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Dig it! Two new shrimp species found in burrows at the bottom of the Gulf of CaliforniaAlthough the Santa María-La Reforma lagoon complex in the Gulf of California is one of the most important areas for shrimp fishery, little is known about the crustacean species that live in burrows dug in the bottom. In addition to presenting two new species for science, the researchers collaborate to build up on the knowledge of small shrimp species living there.
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The blink of an eye may predict risk for alcohol problemsThe startle response, often recorded as an eye-blink reflex, is a defensive measure believed to reflect emotional processing. Patients with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) show abnormal startle-reflex responses to alcohol-related stimuli. This study examined startle-reflex responses to various visual stimuli among heavy drinkers, and assessed whether certain patterns predict the development of AUDs f
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Researchers develop low tech method for environmental sampling of campylobacterA team of researchers from the United Kingdom has developed a novel method for assessing human/pathogen interactions in the natural environment, using citizen scientists wearing boot socks over their shoes during walks in the countryside. In the process, they found that slightly less than half of the socks were positive for the gastrointestinal pathogen, Campylobacter. The research is published in
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Scientists find a way to pack grains and drugs most efficientlyScientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is mentioned in the Bible: achieving the most efficient packing of objects such as grains and pharmaceutical drugs.
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Slip-triggered wearable robot twists elderly people’s hips to prevent falls Enlarge / A prototype of the exoskeleton (credit: Hillary Sanctuary / EPFL) With a slip and a twist, a robotic device that fits around an elderly person’s pelvis can avert a perilous tumble, Italian researchers report in Scientific Reports . The device—like the shorts version of exoskeleton pants—can sense an impending fall within 350 milliseconds and apply torque directly to the erring limb. The
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Thirsty Twitter Executive Sees End of Democracy as Great Business Opportunity [Update] More like Anthony Not-agoodtweeter. (Image: Getty) Today, in the middle of a truly impressive example of “tweeting through it,” President Trump sent out—possibly from the toilet—the following message: “Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future ‘press briefings’ and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???” (Three question marks indicate just how good an idea this is.)
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What Really Happened at the Trump-Comey Dinner? Updated on May 12 at 11:32 p.m. On some days, comparisons between the present moment and Watergate seem like overheated frenzy. And on other days, it seems like President Trump is actively courting them. On Wednesday, that was Trump inviting former Nixon aide Henry Kissinger to the White House. Friday, that’s a tweet he fired off in the morning: James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" o
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Gizmodo went phishing with the Trump team—will they catch a charge? Enlarge / Go phishing the White House and you may need a bigger boat. (credit: Lsuff ) Earlier this week, the team at Gizmodo's Special Projects Desk published a report on how they "phished" members of the administration and campaign teams of President Donald Trump . Gizmodo identified 15 prominent figures on Trump's team and sent e-mails to each posing as friends, family members, or associates c
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In both love and war, alligators signal size by bellowingAmerican alligators produce loud, low-frequency vocalizations called 'bellows'. Cognitive biologists investigated these vocalizations and found that they reveal the caller's body size. Alligators can use this information to avoid unpromising contests for mates and breeding areas.
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Anticancer nanomaterials created by simulating underwater volcanic conditionsResearchers have developed anticancer nanomaterials by simulating the volcano-induced dynamic chemistry of the deep ocean. The novel method enables making nanoclusters of zinc peroxide in an environmentally friendly manner, without the use of additional chemicals. The as-synthesised zinc peroxide nanoparticles can be used as a tool for cancer therapy and against other complicated diseases.
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Report: 96 percent of pilot-reported drone sightings are totally benign Aviation Close encounters of the drone kind are rarer than they seem Report from model airplane hobbyist group finds 96 percent of drone sightings harmless…
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Ludwig researchers identify counterintuitive approach to treating a brain cancerThe loss of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN has been linked to tumor growth and chemotherapy resistance in the almost invariably lethal brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Now, Ludwig researchers have shown that one way to override the growth-promoting effects of PTEN deletion is, surprisingly, to inhibit a separate tumor suppressor gene.
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New lung 'organoids' in a dish mimic features of full-size lungNew lung 'organoids' — tiny 3-D structures that mimic features of a full-sized lung — have been created from human pluripotent stem cells by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The team used the organoids to generate models of human lung diseases in a lab dish, which could be used to advance our understanding of a variety of respiratory diseases.
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EPA may allow massive mine near pristine Alaskan bayThe Trump administration settled a lawsuit Friday over the proposed development of a massive gold and copper mine at the headwaters of one of Alaska's premier salmon fisheries.
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New lung 'organoids' in a dish mimic features of full-size lungNew lung "organoids"—tiny 3-D structures that mimic features of a full-sized lung—have been created from human pluripotent stem cells by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The team used the organoids to generate models of human lung diseases in a lab dish, which could be used to advance our understanding of a variety of respiratory diseases.
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Jezebel Star of New Film About a Man Who Pulls a Sword Out of a Stone: ‘I’m Too Old For Fairy Tales’ Jezebel Star of New Film About a Man Who Pulls a Sword Out of a Stone: ‘I’m Too Old For Fairy Tales’ | Deadspin Report: Tim Tebow Could Be Moving Up In The World | The Root New Jersey’s Bill Brennan Might Be the Realest Politician You’ve Never Heard Of | Fusion You Won’t Find a More Horrifying Anti-Immigrant Proposal Than What This Republican Came Up With |
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This Discounted Digital Frame Makes a Great Last Minute Gift for Mom Nixplay Seed 10 WiFi Digital Photo Frame Mother’s Day is the perfect time to throw all the sappiness you can think of into one gift, and Amazon gets that. Today only, get this digital photo frame from Nixplay for $125. Choose from four different frame colors and upload all the photos you could want, including uploading ones straight from their app.
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Trained larvae suggest nature and nurture collaborate A new study suggests nature and nurture do collaborate to determine the behavior of a population. Evolutionary biologist Julia Saltz of Rice University and her colleagues studied the habits of about 50,000 Drosophila melanogaster larvae that, like people, have the ability to sense enticing odors and an incentive to avoid them when they’re associated with an unpleasant experience. The researchers
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Veggies Grown With Toilet Water Could Be Headed to Your Table Starting as early as December, the city of Modesto, CA will sell its highly treated wastewater to struggling nearby farmers. The post Veggies Grown With Toilet Water Could Be Headed to Your Table appeared first on WIRED .
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Student-Government Politics and Identity Politics: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories Inside a Stealth Plan for Political Influence Michael Vasquez | The Chronicle of Higher Education [Charlie Kirk], the rising young conservative star, uses his frequent Fox News appearances to blast college campuses as “islands of totalitarianism” filled with liberal students and faculty members who force their worldview upon those around them. So Kirk’s nonprofit political-advocacy group, Turning
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Should Parents Who Refuse to Edit Their Babies' Genes Be Punished? As I wrote a few weeks ago , advances in biotechnology could make this a pressing question in the near future—and under certain conditions, this reader’s answer is yes: My gut instinct is that I would lean towards punishment if the parents were to have the fetus tested for genetic abnormalities and diseases and the test came back positive, but the parents still refused to consider gene editing. I
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Master of None’s Greatest Strength Is Its Curiosity This post contains some spoilers for Master of None Season 2 . It’s not an insult to Aziz Ansari to say that the best episodes of his show Master of None , which he co-created and stars in, are often the ones where he fades into the background. Still, it may be a weird conclusion to arrive at when you consider how crucial Ansari’s vision and comedic style—infectiously goofy, pop-culture savvy, an
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X-rays from copper source set new gold standard for measuring industrial materialsResearchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have produced and precisely measured a spectrum of X-rays using a new, state-of-the-art machine. The instrument they used to measure the X-rays took 20 years to develop, and will help scientists working at the agency make some of the world's most accurate measurements of materials for use in everything from bridges to pharmac
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Researchers find key molecule that could lead to new therapies for anemiaNew findings reported in Science could impact a whole slew of iron disorders, ranging from iron-deficiency anemia to iron-overload liver disease.
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Birds choose their neighbors based on personalityBirds of a feather nest together, according to a new study which has found that male great tits (Parus major) choose neighbours with similar personalities to their own.
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Study analyses foods for radioactive substancesIn cooperation with the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) is to analyse foods prepared within the scope of the BfR MEAL Study for radiation caused by radioactive elements such as uranium. Main focus will be on the foods most often consumed by the population in Germany. These include cereal products, vegetables and potatoes, dairy product
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Antimicrobial resistance: Successful interdisciplinary effortsAs antimicrobial-resistant bacteria can be transmitted between humans and animals, research into antimicrobial resistance must in particular investigate the mechanisms of the spread of the bacteria and the resistance genes. This is the finding that will be presented at the final symposium of the RESET and MedVet-Staph research projects from April 26-28, 2017 at the Federal Institute for Risk Asses
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New gelatin devices that imitate the activity of the body in bone regenerationWhen one's own body is no longer capable of regenerating the bone defects it suffers, fitting compatible, biodegradable structures that can be used as temporary scaffolding in the damaged tissues is, as a general rule, very helpful. The NanoBioCel group in the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Pharmacy has led the development of one of these scaffolds, which apart from physical support, also offers the chance
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It’s hard to talk about mental health at the best of times, which these are not ‘Nobody, even Trump, should be blamed for being mentally ill. But nor should we pretend mental illness affects only the nice’ Should we talk more openly about mental illness, or should we shut up? It depends which side of the Atlantic you’re on. In Britain, the future head of state has thrown his weight behind an admirable campaign for more conversation, but in America, where the current head of
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There’s no scientific proof that our sense of smell stinks We tend to think animals, like dogs and rodents, have much better senses of smell than we humans do. But that’s not true, say researchers. This myth has survived for the last 150 years with no scientific proof, according to neuroscientist John McGann, associate professor in the Rutgers University-New Brunswick psychology department. “It has been a long cultural belief that in order to be a reason
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Brain zaps let minimally conscious people communicate for a weekDaily brain stimulation has “awakened” people with brain damage, allowing them to communicate for a week. The tech could eventually be used at home
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El Niño Could Be Ready to Party Again as Soon as This Fall GIF Remember the halcyon days of 2016, when we were bidding adieu to El Niño and recovering from the death of Harambe? Well, the beloved gorilla may have departed this world for good, but El Niño will return. It always does. Advertisement Perhaps even as soon as this fall. On Thursday, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) released its monthly El Niño forecast bulletin, p
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Software convenes rapid, on-demand 'flash organizations'Flash organizations are a new crowdsourcing technique that enables anyone to assemble an entire organization from a paid crowdsourcing marketplace and lead that organization in pursuit of complex, open-ended goals.
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Jeff Sessions Reinvigorates the Drug War Updated on May 12 at 11:37 a.m. ET Democratic and Republican officials alike took up the banner of criminal-justice reform over the past five years, hoping to reduce the nation’s unprecedented prison population and scale back the harshest punishments of the tough-on-crime era. Now Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a major step toward rolling back their efforts. In a memo released Friday, S
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Protests in Budapest and Escapes to Canada: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing India’s Silicon Valley Is Dying of Thirst. Your City May Be Next. Samanth Subramanian | WIRED “Bangalore has a problem: It is running out of water, fast. Cities all over the world, from those in the American West to nearly every major Indian metropolis, have been struggling with drought and water deficits in recent years. But Bangalore is an extreme case. Last summer, a professor from the Indian
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Why Can’t We Have a Good King Arthur Movie? Blame Game of Thrones The oft-told legend has been eclipsed by the story that aimed to subvert it. The post Why Can't We Have a Good King Arthur Movie? Blame Game of Thrones appeared first on WIRED .
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The New Serialized Samurai Jack Is the Best Revival on TV Serialized storytelling and doubling down on its core premise makes this revival of a the legendary cartoon one of the best things on TV. The post The New Serialized Samurai Jack Is the Best Revival on TV appeared first on WIRED .
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SoftBank sinks $500M into UK virtual reality startupA British startup founded five years ago by Cambridge University computer science graduates has received $502 million to develop large-scale virtual reality projects in a funding round led by Japan's SoftBank.
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Latvian daredevil in 'drone-diving' world firstA Latvian tech company is claiming a world first after successfully test-flying a super-powered drone which lifted a daredevil skydiver aloft, from where he parachuted safely back down to earth.
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X-rays from copper source set new gold standard for measuring industrial materialsWith this new, unique X-ray machine, NIST can make some of the world's most accurate measurements, and calibrate everyone else's X-rays, too.
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Immune cells rely on receptor to signal counterattack on parasitic wormImmune cells, called macrophages, may rely on a compound to signal an attack to beat back attacks from parasitic worms, according to an international team of researchers, including Zissis C. Chroneos, associate professor of pediatrics, and microbiology and immunology at Penn State College of Medicine.
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Smartphones in the ER can help discharge patients fasterChest pain patients in the emergency department whose attending emergency physicians received lab results delivered direct to their smartphones spent about 26 minutes less waiting to be discharged than patients whose lab results were delivered to the electronic patient record on the hospital computer system. The results of a randomized, controlled trial of a quality improvement initiative were pub
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What goes down, must come up: Stirring things up in the Earth's mantleUniversity of Leicester researcher leads study into convection patterns of Earth's mantle.
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Electrostatic design of materials: TU Graz demonstrates a fundamentally new approachResearchers at the Institute of Solid State Physics map out a radically new approach for designing optical and electronic properties of materials in Advanced Materials.
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Six-legged livestock for sustainable food productionFarming crickets for human consumption is less of a burden on the environment than other livestock production systems according to a new study. Results suggest that insect farming systems can be improved to become even more environmentally sustainable in the future.
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Famous tree-climbing lions of Uganda roaming farther as prey animals decreaseScientists in Uganda studying the behaviors of the country's famous tree-climbing lions have found that the home ranges of lion prides in the study areas have increased over time as they search farther for diminishing numbers of prey animals.
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Physicists Outline 10 Different Dimensions and How You’d Experience Them Where gravity comes from has been an utter mystery. String theory offers an explanation. Read More
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SpaceX may finally be reaching a nirvana of high flight rates Enlarge / The static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket launching an Inmarsat satellite was completed on Thursday. (credit: SpaceX) Due to accidents, production issues, and other factors, SpaceX has in recent years failed to achieve a "high volume" launch rate of a dozen or more Falcon 9 rockets per year. Famously, the company has a backlog of 70 or more missions, which SpaceX estimates to be worth
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Dig it! Two new shrimp species found in burrows at the bottom of the Gulf of CaliforniaAlthough the Santa María-La Reforma lagoon complex in the Gulf of California is one of the most important areas for shrimp fishery, little is known about the crustacean species that live in the burrows dug in the bottom.
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Untangling the knots in cell stressHow do cells correctly make proteins?
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Huge Trove of Confidential Medical Records Discovered on Unsecured Server Accessible to Anyone Photo: Getty At least tens of thousands, if not millions of medical records of New York patients were until recently readily accessible online to just about anyone who knew how to look. Advertisement Patient demographic information, social security numbers, records of medical diagnoses and treatments, along with a plethora of other highly-sensitive records were left completely undefended by a med
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Image of the Day: Missing PiecesResearchers made a 3-D reconstruction of one of neurobiology's most famous brains-that of Henry Gustav Molaison (HM).
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Bioengineered Pancreas Effective in First PatientThe diabetic volunteer continued to produce insulin one year after she received a transplant of abdominal islet cells.
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Water droplets as miniaturized test tubesScientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed laboratory equipment that facilitates the search for active substances and the examination of cell samples, reducing costs by a factor of up to 100.
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Osteoarthritis could be prevented with good diet and exerciseOsteoarthritis can potentially be prevented with a good diet and regular exercise, a new expert review published in the Nature Reviews Rheumatology reports.
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Shearing of alpacas is necessary, but also stressfulAlpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been confirmed for the first time by researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna based on an evaluation of clinical, hormonal and behavioral parameters. The scientists were able to show that even the act of restraining the
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In both love and war, alligators signal size by bellowingAmerican alligators produce loud, low-frequency vocalizations called 'bellows'. Cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna, Stephan Reber and Tecumseh Fitch, investigated these vocalizations and found that they reveal the caller's body size. Alligators can use this information to avoid unpromising contests for mates and breeding areas. The study results were published in Scientific Reports.
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Next-gen solar cells could be improved by atomic-scale redesignResearchers have uncovered the exact mechanism that causes new solar cells to break down in air, paving the way for a solution.
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Dig it! Two new shrimp species found in burrows at the bottom of the Gulf of CaliforniaAlthough the Santa María-La Reforma lagoon complex in the Gulf of California is one of the most important areas for shrimp fishery, little is known about the crustacean species that live in burrows dug in the bottom. In addition to presenting two new species for science, the researchers collaborate to build up on the knowledge of small shrimp species living there. The study is published in the ope
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Playground politics — what drives rejection amongst children?New research, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology, approaches this subject in a different way. It asked the children doing the rejecting, the 'rejecters,' for the reasons they disliked certain children. The study revealed the act of rejection is complex — the behavior of the rejected child is only partly, or not at all, to blame.
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Chronic childhood illness linked with later life mental health problemsA new study into the effects of chronic physical illness in children on their life-long mental health has found that such experiences appear to increase the chances of them having depression and anxiety in adulthood.
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Stem cells in plants and animals behave surprisingly similarly: StudyA new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the behavior of stem cells in plants and animals is surprisingly similar. The researchers were able to produce mathematical equations that reveal very small differences in the behavior of the proteins. The results can hopefully be used in stem cell research involving humans.
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Scientists find a way to pack grains and drugs most efficientlyScientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is mentioned in the Bible: achieving the most efficient packing of objects such as grains and pharmaceutical drugs.
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Untangling the knots in cell stressIn an article published in the Journal of Cell Biology, Tokiro Ishikawa and Kazutoshi Mori of Kyoto University describe how different UPR transducers are used selectively for protein correction.
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A Potential Glimpse at the Ships of the Han Solo Movie Yet another Once Upon a Time star will not return for season seven. Some deep-sea villains could play a part in Aquaman . Stephen King and J.J. Abrams’ new horror collaboration has found its star. Plus, a gross new clip from Alien: Covenant , more tiny Defenders teasers, and Shannara Chronicles has a new home. Spoilers get! Han Solo Star Wars News Net has uncovered a ton of un-embeddable concept
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Anglophiles: Hang up your VPN; iPlayer isn’t for you anymore Enlarge (credit: BBC) Age verification systems may be something that the Tory government has been fixated on recently, but the BBC is yet to implement one to crack down on licence fee evaders. Instead, it will imminently force Brits to sign into its online iPlayer service, before allowing them to view or listen to programmes. E-mail addresses used to login to the iPlayer will be matched with reco
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Sidekick for antibiotic would ‘gunk up’ superbugs Researchers have discovered compounds that block bacterial resistance to tetracyclines, a major class of antibiotics. “If these bugs can’t chew up this antibiotic anymore, they are re-sensitized to the effects of the drug.” Targeting bacterial resistance to antibiotics—rather than developing new kinds of antibiotics to which microbes are not already resistant—may be the best way to combat antibio
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Tamoxifen protects against obesity-related metabolic disordersTamoxifen is the gold standard for endocrine treatment of estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer. Tamoxifen is also known to have metabolic effects. A new study reports that the drug also prevents obesity, fatty liver, and insulin resistance in female mice who were fed a high-fat diet and whose ovaries had been removed. The study was also able to pinpoint which estrogen receptors underlie these
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More natural dust in the air improves air quality in eastern ChinaHuman-made pollution in eastern China's cities worsens when less dust blows in from the Gobi Desert, according to a new study. That's because dust plays an important role in determining the air temperatures and thereby promoting winds to blow away human-made pollution. Less dust means the air stagnates, with human-made pollution becoming more concentrated and sticking around longer.
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Techniques for elemental analysis and imaging using X-ray measurements obtained from an ordinary digital cameraA NIMS research group succeeded in developing new techniques to perform analysis and imaging of chemical elements by taking images of a target material using an ordinary, visible-light digital camera with a slight modification, and obtaining X-ray spectra from processed images.
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Toddlers’ screen time linked to speech delays and lost sleep, but questions remainTwo new studies link handheld screen time for young children to less sleep and greater risk of expressive language delays. But the results are preliminary.
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Cilia structure plays a major role in determining susceptibility to neural tube defectsResearch shows that the improper methylation of a protein called 'Septin2,' which regulates the structure of cilia, was associated with an increased risk of having a neural tube defect (NTD) and confirms that cilia are important factors in determining susceptibility of NTDs.
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Cancer metastasis: The unexpected perils of hypoxiaThe low oxygen concentrations that prevail in many tumors enhance their propensity to metastasize to other tissues. Researchers have now uncovered the molecular mechanism that links the two phenomena.
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Plasma membrane protein may help generate new neurons in the adult hippocampusNew research sheds important light on the inner workings of learning and memory. Specifically, scientists show that a plasma membrane protein, called Efr3, regulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor-tropomyosin-related kinase B signaling pathway (BNDF-TrkB) and affects the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus of adult brains.
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Can crab shells provide a 'green' solution to malaria?A non-toxic mixture of chitin-rich crab shell powder and nanosized silver particles could be an environmentally friendly way of curbing the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes, and malaria in particular.
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Rodents with trouble walking reveal potential treatment approach for most common joint diseaseMaintaining the supply of a molecule that helps to nourish cartilage prevented osteoarthritis in animal models of the disease, according to a new report.
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Killer Whales Are Speciating Right in Front of UsKiller whales appear to be splitting into several separate species, perhaps because cultural differences among populations are driving them apart — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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ImmusanT publishes positive data from Phase 1 trials of Nexvax2 in celiac disease patientsImmusanT announces the publication of positive data from Phase 1 clinical trials of the Nexvax2 therapeutic vaccine in celiac disease patients in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
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Research suggests link between imbalanced gut microbiome and systemic sclerosisAmericans and Norwegians with systemic sclerosis had higher levels of bacteria that can cause inflammation and lower levels of bacteria that are believed to protect against inflammation compared with healthy people. Study participants from United States, however, had a greater imbalance between the 'good' and 'bad' gut bacteria compared with the participants from Norway. The researchers suspect th
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Famous tree-climbing lions of Uganda roaming farther as prey animals decreaseScientists in Uganda studying the behaviors of the country's famous tree-climbing lions have found that the home ranges of lion prides in the study areas have increased over time as they search farther for diminishing numbers of prey animals.
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Deeper understanding of environmental values gained through broader collaborationIt's understood that chemists and geologists come from very different science disciplines, but people tend to file all social scientists under one category—social. But within the social sciences, a psychologist is very different from an anthropologist or an economist. A University of Illinois study illuminates the need to engage social scientists from a specific discipline to solve problems by bri
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Watch NASA's Glorious 200th ISS Space Walk Live Image: NASA Two hundred tangos in space and counting: today, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer are performing the 200th American spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS). NASA is streaming the entire four hour endeavor on its channel here . Advertisement This is far from Whitson’s first (space) rodeo, as she currently holds the record for most spacewalks performed by a
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Study shows photos more credible, cartoons more persuasiveIf you're creating a message to educate, inform, or persuade, don't underestimate the power of a well-executed cartoon. A new study at the University of Illinois suggests if you're trying to convince the public to change their stance on a topic such as wind energy, you may be more successful if you use a cartoon rather than a photograph.
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Beauty requires thought: Study supports philosophical claimDoes the experience of beauty require a person to think? And can sensuous pleasures, like eating or sex, be beautiful? Such questions have long preoccupied philosophers, with Immanuel Kant making the famous claim that beauty requires thought, unlike sensuous pleasure, which, he said, can never be beautiful. Now, researchers say that Kant was right on one count and wrong on the other.
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First comprehensive map of subcellular localization of proteins reveals new insightsThe first analysis of how proteins are arranged in a cell was published today in Science, revealing that a large portion of human proteins can be found in more than one location in a given cell.
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Rare feline genetic disorders identified through whole genome sequencingVeterinary neurologists found a genetic link between degenerative myelopathy (DM) in dogs and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease in people. Now they have found that a biomarker test that helps diagnose ALS also can assist with determining a diagnosis for degenerative myelopathy.
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Latest fast radio burst adds to mystery of their source(Phys.org)—An international team of space researchers has reported on the detection of a new fast radio burst (FRB) and their efforts to trace its source. They have written a paper describing the detection and search for evidence, and have uploaded it to the arXiv preprint server.
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It's a myth that humans' sense of smell is inferior to that of other animals – here's whyConventional wisdom has it that humans have a poorer sense of smell than most other animals. Sure, we can smell – most of us appreciate the aroma of our morning coffee or a delightful fragrance, and we're able to detect burning toast or a gas leak. But we have nonetheless long been thought to be relative weaklings in the animal kingdom's league of olfactory excellence, which puts dogs and rodents
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Stem cells in plants and animals behave surprisingly similarlyA new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the behaviour of stem cells in plants and animals is surprisingly similar. The researchers were able to produce mathematical equations that reveal very small differences in the behaviour of the proteins. The results can hopefully be used in stem cell research involving humans.
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Dementia-related brain changes observed before memory or thinking problems are noticeableScientists discover a potential predictor for early dementia that could inform the development of drug and therapeutic interventions to treat or slow down the disease.
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Uber Just Lost Its Attempt To Keep Its Court Battle With Waymo Out Of The Public Eye Photo: AP The lawsuit between Google’s self-driving car project Waymo and Uber is proceeding to trial, after a judge late Thursday denied Uber’s request to move the case to arbitration and out of the public eye. The judge, William Alsup, also referred the case for a criminal investigation over possible trade secrets theft. Advertisement Following a revelation last week that a criminal investigati
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Agents of SHIELD and Once Upon a Time Are Both Coming Back Next Season, But Powerless Isn't The cast of Agents of SHIELD, who are all still employed. Image: ABC Two popular genre shows with unclear futures just got some good news. A third did not. Advertisement ABC just announced it’s bringing back Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for a fifth season and Once Upon A Time for a seventh season. Both shows averaged about four and a half million viewers per episode this year, which isn’t part
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How One Startup Built Better Health Insurance With the Magic of Data Oscar works with the same sloppy, unstandardized data every other insurance company has. It's what they did with it that was totally different. The post How One Startup Built Better Health Insurance With the Magic of Data appeared first on WIRED .
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Water, Weird Clouds Found on Alien 'Warm Neptune'Astronomers have detected water vapor and evidence of exotic clouds in the atmosphere of a Neptune-mass planet known as HAT-P-26b.
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Building the Matrix, Drugs Made of Sewage, and Anti-Innovation America—The Download, May 12, 2017The most fascinating and important news in technology and innovation delivered straight to your inbox, every day.
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Harvesting big data could bring about the next transport revolution, right nowThe future of transport appears full of fun and flashy possibilities. From super-fast hyperloop transport systems, to self-driving cars and hovering taxis, new technology promises to move us further and faster than ever before. Yet for cities facing everyday problems such as congestion, air pollution and under capacity, the most effective solution could be the humble bus – coupled with the power o
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How New Zealand's forests may transform in the futureResearch from Victoria University of Wellington suggests the ancient forests on New Zealand's West Coast may be under threat from climate change in the near future.
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A fundamentally new approach to electrostatic design of materialsResearchers at the Institute of Solid State Physics map out a radically new approach for designing optical and electronic properties of materials in Advanced Materials.
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In both love and war, alligators signal size by bellowingAmerican alligators produce loud, low-frequency vocalizations called "bellows." Cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna, Stephan Reber and Tecumseh Fitch, investigated these vocalizations and found that they reveal the caller's body size. Alligators can use this information to avoid unpromising contests for mates and breeding areas. The study results were published in Scientific Reports.
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Scientists unlock secret of chromosome copierUniversity of Dundee scientists have solved a mystery concerning one of the most fundamental processes in cell biology, in a new discovery that they hope may help to tackle cancer one day.
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Historic floods are ravaging Canada Environment Climate change is likely a factor Southeastern Canada is experiencing record breaking floods. Read on.
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Should complementary and alternative medicine charities lose their charitable status? | Michael Marshall Reliable evidence matters – and the Charity Commission’s consultation is a chance to make that clear to complementary and alternative therapy charities Right now, the Charity Commission is in the middle of a public consultation, asking whether or not organisations that offer complementary and alternative therapies should continue to have charitable status. This review presents an unprecedented op
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Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beingsIn 2016, conservative, pro-brexit, British politician Michael Gove announced that people in England "…have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."
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Supercomputing mimics berkelium experiments to validate new findThe Titan supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has enabled scientists to explore an unexpected oxidation state in the rare, radioactive element berkelium that was first observed in experiment. The OLCF is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility.
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Re-designing urban food gardens to deliver maximum benefitEver wondered why growing food at home never seems to save you any money?
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Shearing of alpacas is necessary, but also stressfulAlpacas, a species of New World camelids, have very thick wool. This requires them to be shorn regularly, just like sheep. But shearing is a source of stress for the animals. This has now been confirmed for the first time by researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna based on an evaluation of clinical, hormonal and behavioural parameters. The scientists were able to show that even the act of restraining th
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SHINE software shows data using virtual realityA new piece of free, online software, called SHINE3D, has been developed by researchers at CERN's NA61/SHINE experiment to show the physics data they're creating in 3-D.
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Not a lizard nor a dinosaur, tuatara is the sole survivor of a once-widespread reptile groupHave you ever heard of the tuatara? It's a reptile that decapitates birds with its saw-like jaws, lives to about 100 years old, and can remain active in near-freezing temperatures.
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Researchers shape the future of nano-electronicsThe future of nano-electronics is here. A team of researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Colorado School of Mines, and the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois have developed a novel method for the synthesis of a composite material that has the potential of vastly improving the electronics used by the Air Force.
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One laser is enoughGases in the environment can be spectroscopically probed fast and precisely using so-called dual frequency combs. Researchers at ETH have now developed a method by which such frequency combs can be created much more simply and cheaply than before.
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A holey graphene electrode framework that enables highly efficient charge delivery(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with institutions in the U.S., China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has developed a new type of porous graphene electrode framework that is capable of highly efficient charge delivery. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how they overcame traditional conflicts arising between tradeoffs involving density and speed to prod
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Scientists find a way to pack grains and drugs most efficientlyScientists have discovered a way to solve a problem that has baffled humans for so long it is mentioned in the Bible: achieving the most efficient packing of objects such as grains and pharmaceutical drugs.
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Water leak delays historic 200th spacewalk (Update)NASA discovered a water leak Friday at the International Space Station, delaying the start of the milestone 200th spacewalk at the global space lab.
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Fiat Chrysler recall: pickup air bags, belts may be disabledFiat Chrysler is recalling approximately 1 million trucks in North America due to a software glitch that could prevent side air bags and seatbelts from deploying during a rollover.
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Endangered Finnish seals go online to highlight plightWildlife conservationists in Finland are planning to give endangered seals a spot of online fame by streaming encounters with some of the few hundred remaining mammals in a bid to raise awareness of their plight.
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Popularity of sushi has brought rise in parasitic infections, warn doctors Doctors have highlighted the need for awareness of anisakiasis, caused by the larvae of a worm found in contaminated undercooked or raw fish or seafood From nigiri to temaki, sushi has boomed in popularity in the west, but now doctors are warning of a less appetising trend: a rise in parasitic infections. A team of doctors from Portugal raised concerns after a 32-year old man was admitted to hosp
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Famed Tree-Climbing Lions Running Low on PreyA rare group of tree-climbing lions living in Uganda must range farther and farther to find enough prey to survive, a new study found.
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New Drones Exhibit Has It All: Cool Tech, Games and ScienceLive Science peeks at a new exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum called "Drones: Is the Sky the Limit?"
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Watch male cuttlefish fight over a female in the wildFor the first time, researchers have observed the competitive mating behaviors of the European cuttlefish in the field.
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Finding mental disorders with mathWhat if a brain scan could detect the presence of a mental disorder even before symptoms have emerged? Or predict which depressed patients would respond to a particular medication and which would not? Or determine the likely rate of progression of Alzheimer's?
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Tracking the protein patrollersA nanoprobe developed by biophysicists at NC State could allow researchers to trace the movements of different proteins along DNA – without the drawbacks of current methods.
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A cheaper, greener way to grow crystalline semiconductor filmsUniversity of Michigan chemists have developed a greener, cheaper way to make single-crystalline semiconductor films, components at the heart of all of our electric gadgetry.
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Environment benefits from large middle class in some Asian countriesA large middle class in Thailand and Indonesia is demanding more environmental protection; something not happening in other developing South-East Asian nations.
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Seven ways to help your kids with math homeworkIf you've ever had to help your child with math homework, you really appreciate their teachers, who do it every day. "Math anxiety" isn't something only kids experience.
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Pet City: The Doctor Will See Your Iguana NowAt an exotic-animal hospital on the Upper West Side, a day’s worth of cases includes a duck with egg problems and a reptile with a troubled nose.
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Feature: Can Prairie Dogs Talk?An Arizona biologist believes that their sounds should be considered language — and that someday we’ll understand what they have to say.
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A Photo From Space Shows Belgium Shining Bright, and Social Media Lights UpPhotos taken by a French astronaut sparked a discussion about their beauty — and also raised questions about energy use.
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New CDC-funded portal enables health providers to schedule free colon cancer screeningsA new CDC-funded portal enables health providers to schedule free colorectal cancer screenings for uninsured patients in Cook County. Illinois Colon CARES, a UChicago Medicine-led initiative, is seeking to become model for other states to increase access for vulnerable populations.
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Safeguarding Islam's ancient pastA recent conference in Bahrain brought together experts in Islamic archaeology to discuss the lessons of the past and how to safeguard Muslim heritage for future generations.
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Image: Uintah Basin captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2ASentinel-2 takes us over the border of the US states Utah and Colorado.
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Researchers create anticancer nanomaterials by simulating underwater volcanic conditionsResearchers at Aalto University, Finland, have developed anticancer nanomaterials by simulating the volcano-induced dynamic chemistry of the deep ocean. The novel method enables making nanoclusters of zinc peroxide in an environmentally friendly manner without the use of additional chemicals. The as-synthesised zinc peroxide nanoparticles can be used as a tool for cancer therapy and against other
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'Lost' forests found covering an area two-thirds the size of AustraliaA new global analysis of the distribution of forests and woodlands has "found" 467 million hectares of previously unreported forest – an area equivalent to 60% of the size of Australia.
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Lab unveils 'heart-on-a-chip'Prescription drugs have enabled millions of Americans with chronic medical conditions to live longer and more fulfilling lives, but many promising new drugs never make it to the human trials stage due to the potential for cardiac toxicity.
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Ancient ground squirrels prove to belong to a present-day speciesMembers of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have studied arctic ground squirrels in the Indigirka river basin, and found that their relatives now inhabit Kamchatka. The scientists have shared the research results in an article published in Scientific Reports.
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Researchers analyze link between employment status and domestic violenceResearchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have carried out a study that analyzes sociodemographic characteristics related to gender-based violence. The study reveals that there is a lower incidence of domestic violence in families whose employment status is more equal.
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'Fire-streaks' are created in collisions of atomic nucleiAt very high energies, the collision of massive atomic nuclei in an accelerator generates hundreds or even thousands of particles that undergo numerous interactions. Physicists at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, Poland, have shown that the course of this complex process can be represented by a surprisingly simple model: Extremely hot matter moves away
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Danmark skal beslutte sig for, om Crispr/Cas9 er GMORetssag i Frankrig får EU-Kommissionen til at stoppe processen med afklaring af, hvilke planteforædlingsteknologier, der er GMO. Danmark starter dog samtidig en åben proces om samme spørgsmål.
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'Microscopic Lego' to keep scientists busy 'for next 50 years'Atom-scale building blocks that have been compared to microscopic Lego are allowing researchers to play with the properties of common materials, and the possibilities are so great that it could keep scientists busy for the next 50 years.
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Alaska counters lack of fresh veggies with greenhouse guideCold-climate greenhouses have long been an option for increasing the limited growing season in Alaska, where fresh produce is a rarity in a harsh environment. But for many remote communities that rely on costly imported diesel fuel for their power source, they're too expensive to operate.
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Jurassic drop in ocean oxygen lasted a million yearsDramatic drops in oceanic oxygen, which cause mass extinctions of sea life, come to a natural end – but it takes about a million years.
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Jurassic drop in ocean oxygen lasted a million yearsDramatic drops in oceanic oxygen, which cause mass extinctions of sea life, come to a natural end — but it takes about a million years.
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Invasive lung cancer cells display symbiosis — Key to metastasisLung cancer cells making up an invasive pack have specialized roles as leaders and followers, and depend on each other for mobility and survival. The genes supporting the cells' interdependence, explored with innovative cell separation techniques, could be keys to future treatments aimed at impairing cancer metastasis.
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In Afghanistan, Trump Is Poised to Re-Escalate a Hopeless War Republicans are supposedly becoming more nationalistic, less willing to bear the burdens of global empire. Democrats are supposedly moving left, abandoning the “indispensable nation” hawkishness favored by the Clintons. American politics, we are told, is turning into a battle between Breitbart and Bernie Sanders. So how come America is reportedly considering escalating its war in Afghanistan? Don
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Trump Says He Didn't Know Michael Flynn in 2015, Which Is a Big Fucking Lie President Donald Trump giving an interview to Lester Holt of NBC News on May 11, 2017 where Trump claimed he didn’t know Michael Flynn in 2015, which is a lie (NBC News/YouTube/Screenshot) Last night, President Trump spoke with Lester Holt in an interview for NBC News. It’s truly a jaw-dropping conversation for a number of reasons, but there’s one important lie that everyone seems to have missed.
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Med støtte på 30 mio. skal skolebørn lære at tænke som ingeniørerOver de næste tre år skal Engineer the future udvikle undervisningsmateriale til folkeskolen, der kan udklække ingeniører og naturvidenskabsfolk blandt de yngre i befolkning.
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Did Global Warming Really ‘Pause’ During the 2000s? It is the first year of the new Republican president’s term. He has taken over a healthy economy from his Democratic predecessor, and, with it, the freedom to branch out beyond the typical Reaganism. He has also inherited a slew of environmental policies, many of which combat global warming. Most important among these is a fledgling UN treaty, a global agreement to restrict greenhouse-gas emissio
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Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown 'changed my life' At the height of his fame, Cary Grant turned to LSD therapy for help. He later claimed the drug saved him, but did it also spell the end of his career? In the late 1950s, at the height of his fame, Cary Grant set off on a trip in search of his true self, unpicking the myth he had spent three decades perfecting. He tried hypnosis and yoga and felt that they both came up short. So he began dropping
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Naturopathic Edumacation: A FAQAn evaluation of a Naturopathic Education FAQ.
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Female mannequins aren't just skinny, they're emaciated A new study has found that female mannequins, but not male ones, represent extremely underweight women There have have been several observations in the press and on social media in the past few years that some of the mannequins used to sell women’s fashion represent unrealistic and unhealthy body sizes. But until we started to look into it, the issue had not been researched properly, and the evid
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Delayed use of blood thinners for atrial fibrillation patients increases risk of dementiaNew, first-of-its-kind, large-scale study includes more than 76,000 heart patients.
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S.Korea's largest games maker goes publicSouth Korea's biggest mobile games maker Netmarble went public in Seoul Friday as it seeks overseas acquisitions, with early trading valuing the firm at around $12 billion.
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New Zealand's ambitious plan to save birds: Kill every ratNew Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it's been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, possum and stoat.
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US intel chiefs express doubts about Kaspersky security softwareTop US intelligence chiefs on Thursday publicly expressed doubts about the global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs because of its roots in Russia.
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Judge refers theft allegations against Uber to US AttorneyA federal judge has referred trade secret theft allegations made against Uber by Google's autonomous car unit to the U.S. Attorney's office for investigation.
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If you have no children, who will care for you when you’re old? | Sonia Sodha We had to fight to get my grandfather good care. Those of us who don’t have children need a new approach Few of us are immune from the anxiety that can quickly set in when we contemplate our own ageing. Who will be there for us when us can no longer physically take care of ourselves? Who will be around to remind us of who we were in our moments of lucidity when our minds have started slipping awa
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Judge refers Waymo v. Uber lawsuit to criminal investigators An Uber driverless Ford Fusion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: Getty Images) Waymo's allegations of trade secret theft against Uber should be referred to the US attorney for investigation, "based on the evidentiary record supplied thus far," a federal judge ruled yesterday. "The Court takes no position on whether a prosecution is or is not warranted, a decision entirely up to the United Sta
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Former U.S. Representative Found Guilty of Fraud Former U.S. Representative Corrine Brown was found guilty Thursday of pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars that she raised for a fake charity alongside her former chief of staff, Elias “Ronnie” Simmons. Brown was a member of the House of Representatives for more than two decades, and one of the first African-Americans from Florida to be elected to Congress. She ran for reelection in 2016, b
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Lifting your spirits doesn't require many repsEngaging in light or moderate physical activity such as taking a walk or going for a bike ride is the best way for normally inactive people to beat the blues and improve their sense of well-being, according to a University of Connecticut study. Researchers say that in this study there was no additional emotional benefit gained from working out aggressively.
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Severe mental illness linked to much higher risk for cardiovascular diseaseAn international study of more than 3.2 million people with severe mental illness reveals a substantially increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease compared to the general population.
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An Algorithm Summarizes Lengthy Text Surprisingly WellTraining software to accurately sum up information in documents could have great impact in many fields, such as medicine, law, and scientific research.
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Are Humans Hardwired to Be Cruel to Each Other? | Robert Sapolsky submitted by /u/Nobody35593 [link] [comments]
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Ars Technica57
Microsoft reaches beyond Windows with Timeline and Pick Up Where I Left Off Resuming an activity in Windows Timeline. (video link) SEATTLE—At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft took the wraps off the next major Windows 10 version, the Fall Creators Update , and announced some of its new features. One of these new features, Timeline, is going to be good when you're using Windows 10—but even better when you're not. Timeline tracks what you're doing—which docu
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily19
Global distribution of sea animalsResearchers analyze data about the global distribution of sea animals and develop a Web app.
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Live Science18
How Many US High Schoolers Binge Drink?About one-third of U.S. high schoolers say they drink alcohol, and one in six say they binge drink, according to a new report.
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New insights into the tumor metabolismTumors, inflammation and circulatory disorders locally disturb the body's acid-base balance. These changes in pH value could be used for example to verify the success of cancer treatments. Up to now, however, there has been no imaging method to render such changes visible in patients. Now a team has developed a pH sensor that renders pH values visible through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) — in
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily42
New lyme disease forecast map targets rising tide of ticksNew research offers veterinarians a forecasting map that tells them which parts of the country are most at risk of Lyme disease infections in dogs, which could also help track and predict Lyme disease in people.
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily13
Populations adapt as nature and nurture work togetherA study of fruit fly larvae leads researchers to conclude that nature and nurture do collaborate in determining the behavior of a population. Researchers found a genetic correlation between learning and behavioral plasticity in relation to changing conditions.
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily48
Ancient Mars impacts created tornado-like winds that scoured surfacePlumes of vapor generated by ancient impacts on Mars created tornado-like winds possibly swirling at more than 500 miles per hour, which explain mysterious streaks seen near large impact craters on the Martian surface.
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily28
Some forests have been hiding in plain sightA new estimate of dryland forests suggests that the global forest cover is at least 9 percent higher than previously thought. The finding will help reduce uncertainties surrounding terrestrial carbon sink estimates.
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Is this the 'holey' grail of batteries?In a battery system, electrodes containing porous graphene scaffolding offer a substantial improvement in both the retention and transport of energy, a new study reveals.
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Low heart rate linked to stalking behaviors in menA low resting heart rate, which has been linked to aggression and violent offending, has been implicated in stalking behavior in males, according to a recent study.
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Tillerson, in Alaska, Gives No Hint on Paris Climate AccordAt a meeting of the Arctic Council, the secretary of state was noncommittal when asked about the administration’s view on the landmark climate agreement.
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Magic Leap, and the Troubles In Sexism Valley Misogyny in the tech industry isn't just wrong—it's a warning sign that a company is in trouble. The post Magic Leap, and the Troubles In Sexism Valley appeared first on WIRED .
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The Atlantic20
Trump Signs a Long-Awaited Cybersecurity Order President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to protect the U.S. from cybersecurity risks, including computer hacking. The news comes just days after Trump fired the nation’s former FBI director, James Comey, who was conducting an investigation into the alleged Russian hacking of the Democratic party and its 2016 candidate, Hillary Clinton. In March, Comey revealed the F
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Arctic summit: Trump to make 'right decision for the US' on climatePresident Trump will make "the right decision for the US" as he reviews the climate change policy.
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Futurity.org2
To experience beauty, you’ll have to think In order to experience beauty, we must think, a new study suggests, confirming the 18th-century idea of Immanuel Kant’s about the relationship between beauty and thought. “The experience of beauty is a form of pleasure,” explains Denis Pelli, a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University and the study’s senior author. “To get it, we must think.” “From Homer’s Iliad to today’
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The Real Threat to Our Government Is Tech Illiteracy Drafting sane tech policy is hard. But that's no excuse for not doing it, as Comey's tenure as FBI director proves. The post The Real Threat to Our Government Is Tech Illiteracy appeared first on WIRED .
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You Can’t Bug the Oval Office (For Long, Anyway) A Russian photographer in the White House has raised suspicions of surveillance. But the real issue is Trump's lack of security care. The post You Can't Bug the Oval Office (For Long, Anyway) appeared first on WIRED .
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Seniors remain uneasy 3 years after Ferguson When a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot Michael Brown, Jr., in August 2014, civil unrest lasted for weeks. The aftershocks continue, including for older people in the community who say issues relating to safety remains their highest concern, a new study finds. “Safety was a very interesting topic because people talked about it in various ways,” says gerontologist Nancy Morrow-Howe
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Scientific American Content: Global61
The Sneaky Danger of Space DustWhen tiny particles of space debris slam into satellites, the collision could cause the emission of hardware-frying radiation. Christopher Intagliata reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Atlantic500+
The Russians Troll Trump It’s hard to imagine how Wednesday could have gone any worse for the Trump White House. But it did, because the Trump White House didn’t see any reason to cancel or reschedule or somehow modify the president’s promise to Russian President Vladimir Putin that he would receive Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Oval Office. Apparently, the day after firing the man investigating members o
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Live Science24
Hepatitis C Cases Triple, and Opioid Crisis Is Mainly to BlameCases of hepatitis C have tripled over a five-year span, thanks in large part to the exploding opioid epidemic, which leads to IV drug use.
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Ars Technica59
In the Arctic, carbon dioxide goes down where methane comes up Enlarge / One example of a methane seep (off the coast of Virginia, in this case). (credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program ) Reports of methane bubbling up from the bottom of the East Siberian Sea may have induced some climate change anxiety. In recent years, plumes of methane bubbles rising up from what was once dry permafrost have been observed off the Siberian coast. But their context was uncle
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The Atlantic2
The Atlantic Daily: Crisis Response What We’re Following Comey, Cont’d: The latest explanation for the controversial dismissal comes from President Trump himself, who says he’d planned to fire the FBI director “regardless” of the DAG’s recommendation. What’s it mean for the president to fire a principal officer charged with investigating his campaign? Though many commentators have called this a constitutional crisis, the firing doe
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Gizmodo200+
Rosie O'Donnell Says A Former FBI Agent Changed Her Mind About James Comey Photo: Getty If you thought that President Trump and Rosie O’Donnell finally agreed on something—as the president’s tweets would have you believe—you’d be dead wrong. Despite what she may have stated before, Rosie doesn’t think that James Comey should’ve been fired from the FBI this week. Advertisement In Twitter direct messages on Thursday, she told Gizmodo that when she tweeted “FIRE COMEY” in
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Compound corrects iron-delivery defectsInvestigators describe a compound known as Hinokitiol which can correct iron-delivery defects in preclinical models. Their study lays the groundwork for investigating Hinkitiol's full potential beyond cellular and model organisms.
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Disentangling chloroplast geneticsProper DNA inheritance is essential for healthy chloroplast: the energy center of all plant cells. Researchers discover a new gene in chloroplast that disentangles its DNA for proper plant health.
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Trilobites: Humans Have a Poor Sense of Smell? It’s Just a MythThe belief that the human nose isn’t very acute is not based on empirical evidence, a scientist says in a new review.
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Cutting smoking rates could save the NHS £67 million a yearIf smoking rates dropped to 5 percent in the UK by 2035, the NHS could save £67million in just one year, according to research published in Tobacco Control today.
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Beware of parasites in raw/undercooked fish, warn doctorsAn unseen hazard of eating raw or undercooked fish/seafood is on the rise in Western countries, where dishes, such as sushi, are becoming increasingly popular, warn doctors today in BMJ Case Reports.
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Drug used for alcohol dependence might also treat stuttering, suggest researchersBaclofen, a drug that has recently been used to treat alcohol dependence despite not officially being licensed for this condition, might also help stop stuttering, suggest researchers in the journal BMJ Case Reports.
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Cut UK smokers to under 5 percent to lop millions off healthcare and productivity costsSetting an ambitious UK target of a smoking prevalence of less than 5 percent by 2035 would avoid nearly 12,500 new cases of serious disease and save more than £600 million in healthcare and lost productivity costs in that year alone, conclude researchers in Tobacco Control.
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Heroin Epidemic Is Driving A Spike In Hepatitis C Cases, CDC Says From 2010 to 2015, the number of new infections leaped nearly 300 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And researchers appear confident of the cause. (Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Big Think500+
How Does Jesus Fit Into Islam? Jesus was a revered figure and prophet in the Quran. But what exactly do Muslims believe about him? Read More
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NeuWrite San Diego
Identity CrisisWho are you? How do you know? I’ve been thinking a lot about identity this week. It all started when I received a letter from the IRS that began “Dear TAXPAYER” and essentially asked, “Are you who you say you are?” (Yes, it’s me! Please send me my tax refund!) To validate my identity, I […]
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The Atlantic97
Mark Colvin, of Australia and the World Today the eminent Australian broadcaster Mark Colvin died at age 65. This is a sad moment for his country, for his many friends (of whom I was glad to be one), and for his craft. Mark Colvin’s impact on and prominence in his home country may be difficult for Americans to imagine, since no single U.S. news organization has the nationwide omnipresence of the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC) fo
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Big Think80
Thanks, Robot! Humans are Showing Kindness with Their AI Helpers. Even though there is no ramification for being rude or cold to AI, we may have a tendency to display gratitude. Why? An interview with the founder of x.ai, Dennis Mortensen. Read More
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Desperate For Protein? Join These Ladies In Chomping Down On A Giant Worm! #NakedAndAfraidXL | Sundays at 11/10c Lacey finds a huge worm and prepares it for dinner. Will it be a tasty meal, or full of something we'd rather not think about? Full Episodes Streaming FREE on Discovery GO: https://www.discoverygo.com/naked-and-afraid-xl More info: http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/naked-and-afraid-xl/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Join us on Facebo
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The Atlantic18
The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Showboat Today in 5 Lines In an interview with NBC, President Trump called former FBI Director James Comey a “showboat,” and said he was going to fire him “regardless” of what the Justice Department recommended. During his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe denied the White House’s assertion that FBI employees had lost confidence in Comey. The leaders of
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The Atlantic60
The Senate Confirms Trump's NAFTA Negotiator The Senate confirmed Robert Lighthizer as U.S. trade representative on Thursday, putting in place the man the Trump administration has been waiting on to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement. Unlike many of President Trump’s appointees, the Senate easily approved Lighthizer, voting 82-14. Still, the vote was held up for weeks because Lighthizer needed a special waiver due t
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Gizmodo200+
MST3K Robots Pitch New Shows to Netflix, Like Fuller House but With Piles of Bodies GIF We are smack dab in the middle of TV pick-up season, what with Syfy’s just-announced round of shows and Fox’s The Gifted getting its first teaser trailer , so it’s only natural that Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo from Netflix’s MST3K reboot would want to get in on the action. Only, most of their shows seem to involve murdering vast sums of people. Advertisement The Netflix video features Crow an
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Jezebel ‘Y’all Are Demons’: An Investigation Into a Patch and Who Stole It | Deadspin The Real 2017 Jezebel ‘Y’all Are Demons’: An Investigation Into a Patch and Who Stole It | Deadspin The Real 2017 Name Of The Year Is… | The Root Can We Talk About This Thing Bothering Me About Dear White People ? | Fusion Trump to Hang Map of His National Popular Vote Loss in White House |
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Antiproton count hints at dark matter annihilationAntimatter in cosmic rays could be a sign of dark matter.
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Certain medical diagnoses may increase hospitalized patients' risk of kidney injuryPatients who were admitted to the hospital with sepsis, heart diseases, polytrauma, liver disease, and cardiovascular surgery were at elevated risk for developing acute kidney injury (AKI).The medical records of most patients who developed hospital-acquired AKI did not include the diagnosis code for AKI.
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Is This Bluetooth Salt Shaker the Juicero of Seasoning? Screenshot via mysmalt.com It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you of a “smart salt shaker” called “ The Smalt .” Oddly, the shaking aspect of this shaker is still decidedly unplugged— you still have do all the shaking; Smalt just “tracks” it for you. (And lights up. And plays music.) It is, essentially, the Juicero of seasoning. As far as how it “tracks”—does it know about my oddly high
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The Atlantic100+
Is Donald Trump a Secret Redditor? The president of the United States has long-running beef with the actress Rosie O’Donnell, and that is not even the most surreal sentence I have written today . But this is not about me: It’s about Donald Trump and it’s about his tweet to O’Donnell at 3:55 p.m. “We finally agree on something Rosie,” says the tweet, published via Trump’s personal account, @realDonaldTrump. Trump was referring to a
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Live Science15
Baby Endangered Royal Turtles Hatch in Cambodia | VideoConservationists recently announced the successful hatching of nine Cambodian Royal Turtle babies, offering hope for the critically endangered population.
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Free C3d regulates immune checkpoint blockade and enhances anti-tumor immunityResearchers have found a protein that stops cancer's ability to prevent the immune system from destroying cancer cells. The protein, free C3d, has the potential to be developed into a cancer vaccine and a cancer treatment.
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Unexpectedly primitive atmosphere found around distant 'warm Neptune'A new study led by NASA with contributions from the University of Maryland reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. Located about 437 light years away from Earth, HAT-P-26b orbits a star roughly twice as old as the sun. The analysis is one of the most detailed studies to date of a 'warm Neptune,' a planet that is Neptune-
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories200+
Ancient Mars impacts created tornado-like winds that scoured surfaceIn looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large-impact craters on the planet's surface. The streaks are odd in that they extend much farther from the craters than normal ejecta patterns, and they are only visible in thermal infrared images taken during the Martian night.
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Migratory seabird deaths linked to hurricanesStronger and more frequent hurricanes may pose a new threat to the sooty tern, an iconic species of migratory seabird found throughout the Caribbean and Mid-Atlantic, a new Duke University-led study reveals.
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Popular Science12
What a Jell-O brain tells us about the future of human-machine interaction Technology Expanding the ways people connect with the digital landscape Yang Zhang, a 26-year-old computer science doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, created a touch-sensitive model of the human brain out of red Jell-O and milk…
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Knowledge of DNA repair mechanisms advances with new paperWe humans like to think our DNA is well-protected in the nucleus of each cell. But it's a hard life for the hard-working genetic code.
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Liquid-crystal and bacterial living materials self-organize and move in their own waySmart glass, transitional lenses and mood rings are not the only things made of liquid crystals; mucus, slug slime and cell membranes also contain them. Now, a team of researchers is trying to better understand how liquid crystals, combined with bacteria, form living materials and how the two interact to organize and move.
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The Atlantic500+
The White House Declares War on the Specter of Voter Fraud If the intensifying scrutiny over alleged Russian interference in the election and the affairs of the White House and the truly unprecedented firing of former FBI Director James Comey by President Trump weren’t enough to fill a news cycle, the White House released an executive order on Thursday afternoon establishing the “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” The commission wil
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Ancient Mars impacts created tornado-like winds that scoured surfacePlumes of vapor generated by ancient impacts on Mars created tornado-like winds possibly swirling at more than 500 miles per hour, which explain mysterious streaks seen near large impact craters on the Martian surface.
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Ars Technica97
Sprint sues government over elimination of broadband price caps Enlarge / Money. (credit: Getty Images | GP Kidd ) Sprint and Windstream sued the Federal Communications Commission this week over a decision that will help AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink charge higher prices for certain business Internet services. The FCC last month voted to eliminate price caps for the so-called Business Data Services (BDS) that are offered by incumbent phone companies througho
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How 450-Million-Year-Old Bacteria Evolved into a Dangerous SuperbugA dangerous bacteria found in hospitals might have originated from an ancestor that lived in the guts of the first animals to walk on land.
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Microsoft aims at 'mixed reality' with new devicesMicrosoft on Thursday debuted hardware for reaching into virtual worlds powered by its technology as it looked to "mixed reality" as the next big computing platform.
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Science | The Guardian24
Robot spaceplane returns from hush-hush mission Craft touches down on the Kennedy Space Centre runway where the now retired space shuttle landed 78 times from 1984 to 2011 The US Air Force’s X-37B robotic space plane landed on 7 May after 718 days in orbit. This was the unmanned spacecraft’s fourth trip into space and, as before, the precise details of the sojourn are classified. The only payloads that the military revealed upon the vehicle’s
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Halo Fan Turns Microsoft's Cortana Into Actual Hologram GIF Usually, Cortana the personal assistant is just a disembodied voice. One Halo fan decided to take his Cortana to the next level by building a rad hologram appliance that responds to your queries. Advertisement The whole thing is still a work in progress, creator Jarem “ untitled network ” Archer says, but it’s still pretty cool to watch it in action: The animations were built with a Unity 3D
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Ars Technica74
Microsoft’s new VR controllers will be great—until SteamVR “Knuckles” arrive Enlarge / Surprise! Microsoft has its own VR controller. (credit: Microsoft ) Thursday's Microsoft Build keynote included a repeated call from Technical Fellow Alex Kipman about the importance of mixed reality (meaning, virtual reality headsets and their "augmented" reality siblings like Hololens). This platform will drive "the future of computing," he said, and he repeated Microsoft's call to us
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Magnet study sees potential for MRE in measuring liver fibrosis in childrenResearchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators across the nation, have determined that magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) can be an accurate, non-invasive tool to identify liver fibrosis in children. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most common cause of chronic liver disease in children, and scarring of the liver, known as fibrosis, i
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Migratory seabird deaths linked to hurricanesStronger and more frequent hurricanes may pose a new threat to the sooty tern, a species of migratory seabird found throughout the Caribbean and Mid-Atlantic, a new Duke-led study reveals. The study is the first to map the birds' annual migratory path and demonstrate how its timing and trajectory place them in the direct path of hurricanes moving into the Caribbean from the Atlantic. Climate chang
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Ars Technica200+
Intel’s Itanium CPUs, once a play for 64-bit servers and desktops, are dead Enlarge (credit: Intel) Remember Itanium? Intel's first crack at 64-bit server processors from circa the turn of the millennium? Well, two things: Intel is releasing four new 9700-series Itanium CPUs based on the "Kittson" architecture , and the chips are the last new Itanium processors that the company plans to ship. An Intel spokesperson confirmed to PC World that this was the end of the line f
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The Atlantic1
How Hollywood Keeps Telling the Legend of King Arthur King Arthur: Legend of the Sword introduces its title character via a flashy montage about his adolescence on the streets of Roman London in the inimitable style of the director Guy Ritchie. Arthur (Charlie Hunnam), an orphan abandoned by his royal parents as a boy, is raised by brothel owners. He climbs the ranks of the underworld, turning into a glorified mobster/bouncer with ripped abs trained
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China cracks down on fake data in drug trials Researchers and manufacturers face possible jail time — or execution — for fraudulent submissions to nation's drug agency. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21977
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Knowledge of DNA repair mechanisms advances with new paper from Mayo Clinic scientistsWe humans like to think our DNA is well-protected in the nucleus of each cell. But it's a hard life for the hard-working genetic code.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News4
Liquid-crystal and bacterial living materials self-organize and move in their own waySmart glass, transitional lenses and mood rings are not the only things made of liquid crystals; mucus, slug slime and cell membranes also contain them. Now, a team of researchers is trying to better understand how liquid crystals, combined with bacteria, form living materials and how the two interact to organize and move.
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Gizmodo500+
Samsung Dex Comes Heartbreakingly Close to Turning a Phone Into a Full-Blown Computer Image: Gizmodo / Eleanor Fye The Samsung Dex is a tiny new smartphone dock that wades carefully toward a world in which smartphones serve as our primary computers. It’s about the size of a hockey puck, and when the Galaxy S8 , a monitor, and a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse are connected, the Dex turns the phone into a surprisingly functional desktop. The idea is that instead of lugging a laptop ar
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Gizmodo73
Watching Foods Deflate and Re-Inflate Has Left Me Starving and Confused GIF Mike Pelletier’s short film Still Life looks nothing like the classical paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers you’ll find in a stuffy art gallery. Using hyper-realistic computer animation, Pelletier’s film instead features fruits, vegetables, and breads that look like they’re secretly balloons as they deflate and then fill back up with air. Advertisement You’ll feel a little confused at the
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Popular Science200+
Humans have a better sense of smell than you think Science The nose knows You can blame a 19th century scientists for the mistaken idea that our sense of smell stinks.
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Neptune-like exoplanet spotted that has a watery atmosphereSigns of water in a gas giant exoplanet’s atmosphere suggest the world formed much closer to its star than gas giants in our solar system did
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Hanging on: In search of the bat that returned from the deadThe Cuban greater funnel-eared bat was thought extinct until a small population was spotted in a forgotten corner of the island – surviving, but only just
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Ars Technica71
Astronomers find water in the atmosphere of a warm, Neptune-sized planet Enlarge / An artist's conception of planet HAT-P-26b, along with the outlines of the two telescopes that imaged it. (credit: NASA/GSFC ) Scientists are announcing a rare look into the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet more than 400 light years away. The planet is roughly Neptune-sized and orbits close to its host star. And now we know its atmosphere contains significant amounts of water. Signific
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Zika's Economic BurdenA new analysis estimates that the viral disease could cost between $183 million and more than $10 billion in the U.S. alone.
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Gizmodo100+
Six Best Pairs Of Men's Premium Underwear, And A Pee Poll Image via MeUndies Earlier this week we asked you to unzip and talk about your picks for best men’s premium underwear. Some of you ignored the criteria completely, some of you nominated underwear marketed toward women, and many of you engaged in a healthy debate about best practices when peeing. There’s something for everyone here. Note: This post got long, so we’re putting the poll at the top fo
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The Atlantic300+
A Republican Congressman Meets His Angry Constituency WILLINGBORO, N.J.— Representative Tom MacArthur knew well what he was getting into when he showed up in this Democratic stronghold on Wednesday . The second-term lawmaker who had almost single-handedly resuscitated the House Republican health-care bill would hear from the constituents who now despised him for playing hero at their expense. He had come back to face a particular kind of music—the c
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Personal AI Privacy Watchdog Could Help You Regain Control of Your DataIf regulators aren’t going to help consumers make sense of what companies are doing with their data, maybe artificial intelligence can.
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How we finally figured out the color of dinosaur feathers Animals Excerpt: The Evolution of Beauty Describing the plumage coloration of Anchiornis huxleyi was like writing the very first entry in the Field Guide to Jurassic Dinosaurs. Read on.
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories300+
Astronomers pursue renegade supermassive black holeSupermassive holes are generally stationary objects, sitting at the centers of most galaxies. However, using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers recently hunted down what could be a supermassive black hole that may be on the move.
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High levels of radon found in Pennsylvania water wellsCancer-causing radon has been found in some Pennsylvania water wells, adding slightly to the much bigger threat faced by homeowners from airborne sources of the radioactive gas.
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NASA analyzed powerful Tropical Cyclone Donna's extreme rainfallTropical Cyclone Donna was one of the most powerful out-of-season tropical cyclones ever recorded in the southern hemisphere and generated extreme amounts of rainfall along its path. NASA analyzed and mapped rainfall totals generated by the storm.
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Cells that trim brain connections are linked to autism A difference in brain biology between the sexes might render males most vulnerable to autism. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21978
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Futurity.org17
Breast cancer is more deadly without insurance Research has found that uninsured patients were 60 percent more likely to die from breast cancer. Uninsured women with breast cancer were nearly 2.6 times more likely to have a late-stage diagnosis than cancer patients who were insured, the study in the journal Cancer shows. “Access to screening services may play a role in the association between insurance status and breast cancer stage at diagno
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Trump Finally Signs Overdue Executive Order About 'The Cyber' President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity of the federal government, according to the White House. Advertisement A copy of the document distributed to a White House press list and later posted on the White House website details Trump’s first attempt to develop a protocol for defending the U.S. against malicious hackers and securing the n
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3D-Printed 'Eyes' Could Help Blind Children's Faces Grow NaturallyResearchers used a 3D printer to create eye-like structures to help the faces of kids who are missing eyes to grow naturally and symmetrically.
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WIRED100+
Star Neuroscientist Tom Insel Leaves the Google-Spawned Verily for … a Startup? What could be going on at Verily that would lead the former head of the National Institutes of Mental Health to bail on Google-sized money and data? The post Star Neuroscientist Tom Insel Leaves the Google-Spawned Verily for … a Startup? appeared first on WIRED .
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Scientists ID human protein essential for human cytomegalovirus replicationScientists have demonstrated that a human protein known as valosin containing protein (VCP) is essential for replication of human cytomegalovirus (HCMV). The findings, published in PLOS Pathogens, identify VCP as a potential new treatment target.
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NASA analyzed powerful Tropical Cyclone Donna's extreme rainfallTropical Cyclone Donna was one of the most powerful out-of-season tropical cyclones ever recorded in the southern hemisphere and generated extreme amounts of rainfall along its path. NASA analyzed and mapped rainfall totals generated by the storm.
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Oldest buckthorn fossilized flowers found in ArgentinaAround 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous period, a giant asteroid crashed into the present-day Gulf of Mexico, leading to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs. How plants were affected is less understood, but fossil records show that ferns were the first plants to recover many thousands of years afterward.Now, a team including Cornell researchers reports the discovery of the
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Selfish genes hide for decades in plain sight of worm geneticistsCrossing wild Hawaiian C. elegans with the familiar lab strain reveals genes that benefit themselves by making mother worms poison offspring who haven’t inherited the right stuff.
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Dutch group says it will soon start cleaning up ocean trashA Dutch foundation aiming to rid the world's oceans of plastic waste says it will start cleaning up the huge area of floating junk known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within the next 12 months, two years earlier than planned.
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Using single-cell RNA sequencing and clever statistical analysis to track stem cells as they matureAdult stem cells have the ability to transform into many types of cells, but tracing the path individual stem cells follow as they mature and identifying the molecules that trigger these fateful decisions are difficult in a living animal.
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Cable lobby conducts survey, finds that Americans want net neutrality (credit: M3Li55@ ) As US cable companies push to eliminate or change net neutrality rules, the industry's primary lobby group today released the results of a survey that it says shows "strong bipartisan consensus that the government should let the Internet flourish without imposing burdensome regulations." But proponents of keeping the current rules can find plenty to like in the survey conducted
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Three new sub-species of snow leopard discoveredA recent research paper in the Journal of Heredity reveals that there are three sub-species of snow leopard. Until now, researchers had assumed this species, Panthera uncia, was monotypic.
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This nasal receptor mediates the appetizing smell of fish foodThe aquatic environment is full of tantalizing chemicals that can guide a fish to mates or meals. Now, scientists in Japan have identified the olfactory receptor and brain circuitry that picks up the scent of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Although mostly known for carrying energy within cells, ATP is also a constituent of fish prey such as brine shrimp and plankton. The newly identified receptor
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Scientists unveil the UK's largest resource of human stem cells from healthy donorsOne of the largest sets of high quality human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from healthy individuals has been produced by a consortium involving the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Comprehensively annotated and available for independent research, the hundreds of stem cell lines are a powerful resource for scientists studying human development and disease.
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Video imaging reveals how immune cells sense dangerHow do T cells, the beat cops of the immune system, detect signs of disease without the benefit of eyes? Like most cells, they explore their surroundings through direct physical contact, but how T cells feel out intruders rapidly and reliably enough to nip infections and other threats in the bud has remained a mystery to researchers.
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First comprehensive map of subcellular localization of proteins reveals new insightsThe first analysis of how proteins are arranged in a cell was published today in Science, revealing that a large portion of human proteins can be found in more than one location in a given cell.
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Primitive atmosphere discovered around 'Warm Neptune'A pioneering new study uncovering the 'primitive atmosphere' surrounding a distant world could provide a pivotal breakthrough in the search to how planets form and develop in far-flung galaxies.
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This myth smells fishyWhen listing animals with a keen sense of smell, people are not likely to place their own species, humans, at the top, perhaps picking rabbits or dogs instead. But in this Review, John McGann points to evidence, from a variety of research efforts, that the belief that humans have an inferior sense of smell may be more a remnant of an old myth than a hypothesis based on fact.
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A watery exoplanet of unexpected composition — and perhaps originAstronomers have discovered that a Neptune-sized planet orbiting another star has an atmosphere containing water and clouds. While thousands of exoplanets have been discovered to date, little is known about their atmospheres, especially for bodies smaller than Jupiter.
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Some forests have been hiding in plain sightA new estimate of dryland forests suggests that the global forest cover is at least 9 percent higher than previously thought. The finding will help reduce uncertainties surrounding terrestrial carbon sink estimates.
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The human sense of smell: It's stronger than we thinkThe assertion that animals have a better sense of smell than humans is a 19th century myth with no scientific proof, says Rutgers University-New Brunswick neuroscientist John McGann who spent part of the last year reviewing existing research, examining data and delving into the historical writings that helped create the long-held misconception.
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First comprehensive map of subcellular localization of proteins reveals new insightsThe first analysis of how proteins are arranged in a cell was published today in Science, revealing that a large portion of human proteins can be found in more than one location in a given cell.
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3D printing could make medical implants in hours A new 3D-printing technology could create medical implants that are stronger, less expensive, more flexible, and more comfortable than anything currently available. In a new paper in Science Advances , researchers describe the process they developed for using 3D printing and soft silicone to manufacture items that millions of patients use: ports for draining bodily fluids, implantable bands, ball
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Rare quasars measure ripples in ‘cosmic web’ In the vast expanses between galaxies, only atoms—a haze of hydrogen gas left over from the Big Bang—occupy solitary cubes one meter on a side. On the largest scale, this diffuse material forms a network of filamentary structures known as the “cosmic web,” its tangled strands spanning billions of light years and accounting for the majority of atoms in the universe. Now, a team of astronomers has
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Distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on EarthKU researcher Adrian Melott examines the effects of a supernova on Earth's biology in new research to appear in Astrophysical Journal. The KU researcher and colleagues argue the estimated distance of the supernova thought to have occurred roughly 2.6 million years ago should be cut in half.
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Discovery in the early universe poses black hole growth puzzleQuasars are luminous objects with supermassive black holes at their centers, visible over vast cosmic distances. Infalling matter increases the black hole mass and is also responsible for a quasar's brightness. Now, using the W.M. Keck observatory in Hawaii, astronomers led by Christina Eilers have discovered extremely young quasars with a puzzling property: these quasars have the mass of about a
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Windows 10 update aims to help identify best photos, videosAn upcoming feature in Microsoft's Windows 10 system will automatically identify the best photos and videos to help people create highlights of their experiences.
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How Encrypted Weather Data Could Help Corporate Blockchain Dreams Come TrueBanks and investors have sunk millions into the idea that blockchain programs called smart contracts can make finance and other industries more efficient.
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Alzheimer's experts call for changes in FDA drug approval standardsLeading Alzheimer's disease researchers and a prominent patient advocate today published an analysis, 'Single Endpoint for New Drug Approvals for Alzheimer's Disease,' urging the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to clarify and modernize its current approach for approving new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
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TV accentuates traditional women's roles at expense of their needsCollege women who frequently watch television or who believe that the content is real, tend to endorse the gender roles that are portrayed often on TV, says a University of Michigan researcher.
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Fossil of oldest known baleen-whale relative unearthed in Peru Skeleton from South America enables palaeontologists to piece together the puzzle of baleen-whale evolution. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.21966
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Get Me Roger Stone Profiles the Man Who Created President Trump On Wednesday morning, as President Trump digested the reports on morning television about his firing of the FBI director James Comey, he fired off a handful of tweets critiquing the news about his own administration. Trump belittled Comey, whom he asserted had lost the confidence of “almost everyone in Washington.” He lambasted Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, whom he accused of devisin
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Neighborhoods subjected to deadly air quality can finally fight back From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News New devices let citizen scientists detect local pollutants Habitatmap works with community-based organizations and schools to create education and advocacy maps promoting important health and environmental issues.
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An ISP Shill Group Is Trotting Out Misleading Google Ads About Net Neutrality The Broadband for America website. As we’ve documented repeatedly , the forces pushing the repeal of the FCC’s net neutrality rules—including FCC Chair Ajit Pai himself—aren’t being totally honest about what they want. They’ll tell you that they support net neutrality, and a “free and open” internet, just not Title II. What they don’t mention, of course, is that Title II is currently the only leg
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Trump May Have Just Derailed A Crucial Part Of America's Future Aircraft Carrier Fleet Pre-commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford. Photo credit: U.S. Navy It looks like after almost a decade of development, the ultra-advanced Gerald R. Ford supercarrier will be commissioned this year. An important detail about this ship, the first of its class, is that it does not use steam catapults to launch planes as is traditional, but instead uses an electromagnetic system to fling them into the ai
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Cloudflare, sued by its first “patent troll,” hits back hard Matthew Prince, cofounder and chief executive officer of CloudFlare Inc. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Cloudflare, the Internet security company and content delivery network, was founded more than seven years ago but miraculously hadn't ever been hit with a patent infringement lawsuit from a non-practicing entity (commonly referred to as a "patent troll") until this March
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Bacteria living in marine sponge produce toxic compounds found in man-made productsResearchers have discovered for the first time that a common marine sponge hosts bacteria that specialize in the production of toxic compounds nearly identical to man-made fire retardants, a finding that could help scientists better understand the human health implications of these common additives.
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Scientist identify key locations for spread of pin-tailed whydahsInvasive parasites are a biological oxymoron. And yet, they are in our backyards! This study analyzes the case of a brood parasitic bird, the pin-tailed whydah ( Vidua macroura ) and its recent spread into the Americas!
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First study of Oncolytic HSV-1 in children & young adults with cancer indicates safety, tolerabilityHSV1716 — an oncolytic herpes simplex virus-1 — has been studied in adults via injection into the brain and superficial tumors. Now, a team of researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have completed the first phase 1 trial of the virus in the pediatric population, published online in Clinical Cancer Research.
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Analysis shows increased risk of early stroke with new-onset atrial fibrillation post-TAVRResults from 'Effect of bivalirudin versus unfractionated heparin in patients with baseline or new-onset atrial fibrillation in transcatheter aortic valve replacement: From the BRAVO-3 randomized trial' were presented today as a late-breaking clinical trial at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2017 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans.
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Interrupting inflammatory signals decreases repeat artery blockageResults from the DANCE trial (Dexamethasone Infusion to the Adventitia to Enhance Clinical Efficacy after Femoropopliteal Revascularization) were presented today as a late-breaking clinical trial at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) 2017 Scientific Sessions in New Orleans.
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Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of dinosaursLeading hospital 'superbugs,' known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years — about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well before the age of dinosaurs), according to a new study.
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This nasal receptor mediates the appetizing smell of fish foodThe aquatic environment is full of tantalizing chemicals that can guide a fish to mates or meals. Now, scientists in Japan have identified the olfactory receptor and brain circuitry that picks up the scent of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Although mostly known for carrying energy within cells, ATP is also a constituent of fish prey such as brine shrimp and plankton. The newly identified receptor
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Biological activity found to affect aerosols produced from sea sprayChemists have discovered that tiny particulate matter called aerosols lofted into the atmosphere by sea spray and the bursting of bubbles at the ocean's surface are chemically altered by the presence of biological activity.
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Compiling big data in a human-centric wayWhen a group of researchers in the Undiagnosed Disease Network at Baylor College of Medicine realized they were spending days combing through databases searching for information regarding gene variants, they decided to do something about it. By creating MARRVEL (Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration) they are now able to help not only their own lab but also researchers e
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Baleen whales' ancestors were toothy suction feedersModern whales' ancestors probably hunted and chased down prey, but somehow, those fish-eating hunters evolved into filter-feeding leviathans. An analysis of a 36.4-million-year-old whale fossil suggests that before baleen whales lost their teeth, they were suction feeders that most likely dove down and sucked prey into their mouths. The study published in Current Biology also shows that whales mos
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Beauty requires thought — study supports philosophical claimDoes the experience of beauty require a person to think? And can sensuous pleasures, like eating or sex, be beautiful? Such questions have long preoccupied philosophers, with Immanuel Kant making the famous claim that beauty requires thought, unlike sensuous pleasure, which, he said, can never be beautiful. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology say that Kant was right on one count and wron
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How plankton and bacteria shape ocean sprayAs the oceans ebb and flow, the resulting waves and splashes form tiny bubbles.The bubbles burst and release a vapor — called sea spray aerosol — into the air. This aerosol scatters sunlight and is involved in forming clouds and ultimately climate. But no two bubbles are the same, researchers report in the journal Chem. They analyzed sea spray and found that the atmospheric-changing properties o
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Beauty requires thought, neuroscientists findExperiencing beauty requires thought, a team of neuroscientists finds, in a new study that confirms an 18th-century claim by the philosopher Immanuel Kant.
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As heat index climbs, emergency visits, deaths rise in New EnglandNew research shows that New Englanders are susceptible to serious health effects even when the heat index is below 100, a finding that has helped to change the National Weather Service threshold for heat warnings.
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Robotic 'exoskeleton' prevents elderly falls: studyScientists unveiled a lightweight, robotic, outer "skeleton" Thursday that can detect when someone loses their balance, correct their gait, and prevent their fall.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Inhumans, Marvel's Latest TV Stars Image Credit: Michael Muller/Marvel for Entertainment Weekly . Inhumans: Once and Future Kings cover art by Nick Bradshaw. So we finally have our first look at the Inhumans , the stars of Marvel and ABC’s new limited TV series that finally brings Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s outlandish superteam to live-action after years of groundwork being laid by Agents of SHIELD . Don’t know your Terrigenesis fr
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Ancient whale tells tale of when baleen whales had teethA 36 million-year-old whale fossil bridges the gap between ancient toothy predators and modern filter-feeding baleen whales.
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Scientist identify key locations for spread of pin-tailed whydahsInvasive parasites are a biological oxymoron. And yet, they are in our backyards! This study analyzes the case of a brood parasitic bird, the pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) and its recent spread into the Americas!
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Maryland regulators OK nation's largest offshore wind planMaryland regulators on Thursday approved plans for the nation's first large-scale offshore wind projects, saying the decision will position the state to be a leader in the developing industry.
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Windows 10 fall update will restore (and improve) OneDrive’s best feature Microsoft Windows 10 was a big improvement over Windows 8.1 in most important ways, but it made a big change to the way OneDrive syncing worked. In Windows 8.1, you could see all the files you had stored in OneDrive, but the operating system would only actually download and open the file when you needed to open it. At least for PCs that usually have Internet connections, this was a neat way to of
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Judge Dredd TV series is one step closer to happening Enlarge (credit: Lionsgate) Attention, citizens of Mega City One: Judge Dredd will finally be coming to a vid-screen near you. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Rebellion, the British game company that also owns 2000AD —the " Galaxy's greatest comic " and the home of the antihero lawman—and IM Global are working on a live-action TV series about the future cop. This will be welcome news for t
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36m-year-old fossil discovery is missing link in whale evolution, say researchers Mystacodon selenensis , found in Peru, is the oldest known cousin of modern baleen whales and offers unprecedented evolutionary insights Fossil hunters say they have unearthed a missing link in the evolution of baleen whales after digging up the remains of a creature thought to have lived more than 36 million years ago. The whales, known as mysticeti, sport a bristling collection of sieve-like pl
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Xamarin Live Player (almost) takes the Mac out of iOS development Enlarge / The Retina 5K iMac just got a bit cheaper. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) SEATTLE—With the Xamarin tooling built in to Visual Studio, iOS and Android developers can already use a PC for a big part of their dev process by using the Visual Studio IDE for writing their code. For iOS development, however, there has always been an extra complication: the actual software building and deployment
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NASA caught Tropical Storm Adrian quickly losing steamThe first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific Ocean season was already losing steam when the Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead the day it formed. By the next day, May 11, Tropical Storm Adrian weakened to a remnant low pressure area.
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Snapchat faces harsh reality check after earnings missSnapchat's ambition to become the next big social media platform hit a brutal reality check with the first earnings report from parent company Snap Inc.
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Research increases distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on EarthIn 2016, researchers published "slam dunk" evidence, based on iron-60 isotopes in ancient seabed, that supernovae buffeted the Earth—one of them about 2.6 million years ago. University of Kansas researcher Adrian Melott, professor of physics and astronomy, supported those findings in Nature with an associated letter, titled "Supernovae in the neighborhood."
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What Is Intelligence? 20 Years After Deep Blue, AI Still Can't Think Like HumansTwenty years ago, IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world's greatest chess player in a first for machines. How far has artificial intelligence come since then?
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Finland voices concern over US and Russian climate change doubters New chair of Arctic council calls for Paris treaty on global warming to be respected amid fears of commitment downgrade Finland, the new chair of the Arctic council, has appealed to climate change scientists to fight the threat of the US and Russia tearing up commitments to combat global warming. The Nordic country takes up the two-year chairmanship of the body, increasingly a forum where argumen
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Cilia structure plays a major role in determining susceptibility to neural tube defectsResearch published online in The FASEB Journal shows that the improper methylation of a protein called 'Septin2,' which regulates the structure of cilia, was associated with an increased risk of having a neural tube defect (NTD) and confirms that cilia are important factors in determining susceptibility of NTDs.
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NASA caught Tropical Storm Adrian quickly losing steamThe first tropical storm of the Eastern Pacific Ocean season was already losing steam when the Suomi NPP satellite passed overhead the day it formed. By the next day, May 11, Tropical Storm Adrian weakened to a remnant low pressure area.
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Research increases distance at which supernova would spark mass extinctions on EarthKU researcher Adrian Melott examines the effects of a supernova on Earth's biology in new research to appear in Astrophysical Journal. The KU researcher and colleagues argue the estimated distance of the supernova thought to have occurred roughly 2.6 million years ago should be cut in half.
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A dual-functional GLP-1 analogue may improve insulin sensitivity and help fight diabetesAccording to research published online in The FASEB Journal, scientists have discovered a dual peptide called 'PGLP-1' that promotes insulin secretion and inhibits gluconeogenesis (a metabolic process that produces glucose).
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Tropical Cyclone Ella wrapped in NASA imageryTropical Cyclone Ella has large bands of thunderstorms wrapping around the center and from the east of center in imagery from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
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Rare feline genetic disorders identified through whole genome sequencing at MUIn 2009, Joan Coates, a veterinary neurologist, along with other researchers at the University of Missouri and the Broad Institute, found a genetic link between degenerative myelopathy (DM) in dogs and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease in people. Now, Coates and Michael Garcia, an associate professor in the Division of Biological Sciences, have found that a biomarker tes
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The Tragedy of James Comey Before he was summarily fired by the chief executive he played no small role in electing , former FBI Director Jim Comey told Congress that his late-October 2016 decision to violate Department of Justice guidelines by telling Congress he was reopening the Clinton email investigation was done to avoid the perception of political favoritism. “I have a fabulous staff at all levels and one of my juni
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This nasal receptor mediates the appetizing smell of fish foodThe aquatic environment is full of tantalizing chemicals that can guide a fish to mates or meals. Now, scientists in Japan have identified the olfactory receptor and brain circuitry that picks up the scent of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP. Although mostly known for carrying energy within cells, ATP is also a constituent of fish prey such as brine shrimp and plankton. The newly identified receptor
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Antibiotic-resistant microbes date back to 450 million years ago, well before the age of dinosaursLeading hospital "superbugs," known as the enterococci, arose from an ancestor that dates back 450 million years—about the time when animals were first crawling onto land (and well before the age of dinosaurs), according to a new study led by researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Published online to
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Baleen whales' ancestors were toothy suction feedersModern whales' ancestors probably hunted and chased down prey, but somehow, those fish-eating hunters evolved into filter-feeding leviathans. An analysis of a 36.4-million-year-old whale fossil suggests that before baleen whales lost their teeth, they were suction feeders that most likely dove down and sucked prey into their large mouths. The study published on May 11 in Current Biology also shows
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How plankton and bacteria shape ocean sprayAs the oceans ebb and flow, the resulting waves and splashes form tiny bubbles. The bubbles burst and release a vapor—called sea spray aerosol—into the air. This aerosol scatters sunlight and is involved in forming clouds and ultimately climate. But no two bubbles are the same, University of California, San Diego, researchers report May 11 in the journal Chem. They analyzed sea spray and found tha
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A Brief History of Trump and TiVo, Which He Called 'One of the Great Inventions of All Time' Photo: AP Donald Trump, the seventy-year-old president of the United States of America, really loves his TiVo. This much is clear from a new Time magazine profile on Trump , which focuses on what our nation’s mercurial boss does after hours. Advertisement To no one’s surprise, the leader of the free world spends a lot of time watching cable news. But hidden in the article was this beautiful refer
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Horizontal stripes make you look thinner, not wider Science A brain scientist's guide to fashion. This Helmholtz square illusion contradicts a standard rule of fashion: Horizontal stripes make you look shorter, and wider. Read on.
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Tesla Begins Taking Orders For Its Solar Energy Roof Tile Systems The company offers an "infinity" warranty on its tiles that integrate solar power into roof coverings. Tesla has published a web tool that can estimate costs and savings. (Image credit: AP)
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Tropical Cyclone Ella wrapped in NASA imageryTropical Cyclone Ella has large bands of thunderstorms wrapping around the center and from the east of center in imagery from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite.
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Study finds bacteria in marine sponge produce toxic flame retardant-like compoundsA Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego-led research team discovered for the first time that a common marine sponge hosts bacteria that specialize in the production of toxic compounds nearly identical to man-made fire retardants.
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How to Buy Second-Hand Tech Without Getting Ripped Off Image: Getty There are some fantastic bargains to be had if you can live without the shiniest, newest gadgets—but diving into the second-hand market comes with its own set of potential pitfalls and problems. Advertisement Saving some cash on tech that’s used or dated isn’t a new idea, but the landscape is changing all the time, as new kit appears and disappears, and demand fluctuates. You’re goin
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Today's Best Deals: Amazon Jeans Sale, InstantPot, Grid-It, and More Amazon’s premium denim sale , $10 off an Instant Pot , the Grid-It organizer , and more lead Thursday’s best deals. Advertisement Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. Top Tech Deals Grid-It Organizer , $7 Grid-It organizers use a criss-crossing arrangement of elastic straps to secure your sundry power cables and gadgets in your bag, and you can pick up a large one f
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Scientists confirm correlation between malignant hyperthermia and exertional heat strokeNew research published online in The FASEB Journal may ultimately help athletes and trainers better understand who may be more at risk for heat stroke. In the report, scientists use animals to show that there is a link between the susceptibility to malignant hyperthermia (MH) and exertional heat stroke.
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Scientists show protective effects of suppressing thyroid hormone receptors in retinaNew research published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) suggests that the suppression of thyroid hormone receptor activity locally in the retina protects cone photoreceptor cells in mouse models of human retinal degenerative diseases.
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Combining heroin and commonly prescribed non-opioid pain killers leads to a significant rise in overdose deathsA multi-disciplinary study has shown that the recent substantial increase in prescriptions for two drugs, pregabalin and gabapentin, used widely for a range of neurological disorders is closely correlated with a rise in the number of overdose deaths in England and Wales. These drugs have become drugs of abuse, according to new University of Bristol findings published in Addiction, which highlight
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Cornell researches black bear boom in New YorkThe black bear population in southern New York has grown and expanded its range since the early 1990s, which has led to increased encounters with humans.
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Plasma membrane protein may help generate new neurons in the adult hippocampusNew research published online in The FASEB Journal sheds important light on the inner workings of learning and memory. Specifically, scientists show that a plasma membrane protein, called Efr3, regulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor-tropomyosin-related kinase B signaling pathway (BNDF-TrkB) and affects the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus of adult brains.
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What's Behind the Fidget Spinner Fad?Adults are dumbfounded by the popularity of these spinning things, and according to an expert on fads, that's probably the point.
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Irreversible ocean warming threatens the Filchner-Ronne Ice ShelfBy the second half of this century, rising air temperatures above the Weddell Sea could set off a self-amplifying meltwater feedback cycle under the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, ultimately causing the second-largest ice shelf in the Antarctic to shrink dramatically.
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The Traditional Lecture Is Dead. I Would Know—I’m a Professor An awesome science show from the '80s makes it to YouTube, and it shows just how pointless the traditional lecture is. The post The Traditional Lecture Is Dead. I Would Know—I’m a Professor appeared first on WIRED .
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Device prevents dips and spikes in body’s drug levels Scientists have developed a new device that can monitor and maintain drug levels in the bloodstream of animals. If the device can be made to work in humans, it could save lives by preventing under- or overdosing of medication, a new research paper suggests. As with coffee or alcohol, the way each person processes medication is unique. One person’s perfect dose may be another person’s deadly overd
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Ignored? Better a 'no' than no answer at allAfter experiencing social exclusion, a minimum of attention suffices to reduce individuals' negative emotions. Even rejection or unkind comments are better for well-being than being ignored by other people. This finding has important implications for the treatment of applicants during selection processes.
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Learning styles: A once hot debate redshiftsA new study reveals while most higher education faculty believe Learning Styles is an important approach for teaching, they don't actually use the pedagogical tool because it is fundamentally flawed.
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Teleconnection between the tropical Pacific and AntarcticaThe higher the seawater temperature in the tropical Pacific, the more likely ice breakup will occur in East Antarctica, according to researchers.
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Who in Europe drinks the most? The richFor the first time, researchers have found a way to compare how much alcohol Europeans drink. And Britain, Ireland and Portugal top the list.
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Ars Technica25
And the name of the next Windows 10 update is… the Fall Creators Update Enlarge (credit: Liz West ) SEATTLE—The branding of the next major Windows 10 update has been revealed, and it's pretty similar to the name given to the current Creators Update version: it will be the Fall Creators Update. The name seems a little awkward—for our British readers, "fall" means "autumn"—and it positions the release as a continuation of the work done in the Creators Update. Microsoft
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New Windows look and feel, Neon, is officially the “Microsoft Fluent Design System” Enlarge / Project Neon in the Groove Music app. (credit: Tom Hounsell ) SEATTLE—Earlier this year, pictures of a new Windows look and feel leaked . Codenamed Project Neon , the new look builds on Microsoft Design Language 2 (MDL2), the styling currently used in Windows 10, to add elements of translucency and animation. Neon has now been officially announced, and it has an official new name: the M
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Verizon outbids AT&T for nationwide “5G” spectrum Enlarge (credit: Aurich / Thinkstock) Verizon has outbid AT&T to buy spectrum-holding company Straight Path Communications for $3.1 billion after "an unusually intense bidding war" between the top two wireless carriers in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported today. AT&T announced its own $1.6 billion acquisition of the company on April 10, saying that Straight Path "holds a nationwide portfol
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Live Science21
After the Flood: Author Kim Stanley Robinson Describes Future NYC UnderwaterSpace.com talked with author Kim Stanley Robinson about how he developed his vision of a drowned New York, his thoughts on climate change and what role fiction has to play in determining what humans do next.
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Burial Chamber of Princess Possibly Found in Ancient Egypt PyramidThe burial chamber of a royal princess was possibly discovered in a 3,800-year-old pyramid in Dahshur, Egypt, archaeologists say.
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Cage-free chickens keep winding up with broken bones, and scientists are looking for a solution Animals Million dollar birdie Cage-free chickens are breaking their bones, but a new award is trying to help. Read on.
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Make Your Browser Talk With This Wonderfully Annoying Human Speech Simulator GIF If half your work day is spent thinking up ways to troll and annoy your co-workers, today’s going to be an easy one. Neil Thapen’s Pink Trombone is a browser-based speech synthesizer that lets you manipulate a simulated mouth, throat, tongue, and nasal cavity to create a remarkably realistic—and equally annoying—human voice. Advertisement Manipulating the various parameters to produce the bas
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The Atlantic87
The Dismantling of New Orleans's Confederate Monuments More than 150 years after the Civil War and more than 100 years since its construction, the city of New Orleans removed early Thursday morning its monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The dismantling of the statue honoring the first and only president of the Confederate States of America follows the New Orleans City Council decision in December 2015 to remove four monuments commemor
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Dramatic cooperation between two infectious bacteria revealed by BIDMC researchersNew methodology allowed researchers at BIDMC to more easily investigate mechanisms of infection and provide new insight into how pathogens can work together to cause disease. Using the new tool, researchers confirmed a safer model for study of Brucella species, which cause a potentially debilitating infectious disease in humans and cattle.
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Cancer metastasis: The unexpected perils of hypoxiaThe low oxygen concentrations that prevail in many tumors enhance their propensity to metastasize to other tissues. Researchers at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich led by Professor Heiko Hermeking have now uncovered the molecular mechanism that links the two phenomena.
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Study finds bacteria in marine sponge produce toxic flame retardant-like compoundsA Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego-led research team discovered for the first time that a common marine sponge hosts bacteria that specialize in the production of toxic compounds nearly identical to man-made fire retardants.
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Ancient ground squirrels prove to belong to a present-day speciesMembers of the Faculty of Biology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have studied arctic ground squirrels, inhabiting the Indigirka river basin, and found out that their relatives now inhabit Kamchatka. The scientists have shared with the research results in an article, published in Scientific Reports journal.
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Populations adapt as nature and nurture work togetherA study of fruit fly larvae leads researchers to conclude that nature and nurture do collaborate in determining the behavior of a population. Researchers at Rice University found a genetic correlation between learning and behavioral plasticity in relation to changing conditions.
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Lions face same threats as extinct Ice Age cats – studyTwo big cats including the African lion are most at risk from extinction due to loss of prey, say scientists.
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Doppler’s Wireless Earbuds Now Detect and Destroy the Clamor Around You Ear-computers are now one step closer to controlling everything in your world. The post Doppler's Wireless Earbuds Now Detect and Destroy the Clamor Around You appeared first on WIRED .
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Warmer temperatures cause decline in key runoff measureSince the mid-1980s, the percentage of precipitation that becomes streamflow in the Upper Rio Grande watershed has fallen more steeply than at any point in at least 445 years, according to a new study.
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Not survival of the fittest for Tasmanian devilsFit and healthy Tasmanian devils are being taken down by deadly facial tumors that are attacking the 'best' animals in the population, according to novel research.
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Scientific American Content: Global6
Century-Old Tumors Offer Rare Cancer CluesDNA sequences from 100-year-old tumor samples could bolster childhood cancer research — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Futurity.org9
Does Red Bull in cocktails add placebo buzz? Just telling a young man that his alcoholic drink contains some Red Bull can make him feel more drunk, daring, and sexually self-confident, research shows. “Studies say there’s no physiological difference from drinking alcohol mixed with energy drinks, but we wanted to study the psychological effects,” says study coauthor Aradhna Krishna, professor of marketing at the University of Michigan’s Ros
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Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov: 20th Anniversary of Epic Chess MatchToday marks the 20th anniversary of an epic chess match between IBM's computer Deep Blue and world chess champion Garry Kasparov.
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Gizmodo57
Look at These Weird Ant Babies Image: Fox, E.G.P et al A team of scientists decided the field of larval biology in ants was neglected. So they took pictures of trap-jaw ant babies. And wow…the ant babies were weird. Wow! (Image: Fox, E.G.P et al) Okay, so technically a “larva” isn’t a “baby.” It’s more like the first evolution of a newly-hatched Pokémon that transforms into the adult as it ages. But that doesn’t change the f
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Dansk ingeniør i USA: Ingeniørlicens sikrer et vist niveauJens Korsgaard måtte til tre eksaminer for at få lov at være projektansvarlig på sin amerikanske arbejdsplads. Han ser både fordele og ulemper ved det amerikanske system.
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The Atlantic3
A Cold War Among Cosmologists Turns Hot In the slimmest fractions of the very first second, the universe grew, and grew, and grew. By the time it slowed down, what had been a tiny, quivering quantum realm was stretched out until it looked smooth and flat, save for speckles of denser matter that later became galaxies, stars, and planets. This is the origin story of cosmic inflation, a school of thought developed in the 1980s that has it
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Trump's Embrace of the Bubble “We are all Keynesians now,” Richard Nixon famously remarked, but only Donald Trump could have convinced himself that he is Keynes. Consider this exchange from an interview with The Economist published Thursday: You understand the expression “prime the pump”? Yes. We have to prime the pump. It’s very Keynesian. We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world. Have you heard that expression before, fo
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Stretchable hologram can switch between multiple imagesThe possibility of sending and receiving holographic messages has long tantalized sci-fi fans. Although we're not there yet, scientists have now created holograms that can change from one image to another as the materials used to generate them are stretched.
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Ars Technica13
Pirates upset that popular graphics mod won’t work for them Enlarge / If you want to improve these graphics through a popular PC mod, you need to actually buy the game. Game pirates have been rejoicing of late over the quick cracking and re-cracking of games protected with Denuvo, which was once considered the unbreakable best-in-class piracy protection on the market. Now, some of those pirates are angry that a popular mod re-enables piracy checks for one
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Zinc acetate lozenges may increase the recovery rate from the common cold by three-foldAccording to a meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials, zinc acetate lozenges may increase the rate of recovery from the common cold three fold. On the fifth day, 70 percent of the zinc lozenge patients had recovered compared with 27 percent of the placebo patients.
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At last: Beautiful, consistent carbon beltsChemists have tried to synthesize carbon nanobelts for more than 60 years, but none have succeeded until now. Carbon nanobelts are expected to serve as a useful template for building carbon nanotubes and open a new field of nanocarbon science.
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Airline Laptop Ban Could Be Extended to Flights from EuropeThe Department of Homeland Security is weighing the possibility of expanding a ban on electronics larger than cell phones aboard U.S.-bound aircraft — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Combining risk scores improves identification of AFib patients at increased risk of dementiaCombining risk scores helps clinicians better identify atrial fibrillation patients who face increased risks of developing dementia, researchers have found.
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New study identifies biomarker that may indicate risk of atrial fibrillationResearchers have identified a microRNA biomarker that demonstrates a strong association with the incidence of atrial fibrillation, the most common abnormal heart rhythm.
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The Atlantic3
The Fatal Flaw in Trump's ISIS Plan When Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visits Washington next week, he and President Donald Trump will no doubt spend considerable time discussing the future of the Syrian-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), America’s favored contingent in the war against the Islamic State. With U.S. assistance over the past two and a half years, the YPG-dominated anti-ISIS forces have recaptured some
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Belief increases buzz: Mixing energy drinks and alcoholParticipants of the study who believed they were drinking an energy drink and alcohol cocktail were more likely to believe themselves quite drunk and uninhibited.
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Shelf sediments reveal climate shifts through the eonsClimate change around Antarctica can severely affect Australia's rainfall and even influence the distribution of wet and dry zones across southeast Asia, an international study has revealed.
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Novel epigenetic changes in leukemiaResearchers have discovered epigenetic changes that contribute to one-fifth of cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer that arises out of the blood-forming cells in bone marrow. The mutations also play a role in a large majority of low-grade gliomas, which are among the most-treatable brain tumors.
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Deadspin Here We Are Again | The Slot Trump Reportedly ‘Taken Aback’ By Bipartisan Backlash Against Deadspin Here We Are Again | The Slot Trump Reportedly ‘Taken Aback’ By Bipartisan Backlash Against Comey Firing | Fusion We Might Not Have Sean Spicer to Kick Around Anymore | The Grapevine Steve Harvey to Show Staff: ‘Do Not Approach Me’ |
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Last Night's Arrow Solved a Five-Year-Old Mystery With the World's Most Noncommittal Shrug Image: CW The opening scene of Arrow ’s very first episode included an easter egg that had comics fans in fits from the get-go: the mask of the villain Deathstroke, perched upon a makeshift stand, speared by an arrow. Ominous, right? Well, last night’s Arrow finally answered how and why that mask was there, and… well, the answer was “meh.” Most of last night’s episode, “Honor Thy Fathers” dealt
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An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out Researchers in the field of bioelectronic medicine are developing a neural tourniquet to supercharge the body's ability to stop bleeding with just a few zaps. The post An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out appeared first on WIRED .
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Live Science100+
Can a 'Poop Transplant' Change Your Weight?Studies in mice have garnered attention for a remarkable result: When the feces of one mouse was transplanted to another mouse, the recipient mouse either gained or lost weight.
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Ars Technica45
Uber will likely need to follow same rules as taxi companies in Europe Enlarge (credit: David Ramos/Getty Images) Uber isn't a benign platform offering to ferry people from A to B via a simple app—it's a transportation service and as such must comply with the relevant rules, a law adviser at Europe's top court has said. In a non-binding opinion , advocate general Maciej Szpunar concluded that "the service offered by Uber cannot be classified as an 'information socie
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Cage-constrained growth of engineered cartilage reduces swelling and improves functionResearchers have shown that a novel cage constraint can prevent engineered cartilage from swelling during growth in culture, leading to better collagen stability and enhanced functional properties of the cartilage.
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Chomsky: Republicans 'dangerous' on climateNoam Chomsky argues the Republican Party is the most dangerous organisation in human history.
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