it was a really solid full-sized tablet for the money. Luckily, you still have a chance to get one as Amazon is clearing out refurbs for just $120 today . That’s $80 less than the usual refurb price, and $110 less than what Amazon used to charge for new ones.
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RX Vega 64 and RX Vega 56: AMD will “trade blows” with GTX 1080 for $499 Enlarge RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooled Edition. RX Vega—AMD's long awaited follow up to the two-year-old Fury and Fury X high-performance graphics cards—launches on August 14 in two core versions: the $499 Radeon RX Vega 64, and the $399 Radeon RX Vega 56 (UK prices TBC). A limited edition version of RX Vega 64, which features a slick aluminium shroud, costs $599 as part of a bundle that includes disco
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Study finds aardvarks suffering as African climate heats upA new study says hotter temperatures caused by climate change are taking their toll on the aardvark, whose diet of ants and termites is becoming scarcer because of reduced rainfall.
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How the search for mythical monsters can help conservation in the real worldAfter fears the Loch Ness Monster had "disappeared" last winter, a new sighting in May 2017 was celebrated by its enthusiasts. The search for monsters and mythical creatures (or "cryptids") such as Nessie, the Yeti or Bigfoot is known as "cryptozoology".
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Nature provides a key to repelling liquidsInspired by nature, an inexpensive green technique that enables common materials to repel liquid has been developed by KAUST scientists and could lead to diverse applications from underwater drag reduction to antifouling.
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Telescoping design would make awesome robots Researchers have created a way to design telescoping structures that can twist and bend, which could allow the creation of robots that collapse themselves to make transport easier or stretch out to reach over large obstacles. The researchers devised algorithms that can take a suggested shape that includes curves or twists and design a telescoping structure to match. They also created a design too
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Guidelines for assessing orthostatic hypotension should be changed, new study recommendsA new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that testing for the presence of orthostatic hypotension, a form of low blood pressure, be performed within one minute of standing after a person has been lying down. Current guidelines recommend taking the measurement three minutes after a person stands up.
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Scientists discover biomarkers which could lead to better treatments for CF patientsResearchers have identified two new biological markers of cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disease which affects children and young adults, leaving them with lifelong health complications including digestive problems and persistent lung infections.The findings, published in the journal ACS Central Science, shed new light on the underlying mechanisms of CF and could lead to improved prognosis and be
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Toward a better sweat test for babies with cystic fibrosisCystic fibrosis (CF) is an incurable genetic disease in which patients have chronic lung infections. The sooner CF is diagnosed, the better the symptoms can be managed. But current tests can give ambiguous results that do not reflect disease progression. Today, in ACS Central Science, researchers reveal a new type of sweat test that can overcome this challenge.
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Is there such a thing as a 'true self'?"To thine own self be true", the saying goes. It is often taken as sage advice, a remnant scrap of Elizabethan life coaching, but Shakespeare may have meant it to be heard as a stale platitude. He puts it in the mouth of Polonius, a windbag given to hackneyed pronouncements. But what is this true self to which we should be true?
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Simplifying the complexities of human traffickingHuman trafficking is much more than kidnapping and selling people. Those who commit labour exploitation can, for example, also be sentenced for human trafficking. Criminologist Masja van Meeteren hopes to simplify the complexity of the phenomenon by charting the different forms of labour exploitation.
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LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner (left) and Chairman Reid Hoffman (right) with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (center). Microsoft bought LinkedIn last year. (credit: Microsoft ) A small company called hiQ is locked in a high-stakes battle over Web scraping with LinkedIn. It's a fight that could determine whether an anti-hacking law can be used to curtail the use of scraping tools across the Web. HiQ scrapes
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How Scared Should I Be of Macaroni and Cheese? Asking for a Friend, Being a first-time father to a 1.5-year-old child means addressing unexpected questions from the first-time grandparents of a 1.5-year-old child. My father sent my wife and me a somewhat guilty-sounding email about the latest New York Times scare piece on the topic of mac and cheese, a foodstuff he presents to my son when he visits their home each week … I would love your t
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Downsizing cost trap awaits retirees – five reasons to be waryIt's time to debunk the myth of zero housing costs in retirement if we want to understand why retirees resist downsizing. Retirees have at least five reasons to be wary of the costs of downsizing.
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Opinion: Super-intelligence and eternal life—transhumanism's faithful follow it blindly into a future for the eliteThe rapid development of so-called NBIC technologies – nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology and cognitive science – are giving rise to possibilities that have long been the domain of science fiction. Disease, ageing and even death are all human realities that these technologies seek to end.
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Editing human embryos with CRISPR is moving ahead – now's the time to work out the ethicsThe announcement by researchers in Portland, Oregon that they've successfully modified the genetic material of a human embryo took some people by surprise.
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Strange, Twisted Fragments of Bullets After They Hit TargetsGarrett Hansen photographs mangled bullets from a local firing range.
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Facebook and Google Policing the Web Will Do More Harm Than GoodOpinion: A new German law could curtail free speech on social media sites.
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Confidence fuels activity for people with arthritis Osteoarthritis patients who feel more confident in their abilities in the morning are more physically active over the course of the day, new research suggests. The findings suggest that self-efficacy—one’s confidence in their ability to do something—influences physical activity independent from other such factors as pain, mood, and support from others. “It’s all about what you think you’re able t
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For bacteria, smaller is better for causing superbug infectionsScientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered a new insight into how one of the most common hospital superbugs causes infections – something which could be used to develop new antibiotic treatments.
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The global food system still benefits the rich at the expense of the poorRamen noodles in Sweden, wheat bread in Tanzania and Chilean wines in China. The cross-Atlantic transit of the potato and the tomato from the Andes to Europe, and back again as French fries and pasta sauce. We think of the world as globalised and sophisticated in its food tastes, and our palettes as curious and ever-expanding. Food spreads cultural acceptance and understanding.
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The outer galaxyThe sun is located inside one of the spiral arms of the Milky Way galaxy, roughly two-thirds of the way from the galactic center to the outer regions. Because we are inside the galaxy, obscuration by dust and the confusion of sources along our lines-of-sight make mapping the galaxy a difficult task. Astronomers think that the galaxy is a symmetric spiral, and about 10 years ago, CfA astronomers To
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The Art of NeuroscienceThe winners of an annual contest capture the brain at its most beautiful — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sprække i Preikestolen skal undersøges med ny teknikRisikoen for, at Norges kendteste fjeldplateau skal styrte ned i dalen, skal nu undersøges med ny teknik.
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Bryde's whales share secrets with their finsResearch into the long-term survival and abundance of the Hauraki Gulf's Bryde's whale population has used photographs of their fins to aid efforts in improving the management of the small population.
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Extraplanar diffuse ionized gas detected in a nearby galaxyA research group led by Erin Boettcher of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has detected and characterized an extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in the nearby galaxy Messier 83. The study, published July 25 on arXiv.org, provides important insights into kinematics of the diffuse gas in this galaxy.
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What Fitbit needs to do to make a great smartwatch in 2017 (credit: Valentina Palladino) It's no secret that Fitbit is making a smartwatch. The company signaled its serious plans with the purchase of Pebble at 2016's end and the purchase of the lesser-known Vector shortly after. Fitbit was supposed to release a smartwatch this spring, but product issues delayed those plans. Rumors suggest we won't have to wait much longer, though, as the company may rele
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An evolutionary breakpoint in cell divisionJapanese researchers from Osaka University have discovered that the interaction between two proteins, M18BP1/KNL2 and CENP-A, is essential for cell division in various species except for mammals including human.
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Development of novel electron microscopy techniques to extract obscured information on material propertiesNIMS researchers Bo Da (researcher at the RCAMC and the CMI2, MaDIS) and Hideki Yoshikawa (leader of the Surface Chemical Analysis Group) and a research group led by Shigeo Tanuma (NIMS Special Researcher), Kazuhito Tsukakoshi (MANA Principal Investigator, NIMS), Kazuyuki Watanabe (Professor, Tokyo University of Science) and Zejun Ding (Professor, University of Science and Technology of China) joi
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Modeling leads to a better understanding of the role El Niño plays in increasing rainfall along the Red Sea coastThe El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been shown, for the first time, to play a role in increased rainfall and storms along the Red Sea and surrounding regions.
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Same-race friends, peers tied to puberty-related outcomes among black girlsGirls who develop early are better adjusted when their friends are on a similar timeframe for puberty and of the same race, a new study shows.
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Ældste spor af liv indkapslet i grønlandske ædelstenForskere har fundet de ældste spor af liv indkapslet i 3,7 milliarder år gamle ædelsten…
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Solar eclipse a chance to study life's resilienceOn August 21, as North America experiences its first total eclipse of the Sun in 38 years, astrobiologists are taking advantage of this rare celestial event to conduct experiments on life's ability to survive hostile conditions.
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Clarifiying complex chemical processes with quantum computersScience and the IT industry have high hopes for quantum computing, but descriptions of possible applications tend to be vague. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now come up with a concrete example that demonstrates what quantum computers will actually be able to achieve in the future.
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Smarter electrification—providing energy isn't enoughFour years ago life in Pulau Bau, a village on a tiny island off North Maluku in Indonesia, was transformed. The community was supplied with electricity via small-scale diesel generators and a state-of-the-art solar energy system with battery backup.
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Super Schnozzle: Tiny, Glow-in-the-Dark Shark Has a Huge NoseA glow-in-the-dark shark that has a mouthful of pointy teeth and an impressively large bulbous nose is also quite small — about the weight of a pineapple, according to a new study.
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In Photos: The World's Largest Bony FishOcean sunfish are the world's largest bony fish, weighing up to a whopping 2,205 pounds and measuring more than 8 feet long. Now, scientists have discovered a new species of this monstrous fish hiding in plain sight.
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New Sunfish Species Is 8 Feet Long and Looks Like a Giant PancakeThis fish looks like a head with fins.
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Sticky, Gooey Science! Why Slime Is AwesomeSlime's slippery, gooey texture helps certain animals fend off predators or fight disease. It's also a lot of fun to make, as Live Science recently demonstrated.
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Coming Soon? A Solar Eclipse Near YouUse the interactive map below to find the next solar spectacular in your region — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Trump Wants the EPA Radon Program Cut. So Do Some ScientistsA rising chorus of radiation professionals says the way the US measures radiation risk is all wrong.
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The Man Who Calls His Trolls to Talk It OutNight Vale Presents’ latest podcast tries to humanize harassers through in-depth conversations
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Canceling Your Tesla Model 3 Deposit? Don't Count on a Timely RefundTesla is taking weeks or months longer than promised to refund Model 3 deposits. Why so long?
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What Google's New Autoplay Experiment Means for the Future of SearchThe search giant gives users another reason to try out the competition
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Curious Kids: What Started the Big Bang?This is one of the two questions I get asked a lot (the other one is: do aliens exist?) Both are very good questions!
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Researchers re-classify mistaken-identity mushroomsSome discoveries come from the stars – and some from beneath our feet.
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Why We All Scream When We Get Ice Cream Brain Freeze When temperatures soar, there's nothing like a frozen treat to take off the edge. But if we dive in too fast, our brains are thrown for a distressing and sometimes painful loop. Here's why. (Image credit: Ashlie Stevens/WFPL)
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Diamond joins the realm of 2-D thin films, study suggestsScientists squeezed graphene sheets into diamondene.
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Scientists Need to Move Fast and Break ThingsResearch labs should take a page from the tech companies — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Japans debut i det private rumkapløb blev en fuserRaketten Momo fra japansk startup nåede kun en højde af cirka 40 kilometer. Firmaet regner alligevel med at nå rummet inden udgangen af 2017.
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Addressing root causes of forest firesIn a new video, the European Forest Institute (EFI) looks at the key factors of increased forest fire risk in the Mediterranean region and advocates for a new vision based on shifting the focus from reactive fire suppression to long-term proactive fire prevention and forest management at the landscape scale.
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3-D printing technologies transport students to ancient greeceThe use of 3-D printing technologies in Victoria University of Wellington's Classics Museum has students using ancient Greek artefacts the way they were intended—from interacting with 3-D printed ancient objects to designing their own amphorae (storage jars).
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Early example of a local nautical map from Hispanic AmericaIn the last third of the 16th century, the Spanish crown launched a project to obtain a complete map of the New World. The project used surveys known as Relaciones Geográficas. A questionnaire with more than 50 questions was sent to each settlement. These also had to be completed with a map of the local region. These maps, known as pinturas (paintings), lacked ground measurements and therefore sca
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Broadband light sources with liquid coreResearch scientists from Jena have produced broadband laser light in the mid-infrared range with the help of liquid-filled optical fibers. The experiment produced proof of a new dynamics of hybrid solitons—temporally and spectrally stationary light waves resulting from the unique characteristics of the liquid core.
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Interactive protein posttranslational modifications regulate stress responsesMethylation and nitric oxide (NO)-based S-nitrosylation are highly conserved protein posttranslational modifications that regulate diverse biological processes, including abiotic stress responses. However, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms.
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Taking back control must not mean a return to overfishingThe return of North Sea cod to sustainable status has been greeted with glee in the UK. We must not let Brexit jeopardise this success
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Scientists determine algae biofuel compositionScientists have used high-resolution mass spectrometry to determine the composition of a biofuel obtained from the microalgae Spirulina platensis. The researchers studied two biofuel fractions obtained using a special algal mass treatment method. The researchers also proved that biofuel has little to do with oil in terms of its composition. However, it is similar to the "brilliant green" antisepti
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Intermittent attention, poor memory shape public perceptions of inflationDo you know your country's current inflation rate? What do you think it will be in the future? And how do you, personally, try to plan your finances accordingly?
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Ocean circulation, coupled with trade wind changes, efficiently limits shifting of tropical rainfall patternsThe Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), also known as the doldrums, is one of the dramatic features of Earth's climate system. Prominent enough to be seen from space, the ITCZ appears in satellite images as a band of bright clouds around the tropics. Here, moist warm air accumulates in this atmospheric region near the equator, where the ocean and atmosphere heavily interact. Intense solar radia
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Spørg Scientariet: Kan vi bremse næste istid med CO2?En læser vil gerne vide, om vi kan styre uden om næste istid ved at forøge CO2-niveauet i atmosfæren. Det svarer professor fra NBI på.
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Novel technique using graphene to create solar cellsImagine a future in which solar cells are all around us—on windows and walls, cell phones, laptops, and more. A new flexible, transparent solar cell developed at MIT is bringing that future one step closer.
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Flavor scientists create a lexicon of terms to describe nuances of rumAficionados use words like "oaky" to describe some wines, or "hoppy" when talking about certain beers. But for rum—a product with over 1,000 different varieties—putting the words together to describe what imbibers are smelling and tasting is a bit more difficult.
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Video: Vita dockingReplay of the docking of the Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik and Roscosmos commander Sergey Ryazansky. The astronauts were launched to Space Station on 28 July from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
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Why Americans Get Conned Again and Again For decades, Donald Trump has been compared to the legendary showman P.T. Barnum. Trump himself has publicly embraced being likened to a man described by historians as “ vulgar, childish, surely just a little crooked .” His willingness to invoke that set of values—quite different from the Horatio Alger-style “luck and pluck” that serve as an unofficial national ethos—may be what his supporters ar
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The Decline of the American Laundromat Lavanderia, one of San Francisco’s largest laundromats, is an urban relic. Its peeling aquamarine walls house some 110 machines. Telenovelas play on a TV and arcade games from the 1990s are tucked into unexpected nooks. After opening in 1991, Lavanderia—like so many other laundromats in big cities—became a social hub in a neighborhood where renters lacked the space or funds for their own machines
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How to conquer our obsession with eternal life | Matt Haig Our anti-ageing quest only increases anxiety, says Matt Haig. Instead, we need to understand the tricks of time As a culture, we are obsessed with ageing. We have always been obsessed but now, paradoxically, in an era where we live longer than ever, we fear it more than ever before too. There is, of course, a whole industry devoted to capitalising on our fears of the natural ageing process and it
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William Shatner Attacks Snowflakes, Social Justice Warriors, and Misandrists William Shatner as Captain Kirk in the classic 1968 anti-Nazi Star Trek episode, Patterns of Force (five years after the production of his best known film, Operation Bikini) William Shatner, perhaps best known as the narrator of the 1963 film Operation Bikini , is at it again. This time he’s taken aim at the snowflakes, misandrists, and social justice warriors (SJWs) that have annoyed him so much
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Geologist offers new clues to cause of world's greatest extinctionA study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world's most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago.
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The Downsides of John Kelly's Ascension Donald Trump is not much of a man. He feels sorry for himself, he whines, he gropes women; he bullies the weak. He brags and he lies. As a young man, this self-proclaimed athlete collected five draft deferments rather than wear his country’s uniform. He doesn’t even work out. The motto emblazoned on Trump’s bogus coat of arms should probably be “faithless,” which makes it odd that he has picked a
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Geologists offer new clues to cause of world's greatest extinctionA study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world's most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago.
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Science : NPR14K
New Florida Law Lets Residents Challenge School Textbooks The new bill was pushed by a conservative group critical of the way evolution, climate change and government were being taught in Florida schools. (Image credit: Gulfiya Mukhamatdinova/Getty Images)
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Science : NPR9K
Sperm Counts Plummet In Western Men, Study Finds Data from nearly 43,000 men around the world found that sperm counts dropped by more than half in Western countries. It could reflect a decline in health overall, scientists say. (Image credit: Hanna Barczyk for NPR)
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Ingeniøren
Hør solvindens susen: Amerikaner sætter lyd på videnskabelige dataAmerikansk musikteknolog omformer datasæt fra neutronstjerner, solvinde og havets dyb til små musikstykker. Ideen er, at lydindtryk kan give ny forståelse af ellers kun visuelle data.
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Ingeniøren3
Ugens job: Rambøll, Ambu og Forsvaret har flere ledige job På dagens liste er der bud efter en bred vifte af ingeniører. Som eksempelvis drift- og testingeniører, projektledere og elektroingeniører. https://karriere.jobfinder.dk/da/artikel/ugens-job-ramboell-ambu-forsvaret-har-flere-ledige-job-9281 Emner Arbejdsmarked Jobfinder
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Gizmodo100+
That Viral Photo of Theresa May With The Scream Painting is Totally Fake Have you seen that photo of Theresa May and her fellow Tories in front of the Edvard Munch painting, The Scream? It’s going viral on Twitter at the moment . But sadly, it’s completely fake. The photo actually dates back to September 2016 and shows British Prime Minister Theresa May with 27 cabinet members. The photo took some heat when it was first released for showing a “genuinely impressive lac
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
People find it difficult to judge how good their intuitions areWhether people believe they are 'intuitive' or not may have no bearing on how they perform in tasks that require intuition, according to new research by psychologists at the University of Kent.
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories18
Ex-NASA agent fears gold lunar module will be melted downWhoever broke into an Ohio museum and stole a solid-gold replica of the Apollo 11 lunar module likely intends to melt it down for the value of the gold instead of trying to sell what could be a collectible worth millions of dollars, said a retired NASA agent who has helped recover stolen moon rocks worth millions of dollars.
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Science-Based Medicine1K
Abraham Cherrix is alive and well because of science-based medicineAlthough I haven't discussed it here in depth, the case of Abraham Cherrix is an instructive example. Eleven years ago, he and his parents chose quackery over science-based medicine to treat his cancer. He's alive now because he finally realized the error of his decision and underwent chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories19
Drifting word meanings may be creating two different political languagesIf the current political discourse sounds a little like people are speaking two different languages, Penn State psychologists, who studied political rhetoric over the past three presidential elections, say that may be close to the case, semantically speaking.
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories200+
Quasars may answer how starburst galaxies were extinguishedSome of the biggest galaxies in the universe are full of extinguished stars. But nearly 12 billion years ago, soon after the universe first was created, these massive galaxies were hotspots that brewed up stars by the billions.
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Science | The Guardian57
Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a forester? A puzzle about planting trees UPDATE: You can read the solution here. Hello guzzlers, Your mission today is to design an arrangement of trees on a desert island, like the one below. Continue reading…
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Ingeniøren
Fire løgne du aldrig må fortælle chefen Løgne kan være fristende til at bortforklare fravær eller personlige brølere, men fanges du i en løgn, kan konsekvensen være en fyring. Jobfinder giver dig fire løgne, som du især skal holde dig fra. https://karriere.jobfinder.dk/da/artikel/fire-loegne-du-aldrig-maa-fortaelle-chefen-9280 Emner Arbejdsmarked Arbejdsmiljø Jobfinder
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Ingeniøren74
It-ekspert: Offentlig software er ikke skrevet for medarbejdernes skyld Det er ikke underligt, hvis sagsbehandlere, læger og skat-medarbejdere ikke føler, at deres hverdag bliver nemmere med ny offentlig it. Det er nemlig ikke meningen. https://www.version2.dk/artikel/it-ekspert-offentlig-software-ikke-skrevet-medarbejdernes-skyld-1078676 Version2
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The Atlantic400+
Game of Thrones: All the Queens’ Men Every week for the seventh season of Game of Thrones , Lenika Cruz , David Sims , and Spencer Kornhaber will discuss new episodes of the HBO drama. Because no screeners were made available to critics in advance this year, we'll be posting our thoughts in installments. Lenika Cruz: Three episodes into this season, I’m still getting used to just how much more quickly things are unfolding on Game of
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News1
Sad! Drifting word meanings may be creating two different political languagesIf the current political discourse sounds a little like people are speaking two different languages, Penn State psychologists, who studied political rhetoric over the past three presidential elections, say that may be close to the case, semantically speaking.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News3
Exercise incentives do little to spur gym-going, study showsEven among people who had just joined a gym and expected to visit regularly, getting paid to exercise did little to make their commitment stick, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News3
Women show cognitive advantage in gender-equal countriesWomen's cognitive functioning past middle age may be affected by the degree of gender equality in the country they live in, according to new findings from Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Quasars may answer how starburst galaxies were extinguishedUniversity of Iowa astronomers have located quasars inside four dusty starburst galaxies. The observations suggest quasars may starve this type of galaxy of energy needed to form stars. Results published in the Astrophysical Journal.
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New on MIT Technology Review300+
These New Devices Promise to Fight Pain without OpioidsCompanies want to replace addictive painkillers and help people detox from opioids.
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Ingeniøren75
Svalbards frøbank lider under dyr byggebommertTunnelen ind til Svalbards globale frøbank indeholder unødige varmekilder og leder vand fra optøet permafrost tæt på de vigtige frø.
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Gizmodo72
Game of Thrones Finally Gave Us the Moment We've All Been Waiting For Man, I wish I hadn’t used the word “satisfying” to describe last week’s episode, because good lord, tonight—tonight was the night Game of Thrones fans ( to say nothing of A Song of Ice and Fire fans! ) have been looking forward to since the series began. Ice and Fire finally met in Dragonstone, and it was just as wonderful and powerful and awkward as I’d hoped it would be. Meanwhile, Cersei is al
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily23
GP-based testing for HIV is cost-effectiveOffering HIV testing to people at health checks when they register at a new GP surgery in high-prevalence areas is cost-effective and will save lives, according to a study involving over 86,000 people from 40 GP surgeries.
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The Atlantic100+
Four Positive Developments—and a Negative One Two weeks ago I wrote about the things that had gone as expected in the Trump era—namely, the character and conduct of the man himself—plus a roundup of parts of the civic fiber that were responding more healthily than one might have expected, under unusual stress. Here are few other illustrations of what they call in the aeronautics world “positive dynamic stability”: That is, a system that push
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New Scientist – News100+
HIV testing at some GP surgeries would save lives and NHS moneyRoutinely testing for HIV in some areas of England would cost the NHS more at first, but save money in the longer term by finding and treating unknown cases
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Futurity.org8
Glial cells botch wiring in childhood schizophrenia Malfunctioning glial cells that keep nerve cells from forming working communication networks may be the basis of the wiring problems in the brains of people with schizophrenia, new research suggests. “The inability of these cells to do their job…appears to be a primary contributor to the disease.” When researchers transplanted human brain cells generated from individuals diagnosed with childhood-
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Futurity.org31
Babies learn what we like by watching us closely New research suggests that, behind their chubby cheeks and bright eyes, babies as young as eight months are watching and thinking about our behavior patterns, logging our every move, and making odds on what we’re most likely to do next based on their perceptions of our preferences. Infants as young as eight months are already developing the ability to see the world through someone else’s eyes… “E
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Futurity.org4
This blood test could fight antibiotic resistance Antibiotics are lifesaving drugs, but overuse is leading to one of the world’s most pressing health threats: antibiotic resistance. Researchers are developing a tool to help physicians prescribe antibiotics to patients who really need them—and avoid giving them to individuals who don’t. Antibiotic resistant bacteria cause at least 2 million infections and 23,000 deaths each year in the United Sta
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The Atlantic4K
The Final Humiliation of Reince Priebus Six years ago, a humble party hack from Kenosha, Wisconsin, took on the thankless job of turning around the Republican Party. As he exits the White House—battered, bruised, and humiliated—Reince Priebus argues he accomplished just what he set out to do. “We won,” Priebus told me in an interview. Calling from the golf course on Sunday afternoon, he sounded both defiant and relieved. “Winning is wh
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BBC News – Science & Environment500+
Elephants in Malawi relocated as part of conservation projectRangers in Malawi take on the mammoth task of moving hundreds of elephants into safer national parks.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News3
GP-based testing for HIV is cost-effective and should be rolled out in local authoritiesOffering HIV testing to people at health checks when they register at a new GP surgery in high-prevalence areas is cost-effective and will save lives, according to a study involving over 86,000 people from 40 GP surgeries, led by Queen Mary University of London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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Science | The Guardian100+
HIV tests for GPs' new patients could save lives and money, says study Researchers find fourfold increase in diagnosis rate when testing carried out as part of surgeries’ registration health check Offering routine HIV tests to people when they register with new GP surgeries in high-risk areas is cost-effective and could save lives, a study has shown. The researchers are calling for HIV screening to be introduced in all 74 local authorities in England with high rates
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Gizmodo100+
Travis Kalanick Is Already Plotting His Return to Power at Uber Photo: AP Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is down, but he somehow does not yet consider himself out, according to a Sunday report in the New York Times . Kalanick, who resigned in June amid widespread reports he let a culture of sexual harassment run rampant at the company and lawsuits by angry drivers , has apparently injected himself into the search for his replacement—and may have already scar
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