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The Diversity Visa Program Makes No Sense Sayfullo Saipov did not arrive in the United States alone. In 2009, he was one of 3,284 lucky residents of Uzbekistan to win the green-card lottery. That same year, the lottery granted green cards to—among others—2,894 Albanians, 590 Australians, 1,154 Bulgarians, 4,307 Kenyans, and 2,331 Turks; for a total of 50,000 admissions. Good and bad qualities are randomly distributed in the human populat
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SEC warns that celebrity cryptocurrency endorsements may be illegal Enlarge / Boxer Floyd Mayweather has done paid endorsements for little-known cryptocurrencies. (credit: So Max O ) The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a statement warning celebrities that they may be violating the law if they make paid endorsements of cryptocurrencies without disclosing the payments. Just a few months ago, there would have been no need for such a warning because the
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Some People at the Emoji Group Have Had Enough of This Goddamn Poop Image Source: Unicode While most of us only take note of the work being done at Unicode when it drops a new set of emojis, the organization is responsible for standardizing the way computers around the world display characters. It’s serious business, and some Unicode researchers have had enough of this stupid emoji shit. On Thursday, Buzzfeed News uncovered publicly available memos that collect f
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Here’s How Marijuana Use Affects Sex Drive Researchers found a “dose-dependent relationship” between marijuana use and intercourse. Read More
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On Thin Ice: Walruses Threatened After U.S. Declines To List As Endangered The Trump administration refused last month to put the Pacific walrus on the endangered species list, spelling a "death sentence" for the species that lives in the seas between Alaska and Russia. (Image credit: S.A. Sonsthagen/AP)
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Ions in the spotlightNew scientific results have been given a special place in the Nature Photonics journal. They focus on the effective isolation of ions in optical and electrostatic traps.
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Newly discovered volcanic rock minerals may offer new insights into earth's evolutionScientists have found evidence showing that komatiites, or three-billion-year old volcanic rock found within the Earth's mantle, had a different composition than modern ones. Their discovery may offer new information about the first one billion years of Earth's development and early origins of life. Results of the team's work has been published in the October 2017 edition of Nature Geoscience.
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Resisting alien invasionsInvasive species are can be hugely detrimental to marine ecosystems. Take Caulerpa taxifolia as an example.
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Researchers find that two distinct ecological mechanisms may provide resilience against invasive speciesInvasive species are can be hugely detrimental to marine ecosystems. Take Caulerpa taxifolia as an example.
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Sam Clovis Withdraws from Consideration for Top USDA ScientistPresident Donald Trump's pick to serve as the US Department of Agriculture's undersecretary for research, education, and economics blames the 'political climate' for his decision.
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Razer designed its first smartphone to make holding it sideways suck less Gadgets The screen, button layout, and even the speakers make this phone better sideways Gaming company Razer designed its first phone to be "horizontal first."…
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After Chemical Fires, Texans Worry About Toxic Effects Some residents and first responders are suing the chemical company Arkema, saying it didn't do enough to protect them from fires that started at one of its plants near Houston after Hurricane Harvey. (Image credit: William Chambers for NPR)
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Minerals in volcanic rock offer new insights into the first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolutionThe first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock record prior to four billion years ago and a very limited record until about three billion years ago. Rocks of this age are usually extensively altered making comparisons to modern rock quite difficult. In new research conducted at LSU, scientists have found evidence show
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Trump Team to Promote Fossil Fuels and Nuclear Power at Bonn Climate TalksThe American position is likely to provoke strong reactions from attendees of the United Nations meeting that begins on Monday.
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Study identifies additional hurdle to widespread planting of bioenergy cropsA study examining how certain decisions impact what farmers plant and harvest identified one crucial factor that researchers believe needs to be added to the list of decision variables when considering bioenergy crops: the option value.
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Explosion of rats, clovers, bedbugs, mosquitoes unintended evolutionary consequence of urbanizationThe recent uproar about seats on a British Airways flight crawling with bedbugs is only one of the unintended consequences that urbanization worldwide has on evolution, say Marc Johnson, an associate professor of biology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, and Jason Munshi-South, who is an associate professor of biological sciences at Fordham University.
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Are cities affecting evolution?In the first study to take a comprehensive look at the way urbanization is affecting evolution, Professors Marc Johnson and Jason Munshi-Smith say they've found a 'wake-up call for the public, governments and other scientists.'
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Genomic study reveals clues to wild past of grapesAbout 22,000 years ago, as the ice sheets that consumed much of North America and Europe began retreating, humans started to consume a fruit that today brings joy to millions of wine drinkers around the world: grapes.
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Concrete: A hard material engineers hope to make harderFor thousands of years, people have built civilizations with concrete made from readily available local materials. Just mix and heat, add some sand, stone and water and put it where you want it. Of course, give it time to harden – that is, after you have left your hand print or initials.
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Why do marathon runners get the runs? Ask Us Anything It doesn't just work your leg muscles—racing is rough on your intestines, too. Runners of all levels experience diarrhea and other forms of gastrointestinal distress during and after a run. Here's why.
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This Laptop Bag Is Like a Portable Private Office Working at a coffee shop or in an economy airplane seat doesn’t usually come with the expectation of privacy, but that’s exactly what the Moose laptop bag gives you, and then some. When it’s closed, the Moose looks like pretty much any compact laptop bag, albeit a very attractive one. Once you open it up though, two panels can fold out and snap to the side of the bag, creating, effectively, a pri
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The History Behind That Creepy Bone Chapel You Saw on RedditA chapel of bones has a spiritual history.
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Common errors in Mystic cells and how to identify them! Hello again Mystics! Your friendly Admins are bringing you a few new helpful tips for attacking nasty errors that pop up in Mystic cells. Let these tips bring us all towards happier, heathier, less mergery Mystic cells! Axons: There can only be one! Where one axon reigns, all others must perish. Or so say the olden neuron texts of yore. And you don’t want to mess around with those texts of yore l
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Additional hurdle to widespread planting of bioenergy crops identifiedA study examining how certain decisions impact what farmers plant and harvest identified one crucial factor that researchers believe needs to be added to the list of decision variables when considering bioenergy crops: the option value.
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Brain activity is inherited, may inform treatment for ADHD, autismA new study concludes that while individually unique, each connectotype demonstrates both familial and heritable relationships.
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Mexican doctors safely reuse donated pacemakers after sterilizationMexican doctors have safely reused donated pacemakers after sterilization, shows a new study. The findings create the possibility for patients to receive a pacemaker who otherwise could not afford one.
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Most US adults say today's children have worse health prospectsLess than one-third of adults believe that kids are physically healthier today compared to kids in their own childhoods and fewer than 25 percent think children's mental health status is better now.
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Bank-robotterne kommer: Godt eller skidt for dig?Nordeas chatbots er kun begyndelsen. I fremtiden vil utallige opgaver blive overtaget af robotter.
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Who Is Jerome Powell, Trump’s Pick for Fed Chair? Updated 4:45 p.m. On Thursday, Donald Trump announced that he will nominate Jerome Powell to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve board, an appointment that Trump has been building suspense around for weeks. “We need strong, sound and steady leadership at the United States Federal Reserve,” the president said during a press conference on Thursday. “There are few more important positions than
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The Inevitability of NPR's Meltdown It went, roughly, like this: On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Michael Oreskes, the senior vice president and editorial director at National Public Radio—NPR’s top news executive—had been accused by two women of sexual harassment. “In separate complaints,” The Post ’s Paul Farhi wrote, “the women said Oreskes—at the time, the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times —abruptly kis
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Sugar-sweetened drinks raise risk of diabetes, metabolic syndromeRegularly drinking sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda and juice contributes to the development of diabetes, high blood pressure and other endemic health problems, according to a new review.
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The Best Microscopes for KidsRelatively inexpensive scientific equipment can spark a child's interest in science. Here are some of the best microscopes for kids that aren't just toys.
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NASA’s Next Mars Rover Is Going to Be Seriously Badass Artist’s conceptual image of the 2020 rover. (Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech) Should all go according to plan, NASA will launch its next Martian rover in July 2020. The robotic probe is still under construction, but early signs are that the next-gen rover will be equipped with an impressive assortment of high-tech gadgets. The rover is currently under construction at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
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Study identifies additional hurdle to widespread planting of bioenergy cropsA study examining how certain decisions impact what farmers plant and harvest identified one crucial factor that researchers believe needs to be added to the list of decision variables when considering bioenergy crops: the option value.
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Scientists identify hotspots of coastal risks in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe catastrophic 2017 hurricane season provided ample demonstrations of the vulnerability of populations and infrastructure in coastal areas to natural disasters. A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Cantabria, Spain, identifies hotspots of coastal risks throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Geometry plays an important role in how cells behaveInspired by how geometry influences physical systems such as soft matter, researchers have revealed surprising insights into how the physics of molecules within a cell affect how the cell behaves.
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Bacteria in the gut modulates response to immunotherapy in melanomaBacteria that live in the human digestive tract can influence how cancer responds to immunotherapy, opening a new avenue for research to improve treatment, medical researchers report.
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Is gun violence contagious?Gun violence is mostly not contagious but rather an endemic issue for particular neighborhoods, according to researchers. That means place-based interventions like hotspot policing or greening vacant lots have the best chance to improve this problem.
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Hormone replacement therapy may be beneficial for women's memoryA new study indicates a potential benefit of the menopausal therapy for a certain type of memory.
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Shifting bacterial communities in the stomach may influence cancer riskDifferent changes to the microbial community of the stomach may explain why related conditions are associated with different risk levels and types of gastric tumor, according to a new study.
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Onalespib could be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, preclinical studies showThis study showed that the targeted drug onalespib reduced the expression of cell-survival proteins such as AKT and endothelial growth factor receptor in glioma cell lines and glioma stem cells from patient tumors. This, in turn, reduced the survival, proliferation, invasion and migration of the cells. In animal models of glioblastoma the agent crossed the blood-brain barrier and showed effectiven
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New pathogenic mechanism of motor neuron disordersScientists have found a previously unknown pathogenic mechanism of motor neuron disorders. The discovery may lead to a rethinking in drug development.
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How caries-causing bacteria can survive in dental plaqueExtracellular polysaccharides play a central role in the survival capabilities of caries-causing bacteria in dental plaque, researchers report.
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Should patients be asleep or awake during brain surgery?Deep brain stimulation eases the effects of Parkinson's disease and tremor. A new study indicates no demonstrable difference in clinical outcomes between patients who underwent the implantation under general anesthesia versus those who went through it while awake.
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Close friends linked to a sharper memoryMaintaining positive, warm and trusting friendships might be the key to a slower decline in memory and cognitive functioning, according to a new study. SuperAgers — who are 80 years of age and older who have cognitive ability at least as good as people in their 50s or 60s — reported having more satisfying, high-quality relationships compared to their cognitively average, same-age peers, the stud
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Molybdenum in Wisconsin wells not from coal ashNatural causes, not leaching coal ash, are to blame for high levels of molybdenum in drinking water wells in southeastern Wisconsin, a study finds. The scientists used isotopic fingerprinting and age-dating techniques to rule out the possibility that surface coal-ash contamination could be causing the problem and traced it to natural processes occurring deep underground instead.
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Vitamin E discovery in maize could lead to more nutritious cropNew research has identified genes that control vitamin E content in maize grain, a finding that could lead to improving the nutritional profile of this staple crop. Scientists combined different types of genetic association analyses to identify 14 genes across the genome that were involved in the synthesis of vitamin E. Six genes were newly discovered to encode proteins that contribute to a class
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There's a Damn Good Chance Your Neighbor Thinks Chemtrails Are Real Photo: Aleem Yousaf/Flickr Chemtrails are not real, but that hasn’t stopped an increasing number of Americans from thinking they are. Research by Harvard scientists published in Palgrave Communications on Tuesday shows that a shocking number of people believe the batshit theory that the government is secretly spraying chemicals in the sky to control the weather or our minds or whatever. Advertise
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A Contested Finding in a Major New Climate-Change Report Climate change is already afflicting human health worldwide, exposing tens of millions of elderly people to excess heat while possibly reducing the ability of hundreds of millions of workers to do their jobs, according to an expansive new synthesis from The Lancet , one of the world’s oldest and most widely cited medical journals. The report examines dozens of statistics from around the planet an
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Scientists confirm there’s a mysterious “void” in the Great Pyramid ScanPyramids mission Though the Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt is one of the ancient world's biggest and most elaborate monuments, we still know very little about how it was constructed. We also don't know how many chambers are hidden inside it. Now, an international research team has identified what appears to be a large empty space or void above the pyramid's famed "Grand Gallery." The scientis
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The need to incentivise antibiotic research | LettersThoughtful governmental action can make development of new drugs for small patient populations viable, says Prof David Roblin, while Dr Georgina Crayford responds to an article on efforts to cut the use of antibiotics in farming David Cox reports on the “war on bugs” and development of “superantibiotics” ( 23 October ). A blunderbuss is effective against the enemy, but what of the collateral damag
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Study: Brain activity is inherited, may inform treatment for ADHD, autismA new study conducted at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, concludes that while individually unique, each connectotype demonstrates both familial and heritable relationships. The results published today in Network Neuroscience.
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Scientists identify hotspots of coastal risks in Latin America and the CaribbeanThe catastrophic 2017 hurricane season provided ample demonstrations of the vulnerability of populations and infrastructure in coastal areas to natural disasters. A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and the University of Cantabria, Spain, identifies hotspots of coastal risks throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Fantastic journey: How newborn neurons find their proper place in the adult brainThis week in the Journal of Cell Biology, Professor Linda Van Aelst and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) describe for the first time (in mice) how baby neurons — precursors called neuroblasts, generated from a permanent pocket of stem cells in a brain area called the V-SVZ — make an incredible journey from their place of birth through a special tunnel called the RMS to their ta
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What's Really Up With Apple Giving Face Data to Developers? Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, announces features of the new iPhone X, including Face ID. (Photo: AP) App developers can access more robust data about your face and the expressions you make with iPhone X, raising concerns from privacy advocates who worry that this sensitive facial data will end up in the hands of advertisers. According to its developer agreem
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The 'Harvey Weinstein Effect' Reaches the U.K. It is traditional to express remorse when you’ve lost your job over allegations about your behavior toward women. But Michael Fallon, the newly departed U.K. defense secretary, while apologizing for his behavior, told the BBC: “What might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now.” At issue are allegations by the journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer that 15 years ago Fallon r
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Gut microbes can shape responses to cancer immunotherapy Studies find that species diversity and antibiotics influence cutting-edge treaments. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22938
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Idaho looking to cash in on starry skies with more touristsThe stars are aligning for Idaho—mainly because they're visible.
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Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming And Humans Are The Cause The U.S. government's most comprehensive climate report to date is at odds with the statements made by President Trump and his Cabinet. (Image credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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How chromosomes 'cheat' for the chance to get into an eggChromosomes can 'cheat,' biasing the chance that they will make it into a sex cell. Biologists show how this bias arises in female cells, detecting molecular signals that create an asymmetry in the machinery that drives meiosis, the cell-division process that gives rise to gametes.
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Transformation of graphite into hexagonal diamond documentedA team of researchers has for the first time observed and recorded the creation of hexagonal diamond under shock compression, revealing crucial details about how it is formed. The discovery could help planetary scientists use the presence of hexagonal diamond at meteorite craters to estimate the severity of impacts.
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Four-in-one flu shot may mean lifelong protection against the fluScientists have found that a vaccine combining centralized ancestral genes from four major influenza strains could be a path toward a universal flu shot.
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This drug could block harmful impact of teen binge drinkingResearchers studying the importance of the brain's immune system in our desire to drink alcohol have made a discovery that may eventually help to switch off binge-drinking behavior in adults who used to binge during their adolescent years.
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The secret lives of ancient land plantsResearchers have unraveled the genome of the common liverwort — Marchantia polymorpha — gaining new insight into how the modest land plants evolved.
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Mystery behind red blood cell maturation solvedA team of researchers profiled the human red blood cell proteome and discovered which proteins were changed during the maturation accounting for the transition in shape and deformability of reticulocytes.
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Co-parenting after the end of a violent marriage: What does the first year look like?Intimate partner violence is not uncommon among divorcing couples. Whether a woman experienced intimate partner violence during marriage — and the kind of violence she experienced — has an impact on how well she and her former partner are able to co-parent after separation. Researchers wanted to find out how co-parenting varies during the first year after separation for mothers who have experien
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Ryder adds 125 electric vans to its fleetTruck rental company Ryder Systems Inc. is adding 125 fully electric vans to its fleet.
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What It's Like to Learn You're Going to Die Nessa Coyle calls it “the existential slap”—that moment when a dying person first comprehends, on a gut level, that death is close. For many, the realization comes suddenly: “The usual habit of allowing thoughts of death to remain in the background is now impossible,” Coyle, a nurse and palliative-care pioneer, has written . “Death can no longer be denied.” I don’t know exactly when my mother, wh
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2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, Part II National Geographic ’s annual photo competition is still open, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 17. The Grand Prize Winner will receive $7,500, publication in National Geographic Magazine, and a feature on National Geographic’ s Instagram account. Contest runners have allowed me to choose a few more of this year’s contest entries for display here. The captions below were wr
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Alcohol Use Makes Rats Crave CocaineResearchers found that rats sought cocaine more avidly after exposure to alcohol.
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Religious Festivals Linked to Major Flu OutbreaksFlu vaccination programs should take large religious gatherings into account, researchers say.
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Physics Phenomenon Reveals a Pyramid's MysteryScientists used muons, a by-product of cosmic rays, to image the interior of the Great Pyramid—and found a previously unknown space inside. Christopher Intagliata reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Hubble sees nearby asteroids photobombing distant galaxiesPhotobombing asteroids from our solar system have snuck their way into this deep image of the universe taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. These asteroids reside roughly 160 million miles from Earth, yet they've horned their way into this picture of thousands of galaxies scattered across space and time at inconceivably farther distances.
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Innovative statistical methods shed light on extent of modern slavery in US, worldPolicymakers, law enforcement and advocates can now better identify and target modern slavery thanks to the work of human rights experts and researchers whose application of unique statistical methods yields more precise figures on its existence and extent.
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Removing digital devices from the bedroom can improve sleep for children, teensRemoving electronic media from the bedroom and encouraging a calming bedtime routine are among recommendations researchers outline in a recent manuscript on digital media and sleep in childhood and adolescence.
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Atmospheric beacons guide NASA scientists in search for lifeNew NASA research proposes a novel approach to sniffing out exoplanet atmospheres. It takes advantage of frequent stellar storms from cool, young dwarf stars to highlight signs of possible life.
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Aussie snakes and lizards trace back to Asia 30 million years agoDeadly snakes are among Australia's most iconic animals. Now a new study helps explain how they descended from creatures that have come from Asia over the past 30 million years.
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Risk of oversharing in conversation increases with age, study saysThe risk of oversharing in conversation — or providing a listener with too much irrelevant detail — increases as we age, research suggests. Tests carried out on a group of 100 people show the thinking skills that influence how we respond to people's points of view deteriorate with age. Linguists used a series of computerised listening and visual tests to assess thinking skills in the group, whos
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Nanoscale 'abacus' uses pulses of light instead of wooden beads to perform calculationsThe quest to develop ever-faster and more powerful computers has led to one of the most rudimentary methods of counting being given a 21st century make-over.
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Youth uniquely vulnerable to sleep disruption from screensDeveloping brains, sleep patterns, and even eyes make children uniquely vulnerable to the body-clock disrupting impact of electronics, a new paper in Pediatrics reports.
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A strange new world of lightStructured beams of light, which exhibit strange behavior such as bending in a spiral, corkscrewing and dividing like a fork, not only can tell scientists a lot about the physics of light but also have a wide range of applications from super-resolution imaging to molecular manipulation and communications. Now, Harvard researchers have developed a tool to generate more complex structured light in a
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How chromosomes 'cheat' for the chance to get into an eggChromosomes can 'cheat,' biasing the chance that they will make it into a sex cell. A team from the University of Pennsylvania shows how this bias arises in female cells, detecting molecular signals that create an asymmetry in the machinery that drives meiosis, the cell-division process that gives rise to gametes.
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Left or right? Like humans, bees have a preferenceA discovery that bees have individual flying direction preferences could lead to strategies for steering drone aircraft fleets.Researchers at The University of Queensland's Queensland Brain Institute have found that honeybees have individually distinct biases in "left- and right-handedness" when flying through obstacles. Professor Mandyam (Srini) Srinivasan said the study showed that honeybees dis
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Bacteria in the gut modulates response to immunotherapy in melanomaBacteria that live in the human digestive tract can influence how cancer responds to immunotherapy, opening a new avenue for research to improve treatment, a team led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in the journal Science.
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Hormone replacement therapy may be beneficial for women's memoryA new USC study indicates a potential benefit of the menopausal therapy for a certain type of memory.
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An Arctic example: How scientific collaboration can foster international stabilityIn this Policy Forum, Paul Arthur Berkman et al. underscore how international scientific collaboration in the Arctic can help align common interests among countries experiencing geopolitical conflict.
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Precise chiral cluster assembly by designScientists have developed a way to precisely assemble micron-sized colloidal clusters of a particular chirality, or orientation in space, by using strands of origami DNA.
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Long-term study of Nicaraguan children reveals key window in which…Adding proof to a longstanding but previously unconfirmed theory about severe dengue in humans, a new study in children from Nicaragua pinpoints a narrow but critical range of antibody level that enhances reaction to the disease the second time around.
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Unveiling gut microbes' influence on cancer patient response to immunotherapyTwo new studies in cancer patients demonstrate how the composition of gut bacteria can influence response to immunotherapy. Antibiotics, one study showed, render such treatments less effective.
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Treating menopausal symptoms can protect against stress' negative effectsMenopausal hormone therapy may shield women from stress' negative effects on some types of memory, according to a small-scale study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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Sugar-sweetened drinks raise risk of diabetes, metabolic syndromeRegularly drinking sugar-sweetened beverages such as soda and juice contributes to the development of diabetes, high blood pressure and other endemic health problems, according to a review of epidemiological studies published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.
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Shifting bacterial communities in the stomach may influence cancer riskDifferent changes to the microbial community of the stomach may explain why related conditions are associated with different risk levels and types of gastric tumor, according to a new study in PLOS Pathogens.
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Dealmaster: Get a 24-inch Dell monitor and a $75 gift card for $200 Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains , we have another round of deals to share. It's officially November, which means two things: a sudden abundance of mustaches and "Black Friday" deals that start weeks before Black Friday actually happens. The Dealmaster is focusing on the latter today, as some retailers have already started slashing prices on monitors, laptops, headphone
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Newly Discovered Orangutan Species Is Also the Most EndangeredThe first new species of great ape described in more than eight decades faces threats to its habitat — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Genomic study reveals clues to wild past of grapesAbout 22,000 years ago, as the ice sheets that consumed much of North America and Europe began retreating, humans started to consume a fruit that today brings joy to millions of wine drinkers around the world: grapes.
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Physicists show how lifeless particles can become 'life-like' by switching behaviorsPhysicists at Emory University have shown how a system of lifeless particles can become "life-like" by collectively switching back and forth between crystalline and fluid states—even when the environment remains stable.
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New, simplified technique makes light metallic nanofoamA simple method for manufacturing extremely low-density palladium nanofoams could help advance hydrogen storage technologies, reports a new study from the University of California, Davis.
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Ivory Coast inaugurates huge China-funded damPresident Alassane Ouattara on Thursday inaugurated a huge Chinese-funded dam in southern Ivory Coast designed to boost the country's power capacity by nearly 14 percent.
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Penny-wise, pound-foolish decisions explained by neurons' firingPeople sometimes spend as much time deciding whether to spend a few cents more on groceries as they do deciding whether to spend a few thousand dollars extra when buying a car. A new study shows that these spending habits may reflect how our brains tally differences in value among objects that vary greatly in worth.
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How toxic air clouds mental healthResearchers have found a link between air pollution and psychological distress. The higher the level of particulates in the air, the study showed, the greater the impact on mental health. The study is believed to be the first to use a nationally representative survey pool, cross-referenced with pollution data at the census block level, to evaluate the connection between toxic air and mental health
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Warm air helped make 2017 ozone hole smallest since 1988Measurements from satellites this year showed the hole in Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988, scientists have announced.
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Mimicking giant clams to enhance the production of biofuelResearchers are working together to create an artificial system that mimics the process by which giant clams convert sunlight into energy. The research may allow them to enhance the efficiency of biofuel production.
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Order in disorder: A key feature of dendritic organization in the brainScientists have found that synaptic inputs in the visual cortex are locally — but not globally — organized. This local functional synaptic clustering applies to a diverse set of inputs and appears to be a fundamental principle of dendritic organization. Future work should reveal more about the source of these clustered inputs and how clusters arise during the development of neural circuits.
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New broadly protective vaccines for H3N2 influenzaResearchers have developed a vaccine candidate that protects against multiple co-circulating strains of H3N2 influenza isolated over five seasons following testing in mouse and ferret models.
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Family favoritism: Younger siblings impacted moreA new study shows if a younger sibling feels like they're the favorite and their parents agree, their relationship is strengthened. With older siblings, whether they feel favored or not, it has no major effect on the relationship.
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Help for contaminated groundwater: Dioxane-chomping microbeResearchers have discovered a bacteria-borne gene that triggers the degradation of dioxane, a groundwater contaminant and suspected carcinogen. The discovery could lead to a tool that helps decide how to treat contaminated sites.
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Lay Off 'Pot Cures Cancer' Claims, FDA WarnsMedical marijuana may help with several health conditions, but it's certainly not a cure for cancer.
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Metasurface generates new states of light for fundamental research and applicationsThere's nothing new thing under the sun—except maybe light itself.
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How chromosomes 'cheat' for the chance to get into an eggEach of your cells contains two copies of 23 chromosomes, one inherited from your father and one from your mother. Theoretically, when you create a gamete—a sperm or an egg—each copy has a 50-50 shot at being passed on. But the reality isn't so clearcut.
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Left or right? Like humans, bees have a preferenceA discovery that bees have individual flying direction preferences could lead to strategies for steering drone aircraft fleets.
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The UK's race to get its own nuclear inspectorsHighly-specialised staff are needed to take over from European nuclear regulators after Brexit.
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping SecretThis subatomic reaction is eight times more powerful than the reaction at the core of hydrogen bombs.
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UC-led genomic study reveals clues to wild past of grapesAbout 22,000 years ago, as the ice sheets that consumed much of North America and Europe began retreating, humans started to consume a fruit that today brings joy to millions of wine drinkers around the world: grapes.
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Is gun violence contagious?Gun violence is mostly not contagious but rather an endemic issue for particular neighborhoods, according to researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oxford. That means place-based interventions like hotspot policing or greening vacant lots have the best chance to improve this problem.
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Structure of the mitochondrial inner membrane AAA+ protease YME1 gives insight into substrate processing We present an atomic model of a substrate-bound inner mitochondrial membrane AAA+ quality control protease in yeast, YME1. Our ~3.4-angstrom cryo–electron microscopy structure reveals how the adenosine triphosphatases (ATPases) form a closed spiral staircase encircling an unfolded substrate, directing it toward the flat, symmetric protease ring. Three coexisting nucleotide states allosterically i
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Lattice system of functionally distinct cell types in the neocortex The mammalian neocortex contains many cell types, but whether they organize into repeated structures has been unclear. We discovered that major cell types in neocortical layer 5 form a lattice structure in many brain areas. Large-scale three-dimensional imaging revealed that distinct types of excitatory and inhibitory neurons form cell type–specific radial clusters termed microcolumns. Thousands
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Topological and modality-specific representation of somatosensory information in the fly brain Insects and mammals share similarities of neural organization underlying the perception of odors, taste, vision, sound, and gravity. We observed that insect somatosensation also corresponds to that of mammals. In Drosophila , the projections of all the somatosensory neuron types to the insect’s equivalent of the spinal cord segregated into modality-specific layers comparable to those in mammals.
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ER-mitochondria tethering by PDZD8 regulates Ca2+ dynamics in mammalian neurons Interfaces between organelles are emerging as critical platforms for many biological responses in eukaryotic cells. In yeast, the ERMES complex is an endoplasmic reticulum (ER)–mitochondria tether composed of four proteins, three of which contain a SMP (synaptotagmin-like mitochondrial-lipid binding protein) domain. No functional ortholog for any ERMES protein has been identified in metazoans. He
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High-speed plasmonic modulator in a single metal layer Plasmonics provides a possible route to overcome both the speed limitations of electronics and the critical dimensions of photonics. We present an all-plasmonic 116–gigabits per second electro-optical modulator in which all the elements—the vertical grating couplers, splitters, polarization rotators, and active section with phase shifters—are included in a single metal layer. The device can be re
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Self-assembled three-dimensional chiral colloidal architecture Although stereochemistry has been a central focus of the molecular sciences since Pasteur, its province has previously been restricted to the nanometric scale. We have programmed the self-assembly of micron-sized colloidal clusters with structural information stemming from a nanometric arrangement. This was done by combining DNA nanotechnology with colloidal science. Using the functional flexibil
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Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries Resonant cavities are essential building blocks governing many wave-based phenomena, but their geometry and reciprocity fundamentally limit the integration of optical devices. We report, at telecommunication wavelengths, geometry-independent and integrated nonreciprocal topological cavities that couple stimulated emission from one-way photonic edge states to a selected waveguide output with an is
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Femtosecond laser reshaping yields gold nanorods with ultranarrow surface plasmon resonances The irradiation of gold nanorod colloids with a femtosecond laser can be tuned to induce controlled nanorod reshaping, yielding colloids with exceptionally narrow localized surface plasmon resonance bands. The process relies on a regime characterized by a gentle multishot reduction of the aspect ratio, whereas the rod shape and volume are barely affected. Successful reshaping can only occur withi
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A cryofuge for cold-collision experiments with slow polar molecules Ultracold molecules represent a fascinating research frontier in physics and chemistry, but it has proven challenging to prepare dense samples at low velocities. Here, we present a solution to this goal by means of a nonconventional approach dubbed cryofuge. It uses centrifugal force to bring cryogenically cooled molecules to kinetic energies below 1 K x k B in the laboratory frame, where k B is
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Even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene The distinct Landau level spectrum of bilayer graphene (BLG) is predicted to support a non-abelian even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state similar to the state first identified in GaAs. However, the nature of this state has remained difficult to characterize. Here, we report transport measurements of a robust sequence of even-denominator FQH in dual-gated BLG devices. Parallel field
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Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago Southern Africa is consistently placed as a potential region for the evolution of Homo sapiens . We present genome sequences, up to 13x coverage, from seven ancient individuals from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The remains of three Stone Age hunter-gatherers (about 2000 years old) were genetically similar to current-day southern San groups, and those of four Iron Age farmers (300 to 500 years old
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A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia To date, the only Neandertal genome that has been sequenced to high quality is from an individual found in Southern Siberia. We sequenced the genome of a female Neandertal from ~50,000 years ago from Vindija Cave, Croatia, to ~30-fold genomic coverage. She carried 1.6 differences per 10,000 base pairs between the two copies of her genome, fewer than present-day humans, suggesting that Neandertal
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Ancient genomes show social and reproductive behavior of early Upper Paleolithic foragers Present-day hunter-gatherers (HGs) live in multilevel social groups essential to sustain a population structure characterized by limited levels of within-band relatedness and inbreeding. When these wider social networks evolved among HGs is unknown. To investigate whether the contemporary HG strategy was already present in the Upper Paleolithic, we used complete genome sequences from Sunghir, a s
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A glycerophospholipid-specific pocket in the RVFV class II fusion protein drives target membrane insertion The Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is transmitted by infected mosquitoes, causing severe disease in humans and livestock across Africa. We determined the x-ray structure of the RVFV class II fusion protein Gc in its postfusion form and in complex with a glycerophospholipid (GPL) bound in a conserved cavity next to the fusion loop. Site-directed mutagenesis and molecular dynamics simulations furth
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Spindle asymmetry drives non-Mendelian chromosome segregation Genetic elements compete for transmission through meiosis, when haploid gametes are created from a diploid parent. Selfish elements can enhance their transmission through a process known as meiotic drive. In female meiosis, selfish elements drive by preferentially attaching to the egg side of the spindle. This implies some asymmetry between the two sides of the spindle, but the molecular mechanis
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The condensin complex is a mechanochemical motor that translocates along DNA Condensin plays crucial roles in chromosome organization and compaction, but the mechanistic basis for its functions remains obscure. We used single-molecule imaging to demonstrate that Saccharomyces cerevisiae condensin is a molecular motor capable of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis–dependent translocation along double-stranded DNA. Condensin’s translocation activity is rapid and highly proces
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Ribosomopathies: Theres strength in numbers Ribosomopathies are a group of human disorders most commonly caused by ribosomal protein haploinsufficiency or defects in ribosome biogenesis. These conditions manifest themselves as physiological defects in specific cell and tissue types. We review current molecular models to explain ribosomopathies and attempt to reconcile the tissue specificity of these disorders with the ubiquitous requiremen
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Erratum for the Perspective "Finding the first Americans" by T. J. Braje, T. D. Dillehay, J. M. Erlandson, R. G. Klein, T. C. Rick
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Evolution of life in urban environments Our planet is an increasingly urbanized landscape, with over half of the human population residing in cities. Despite advances in urban ecology, we do not adequately understand how urbanization affects the evolution of organisms, nor how this evolution may affect ecosystems and human health. Here, we review evidence for the effects of urbanization on the evolution of microbes, plants, and animals
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Tesla's 'Hell' Threatens Its Future In August, after Tesla got production underway for the Model 3 and made first deliveries of the new mass-market electric sedan to employees, CEO Elon Musk said there should “absolutely” be “zero concern” about the automaker’s ability to increase production to 10,000 cars per week at some point in 2018. This week, that confidence vanished. During a conference call on Wednesday, Musk was asked if T
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Trilobites: Male Mammoths Died in ‘Silly Ways’ More Often Than Females, Study FindsMost preserved fossils of the beasts are male, scientists found, which offers insights into mammoth behavior.
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The Student Who Wasn't Afraid of Being Sad This is the latest installment in a podcast called What My Students Taught Me. Each episode features a teacher reflecting on a particularly challenging student, whenever possible in counterpoint with the student’s version of the same events. Listen to previous installments here or subscribe on iTunes . When Jessica Carlson agreed to teach English in an alternative program for at-risk students eig
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It's Back! Thousands of Marvel Digital Comics Are Incredibly Cheap on Amazon Right Now. Marvel Digital Comic Sale Amazon’s running a Marvel digital comic sale that’s bigger than any Avengers movie today, with literally thousands of titles marked down to just a few bucks , in most cases. You’ll find everything from the Guardians of the Galaxy to Darth Vader to Deadpool to Captain America in there, and every hero in between, so there’s never been a better time to stock your digital sh
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Trump's Nominee for Top Science Post Confirms He Has Literally Zero Hard Science Experience (UPDATE: Clovis Withdraws) AP Welcome to WHAT NOW , a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today. Sam Clovis is many things: a failed politician, a former talk radio host who’s compared being gay to child molestation , and an ex-campaign aide to Donald Trump who now finds himself embroiled in the Russia investigation . But Clovis has now added another notch to his belt: a ready admission that he’s defi
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In autism, too many brain connections may be at root of conditionMutations in a gene linked to autism in people causes neurons to form too many connections in rodents, according to a new study. The findings suggest that malfunctions in communication between brain cells could be at the root of autism.
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Mindfulness may help mothers cope with stress when their babies have a heart conditionMindfulness may offer an active coping mechanism for mothers faced with the stress of having a newborn diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD). Mindfulness, which aims to increase a person's awareness and acceptance of daily experiences, is currently used in a variety of healthcare settings as a potentially effective skill for stress reduction, emotion, affect and attention regulation.
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Tanning beds and risky behavior linked — in menEven though men use tanning beds at lower rates than women, men who tan tend to do it in riskier ways, according to a new study. The findings should help public health officials rethink how, and to whom, they're targeting anti-tanning messages.
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New, simplified technique makes light metallic nanofoam: Potential use in hydrogen storageA simple method for manufacturing extremely low-density palladium nanofoams could help advance hydrogen storage technologies, reports a new study.
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Animals' mitochondria defenses discovered in plantsScientists have discovered that the mechanism that mitochondria use to defend mammalian cells against protein-damaging stress also exists in plants.
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Stephen Hawking releases graduate thesis, promptly breaks internet Science It's a big win for something called open access. The Cambridge website crashed last week due to the overwhelming rush to download a paper about the implications of the expanding nature of our universe.
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Even a marketing expert succumbs to store brand bias Store brands have been growing since the 1980s, expanding from a 10 to 15 percent market share to nearly 25 percent today. The phenomenon isn’t limited to supermarkets, but extends to home improvement, office supply, and big-box stores. However, “consumers still think of store brands as a lower quality than the national brands,” says Woochoel Shin, professor of marketing at the University of Flor
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AT&T struggles to get Trump administration approval for Time Warner merger Enlarge / AT&T will own a bunch of new media properties if it is allowed to buy Time Warner. (credit: Aurich Lawson ) AT&T's purchase of Time Warner Inc. is reportedly hitting a speed bump as the Trump administration's Department of Justice considers filing a lawsuit to block the merger. This wouldn't be a death knell for the merger because the DOJ often files lawsuits against deals that it ultim
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The Latest Netflix Price Hike Pushed Me Over the Edge GIF Image: Netflix / Gizmodo This morning, after about five clicks over the course of 10 seconds, I cancelled my Netflix membership. The company had started notifying people of its latest price increase —a two buck bump from $12 to $14 in my case—and I just couldn’t do it any more. In fact, you should ask yourself if you need to keep paying for Netflix. It’s not as special as it used to be. Think
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Male mammoths more often fell into 'natural traps' and died, DNA evidence suggestsResearchers who have sexed 98 woolly mammoth specimens collected from various parts of Siberia have discovered that the fossilized remains more often came from males of the species than females. They speculate that this skewed sex ratio exists in the fossil record because inexperienced male mammoths more often traveled alone and got themselves killed by falling into natural traps that made their p
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Newly discovered orangutan species is 'among the most threatened great apes in the world'Scientists have long recognized six living species of great ape aside from humans: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. But researchers have now made it seven, based on a collection of evidence showing that an isolated population of orangutans living in Sumatra is actually its own unique species. They've named the new species the Tapanuli orangut
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In autism, too many brain connections may be at root of conditionMutations in a gene linked to autism in people causes neurons to form too many connections in rodents, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The findings suggest that malfunctions in communication between brain cells could be at the root of autism.
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Trump pick for science position withdraws due to Russia connection Enlarge / Sam Clovis, then newly appointed national co-chairman of the Trump campaign, speaks during a news conference with Donald Trump. (credit: Bloomberg / Getty Images ) Yesterday, the Trump administration's pick for a science post at the Department of Agriculture withdrew his name from consideration. Sam Clovis, who was a talk radio host before joining the Trump campaign, had been a controve
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Company that sought to control Google search results is a no-show in US court Einstein gets ready to do a search on Google Canada. (credit: Photo by Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star via Getty Images) Earlier this year, a small Vancouver software firm called Equustek earned an extraordinary legal win against Google. The Supreme Court of Canada ordered the search giant to de-index all pages from a former Equustek distributor—not just in Canada, but worldwide. Google's response to
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What To Do When Racists Try To Hijack Your Religion As white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, the high priest of a pagan religion looked on with horror from Reykjavik, Iceland. It wasn’t just their racist message that bothered him. It was that their banners bore the symbols of his religion: Ásatrú, also known as heathenry. “I think it’s obscene,” the high priest, Hilmar Hilmarsson, said of the way white supremacists are coopting Norse
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Donna Brazile's Curious Account of the 2016 Election For defeated politicians, the period after an election is for score-settling. For defeated political operatives, it’s about positioning for the next race. And if a juicy excerpt from Donna Brazile’s new book Hacks is an indication, the longtime Democratic operative and former interim chair of the Democratic National Party seems to think the future is Bernie Sanders. Brazile’s piece, in Politico M
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Tabloid derision threatens Australia's research capability, universities head says Group of Eight’s Vicki Thomson defends ‘blue sky’ research in the academic sector after Daily Telegraph labels some ‘nutty’ The derision of academic research by tabloid newspapers risks undermining Australia’s research capabilities, the head of the Group of Eight has warned. This week the education minister, Simon Birmingham, announced the rollout of long-mooted plans to make the $3.5bn in fundin
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Life’s First Molecule Was Protein, Not RNA, New Model Suggests Proteins have generally taken a back seat to RNA molecules in scientists’ speculations about how life on Earth started . Yet a new computational model that describes how early biopolymers could have grown long enough to fold into useful shapes may change that. If it holds up, the model, which is now guiding laboratory experiments for confirmation, could re-establish the reputation of proteins as
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Should Brain Science Be Making Prisons Better, Not Trying to Prove Innocence?There are many concerns about the appropriate use of neuroscience in a criminal justice setting — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Penny-wise, pound-foolish decisions explained by neurons' firingPeople sometimes spend as much time deciding whether to spend a few cents more on groceries as they do deciding whether to spend a few thousand dollars extra when buying a car. A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that these spending habits may reflect how our brains tally differences in value among objects that vary greatly in worth.
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Physicists show how lifeless particles can become 'life-like' by switching behaviorsPhysicists at Emory University have shown how a system of lifeless particles can become 'life-like' by collectively switching back and forth between crystalline and fluid states — even when the environment remains stable.
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New, simplified technique makes light metallic nanofoamA simple method for manufacturing extremely low-density palladium nanofoams could help advance hydrogen storage technologies, reports a new study from UC Davis.
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CSIC tightens the noose around superbugsA team led by researchers from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has made an important breakthrough in the battle against superbugs and their resistance to multiple drugs. Scientists have designed molecules which can break the cellular mechanisms which lead these bacteria to becoming unaffected by conventional antibiotics. The results of this discovery are published in the latest issue
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The FDA Is Cracking Down on Claims That Weed Cures Cancer Image: Getty In the US, so far 29 states and DC have legalized medical marijuana, as modern research has suggested that weed can help treat conditions like chronic pain and the side effects of chemotherapy. Some companies, though, are abusing the growing acceptance of weed for medicinal purposes. On Wednesday, the FDA reported that it has sent warning letters to four companies claiming that marij
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There is a third species of orangutan and somehow nobody noticedMeet your newest cousin. We thought there were only two species of orangutan, but the discovery of the Tapanuli orangutan means there are three
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Why Hawking’s PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspirationMillions rushed to freely access Stephen Hawking's early musings when they went online. More of the same would help ignite young minds everywhere, says Geraint Lewis
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Ex-Trump Campaign Official Withdraws From Nomination Amid Questions In Russia Probe Sam Clovis, who had been tapped for a USDA post, has been pulled into the imbroglio over last year's interference by Russia in U.S. politics and elections. (Image credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP)
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Physics explains protein unpredictabilityScientists theorized that they could manipulate a protein one mutation at a time and predict its evolution. They sought to prove it. And failed. They do think, however, that they've found a fundamental truth underlying unpredictability in a biological system.
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Learning a mother tongue: A universal process?Specialists in language development in children have studied a traditional population in the Bolivian Amazon, the Tsimane. They show that, on average, less than one minute per hour is spent talking to children under the age of four. This is up to ten times less than for children of the same age in industrialized countries. This observation should prompt us to conduct more studies of this kind in v
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Gut bacteria linked to age-related conditionsNew research shows for the first time that an imbalance in the good and bad bacteria in the gut of old mice causes inflammatory responses in young mice — responses that are linked to age-related conditions such as stroke, dementia and cardiovascular disease. Therapies that target the bacterial composition of the gut in elderly people, through changes to diet and pre- and probiotic supplements, ma
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Artificial neural networks could power up curation of natural history collectionsFed with new knowledge for centuries, natural history collections contain critical data for many scientific endeavors. While recent efforts in mass digitization have already provided unprecedented insight by generating large datasets from these collections, a new pilot project — one of the first of its kind — suggests that the key to efficiently studying these data might lie in the new-age deep
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Tanning beds and risky behavior linked — in menEven though men use tanning beds at lower rates than women, men who tan tend to do it in riskier ways, according to a study by researchers at the University of Connecticut. The findings should help public health officials rethink how, and to whom, they're targeting anti-tanning messages.
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Blood-clotting protein prevents repair in the brainKaterina Akassoglou, PhD, and her research team at the Gladstone Institutes uncovered a promising new therapeutic strategy to repair myelin in the brain. Surprisingly, it's associated with a protein in the blood.
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Mindfulness may help mothers cope with stress when their babies have a heart conditionMindfulness may offer an active coping mechanism for mothers faced with the stress of having a newborn diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD). Mindfulness, which aims to increase a person's awareness and acceptance of daily experiences, is currently used in a variety of healthcare settings as a potentially effective skill for stress reduction, emotion, affect and attention regulation.
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How toxic air clouds mental healthUniversity of Washington researchers have found a link between air pollution and psychological distress. The higher the level of particulates in the air, the UW-led study showed, the greater the impact on mental health.The study is believed to be the first to use a nationally representative survey pool, cross-referenced with pollution data at the census block level, to evaluate the connection betw
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Order in disorder: A key feature of dendritic organization in the brainFitzpatrick and colleagues find that synaptic inputs in the visual cortex are locally — but not globally — organized. This local functional synaptic clustering applies to a diverse set of inputs and appears to be a fundamental principle of dendritic organization. Future work should reveal more about the source of these clustered inputs and how clusters arise during the development of neural circ
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How do adult brain circuits regulate new neuron production?UNC school of Medicine researchers identified a brain circuit that controls neuron development in the adult brain. It runs from near the front of the brain back to the hippocampus, a learning- and memory-related structure. The finding ultimately could have implications for understanding and treating many brain disorders arising from aberrant hippocampal neurogenesis, including epilepsy, schizophre
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Animals' mitochondria defenses discovered in plantsScientists at EPFL have discovered that the mechanism that mitochondria use to defend mammalian cells against protein-damaging stress also exists in plants. The work is published in Molecular Cell.
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Sleeping through the snoring: Researchers id neurons that rouse the brain to breatheA common and potentially serious sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnea affects at least one quarter of U.S. adults and is linked to increased risk of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease. In a paper published today in the journal Neuron, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) identified specific neural circuitry responsible for rousing the brain of mice in simulated
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New pathway identified as a target for precision medicine against a common brain tumorSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital findings raise hopes for developing combination targeted therapy to treat medulloblastoma and other tumors linked to over-activation of an important signaling pathway.
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SCAI examines strengths and weaknesses of sham PCI trialThis year, SCAI celebrated the forty-year anniversary of a groundbreaking procedure, now known as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), that has saved millions of lives and enhanced the lives of millions more. Four decades of clinical study have confirmed the benefit of PCI for patients with myocardial ischemia (insufficient blood flow to an area of heart muscle). A new study presented today a
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Study of heart stents for stable angina highlights potential of placebo effectResearchers at Imperial College London have explored the placebo effects of a coronary angioplasty procedure with stents for the first time.
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Preventing a genetic uprising in early lifeAround half of the human genome is made up of genetic parasites called transposons that can damage our genes, leading to a wide range of genetic illnesses. Normally they are controlled by chemical marks that shut down transposon activity, but there is a time early in life when this isn't possible. Research published in Cell Stem Cell from scientists at the Babraham Institute reveals how molecules
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Genetic history: Searching for the African roots of Noir Marron communitiesScientists from the Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse (CNRS/Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier/Paris Descartes University) and Ecological Anthropology and Ethnobiology (CNRS/MNHN) research units have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America — formed over four centuries ago by Africans who escaped slavery — have remarkably preserved their African genetic heri
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Exercise can counteract side-effects and improve fitness in advanced breast cancer patientsTaking part in regular exercise can reduce fatigue and pain, and improve cardiovascular health and quality of life in women being treated for advanced breast cancer, according to new research presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Fourth International Consensus Conference.
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Novel technology pioneered by Stanford ties brain circuits to alertnessStanford University investigators have for the first time tied several brain circuits to alertness. The findings enhance scientists' understanding of the forces driving alertness, a brain state that's essential to survival, by showing that diverse cell types throughout the brain together produce this state.
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UZH anthropologists describe third orangutan speciesPreviously only two species of orangutans were recognized — the Bornean and the Sumatran orangutan. Now, UZH researchers working with an international team have described a new great ape species, the Tapanuli orangutan. It is the great ape species at greatest risk of extinction, with only around 800 remaining individuals occurring in upland forest regions of North Sumatra.
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Newly discovered orangutan species is 'among the most threatened great apes in the world'Scientists have long recognized six living species of great ape aside from humans: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on Nov. 2 have now made it seven, based on a collection of evidence showing that an isolated population of orangutans living in Sumatra is actually its own unique species. They've nam
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Male mammoths more often fell into 'natural traps' and died, DNA evidence suggestsResearchers who have sexed 98 woolly mammoth specimens collected from various parts of Siberia have discovered that the fossilized remains more often came from males of the species than females. They speculate that this skewed sex ratio exists in the fossil record because inexperienced male mammoths more often traveled alone and got themselves killed by falling into natural traps that made their p
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New great ape species identified in IndonesiaThe apes in question were only reported to exist after an expedition into Sumatra mountains in 1997.
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Japanese Researchers Trick AI Into Thinking 3D-Printed Turtle Is a Rifle Photo: Kyushu University Japanese researchers have used a startlingly simple exploit to trick object recognition AI into classifying a 3D-printed turtle as a rifle. Incredibly, they did it by changing a single pixel. Typically, object-recognition works by complex pattern matching: the software measures the pixels in an image and matches that to an internal blueprint of a given object’s dimensions
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What male bias in the mammoth fossil record says about the animal’s social groupsMale woolly mammoths were more often caught in natural traps that preserved their remains, DNA evidence suggests.
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Professor Sues PNAS Over Paper CriticismsStanford's Mark Jacobson is asking for $10 million in damages after the journal published a critique of his work on renewable energy.
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The Genetic Strategies of Dealing with High AltitudeAndean highlander genomes possess cardiovascular-related variants, while populations from other regions evolved different solutions to manage the lack of oxygen.
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Newly discovered orangutan species is also the most endangered The first new species of great ape described in more than eight decades faces threats to its habitat. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22934
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Writing On The Terrifying Beauty Of The Human Future Author Kim Stanley Robinson deserves a place as a true visionary: He has done more than just write good science-fiction — he's mapped out new territory in what it means to be human, says Adam Frank. (Image credit: SFX Magazine/Getty Images)
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Google and AutoNation partner on self-driving car programGoogle is partnering with AutoNation, the country's largest auto dealership chain, in its push to produce self-driving cars for wide use.
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Atmospheric beacons guide NASA scientists in search for lifeSome exoplanets shine brighter than others in the search for life beyond the solar system. New NASA research proposes a novel approach to sniffing out exoplanet atmospheres. It takes advantage of frequent stellar storms—which hurl huge clouds of stellar material and radiation into space—from cool, young dwarf stars to highlight signs of habitable exoplanets.
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Dioxane-chomping microbe has helpful geneRice University researchers have discovered a bacteria-borne gene that helps degrade a form of dioxane, a groundwater contaminant and suspected carcinogen. The discovery could be the basis for a much-needed tool to decide how contaminated sites should be treated.
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Navigating the genome to cure deafnessA new study solves a critical piece of the puzzle of human deafness by identifying the first group of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the auditory system.
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Electrostatic force takes charge in bioinspired polymersResearchers have taken the first steps toward gaining control over the self-assembly of synthetic materials in the same way that biology forms natural polymers. This advance could prove useful in designing new bioinspired, smart materials for applications ranging from drug delivery to sensing to remediation of environmental contaminants.
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New system for treating colorectal cancer can lead to complete cureResearchers have developed a new, three-step system that uses nuclear medicine to target and eliminate colorectal cancer. In this study with a mouse model, researchers achieved a 100-percent cure rate — without any treatment-related toxic effects.
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New treatment approach for autoimmune disorderResearchers have been able to improve their understanding of the key mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of a serious autoimmune disease. For the first time, researchers were able to demonstrate a close link between the activation of programmed cell death, complement system activation, and organ damage in patients with systemic inflammation of blood vessels caused by 'ANCA antibodies'.
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Cancer cells destroyed with dense metal found in asteroidsCancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research.
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New species of orangutan discovered in Sumatra – and is already endangered Scientists identify new species of great ape, Pongo tapanuliensis or Tapanuli orangutan, but fear its survival is already in doubt as habitat under threat A new species of great ape has been discovered, according to scientists studying a small population of orangutans in northern Sumatra. Among the great apes – a group that also includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos – orangutans are
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Trapped! Woolly Mammoth Bachelors Often Met Disastrous EndsPity the male woolly mammoth: These poor creatures were more likely to meet their end in natural traps — falling through thin ice, tumbling into holes or getting stuck in mudflows — than their female counterparts, a new study finds.
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There's a New Species of Orangutan and It's Already in Danger Image: Maxime Aliaga All of the orangutans in the world would probably only fit into a college football stadium. Today, scientists are announcing that just one of the sections of that stadium is actually an entirely different species. And it’s already in danger. The international team identified Pongo tapanuliensis based on skull shape and genetic data from an isolated population of 800 orangutan
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Genetic history: Searching for the African roots of Noir Marron communitiesNew genetic data bear witness to transatlantic ties severed by slavery and triangular trade. Scientists from the Anthropologie Moléculaire et Imagerie de Synthèse (CNRS/Université Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier/Paris Descartes University) and Ecological Anthropology and Ethnobiology (CNRS/MNHN) research units have shown that members of Maroon communities in South America – formed over four centuries
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Preventing a genetic uprising in early lifeMolecules called endosiRNAs help us avoid genetic chaos, according to a new study from a team at the Babraham Institute. Much of the human genome contains pieces of DNA called transposons, a form of genetic parasite. When active, transposons can damage genes so it is important to keep them inactive. Early in the human life cycle controlling transposons is particularly difficult. This latest resear
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Animals' mitochondria defenses discovered in plantsMitochondria are cell organelles that play critical roles in maintaining the cell's health, or homeostasis. One way that mitochondria do this is by harvesting energy though oxidative phosphorylation, where various enzymes in the mitochondria release energy to produce the molecule ATP, the cell's "energy currency" that can be used in other processes. This is why mitochondria are often described as
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Anthropologists describe third orangutan speciesScientists have long recognized six living species of great ape aside from humans: Sumatran and Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos. But researchers reporting in Current Biology on November 2 have now made it seven, based on a collection of evidence showing that an isolated population of orangutans living in Sumatra is actually its own unique species. They've
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Male mammoths more often fell into 'natural traps' and died, DNA evidence suggestsResearchers who have sexed 98 woolly mammoth specimens collected from various parts of Siberia have discovered that the fossilized remains more often came from males of the species than females. They speculate that this skewed sex ratio—seven out of every ten specimens examined belonged to males—exists in the fossil record because inexperienced male mammoths more often travelled alone and got them
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New Orangutan Species Could Be the Most Endangered Great ApeThe scientists who identified the Tapanuli orangutan said there are only about 800 left, making them the most endangered of all great ape species.
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Scientists Identify a Third Orangutan Species By the time they got to the orangutan, it was already dying. In the Batang Toru forest, on the western flank of Sumatra, orangutans will often venture from the jungle to pick fruit from nearby gardens—a habit that puts them in conflict with villagers. In November 2013, the conservationist Matthew Nowak got word of one such conflict, and his veterinary colleagues went to investigate. They arrived
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New insights into the release of molecules involved in inflammatory diseasesIn a recent study published in Cell Reports, a research team led by Colin Adrain, from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC, Portugal), discovered the mechanism that controls the release of important molecules that trigger the inflammatory response during the clearance of infections. When this machinery is deregulated it can contribute to important chronic diseases such as inflammatory bowel d
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Dioxane-chomping microbe has helpful geneRice University researchers have discovered a bacteria-borne gene that triggers the degradation of dioxane, a groundwater contaminant and suspected carcinogen. The discovery could lead to a tool that helps decide how to treat contaminated sites.
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Family favoritism: Younger siblings impacted moreA new study shows if a younger sibling feels like they're the favorite and their parents agree, their relationship is strengthened. With older siblings, whether they feel favored or not, it has no major effect on the relationship.
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University of Guelph study first to identify the cells driving gecko's ability to re-grow its tailA U of G researcher has discovered the spinal cord of the gecko's tail houses a special type of stem cell known as the radial glia. When the tail detaches, these cells jump into action by proliferating and making different proteins in response to the injury. The result is a brand new spinal cord. This finding has implications for developing a way to treat humans with spinal cord injuries.
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Removing digital devices from the bedroom can improve sleep for children, teensRemoving electronic media from the bedroom and encouraging a calming bedtime routine are among recommendations Penn State researchers outline in a recent manuscript on digital media and sleep in childhood and adolescence.
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Atmospheric beacons guide NASA scientists in search for lifeNew NASA research proposes a novel approach to sniffing out exoplanet atmospheres. It takes advantage of frequent stellar storms from cool, young dwarf stars to highlight signs of possible life.
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Chip-based sensors with incredible sensitivityIn London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a whisper can be heard far across the circular whispering gallery as the sound curves around the walls. Now, an optical whispering gallery mode resonator developed by Penn State electrical engineers can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip-based sensor for multiple applications.
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No more than 800 orangutans from this newly identified species remainEndangered population of orangutans is the oldest surviving red ape lineage, a new study finds.
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Report: Trump Organization Has Been Compromised by Hackers for Years Photo: Getty Security researchers have discovered evidence that hackers were able to register at least 250 shadow domains under the umbrella of the Trump Organization. These subdomains are associated with Russian IP addresses and appear to have ties to possible malware campaigns. The subdomains have been active as recently as last week. Mother Jones reports that it was first contacted by an unnam
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Thursday's Best Deals: Surround Sound Speakers, Cordless Vacuum, Plasma Lighter, and More We start off today’s deals with surround sound speakers , a battery-powered lighter , a Hoover cordless vacuum , and much more. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal. TOP TECH DEALS Refurb Echo Dot , $35 Amazon usually sells certified refurbished Echo Dots for $5 less than new models, but for now at least, that discount has increased to $15. Refurbished Dots still car
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Constructing buildings with re-useable componentsThe Institute for Civil Engineering and Environment (INCEEN) at the University of Luxembourg have signed a "memorandum of understanding" with the Suisse Federal Laboratories of Materials Science and Technology (Empa) of the domain of ETH Zürich to collaborate on research on energy efficiency in the construction sector.
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Chip-based sensors with incredible sensitivityIn London's St. Paul's Cathedral, a whisper can be heard far across the circular whispering gallery as the sound curves around the walls. Now, an optical whispering gallery mode resonator developed by Penn State electrical engineers can spin light around the circumference of a tiny sphere millions of times, creating an ultrasensitive microchip-based sensor for multiple applications.
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Students explore immigration through a big data lensSupercomputers have helped scientists discover merging black holes and design new nanomaterials, but can they help solve society's most challenging policy issues?
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Picture this SELFI: NASA advances instrument to study the plumes of EnceladusNASA scientists and engineers have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water vapor and icy particles from the south pole of Saturn's small moon, Enceladus.
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Bitcoin blows past $7,000, double its value in mid-September Enlarge (credit: Bitcoin Charts ) Six weeks ago, it looked like Bitcoin's latest boom might be coming to an end. The virtual currency had been worth almost $5,000 in early September, but then Chinese regulators announced a harsh crackdown on China's Bitcoin economy. On September 15, Bitcoin's price reached a low of $3,000. But then the currency bounced back, and it has been on a tear ever since.
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UGA, Sanofi Pasteur develop new broadly protective vaccines for H3N2 influenzaResearchers have developed a vaccine candidate that protects against multiple co-circulating strains of H3N2 influenza isolated over five seasons following testing in mouse and ferret models.
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More time on social media is not linked to poor mental healthThere has so far been no evidence supporting the view that the amount of time spent on social media affects mental health in young people, says Chloe Berryman of the University of Central Florida in the US. She is the lead author of a study in Springer's journal Psychiatric Quarterly that found very few links between different aspects of social media use among young adults and possible mental heal
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Researchers achieve 4-D printing of programmable shape-changing structuresA new study describes 3-D printing of Shape Memory Polymers to produce active meta-materials that can be programmed to form versatile shapes and are then able to recover their original state when heated to above their activation temperatures.
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Penn researchers working to mimic giant clams to enhance the production of biofuelResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working together to create an artificial system that mimics the process by which giant clams convert sunlight into energy. The research may allow them to enhance the efficiency of biofuel production.
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Warm air helped make 2017 ozone hole smallest since 1988Measurements from satellites this year showed the hole in Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988, scientists from NASA and NOAA announced today.
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The 11 Best Comic Book Movies You Can Stream Right Now, From 'Batman' to 'Doctor Strange'Here's what to stream in between seeing 'Thor: Ragnarok' and 'Justice League' at the multiplex.
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Researchers working to mimic giant clams to enhance the production of biofuelAlison Sweeney of the University of Pennsylvania has been studying giant clams since she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. These large mollusks, which anchor themselves to coral reefs in the tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, can grow to up to three-feet long and weigh hundreds of pounds. But their size isn't the only thing that makes them uni
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Researchers achieve 4-D printing of programmable shape-changing structuresA new study describes 3D printing of Shape Memory Polymers to produce active meta-materials that can be programmed to form versatile shapes and are then able to recover their original state when heated to above their activation temperatures. This innovative combination of 3D printing, thermoviscoelastic meta-materials, and programmable design to create 4D shape-transforming structures is reported
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Warm air helped make 2017 ozone hole smallest since 1988Measurements from satellites this year showed the hole in Earth's ozone layer that forms over Antarctica each September was the smallest observed since 1988, scientists from NASA and NOAA announced today.
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The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country At Reed College, a small liberal-arts school in Portland, Oregon, a 39-year-old Saturday Night Live skit recently caused an uproar over cultural appropriation. In the classic Steve Martin skit, he performs a goofy song, “King Tut,” meant to satirize a Tutankhamun exhibit touring the U.S. and to criticize the commercialization of Egyptian culture. You could say that his critique is weak; that his
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USS McCain collision ultimately caused by UI confusion Enlarge / Tugboats from Singapore assist the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) as it steers toward Changi Naval Base, Republic of Singapore, following a collision with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while underway east of the Straits of Malacca and Singapore on August 21. Ten sailors died in the collision. On November 1, the US Navy issued its report on the collisions of the USS
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Scientists decipher mechanisms underlying the biology of agingScientists have helped decipher the dynamics that control how our cells age, and with it implications for extending human longevity. The group employed a combination of technologies to analyze molecular processes that influence aging. Using cutting-edge computational and experimental approaches the scientists discovered that a complete loss of chromatin silencing leads to accelerated cell aging an
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Foraminifer shells much more susceptible to ocean acidification than previously thoughtThe carbonate shells of tiny marine plankton, foraminifers, are important archives of geochemical records of past climates. Now researchers have discovered that, contrary to long-standing textbook knowledge, these shells do not form as calcite, but instead, are originally formed as the metastable carbonate vaterite and only later transform into calcite. The presence of vaterite instead of calcite
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Childhood spankings can lead to adult mental health problemsGetting spanked as a child can lead to a host of mental health problems in adulthood, say researchers.
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Danske organisationer sårbare over for selv små DDoS-angreb Selv mindre DDoS-angreb kan nedlægge en organisation, eksempelvis hvis firewallen kører på standardindstillinger. https://www.version2.dk/artikel/kramshoej-angreb-mod-ministerium-danske-organisationer-saarbare-overfor-selv-smaa-ddos Version2 Forside relaterede artikler Efterretningstjeneste: International mediedækning øgede risiko for flere angreb mod Støjbergs ministerium
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So What the Hell Is Ragnarok, Anyway? Image: Marvel Comics. Thor #85 art by Andrea DiVito and Laura Villari. This week, Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters—but its titular apocalypse is more than a casual allusion to the Norse mythology that Marvel’s hero originates from. It’s a reference to an event in the comics that has hounded the God of Thunder since his adventures first began. Here’s everything you need to know about it before you go
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'It was a different era': how people understand the concept of time What defines ‘another era’ – and how does the brain perceive and process the passage of time anyway? It’s actually more chaotic than you might think Michael Fallon’s recent and rapid fall from grace has been commented on substantially already. But one thing many are picking up on is his questionable claim that the incidents were more “acceptable” 10 to 15 years ago . Looked at one way, this is an
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Innovative statistical methods shed light on extent of modern slavery in US, worldPolicymakers, law enforcement and advocates can now better identify and target modern slavery thanks to the work of human rights experts and researchers whose application of unique statistical methods yields more precise figures on its existence and extent. The groundbreaking work appears in the October issue of Chance, which features a series of articles written by authority figures on the subjec
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Waymo’s Car Maintenance Deal Is Another Hint at Impending Commercial Plans
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A bit of a 'quantum magic trick': Experiment shows how to speed up frequency measurementIs there a faster way to determine a frequency? It turns out there is.
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Fifty-years of data from a 'living' oxygen minimum lab could help predict the oceans' futureResearchers have released 50 years' worth of data chronicling the deoxygenating cycles of a fjord off Canada's west coast, and detailing the response of the microbial communities inhabiting the fjord. The mass of data, collected in two related articles, could help scientists better predict the impact of human activities and ocean deoxygenation on marine environments.
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Loose-fill asbestos insulation and healthA landmark study into the health impacts of living in a house with loose-fill asbestos insulation.
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NASA spots Tropical Storm Damrey headed west in South China SeaNASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite flew over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of newly formed Tropical Storm Damrey as it moved on a westerly track toward Vietnam.
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Innovative statistical methods shed light on extent of modern slavery in US, worldPolicymakers, law enforcement and advocates can now better identify and target modern slavery thanks to the work of human rights experts and researchers whose application of unique statistical methods yields more precise figures on its existence and extent. The groundbreaking work appears in the October issue of CHANCE, which features a series of articles written by authority figures on the subjec
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Noninvasive procedure is superior to steroid injection for painful knee osteoarthritisFor patients with osteoarthritis of the knee, a minimally invasive procedure called cooled radiofrequency ablation (CRFA) provides better pain reduction and functional improvement compared to steroid injection of the knee, concludes a study in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, published by Wolters Kluwer.
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NASA spots Tropical Storm Damrey headed west in South China SeaNASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite flew over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of newly formed Tropical Storm Damrey as it moved on a westerly track toward Vietnam.
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Integrated technologies to recover metal and plastic from electronic wasteVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a new electronic waste recycling concept that combines a range of technologies and reduces waste. One of the technologies included in the concept is gasification, which is used to recover not only metals and rare-earth elements from the waste but also organic components that can be used to produce energy or products, such as plastic and chemic
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The Rocky Mountains Painted With the Colors of Fall Are a Treat For Your Eyes GIF Shot on location at the Rocky Mountain National Park, the latest timelapse from More Than Just Parks captures the beauty of the iconic mountain range through all four seasons. But the highlight is undoubtedly when the stunning colors of Fall arrive, turning the park into a living painting. The short film is also a good way to justify that 4K TV you’ve been debating, because watching Rocky Mou
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Divorce risk rises when wives feel more tension A mismatch in feelings of tension within a marriage could set the stage for divorce, a new study suggests. Increased tension among wives was particularly problematic for marital longevity when their husbands reported low levels of tension over time, the research finds. “People in the same relationships have different ideas about the quality of their tie…” Researchers followed 355 couples over the
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Thousands of Venomous Portuguese Man O’ Wars Wash Ashore in Australia: ‘It Was the Stuff Of Nightmares’ Late last week, an Australian couple stumbled upon a freaky scene in which thousands of Portuguese man o’ wars, also known as bluebottles, had washed up on the rocks just south of Bateman’s Bay in New South Wales. Disturbingly, it’s a sight we’re going to have to get used to in our warming world. Brett Wallensky and his partner Claudia spotted the scene while walking along Barlings beach on Frida
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Stop Doing Companies' Digital Busywork for FreeConsumer technologies—whether user reviews and recommendations, social media or health care portals—involve logistical effort that means more administrative work at home. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Several reasons why whole grains are healthyWhen overweight adults exchange refined grain products — such as white bread and pasta — with whole grain varieties, they eat less, they lose weight and the amount of inflammation in their bodies decreases.
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Absentee Dads affect how women interpret interest from menNew research finds that women who were reminded of a time that their dad was absent from their lives — or who actually experienced poor quality fathering while growing up — perceived greater mating intent in the described behaviors of a hypothetical male dating partner and when talking with a man. These women also 'saw' more sexual arousal when viewing images of men's faces.
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50-years of data from a 'living oxygen minimum' lab could help predict the oceans' futureCanadian and US Department of Energy researchers have released 50 years' worth of data chronicling the deoxygenating cycles of a fjord off Canada's west coast, and detailing the response of the microbial communities inhabiting the fjord.
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Autumn isn’t cold enough to kill bugs anymore—find out what pests will persist in your region Environment Pumpkin spice and mosquito bites. A warmer than average summer combined with predictions for a warm fall means that pests might be coming to get you.
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Dansk test: Regnvejr giver selvkørende biler problemerEn ny test fra Vejdirektoratet viser, at selvkørende biler har sværere ved at aflæse vejstriber i vådt vejr. Der er dog stor forskel på bilernes formåen.
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What mitigates the consequences of recession for companies?Experts of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) demonstrated that companies with foreign ownership have an easier time overcoming the consequences of economic recessions. The results of the study were presented in the paper 'Lean against the wind: The moderation effect of foreign investments during the economic recession in Russia' published by the Journal of Economics and Business: http://www.sci
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New treatment approach for autoimmune disorderResearchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been able to improve their understanding of the key mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of a serious autoimmune disease. For the first time, researchers were able to demonstrate a close link between the activation of programmed cell death, complement system activation, and organ damage in patients with systemic inflammation of blood ves
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Scientists decipher mechanisms underlying the biology of agingUnderstanding the factors that control aging has been one of humanity's endless pursuits, from the mystical fountain of youth to practical healthful regimens to prolong life expectancy.
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Electrostatic force takes charge in bioinspired polymersResearchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have taken the first steps toward gaining control over the self-assembly of synthetic materials in the same way that biology forms natural polymers. This advance could prove useful in designing new bioinspired, smart materials for applications ranging from drug delivery to sensing to remediation of environmental
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Ants were among the world’s first farmers50 years ago, researchers began unraveling the secrets to Attine ants’ green thumbs.
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Squashed in Space: Study Identifies Changes in Astronauts' BrainsThe NASA-funded work compares MRIs before and after trips — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Stem cell laboratory in a bagHuman stem cells are considered a major new hope in the field of medicine. In the future, it is expected that they will make it possible to treat a wide range of ailments such as neurodegenerative diseases. With LabBag, Fraunhofer researchers have developed an all-in-one system in the form of a transparent bag that provides a cheap, fast and sterile way for scientists to grow, differentiate and fr
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Scientists discover hidden chamber in Egypt's Great PyramidScientists say they have found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, in what would be the first such discovery in the structure since the 19th century and one likely to spark a new surge of interest in the pharaohs.
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Alvorlige bivirkninger i sundhedsvæsenet Standardiserede systemer rulles i stor stil ud på landets hospitaler – senest med den udskældte Sundhedsplatformen – og tager ikke altid højde for den kliniske praksis. Djøfferne skældes ud, men lægerne har ofte selv et ansvar for at hive nye systemer hjem, siger Kirstine Zinck Pedersen, CBS, som er specialist i sundhedsvæsenets organisering.
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Hospital planlægger at lukke akutklinik i GentofteEtablering af akuthus vil føre til omlægninger, meddeler direktionen på Herlev-Gentofte Hospital.
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Gut inflammation linked to broken cellular ‘recycling’ Gut inflammation may be linked to a common cellular process, researchers report. The new research demonstrates that autophagy—an essential process whereby cells break down and recycle harmful or damaged elements within themselves to keep our bodies healthy—causes tissue inflammation when dysfunctional, which in turn leaves us susceptible to harmful diseases, particularly in the gut. Understanding
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New study offers insights into a dog's life in families with childrenMillions of families know how rewarding and enjoyable dog ownership can be – but now a new study has for the first time examined the quality of life for a pet dog owned by a family with children.
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TL;DR: Here's the One Thing Scientists Want You to Know About Their FieldsScientists describe a fascinating tidbit about their work in 140 characters or less.
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Artificial neural networks could power up curation of natural history collectionsMillions, if not billions, of specimens reside in the world's natural history collections, but most of these have not been carefully studied, or even looked at, in decades. While containing critical data for many scientific endeavors, most objects are quietly sitting in their own little cabinets of curiosity.
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New system for treating colorectal cancer can lead to complete cureResearchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston have developed a new, three-step system that uses nuclear medicine to target and eliminate colorectal cancer. In this study with a mouse model, researchers achieved a 100-percent cure rate — without any treatment-related toxic effects. The study is reported in the November fe
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Carbonate shells change with timeThe carbonate shells of tiny marine plankton, foraminifers, are important archives of geochemical records of past climates. Now researchers have discovered that, contrary to long-standing textbook knowledge, these shells do not form as calcite, but instead, are originally formed as the metastable carbonate vaterite and only later transform into calcite. The presence of vaterite instead of calcite
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Electrostatic force takes charge in bioinspired polymersResearchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have taken the first steps toward gaining control over the self-assembly of synthetic materials in the same way that biology forms natural polymers. This advance could prove useful in designing new bioinspired, smart materials for applications ranging from drug delivery to sensing to remediation of environmental
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Onalespib could be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, preclinical studies showThis study showed that the targeted drug onalespib reduced the expression of cell-survival proteins such as AKT and endothelial growth factor receptor in glioma cell lines and glioma stem cells from patient tumors. This, in turn, reduced the survival, proliferation, invasion and migration of the cells. In animal models of glioblastoma the agent crossed the blood-brain barrier and showed effectiven
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Navigating the genome to cure deafnessA new Tel Aviv University study solves a critical piece of the puzzle of human deafness by identifying the first group of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the auditory system.
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Childhood spankings can lead to adult mental health problemsGetting spanked as a child can lead to a host of mental health problems in adulthood, say University of Michigan researchers.
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Scientists decipher mechanisms underlying the biology of agingScientists have helped decipher the dynamics that control how our cells age, and with it implications for extending human longevity. The group employed a combination of technologies to analyze molecular processes that influence aging. Using cutting-edge computational and experimental approaches the scientists discovered that a complete loss of chromatin silencing leads to accelerated cell aging an
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Synergy stent with shorter DAPT is superior to a bare-metal stent in elderly patientsElderly patients undergoing PCI often receive bare-metal stents (BMS) instead of drug-eluting stents (DES) to shorten the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) and reduce bleeding risk. However, results from the SENIOR trial found that compared with BMS, shorter DAPT combined with the Synergy bioabsorbable polymer DES leads to less adverse events without increasing bleeding risk.
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Results from the DAPT STEMI trial reported at TCT 2017The first trial to evaluate the safety of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) for less than 12 months in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) found six months of DAPT was non-inferior to 12 months of DAPT among patients treated with second-generation drug-eluting stents (DES).
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An Astros Win Ends a Wildly Entertaining World Series The weather—a record-setting 103 degrees at first pitch in Game 1 in Dodger Stadium—tried to warn viewers that this would be a World Series of extremes. That first pitch seems forever ago now, because so much baseball, over so many hours, has transpired since. The Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday night, 5–1, to secure the first title in their franchise’s 55-year history,
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Catalonia Is Becoming Europe’s Problem The European Union has gone out of its way to stay out of the crisis in Catalonia, which came to a head last week when the northeastern region’s parliament voted in favor of declaring independence from Spain—a move rejected by Madrid and left unrecognized by just about everyone else. Since the escalation of the territorial dispute last month, EU leaders have insisted Catalonia’s October 1 indepen
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AR glasses help surgeons when operating on tumorsMalignant tumors often form metastases that spread to other parts of the body via the lymphatic system. High surgical skills are required to identify the precise location of the affected lymph nodes, enabling them to be completely removed. Fraunhofer researchers have developed a navigation aid that simplifies such interventions. 3-D-ARILE is an augmented reality (AR) system that superimposes a vir
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2016 atmospheric carbon dioxide surges to levels not seen in 800,000 yearsAccording to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) the level of CO2 recorded in earth's atmosphere in 2016 was up 50 % on that of last ten-year average.
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Simple, rapid determination of cable propertiesTrying to fit all the necessary cables into a car is anything but an easy task. Simulations can be helpful, but the properties of each cable need to be precisely defined up front. The automated MeSOMICS measurement system enables carmakers, for the first time, to define these parameters simply and rapidly, without having to call on outside experts: a solution that saves time and money.
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Physics explains protein unpredictabilityUniversity of Oregon scientists theorized that they could manipulate a protein one mutation at a time and predict its evolution. They sought to prove it. And failed.
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Researchers document transformation of graphite into hexagonal diamondA new study by Washington State University researchers answers longstanding questions about the formation of a rare type of diamond during major meteorite strikes.
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Chevy’s Bolt EV outsells Tesla for the first time in October Enlarge / These are becoming a more common sight on our roads. (credit: Chevrolet) Electric vehicle sales continue to increase this year, according to Inside EVs . Although some results have yet to be reported, the site estimates that 50 percent more battery and plug-in hybrid EVs found homes in October 2017 than the year before. And head and shoulders above them all was the Chevrolet Bolt EV. Ch
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The surprisingly charming science of your gut | Giulia EndersEver wonder how we poop? Learn about the gut — the system where digestion (and a whole lot more) happens — as doctor and author Giulia Enders takes us inside the complex, fascinating science behind it, including its connection to mental health. It turns out, looking closer at something we might shy away from can leave us feeling more fearless and appreciative of ourselves.
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Why do some obese people have 'healthier' fat tissue than others?One little understood paradox in the study of obesity is that overweight people who break down fat at a high rate are less healthy than peers who store their fat more effectively.
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Trump's Opioid Panel Wants More Treatment Options and Drug CourtsThe commission put no dollar figure on how much it would cost to support its solutions — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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NASA Rocket Scientists Carve the Most Incredible Pumpkins GIF Here’s the thing about NASA’s rocket scientists: They’re smart. And maybe a little weird. When you get literal rocket scientists to channel their energy into something silly like a pumpkin carving contest, the results are bound to be incredible. Seriously: Two groups at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been running their pumpkin carving contest since 2011 (which we cover pretty much every
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Australian tourism policies fail to address climate changeAustralia's Federal and State governments are failing to produce effective long-term tourism policy to address climate change, according to the findings of new QUT-led research.
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A bit of a 'quantum magic trick'—experiment shows how to speed up frequency measurementAn accurate analog clock tick-tick-ticks with a constant precision and well known frequency: one tick per second. The longer you let it tick, the better to test its accuracy —10 times as long corresponds to a ten-fold improvement in any frequency uncertainty. But is there a faster way to determine a frequency?
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Health treatment through chemical synthesisIntroducing molecular complexity through the shortest possible route – this is the daily business of Vittorio Pace. In an interview with uni:view, the pharmaceutical chemist explains what this means exactly, what his latest achievements are and how they contribute to solving serious health issues.
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Horses can read our body language, even when they don't know usHorses can tell the difference between dominant and submissive body postures in humans, even when the humans are not familiar to them, according to a new University of Sussex-led study.
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Ions in the spotlightThe results of a research group from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg has been given a special place in Nature Photonics. An accompanying "News & Views" article in the print version of the science journal highlights the work of the team led by Alexander Lambrecht, Julian Schmidt, Dr. Leon Karpa and Prof. Dr. Tobias Schätz. In their article "Long lifetimes and effective isolati
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Hard to solve a Rubik's cube? Try the adaptive toolbox theory on rationalityContrary to what cognitive scientists long thought, the adaptive toolbox theory – a theory about human rationality – contains an NP-hard problem which asks for demonic computational powers just like the travelling salesman problem and the Rubik's Cube. Maria Otworowska, Iris van Rooij, and colleagues from Radboud University publish these findings in Cognitive Science.
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Blood pressure drug in a gel heals wounds faster A topical gel made from a common type of blood pressure pill may offer a way to speed up healing of chronic skin wounds. The findings in a study with mice and pigs may lead to use of the gel on treatment-resistant skin wounds among diabetics and others, particularly older adults. “The FDA has not issued any new drug approval for wound healing in the past 10 years,” says Peter Abadir, associate pr
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Lady Bird Is a Sensational Paean to Teenage Life Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan) is someone cursed with that familiar, often painful, gift of youth—absolute certainty. She feels everything strongly, expresses her opinions loudly, and both wounds and charms the people around her without meaning to. On the brink of adulthood, she’s resolute enough about her desire to go to college on the East Coast (far from her home of Sacramento) that she t
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Ny behandling af aggressiv form for lymfekræft godkendt i USAAmerikanske myndigheder godkender Calquence, som er et nyt middel mod Mantle celle lymfom.
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Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, November 2017Story tips from ORNL, November 2017: Fast-learning computing technique supports hurricane damage assessments; neutrons unlock liquid flow mystery; 'puckering' 2D material creates tunable energy gap; window air conditioning prototype allows safe use of propane refrigerant; graphene nanoribbons become semiconductors through precise electrical contacts.
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Cancer cells destroyed with dinosaur extinction metalCancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the University of Warwick and Sun Yat-Sen University in China.
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Fifty years of data from a 'living' oxygen minimum lab could help predict the oceans' futureCanadian and US Department of Energy researchers have released 50 years' worth of data chronicling the deoxygenating cycles of a fjord off Canada's west coast, and detailing the response of the microbial communities inhabiting the fjord. The mass of data, collected in two new Nature family papers, could help scientists better predict the impact of human activities and ocean deoxygenation on marine
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A bit of a 'quantum magic trick'Is there a faster way to determine a frequency? It turns out there is, in a new discovery published this week in Physical Review Letters by a collaboration between a Washington University in St. Louis professor and graduate student along with a University of Rochester researcher.
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Mexican doctors safely reuse donated pacemakers after sterilisationMexican doctors have safely reused donated pacemakers after sterilisation, shows a study presented at the 30th Mexican Congress of Cardiology. The findings create the possibility for patients to receive a pacemaker who otherwise could not afford one.
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10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Google Pixel 2 Master Image: Gizmodo Oh picked up a shiny new Google Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL did you? Not had to return it due to screen or audio issues? Wanting to dig a little deeper into the neat features that are available on Google’s own-brand smartphone? Well, you’ve come to the right place—here are 10 tricks to do more with your Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL phone. 1) See your Now Playing history Image: Screenshot You’ve
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Wanting revenge is only natural – here's whyIn this twilight period of Halloween and the Day of the Dead, and with Bonfire Night imminent, the scary and the weird invade our streets and people gather to watch horror revenge tales at home or the cinema. Revenge in fiction can be shocking, but it often embeds a moral message. There is heroic revenge, a staple of the American movie world, in which the determined hero or anti-hero acts against
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More than just financial loss, the social impact of gambling cannot be underestimatedThe UK government is mulling a review of the regulations on fixed odds betting terminals commonly found in pubs and betting shops, in order to reduce the risk of problem gambling developing.
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Cancer cells destroyed with metal from the asteroid that killed the dinosaursCancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the University of Warwick and Sun Yat-Sen University in China.
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New Last Jedi trailer has a scene that will tug at fans’ heart strings A new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi was released during Game 7 of the World Series last night. It starts with a nostalgia-inducing shot of a grey-bearded Luke Skywalker walking into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. Then there's a voiceover from Kylo Ren, the villain of the third trilogy, saying "let the past die." Of course, the eighth installment of the Star Wars saga has no intentio
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Robots Aren’t as Smart as You ThinkAs robots get good at mimicking human behavior, people can be deceived into thinking they have human intelligence. So let’s put them to the test.
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Weightlifters and divers offer a lesson for business in risk and rewardWhat do elite weightlifting and diving competitions have in common with top-level money management or pharmaceutical development?
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Grab Your Women of NASA LEGO Set Before It Falls Out of Orbit LEGO Women of NASA , $25 Update : Sold out LEGO’s brand new Women of NASA set just launched, and we suspect it’ll be hard to find this holiday season. So if you want one for yourself, or to give as a gift, blast off to Amazon and get your order in .
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Workers Displaced by Automation Could Become Caregivers for HumansOpinion: You don’t want a robot taking care of your baby; the aged need to be loved, to be listened to, fed, and sung to.
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Saving rare elephants with tourism snapsA Murdoch University student is investigating whether pictures posted to social media of rare pygmy elephants could help with their management and conservation.
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Brain science should be making prisons better, not trying to prove innocenceEvery week, I wait for the cold steel bars to close behind me, for count to be called, and for men who have years – maybe the rest of their lives – to spend in this prison to come talk with me. I am a clinical psychologist who studies chronic antisocial behavior. My staff and I converted an office in a Connecticut state prison into research space that allows us to measure neural and behavioral res
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Study finds fringe communities on Reddit and 4chan have high influence on flow of alternative news to TwitterResearchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Cyprus University of Technology, University College London and Telefonica Research have conducted the first large-scale measurement of how mainstream and alternative news flows through multiple social media platforms.
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Augmented reality furniture and other signs we're living in the futureLiked Pokémon Go? Wait till you see what's next.
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Hydrofluorocarbons saved the ozone layer, so why are we banning them?On October 28, Australia ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. Australia is the tenth country to ratify, joining others as diverse as Mali, the United Kingdom and Rwanda in a global commitment to dramatically reduce hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the atmosphere. Once 20 countries have ratified the amendment, it will become binding.
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Pre-emptive policing is harmful and oppressive, and requires independent scrutinyFor 17 years, police in New South Wales have run a program predicting and disrupting future offenders to reduce crime. But very little was known about the program, the Suspect Targeting Management Plan, before our new study revealed children as young as ten have been targeted for intensive policing.
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Robolution—it's about human skills, not just technologyThe presence of robots in industry and beyond – factories are far from the only place where machines play a key role – is anything but new. In a July 2017 article written for the World Economic Forum, Jeff Morgan of Trinity College, Dublin, expresses amazement at the concern about new wave of automation. "Robots have been taking our jobs for 50 years, so why are we worried?" he writes.
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Is anybody out there? What Darwin can teach us about how aliens might look | Samuel LevinNatural selection can help us to understand life on other planets – and how much we have in common with alien species Aliens could be everywhere. There are at least 100bn planets in our galaxy alone , and at least 20% of them could be habitable. Even if a tiny fraction of those planets – less than 1% of 1% – evolved life, there would still be tens of thousands of planets with aliens in our vicinit
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Tesla taber penge – fordi det er svært at bygge bilerANALYSE: Med et underskud i tredje kvartal på næsten 4 mia. kroner, sætter Tesla ny bundrekord. Forsinket produktion af batterier og Model 3 er en af årsagerne. Imens har konkurrent succes med deres elbil.
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The grocerant—how smart grocery stores are becoming hybridsFood trends are difficult to follow these days. Just like hip sectors like tech, the food industry is coming up with its own peculiar lingo when describing market shifts.
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How to build artificial nanofactories to power our futuresWhen we buy a new phone or laptop online, we assume it will be delivered to our doorstep in a matter of days.
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Big cats in Britain—urban myth or scientific fact?The escape of Lilith the Lynx from a zoo in Wales has focused attention once again on the question of what exotic beasts might be roaming the British countryside.
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How to turn a volcano into a power station – with a little help from satellitesEthiopia tends to conjure images of sprawling dusty deserts, bustling streets in Addis Ababa or the precipitous cliffs of the Simien Mountains – possibly with a distance runner bounding along in the background. Yet the country is also one of the most volcanically active on Earth, thanks to Africa's Great Rift Valley, which runs right through its heart.
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The inner secrets of planets and starsAfter a five-year, 1.74 billion-mile journey, NASA's Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit in July 2016, to begin its mission to collect data on the structure, atmosphere, and magnetic and gravitational fields of the mysterious planet.
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Lindsey Graham's 'Religious War' On Tuesday night, hours after the terrorist attack in New York City, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham went on Fox News to express his gratitude that, at times like these, Donald Trump is president. “The one thing I like about President Trump, he understands that we’re in a religious war,” Graham declared. “Here’s what I like about President Trump,” he added later, “the gloves are off.” Trump
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15 Things We Learned From the Tech Giants at the Senate Hearings During three Congressional hearings spread over two days, we heard a lot of bluster from senators and pat answers from tech-company lawyers about the role their firms played in the 2016 election. Scattered among all the questions, some new facts entered the public record. Here we attempt to catalog the important new information we learned. Some of the biggest disclosures came in the prepared test
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4-in-1 flu shot may mean lifelong protection against the fluScientists with the Nebraska Center for Virology find a vaccine combining centralized ancestral genes from four major influenza strains could be a path toward a universal flu shot.
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Several reasons why whole grains are healthyWhen overweight adults exchange refined grain products — such as white bread and pasta — with whole grain varieties, they eat less, they lose weight and the amount of inflammation in their bodies decreases. These are some of the findings of a large Danish study headed by the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark. The study supports the scientific basis for the Danish dietary r
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Risk of oversharing in conversation increases with age, study saysThe risk of oversharing in conversation — or providing a listener with too much irrelevant detail — increases as we age, research suggests.Tests carried out on a group of 100 people show the thinking skills that influence how we respond to people's points of view deteriorate with age.Linguists used a series of computerised listening and visual tests to assess thinking skills in the group, whose
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What effect has substance abuse on outcome of schizophrenia treated with antipsychotics?Review in the journal Current Drug Abuse Reviews: Long-term administration of antipsychotics and the influence of drug abuse on the disease outcome
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Two important signalling pathways in cancer and ageing are connected for the first timeTwo years ago, a group led by Maria A. Blasco at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) hit upon several compounds that caused injury to the telomeres and now, in a study published in Nature Communications, they show that these drugs achieve this effect by acting on PI3K, a key protein in cancer and ageing. This is the first time that a functional link has been described between this p
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MIPT scientists enlist lichens to monitor air pollutionRussian researchers have shown free radical concentrations in lichens to be directly related to air pollution. By showing that atmospheric air quality determines the concentration of radicals in lichens, we prove that electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy can be used for environmental monitoring in cities.
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Get Ready For Discovery TRVLR | A VR Adventure Off The Beaten Path 360° Virtual Reality Series – WATCH NOW! Subscribe to Discovery VR Now: https://goo.gl/bnzvkQ Discovery TRVLR is a white-knuckle ride into the curious lives of locals from all seven continents. Get ready to explore mind-blowing locations and experiences as if you were there yourself. See this trailer in 360° VR on the Discovery VR channel: https://youtu.be/NupYQGh5gCM In the first season, visit A
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Nearly 1 in 3 women miss follow-up breast cancer treatment Nearly a third of women with breast cancer reject their doctors’ advice and either skip or fail to finish treatment to kill leftover tumor cells after surgery. A new survey of 2,754 breast cancer patients in Florida and Pennsylvania shows that “treatment discordance”—not following a recommended treatment plan in its entirety—is more likely among patients who report a general distrust of medical i
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Dozens of fires spotted in the southeastern United StatesMost of the fires that are showing up on this satellite image from the Suomi NPP satellite are prescribed fires. The Southern Area Coordination Center report for November 01, 2017 (this report changes daily) is reporting the following fires in the area:
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Wind satellite vacuum packedWith liftoff on the horizon, ESA's Aeolus satellite is going through its last round of tests to make sure that this complex mission will work in orbit. Over the next month, it is sitting in a large chamber that has had all the air sucked out to simulate the vacuum of space.
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Mænd med kræft får nyt mødested i København Center for Kræft & Sundhed indvier i denne uge et mødested for mænd, der har – eller har haft – kræft. Her skal tingene foregå på mændenes præmisser.
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Vagtplaner for 1813 opererer konsekvent med underbemanding1813 havde i 4 ud af 10 dage i 2016 vagtsat mindre personale, end der ifølge normeringen burde være.
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Study of W Hydrae suggests condensed aluminum oxide dust plays key role in accelerating stellar wind(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Japan has found evidence showing that condensed aluminum oxide dust surrounding the star W Hydrae plays a key role in accelerating the stellar wind. In their paper published on the open access site Science Advances, the team describes their study of the star and the gases that surround it.
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How to check on all the app subscriptions you’ve forgotten you’re still paying for DIY Don’t throw your money into the app-byss If you haven't been keeping track of your app subscriptions, you could be losing dozens of dollars a month. Here's how to check on what you're paying.
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Ions in the spotlightThe results of a research group from the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg has been given a special place in the Nature Photonics journal: an accompanying 'News & Views' article in the print version of the science journal highlights the work of the team led by Alexander Lambrecht, Julian Schmidt, Dr. Leon Karpa and Prof. Dr. Tobias Schätz.
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WSU researchers document transformation of graphite into hexagonal diamondA team of WSU researchers has for the first time observed and recorded the creation of hexagonal diamond under shock compression, revealing crucial details about how it is formed. The discovery could help planetary scientists use the presence of hexagonal diamond at meteorite craters to estimate the severity of impacts.
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Biocompatible photonic crystals expand their use from optics to medicineResearchers at ITMO University developed a new approach for obtaining non-toxic magnetic photonic crystals, expanding their applications from mainly photonics to biomedicine. Nanospheres made with the new method may be used for designing drugs to fight thrombosis and cancer.
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How caries-causing bacteria can survive in dental plaqueExtracellular polysaccharides play a central role in the survival capabilities of caries-causing bacteria in dental plaque, report researchers from the University of Basel's Preventative Dentistry and Oral Microbiology Clinic and Department of Biomedical Engineering in the journal Plos One.
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Synaptic disorderA Würzburg research team describes a hitherto unknown pathogenic mechanism of motor neuron disorders. This should lead to a rethinking in drug development.
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SUTD researchers solve mystery behind red blood cell maturationA team of SUTD researchers profiled the human red blood cell proteome and discovered which proteins were changed during the maturation accounting for the transition in shape and deformability of reticulocytes.
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Cosmic-Ray Particles Reveal Secret Chamber in Egypt's Great PyramidResearchers use muon detectors to find a hidden 30-meter-long space, which could help reveal how the 4,500-year-old monument was built — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Hacking evolution, screening technique may improve most widespread enzymePlants evolved over millions of years into an environment that has dramatically changed in the last 150 years since the Industrial Revolution began. While natural adaptation has been unable to keep up, scientists have developed tools to simulate millions of years of evolution in days to help plants adapt.
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Differences in feelings of tension contribute to divorceWomen are twice as likely as men to file for divorce, and a new University of Michigan study sheds a little light on why.
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Australian tourism policies fail to address climate changeDespite evidence that tourism contributes to climate change, Australia's Federal and State governments are failing to produce effective long-term tourism policy to address climate change, according to the findings of new QUT-led research.
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Is he really that into you?New research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology finds that women who were reminded of a time that their dad was absent from their lives — or who actually experienced poor quality fathering while growing up — perceived greater mating intent in the described behaviors of a hypothetical male dating partner and when talking with a man. These women also 'saw' more sexual ar
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Aussie snakes and lizards trace back to Asia 30 million years agoDeadly snakes are among Australia's most iconic animals but a new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has helped explain how they descended from creatures that have emigrated from Asia over the past 30 million years.
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New and faster method to determine material properties of graphenePeter Steeneken (professor) and Farbod Alijani (assistant professor) from the Dynamics of Micro and Nanosystems Section at the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering have developed a new method to determine the material properties of graphene with the aid of high-frequency non-linear dynamics. Their new method makes it possible to accurately measure the Young's modulus (elastic modul
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In Israel, searching for droughts past and futurePerched on a cliff face in Israel's Negev Desert, close to where the book of Genesis says the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were burned with divine fire, geologist Steven Goldstein was excitedly uncovering evidence of events even more ancient. Jackknife in hand, Goldstein carved into soft sediments making up the cliff, exposing layers left year by year going back 70,000 years by a now long-g
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‘Molecular trap’ could better deal with nuclear waste Scientists have developed an extremely efficient “molecular trap” that can be recycled and reused to capture radioactive iodides in spent nuclear reactor fuel. The trap is like a tiny, porous super-sponge. The internal surface area of just one gram could stretch out to cover five 94-by-50-foot basketball courts, or 23,500 square feet. And, once caught inside, radioactive iodides will remain trapp
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‘Sunscreen snow’ falls on hot planet’s dark side Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that a blistering-hot, giant planet outside our solar system has “snow” made of titanium dioxide—the active ingredient in sunscreen. These Hubble observations are the first detections of this “snow-out” process, called a “cold trap,” on an exoplanet. This discovery, and other observations made by the same team, provide insight into the
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Cosmic-ray particles reveal secret chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid Researchers have used muon detectors to discover a mysterious, 30-metre-long space — which could help to reveal how the 4,500-year-old monument was built. Nature News doi: 10.1038/nature.2017.22939
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We just found the king of all extinct giraffe cousins, and it’s very goofy looking Animals Giraffids are dead. Long live giraffids. Our planet used to be filled with beautiful giraffids, roaming about on spindly legs with their dinky pseudo-horns. Let's go back to that time.
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Stort skjult rum er fundet i KeopspyramidenTre forskerhold fra Japan og Frankrig har uafhængigt af hinanden fundet et ukendt hulrum i Keopspyramiden med en længde på mindst 30 meter og et tværsnit svarende til pyramidens Store Galleri.
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In Photos: Looking Inside the Great Pyramid of GizaA group of scientists working on the Scan Pyramids project claims to have found two unknown voids or cavities within the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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An Unknown 'Void' Found in the Great Pyramid Using Cosmic Rays On the Giza Plateau in Egypt rise three large pyramids—the tallest and oldest of which is the Pyramid of Khufu. It is also known as simply the Great Pyramid of Giza. You know what it looks like. It’s one of the seven great wonders of the world. Yet, for all its fame and antiquity, so many questions remain. How was it built? Why is there nothing in the pyramid, except a broken sarcophagus missing
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Going with your gut may mean harsher moral judgments Going with your intuition could make you judge others’ moral transgressions more harshly and keep you from changing your mind, even after considering all the facts, a new study suggests. The findings show that people who strongly rely on intuition automatically condemn actions they perceive to be morally wrong, even if there is no actual harm. In psychology, intuition, or “gut instinct,” is defin
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US Homeland Security Wants Facial Recognition to Identify People in Moving Cars (AP Photo/Denis Poroy) The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to develop technology that scans the faces of travelers as they enter and leave the US. The difficult part? The agency wants to do it without anyone needing to get out of their cars. First spotted by Nextgov , DHS has posted a public notice calling on technology companies to submit proposals for the system by January 2018.
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USA frigiver russiske valgreklamer fra Facebook Der er nu offentliggjort flere eksempler på de Facebook-reklamer, som menes at være brugt til at påvirke den amerikanske valgkamp i 2016. Som det kan ses i artiklen, så spænder reklamerne fra alt mellem våbenelskende 'patrioter' til Bernie Sanders-elskende homoseksuelle. https://www.version2.dk/artikel/like-if-you-want-jesus-to-win-kongressen-frigiver-russiske-reklamer-blev-brugt-under Version2
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Scientists create device for ultra-accurate genome sequencing of single human cellsAn interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has developed a technology for very accurate sequencing and haplotyping of genomes from single human cells. Their findings were published online in advance of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) print edition.
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Chemists develop method to quickly screen, accurately identify fentanyl and a broad range of other drugs of abuseResearchers at McMaster University have developed a new drug screening technique that could lead to the rapid and accurate identification of fentanyl, as well as a vast number of other drugs of abuse, which up until now have been difficult to detect by traditional urine tests.
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Neutron star merger confirms decades of predictionsOn Aug. 17, the Laser Interferometry Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected the fifth fingerprint of a massive disturbance in spacetime since LIGO began operations in September 2015. Unlike the first four sets of ripples, which reflected collisions between two black holes, the shape of these spacetime distortions suggested a collision between two neutron stars.
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New white paper maps the very real risks that quantum attacks will pose for BitcoinCombining expertise in quantum technologies and cryptography, researchers have been projecting future dates that quantum computers could jeopardise the security of current cryptocurrencies, a market now worth over USD $150 billion, and assessing countermeasures to such attacks.
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New sensor provides real-time detection of heavy metals, bacteria, nitrates and phosphates in waterWater quality monitoring currently occurs mainly at water supply intakes or water treatment plants, rather than along water distribution lines or at the point of use. This is inadequate because negative changes can occur in water quality between the water source and your faucet. It is essential to monitor this key natural resource for various contaminants, such as toxic heavy metal ions, within wa
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John Grisham Skewers the For-Profit Law-School Industry John Grisham’s most recent novel, The Rooster Bar , turns the the staid world of for-profit law schools into a gripping thriller. For-profit law schools first became an interest of Grisham’s when he stumbled across the issue in a 2014 article in The Atlantic by Paul Campos, “ The Law-School Scam .” Campos’s article explained how for-profit law schools, some of which are owned by private-equity fi
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Humans Are Bad at Predicting Futures That Don’t Benefit Them Between 1956 and 1962, the University of Cape Town psychologist Kurt Danziger asked 436 South African high-school and college students to imagine they were future historians. Write an essay predicting how the rest of the 20th century unfolds, he told them. “This is not a test of imagination—just describe what you really expect to happen,” the instructions read. Of course, everyone wrote about apa
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Researchers develop a gel for growing large quantities of neural stem cellsIn many ways, stem cells are the divas of the biological world. On the one hand, these natural shapeshifters can transform themselves into virtually any type of cell in the body. In that regard, they hold the promise of being able to cure ills ranging from spinal cord injuries to cancers.
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3-D origami circuits could revolutionize electronic designsOrigami, the well-known Japanese art of paper folding, generates complex 3-D structures from flat 2-D paper. While the creation of a paper swan may be intriguing, the idea of creating 3-D circuits based on similar design principles is simply mindboggling. This science fiction-sounding research is a project that Jiwoong Park and colleagues from the University of Chicago have been developing over th
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Image: Solar surface from hot to hottestThis sequence of images shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same time on Oct. 27, 2017. The first shows the surface of the Sun in filtered white light; the other seven images were taken in different wavelengths of extreme ultraviolet light. Note that each wavelength reveals somewhat different features.
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Longest living dolphin in captivity dies at Japan aquariumA female bottlenose dolphin has died at a Japanese aquarium only weeks after breaking a national record of more than four decades in captivity, an official said Thursday.
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German chemical sector lifts 2017 forecast on strong Q3Germany's powerful chemical industry on Thursday raised its forecast for output this year as strong export demand boosted the sector's performance in the third quarter.
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Technique gives detailed view into how certain polymers form, unlocking answers about nucleationImagine a tiny drop. It contains water, the fizzy antiseptic hydrogen peroxide, and a common, yellowish chemical called glyoxal. When the droplet is exposed to light, a cascade of reactions occurs, producing new materials. These reactions occur on the surface, where liquid meets air. Scientists didn't have many details about the reactions until Dr. Xiao-Ying Yu from DOE's Pacific Northwest Nationa
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Exploring biomimicry—building the next generation of adaptable materials from nature"Adapt, grow, heal" probably sounds like sage parental advice to students just off to college. In fact, it is the biological rationale behind recent research at the University of Maine studying biomimicry. One of biomimicry's foundational questions is how do organisms adapt, grow, heal, and even survive.
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Electron microscopy provides clues into the colorful chemistry of dragonfly wingsDazzling dragonfly wings may send poets rhapsodizing, but scientists yearn for a better understanding. In particular, they want to know the chemistry of the different layers giving rise to natural photonic crystals that help create color.
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New data on gender inequality in sciences salariesThere is a difference between male and female physics faculty salaries and the culture of physics is partly to blame, according to an article that is available for free this month from Physics Today, the world's most influential and closely followed magazine devoted to physics and the physical sciences community.
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Versatile marine bacteria could be an influence on global warming, scientists discoverScientists have discovered that a 'rare' type of marine bacteria is much more widespread than previously thought—and possesses a remarkable metabolism that could contribute to greenhouse gas production.
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Cannabis crop expansion into forests threatens wildlife habitat, causes other environmental damagePlanting cannabis for commercial production in remote locations is creating forest fragmentation, stream modification, soil erosion and landslides. Without land-use policies to limit its environmental footprint, the impacts of cannabis farming could get worse, according to a new study published in the November issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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'Microfluidic' device simulates cancer treatment as effectively as research animalsA new technology that simulates tumors has been shown to perform as well as research animals in testing chemotherapy drugs, representing a potential tool for screening drugs before treating a patient.
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Overlooked treasure—the first evidence of exoplanetsBeneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storerooms safeguard more than a century of astronomy. Down the stairs and to the right is a basement of wonder. There are countless wooden drawers and boxes, stacked floor to ceiling, with telescope plates, sunspot drawings and other records. A faint ammonia-like smell, reminiscent of ol
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