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Sundhedsministeren vil ikke svare på, om hun har tillid til Styrelsen for PatientsikkerhedDet er vigtigt at se fremad, styrke dialogen og komme over de forskellige opfattelser af, hvad der skal journaliseres, og hvad der er strafbart. Det siger Sundhedsminister Ellen Trane Nørby (V), der ikke vil svare på, om hun har tillid til Styrelsen for Patientsikkerhed.
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Vaccine attitude rises and falls with ideologyPolitical views and a person's trust in government play a role in whether or not they get vaccinated, according to a study by three faculty members at the University of Idaho.
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Potential enzyme as therapeutic target for diabetesResearchers from Kanazawa University and the National Centre for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo report, in Nature Communications, a new mechanism for regulating glucose uptake by the liver which has implications for type 2 diabetes and its treatment.
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Stenting system shown to benefit certain stroke patientsA specialized stenting system used to open blocked arteries in the brain resulted in a low complication rate among a specific group of patients with stroke histories, a study led by Cedars-Sinai researchers has found. The Wingspan® Stent System Post-Market Surveillance Study (WEAVE™) trial examined patients with a narrowing of the arteries in the brain, called intracranial stenosis, resulting from
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UNIST researchers develop highly stretchable aqueous batteriesA team of researchers, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has succeedeed in developing world's first stretchable aqueous Li-ion batteries that may power the next generation of wearable devices.
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From stem cells to a functional heart: The role of the Mesp1 geneResearchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles and University of Cambridge identified the role of key gene Mesp1 in the earliest step of cardiovascular lineage segregation. This discovery may help to better understand congenital heart defects.
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Surgery patients in enhanced recovery program leave hospital sooner, take fewer opioidsColorectal and bariatric surgery patients benefited from an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program, leaving the hospital sooner and requiring fewer opioids to control pain, according to new research presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists PRACTICE MANAGEMENT 2018 meeting.
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Older adults who are frail more likely to experience delirium after surgeryOlder adults who are frail are twice as likely to experience delirium following elective surgery than those of an older age, a new study suggests.
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Starving cancer cells of sugar — does it work?Researchers from the Duke-NUS Medical School and collaborators from Austria have demonstrated for the first time a novel cell death pathway that describes how depletion of sugar causes cancer cell death.
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Distinct brain rhythms, regions help us reason about categoriesThe brain's ability to categorize based on straightforward resemblance or on a more abstract similarity arises from its use of distinct rhythms, at distinct times, in distinct parts of the prefrontal cortex. Gamma in one region handles sensory comparisons, but beta in another region considers the less obvious ways things go together.
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Science | The Guardian56
Cremation urns' dusty bones tell tale of death in Roman LondonExperts study remains dug up in 19th century for first time ahead of Museum of London Docklands exhibition A puff of dust almost 2,000 years old rose as archaeologist Jackie Keily gently tipped a wastepaper bin-sized lead container, and a pile of cremated Roman remains slid out towards bones expert Rebecca Redfern. “Oh wonderful, look!” Redfern said, pouncing on a bone with the excitement of a tr
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Can mirrors boost solar panel output – and help overcome Trump's tariffs?Falling costs for solar power have led to an explosive growth in residential, commercial and utility-scale solar use over the past decade. The levelized cost of solar electricity using imported solar panels – that is, the solar electricity cost measured over the life of the panels – has dropped in cost so much that it is lower than electricity from competing sources like coal in most of America.
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Image: Yukon DeltaThe Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Yukon Delta in the US state of Alaska.
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New study reveals how icy surface ponds on Himalayan glaciers influence water flowThe flow of water that supports hydro-electric and irrigation infrastructure in the mountain regions of Nepal and India is regulated by hundreds of large icy ponds on the surface of some of the world's highest glaciers, scientists have revealed.
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Watch: To avoid swatting, mosquitoes remember your scentMosquitoes can learn to associate an odor with a mechanical shock similar to a swat—and then avoid that scent in the future—new research suggests. “Once mosquitoes learned odors in an aversive manner, those odors caused aversive responses on the same order as responses to DEET, which is one of the most effective mosquito repellents,” says senior author Jeff Riffell, a professor of biology at the
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Tesla's Autopilot Crashes and More Car News This WeekPlus: Elon Musk's $0 salary, details form Uber's secretive Strategic Services Group, and more slightly catastrophic news from this week.
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People with tetraplegia master brain implant in minutesNew techniques have allowed three participants with tetraplegia to achieve peak brain-computer interface (BCI) performance within three minutes of engaging in an easy, one-step process, a new study shows. For a BCI to be truly useful for a person with tetraplegia, it should be ready whenever it’s needed, with minimal expert intervention, including the very first time it’s used. One participant in
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Why people often don't properly prepare for hurricanesOver the past few decades, advances in hurricane forecasting, construction codes, and evacuation procedures have helped to save lives and mitigate property damage. Yet economic damage from hurricanes has steadily increased. Researchers from Columbia University, University of Miami, and University of Pennsylvania wanted to find out why. In a paper published last week, the authors outlined the ways
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Polio labs equipped to study rare tropical diseasesResearchers from LSTM have investigated the possibility of utilising the Polio network of 145 labs set up around the world to help tackle neglected tropical diseases which impact on the lives of about a billion of people.
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Particle collision in large accelerators is simulated by using a quantum computerIn 2011 the UPV/EHU's QUTIS Group published in the Physical Review Letters an innovative theoretical proposal to reproduce particle collisions like those taking place in large accelerators but without having to use these huge infrastructures. Now, with the collaboration of the laboratory of Prof Kihwan Kim of the University of Tsinghua in Beijing they have confirmed the validity of the proposal by
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The Flaw in America's 'Holy Grail' Against GerrymanderingConsidering that barely one-third of Americans can name their U.S. House representative, you’d think that the size, shape, and makeup of their voting district wouldn’t matter much to them. But the issue of gerrymandering—manipulating elections by redrawing district boundaries to favor one party over another—has suddenly become a political flash point. Cases from several states are winding through
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Clumps of dark matter could be lurking undetected in our galaxyDark matter, assumed to form featureless blobs, might clump together into smaller objects.
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How the Doomsday Clock Could Help Trigger the Armageddon It Warns ofHowever well-intentioned, this symbolic gesture undermines the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ stated mission to put “issues and events into context” — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Data doom: 5 steps from Davos to digital dystopiaIntelligent robots and all-knowing online networks threaten to drag humanity into a "totalitarian" nightmare of mind control, mass unemployment and children hooked on smartphones, experts warned at this week's Davos summit.
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Dutch police launch biggest-ever DNA hunt for boy's killerDutch police on Friday launched the country's biggest ever DNA search, asking over 20,000 men to come forward as they seek to resolve the 1998 murder of a young boy.
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How proteins become dangerous droplets in ALSFor the first time, researchers have outlined the atom-by-atom changes in a group of proteins as they form cell-damaging clumps linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a group of brain disorders known as frontotemporal dementia, and degenerative diseases of muscle and bone. The long-term goal of the research is to target this cellular pathway with a drug or other therapy to prevent these d
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Sci-fi 200 års dag: En teenager skabte den gale videnskabsmand og hans monster'Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus' blev udgivet januar 1818. Siden har den dannet skole for skildringer af mennesket og videnskabens forandrende kraft.
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Climate change concerns much higher in Latin America, Caribbean than U.S., CanadaMore than eight in 10 adults in Mexico and Central America believe climate change is a very serious problem for their country, more than twice the proportion of adults in the United States and Canada, according to a newaccording to a new "Insights" report from Vanderbilt's Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) titled "Education and Risk Assessments Predict Climate Change Concerns in Latin
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Making lighter vehicles with magnesium alloysEPFL researchers have developed models of magnesium alloys to understand how to make the metal more pliable. Magnesium is the lightest metal on earth but cannot easily be shaped into usable forms. The researchers hope that with the models will lead to the discovery of new, more malleable alloys, so that carmakers can make lighter vehicles that consume less energy.
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Trump Declares America 'Open for Business'President Trump told the world’s elite business leaders gathered in Davos that “America is open for business” as he tried to balance that message with the “America First” policies that he has put in place over the past year. “The world is witnessing the resurgence of a strong and prosperous America,” Trump told the audience at the World Economic Forum. “There has never been a better time to hire,
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Ancient lake reveals a colourful pastArchaeologists say they may have discovered one of the earliest examples of a 'crayon' – possibly used by our ancestors 10,000 years ago for applying colour to their animal skins or for artwork.
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The kilogram gets a makeoverIn Sèvres, a small commune on the outskirts of Paris, lies a gleaming lump of metal the size of a palm. Le Grand K, or Big K as they call the platinum and iridium alloy, sits underground in a high-security vault. It is held under three glass bell jars, and can only be retrieved using three separate keys, each held by different individuals.
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Simple preparation, fast lasers overcome analysis roadblockImagine a big glass jar full of candy, a colorful mixture of jelly beans. You want to know how rare your favorite green ones are. Specifically, you want to know the number of green ones relative to the number of grams of the whole mixture. If you just pull out a handful from the jar and meticulously count the number of green jelly beans, you don't know what fraction of the total candy you removed!
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Tiny scales could serve as safe material in implants to reinforce bones and jointsScales are the material of choice for animals from pangolins to fish: They're customizable, water-friendly, strong but flexible, and easy to fix when damaged.
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Flow apparatus samples up to 1500 chemical reactions a dayA team of researchers at Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, has developed an automated flow chemistry system that is capable of carrying out 1500 reactions over a 24-hour period. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes the system, how well it tested and its limitations.
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Image of the Day: Caught Red-HandedDivers come upon a new population of red handfish near Tasmania.
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Jawbone Fossil Suggests Humans Left Africa Earlier than Previously BelievedThe find is estimated to be at least 177,000 years old.
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You should be listening to video game soundtracks at workScience Productivity studies suggest you can boost your output with the right music. It's a whole genre designed to simultaneously stimulate your senses and blend into the background of your brain…
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A cap-and-trade system of water conservation and resiliencyCalifornia has struggled with drought for most of the last decade. From 2011-2015, the state experienced the driest four-year stretch in recorded history, leading to unprecedented water restrictions for residents, including a state mandate to reduce water use by 25 percent.
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Improving the piezoelectric microscopy characterization of ceramic materialsA team of researchers from ICMAB has proved that unconventional AFM probes are suitable for acquiring a true piezoelectric signal in piezoresponse force microscopy. The work, titled "Diminish electrostatic in piezoresponse force microscopy through longer or ultra-stiff tips," is published in Applied Surface Science.
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How Math Can Help Unravel the Weird Interactions of MicrobesThe dizzying network of interactions within microbe communities can defy analysis. But a new approach simplifies the math.
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'Celeste' Review: The Exact Kind of Game the Nintendo Switch NeedsThe console already has a series of excellent first-party games and older ports. What it needs are more new indie titles.
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Rabies Claims the Life of a 6-Year-Old Florida Child: The Tragic Case of Ryker RoqueRabies is an incredibly deadly infection, but one that is virtually 100% preventable. Unfortunately a Florida child recently paid the ultimate price when his parents failed to seek out appropriate medical care for a bat bite, and despite an experimental but flawed treatment protocol.
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VIDEO: Byg din egen TV-sender for lommepengeneFor få penge kan man skabe sin egen TV-sender med open source software. Og det er skam tilladt at sende i Danmark, hvis reglerne følges.
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Urban Bird Feeders Are Changing the Course of EvolutionT o my knowledge , no one has ever been killed by a plummeting bird feeder. Still, when you live on the 25th floor of a Manhattan high-rise, you can’t hang one outside the window and risk knocking off a pedestrian below. Several winters ago, I sat at my desk lamenting this fact while gazing across the gray expanse of chimneys and water towers stretching to the East River and beyond. I was holed u
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Organized Labor’s Growing Class DivideLately it seems that, every week, a new group of media employees votes to join a union. On Tuesday, a majority of employees at Slate voted to join the Writers Guild of America, East. This came a few days after newsroom employees of the Los Angeles Times voted to join the NewsGuild–Communications Workers of America. Two weeks before that Vox Media recognized the Writers Guild of America, East, as
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BuzzFeed in deal to distribute content in ChinaBuzzFeed has struck an agreement with Chinese technology group Bytedance to distribute its content in China, a rare foray behind the "Great Firewall of China" for Western media as Beijing tightens its censorship of the internet.
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The most detailed radio map of the Milky WayAstronomers have conducted a large-scale survey of the invisible Milky Way using the Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope.
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Squeezed-light source to make gravitational wave detector even more sensitiveA team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover and from the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universität Hannover has developed an advanced squeezed-light source for the gravitational-wave detector Virgo near Pisa. Now, the Hannover scientists have delivered the setup, installed it, and handed it over to thei
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Scientists pioneer use of deep learning for real-time gravitational wave discoveryScientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have pioneered the use of GPU-accelerated deep learning for rapid detection and characterization of gravitational waves. This new approach will enable astronomers to study gravitational waves using minimal computational resources, reducing time to discovery and incre
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Chemical engineers discover how some bacteria resist threatsBacteria are stealthy organisms. They can multiply in minutes and evolve to survive what we throw at them—including antibiotics.
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Paleontology: The eleventh ArchaeopteryxResearchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report the first description of the geologically oldest fossil securely attributable to the genus Archaeopteryx, and provide a new diagnostic key for differentiating bird-like dinosaurs from their closest relatives.
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Ny ledende overlæge på Røntgenafdelingen på Vejle SygehusRadiolog Jakob Møller er netop blevet ansat som ny ledende overlæge på Røntgenafdelingen på Vejle Sygehus og Rygcenter Syddanmark.
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The Establishment Strikes BackSince Donald Trump became president, pundits have wondered what it would take for the Republican establishment to stand up to him. Now we know. On Thursday, The New York Times reported that White House Counsel Donald McGahn had threatened to resign if Donald Trump fired Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Some liberals—having spent the Obama years cursing McGahn for his efforts while at the Federal E
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New research yields super-strong aluminum alloyResearchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.
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Scientists Hate the NIH’s New Rules for Experimenting on HumansFor a decade, the government has been working on a revision for grant applications. It’s finally done. It’s ethical, sensible, and a big enough pain that it might actually hurt science.
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AI-enabled Face-Swap Porn is on the Rise—and the Law Can't Help YouRight now there's just about no recourse for victims. Here's the lay of the legal land.
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The eleventh ArchaeopteryxResearchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report the first description of the geologically oldest fossil securely attributable to the genus Archaeopteryx, and provide a new diagnostic key for differentiating bird-like dinosaurs from their closest relatives.
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Scientists elucidate the mechanism for inserting protein molecules into the outer compartment of mitochondriaResearchers at the University of Freiburg have succeeded in describing how so-called beta-barrel proteins are inserted into the membranes of mitochondria. The proteins enable mitochondria to import and export molecules. With this discovery, the team led by Prof. Dr. Nils Wiedemann and Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner, in cooperation with the group of Prof. Dr. Carola Hunte, has clarified a fundamental q
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When the 'guardian' and the 'caretaker' of the genome join forcesBiologists and chemists at the University of Konstanz have deciphered a molecular cellular mechanism related to the development of cancer. They report the interaction between the tumour-suppressor protein p53, known as the "guardian of the genome," and the enzyme PARP-1, the "caretaker of the genome." The collaboration with the University of Ulm and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) resu
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Quantum cocktail provides insights on memory controlExperiments based on atoms in a shaken artificial crystal made of light offer novel insight into the physics of quantum many-body systems, which might help in the development of future data-storage technologies.
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SDU udnævner ny professor i onkologiOverlæge og ph.d. Karina Dahl Steffensen er udnævnt til professor i klinisk onkologi på Syddansk Universitet og Vejle Sygehus.
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Hjernen i Mars-robot er en Apple-bærbar fra 1999Rummets ekstreme omstændigheder stiller store krav til elektronikken ombord på Mars-køretøjerne
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Life may have been possible in Earth’s earliest, most hellish eonHeat from asteroid bombardment during Earth’s earliest eon wasn’t too intense for life to exist on the planet, a new study suggests.
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Grammys Preview: In With the New, Finally?When the sound of popular music shifts, it takes a while for the supposed scorekeepers of popular music to notice. In 1991 , Nielsen and Billboard switched to new, more statistically rigorous methods to measure sales and spins (rather than trusting radio stations and record stores to self-report) and suddenly, hip-hop began landing No. 1 albums. Something similar is happening now. The counting in
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View to a Kill: Galápagos Sea Lions Team Up to Capture Huge TunaIn a newly documented behavior, sea lions use teamwork to trap their prey along shorelines — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Diversity starts in schools – children need to see a wider range of careersStep into the classroom to help the next generation discover exciting and diverse career opportunities Ask a seven-year-old “what do you want to do when you grow up?” and you’ll get an answer built on very limited experience. But unless children are exposed to a wide range of options how can they know what opportunities exist that might interest them? The lack of awareness of primary school child
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A Private Place Where HIV, Zika and Ebola HideTesticles protect viruses from immune attack, foiling attempts to destroy the pathogens — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Nope, Women's Cycles Don't Make Them Crave Macho MenWomen think all guys are hotter during fertile phases of their menstrual cycle.
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Hør ugens podcast om kampfly og kloningerIngeniørens ugentlige podcast, Transformator, sætter i denne uge fokus på Danmarks nye kampfly F35, som endnu en gang er blevet forsinket og plages af over 1.000 fejl. Du kan også høre om forureningsskandalen i Grindsted, klonede aber og DTU’s næsten hjemmebyggede fusionsreaktor.
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Planet rumblesThe seismic region has seen lots of activity in recent weeks, but is there anything to worry about?
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The Dangers of Keeping Women Out of TechThe number of women in computer science has steadily decreased since the 80s. The industry needs to change—and it could take a lesson from Maria Klawe.
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The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside GoogleAdvocates of greater diversity at Google say they are being harassed and targeted on right-wing websites.
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How Does MoviePass Make Money? We're About to Find OutAfter growing more quickly than its wildest expectations, MoviePass settles in for the hard part: actually making money.
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Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You For YearsScouring the blockchain, researchers found years-old evidence tying Silk Road transaction to users' public accounts.
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Crispr’s Next Big Challenge: Getting Where It Needs to GoIn the 34 trillion-cell sea that is your body, an IV bag full of Crispr’d cells won’t make a dent. So scientists are working on ways to put the gene editors right where they need to go.
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Can Silicon Valley save the world? Or are social networks ruining everything?"At times, it seems as if we are condemned to try to understand our own time with conceptual frameworks more than half a century old." Historian Niall Ferguson says it's time for an update. Read More
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Why America Is Fighting About ImmigrationGovernment shutdowns are a useful window into what really matters to politicians. It’s one thing to say you care about an issue. It’s another to care about it enough to tell hundreds of thousands of federal employees to stay home, and to risk the political blowback that arises when their absence starts wreaking havoc on ordinary Americans’ lives. So it’s noteworthy that, according to Vox ’s Dylan
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Hovedstaden afskediger projektdirektør på Bispebjerg efter kritikProjektdirektøren på det nye akuthus på Bispebjerg Hospital er afskediget efter kritik af processen i forbindelse med udbud af byggeriet.
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Studie: Lavtflyvende droner gør folk utryggeFolk bliver utrygge og irriterede, når store droners flyvehøjde nærmer sig 25 meter, og piloten ikke er synlig, viser to nye undersøgelser fra Syddansk Universitet.
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Nanoscale generation of white light for ultrabroadband nanospectroscopyScientists from ITMO University have used a silicon-gold nanoparticle agitated by a pulse laser in IR band as an effective source of white light. One such "nanobulb" was integrated into a standard probe microscope, which allowed the researchers to overcome the diffraction limit and examine subwavelength-size objects. The new technology makes modern near-field microscopy cheaper and simpler, and is
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Researchers describe unique cephalo-thoracic scissors in extinct insect speciesInsects are the most diverse group of animals on earth, with more than 1 million species, and account for more than 50 percent of all living species, including bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Insects are divided into more than 30 insect orders, such as Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, etc.
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Medie: Amerikanske it-kæmper udleverer kildekode til russiske myndighederRuslands myndigheder kræver, at amerikanske softwareselskaber udleverer deres kildekode for at få adgang til de russiske marked. Amerikanske politikere er nervøse for, at det giver bagslag.
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Indflydelsesrig investor: Google og Facebook er en trussel mod demokratietMilliardæren George Soros gik hårdt til techgiganterne, men roste Margrethe Vestager for hendes kamp mod dem, under hans årlige middag i World Economic Forum.
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MMV malaria box phenotyped against plasmodium and toxoplasmaA Singapore-India collaborative research project has completed phenotypic screening of MMV Malaria Box, a large collection of potent chemical inhibitors against pathogenic parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Plasmodium falciparum, the causative agents of human toxoplasmosis and malaria. This research opens up new avenues to study unique stages of the infectious cycle that are affected by inhibitor cla
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Early Earth’s air may show us how to find signs of alien lifeOxygen isn’t the best beacon of life on an alien world. We need to look for other gases organisms spew into the air, and early Earth can show us what to target
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Research finds link between rainfall and ocean circulation in past and presentResearch conducted at The University of Texas at Austin has found that changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean influence rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and that these two systems have been linked for thousands of years.
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Region Syddanmark: Vi har ikke penge til at rydde forurening af Grindsted ÅDet er forkert at bruge penge på at rydde op i Kærgaard Klitplantage, når det samme spildevand ligger midt i Grindsted, uden at nogen rører en finger, mener DTU-forsker.
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'Day Zero': Water shut-off looms in South Africa's Cape TownLong lines of South Africans collect water daily from a natural spring pipeline in an upscale suburb of Cape Town, illustrating the harsh impact of a drought that authorities say could force the closure of most taps in the country's second largest city in just over two months, an occasion ominously known as "Day Zero."
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Science : NPR55
An Uncle's Overdose Spurs Medicaid Official To Change CourseDr. Andrey Ostrovsky, until recently chief medical officer for Medicaid, quit his job to more directly fight the stigma of addiction — a stigma that made his beloved uncle afraid to ask for help. (Image credit: Gary Waters/Getty Images )
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The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer'sIn recent years, Alzheimer’s disease has occasionally been referred to as “ type 3” diabetes , though that moniker doesn’t make much sense. After all, though they share a problem with insulin, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by diet. Instead of another type of diabetes, it’s increasingly looking like Alzheimer’s is another potential side e
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Research finds link between rainfall and ocean circulation in past and presentResearch conducted at The University of Texas at Austin has found that changes in ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean influence rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and that these two systems have been linked for thousands of years.
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Report: Dutch spies caught Russian hackers on videoA Dutch newspaper and television show are jointly reporting that the Netherlands' spy service broke into the computers used by a Russian hacking group often nicknamed Cozy Bear and may be sitting on evidence relating to the hack of the U.S. Democratic National Committee.
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Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon.
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Professor: Elvarme i stedet for varmepumper kan koste kassenProfessor frygter, at en nedsættelse af elvarmeafgiften ikke vil medføre flere varmepumper, men regulær elvarme.
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Ugens it-job: Ørsted, Bloom og Netcompany jagter it-professionellePå dagens liste er der job for både konsulenter, specialister, projektledere og udviklere. Find det rette job for dig.
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'Job-killing' robots, AI under scrutiny in Davos"Artificial intelligence and robots will kill many jobs."
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Volcanos, earthquakes: Is the 'Ring of Fire' alight?A volcanic eruption in the Philippines forces mass evacuations, while another in Japan kills one person. Across the Pacific, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hits off Alaska. So what's the link?
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Ariane 5 satellites in orbit but not in right locationTwo commercial satellites have been placed in orbit by an Ariane 5 rocket but have yet to reach their correct position, Arianespace said Thursday, after mission control briefly lost contact with the craft in a rare malfunction.
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Soros to Google and Facebook: 'Your days are numbered'Billionaire investor George Soros launched a scathing attack on tech giants at the Davos summit on Thursday, calling them monopolies that could be manipulated by authoritarians to subvert democracy.
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US Treasury official urges regulation of crypto currenciesA senior U.S. Treasury official has urged banks and financial regulators to do more to tighten oversight of trading in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories3
Walmart getting into the e-book market, an Amazon strengthWalmart is planning to sell e-books and audiobooks, its latest effort to encroach on an area of Amazon strength.
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories16
Lava spilling from Philippine volcano, ash coating landMore lava was spilling from a Philippine volcano also sending up columns of ash over farmland and towns already coated in gray after a nearly two-week eruption.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News4
Many second hand plastic toys could pose a risk to children's health, study suggestsScientists at the University of Plymouth have discovered high concentrations of hazardous elements including antimony, barium, bromine, cadmium, chromium and lead in many second hand plastic toys.
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Ingeniøren
Professor: Fremtidsanalyse fra kommunerne taler til ‘bullshit-bæltet’Teknologi kan ikke løse lærernes egentlige problemer.
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Science | The Guardian500+
'Space graffiti': astronomers angry over launch of fake star into skyGiant disco ball dubbed ‘Humanity Star’, launched by startup Rocket Lab, will interfere with scientific study of the universe, experts say Astronomers across the world have criticised a privately owned, New Zealand -based space company after it secretively put a satellite likened to a giant disco ball into orbit. Last week the space exploration startup Rocket Lab launched a rocket from a remote s
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Science | The Guardian72
Searching for an Alzheimer’s cure while my father slips awayAt the beginning, we hunted frantically for any medical breakthrough that might hint at a cure. Then hope gave way to the unbearable truth. By Peter Savodnik One night several years ago, I checked out of a hotel in Cairo and hailed a cab to the airport. It was just after 1am. I had been in Egypt for a week, researching a story on the Muslim Brotherhood, and I had come down with a nasty bug. A blo
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Ingeniøren7
Leder: Giv nu de statsansatte roen og troen tilbage
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Getting out of hot water — does mobile DNA help?Many researchers assume the first life on Earth evolved in hot springs. A new study provides insights into how one type of extremophile microbe may have moved from hot springs to conquer more moderate environments across the globe. The first-ever analysis of DNA of one ammonia-oxidizing hot-spring microbe living today reveals that evolution of the necessary adaptations may have been helped by high
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Obese men may have higher chance of recurrence following radical prostatectomyAmong men with prostate cancer who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP), those who were obese had a higher risk of biochemical recurrence, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27-30.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
High body fat levels associated with increased breast cancer risk in women with normal BMIAmong postmenopausal women with normal body mass index (BMI), those with higher body fat levels had an increased risk for invasive breast cancer, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27-30.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Quality of children's sleep may affect eating habits and weightSeveral measures of poor sleep quality were associated with higher body mass index (BMI) in children, according to data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27-30.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News1
Predicted rise in Canadian obesity rate may lead to higher cancer burdenReducing the number of overweight and obese Canadians by 50 percent could potentially prevent a cumulative 59,829 cases of cancer by 2042, according to estimates presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27-30.
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The Atlantic2
Radio Atlantic: Who Gets to Be American?Once again, immigration is at the top of America's legislative agenda, as it has been, seemingly every generation, for much of the nation's history. But while many recent discussions of immigration have focused on unauthorized immigrants, some of the most contentious aspects of the current debate concern legal immigration: Who should the U.S. allow to be an American? Priscilla Alvarez, an editor
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Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories83
Getting out of hot water—does mobile DNA help?Extremophiles—hardy organisms living in places that would kill most life on Earth—provide fascinating insights into evolution, metabolism and even possible extraterrestrial life. A new study provides insights into how one type of extremophile, a heat-loving microbe that uses ammonia for energy production, may have been able to make the transition from hot springs to more moderate environments acro
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Dagens Medicin
Friheden til at fungere som lægeKristian Rørbæk Madsens underskriftindsamling er kulminationen på flere års opsparet frustration blandt landets læger. De føler sig i stigende grad udsat for mistro og kontrol, siger en lang række iagttagere.
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Dagens Medicin
Fem store læge-oprør9.000 underskrifter på et mistillidsvotum er blot den seneste manifestation på, at de danske læger har mistet tilliden til politikere og embedsmænd.
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Ingeniøren3
Dårlige vitser kan gavne karrieren – og det er ikke en jokeNy undersøgelse fra Harvard Business School viser, at vellykkede vitser får dig til at virke mere kompetent. Faktisk kan selv dårlige jokes fremme din chefs og kollegers syn på dig
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Dagens Medicin
Henrik Dibbern: Kravene oppefra opleves simpelthen ikke som relevanteAnsvaret ligger hos de politikere, der ud fra nogle overordnede ideologiske dagsordener begynder at lave regler og styring af et system, de jo ikke forstår, mener den tidligere PLO-formand.
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Dagens Medicin
Hospitalernes udgifter til kræftmedicin 14-doblet på 20 årTal fra Sundhedsdatastyrelsen, som sundhedsøkonom Jes Søgaard har analyseret, viser, at priserne på kræftmedicin er vokset støt siden midten af 90’erne.
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Dagens Medicin
Anne Mette Dons: Alt er smidt ud med badevandetStyrelsen for Patientsikkerhed virker ikke til at have forståelse for den virkelighed loven skal agere i, mener den tidligere chef i Sundhedsstyrelsen.
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Dagens Medicin
Henrik Sillesen: Nogle gange er medicinsk handling er vigtigere end dokumentationHvis man arbejder i en system, der vægter dokumentation højere end faglighed, så bliver det svært, mener klinikchef Henrik Sillesen
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Dagens Medicin
Michael Dupont: Det er mange års opsparet vrede over mistillidsdagsordenenProblematikken er det misforhold, der er mellem den aktuelle virkelighed, vi arbejder i og så de regler og forordninger, der tordner ned over os, mener næstformand i Lægeforeningen.
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Dagens Medicin
Mads Koch Hansen: Man starter med at mistænkeliggøreMed den skærpede retorik om politianmeldelser og fratagelse af autorisation, bliver folk bange for at passe deres arbejde, mener lægefaglig direktør.
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Dagens Medicin
Biomarkør kan bremse antibiotikaoverforbrugAntibiotikaforbruget hos patienter med akutte lungeinfektioner kan reduceres markant, hvis det reguleres efter en biomarkør. Det fastslår en ny metaanalyse, som også overraskende viser, at strategien mindsker dødeligheden og giver færre antibiotikarelaterede bivirkninger.
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NeuWrite West
Cuttlefish camouflage reveals how they see the worldHumans are r–lly g–d at filling in th- bl-nks… but can cuttlefish do the same? It’s very common for objects to be partially hidden from view, but we perceive them clearly even when only bits and pieces are actually visible. If a rock is partially covered in sand, it’s easy for us to see that the different bits poking out all belong to a single bigger rock. In perception research, this is call
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The Atlantic1K
Out of ControlThe news that President Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller is one more moment of shock and awe in this period of American history. The good news is that this was the political massacre that didn’t happen. According to The New York Times , White House Counsel Don McGahn II threatened to quit, and that was enough to kill the plan. The bad news is that Trump tried to do this once, and all evidence s
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Dagens Medicin
Fagpolitisk disruptionNok er nok for de danske læger, der i protest mod kontrol og styring er stukket helt af fra deres egen fagforening.
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Dagens Medicin
Magtglidning i den offentlige forvaltningSagen om en nyvalgt regionspolitiker og overlæge, der erklæres generelt inhabil, skaber frygt for berufsverbot. Samtidig udhules det repræsentative demokrati med risiko for udvikling af ‘politiske’ embedsmænd.
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Dagens Medicin
Innovation – just do it!Patienterne må aldrig tabe, men vi bør blive langt bedre til at eksperimentere med organiseringer
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The Atlantic2K
The Saturday Night Massacre That Wasn'tFor months after Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed, President Trump openly flirted with firing him, delivering threats via public warnings about “red lines” Mueller shouldn’t cross. It turns out that Trump wasn’t just rattling his saber publicly: According to a New York Times report late Thursday , the president attempted to fire Mueller in June 2017, roughly a month after Deputy Attor
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BBC News – Science & Environment400+
A third of coral reefs 'entangled with plastic'Plastic is one of the biggest risks to the future of coral reefs after ocean warming, say scientists.
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NYT > Science11K
A Science Denier at the Natural History Museum? Scientists Rebel.More than 200 scientists and other academics are asking the American Museum of Natural History to remove Rebekah Mercer, an influential donor to conservative causes, from its board.
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Scientific American Content: Global23
Nobelist Crafts Light-Switchable AntibioticsDrugs modified by chemistry Nobel laureate Ben Feringa can be turned on and off by light, which could help keep bacteria from developing antibiotic resistance. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Futurity.org8
How the brain adapts to a hand transplantWhen a person loses a hand, nerves that control sensation and movement are severed. This trauma deprives sensory and movement areas of the brain of stimulation, causing them to reorganize their functions. Whether these reorganizational changes are reversible in the adult brain is of broad relevance to neurorehabilitation. “While conceptually similar to heart, lung, and kidney transplants, hand tr
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News1
Lack of essential and affordable medicines in India revealedResearch has revealed the shocking lack of access to essential medicines in India, despite thousands being approved in an attempt to generate wider availability.
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Futurity.org4
Record temperature surge from 2014 to 2016Global surface temperatures surged by a record amount from 2014 to 2016, researchers report. The surge boosted the total amount of warming since the start of the last century by more than 25 percent in just three years, according to a new paper describing the research. “Our paper is the first one to actually quantify this jump and identify the fundamental reason for this jump,” says lead author J
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BBC News – Science & Environment400+
Edible bandages for bears' burnt pawsAfter two bears are injured in California wildfires, a creative solution to get them back on their feet.
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily26
Discovery offers new genetic pathway for injured nerve regenerationResearchers on the hunt for genes involved in regenerating critical nerve fibers came away with a surprise: the discovery of a new genetic pathway that carries hope for victims of traumatic injuries — from stroke to spinal cord damage.
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Futurity.org6
Graphene ink could lead to washable electronicsNew graphene printing technology can produce electronic circuits that are low-cost, flexible, highly conductive and water repellent, researchers report. The nanotechnology “would lend enormous value to self-cleaning wearable/washable electronics that are resistant to stains, or ice and biofilm formation,” according to the new paper. Jonathan Claussen and his research group are printing and proces
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BBC News – Science & Environment100+
Ariane rocket suffers rare launch anomalyEurope's normally highly dependable rocket, the Ariane 5, loses contact as it flies skyward.
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Dagens Medicin
Fire ud af fem danskere med KOL får ikke en diagnoseEt nyt stort studie viser, at hele 78 pct. af danskere med KOL ikke får stillet en diagnose. Underdiagnosticering har i årevis kendetegnet KOL-området, og de nye tal understreger for alvor vigtigheden af ikke længere at sidde problemet overhørigt, lyder det fra forskerne.
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Futurity.org3
School mental health screenings may miss kids who need supportWhile many educators, counselors, and social workers are working to improve practices to identify children who need help through risk assessments such as mental health screenings, there is a high degree of variance between teacher reports when using these screenings, a new study indicates. “If we can get input from several different sources…involved in a young person’s life we may have a better u
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Microbiome research refines HIV risk for womenDrawing from data collected for years by AIDS researchers in six African nations, scientists have pinpointed seven bacterial species whose presence in high concentrations may significantly increase the risk of HIV infection in women.
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Big Think1K
Let’s delete sex-identity from birth certificatesW hen we are asked to check a sex-identity box on a bureaucratic form, what definition of sex is being invoked and to what end? Read More
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NeuWrite San Diego32
Instant Gratification: Weighing the Psychological Benefits and Costs of MDMA UseCan a pill exist that brings instant happiness without any negative side effects? Probably not.
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The Atlantic16
The Atlantic Daily: Harsh Judgment, Shutdown Blame, Plastic PollutionWhat We’re Following Gymnasts’ Justice: Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually abusing over 150 women in his capacity as an athletic doctor at Michigan State University and for the USA Gymnastics team. Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, who presided in the case, has drawn criticism for her unusually harsh sentencing statement , in which she expressed that she might “allo
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Science : NPR1K
New Fossil Found In Israel Suggests A Much Earlier Human Migration Out Of AfricaScientists have discovered a part of a fossilized human skull that's around 180,000 years old. It is now the oldest human fossil outside Africa. (Image credit: Gerhard Weber/University of Vienna/Science)
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
New research shows diabetes and worse blood sugar control are associated with long-term cognitive declineA new study in Diabetologia of some 5,000 older people in the UK has shown that rates of long-term cognitive decline are steeper in those who have diabetes compared with people with normal blood sugar control, and that efforts to delay the onset of diabetes and/or control blood sugar levels might prevent subsequent progression of brain function decline.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News1
Simple test speeds recognition of posterior strokeA simple finger-to-nose test by medical professionals almost doubled the recognition of possible stroke involving the circulation at the back of the brain, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Asian-American ethnicity associated with severe stroke, worse outcomesAsian-American race was more associated with severe ischemic strokes and worse outcomes than being whites. Asian-Americans tend to receive clot busting stroke treatment less frequently than whites.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Too few with stroke of the eye are treated to reduce future strokeOnly one-third of 5,600 patients with retinal infarction, or stroke in the eye, underwent basic stroke work-up, and fewer than one in 10 were seen by a neurologist. One in 100 of the retinal infarction patients studied experienced another stroke within 90 days of their retinal infarction.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Working before and after stroke is good for brain healthWorking-age adults who suffer stroke are likely to have healthier brains, sharper minds and less risk of depression and death two years after stroke if they worked prior to stroke, versus being unemployed. Those who work after stroke also seem to benefit with better long-term cognitive status than those who don't.
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Popular Science100+
Mosquitoes learn not to mess with you when you swat themAnimals And they’ll likely go looking for a less combative meal. The heat of your body, the vapor of your sweat, the breeze of your breath, and your scent, oh, your scent! The combination is beyond enticing, drawing in a mosquito with…
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NIHs New Rules Governing Human Research Go Into EffectMore than 3,500 scientists had signed an open letter to NIH Director Francis Collins opposing the rules change.
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The Atlantic6
The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Here's the DealToday in 5 Lines President Trump will support a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, in exchange for a $25 billion fund for the border wall and other immigration cuts. During Trump's first day at the Economic World Forum in Davos, he met with British Prime Minister Theresa May and threatened to withhold aid money from Palestinians unless
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News1
MIND diet slows cognitive decline in stroke survivorsThe MIND diet, which zeros in on foods that promote brain health, including vegetables, berries, fish and olive oil, helps to greatly slow cognitive decline in stroke survivors. In prior studies, neither adherence to the Mediterranean or the DASH diet patterns were significantly associated with slower decline in cognitive abilities. More research is needed to confirm the role of diet in stroke sur
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
A usually ignored finding in the kidneys may signal stroke riskSacs of fluid in the kidneys may indicate there is also blood vessel damage in the brain and a heightened risk of stroke, according to preliminary research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2018, a world premier meeting dedicated to the science and treatment of cerebrovascular disease for researchers and clinicians.
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Latest Science News — ScienceDaily43
Parental provision of alcohol to teenagers does not reduce risks, compared to no supply, Australian study findsThere is no evidence to support the practice of parents providing alcohol to their teenagers to protect them from alcohol-related risks during early adolescence, according to a prospective cohort study in Australia.
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Live Science65
Are 'Heat-Not-Burn' Tobacco Products Safer Than Cigarettes?A new tobacco device, known as IQOS, could soon be sold in the U.S. But is it safer than a regular cigarette? An FDA panel has weighed in.
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EurekAlert! – Breaking News
Method assesses how well dialysis clinics refer patients for transplantationA new method is useful for assessing how well individual dialysis facilities are referring patients for kidney transplantation.When the method was applied to dialysis facilities in Georgia, researchers found that most of the variation in referrals for transplantation were due to characteristics within the dialysis facilities rather than patient characteristics.
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Popular Science500+
What the heck is the Doomsday Clock, and why did it just tick?Science We're two minutes to midnight. Again. The Doomsday Clock just ticked 30 seconds, bringing us at an uncomfy two minutes to midnight for the first time since the Cold War.
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