Life Science Controversies of 2016

Two ongoing disputes brought The Scientist to the courtroom to listen in on the proceedings this year. The first is a defamation suit that former Wayne State University researcher Fazlul Sarkar brought against anonymous commenters on the post-publication peer review website PubPeer. Sarkar...

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'Hidden Figures,' 'The Glass Universe,' And Why Science Needs History

Editor’s Note: This story originally gave the time it takes light to travel from the sun to Earth as just over eight seconds. The correct time is just over eight minutes. Your editor is very embarrassed.
Earth spins at 1,040 mph. Light travels 186,000 miles per second. It takes...

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Study: This practice, lost to time, likely made a Stradivarius sing

For hundreds of years, violins by Antonio Stradivari have been considered the best in the world, some fetching millions of dollars. The only other instruments vying for the title were crafted by a man named Giuseppe Guarneri, who toiled away in his workshop in the same northern Italian city...

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Video shows false killer whale snagging tuna bait

HONOLULU, Dec. 23 (UPI) — Researchers trying to cut down on the number of false killer whales being caught in longline fishing gear in the Pacific have captured video of the marine mammal’s attempts to remove fish from the line.
In the video, the false killer whale successfully...

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Quora: What Are the Most Common Pitfalls New Programmers Face?

What are the most common pitfalls that new programmers face? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Colleen van Lent, lecturer at the University of Michigan and an Instructor at Web...

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Woman's 'Immortal' Cells To Be Regulated Under New Plan

For decades, the immortal line of cells known as HeLa cells has been a crucial tool for researchers. But the cells’ use has also been the source of anxiety, confusion and frustration for the family of the woman, Henrietta Lacks, from whom the cells were taken without consent more than...

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J. H. McKenna, Ph.D.: Filthy Little Atheist

President Teddy Roosevelt called Thomas Paine a ‘Filthy Little Atheist,’ a phrase with as many errors in it as words, since Paine was fastidiously clean, stood taller than most of his contemporaries at five feet ten inches, and was a professed believer in God.


Paine was often...

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Why Is Santa Always White?

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
It is that time of year again: People are dusting off their holiday decorations in order to make their homes and public spaces...

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European court deals blow to controversial UK surveillance law

A slapdown for snooping

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By Victoria Turk
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has delivered a blow to the UK’s controversial new surveillance law, the Investigatory Powers Act.
The Act, which is commonly known as the “snoopers’ charter” and receiv...

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US Postdocs Grapple with Salary Changes

US Department of Labor headquartersWIKIMEDIA, AGNOSTICPREACHERSKIDPostdocs across the country have been on a financial rollercoaster since the end of November. In order to be compliant with new federal regulations from the US Department of Labor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA),...

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One Small Step for NASA, One Giant Leap for GIFs

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Last week, NASA announced that it would open an official account at Giphy, a GIF database and social media platform, bringing the space agency up to speed with the way young people communicate in the internet...

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China wants 23 northern cities put on red alert for smog

BEIJING Environmental authorities in China have advised 23 northern cities to issue red alerts, the highest possible air pollution warning, on Friday evening, against the “worst” smog the country has experienced since autumn, state media said.

China issued its first ever red...

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Muhammad Ali letter to Nelson Mandela up for auction in the UK

A rare letter from boxing legend Muhammad Ali to Nelson Mandela is up for auction in the U.K. this weekend.
In the typed and signed letter, dated April 13 1993, Ali expresses his condolences to Mandela for the death of his friend and anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani, who was assassinated...

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Brave New World: UK Is First To Legalize Three-Parent Babies

It’s now legal in Britain to create a three-parent baby using healthy DNA from a donor to fix debilitating genetic problems.
U.K. fertility clinic regulator Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has approved the “cautious use” of the technique, developed by British scientists, t...

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3D Scanners Erase Dinos From History

Were scientists all wrong when it came to Psittacosaurus — or “parrot lizard” — dinosaurs? A new study has found that multiple skulls of a single species were mislabeled for years as three different species. Oops.


Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania...

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Imaging Advance May Soon Show Unborn Babies in 3D

This image shows a 3-D virtual model of a fetus at 26 weeks.
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Someday, a mother-to-be may be able to put on a virtual reality headset and get a clear, 360-degree look at her own fetus...

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Robust defence of string theory wins Physics World's 2016 Book of the Year

Physics World‘s choice for the 2016 Book of the Year is Why String Theory? by Joseph Conlon, while Stuart Lowe and Chris North’s Cosmos: the Infographic Book of Space is Highly Commended

Our 2016 Book of the Year
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First test of rival to Einstein’s gravity kills off dark matter

Gravitational lensing is a famous prediction of Einstein’s gravity
NASA, N. Benitez (JHU), T. Broadhurst (Racah Institute of Physics/The Hebrew University), H. Ford (JHU), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory), the ACS Science Team and ESA


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Meet Mimas: Saturn's Death Star Moon

Mimas Is Also Space Pac-Man
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Herschel Crater on Mimas
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America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Spins to Life

Until this week, all of the wind power generated in the United States was landlocked.
But in a first for America, the ocean breeze is now generating clean, renewable power offshore — electricity that will supply a small island community off the coast of Rhode Island. Renewable energy, i...

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In Canada, case spurs concern over misconduct secrecy

In early 2013, scientists working in a laboratory led by a prominent cancer researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, were getting worried. They were unable to reproduce results from several of the researcher’s experiments, and suspected some of the o...

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Here's Why You Don't Have A Penis Bone

No other bone, arguably, has been the subject of such debate as the human penis bone. Mainly, why other animals have them – in diverse sizes and varying lengths – and we don’t. 
Monkeys’ penises are as short as a fingernail, while walruses’ can be two feet long. The absence of the...

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COOL: 20 Visual Puns Link Scientists With Their Achievements

When you hear Darwin’s name, you probably think of evolution. But for lesser known scientists, it’s sometimes hard to keep track of their groundbreaking achievements.


Here’s a series of clever mash-ups that combine the names of scientific game-changers with their...

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62-Foot Wave Off Iceland Smashes World Record

A giant wave (not the one that broke the record).
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A monstrous swell in the North Atlantic that rose up as high as a six-story building is now the world’s tallest wave measured by a...

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Tracing the path towards totality

Sun Moon Earth: the History of Solar Eclipses from Omens of Doom to Einstein and Exoplanets Tyler Nordgren
2016 Basic Books $26.99hb 256pp

Eclipse chasing
On 21 August 2017 a total solar eclipse will cast its sweeping shadow across the US. Starting around 10 a.m. in Oregon on the west...

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Keeping CRISPR in Check

Cas9 protein structure from Staphylococcus aureus WIKICOMMONS, THOMAS SPLETTSTOESSER A team of scientists that previously identified genes within bacteriophage genomes that code for anti-CRISPR proteins has now discovered phages that harbor an antidote to the Cas9 enzyme that is a key...

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Curiosity Rover Encounters Technical Difficulties On Martian Mountain

This is the Curiosity rover’s robotic arm, a part of which has gotten stuck, endangering its scientific mission.

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Scientists push for agricultural monitoring

Network would collect environmental and socioeconomic data from around the world.

Scientists want to monitor agriculture in Africa and elsewhere to learn how humans are affecting the planet.ALEXANDER JOE/AFP/Getty Images
A global agricultural monitoring network moved a step closer to reality...

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Archaeologists discover mysterious 2,500-year-old 'lost city' in Greece

An international team of experts has discovered a mysterious ‘lost city’ in central Greece that could offer new clues to the region’s history.
Archaeologists from Greece, Sweden and the U.K. are involved in the research project at a village called Vlochós, about five hours north of Athens in ...

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When is the supermoon in December 2016? How to watch the supermoon THIS WEEK

Many stargazers across Britain were left disappointed after clouds obscured the huge November supermoon in many parts of the UK.  
Astronomers are once again praying for clear skies tonight because it is their last chance to see a supermoon in 2016. 


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PHOTOS: 18 Science Greats When They Were Cute Kids

Albert Einstein wasn’t always the old guy with the bushy white hair. Once upon a time he was once just a cute little three-year-old — and the same is true, of course, for all scientific geniuses. Just have a look at this amazing collection of “baby scientist” photos...

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What Is Consciousness? Physicists Look for Answers

Renowned physicist Edward Witten recently suggested that consciousness might forever remain a mystery. But his words haven’t discouraged other physicists from trying to unravel it.

Yes, physicists.

In the past, consciousness was almost entirely relegated to the musings of p...

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Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women

Why do men get worse symptoms?
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By Sam Wong
Is man-flu a quirk of viral evolution? Some viruses might cause weaker symptoms in women than in men because it makes them more likely to spread.
Many infections cause more severe illness in men than women. Men infected with...

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Galileo gets ready for take off

Europe’s satellite navigation system enters test phase.

A launch of two satellites on 20 October means Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system is ramping up.ESA – S. Corvaja, 2011
Galileo, the largest programme ever launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) will...

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Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Vow To Fight Through Fierce Winter

The teeth of winter are closing on the makeshift camp in North Dakota where demonstrators are trying to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. Some are heeding tribal calls to leave, while others are digging in. But the company building the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline was in federal court...

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Updated: Innovation bill dies after Senate approval, at least for this year

In the predawn hours Saturday, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to bolster innovation and research activities at the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and various research and education programs managed by the White House Office of Science and...

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Treated sawdust could clean up icy oil spills

SEQUIM, Wash., Dec. 12 (UPI) — Cleaning up oil is difficult. Cleaning up oil in the stormy, ice-filled seas of the Arctic is even harder. As sea ice melts and fossil fuel extraction shifts northward, oil spells will inevitably follow.
Researchers Department of Energy’s Pacific...

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Dan Rockmore: Encoding a Next Generation

In my last post I argued (or cried) for a renewed valuing of and inculcation of “critical thinking” skills as a bulwark and counteroffensive to the increased primacy of screaming and bullying in our new “post-truth” marketplace of ideas. As a part of this, I...

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LISTEN: Physics Legend Explains The One Thing We Don't Get About Science

In a science career that has spanned more than 60 years, Freeman Dyson has worked alongside some of the greatest minds in theoretical physics, including Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe, and Richard Feynman.


Of course, Dyson, 90, is himself a mathematical physicist of almost...

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ISIS May Face War-Crime Charges for Destruction of Historic Sites

As a combined Iraqi-Kurdish force fights its way into Mosul, the last major Iraqi city held by the Islamic State group (also known as Daesh, ISIS or ISIL), there have been reports that some ISIS fighters have chosen to surrender rather than fight to the death.

Photos released by Agence...

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LIGO's gravitational-wave discovery is Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year

The Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year goes to “the LIGO Scientific Collaboration for its revolutionary, first-ever direct observations of gravitational waves”. Nine other achievements are highly commended and cover topics ranging from nuclear physics to material science...

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Potential diabetes therapy: Engineered cells that control blood sugar

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To program cells to produce insulin in response to glucose, bioengineers used three proteins. Glucose transporters shuttle the sugar into the cells, where it is metabolized to produce adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Increasing ATP levels shut ...

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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Show Signs of Donor Age

WIKIMEDIA, CSIROAfter human somatic cells are reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the resulting cells retain both genetic and epigenetic indicators of the age of the person who donated the somatic-cell progenitors, scientists have found. Ali Torkamani, Kristin...

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John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95

To the America of the 1960s, Mr. Glenn was a clean-cut, good-natured, well-grounded Midwesterner, raised in Presbyterian rectitude, nurtured in patriotism and tested in war, who stepped forward to risk the unknown and succeeded spectacularly, lifting his country’s morale and restoring its s...

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Schools shut, navy on alert as cyclone bears down on south India

NEW DELHI Indian authorities closed schools and colleges on Monday and prepared to move people out of low-lying areas as a cyclone bore down on the southeast coast.

Cyclone Vardah is moving westwards over the Bay of Bengal and is expected to hit the city of Chennai and neighboring areas...

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Feathered dinosaur tail fragment trapped in amber amazes scientists

It’s a discovery that’s straight out of “Jurassic Park.” Scientists have found a tiny section of a dinosaur’s tail trapped in amber, and not only that, it has feathers.
Dating to about 99 million years ago, or the mid-Cretaceous period, the amber containing the eight dinosaur vertebrae ...

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Japanese cargo ship blasts off for space station

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. An unmanned H-2B rocket blasted off from Tanegashima island in southern Japan on Friday to send a cargo ship to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed.

The delivery of about 4.5 tons...

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Moon May Be MUCH Younger Than We Thought

The moon is quite a bit younger than scientists had previously believed, new research suggests.


The leading theory of how the moon formed holds that it was created when a mysterious planet — one the size of Mars or larger — slammed into Earth about 4.56 billion years ago, just after the s...

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Why Don't Monkeys Talk Like Us?

There is little doubt that non-human primates like Koko the gorilla are very intelligent. Koko, for example, uses sign language to communicate with people, telling them that she loves her pet cats, Miss Black and Miss Grey. Koko, however, is noticeably the strong and silent type, at least...

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Between the lines: Christmas special

An eclectic mix of popular-science books, from everyday physics to loop quantum gravity to collider cartoons, reviewed by Matin Durrani, Kate Gardner, Hamish Johnston, Margaret Harris and Louise Mayor

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What has the US military ever done for us? While it is possible to respond to...

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Exclusive: Mexico clinic plans 20 ‘three-parent’ babies in 2017

Alejandro Chavez-Badiola: director of New Hope Fertility Center
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By Michael Le Page
Many more three-parent babies will soon be on their way. A clinic in Mexico is planning to use the technique in 20 pregnancies in the first half of 2017, according to its medical...

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Building the James Webb Space Telescope: Hubble's Successor (Gallery)

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It takes a lot of guidance to correctly move flight instruments. Critical lift operations involving flight instruments require patience, precision, and many pairs of eyes....

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Trilobites: Rapid Evolution Saved This Fish From Pollution, Study Says

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The Atlantic killifish, which researchers found was able to adapt to pollution.

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The State of New Jersey says you can’t eat the fish or shellfish from the Lower Passaic River and ...

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Stopping CRISPR’s genome-editing scissors from snipping out of control

Scientists have found several proteins that stop the Cas9 enzyme (white) from cutting DNA. 
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In an episode of the resurrected X-Files TV show that ran earlier this year, aliens attack Earth with a bioweapon based on CRISPR, the genome-editing tool that vastly ...

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The Rise In C-Sections Could Be Changing Human Evolution

C-sections have been on the rise for decades, now making up more than 30 percent of all deliveries in the United States.
An intriguing new study out of Austria suggests that as C-sections have become more common, they might also be altering the course of human evolution. More babies are ...

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Scientist Answers Key Question About Human Evolution

WASHINGTON — Is human evolution over? That’s the question Briana Pobiner, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, asked an audience here Saturday (May 17).


Humans are evolving at an increasing rate, thanks to medical advances and a larger population, Po...

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Having Family for Dinner: 'Cannibalism' Author Dishes

When you think of cannibals, you may picture the headline-grabbing psychopaths who, every so often, committ horrific crimes.

But elsewhere in the animal kingdom, cannibalism might involve a self-sacrificing mother or a hungry fetus snacking down on its siblings.

Now, Bill...

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Sonic Lamb shift detected in ultracold atoms

Sound measurement: artist’s impression of polarons in a BEC
The tiny influence that quantized sound waves called phonons have on atomic energy levels has been measured for the first time by physicists at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Known as the “phononic Lamb...

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CRISPR creators duke it out in U.S. patent court

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In CRISPR, the guide RNA (red) directs the Cas9 enzyme (white) to a specified region of DNA (green).
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3-D Models Capture Endangered Species Before They Go Extinct

A gecko in the BeastcamUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETS AT AMHERSTIt is too late for the the Bramble Cay melomys and the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog—both declared extinct in 2016. It’s probably too late for the Northern White Rhino and the San Cristobal Vermillion Flycatcher, as well. As conse...

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Japan Sends Long Electric Whip Into Orbit, To Tame Space Junk

A rendering in a video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows an electrodynamic tether being deployed to help reduce the amount of space junk in orbit.

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Brazil cooks up transgenic bean

Approval draws criticism over transparency and safety tests.

Pinto beans, a Brazilian staple, could soon be resistant to the devastating golden mosaic virus.J. STOKES/SPL
Paired with rice or steeped in feijoada stew, beans are an essential feature of Brazilian cuisine. So great is...

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Haunting photos of Japanese mini-submarine sunk during Pearl Harbor attack

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released photographs of a Japanese mini-submarine that was sunk at the very beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941, and they’re haunting.
On Wednesday, the 75th anniversary of the “date which will live in infamy,” the NOAA ship Oke...

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Feathered Dinosaur Tail Found In Perfect Conidition In Myanmar

A feathered dinosaur tail has been discovered in perfect condition in Myanmar. 
The unique find, preserved in amber, is believed to be more than 99 million years old. 
Researchers believe the tail belonged to a feathered dinosaur about the size of a sparrow.
It was found by Lida Xing, a g...

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IN MEMORIAM: Scientists Who Died In 2013

Janet Rowley, M.D.
(April 5, 1925 – December 18, 2013)
A pioneer in cancer genetics research, Rowley linked cancer with abnormal genes and identified the genetic process called translocation. Her work led to targeted drug treatment for leukemia, and won her the the National Medal of...

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Mystery Solved! Cause of London's 1952 'Killer Fog' Revealed

Despite the death of thousands, the killer fog has largely remained a mystery for decades.
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London may be known for its drizzly weather, but in 1952 the city’s quintessential...

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Flash Physics: Graphene meets Silly Putty, new linear-collider bosses, Majorana pairs spotted

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

Graphene and Silly Putty make an excellent strain sensor
Not so silly: graphene and Silly Putty join forces
Extremely...

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Brain waves clear Alzheimer’s plaques

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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don’t they?

Yes, scratch right there
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By Andy Coghlan
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ee, ee, ee! Shouting monkeys may have more sophisticated vocal abilities than we give them credit for.
It seems that the anatomy of their vocal tract is theoretically capable of producing the five basic...

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Climate researchers warn of data crisis

Looming gaps in satellite coverage challenge sustained climate observation.

The next generation of Earth-observing satellites will not be ready in time for a seamless transition from the current generation.NOAA
Climate scientists warn that critical gaps in climate data could open up after...

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Magnitude 6.5 Earthquake Shakes California

The epicenter of Thursday’s earthquake was about 100 miles off the coast of Northern California.

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Virus found in child mummy suggests recent rise of deadly smallpox

A mummy found in the same Lithuanian crypt where researchers extracted smallpox DNA from a small child.
Kiril Cachovski of the Lithuanian Mummy Project, 2015



Ancient rashes that scar the faces of Egyptian mummies have long been cited as evidence that smallpox ravaged the region...

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Meet Fyodor – the humanoid robot that Russia will use in SPACE

The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects has developed Fyodor, which will be used to protect its cosmonauts in future space exploration.
Fyodor, the humanoid robot, will be used to perform complex tasks outside of the International Space Station (ISS) and Russia’s national o...

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Evaggelos Vallianatos: Archimedes: The Greatest Scientist Who Ever Lived

The scientist who personifies the greatest achievements of Greek and Western science was Archimedes. He applied mathematics for the understanding of the natural world and the cosmos.


In one of his books, Ψαμμιτης (Psammites), or The Sand-Reckoner, Archimedes attempted to measure the size ...

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Giraffes Are Threatened with Extinction

Giraffe numbers have plummeted over the past three decades.
Credit: Volodymyr Burdiak / Shutterstock.com




Earth’s tallest land mammal, the giraffe, is now threatened with extinction, according to an update to an...

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Life as we do and don't know it

Goldilocks and the Water Bears: the Search for Life in the Universe Louisa Preston
2016 Bloomsbury £16.99 288pp

Brave new worlds
Is there life beyond Earth? This fundamental and as yet unresolved question has long confronted humanity. With a limited understanding of the natural world around ...

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Phages Carry Antibiotic Resistance Genes

WIKIMEDIA, CDC/JJ FARMERViromes from a variety of environments harbor antibiotic resistance genes, according to a study published last month (November 24) in Environmental Pollution. The results suggest that bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria—may play a role in the transfer of gen...

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Little African primate's talents inspire leaping robot

By Will Dunham
| WASHINGTON


WASHINGTON Inspired by the remarkable jumping ability of an African primate called a galago, scientists have fashioned a small robot with unique leaping capabilities they hope can someday be used in tricky search-and-rescue...

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Fingernails on a Chalkboard: Why This Sound Gives You the Shivers

If you’re like most people, you probably can’t stand the sound of fingernails scraping across a blackboard. You’re probably cringing just thinking about it. This ear-piercing noise is so universally disliked, perhaps it’s no surprise that dozens of scientists have...

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DEA ban puts damper on research into kratom’s painkilling effects

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DEA’s ban will stop kratom from being sold at herb shops such as this one.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has announced it will temporarily list two compounds that occur na...

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Naive T Cells Find Homes in Lymphoid Tissue

WIKIMEDIA, NCIAt birth, the human body is brimming with naive T cells, immune cells generated in the thymus that have yet to encounter a pathogen. Production of these cells declines with age, but they persist in the body to muster an immune response against novel invaders. In a Science...

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Scientific challenges in the Arctic: Open water

Published online 12 October 2011 |
Nature
478,
174-177
(2011)
| doi:10.1038/478174a

As the ice melts, fresh obstacles confront Arctic researchers.

The icebreakers Louis S. St-Laurent (top) and Healy are taking part in a multi-year international Arctic survey...

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All Human-Made Objects on Earth Amount to 30 Trillion Tons

Humanity’s imprint on the planet weighs in at trillions of tons.
Credit: University of Leicester




It’s safe to say that humans have accumulated a lot of stuff over the years. Scientists recently discovered that all...

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REVEALED: Bizarre Physiological Benefit Of Watching

Earlier this year, Dartmouth researchers added support to mounting evidence about the way that exercise affects learning and mental acuity: it boosts the production of “brain derived neurotrophic factor” — or BDNF – a protein that is thought to help with mental acuity, learning and...

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U.S. presidential candidates answer 20 questions on science

The leading U.S. presidential candidates have detailed their stances on important science, medical, and environmental issues. They prepared these policy positions in response to questions from ScienceDebate.org, a coalition of fifty-six leading U.S. nonpartisan organizations, including the...

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Virgin Galactic takes first solo glide flight since 2014 crash

By Leah Crane
Virgin Galactic’s newest space plane has finally left the nest for its first free flight. VSS Unity, the second iteration of the company’s SpaceShipTwo, had five assisted flights since September, but the 3 December flight marks the first time pilots have steered and landed it a...

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Team Hits Snag In Attempt To Rescue Vintage Spacecraft

The quest to rescue a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft will go on for at least another day, as a private group controlling the probe achieved only partial success with an engine firing Tuesday (July 8).


The private team operating NASA’s International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft...

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Why Do Sore Muscles Feel Worse On The Second Day?

Welcome to Ask Healthy Living — in which you submit your most burning health questions and we do our best to ask the experts and get back to you. Have a question? Get in touch here and you could appear on Healthy Living!


“Ask Healthy Living” is for informational purposes...

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Aramco buys Novomer’s CO2-based polyols business

Saudi oil company says carbon dioxide-based polyols will flourish with its backing


Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, Saudi Aramco, is making a big investment in green chemistry with the purchase, valued at up to $100 million, of Novomer’s Converge polyols business.
Novomer produces the po...

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PubPeer Loses Battle, Hopes to Win War on Anonymous Comments

WIKIMEDIA, BLOGTREPRENEURAs The Scientist reported yesterday, the Michigan Court of Appeals has denied a motion to enter into the record the full report from a Wayne State University investigation of misconduct allegations made against Fazlul Sarkar.

Alex Abdo, the American Civil...

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Justin Kitch: From Rosie the Riveter to Olympic Ties: This Week's Curios

Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest.


Last week’s Curios covered Rosie the Riveter, broken heart syndrome, and why we get so...

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The Surprising Reason Why West Coast NFL Teams May Have An Advantage In Night Games

The way the body’s natural circadian rhythms work could give West Coast NFL teams an advantage when they play night games against East Coast teams, a new study suggests.


Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego,...

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Isotope analysis points to violent moon origin

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En esta recreación artística de un instante remoto de nuestro sistema solar, un hipotético cuerpo del tamaño de Marte colisiona con la Tierra, lo que dio lugar a la formación de la Luna
Credit: Dana Berry/National Geographic



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Europe’s green energy policy is a disaster for the environment

Biofuels or fossil fuels?
Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty


By Michael Le Page
The European Union’s proposals for revising its renewable energy policies are greenwashing and don’t solve the serious flaws, say environmental groups.
The EU gets 65 per cent of its renewable energy from biofuels – main...

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News Report on Global Temperatures Is Wrong, Scientists Say

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Leslie Reece Schichtel: Golf, Baseball and Biomechanics: The Underlying Science of Sports

It’s Game Six of the 2013 World Series. St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Michael Wacha steps up to the mound, winds up and smoothly delivers a pitch on its way to meet the Boston Red Sox Shane Victorino’s bat. The bat makes contact with a “whack,” delivering a...

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Elegant way to build β-lactams

Volume 94 Issue 46 | p. 8 | News of The WeekIssue Date: November 21, 2016 | Web Date: November 18, 2016


The strained cyclic amides known as β-lac­tams have shown up in the skeletons of many medicinally important molecules, including the antibiotic penicillin and the cardiac drug Zetia (...

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Opinion: An Ethical Code for Conferences

This fundamental form of scientific communication is threatened by modern recording technology and researchers who refuse to adhere to an age-old ethical code.




FLICKR, ARISEXPRESSI recently attended several conferences and saw rampant recording of lectures and posters. Because my talk...

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Redrawing the Arctic map: The new north

Published online 12 October 2011 |
Nature
478,
172-173
(2011)
| doi:10.1038/478172a

News Feature
Getting to grips with a changing polar landscape.


The Arctic covers around 5% of the planet’s surface, but it is capturing a disproportionate...

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WATCH: The Fascinating Physics Of Figure Skating

What makes figure skaters so graceful on the ice? It’s a question many will be asking during the upcoming winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia.


Sure, figure skating is all about skill and practice — lots of practice. But ultimately it’s about science. Just check out the...

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Casual Sexism In The Workplace May Affect Women More Than We Realize

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, but their ubiquity doesn’t protect them from gendered discr...

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Flash Physics: LIGO resumes its search, sound moves magnetic domains, asteroid is tiny and bright

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

LIGO resumes search for gravitational waves
Up and running: the LIGO detector at Livingston
The Laser Interferometer...

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Boron nitride unexpectedly converts propane to propene

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Experiments and computations suggest that oxygen-terminated edges of BN (green and gray) can abstract hydrogen from propane to form propene.
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Concerns as face recognition tech used to ‘identify’ criminals

Let’s face it: tech is throwing up many new ethical challenges
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By Timothy Revell
What can your face say about you? Face recognition technology can pick up on things like your age, gender and maybe even your mood. Now, two researchers say it could even tell whether you’re a cr...

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Justin Kitch: From Degenerate Art to the Mozart Effect: This Week's Curios

Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest.


Last week’s Curios covered the history of neckties, dangerously pure water, and the myth of...

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WATCH: Researchers Reveal Odd Way To Boost Your Vision

Want to boost your eyesight? There’s an app for that.


In a new baseball study, researchers have found that training your brain with a perceptual learning app just may improve your vision.


The researchers tested the vision of baseball players at the University of California in...

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Flash Physics: Nuclear diamond battery, M G K Menon dies, four new elements named

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

Diamond batteries run on nuclear waste




Radioactive waste from nuclear reactors could be used to create tiny diamonds...

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Names for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 finalized by IUPAC

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Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson complete the seventh row of the periodic table.
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Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson complete the seventh row of the periodic table.
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Three-Parent IVF Advances

CENTER FOR EMBRYONIC CELL AND GENE THERAPY OF OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

In efforts to prevent women who have pathogenic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations from passing these on to their offspring, researchers have been developing so-called three-parent assisted...

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Two miners dead, six missing after earthquake hits Polish mine

WARSAW At least six miners are missing and two died after an earthquake occurred at the Rudna mine in Polkowice in southwestern Poland, state news agency PAP reported on Tuesday.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck at 9:09 p.m. (3 p.m. ET), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It...

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Kevin Kniffin: The Science of Momentum: Does a Win Today Predict a Win Tomorrow?

If your favorite team or player wins on a given day — especially if it’s a landslide win, then it’s likely that “momentum” gets thrown around by people previewing the next event. For better or worse, momentum is one of those concepts that’s sticky in our...

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Flash Physics: Exotic cosmic rays have mundane origins, Swiss reactors keep running, programmable material

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

Exotic cosmic rays have mundane origins
In orbit: the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
Measurements made by the Alpha...

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A look at the explosives used in the New York bombing

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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo stand over a dumpster mangled in the Sep. 17 bombing.
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Initial reports about a device used in Saturday’s bombing in New Yor...

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Proxima Centauri really does orbit its two bright neighbours

Red dwarf: Proxima Centauri on the right, next to its much brighter companions
Digitized Sky Survey 2/ Davide De Martin/Mahdi Zamani/ESO


By Ken Croswell
They’re a happy family after all. The three closest stars to the solar system all revolve around one another, astronomers say, r...

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Vintage Floral X-Rays Show The True Beauty Of Our Favorite Flowers

You’ve never seen roses, daffodils, and calla lilies quite like this before.
A series of images taken in the late 1920s by Dr. Dain L. Tasker, chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles, show various floral species through the lens of an X-ray machine.
The images, on display ...

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Girls Who Code: Hey Men: Just Wanting More Women in Tech Does Not Make You Their Ally

This week, we at Girls Who Code are celebrating the kick-off of our 2016 Summer Immersion Programs. More than 1,500 high school girls will spend seven weeks immersed in the tech world and learning computer science at 78 locations across the United States. This is especially important...

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Scientists Look Inside A Concussion

LAB PHOTOS BY SIMON BRUTY/THE MMQB

BETHESDA, Md. – One of the most important recent developments in the treatment of brain trauma—and by extension, the future of football—may have been discovered by a clumsy intern. 

Theo Roth is a St. Louis-born, Alabama-raised Stanfo...

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Doing physics by ear

Nov 24, 2016

Aqil Sajjad recently finished his postdoc at Harvard University in the US, where he does particle physics research. But unlike most particle physicists, he does physics by ear. That’s because Sajjad – who will be celebrating his 37th birthday this month – lost his sight to...

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Sponge made of coffee grounds scrubs lead and mercury from water

Homes, restaurants, and the coffee industry collectively produce about 6 million tons of spent coffee grounds every year. Researchers have now come up with a practical way to use some of this waste. They have made a rubbery foam from used coffee powder and silicone that can pull lead and...

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How Diet Influences Host-Microbiome Communication in Mice

WIKIMEDIA, CHRISTOPH BOCKShortly after we finish a good meal, our resident microbes spring into action. The bacteria, viruses, and fungi that inhabit our guts send out metabolites that prepare our organs for the incoming nutrients. But the details of this symbiotic communication remain a...

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Here's How The International Space Station Is Celebrating Thanksgiving

NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough shows a pouch of turkey he will be preparing for his crew in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday, aboard the International Space Station.

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Seven billion and counting

A look behind this month’s global population landmark reveals a world in transition.

What’s in a number? This month, the world’s attention turns to a big one: 7 billion, the latest milestone in humanity’s remarkable and worrying rise in population. According to a...

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Altar of Viking saint-king discovered in Norway

Archaeologists in Trondheim, Norway have unearthed the church where Viking King Olaf Haraldsson was first enshrined as a saint.
Experts working for the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) uncovered the stone foundations of a wooden stave church where Haraldsson was...

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Fijian ants began farming 3 million years ago

MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 27 (UPI) — Ants have been farming for at least 3 million years. New research suggests Fijian ants were the planet’s first plant farmers.
As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature, the ant species Philidris nagasau has been nurturing...

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What Medical Students Can Learn From Art Museums

A hospital is not just a laboratory. A patient is not simply a diagnosis. And medicine is often more than a science. 
“We are pretending to be accurate scientists but we’re really social scientists,” Alexandra Charrow, a resident in internal medicine and dermatology at Brigham an...

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Girls Who Code: Happy Father"s Day, Dad: I"m A Computer Scientist Because Of You

By Emily Reid, Director of Education at Girls Who Code.


The first time I visited New York City, I didn’t see the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty. On my first visit to Manhattan I went to the Ancient Egypt Exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I was seven...

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FOR SALE: Nobel Prize Of Neutron"s Discoverer

There’s more than one way to get your hands on a Nobel gold medal.


The 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to English physicist James Chadwick for his discovery of the neutron will be offered this morning (June 3).


Sotheby’s, which is handling the sale in New York, has...

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Joey Savoie: What Makes the New Atheists So Charitable?

Co-authored by Tee Barnett, Programs and Educational Officer at Charity Science





Before getting to know your local atheist, it’s very much worth rehashing the ABCs of non-belief that run the risk of remaining little known, especially now that the skeptic community has become more...

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Greg Cootsona: The Endorser

I used to hate this expression:



“We engage people with arguments, not arguments in abstraction.”


I hated that phrase because I believed that the truth of an argument ought to be enough to convince us. I wanted human beings to be the thinking machines that evaluate opinions...

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Try To Find The 12 Dots In This Grid And You"ll Swear You"re Hallucinating

You’ll feel like you need an eye exam after you study this optical illusion. 
It’s officially called Ninio’s extinction illusion, and it features a grid of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines with 12 black dots scattered throughout.
Viewers are then supposed to see if they can spot all 12...

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130-Million-Year Old Proteins Still Present in Dinosaur-Age Fossil

The newfound Cretaceous-age Eoconfuciusornis specimen from northern China has 130-million-year-old beta-keratin and melanosomes on it.
Credit: Wang Xiaoli




Microscopic pigment structures and proteins that graced the feathers of...

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Scientists Left Scrambling

Health Canada scientists are so concerned about losing access to their research library that some are squirrelling away journals and books in their garages for colleagues to consult, says a report obtained by CBC News.
The draft report from a consultant hired by the department...

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Jason Saltmarsh: How To Run Your Best Race In The Rain

Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike, once said: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.” The weather is beyond our control, so don’t fret about it too much. Instead, focus on what you can do to make it work in your favor. In adverse conditions, a...

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Delaying Kindergarten Could Benefit Kids" Mental Health

Academic studies can be fascinating … and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
American kids have customarily started kindergarten at the age of 5, but parents and school administrators across the globe ...

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Flash Physics: Glitch crashed Mars lander, Microsoft hires quantum stars, cosmic speed test for light

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

European Mars lander doomed by computer glitch

Doomed descent: computer glitch may have caused Schiaparelli to crash
The...

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University of Hawaii fined $115,500 for lab explosion

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The explosion shattered fume hood sash windows and knocked over equipment.
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The University of Hawaii faces a total $115,500 fine for 15 workplace safety violations after a laboratory explosion in March on the ...

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Speech synthesiser translates mouth movements into robot speech

Can you understand me?
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By Sam Wong
Vocoders just got a serious upgrade. A new speech synthesiser can translate mouth movements directly into intelligible speech, completely bypassing a person’s voicebox.
Although the synthesiser might not be immediately u...

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Simulated Mars mission 'returns' to Earth

Six crewmen survived 520 days of isolation, but experiment was limited in its realism.

The six Mars500 crewmen, shortly after ‘landing’ on 4 November.ESA
Early afternoon in Moscow today, 4 November, the hatch of a hermetically-sealed capsule opened for the first time in 520 days....

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Inside The Climate Change Dispute Between Exxon Mobil And Rockefeller Family

Exxon Mobil is accusing the Rockefeller family of masterminding a conspiracy against the company on climate change. New York Times reporter John Schwartz tells the story.


The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Website. Note: Content may be edited for style, length and...

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Congress poised to pass sweeping biomedical innovation bill

Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments...

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Destination Moon? Belgium joins the space race

BRUSSELS Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin helped popularize the 1950s Space Race with his iconic cartoon rocket; seven decades on from the boy reporter’s “Destination Moon”, his country is finally getting its own version of NASA.

The Interfederal Space Agency of Belgium...

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The Likely Mental Illnesses Of Some Of History"s Most Famous Figures

Marilyn Monroe lives in our cultural imagination as one of the most iconic actresses in Hollywood history. But underneath the famous blonde curls and sex-kitten voice, there’s a complex woman who likely suffered from borderline personality disorder, according to science journalist ...

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Quora: What the Rapid Growth of Computer Science Means for the Future

What is next for Computer Science education in the next 10-20 years? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Bill Poucher, CS Professor at Baylor University and Executive Director...

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Radical New Theory Says Other Universes Affect Our Own

Parallel universes have long been a staple of science fiction. But according to a radical new theory of quantum mechanics published Oct. 23 in the journal Physical Review X, other universes are real–and they exist in vast numbers.


What’s more, the scientists behind the theory...

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Wes Isley: Maintaining Faith in the Midst of Doubts

Late last week, I found myself in one of those proverbial dark nights of the soul. You know, those times where you question the existence of God, the meaning of life and even the motives of cute, fluffy kittens. It hit me unexpectedly, as these things always do. Maybe it was the dwindling...

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Mariano Lozano: Science and Religion

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of...

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Justin Kitch: From Marmosets to Musical Taste: This Week"s Curios

Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest.


Last week’s Curios covered marmoset students, wasps in figs, and why your genes might be to...

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People with Alzheimer's Disease Can Still Have Sharp Memories

Some older people who have signs of Alzheimer’s disease in their brains may actually have pretty good memories, a small new study suggests.

In the study, researchers examined the brains of eight people who had died at ages 90 and older from various causes and found that some of...

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It"s Costing The Harper Government Thousands To Get Rid Of Books

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It’s costing the federal government more than $22,000 to dispose of books and research material from Fisheries and Oceans scientific libraries across the country, according to new documents.
The information comes from the office of Fisheries and Oceans...

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You Won"t BELIEVE These Catapult Trick Shots

Physicists use complex mathematics to calculate a projectile’s trajectory–lots of sines, cosines, and the like. But sometimes you just get lucky, as you can see in this fun new video showing the YouTube trick-shot artists known as the Legendary Shots, who reload their homemade...

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People Reward Angry Men But Punish Angry Women, Study Suggests

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
In this week’s Lenny Letter, Jennifer Lawrence described a scenario that many women can relate to: When she spoke her ...

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New optical device absorbs just one photon

Lone photon: the new device will extract exactly one photon from a beam of light
Physicists in Germany have created a new optical device that can absorb exactly one photon. They say that this device, which exploits the physical properties of giant micron-sized atoms known as Rydberg atoms,...

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Potential diabetes treatment uses light-activated gel to release insulin

Injectable insulin-carrying polymer could offer a less invasive way to control blood sugar


Patients with type 1 diabetes rely on daily injections of insulin to help regulate their blood glucose in response to food, exercise, or other activities. Now, researchers have devised a potentially...

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Genome Digest

WIKIMEDIA, AELWYN

Mustard matters

Species: Hairy bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta)Genome size: 198 million base pairs

Researchers in Europe have published the first complete genome of Cardamine hirsuta, an unobtrusive herb in the mustard family that is partial to damp soil. Using a...

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Trilobites: How Cassini Will Begin Its Date With Death on Saturn

The tan circle depicts the Cassini’s ring-grazing orbits of Saturn, which begin on Wednesday. The blue circles represent earlier orbits of the planet.


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It’s the beginning of a spectacular, almost circuslike end for NASA’s C...

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Canada plans new fuel rules, aims 30-megatonne emissions cut by 2030

TORONTO Canada will require reduced carbon footprints for all fuels so that the country can achieve a 30-megatonne cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, the country’s environment department said on Friday.

The government will not mandate specific changes to fuels and will focus...

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Huge underground ice deposit on Mars is bigger than New Mexico

A giant deposit of buried ice on Mars contains about as much water as Lake Superior does here on Earth, a new study reports.
The ice layer, which spans a greater area than the state of New Mexico, lies in Mars’ mid-northern latitudes and is covered by just 3 feet to 33 feet of soil. It...

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How You Can Help Save The Bees -- Even In Winter

America’s bees haven’t had the best year.
Last month, seven species of Hawaiian bees were declared endangered in the United States — a first for the insect. There are fears that the rusty-patched bumble bee, endemic to North America, is also nearing extinction.
Researchers discovered earli...

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As Vincent Van Gogh Grew Darker, His Works Did Too, Study Says

You probably know that Vincent van Gogh created a painting in the late 19th century called “Bedroom in Arles.” It depicts the Dutch artist’s electric blue quarters in what’s known as his Yellow House, located, yes, in Arles, France. 
You may also know that van Gogh a...

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Sarah Granger: Hillary Clinton"s Tech Agenda Addresses Key Industry Weaknesses of Diversity, Pipeline

Hillary Clinton introduced an aggressive tech innovation agenda early this week intended to continue the Obama administration’s legacy of progress in government technology, open data, computer science education, research and development, tech jobs, broadband infrastructure, internet...

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World"s Greatest Engineering Project Turns 100

One hundred years ago, on August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened when the S. S. Ancon steamed through from the Atlantic to the Pacific side. The debut was quieter than intended because it was overshadowed by the widescale war that had just erupted in Europe, where 16 million...

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J. H. McKenna, Ph.D.: The True Religion

Here’s yet another entry from my Opinionated Dictionary of Religion.The True Religion: noun. The religion that is true, however truth may be construed.


Which of ten thousand past, present, and future religions is The True Religion?


Here are the choices.Option one. Only one...

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Dragos Bratasanu: Bridging Science and Spirituality in the Real World

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2-Headed Calf Makes Farmers Do A Double-Take

It’s safe to say Stan McCubbin had a cow on Friday ― in all senses of the expression.
The Kentucky farmer was walking around his property near Campbellsville when he noticed what looked like twin calves in the distance.
“I saw two noses. I thought it was twins and then when I saw her, I was ...

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Dogs Remember Even the Stupid Things We Do

Dogs pay more attention to us than previously thought, with new research showing that they remember our actions and other events even when the occurrences didn’t hold any particular importance at the time they happened.

The discovery, reported in Current Biology, adds dogs to the s...

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Feds Messing With Scientists" Jobs, New Study Suggests

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The government’s cuts to federal science budgets and its changes to policy are damaging scientists’ ability to serve and protect the public, according to a new survey.
The survey was commissioned by the union representing federal scientists.
As well, the...

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Man Breaks World Record For Deepest Scuba Dive

Scuba organizations say recreational divers shouldn’t go below about 130 feet, but one Egyptian diver recently ventured a bit deeper — going more than 1,000 feet below the ocean surface and setting a world record in the process.


The record-breaking dive took place last week,...

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Birth Order Might Not Be Such An Important Indicator After All

Academic studies can be fascinating … and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 
The Background
Parents and researchers have long speculated that birth order could determine kids’ personalities. Stereotypes say ...

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Do solar neutrinos affect nuclear decay on Earth?

Solar effect: do neutrinos from the Sun affect beta decay on Earth?
Further evidence that solar neutrinos affect radioactive decay rates on Earth has been put forth by a trio of physicists in the US. While previous research looked at annual fluctuations in decay rates, the new study presents...

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Novamont opens bio-BDO plant

Volume 94 Issue 40 | p. 13 | News of The WeekIssue Date: October 10, 2016 | Web Date: October 6, 2016


Italian polymer producer Novamont has opened what it calls the world’s first commercial plant for the biobased production of 1,4-butanediol (BDO), a major chemical intermediate. The $110 m...

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Language trends run in mysterious 14-year cycles

Words move in and out of favour over 14 years
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By Sophia Chen
The media tends to interpret culture in yearly cycles. Critics publish end-of-year best-of lists and Oxford Dictionaries just selected “post-truth” as its word of the year. But the words w...

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Vector Space Raises Additional Funds to Support 2017 First Launch

A full-sized “pathfinder” of Vector Space Systems’ Vector-R rocket undergoing tests in September in Tucson, Arizona.
Credit: Vector Space Systems




WASHINGTON — Vector Space Systems said Nov. 18 that it has ra...

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Perils of Climate Change Could Swamp Coastal Real Estate

Virginia requires real estate agents to reveal whether a property is in a military airplane noise zone, has defective drywall or has ever been used to manufacture methamphetamine. After the flood maps were updated, the industry wondered what new disclosure rules would be mandated. Should...

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Climbing the social ladder can strengthen your immune system, monkey study suggests

Macaques grooming each other. 
Lauren Brent



It’s tough at the bottom of the totem pole. A low status isn’t just bad for your social life, it’s also bad for your immune system, raising your risk of infection and disease. But according to a new study in monkeys, this effect is rever...

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Cannibal Bacteria Could Wipe Out Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs, Study Finds

Scientists have discovered a novel way to fight deadly superbugs – cannibal bacteria. 
A fast-swimming bacterium called Bdellovibrio has been proven to clear potentially lethal infections by devouring bacteria from the inside out.
After feeding, the bacteria replicates and then bursts out of ...

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8 Awesome Photos That Showcase The Wonders Of Underwater Life

A golden seahorse, a fishing bear and a wrecked ship never looked so stunning.
Those are just some of the winning images in this year’s Underwater Photographer of the Year contest. Italian photographer Davide Lopresti won the title of “Underwater Photographer of the Year 2...

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David Seaman: Bitcoin Halving: It Happened!

Well, the Bitcoin protocol survived its much awaited block halving event.


Since block halvings are programmed to happen so infrequently (once every 210,000 blocks, or roughly once every four years), they are a cause of trepidation.


Yet this one appears to have gone off without any...

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8 Great Modern Innovations We Can Thank Muslims For

When thousands of “patriotic Europeans” took to the streets once again in Dresden to protest “the Islamisation of the West,” their actions were the result not only of resentment and fear, but also of ignorance.


Luckily for us, our central European culture has benefited from Islamic influen...

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Michael Shammas: Outrage Culture Kills Important Conversation

President Obama took a lot of heat recently for criticizing college leftists who are offended by dissenting opinions. But he’s absolutely right: Productive discourse is dying, trampled over by closed minds who value comfortable opinion-holding over uncomfortable soul-searching. As...

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Stafford Betty: The New Science of Afterlife Research and Its Benefits to Society

One of the most revolutionary ideas ever conceived is that we are more than our bodies and that our true home lies beyond our physical planet. This idea, that we are or have souls that do not die at death, is found in all the earth’s religions. Under attack since the Enlightenment,...

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Harvard Honors Strangest Discoveries In Science With Ig Nobels

Some scientists who make astonishing breakthroughs win a Nobel Prize.
But there are others whose discoveries make people think, “Wow, it’s astonishing someone actually thought to study that.”
Things like how polyester pants affect the sex life of rats, what it’s like for a human to live like ...

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The Clever Way Females Fend Off Male Fish with Big Genitals

A western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis).
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Male mosquitofish with bigger genitals are typically best at coercing females into the “sack,” but now researchers have found that...

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