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The Standing Rock Sioux Claim ‘Victory and Vindication’ in Court A federal judge ruled in favor of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Wednesday, handing the tribe its first legal victory in its year-long battle against the Dakota Access pipeline. James Boasberg, who sits on D.C. district court, said that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to perform an adequate study of the pipeline’s environmental consequences when it first approved its construction. In a
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Animal evolution: Hot start, followed by cold shockThe initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession — prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.
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How to Hack Your Car With a Nicer Horn That Won't Instigate Road Rage GIF Aside from turn signals, a car’s horn is really the only tool a driver has to communicate with other vehicles. (Besides gesticulating wildly out of the driver’s side window, of course.) It’s so loud and abrasive, however, that it always sounds like you’re screaming at other motorists, leading to middle fingers and other unwelcome responses. But what if your car’s horn was more polite ? Mark R
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The Alaskan Harbor Where Bald Eagles Scavenge Like PigeonsThey pick through garbage and steal pizza from locals.
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One million sign petition for EU weedkiller banMore than one million people have signed a petition demanding the EU ban the Monsanto weedkiller glyphosate over fears it causes cancer, campaigners said Thursday.
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An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots’ conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language. In the report , researchers at the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research lab describe using machine learning to train their “dialog agents” to negotiate. (And it turns out bots are actually quite good at dealmaking.) At one point, the researchers write,
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Swimming robot to probe damage at Japan nuclear plantA Japanese industrial group unveiled Thursday a swimming robot designed for underwater probes of damage from meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
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New tool measures resilience in adolescent Syrian refugeesResearchers from Yale University, together with partners at universities in Canada, Jordan, and the United Kingdom, have developed a brief and reliable survey tool to measure resilience in children and adolescents who have been displaced by the brutal conflict in Syria.
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Rest easy during EU holidays: no more phone roaming costsFrom now on, European Union holidaymakers should return home without that sense of high anxiety about their mobile phone bill: extra fees for using it abroad should have gone.
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Elegant switch controls translation in transition from egg to embryoThe transition from an egg to a developing embryo is one of life's most remarkable transformations. Yet little is known about it. Now Whitehead Institute researchers have deciphered how one aspect—control of the all-important translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins—switches as the egg becomes an embryo. That shift is controlled by a beautiful mechanism, which is triggered at a precise
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Why Amazon Would Want to Buy Slack Amazon is rumored to be mulling a purchase of Slack, the fast-growing corporate chat platform. A deal could give Slack a valuation of $9 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg . It’s no surprise that tech giants have taken interest in Slack, with its elegant, user-friendly interface that keeps employees ever-connected to work via their smartphones. The startup has enjoyed extraordinary gro
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EU mobile roaming charges end today, but beware of other costs (credit: Ron Amadeo) From today, mobile roaming charges in the European Union have officially been abolished—allowing travellers to make calls and send texts in other countries within the 28-member-state bloc without being saddled with exorbitant bills. It means that, while the UK is still part of the EU, Brits will also benefit from mobile roaming charges being dropped. Post-Brexit, the governme
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Long and complex forensic investigation ahead for Grenfell Tower Recovering victims’ remains a priority, with experts confident every person will be found. But establishing fire’s cause will take months, they say Forensic experts have spoken of the extraordinarily complex investigation that lies ahead at Grenfell Tower and predicted that establishing the causes of the devastating fire will take months. In the coming days, recovering victims’ remains would be a
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Scientists report large-scale surface melting event in Antarctica during 2015-16 El NiñoThe West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scientists who had been conducting the first comprehensive atmospheric measurements in the region since the 1960s.
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Quantum dot transistor simulates functions of neuronsA transistor that simulates some of the functions of neurons has been invented based on experiments and models developed by researchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in São Paulo State, Brazil, Würzburg University in Germany, and the University of South Carolina in the United States.
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Face recognition system 'K-Eye'Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the key emerging technologies. Global IT companies are competitively launching the newest technologies and competition is heating up more than ever. However, most AI technologies focus on software and their operating speeds are low, making them a poor fit for mobile devices. Therefore, many big companies are investing to develop semiconductor chips for runnin
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When healthy cells stimulate the migration of tumor cellsEstrogens act as a driving force of both healthy and cancerous mammary cell growth by binding to receptors that include GPER, which is generally located in cell membranes. Studies have revealed the unusual presence of this receptor in the nuclei of fibroblasts surrounding mammary tumor cells. Researchers at UNIGE have discovered that this is in fact another version of GPER with different propertie
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Celebrating a high performing new journal in quantum informationUNSW Sydney is proud of the early publication performance, influence and reach of its Nature Partner Journal npj Quantum Information, from advancing discovery to affecting public discourse. At a time of the year when the Journal Citation ReportsTM are published, UNSW sees npj Quantum Information's inaugural Impact Factor in the context of a variety of journal-based metrics that provide a richer vi
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Diets rich in polyunsaturated fats may alter appetite hormones among millennialsNew published research shows millennials (ages 18-35) who regularly consume foods that contain polyunsaturated fats, such as walnuts, salmon and canola oil, may experience favorable changes in appetite hormones associated with hunger and satiety.
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Induced Cell Turnover: A proposed modality for in situ tissue regeneration & repairScientists at the Biogerontology Research Foundation, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences at the University of Amsterdam have published a paper on a proposed method of in situ tissue regeneration called Induced Cell Turnover in the journal Human Gene Therapy.
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Pre-clinical study suggests Parkinson's could start in gut endocrine cellsDuke University researchers have identified a potential new mechanism in both mice and human endocrine cells that populate the small intestines. Inside these cells is a protein called alpha-synuclein, which is known to go awry and lead to damaging clumps in the brains of Parkinson's patients, as well as those with Alzheimer's disease.
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Study finds no gender difference in stress as a risk factor for coronary heart diseaseResearchers found that although women had higher average levels of urine stress hormones than men, the association between stress and having asymptomatic coronary heart disease as measured by coronary calcium was similar in both genders. In particular, urinary cortisol was a strong independent predictor of asymptomatic coronary heart disease.
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Gene transfer keeps bacteria fitResearchers at the University of Basel's Biozentrum have discovered that Bartonella bacteria exchange genes efficiently using a domesticated virus encoded in their genome. As the findings published in Cell Systems demonstrate, the exchange of genetic material only takes place between bacteria with a high level of fitness. The gene transfer between pathogens prevents the accumulation of genetic def
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix Is Getting One Thing Extremely Right We have a cryptic look at Avengers: Infinity War . A Star Wars rumor is debunked. Daenerys explains one thing she won’t be doing in season seven of Game of Thrones. We know when a slew of Marvel movies will begin filming. Re-Animator may be returning but not in the U.S. Is there more? So much more! Spoilers, hiyah! X-Men: Dark Phoneix After yesterday’s announcement of the new (first-time) directo
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Evolutionary hot start, followed by cold shockThe initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession – prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.
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Modern computing power may help mitigate future flood disastersIn February 2017, California's Oroville Dam received national attention as a narrowly averted flood disaster. A decade earlier—in June 2008—it was Wisconsin's turn: Near the popular tourist destination city Wisconsin Dells, excessive rainfall eroded the highway that formed part of the Lake Delton Dam, resulting in a torrential washout into the Wisconsin River 40 feet below. It swept away three hom
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Archaeologist teams up with computer vision experts to match prehistoric potteryCutting-edge computer vision technology could help unlock the mystery of how people interacted and traveled in the Southeast more than 1,500 years ago.
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Twitter Redesigned Itself to Make the Tweet Supreme AgainMore than any single change, the new design refocuses Twitter as place you go to see what's going on.
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Sorry ma‘am, you didn’t win $43M—there was a slot machine “malfunction” Enlarge / Katrina Bookman takes a selfie showing she hit the big one. (credit: Alan Ripka ) Imagine, if you would, how absolutely giddy you'd be if you won a $43 million jackpot while playing a casino slot machine. You could burn a lot of bridges with that amount of cash. Then imagine the opposite feeling you'd get when the casino tells you there was a "malfunction" and, hence, you're not getting
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Surface Pro review: Incremental improvement isn’t enough Enlarge / Surface Pro with a Cobalt Blue Type Cover. Every new Surface Pro has been the best Surface Pro yet. The new fifth-generation Surface Pro—unnumbered, Microsoft having dropped numeric suffixes—continues that trend. It is as good as or better than its predecessor, the Surface Pro 4, in every way. And yet, the new machine strikes me as unambitious in a way that older models weren't. The 201
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Face recognition system 'K-Eye' presented by KAISTA research team led by Professor Hoi-Jun Yoo of the Department of Electrical Engineering has developed a semiconductor chip, CNNP (CNN Processor), that runs AI algorithms with ultra-low power, and K-Eye, a face recognition system using CNNP.
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Reproducing a retinal disease on a chipGood news for the treatment of retinal diseases using the organ-on-a-chip approach.
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Distant fish relatives share looksJames Cook University scientists have found evidence that even distantly related Australian fish species have evolved to look and act like each other, which confirms a central tenet of evolutionary theory.
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Blocking gene expression to combat deadly fungal infectionDeadly fungal infections are becoming resistant to common treatments, but a team of researchers from USC and from France have found a potential new solution.
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Quantum dot transistor simulates functions of neuronsResearchers at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) in São Paulo State, Brazil, Würzburg University in Germany, and the University of South Carolina in the United States developed a transistor that can lead to the development of new kinds of device and computer circuit in which memory units are combined with logical processing units, economizing space, time, and power consumption.
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UA surgeon: Physicians, patients must focus on remission of diabetic ulcersPhysicians and patients need to focus on remission of diabetic ulcers — that is, extending the time between their formation, says Dr. David G. Armstrong, professor of surgery and director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Armstrong says extending patients' ulcer-free days using treatment and prevention is essential, according
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This Is the Best Surface Ever Made, But It's Still No Laptop All images: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo True hubris is a person trying to use a Microsoft Surface Pro like a laptop. It takes Mr. Darcy levels of pride to believe you can trust so fully in a kickstand and flimsy keyboard. The Surface Pro is many things, including everything from Microsoft’s attempt to woo creative professionals to a beautifully engineered device that wants to be a fusion of tablet and lap
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Cities fight climate change through ecosystem restorationFlooding and extreme heat are projected to increase over the next few decades and will be extremely costly for cities to manage. But a new study from Simon Fraser University shows how cities working together to restore and maintain ecosystems can be cheaper than building hard infrastructure to respond to climate change, and provides additional benefits such as buoyant property values and community
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Destiny 2 on PC: 4K, GTX 1080 Ti, all the eye-candy Destiny 2 gameplay in 4K, with the voice of Mark Walton. Make sure you click the cog and tell YouTube to give you the 4K stream. Even for a game focused on multiplayer—PvP, co-op, or otherwise—a good single-player campaign is often a great way to introduce the basic mechanics to newbies before throwing them to the online wolves. It's also a great way to set up a story. Technically, Activison's MM
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Aalto-2 no longer responds to commandsAstronauts at the International Space Station released Aalto-2 into orbit on 25 May. The first satellite signal was detected from Japan on the same day, and later that evening the satellite had already made contact with the Otaniemi ground station.
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Star Trek Legacy Lives On In Space Exploration [Video]A film director, a rocket scientist and two physicists discuss how the television series influenced culture and inspired a generation of scientists — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sphero's Adorable Spider-Man Toy Has AI Smarts (That Aren't Creepy) GIF Once known for its quirky remote-controlled robot balls, Sphero parlayed that technology into a massive consumer hit with its Star Wars: The Force Awakens BB-8 toy . As a result, the company has been able to expand beyond the sphere, first with a robotic version of Cars’ Lightning McQueen , and now with an interactive Spider-Man figure that chats with kids. Back in early 2015 Mattel revealed
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Elegant switch controls translation in transition from egg to embryoThe transition from an egg to a developing embryo is one of life's most remarkable transformations. Now Whitehead Institute researchers have used fruit flies to decipher how one aspect — control of the translation of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) into proteins — shifts as the egg becomes an the embryo. This type of switch could tell scientists more about how human cells work and embryos develop.
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Plant compound more powerful than AZT against HIVA plant found throughout Southeast Asia traditionally used to treat arthritis and rheumatism contains a potent anti-HIV compound more powerful than the drug AZT, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Natural Compounds.
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Insight into complicated Arctic cloud processesThe Arctic has changed at a faster rate than the rest of the planet. Clouds impact the surface energy budget and, thus, the melting or growth of land- and ocean-based ice. Many Arctic clouds are "mixed phase," consisting of both ice and liquid particles simultaneously. Correctly predicting the partitioning of mass and transitions between these two phases is vital for understanding cloud impacts on
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Life is Strange: Before the Storm: Life sucks when you’re a teenager, man Check out the full E3 demo of Life is Strange: Before the Storm . Following the surprise success of 2015's Life is Strange —Dontnod's episodic tale of teenage rebellion—we expected publisher Square Enix to return with a sequel. Less expected, though, was the E3 2017 reveal of Life is Strange: Before the Storm , a prequel that tells the story of series star Chloe Price during her formative years.
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Alien megastructures – where we should look next Huge extraterrestrial construction projects should leave detectable traces that astronomers could see You remember the alien megastructure. No? Let me refresh your memory. Back in October 2015, the internet nearly broke when astronomers announced they had detected a strange signal that stood a remote chance of being a vast extraterrestrial construction – dubbed the alien megastructure. It was dis
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New map highlights sinking Louisiana coastResearchers at Tulane University have developed a subsidence map of coastal Louisiana, putting the rate at which this region is sinking at just over one third of an inch per year.
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7 facts about cicadas, which are ‘tiny violins’ Once the cicadas arrive, broadcasting their piercing buzz from invisible locations in the trees, you know summer has, too. Gene Hall, an entomologist at the University of Arizona, talks about the noisy insects and how (and why) they do what they do. 1. Cicadas are like tiny violins The body of a cicada is similar to that of a violin or a guitar, in that much of it consists of empty, air-filled sp
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Robot Chef Learns to Twirl Pizza Like a ProA new bot uses feedback from sensors to stretch and fold dough — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Secret Empire Turned Ultron Into the Most Sensible Person in Marvel's Comics Marvel A number of writer Nick Spencer’s narrative choices (like turning Captain America into a literal fascist and supreme leader of Hydra) have made Marvel’s Secret Empire event difficult to stomach. In this week’s issue of the controversial series, though, a familiar face shows up to put all of Secret Empire’s messiness in perspective—and you know what? It’s pretty damned good. Following Hydra
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Playing the numbers—a billion-dollar gamble on the European X-ray Laser"Big science" is a term originally coined by historians to describe the major scientific advancements made by industrial nations around the period of the Second World War.
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Arctic Climate Change Study Canceled Due to Climate ChangeArctic sea ice is unexpectedly in motion, making the research trip far too dangerous for the ship and the scientists it would be carrying.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' Recap, Episode 10: Dystopia Ain't Good at Happy EndingsThe season finale of Hulu's show promises a story for Offred that Margaret Atwood's book never told.
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Frédérick Leboyer obituaryObstetrician best known for his revolutionary 1974 book, Birth Without Violence “Do you think babies like being born?” So opened Birth Without Violence , a book that in 1974 was to change obstetrics. Its author was a French doctor who, having delivered thousands of babies, had come to a startling realisation – that while the requirements of the mother, the father and medical staff were all catered
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Propagating "charge density wave" fluctuations are seen in superconducting copper oxides for the first timeAn international team led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University has detected new features in the electronic behavior of a copper oxide material that may help explain why it becomes a perfect electrical conductor – a superconductor – at relatively high temperatures.
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High temperatures, not ocean acidification, is threatening the growth of coralThe Achilles' heel of coral growth is high temperatures, not ocean acidification, according to researchers from The University of Western Australia and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. The research will be presented tomorrow in Canberra at the Coral Reef Futures Symposium.
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Leaving school early means you're likely never to return to study and training in adult lifeOne in eight Australians will never get Year 12 qualifications. Some, but not all of these people, make up the one in eight Australians who will be disengaged from full-time work, study or training for most of their lives.
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A closer look at penicillin allergiesWhile many people believe they may be allergic to penicillin, few actually are. The consequences may be serious.
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Ekspertgruppe: Ufaglærte skal dele kursusmilliarder med akademikerneHidtil har de såkaldte VEU-midler været lukket land for højtuddannede, men det skal være slut, lyder det fra en ekspertgruppe, som vil have livslang uddannelse til alle. Forslaget glæder IDA og det rådgivende ingeniørfirma NNE.
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Consequences of gaps of uprooted or broken trees in AmazoniaGaps of uprooted or broken trees in Amazonia have cascading consequences, from local farm productivity to global carbon storage. Severe rain or thunderstorms with descending winds, expected to become more frequent with climate change, cause these gaps. For the first time, researchers show how the gaps vary across seasons and years in central Amazonia (Brazil). They found the trees break or fall mo
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The Millennial Astronaut Who Wants to Go to Mars When Jessica Watkins was growing up, NASA was launching space shuttle missions into low-Earth orbit about every few months. But Watkins, one of NASA’s newest astronauts, doesn’t really remember watching the launches on television. Her first enduring memory of American space exploration came in 2004, when a pair of robotic rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the surface of Mars. “That was a
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Evan McMullin’s War John Cuneo When Evan McMullin arrived at the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C., one afternoon in early April, he sensed right away that he was in enemy territory. After more than a decade in the CIA, he knows how to case a room, and the heightened security outside the building that day suggested to him the presence of someone from Donald Trump’s administration—a White House official, perhaps, or a
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Scientists call for consistent guidelines on social media use in researchScientists at the University of York have called for guidelines, informed by public opinion, to be made available to researchers who are considering using social media as a research tool.
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How to Address the Epidemic of Lies in PoliticsThe "Pro-Truth Pledge," based on behavioral science research, could be part of the answer — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Now the FTC wants a word with Uber Enlarge / An Uber car waiting for a rider in Manhattan. (credit: Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images ) Adding to the embattled ride-hailing company's troubles, Uber is now reportedly under investigation for privacy violations by the Federal Trade Commission. It isn't clear exactly what has the FTC investigators interested in Uber, which was reported earlier today by Recode . The site speculates t
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Two-headed Conjoined Porpoises Hauled Up from the DeepFishermen near the Netherlands recently hauled up a two-headed conjoined porpoise carcass from the deep.
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How does the Great Barrier Reef get its nitrogen fix?When Captain James Cook and the botanist Sir Joseph Banks navigated Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in the 1770s they described blooms of "sea sawdust" we now know to be the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Similarly, in 2014, a UTS led research voyage found the species in abundance, but with the benefit of new molecular biological techniques they were also able to identify other important speci
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Researchers use optogenetics and mathematical modelling to identify a central molecule in cell mechanicsAll cell types continually generate forces in the human body. An interdisciplinary cooperation of biologists and physicists including Heidelberg researcher Prof. Dr Ulrich Schwarz now succeeded in performing high-resolution measurements of cell forces using light to switch them on and off in a controlled manner. The scientists from the universities of Heidelberg and Chicago (USA) used optogenetics
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Lab-created antibody could hold the secret to making stem cell therapy saferStem cells have paved the way for a new era in regenerative medicine, but their use is fraught with risk. Now, A*STAR scientists have developed an antibody that could make stem cell therapy safer.
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Game players face their demons in virtual realityZombies from the television series "The Walking Dead" and other demons are coming to life for video game players in virtual worlds.
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Amazon's Running an Anker Gold Box Deal! I Repeat, Anker Gold Box Deal. Anker Gold Box Anker makes basically all of your favorite charging gear , and a bunch of it is on sale in today’s Amazon Gold Box . If you read Kinja Deals, you know that Anker runs its fair share of sales. But these discounts are uncommonly good , befitting their Gold Box status. For starters, you can pick up a pair of Quick Charge 3.0 chargers: One for your car , and one for the wall . If you d
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Researcher finds Georgia voter records exposed on internetA security researcher disclosed a gaping security hole at the outfit that manages Georgia's election technology, days before the state holds a closely watched congressional runoff vote on June 20.
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What Do Spy Agencies Tell Foreign Governments About Americans? The United States collects vast troves of private information on American citizens and foreigners, much of it through covert surveillance by intelligence agencies. How much of that data should be shared with allied democracies like Canada or France? How about repressive, illiberal allies like Saudi Arabia? Or adversaries like Russia or Venezuela? Answers will vary depending on how respondents adj
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China launches its first X-ray space telescopeChina successfully launched on Thursday its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts, state media reported.
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Kazakh man dies in fire following Russian rocket launch: govt.A Kazakh man died and another was hospitalised after they were caught in a fire on the steppes triggered by falling debris from a Russian space launch, emergency services said on Thursday.
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Insect Walking Dead: How a Fungus Turns Beetles into Killer ZombiesA fungus worthy of its own horror film is on the loose, taking over the bodies of goldenrod soldier beetles and turning them into contagious zombies that can infect their beetle brethren, a new study finds.
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Photos: Zombie Beetles Hang from FlowersJust before a deadly fungus kills the goldenrod soldier beetle, it instructs the beetle to climb a plant and clamp its mandibles around a flower.
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Larger-than-average summer 'dead zone' predicted for Chesapeake Bay in 2017A University of Michigan ecologist and colleagues from several institutions are forecasting a larger-than-average Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" in 2017.
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The Pharmacy of the Future Is Ready For Your Bathroom CounterThe online pharmacy PillPack is ready to change how you deal with your medications.
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The Georgia Runoff Election Doesn't Have a Paper Trail to Safeguard Against HacksWithout a paper trail, Georgia's elections don't have anything to fall back on in the case of outside interference.
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Statsrevisorer: Regioner ødsler millioner væk på konsulenter Der skal strammes op i regionernes konsulentkøb. Statsrevisionen efterlyser en strategi for regionernes brug af konsulenter.
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China probes academic fraud by cancer researchersChina is investigating claims of academic fraud involving mostly Chinese cancer researchers after more than 100 articles were withdrawn from a foreign medical journal.
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The Quest for a Functional New Interface for the SmartphoneFingertips Lab’s iPhone-controlling gadget is a good idea that needs a lot of work.
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Listen between the CriesResearchers try to decipher the hidden messages in babies’ wailing — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Economic benefits of admitting refugees outweigh costsAlthough working-age adult refugees who enter the United States often initially rely on public assistance programs, a study by researchers at the University of Notre Dame indicates that the long-term economic benefit of admitting refugees outweighs the initial costs.
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DeepMind now learns from human preferences – just like a toddlerA new AI system can learn how to perform complex tasks with a little nudge here and there from a human onlooker
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Orion frame workSet to be shipped to the USA around the New Year, ESA's contribution to NASA's Orion spacecraft is taking shape at Airbus in Bremen, Germany. This is no test article: the service module pictured here will fly into space by 2020, past the Moon and farther than any other human-rated spacecraft has ever flown before.
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NASA Hires New Astronauts–but Where Will They Go?The space agency awaits direction from the Trump administration, along with congressional funding to match its ambitions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Desert lizards use body oscillations to dive into sandIn the desert, the sand surface can become extremely hot during the day, up to 70ºC. In order to escape these temperatures, some desert lizards adopt a fascinating strategy: They dive a few centimeters under the sand surface where it's much cooler (around 40º C). This is also a good strategy to hide and to escape from predators. But diving into the sand is a difficult task which requires a large f
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How indigo pigment can be used in electronicsSilicon still represents the most important material for the production of semiconductor elements such as transistors, diodes or solar cells. For a number of years, however, an interesting alternative has been available: certain hydrocarbons that also exhibit semiconductor properties are now the new standard in OLED displays of mobile phones and television sets. Moreover, these "organic" semicondu
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Region og kommuner samarbejder om rehabilitering af kræftpatienterRanders, Norddjurs, Syddjurs og Favrskov kommuner har sammen med Regionshospitalet Randers ændret praksis for at få flere kræftpatienter i rehabilitering.
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Sønderborg-selskab vil bygge havmøllepark i LillebæltSønderborg Forsyning har netop fået tilladelse til at udføre forundersøgelser i et område mellem Als og Helnæs på Fyn, hvor man vil opstille mellem 20 og 44 vindmøller.
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Fra i dag kan du roame frit – men to teleselskaber vil allerede undtagesTo teleselskaber i Danmark vil gerne kræve ekstrabetaling fra deres EU-rejsende kunder, selv om det fra i dag ikke længere er tilladt.
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Transportministeren i den varme stol: Se Ingeniørens interview fra FolkemødetVi har netop afsluttet vores interview med Ole Birk Olesen fra Folkemødet på Bornholm, hvor ministeren blev spurgt til regeringens ambitioner på transportområdet.
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Acoustic emissions from organic martensite analoguesSome organic crystals jump around when heated up. This happens because of an extremely fast change in their crystal structure. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now demonstrated that the crystals send out acoustic signals during this process, which may be useful in analyzing the characteristics of this phenomenon. The researchers demonstrated that this process is analogous to marte
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Researchers develop a reliable forward error correction method for digital dataScientists of Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) have proposed a new channel coding method for the fifth generation of wireless systems (5G).
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Forensic chemist can now predict age of bloodstains up to two yearsIgor Lednev is adding yet another capability to his patented laser technology, a development that could soon help law enforcement catch criminals.
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Changing the color of laser light on the femtosecond time scaleHow can the color of laser light be changed? One popular method to achieve this is the so-called second harmonic generation (SHG) effect, which doubles the frequency of light and hence changes its color. However, observing this nonlinear effect requires a polar crystal in which inversion symmetry is broken. For this reason, identifying crystals that can elicit strong SHG is an important research t
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I Want This 1923 Prediction For the American City of the Future To Be Real Excerpt from a 1923 illustration showing the American city of the future (Science and Invention/Novak Archive) When the world is descending into chaos, it can be hard to believe that optimistic visions of the future are within our reach. But personally, I think I’ve hit that point where escapist fantasy worlds of tomorrow are the only thing that can ease the stresses of our modern world. This 192
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Stærke kræfter bag ny cannabisforening Den nye forening Cannabis Danmark vil støtte forskning og levere information om cannabis til medicinsk brug.
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Trilobites: As Female Elk Age, They Learn to Evade HuntersOlder female elk are able to adjust their behavior and adopt more stealth strategies through life, scientists found.
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Discovery of human blood cell destinies revises knowledge of immune cell developmentImmune cells protect the host from infection by pathogens. They include monocytes, which are large white blood cells that can differentiate into scavenger cells macrophages and dendritic cells in response to inflammatory signals. Monocytes are derived from blood stem cells in the bone marrow via an intermediate cell type, the progenitor cell, which is slightly more differentiated than stem cells.
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Republicans Are a Majority Without a Mandate Step back from the daily headlines of the Trump administration. After almost 6 months under President Trump and the 115th Congress, the United States is in a strange position: Republicans enjoy a decisive partisan advantage, controlling the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives. Yet GOP officials have no mandate to govern. (And neither, of course, do Democrats.) The country is
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What We Talk About When We Talk About ‘Unruly’ Women When Jeremy Bentham created the Panopticon, his prison of constant surveillance, in the late 18th century, he envisioned his design to be a building: circular in shape, layered like an especially unsavory cake, a structure that ensured that, at any moment, inmates could be observed—and could be, as well, observers. Bentham named his design after Panoptes, the Greek giant who had 100 eyes. Related
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The End of Diesel Once upon a time, diesel fuel was going to be the future. It was seen as more efficient, on a mileage-per-gallon basis, than other fossil fuels, and for that reason was also thought to be less polluting. About two decades ago, acting on those beliefs, policy makers in Europe—where high energy prices already made mileage a more-pressing issue than in the U.S.—made a number of rules that incentiviz
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CTA prototype telescope, ASTRI, achieves first lightDuring the nights of 25 and 26 May, the camera of the ASTRI telescope prototype recorded its first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at the astronomical site of Serra La Nave (Mount Etna) in Sicily managed by INAF-Catania. This comes not long after its optical validation was achieved in November 2016. This accomplishment was the first optical demonstration for astronomical telescopes u
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Octopus inspired adhesive patch works under waterA team of researchers at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea has developed a type of adhesive patch that works under a variety of conditions including underwater. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they studied octopus suction cups to design a better patch for human applications.
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Air pollution plan 'unfair' on local authoritiesSolving air pollution is a national not a local issue, says the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health.
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Erfaren læge bliver ny enhedschef i Sundhedsstyrelsen Ledende overlæge Henrik Stig Jørgensen bliver ny enhedschef i Sundhedsstyrelsens enhed for evidens, uddannelse og beredskab (EUB).
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Sundhedsplatformen: Indkøringsbøvl smuldrer milliongevinst væk Omfanget af patientbehandlinger i Region H falder som følge af en omstændelig indførelse af Sundhedsplatformen. Faldet spiser nu af de økonomiske gevinster, som var forventet med det nye it-system. https://www.version2.dk/artikel/sundhedsplatformen-forventet-milliongevinst-smuldrer-vaek-1077542 Version2
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Widespread snowmelt in West Antarctica during unusually warm summerAn area of West Antarctica more than twice the size of California partially melted in 2016 when warm winds forced by an especially strong El Nino blew over the continent.
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Scientists report large-scale surface melting event in Antarctica during 2015-16 El NiñoThe West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a landbound mass of ice larger than Mexico, experienced substantial surface melt through the austral summer of 2015-2016 during one of the largest El Niño events of the past 50 years, according to scientists who had been conducting the first comprehensive atmospheric measurements in the region since the 1960s.
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Water management interventions push scarcity downstreamHuman interventions to harness water resources, such as reservoirs, dams, and irrigation measures, have increased water availability for much of the global population, but at the same time, swept water scarcity problems downstream.
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Overgangsalderen giver kvinder større risiko for slidgigtHormonbehandling kan være løsningen, når kvinder får slidgigt og lændesmerter i overgangsalderen.
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Hjemmeside skal hjælpe kræftpatienter til at mestre livetHospitaler i Region Midt udvikler med hjælp fra patienter og pårørende et nyt redskab til kræftpatienter.
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Plast i kosmetik kan erstattes af mikroperler af celluloseBionedbrydelige mikrokugler produceret af restprodukter fra f.eks. papirindustrien kan være et alternativ til at undgå plastforurening fra sæbeprodukter.
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In 1967, researchers saw the light in jaundice treatmentResearchers discovered how to use light to treat babies with jaundice 50 years ago. But questions remain about the technique’s effectiveness in some cases.
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The GOP's Risky Calculation for 2018 Scandals have typically operated as a cloud over a president’s agenda. But the Russia-related legal challenges swirling around President Trump are functioning more like a cloak for his joint agenda with congressional Republicans. That difference captures the GOP’s decision to govern in a manner aimed almost entirely at stoking their hard-core base—a critical calculation that could determine their
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Quit Social Media Every Other Day Okay, not quit . Go without. I’d say cleanse if the word hadn’t been corrupted by the less wholesome sides of the weight-loss and wellness industries. There are expensive multi-day digital detox programs that a person can go through, but I’m not sure they’re necessary, or likely to lead long-term results. I care about results. One of the few evidence-based, trendy approaches to losing weight righ
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Danmarks mest magtfulde læger: Rudkøbing ånder nu Brostrøm i nakken Lægeforeningens formand Andreas Rudkjøbing har nu mere magt end Region Hovedstadens koncerndirektør Svend Hartling, vurderer Dagens Medicins magtpanel og ligger lige under Sundhedsstyrelsens direktør Søren Brostrøm.
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Hollandsk flyekspert: Batterierne er stadig for tunge til rene elflySERIE: El er på vej ind i flyindustrien. Men før det virkelig rykker, skal batterikapaciteten tredobles. De første hybridfly til kommerciel luftfart vil sandsynligvis komme i luften i 2035.
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Gender, race & class: Language change in post-apartheid South AfricaA new study of language and social change in post-apartheid South Africa demonstrates that gender is a more powerful determinant than class among black university students. The study "Class, gender, and substrate erasure in sociolinguistic change: A sociophonetic study of schwa in deracializing South African English", by Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town) will be published in the June, 2017
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New chemical method could revolutionize grapheneUniversity of Illinois at Chicago scientists have discovered a new chemical method that enables graphene to be incorporated into a wide range of applications while maintaining its ultra-fast electronics.
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Siemens vil kopiere Apple med IoT-cloudMed cloud-løsningen Mind­sphere tager Siemens endnu et skridt mod at blive leverandør af digitale tjenester. Virksomheden er ligesom resten af industrien midt i en gevaldig ­migrationsfase, lyder det fra den danske salgsdirektør.
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A mechanical trigger for toxic tumor therapyCells in nearly any part of the body can become cancerous and transform into tumors. Some, like skin cancer, are relatively accessible to treatment via surgery or radiation, which minimizes damage to healthy cells; others, like pancreatic cancer, are deep in the body and can only be reached by flooding the bloodstream with cell-killing chemotherapies that, ideally, shrink tumors by accumulating in
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Researchers call for better quality and consistency of electronic health record studiesWe need improved quality of recording asthma diagnosis and events if the UK is to effectively use the very considerable potential locked within electronic health records to promote improvements in asthma care and catalyze research.
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Airlander 10: World's longest aircraft hits highest altitudeThe world's longest aircraft reached its highest altitude on its fourth test flight.
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Danske patienter afprøver ny vaccine mod knoglemarvskræftHerlev Hospital har indrulleret de første 10 patienter, der skal afprøve en vaccine mod knoglemarvskræft.
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Sex-specific cardiovascular drug dosages needed to reduce adverse reactions in womenSex-specific cardiovascular drug dosages are needed to reduce adverse reactions in women, according to a position paper from the European Society of Cardiology published today in the June issue of European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy.
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Obese women more likely to have babies with serious birth defects, says study Increased risk of health problems including heart defects, digestive anomalies and malformations of genitals or limbs revealed by major study Women who are obese when they conceive are more likely to have a baby with serious birth defects, a major study has found. The research revealed a sliding scale of risk for health problems including congenital heart defects, anomalies of the digestive syste
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The Xbox Has Brand New Avatars GIF Remember Microsoft’s Avatars, those wobbly caricatures that danced around the Xbox 360's dashboard? They’ve been sidelined ever since the release of the Xbox One, but that doesn’t mean the company has given up on them. They’re being overhauled in the Fall, given not just a new look, but loads of new features as well, from the ability to ride vehicles to colour wheels that let you customise yo
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A mechanical trigger for toxic tumor therapyCell-killing chemotherapies are designed to shrink cancerous tumors by accumulating in their ill-formed blood and lymph vessels, delivering a toxic dose to the cancer cells. A team of researchers at the Wyss Institute has developed a new drug delivery platform that uses safe, low-energy ultrasound waves to trigger aggregates of chemotherapy-containing nanoparticles to break apart precisely at tumo
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Transgender actors effective in teaching new doctors to provide respectful careBy acting out scenarios commonly seen in the clinic, real-life transgender actors can help residents learn to provide more sensitive care to people with a different gender identity than the one they were assigned at birth. This is the main finding of a study published online June 15 in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education.
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Tumor PD-L2 expression may predict patient response to anti-PD-1 immunotherapyPD-L2 protein expression in human tumors was associated with clinical response to pembrolizumab (Keytruda), an anti-PD-1 immunotherapy, independent of PD-L1 expression, in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
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Review: No definitive standard for identifying and treating veterans at risk for suicideA systematic review of basic and clinical science research has revealed no definitive standard for detecting military veterans at risk of suicidal behavior, nor is there a clear standard of treatment to prevent suicide among US veterans. The review comes at a time of increasing public attention to the high rate of suicide among veterans — roughly 20 a day, according to the VA.
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Gender, race & class: Language change in post-apartheid South AfricaA new study of language and social change in post-apartheid South Africa demonstrates that gender is a more powerful determinant than class among black university students. The study 'Class, gender, and substrate erasure in sociolinguistic change: A sociophonetic study of schwa in deracializing South African English', by Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town) will be published in the June, 2017
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Blood cell discovery identifies patients with aggressive prostate cancerPatients who have aggressive prostate cancer could be identified by a highly accurate and simple blood test, according to an early study by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
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Gender dictates camouflage strategy in this newly identified praying mantis groupAdult females and males in a new genus of Latin American praying mantises have sharply different approaches to camouflage. Males retain the stick-like appearance they employ as nymphs, while females morph into a leaf's shape and color.
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Music sessions can help millions who struggle to speak to lead a richer lifeMusic could be used to transform the lives of millions of people with learning difficulties, dementia, strokes, brain damage and autism and their families, according to a research project from the University of Plymouth and Plymouth Music Zone.
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Temperature changes make it easier for malaria to climb the Ethiopian highlandsThe highlands of Ethiopia are home to the majority of the country's population, the cooler climate serving as a natural buffer against malaria transmission. New data now show that increasing temperatures over the past 35 years are eroding this buffer, allowing conditions more favorable for malaria to begin climbing into highland areas.
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A Deadly Car Bombing in Somalia At least 17 people have been killed and 20 held hostage Wednesday in an attack claimed by Islamist militant group al-Shabaab on a popular restaurant in Mogadishu. The attack began Wednesday evening local time after a car bomb was detonated outside Pizza House, a popular restaurant in the Somali capital. At least nine people were killed and several others wounded in the explosion. The Associated P
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Demi Moore's Missing Teeth: Can Stress Really Make Teeth Fall Out?Actress Demi Moore's smile looked a little different recently — she lost her two front teeth, a problem she says was the result of stress.
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Facial recognition changes a wasp’s brainA new study maps genes at play in a paper wasp’s brain during facial recognition.
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Key to muscle regeneration discoveredThe nuclear receptor REV-ERB plays a key role in muscle regeneration, suggesting the receptor may be a good target for new drugs to treat a variety of muscle disorders and injuries.
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Marijuana use among college students on rise following Oregon legalization, study findsCollege students attending an Oregon university are using more marijuana now that the drug is legal for recreational use, but the increase is largely among students who also report recent heavy use of alcohol, a new study has found.
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Indoor tanning still accessible to young people — despite bansDespite legislation prohibiting the use of ultraviolet (UV) indoor tanning facilities by minors, one in every five tanning salons in US states where such bans are in place stated over the phone that they would allow an underaged caller to do so. Many others provide inaccurate health information about indoor tanning.
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Michigan health director, 4 others charged with manslaughter over Flint water Enlarge / Posters above water fountains warn against drinking the water at Flint Northwestern High School in Flint, Michigan. (credit: Getty | JIM WATSON ) Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette charged five public officials with involuntary manslaughter on Wednesday in connection to the ongoing Flint water crisis. Those charged include the state’s director of Health and Human Services, Nick Lyo
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Flycatchers Song Preference Linked to GenesThe birds learn the songs of their conspecifics even when raised by another species.
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118-Year-Old Painting Found in Antarctica Was Hidden By Penguin Shit Image: Antarctic Heritage Fund Fantastic news: the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has recovered a 118-year-old watercolor painting from famed polar explorer, Dr. Edward Wilson. The painting was almost perfectly preserved, but hidden among dust, mold, and penguin shit. Apparently, penguins can’t be bothered with fine art. Antarctic Heritage Trust paper conservator Josefin Bergmark-Jimenez fo
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Brazilian carnivorous mammal-like reptile fossil may be new Aleodon speciesSome Late Triassic Brazilian fossils of mammal-like reptiles, previously identified as Chiniquodon, may in fact be the first Aleodon specimens found outside Africa.
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Protein network signals found to drive myeloid leukemiasResearchers have uncovered how mutations in a protein network drive several high-risk leukemias, offering new prospects for novel therapies. An existing drug might be repurposed to treat these leukemias, and the new understanding of the molecular mechanisms at work may offer clues to other drugs yet to be developed.
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New chemical method could revolutionize grapheneUniversity of Illinois at Chicago scientists have discovered a new chemical method that enables graphene to be incorporated into a wide range of applications while maintaining its ultra-fast electronics.
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Amazonia's future will be jeopardized by damsThe hundreds of hydroelectric dams proposed for the Amazon River Basin will cause massive environmental damage all the way from the eastern slopes of the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. About one-third of the 428 dams are built or are under construction. The environmental effects will ramify throughout the river system and beyond. The largest river system on Earth, the Amazon River and its watershed
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Robots roll out to help stop oil spillsIt's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. And when it comes to the expensive, claustrophobic and sometimes dangerous work of inspecting natural gas and oil pipelines, that somebody might be a robot.
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More amyloid in the brain, more cognitive declineA new study from the Center for Vital Longevity at The University of Texas at Dallas has found that the amount of amyloid plaques in a person's brain predicts the rate at which his or her cognition will decline in the next four years.
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US blames North Korea for series of cyberattacksU.S. officials are blaming the North Korean government for a series of cyberattacks dating to 2009 against media, aerospace, financial sectors and infrastructure in the United States and around the world.
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For headache, telemedicine may be as effective as in-person visitFor people with headache, seeing the neurologist by video for treatment may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a study published in the June 14, 2017, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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Mom with Rare Blood Disorder Adopts 3 Kids with Same ConditionA Massachusetts mom recently spoke to People magazine about the rare genetic disease that she shares with the three daughters who she adopted from China.
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How Rich Neighbors May Have Factored Into London's Deadly Tower Fire [UPDATED] Photo: Getty Experts and politicians are pointing fingers in an effort to explain what caused the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed at least 12 and injured dozens more on Wednesday morning. Quite unfortunately, all fingers appear to be pointing in the same direction, at a new aluminum rainscreen cladding installed, in part, to make the building more attractive to wealthy neigh
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Amazon's Most Popular Miter Saw Is Under $100 Today (Kinja Deals Assumes No Liability) Hitachi 15-Amp 10" Miter Saw , $99 I freely admit that not everybody needs a miter saw. In fact, most people probably shouldn’t own one. But if you’re in the market, Amazon’s top seller is marked down to $99 today , within a few bucks of an all-time low. In addition to the #1 seller designation, the Hitachi C10FCE2 also carries a 4.5 star review average from nearly 1,500 customers, so there’s no
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New tool helps pick puppies most suited to guide dog trainingAnimal behaviour experts at the University of Nottingham have developed a new tool which can be used to predict a young dog's likelihood of successfully completing guide dog training.
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Broccoli Compound Could Help Treat Type 2 DiabetesA compound found in broccoli could hold the key to slowing type 2 diabetes, researchers say.
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The Grenfell Tower Fire and London's Public-Housing Crisis A terrifying scene unfolded in London early Wednesday morning when a 24-floor public housing tower went up in flames. Home to around 600 people, West London’s Grenfell Tower was the site of a fire that spread quickly to other floors, causing at least six fatalities so far, with that number expected to rise. Twenty-four residents are also in critical condition, injured while struggling to protect
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Organ Chips get smart and go electricNew solutions to chip design have been introduced by fitting Organ Chips with embedded electrodes that enable accurate and continuous monitoring of trans-epithelial electrical resistance (TEER), a broadly used measure of tissue health and differentiation, and real-time assessment of electrical activity of living cells, as demonstrated in a Heart Chip model.
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Study looks at needles in treatment for shoulder painAccording to a new study, the type of procedure used to treat shoulder calcifications should be tailored to the type of calcification. The results of the study will help interventional radiologists determine whether to use one or two needles for an ultrasound-guided treatment for a common condition called rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy.
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Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 yearsUsing advanced imaging technology, Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered a hitherto invisible inscription on the back of a pottery shard that has been on display at The Israel Museum for more than 50 years.
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Molecular pilot light prepares body's heating system for the coldResearchers detail a molecule that acts as a molecular pilot light required to turn on the brown fat furnace. Brown fat burns sugar and fat to produce radiant heat in the body. These cells are of interest because some of the sugar and fat they burn is stored in the body and might otherwise lead to increases in white fat, the form that increases in obesity.
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Hydroelectric dams may jeopardize the Amazon's futureHundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico, experts report.
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State medical licensing boards' practices may hurt physician mental healthState medical boards ask physicians much more extensive and intrusive questions about mental health conditions than for physical health conditions, suggests new research. Despite national concern about physician suicide and well-being, research shows that even if physicians struggle with depression, they are reluctant to disclose and seek treatment because it could have serious consequences when t
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Long-Lost 'Faceless' Fish Shows Up Near AustraliaThe "faceless" fish had not been seen near Australia for more than a century.
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A judge is ordering drunken drivers to install Uber, Lyft Enlarge (credit: SPUR ) A local judge in Ohio is taking a novel approach when it comes to drunken drivers. Municipal Court Judge Michael Cicconetti of Painesville has been requiring motorists convicted of operating a vehicle under the influence (OVI) to download the ride-hailing apps Uber and Lyft, and they must set up the apps with their credit cards. "It’s just common sense. Now that we have th
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Why Conservative Parties Are Central to Democracy Survey the conservative parties of the Western world these days, and you’ll come away confused. Are they on the rise or under siege? In the United States, a Republican Party that only months ago was imploding now controls the federal government. In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party holds power, but just barely, after a poor showing at the polls. In France, the Republican Party is outperf
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Reinforcing the Boundaries of Political Decency The Washington Post is now reporting that the Alexandria shooter likely had a political motivation: It has identified him as James T. Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter. A Facebook page belonging to an individual by that name includes posts praising Sanders, and condemning President Donald Trump: “Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.” Represe
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Yoga Teachers, Mentors, Business Partners Early yoga masters relied on parampara , an oral tradition meant to pass teachings from teachers to students, to ensure that their practices endured. Today, there are tens of thousands of yoga teachers in North America, and many of them consider themselves to be mentors of a sort, providing physical, mental, and spiritual guidance for their students. For The Atlantic ’s series on mentorship, “ On
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Dressmakers found to have needle-sharp 3-D visionHaute couture can be credited for enhancing more than catwalks and red carpets. New research from the University of California, Berkeley suggests that the 3D or 'stereoscopic' vision of dressmakers is as sharp as their needles.
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Dual-agent PET/MR with time of flight detects more cancerSimultaneous injections of the radiopharmaceuticals fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) and 18F-sodium fluoride (18F-NaF) followed by quantitative scanning significantly improves image quality and detection of bone metastases at a lower dose, according to research presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
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Molecular pilot light prepares body's heating system for the coldResearchers detail a molecule that acts as a molecular pilot light required to turn on the brown fat furnace. Brown fat burns sugar and fat to produce radiant heat in the body. These cells are of interest because some of the sugar and fat they burn is stored in the body and might otherwise lead to increases in white fat, the form that increases in obesity.
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UTI treatment reduces E. coli, may offer alternative to antibioticsUrinary tract infections (UTIs) tend to come back, even when treated. Most UTIs are caused by E. coli that live in the gut and spread to the urinary tract. A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found that a molecular decoy can reduce the numbers of UTI-causing bacteria in the gut. With the pool of disease-causing bacteria smaller, the researchers say, the risk
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Scientists reveal a key link between brain circuits governing hunger and cravingsBy developing a new approach to imaging and manipulating particular groups of neurons in the mouse brain, scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) have identified a pathway by which neurons that drive hunger influence distant neurons involved in the decision of whether or not to react to food-related cues. Their findings could open the door to targeted therapies that dampen food
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Bioengineered human livers mimic natural developmentAn international team of researchers bioengineering human liver tissues uncovered previously unknown networks of genetic-molecular crosstalk that control the organ's developmental processes — greatly advancing efforts to generate healthy and usable human liver tissue from human pluripotent stem cells. The scientists report online in Nature on June 14 that their bioengineered human liver tissues s
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Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle in new Stanford studyStanford scientists have developed a way to wirelessly deliver electricity to moving objects, technology that could one day charge electric vehicles and personal devices like medical implants and cell phones. See video: https://youtu.be/7nkOgiTxfEs.
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Eyes in the sky reveal extent of gray seal recoveryUsing research drones, thermal cameras and free images from Google Earth, two Duke University-led studies confirm that gray seals are making a comeback off the New England and eastern Canadian coasts. The findings help confirm that seal conservation efforts are working, and that these remote eye-in-the sky technologies make it easier and safer for scientists to study migratory wildlife in remote l
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In Photos: 'Faceless' Fish Rediscovered After More Than a CenturyThe "faceless" fish had not been seen near Australia for more than a century.
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Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdleIf electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles.
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London Tower Disaster: How Did the Fire Spread So Quickly?Massive damage and suffering was caused when a London apartment building became an inferno; it apparently was lacking in modern fire safety features.
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The U.S. Will Expand The Laptop Ban To 71 More International Airports If They Don’t Beef Up Security Photo credit: John Moore/ Getty Images Maybe, just maybe, the U.S. government found its compassionate side and decided to think about our on-flight sanity before enforcing a sweeping laptop ban on incoming flights from other countries. According to reports, the U.S. could back off if international airports beef up security screening. Talks of electronics bans on incoming flights into the U.S. hav
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When a Suspected Shooter’s Facebook Page Becomes a Circus In America, terrible acts of violence are often met with handmade signs, bunches of flowers, and teddy bears. Makeshift memorials to shooting victims are flooded with these sorts of objects, and they spring up reliably wherever a horrifying event has occurred. After the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, town officials had to rent a warehouse to house all of the gifts an
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Protein network signals found to drive myeloid leukemiasResearchers have uncovered how mutations in a protein network drive several high-risk leukemias, offering new prospects for novel therapies. An existing drug might be repurposed to treat these leukemias, and the new understanding of the molecular mechanisms at work may offer clues to other drugs yet to be developed.
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Images of the Eyeborg, the Man with the Camera EyeRob Spence lost his eye in a shooting accident as a child. Now he has replaced the older version with a camera-fitted prosthetic eye.
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Ancient bird like 'a kangaroo-sized flying turkey'New details on an early megapode bird that lived alongside Australia's extinct giant marsupials.
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Boston Medical Center, Head Start partner to prevent maternal depressionBoston Medical Center, in partnership with Action for Boston Community Development's Head Start program, has helped mothers experience a 40 percent reduction in the emergence of clinically significant depressive symptom episodes.
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Bay Area: Join us 6/21 to discuss the US government’s scientific data purge Enlarge / UC Santa Cruz professor Lindsey Dillon will join us at Ars Live. After taking office in January, the Trump administration began systematically removing scientific and environmental data from government websites. Sociology professor Lindsey Dillon is helping to run a data-rescue project called the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), whose aim is to preserve this data and
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Sony continues to lock PS4 players out of cross-console play Enlarge / They need to add a tiny "not on PlayStation 4" disclaimer in tiny blocks… This E3 has been a good one for many who are fans of playing online games with friends and strangers across different console and PC platforms. Psyonix announced that a newly announced Switch version of Rocket League would be able to interact with existing versions on the Xbox One and PC. And Microsoft announced
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Earning a living in a changing climate: The plant perspectiveSome of the world's plants are using 'last-stand' strategies to survive rather than thrive as global climate change gathers apace. Ecologists assessed plant strategies in less suitable climates by tapping into big data collated from 16 different countries in 3 different continents over the past 50 years.
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Giant Flying Turkeys Once Roamed Australia Because of Course They Did Image: Flinders University; By Elen Shute, from photos by Kim Benson, Tony Rodd and Aaron Camens Bird enthusiasts will be disappointed to know they were born millions of years too late. Paleontologists from Flinders University in Australia have discovered five extinct megapode birds —among them, a giant brush-turkey called Progura gallinacea . The big bird was roughly the size of a kangaroo and w
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The WiFi endoscopic camera lets you fix life's tiniest problems and spy on wildlife Sponsored Post This tiny waterproof camera helps you see clogged drains and fiddly electronics. The WiFi endoscopic camera lets you fix life's tiniest problems and spy on wildlife. Read on.
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Meet the 'Eyeborg': The Man with a Camera EyeRob Spence, a documentary filmmaker in Canada, has a prosthetic eye fitted with a camera, and calls himself the Eyeborg.
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The glue that keeps cells togetherStudies shed new light on cell-cell contacts: Physical effects play an important role in their generation and stability.
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Food or fraud?Is the food on the shelf really that what is written on the label? Its DNA would give it away, but the DNA barcoding technology, which can be used for this purpose, is labor-intensive. Now scientists have introduced a simplified assay coined NanoTracer. Combining DNA barcoding with nanotechnology, it requires neither expensive tools nor extremely skilled personnel, but just the naked eye to identi
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Why we get diarrheaIn a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital, investigators explore the immune mechanism that drives diarrhea, concluding that it plays a critical role in pathogen clearance in the early stages of infection
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Anti-malaria drugs: Potential new target identifiedA newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant malaria parasites. The protein regulates a number of genes involved with a critical part of the parasite's complex life cycle — its invasion of a person's red blood cells. Now that the researchers know the protein's role in this invasion process, they have a completely new angle for developing new antimalarial dr
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Eating potatoes won't actually kill you Health The latest “news” on fries is total garbage. The next time you eat some delicious, oil-crisped taters and someone blurts out that “hey you know fries double your risk of mortality” because they read a clicky…
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The Uber Pattern Continues With a Sexist Comment at a Board Meeting It didn’t take long for Uber to jeopardize whatever goodwill the company had earned by announcing a series of new initiatives aimed at increasing the hiring and retention of women and minorities. On Tuesday afternoon, the company published a series of initiatives it would be implementing to make the company’s culture more welcoming. By early Tuesday evening, audio had leaked of a board member, Da
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The Qatar Crisis Is Pushing Hamas Back to Iran BEIRUT — Three years after the last war in Gaza, the leaders of Israel and Palestine seem to be lurching toward another round of fighting—although not for the reasons you may think. On Sunday, the Israeli security cabinet agreed , at the request of the Palestinian president, to reduce the amount of electricity it supplies to the blockaded territory by 40 percent. The officials came to the decisio
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Science Calls Out Jeff Sessions on Medical MarijuanaRolling back protections from federal interference in state legalization laws could worsen the opioid overdose crisis.
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5 Tips to Cope with Chronic PainSavvy Psychologist Ellen Hendriksen offers five tips to deal with the common challenge of chronic pain — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Phone metadata reveals where city migrants go and who they callAn analysis of a month’s worth of telecoms metadata from Shanghai has given insights into how people adjust when they first arrive in a new city
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Dawn of humanity: Neanderthal-Homo sapiens transitionArchaeologists have provided a window into one of the most exciting periods in human history — the transition between Neanderthals and modern humans.
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Wildfires pollute much more than previously thoughtWildfires are major polluters. Their plumes are three times as dense with aerosol-forming fine particles as previously believed. For the first time, researchers have flown an orchestra of modern instruments through brutishly turbulent wildfire plumes to measure their emissions in real time. They have also exposed other never before measured toxins.
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Diabetes drug trial needs to widen participants to understand full impact of drugsMore work needs to be done to examine the real world effects of the commonly prescribed diabetes drug empagliflozin, new research finds.
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People who are 'phone snubbed' by others often turn to their own phones, social media for acceptance, study findsPeople who are phone snubbed – or “phubbed” – by others are, themselves, often turning to their smartphones and social media to find acceptance, according to new research.
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Seal oil could help people with type 1 diabetes, research suggestsSeal oil has the potential to help promote nerve regeneration in patients with Type 1 diabetes, new research indicates.
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A Politician's Name & Face: Why a Good Match May Win VotesWe associate people's first names with certain stereotypes, a new study suggests.
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Some Hotel Bed Bug Sightings May Be BogusOnly a third of travelers could correctly identify a bed bug—suggesting that some bug sightings in online reviews could be cases of mistaken identity. Christopher Intagliata reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Who Is James T. Hodgkinson? Updated at 4:01 p.m. ET The FBI identified the gunman who opened fire this morning during a congressional congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, as James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Illinois. The bureau said Hodgkinson was taken to the hospital, where he died. A Facebook page belonging to a person with that name from the Belleville area contains several posts critical of P
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We Live in a Cosmic Void, Another Study ConfirmsEarth and its parent galaxy, the Milky Way, exist in a cosmic desert — a region of space largely lacking other galaxies, stars and planets.
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MIT researchers refine yardstick for measuring schoolsA new study by an MIT-based team of economists has developed a novel way of evaluating and improving VAMs. By taking data from Boston schools with admissions lotteries, the scholars have used the random assignment of students to schools to see how similar groups of students fare in different classroom settings.
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Today's Best Deals: Dad Gifts, Audioengine Speakers, Star Wars, and More A $118 Android phone , gifts for Dad , and uber-popular dumbbells lead off Wednesday’s best deals from around the web. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Top Tech Deals Nextbit Robin , $118 The Nextbit Robin is an Android phone that aims to assuage your storage fears . If its 32GB of flash memory fill up, it’ll start uploading your apps and photos to a 100GB cloud
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How to stay safe on public Wi-Fi DIY 5 tips for roaming without fear. Wi-fi hotspots let you work, play, and keep in touch on the go—but they can also be vulnerable to security threats. Here's how to protect yourself.
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Navy chief: It may be time to bring back retired warships Enlarge / The Oliver Hazard Perry-class fast frigate USS Ford (FFG 54) departs Pearl Harbor in this 2010 photo. The Navy is looking at bringing back a handful of the decommissioned ships. (credit: US Navy) In a speech before the Naval War College yesterday, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson said that the Navy is looking at "every trick" to grow the fleet more quickly toward the Na
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Promising peas' potential in big sky countryChanging over from all wheat to wheat-pea rotations can be uncertain. To help, researchers have been studying how pea genetics interact with the environment to affect crop yields, pea protein and starch content for market demands.
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State medical licensing boards' practices may hurt physician mental healthA new study found state medical boards ask physicians much more extensive and intrusive questions about mental health conditions than for physical health conditions. Despite national concern about physician suicide and well-being, research shows that even if physicians struggle with depression, they are reluctant to disclose and seek treatment because it could have serious consequences when they a
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Prostate PET/CT targets more cancer and improves patient careA new study that includes data from four Australian medical centers shows that Ga-68 Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) PET/CT detects prostate cancer not caught by more conventional imaging, thus affecting treatment plans. The research was presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
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Feeling lonely can make us self-centered, and vice-versa Feeling lonely can make us self-centered, research shows, and the reverse is also true, though to a less extent. “If you get more self-centered, you run the risk of staying locked in to feeling socially isolated…” The findings suggest a positive feedback loop between the two traits: As increased loneliness heightens self-centeredness, the latter then contributes further to enhanced loneliness. “I
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Energy-efficient cleaning robotState-of-the-art solar cells are efficient — but are even more so when they are kept clean. A cleaning robot enables solar panels to deliver at full capacity.
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Small scale, big improvementsChemical reactions that make improvements in water purification and batteries possible occur at scales too small to see. A team of researchers has developed a way to produce real-time observations documenting the reactions that happen between liquids and solids. The technique can be used to gauge effectiveness of water purification where ion exchange is critical to sanitization and tease out limit
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An hour per week at the gym lowers the risk of metabolic syndromeLess than one hour of resistance exercise training per week lowers the risk of developing metabolic syndrome (cardiovascular risk factors such as overweight, high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar), research concludes. The beneficial effects of resistance exercise were independent from the amount of aerobic exercise, such as running or cycling.
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On The Handmaid's Tale Finale, the Fall of Gilead Begins With a Dropped Stone All Photos Courtesy Hulu The first season of The Handmaid’s Tale has come to a close, and I feel like the latest episode (and what it promises for the future) can be summed up by none other than T.S. Eliot: “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” “Night” opens on a flashback to when June (Elisabeth Moss) was first brought to the Red Center and tagged, before she became Of
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Chaotically magnetized cloud is no place to build a star, or is it?For decades, scientists thought that the magnetic field lines coursing around newly forming stars were both powerful and unyielding, working like jail bars to corral star-forming material. More recently, astronomers have found tantalizing evidence that large-scale turbulence far from a nascent star can drag magnetic fields around at will.
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Speed limit study set to reveal if twenty is plenty on city streetsThe impact of 20mph speed limits is to be evaluated in a major study in two British cities.
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Fake News Is Unbelievably Cheap to ProduceFor $55,000 you could discredit a journalist; for $200,000 you might instigate a street protest.
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Man's 29 Lbs. of Poop Removed: What Is Hirschsprung's Disease?When doctors in China removed 30 inches of a young man's colon, they also removed nearly 29 lbs. (13 kilograms) of his feces.
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Michigan health director charged with involuntary manslaughter due to Flint water woes Health Courts allege he concealed info on a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak. Courts allege that Nick Lyon, Michigan health director, concealed information about Legionnaires' outbreak that lead to the death of 12 people.
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Stabler af nano-ark skal gøre processorer 40 pct hurtigereIBM har udviklet en ny metode til at producere computerchips. Ved at stable nanoark mener selskabet at kunne fremstille ombejlede 5-nanometer-chips der kan spare energi og arbejde væsentligt hurtigere end eksisterende chips.
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The ‘time machine’ reconstructing ancient Venice’s social networks Machine-learning project will analyse 1,000 years of maps and manuscripts from the floating city's golden age. Nature 546 341 doi: 10.1038/546341a
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This Artificially Intelligent Robot Composes and Performs Its Own Music GIF Shimon—a four-armed marimba playing robot—has been around for years, but its developers at Georgia Tech have recently taken this futuristic musical machine to the next level. Using deep learning, the robot can now study large datasets from well-known musicians, and then produce and perform its own original compositions. Shimon was originally developed by Gil Weinberg, director of Georgia Tech
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Meet the 89-Year-Old Reinventing the Train in His BackyardMax Schlienger wants to use vacuum power to get people where they're going—and it has nothing to do with the hyperloop.
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Chaotically magnetized cloud is no place to build a star, or is it?Astronomers using ALMA have discovered a surprisingly weak and wildly disorganized magnetic field very near a newly emerging protostar. These observations suggest that the impact of magnetic fields on star formation is more complex than previously thought.
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Universal stabilizationETH researchers led by Lucio Isa have developed microparticles with a rough, raspberry-like surface that stabilise emulsions following a new principle.
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Clinical trial examines maternal depression strategy at head startMaternal depression disproportionately affects low-income and minority women. So is a problem-solving intervention at Head Start efficacious at preventing depressive symptom episodes among at-risk, low-income mothers?
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Quality of psychiatric treatment — not number of beds — should be focus of suicide preventionHealth care providers should focus on the overall quality of psychiatric care, depression screening and outpatient services to prevent suicide, not the number of available inpatient psychiatric beds, argue researchers from the University of Chicago and Columbia University in a new statistical analysis.
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Gender dictates camouflage strategy in this newly identified praying mantis groupAdult females and males in a newly identified genus of Latin American praying mantises have evolved sharply different camouflage strategies, according to a Cleveland Museum of Natural History-led study published in the journal ZooKeys.
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Printed sensors monitor tire wear in real timeElectrical engineers at Duke University have invented an inexpensive printed sensor that can monitor the tread of car tires in real time, warning drivers when the rubber meeting the road has grown dangerously thin.
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Five Involuntary Manslaughter Charges in the Flint Water Crisis Updated on June 14 at 11:35 a.m. ET On Wednesday morning, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon became both the highest-ranking person charged in the ongoing Flint water-crisis investigation. He and four other Michigan officials received the first involuntary manslaughter charges in the investigation as well. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s office charged L

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Gut bacteria might one day help slow down aging processSlowing down the aging process might be possible one day with supplements derived from gut bacteria. Scientists at Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have identified bacterial genes and compounds that extend the life of and also slow down the progression of tumors and the accumulation of amyloid-beta, a compound associated with Alzheimer's disea
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FCC makes net neutrality commenters’ e-mail addresses public through API Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Kheng ho Toh) If you’re one of the many people filing comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to gut net neutrality rules , be aware that your e-mail address and any other information you submit could be made public. There’s nothing nefarious going on, but the FCC’s privacy policy could lead people to believe that e-mail addresses will be kept secret
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Reckless behavior fuels ongoing stress for some with PTSDFor those with posttraumatic stress disorder, risky and harmful behaviors could lead to more trauma and, in turn, worse PSTD symptoms over time, research concludes.
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Memo to Trump: This Is Why You're Losing It would be hard to fashion a more exquisite snare for a man like Donald Trump than the modern, institutional presidency. Just five months into his term, he appears trapped by its constraints—and the harder he tries to escape them, the more thoroughly entangled he becomes. On Thursday morning, President Trump again lashed out at the “bad and conflicted people” investigating him for obstructing ju
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The Book of Henry Is a Warped Nightmare of a Movie The exact moment The Book of Henry lost me was when Naomi Watts reached for the ukulele. About 20 minutes into Colin Trevorrow’s new film, as Watts’s single mom character Susan tucks her kids Henry (Jaeden Lieberher) and Peter (Jacob Tremblay) into bed, she performs a cheerful goodnight song that pushes things into twee overdrive. The first half of The Book of Henry is a strange, saccharine famil
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Video imaging of single molecule DNA replicationAlmost all life on Earth is based on DNA being copied, or replicated. Now for the first time scientists have been able to watch the replication of a single DNA molecule, with some surprising findings. For one thing, there's a lot more randomness at work than has been thought.
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Dynamic DNA helps ward off gene damage, study revealsResearchers have identified properties in DNA's protective structure that could transform the way scientists think about the human genome.
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Judge orders environmental review of Dakota oil pipelineA federal judge ordered an environmental review of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline on Wednesday in a dramatic twist that opens the possibility that the project could be halted.
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Study confirms lightning more powerful over ocean than landPeople who live and work along coasts and coastlines everywhere may be more likely to experience a super-charged lightning strike, according to new research from Florida Institute of Technology that shows lightning can be much more powerful over the ocean than land.
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A French Artist Says He Received a National ID Card Using a Computer-Generated Headshot Images: Raphaël Fabre With a stunt that will probably see France initiating changes to its National ID card program, an artist named Raphaël Fabre submitted a photorealistic computer-generated image of himself—and he says it was approved without question. To ensure his CG headshot was as artificial as possible, Fabre told Gizmodo that he modeled it by hand using 3D software, instead of digitizing
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Development of low-dimensional nanomaterials could revolutionize future technologiesJavier Vela, scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, believes improvements in computer processors, TV displays and solar cells will come from scientific advancements in the synthesis of low-dimensional nanomaterials.
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Researchers discover new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteriaScientists from Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the biotechnology company NAICONS Srl., and elsewhere have discovered a new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria: pseudouridimycin. The new antibiotic is produced by a microbe found in a soil sample collected in Italy and was discovered by screening microbes from soil samples. The new antibiotic kills a broad spectrum of drug-sensit
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Sushi chef in a day: Japan food firms showcase tasty technologyFrom edible ink printers to chicken stick conveyor belts, Japan's food firms put it all on the menu at an industry show this week with one bold exhibitor claiming it could turn anyone into a top sushi chef.
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Get certified In Adobe's essential graphic design tools for under $40 Sponsored Post Learn the big three Adobe apps and become a CPD-certified designer. Get certified In Adobe's essential graphic design tools for under $40. Learn the big three Adobe apps and become a CPD-certified designer. Read on.
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Dynamic DNA helps ward off gene damage, study revealsResearchers have identified properties in DNA's protective structure that could transform the way scientists think about the human genome. Experts say the findings — published in the journal Cell — are crucial to understanding genome damage and could impact current thinking on DNA-linked diseases, including cancers.
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A rusty and sweet side of sepsisA research team led by Miguel Soares at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) in Portugal discovered an unsuspected mechanism that is protective against sepsis. This study that provides new avenues for therapeutic approaches against sepsis appears in the June 15 issue of the scientific journal Cell.
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Video imaging of single molecule DNA replicationAlmost all life on Earth is based on DNA being copied, or replicated. Now for the first time scientists have been able to watch the replication of a single DNA molecule, with some surprising findings. For one thing, there's a lot more randomness at work than has been thought.
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Newly identified method of gene regulation challenges accepted science, researchers sayResearchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered an unexpected layer of the regulation of gene expression. The finding will likely disrupt scientists' understanding of how cells regulate their genes to develop, communicate and carry out specific tasks throughout the body.
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Gut bacteria might one day help slow down aging processSlowing down the aging process might be possible one day with supplements derived from gut bacteria.
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3-D images show how sperm binds to the egg surfaceResearchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have obtained the first 3-D snapshots of a sperm protein attached to a complementary egg coat protein at the beginning of fertilization. The study, which reveals a common egg protein architecture that is involved in the interaction with sperm in both mollusc and mammal, is published in the respected scientific journal Cell.
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Researchers discover new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteriaA team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, NAICONS Srl., and other scientists has discovered a new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria: pseudouridimycin. The new antibiotic is produced by a microbe found in a soil sample collected in Italy and was discovered by screening microbes from soil samples. The new antibiotic kills a broad spectrum of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant bac
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BA flight disruption cost estimated £80m: parent companyThree days of flight disruption at British Airways due to a massive computer crash last month will cost the airline an estimated £80 million (92 million euros, $102 million), its parent company said on Thursday.
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Book Excerpt: 'Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator' (Tenth Planet Press, 2017)What goes on behind the scenes at a zoo? Author Annette Libeskind Berkovits, retired general curator at the Bronx Zoo, has plenty of stories to tell.
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America’s still first in science, but China rose fast as funding stalled in U. S. and other countriesAmerican scientific teams still publish significantly more biomedical research discoveries than teams from any other country, a new study shows, and the U.S. still leads the world in research and development expenditures. But American dominance is slowly shrinking, the analysis finds, as China's skyrocketing investing on science over the last two decades begins to pay off.
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Influenza virus can overcome potentially crippling mutationsThe effectiveness of flu vaccines and therapies could be improved thanks to new research, report scientists.
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Hidden immune cells cause lung transplant failureA subset of immune cells called nonclassical monocytes, previously unknown to reside in the lungs, play a key role in driving primary graft dysfunction (PGD), the leading cause of death after lung transplantation, report researchers. The study demonstrates targeting these cells could lead to novel treatments for PGD, a complication that currently impacts more than half of transplant patients.
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Missing piece to high-temperature superconductor mysteryNew features identified in the electronic behavior of a copper oxide material that may help explain why it becomes a perfect electrical conductor — a superconductor — at relatively high temperatures.
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E3 by idiots, for idiots: Ars takes on expo’s weirdest games, dumbest ideas (video link) LOS ANGELES—Somebody thought adding 10,000 more people to E3's crowds was a good idea, and that somebody should be punished. Ars' recommendation: make them watch our resident yokels, Sam Machkovech and Lee Hutchinson, roam the overcrowded expo's halls in one of Ars' most ridiculous videos ever made. It's safe-for-work, we swear, but it may not be safe for the companies we put in the
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Fremtidens solcreme giver glød og beskytter mod kræftSart lys hud vil være bedre rustet mod sol, hvis et nyt stof lever op til forventningerne. Vanvittigt spændende, siger Kræftens Bekæmpelse.
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Outdoor Gear For Women Evolves Beyond 'Shrink It and Pink It'New outdoor and adventure gear considers women's physiology, not just a preference for pink.
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Komorbiditet rammer patienter med psoriasisartrit hårdt Højere sygdomsaktivitet, ringere effekt af den medicinske behandling og større sandsynlighed for at stoppe behandlingen er direkte konsekvenser af komorbiditet blandt patienter med psoriasisartrit, viser undersøgelse fra Parker Instituttet præsenteret på EULAR.
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Effektiv billeddiagnostik afgørende for tidlig indsats Ultralydsundersøgelser og MR-scanninger er effektive til at finde tegn på tidlig sygdomsaktivitet i leddene hos psoriasispatienter, fortalte Mikkel Østergaard på et oversigtsforedrag på EULAR.
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Høj fedtprocent øger kvinders risiko for leddegigt Overvægt defineret ved høj fedtprocent er forbundet med øget risiko for, at kvinder udvikler reumatoid artrit, viser dansk befolkningsundersøgelse præsenteret på EULAR.
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According to statistics, programming with spaces instead of tabs makes you richer Enlarge (credit: Kai Hendry ) Stop the world, I want to get off. The annual Stack Overflow developer surveys often include lots of bad news. "People still use PHP," for example, is a recurring and distressing theme. "Perl exists" is another. But never before has the survey revealed something as devastatingly terrible as the 2017 survey. Using PHP and Perl are matters of taste. Extremely masochist
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China Needs To Send A Woman To The Moon GIF China is planning to land people on the moon by 2036 . If China does this right, then at least one of those people will be a woman. Objectively, it seems absurd that this needs an explanation, but we know what the world is like. So here’s why. The simple fact is that if China sends an all-male crew on their first crewed lunar mission, they’re making a huge mistake. Not just because there’s ca
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Blood cell discovery identifies patients with aggressive prostate cancerPatients who have aggressive prostate cancer could be identified by a highly accurate and simple blood test, according to an early study.
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Music sessions can help millions who struggle to speak to lead a richer lifeMusic could be used to transform the lives of millions of people with learning difficulties, dementia, strokes, brain damage and autism and their families, according to new research.
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Temperature changes make it easier for malaria to climb the Ethiopian highlandsThe highlands of Ethiopia are home to the majority of the country's population, the cooler climate serving as a natural buffer against malaria transmission. New data now show that increasing temperatures over the past 35 years are eroding this buffer, allowing conditions more favorable for malaria to begin climbing into highland areas.
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For headache, telemedicine may be as effective as in-personFor people with headache, seeing the neurologist by video for treatment may be as effective as an in-person visit, according to a study.
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Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 yearsUsing advanced imaging technology, researchers have discovered a hitherto invisible inscription on the back of a pottery shard dating from 600 BCE that has been on display at The Israel Museum for more than 50 years.
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Penn engineers show key feature for modeling how cells spread in fibrous environmentsMany studies have shown that stiffness of the extracellular matrix, the fibrous network of collagen that surrounds cells, promotes cellular mobility; cells can get a better grip on stiffer surfaces and thus invade neighboring tissue.New research by scientists in the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science is diving deeper into this relationship, showing that stiffness
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A Tiny Tweak to Gut Bacteria Can Extend an Animal’s Life Most of the worms in Meng Wang ’s lab die on schedule. They live their brief lives on Petri dishes, and after two to three weeks, they die of old age. But some individuals beat the odds, surviving for several days longer than usual.These wormy Methuselahs were all genetically identical, so it wasn’t their genes that explained their decelerated aging. Instead, the secret to their longevity lay in
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Good and nerdy books to give your dad this Father's Day Entertainment Pretty pictures, extra-terrestrials, and doomsday scenarios. On this Father's Day reading list: Pretty pictures, extra-terrestrials, and doomsday scenarios. Read on.
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Research Tracks Shifts in Canadians' Distinctive Accent Research Tracks Shifts in Canadians' Distinctive Accent Canadians are changing how they say words — and so are many Americans. hockeyfans_top.jpg Image credits: Robert Scoble via flickr Rights information: CC BY 2.0 Culture Thursday, June 15, 2017 – 11:45 Joel Shurkin, Contributor (Inside Science) — You can always tell when you are speaking to a Canadian when they get to words like “about,” whi
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Billion-dollar dams are making water shortages, not solving themDams are mitigating climate change impacts for certain populations, but the overall effect of such interventions may be increased drought
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Orion blazing bright in radio lightAstronomers have created the largest image ever of the dense band of star-forming gas that weaves its way through the northern portion of the Orion Nebula.
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More brain activity is not always better when it comes to memory, attentionPotential new ways of understanding the cause of cognitive impairments, such as problems with memory and attention, in brain disorders including schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s are under the spotlight in a new research review.
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Alternative hypothesis on the faunal colonization of the Himalayas?Until now, the fauna of the Himalayas was considered to be an “immigration fauna," with species that have immigrated primarily from neighboring regions since the geological formation of this mountain range. Using molecular-genetic methods, a research team has now tested an alternative colonization hypothesis on lazy toads. The findings indicate that this group arose earlier than assumed in souther
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Face recognition system 'K-Eye'Scientists have developed a semiconductor chip, CNNP (CNN Processor), that runs AI algorithms with ultra-low power, and K-Eye, a face recognition system using CNNP.
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Physicians, patients must focus on remission of diabetic ulcersPhysicians and patients need to focus on remission of diabetic ulcers — that is, extending the time between their formation, experts say.
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A mechanical trigger for toxic tumor therapyCell-killing chemotherapies are designed to shrink cancerous tumors by accumulating in their ill-formed blood and lymph vessels, delivering a toxic dose to the cancer cells. Scientists have developed a new drug delivery platform that uses safe, low-energy ultrasound waves to trigger aggregates of chemotherapy-containing nanoparticles to break apart precisely at tumor sites, resulting in dramatical
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Gap in health care for Alzheimer's disease patients who live alone46% of patients who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in Sweden live alone in their homes, in particular older women, researchers report.
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Parkinson's May Begin in Gut Before Affecting the BrainParkinson's disease ravages brain cells, but the condition may actually start out in the gut, and then spread through nerves to the brain, a new study finds.
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Russian Rocket Launch Ignites Killer Grass Fire A large grass fire triggered by a Russian rocket launch on Wednesday has killed one Kazakh man and hospitalized another. According to the AFP , pieces of the rocket fell to Earth after it launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome —the site where Sputnik 1 took off in 1957. Incredibly, the debris set off a fire that spread about 9.5 miles (15 kilometers) across. Local authorities report the fire erupt
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How to Find Almost Anything on YouTube Image: Gizmodo The number of views YouTube videos get in a single day is up to the billions now, with hundreds of hours of new content uploaded every minute, versus the month it would take twelve years ago when YouTube launched. Searching through that deluge of video can be harder than searching the entire web, so here’s a helpful guide to find that weird Wonder Woman video you found in 2007 that
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Today's Best Deals: Anker Gold Box, Clear the Rack, Amazon Dash Wand, and More It’s a massive day of deals, highlighted by an Anker Gold Box , Amazon’s new Dash Wand , a YETI soft cooler , and more. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Top Tech Deals Anker Gold Box Anker makes basically all of your favorite charging gear , and a bunch of it is on sale in today’s Amazon Gold Box . If you read Kinja Deals, you know that Anker runs its fair share
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Optimizing feeding is necessary to maintain milk production in organic herdsCurrently, agriculture accounts for approximately 9% of total US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By varying diet formulation and the associated crop production to supply the diet, farmers can affect the quantity of GHG emissions of various feeding systems. Therefore, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison created a study to compare the effects of feeding strategies and the associated
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Mapping project will open up new routes to uncharted territoryWhat if fictional places in books, such as Middlemarch, Treasure Island, Barsetshire and Gormenghast, could be generated as maps and even 3D visualisations out of the text itself?
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Do the Two New Lawsuits Against Trump Have Any Shot at Success? Mere days after President Donald Trump took office, the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, filed a suit alleging that the president is violating the Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause, which bars elected officials from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State,” by holding ont
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Risiko for hjerte-kar-sygdom motiverer ikke alle artritpatienter Hver fjerde artritpatient med høj risiko for hjerte-kar-sygdom opsøger ikke egen læge, viser registerstudie fra Gigthospitalet i Gråsten.
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Sygeplejersker kan sikre livsvigtig vaccinering af sårbare gigtpatienterSygeplejersker kan spille en vigtig rolle i at sikre, at patienter med gigtsygdomme får livreddende vaccinationer, viser ny forskning.
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CT-scanninger med lav stråling forbedrer bedømmelse af Bechterews sygdomNy forskning viser, at læger ved hjælp af CT-scanninger med lav strålingsdosis kan holde øje med, hvordan Bechterews sygdom udvikler sig uden at udsætte patienter med sygdommen for høje doser røntgenstråling.
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Blodprøve finder hjerterisiko hos patienter med lupusNy forskning viser, at en biomarkør kan bestemme risikoen for slagtilfælde og hjertestop blandt lupuspatienter, som ikke har andre symptomer på hjerte-kar-sygdomme.
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Kognitiv adfærdsterapi kan lære gigtpatienter at acceptere deres kroniske smerterPatienter med gigtsmerter har i et rehabiliteringsprogram fået gavn af kognitiv adfærdsterapi til at reducere depression og angst som følge af deres sygdom.
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New Weapon Against Desert Locust Plagues: Satellite ImagesPlagues of desert locusts can devastate crops, leading to famine. A new satellite method could give officials two to three months' notice so they can prepare for locust swarms.
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Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it | Sharon TerryMeet Sharon Terry, a former college chaplain and stay-at-home mom who took the medical research world by storm when her two young children were diagnosed with a rare disease known as pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE). In this knockout talk, Terry explains how she and her husband became citizen scientists, working midnight shifts at the lab to find the gene behind PXE and establishing mandates that re
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Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn, Driving Around Stanford in a Clunky Jeep Four decades ago, Helen Quinn and Roberto Peccei took on one of the great problems in theoretical particle physics: the strong charge-parity (CP) problem . Why does the symmetry between matter and antimatter break in weak interactions, which are responsible for nuclear decay, but not in strong interactions, which hold matter together? “The academic year 1976-77 was particularly exciting for me be
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Rainer Weiss, Remembering the Little Room in the Plywood Palace One summer circa 1970, Rainer Weiss holed up in a closet-size room in Building 20 — the infamously rickety, asbestos-coated, World War II-era makeshift wooden structure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that hosted countless discoveries and nine eventual Nobel Prize winners before being torn down in 1998 — and developed the basic design for an experiment that, nearly half a century lat
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Yitang Zhang’s Santa Barbara Beach Walk As an adolescent during the Cultural Revolution in China, Yitang Zhang wasn’t allowed to attend high school. Later, in his 30s, he worked odd jobs in the United States and sometimes slept in his car. But Zhang always believed he would solve a great math problem someday. Still, despite becoming one of China’s top math students and completing his doctorate at Purdue University in Indiana, for seven
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The Completely Bananas History of Transformers on Earth, According to the Movies Image: Paramount The promise of Transformers: The Last Knight has been that it’s going to shed light on the secret history of Transformers. Seeing as most of the other films in Michael Bay’s franchise haven’t exactly overflowed with a fidelity to continuity, that’s going to be interesting. Has everything we’ve seen been massively confusing and contradictory? Yes. Yes it has. Have I tried to wrest
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US-China collaboration makes excellent start in optimizing lithium to control plasmaFor fusion to generate substantial energy, the ultra-hot plasma that fuels fusion reactions must remain stable and kept from cooling. Researchers have recently shown lithium, a soft, silver-white metal, to be effective in both respects during path-setting U.S.-Chinese experiments on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, China. Leading the U.S. collaboration is the U.S.
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The Maths of Life and Death: Our Secret Weapon in the Fight against DiseaseMathematics is increasingly integral to biology as more detailed experiments in recent years have led to a huge influx in biological data — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Bethesda’s Tim Willits talks Quake’s past, present, and future (video link) "It's in my DNA, it's in my blood. If you cut me, I bleed Qs." If anyone deserves to have Qs coursing through his veins, it's Tim Willits. After uploading Doom maps to early BBS systems in the mid-'90s, id Software hired Willits to help design maps for a new, fully 3D shooter called Quake . Since then, Willits has risen to Studio Director at id, working on every game in the Quake ser
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Will Online Democracy Fix the Grammys? Award shows for art always have their credibility in question, but the Grammys are the major ceremony most clearly experiencing a crisis of coolness. This year’s telecast was skipped by a number of stars, some of whom—Frank Ocean, Justin Bieber, Kanye West—indicated either explicitly or through leaks to the press that they were doing so out of a belief that the Grammys are out of touch. The night
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Otto Warmbier's Father Says He's Proud of His Son, Praises Trump's Efforts Updated at 3:14 p.m. ET Otto Warmbier’s father said Thursday he does not believe North Korea’s explanation for why the 22-year-old University of Virginia student is in a coma, credited the Trump administration for freeing his son, and criticized the Obama administration’s advice to the family “to keep a low profile.” At a sometimes-emotional news conference at Wyoming High School in Wyoming, Ohio
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Development of low-dimensional nanomaterials could revolutionize future technologiesJavier Vela, scientist at the US Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, believes improvements in computer processors, TV displays and solar cells will come from scientific advancements in the synthesis of low-dimensional nanomaterials.
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Research on crucial cutting enzyme maps sites of DNA damage in leukemias and other cancersResearchers studying a DNA-cutting enzyme with a crucial role in regulating the structure of genes have discovered a broad role for its cutting activity in driving abnormal genetic rearrangements called translocations that cause cancer, including leukemias and solid tumors.
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Elder abuse research yields new evidence on incidence, risks, outcomesAs World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is observed on June 15, new study data from the Chinese community in Chicago is shedding light on the impact of elder abuse in America.
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Women who focus negatively, magnify chronic pain, more likely to be taking prescribed opioidsFemale chronic pain sufferers who catastrophize, a psychological condition in which pain is exaggerated or irrationally focused on, not only report greater pain intensity, but are more likely to be taking prescribed opioids than men with the same condition, according to a study published Online First in Anesthesiology, the peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists
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Program developed to provide free hearing aids to low-income adultsAn intervention at a free clinic that included comprehensive care for hearing was able to provide recycled, donated hearing aids to low-income adults, according to a study published by JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.
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Study examines facial fractures from recreational activity in adults 55 and olderAerobic activity and muscle-strengthening activities are encouraged for older adults but there are implications for injury patterns and prevention.
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How to educate future therapists more effectivelyIn the classroom, what's the line between education and personal experience?
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Dams on the Amazon River could have widespread, devastating impacts—and we keep building more of them Environment Dam crazy. A new study shows how the negative environmental impacts of dams built in Brazil's Amazon basin will extend far beyond the South American nation's borders.
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In dying, blood-starved heart, bacteria injections offer cellular life support Enlarge / False-colored scanning electron micrograph of multiple S. elongatus cyanobacteria (green) with a single rat heart muscle cell (red). (credit: Cohen et al. ) For the faint of heart, a microbial flash mob might just do the trick. A direct injection of photosynthetic bacteria—plus a little light— provided cellular life-support to the weak, blood-starved hearts of rats suffering simulated h
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Distant fish relatives share looksScientists have found evidence that even distantly related Australian fish species have evolved to look and act like each other, which confirms a central tenet of evolutionary theory.
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New light shed on dynamics of type IV pili and twitching motilityNew light has been shed on dynamics of asymmetric type IV pili distribution and twitching motility triggered by directional light in cyanobacteria.
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Blocking gene expression to combat deadly fungal infectionDeadly fungal infections are becoming resistant to common treatments, but a team of researchers have found a potential new solution.
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Reproducing a retinal disease on a chipGood news for the treatment of retinal diseases using the organ-on-a-chip approach.
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With wireless charging, electric cars could drive forever Scientists have found a way to wirelessly transmit electricity to a nearby moving object. The method may have applications in transportation, medical devices, and more. If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, for example, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles. “In addition to ad
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Humans Can’t Expect AI to Just Fight Fake News for ThemDon't expect algorithms to rescue us from misinformation.
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So Uh, Is Tim Cook Running for President, Too? Image: AP A gloomy Tim Cook stalks Bloomberg Businessweek ’s cover today, and he has some thoughts. Some thoughts that sound suspiciously like a preamble to a “my fellow Americans” speech. Editor Megan Murphy’s conversation with the Apple CEO isn’t substantively different from the sprawling, 10,000-word interview he conducted with the Washington Post last year—whole paragraphs of boilerplate answ
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'Magic' alloy could spur next generation of solar cellsIn what could be a major step forward for a new generation of solar cells called "concentrator photovoltaics," University of Michigan researchers have developed a new semiconductor alloy that can capture the near-infrared light located on the leading edge of the visible light spectrum.
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Jerusalem tower younger than thoughtGihon Spring, just downhill from the ancient city of Jerusalem, was crucial to the survival of its inhabitants, and archaeologists had uncovered the remains of a massive stone tower built to guard this vital water supply. Based on pottery and other regional findings, the archaeologists had originally assigned it a date of 1,700 BCE. But new research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science p
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Tab pusten fra toppen af en havmølle med fødderne plantet på jordenFOLKEMØDE 2017: De færreste får lov at betragte udsigten fra en 140 meter høj vindmølle. Men med Dong’s VR-oplevelse kan man få en fornemmelse af suset fra en ‘Havmøllesafari’.
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Facial Fractures Increase: How Older Adults Hurt Themselves ExercisingFor older adults, it's important to stay active, but recreational activities come with a risk of injury: A new study finds that facial injuries are on the rise in adults ages 55 and up.
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Smart materials used in ultrasound behave similar to water, chemists reportA team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania is gaining new insight into the smart materials used in ultrasound technology. While forming the most thorough model to date of how these materials work, they have found striking similarities with the behavior of water.
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Taking circular economy to the next levelWhile principles of a circular economy have been adopted by businesses, governments and NGOs, leading researchers say it's time to take the discussion and analysis to the next level.
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Pre-clinical study suggests Parkinson's could start in gut endocrine cellsA potential new mechanism has been identified in both mice and human endocrine cells that populate the small intestines. Inside these cells is a protein called alpha-synuclein, which is known to go awry and lead to damaging clumps in the brains of Parkinson's patients, as well as those with Alzheimer's disease.
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All in the eyes: What the pupils tells us about languageThe meaning of a word is enough to trigger a reaction in our pupil: when we read or hear a word with a meaning associated with luminosity ("sun," "shine," etc.), our pupils contract as they would if they were actually exposed to greater luminosity. And the opposite occurs with a word associated with darkness ("night," "gloom," etc.). These results open up a new avenue for better understanding how
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Targeting immune cells that help tumors stay hidden could improve immunotherapyResearchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC have discovered a clue that could unlock the potential of immunotherapy drugs to successfully treat more cancers. The findings, published in the journal Cell, were made in mice and showed that targeting a sub-population of immune cells called regulatory T cells (T-regs) could make the drugs more effective.
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FDA rule improves labeling of medications used during pregnancy and lactationThe new US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule should help healthcare providers better explain to pregnant and breastfeeding patients the benefits and risks of taking a specific medication.
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Modeling the brain with 'Lego bricks'Researchers from the University of Luxembourg, in cooperation with the University of Strasbourg, have developed a computational method that could be used to guide surgeons during brain surgery.
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How does a frog heal wounded skin without scarring?When a Xenopus frog is deeply wounded, its skin can regenerate without scarring. Researchers have found that cells under the skin contribute to this regeneration after an excision injury.
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Raucous crystalsSome organic crystals jump around when heated up. This happens because of an extremely fast change in their crystal structure. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now demonstrated that the crystals send out acoustic signals during this process, which may be useful in analyzing the characteristics of this phenomenon. The researchers demonstrated that this process is analogous to marte
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Energy Department Closes Office Working on Climate Change AbroadThe elimination of the Office of International Climate and Technology is another sign of the Trump administration’s retreat on global warming policy.
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Taking circular economy to the next levelIn recent years a growing number of businesses, governments and environmental advocates have embraced the concept of a "circular economy," which aims to achieve greater sustainability by keeping more resources and materials in use for as long as possible—through strategies such increased product durability, reuse and recycling.
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Our sun likely had a twin called ‘Nemesis’ When our sun was born 4.5 billion years ago, it was almost certainly part of pair—but that’s true of every other sun-like star in the universe. Many stars have companions, including our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, a triplet system. Astronomers have long sought an explanation. Are binary and triplet star systems born that way? Did one star capture another? Do binary stars sometimes split up
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New map highlights sinking Louisiana coastA subsidence map of coastal Louisiana has now been created, putting the rate at which this region is sinking at just over one third of an inch per year.
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New magnet technology creates easy blood access for hemodialysis patientsA new, minimally invasive system which uses radiofrequency energy instead of open surgery to create access for patients needing hemodialysis is reliable, with minimal complications, according to data.
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Your Beliefs About How Your Memory Works Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Are we falling for illusions of memory? How often we forget something is influenced not only by our inability to recall it, but also our overestimation of remembering it in the future. These illusions may be making us overconfident about our memory recall. Read More
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How to educate future therapists more effectivelyIn the classroom, what's the line between education and personal experience?This is a question addressed by Concordia alumnus Jason Butler in an article recently published by The Arts in Psychotherapy.In the course of a North American and UK study, he found that the conflicting demands of education and therapy within the classroom can cause emotional stress and confusion among students in drama th
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'Magic' alloy could spur next generation of solar cellsIn what could be a major step forward for a new generation of solar cells called 'concentrator photovoltaics,' University of Michigan researchers have developed a new semiconductor alloy that can capture the near-infrared light located on the leading edge of the visible light spectrum.
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Giving children a voice in clinical trialsChildren as young as 8 years old with incurable cancer can reliably characterize the impact an experimental therapy has on their symptoms and quality of life — even at the earliest stages of drug development — making self-reported patient outcomes a potential new clinical trial endpoint.
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Casualty care guidelines developed by the military are directly transferable to improve the practice of wilderness medicineMany of the lessons learned on the battlefield translate well to the austere conditions encountered every day in the wilderness. A lack of resources, extreme weather, and delayed transport to an established medical facility are just some of the common challenges practitioners and participants face. A special supplement to Wilderness & Environmental Medicine offers an in-depth examination of milita
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Jerusalem tower younger than thoughtGihon Spring, was crucial to the survival of its inhabitants, and archaeologists had uncovered the remains of a massive stone tower built to guard this vital water supply. Based on pottery and other regional findings, the archaeologists had originally assigned it a date of 1,700 BCE. But new research conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science provides conclusive evidence that the stones at the
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An alternative hypothesis on the faunal colonization of the Himalayas?Until now, the fauna of the Himalayas was considered to be an "immigration fauna", with species that have immigrated primarily from neighbouring regions to the west and east since the geological formation of this mountain range. Using molecular-genetic methods, a German-Chinese research team has now tested an alternative colonization hypothesis on lazy toads (Pelobatoidea). The findings indicate t
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First few millimeters of the leaf margin identify palm species in a new key to SyagrusAn incredible amount of information is contained in the very first few millimeters of the leaflet margin of species in the Neotropical palm genus Syagrus.
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Researchers discover shortcut to satellite-based quantum encryption networkIn a new study, researchers demonstrate ground-based measurements of quantum states sent by a laser aboard a satellite 38,000 kilometers above Earth. This is the first time that quantum states have been measured so carefully from so far away.
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Radio astronomers peer deep into the stellar nursery of the Orion NebulaAstronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.
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How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare As Republicans have been casting about for legislation to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act, Democrats have offered a consistent message in public: If the GOP drops its demand for repeal, we’ll work with them to improve, or fix, the current law. Exactly how Democrats would change the bill they enacted seven years ago is less clear. Lawmakers have floated a range of options, from tackling the cos
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How We Spend $3,400,000,000,000 Last year, America’s total medical costs hit a new record of $3.4 trillion, according to the federal government. That’s about 18 percent of the country’s total GDP, meaning that one out of every six dollars we spent in 2016 went to health care. The national doctor bill dwarfs anything else we spend money on, including food, clothing, housing, or even our mighty military. If that $3.4 trillion wer
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Nazi police files suggest some tolerance for lesbians The Nazi regime in Germany may have been more tolerant of lesbians than might be expected, new research suggests. Discoveries from police investigation files from the 1940s involving alleged violations of same-sex relations laws and their analysis appear in the Journal of Contemporary History . “These files add a new level of nuance to existing scholarship,” says study author Samuel Clowes Huneke
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