Prince Philip ‘Asked If Bearded Man Was Terrorist While Joking With Crowds’

The Duke of Edinburgh pointed out a bearded man and asked “is that a terrorist?” as he greeted crowds at Sandringham, it has been claimed.

The 96-year-old was attending St Magdalene Church on New Year’s Eve accompanied by the...

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Supermoon 2018: When is the first supermoon in the New Year? | Science | News

When is the January supermoon 2018?
Stargazers heading into the new year are expecting to see not one, but two spectacular supermoons in January.
The first of the two, and the largest of the year, will rise in the late evening hours on new Year’s Day – January 1. 
Unfortunately viewers in...

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Opinion: 11 Best Science Podcasts

ISTOCK, AZURE-DRAGONAs a science-obsessed kid, I didn’t realize how tedious research can be. Much of being a bench scientist involves mind-numbing tasks, only occasionally punctuated with moments of exciting discovery. Luckily, I’ve found a way to alleviate boredom and make this time feel...

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Lord Adonis Resigns With Scathing Letter Calling Theresa May The 'Voice Of UKIP'

Theresa May’s infrastructure tsar has quit, delivering a scathing verdict on the Prime Minister’s approach to Brexit.
Europhile Labour peer Lord Adonis resigned as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, claiming May had become the “voice of Ukip” and the “extreme” right-wing of...

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New Year’s Day supermoon 2018: Where and what time will the moon be biggest? | Science | News

Astronomers are in for a celestial treat as the supermoon, the second of the so called ‘supermoon trilogy’, lights up the sky. 
The first in the trilogy was seen on December 3 and now stargazers are ready for the second event. 
And the supermoon on New Year’s Day will be the biggest and...

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2017 in Quotes | The Scientist Magazine®

Gender discrimination, Brexit, and climate change are among the issues that have received considerable attention from the scientific community this year.




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They have a patent on green tennis balls. We [likely] will have a patent on all tennis balls. . . . I don’t...

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Elon Musk's SpaceX to send Tesla car to Mars that will play David Bowie for ETERNITY | Science | News

The billionaire businessman, who also oversees the likes of electric car company Tesla and The Boring Company which makes underground tunnels to install high-speed lanes, took to social media to announce that he will send a Tesla car to Mars.
On December 1, Mr Musk announced on Twitter that...

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Top Technical Advances in 2017

Amping up CRISPR-Cas

CONBOY LAB AND MURTHY LABResearchers aren’t just finding new applications for this precise and relatively easy-to-use gene-editing technique, they’re also tweaking it to give it new powers. Among this year’s developments:

RNA editing: A research team led by Feng...

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'Strictly Come Dancing' Christmas Special 2017 Crowns Katie Derham Champion

Katie Derham has been crowned the surprise winner of the ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Christmas special 2017. 
The former newsreader and BBC Radio 3 presenter lifted the Christmas Trophy after returning to the ballroom two years after she reached the final. 
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SpaceX launch pictures: Amazing photos show Falcon 9 rocket taking off | Science | News

Breathtaking photos show bright streaks of light in the sky, caused by the SpaceX rocket, which had launched from Vandenberg Air Base, northwest of Santa Barbara.
The brilliant glow could be seen as far away as San Diego and led many Americans to believe aliens were about to land. 
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Study Pinpoints Potential “Master Regulator” of Age-Related Cognitive Decline

A rat hippocampusWIKIMEDIA, BLACKNICKFor more than three decades, Philip Landfield has been chipping away at a central question, namely, “why the electrophysiology of hippocampal connections is impaired in aged animals,” as the University of Kentucky neuroscientist puts it. It’s far from...

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Gogglebox’s Leon Bernicoff Dies, Aged 83

Leon Bernicoff, who found fame alongside his wife June on ‘Gogglebox’, has died at the age 83.

The sad news was announced on the programme’s Twitter account, with Channel 4 later stating that Leon died in hospital after a short...

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NASA astronaut who was first to fly untethered in Space dies aged 80 | Science | News

Former NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless died in California on Thursday, the agency’s Johnson Space Centre has announced.
No cause of death was given.
Mr McCandless became the first astronaut to fly untethered in space while strapped into NASA’s Manned Manoeuvring Unit (MMU).
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Hibernating Rodents Feel Less Cold

Thirteen-lined ground squirrelCOURTESY OF THE GRACHEVA LABFor animals to hibernate, they must somehow avoid typical responses to cold temperatures, such as shivering and moving to warm up. According to a study published today (December 19) in Cell Reports, two hibernating mammals, Syrian...

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70% Do Not Produce Cheapest Fares

More than two-thirds of ticket machines on Britain’s railways do not inform passengers how to get the cheapest fares, the Department for Transport (DfT) has said.

A joint action plan launched in December last year by the...

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SHOCK CLAIM: Robots will have babies with humans in 100 years | Science | News

David Levy, author of the New York Times best seller Love and Sex With Robots, believes it is an “odds on cert” that man and machine will be producing offspring within a century given “recent progress in stem cell research and artificial chromosomes.”
Dr Levy points to research from Ohio...

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CRISPR Helps Mice Hear | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, ALUXUMPeople and mice with a certain dominant mutation in Tmc1—a gene required for normal function of the hair cells that sense sound waves in the inner ear—experience progressive hearing loss. In a study published today (December 20) in Nature, researchers have reduced this...

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Arthur Collins Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison Over Acid Attack In London Nightclub

Arthur Collins, the ex-boyfriend of reality TV-star Ferne McCann, has been sentenced to 20 years in jail over an acid attack in a London nightclub that injured 22 people. 

The 25-year-old threw the corrosive substance at a crowd in...

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Ursid Meteor Shower 2017: When is it? Where can you see it? | Science | News

Stargazers can expect to see an intense burst of shooting stars known as Ursid meteors at 2.29am EST time in the skies, according to NASA.
The best time to view the Ursids are between midnight and before dawn.
What is the Ursid meteor shower?
The spectacular event, caused by dust particles...

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Top 10 Retractions of 2017

UNSPLASH, GARY CHANWhen it comes to retractions, we at Retraction Watch always have a lot to say. Especially after spending much of 2017 building our retraction database, which now holds just shy of 16,000 entries—more than 1,000 from 2017 alone. That’s an increase from the 650 total...

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UK Embassy Worker Found 'Murdered At Side Of Motorway' In Lebanon

A British embassy worker whose body was found by the side of a motorway in Lebanon was strangled, Lebanese police said.
Rebecca Dykes’s family said they have been left “devastated” following her death on Saturday in Beirut.
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Could NASA probe Voyager 1 be the last? World running out of plutonium to power spacecraft | Science | News

Plutonium-238 is the essential radioactive isotope powering the planet’s spacecraft from the two Voyager craft, the Mars Rover, the Pioneer spacecraft and more recently the Cassini Saturn probe, New Horizons Pluto launch.
But the world has almost run out with one official suggesting there is...

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2017’s Science News in Review

Peggy Mikros, a caterer, at the March for Science in ChicagoKERRY GRENSThe past 12 months have seen no shortage of science scandals, policy upheaval, and publishing turmoil (so we gave them their own dedicated end-of-year summaries). Yet the show of solidarity within the scientific...

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Martyn Hett Tribute Revealed On What Would Have Been Manchester Bombing Victim's 30th Birthday

The brother of Manchester Area attack victim Martyn Hett has revealed a tribute to him that says “Be more Martyn”, on what would have been his 30th birthday.
He was one of 22 people killed in the May 22 bombing and was a social media star known for his obsession with Coronation Street, his...

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Great Pyramid of Giza: Scientists set to uncover 4,500-year-old mystery using ROBOTS | Science | News

Using an imaging method and a robot based on cosmic rays scientists hope to uncover the mysteries of the pyramid. 
Scientists have built the probe that will enter the 3.5cm keyhole in a wall after a large and enigmatic internal structure was detected in the last of the Seven Wonders of the...

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New Resource Probe Miner Ranks Chemical Probes for Human Proteins

ISTOCK, SHUNYUFANChemical probes—small molecules used to manipulate protein function—are often not as selective or effective as the researchers using them might hope. Now, a resource called Probe Miner aims to give scientists a heads up if their choice is no good, and offer better options....

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Defeat On The EU Withdrawal Bill Is Embarrassing But Not Fatal For Theresa May

On Monday, Theresa May seemed to have achieved the impossible and united both Brexit wings of her party behind her Brussels deal.

Two days later, and that divisions are once again plain for all to see.
Despite assurances from David...

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Geminids 2017: What time is the meteor shower in YOUR area? | Science | News

The Geminids have been known to produce more than 100 meteors an hour during their peak and stargazers are expecting a dazzling show.
The stunning display of meteors will break out over Earth in the late night hours between Wednesday December 13 and Thursday December 14.
But in the event...

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Can Young Stem Cells Make Older People Stronger?

ISTOCK, SANJAGRUJICCan one grow old without growing frail? One company is banking on the idea that with the right treatment, the answer can be ‘yes’ for many more people. In clinical trials published in October in the Journals of Gerontology, Longeveron, the firm developing the therapy,...

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Grenfell Disaster Lawyer Warns Of 'Injustice' If Inquiry Fails Diversity 'Smell Test'

A lawyer representing survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire has questioned whether justice will be delivered if the public inquiry into the tragedy fails to pass a diversity “smell test”.
On the opening day of the investigation, barrister Leslie Thomas raised fresh concerns that the inquiry’s...

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Alien BREAKTHROUGH? NASA to hold press conference to reveal latest discovery | Science | News

The space agency will hold a press conference on Thursday to reveal its latest major discovery after searching outside of our solar system for life by scanning habitable planets.
The new discovery comes from the team at the Kepler space telescope, who have been searching for extraterrestrial...

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Clinical Trial Reporting for Pharma-Sponsored Trials Shows Improvement

ISTOCK, VIPERFZKIn recent years, a number of investigations revealed that clinical reporting practices failed to meet ethical and legal standards in both academia and industry. But an analysis published today (December 5) in BMJ Open suggests that some reporting practices have improved—at...

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Starving Polar Bear Captured On Camera In Heartbreaking Footage

Heartbreaking footage has emerged of an emaciated polar bear in Canada’s Arctic.
The video, captured by conservation group Sea Legacy on Baffin Island, was shared by photographer Paul Nicklen.
The animal can be seen struggling to walk and foraging in vain in a metal drum for food.
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Scientists close to developing nuclear fusion STAR with same energy as SUN to power homes | Science | News

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is trying to secure a £1billion contract to develop technology for use in the first nuclear fusion power plants.
Nuclear fusion is a limitless, safe energy sources from plentiful materials from seawaterand the Earth’s crust.
The UKAEA has received...

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Thousands of Mutations Accumulate in the Human Brain Over a Lifetime

 

ISTOCK, JEZPERKLAUZENTwo studies in Science today (December 7)—one that focuses on prenatal development in humans, the other on infancy to old age—provide insights into the extent of DNA sequence errors that the average human brain cell accumulates over a lifetime. Together, they...

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'I'm Not A Centrist Dad', Ed Miliband Tells HuffPostUK's Commons People Podcast

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Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.


Ed Miliband has declared he’s “not a Centrist Dad” and praised Jeremy Corbyn for mobilising young voters and...

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Bronze Age weapons had ALIEN origin, astonishing study finds | Science | News

Iron-based weapons from the Bronze Age have a high metallic content that comes from outer space, researchers have confirmed.
Previous studies have indicated that weapons in the past were made from meteoric metal. Last year it was claimed that King Tutankhamun’s dagger was forged from...

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The Biggest DNA Origami Structures Yet

Conceptual animation of a fractal assembly process for creating the Mona Lisa out of DNA.CALTECHDNA is a powerful building medium because its sequences can be designed to allow for precise control of self-assembly. In one fabrication technique—known as DNA origami—a single, long scaffold...

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Outrage At A Boy In A Dress Belies A Deeper Problem; And I Know Because I Was One

We live in a current climate of outrage, where everyone reserves the right to be offended by whatever they choose. Then those that have committed the offence then turn the tables claiming autocracy and the death of freedom of speech. People cry ‘witch’ as much as they cry ‘witch hunt’, like...

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Live forever: First person to live to 1,000 has already been born, claims top scientist | Science | News

Dr Aubrey de Grey believes people who have already been born could live for ten centuries because of ongoing research into extending the human lifespan.
British-born Mr de Grey, who graduated from Cambridge University in 1985, is the co-founder nd chief science officer of Strategies for...

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Antiviral Immunotherapy Comes of Age

ISTOCK, BIOGEEKImmunotherapy, which involves adapting immune cells to destroy specific cellular targets, has made a name for itself treating cancer. But over the last few years, a handful of research groups have advanced T-cell therapies for viral infections, and are now on the cusp of...

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Supermoon 2017: How to watch the supermoon online this weekend | Science | News

The December full moon will slowly peek out over the horizon on Sunday December 3, for the first and last supermoon event of 2017.
During this rare spectacular event the moon could swell up to 14-times in size and shine 30-times brighter, according to NASA.
The supermoon will begin to rise...

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The Scientist’s 2017 Gift Guide

‘Tis the season to be sciencey.




ISTOCK, MEJNAKClimate change mug

Know someone who’d enjoy contemplating the consequences of climate change over a cup of tea? This is the mug for him. As it warms up, sea levels rise on a map of the world, swallowing coastal cities and landmasses such...

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Theorists identify stable tetraquark - physicsworld.com

Heavy duty: are some tetraquarks long lived?
Two independent groups of theorists have shown for the first time that exotic particles made up of four quarks can exist for extended periods of time. Using different approaches, the researchers predict the existence of a stable “tetraquark”...

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If Brexit Offer Is Unacceptable To Ireland, It's Unacceptable To Us

Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has received the full backing of his European counterparts as he warned he was prepared to stand firm on the Brexit Irish border issue.

European Council president Donald Tusk said if the UK’s offer was...

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Supermoon 2017: What is the supermoon and why does it look so big? | Science | News

The upcoming full moon is the first and only supermoon to rise in the night skies this year. 
It will rise in the afternoon hours on Sunday December 3, before setting in the morning hours on the following Monday.
But despite what its name might suggest, the supermoon does not go through any...

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Partial Reprogramming Offers a Way to Generate High Volumes of Progenitor-Like Cells

Hollow iPL colonyLILY GUOThe promise of cell-based therapy is limited by the challenge of generating large enough numbers of the correct type of cells. But a strategy called interrupted reprogramming could help overcome this limitation. In study published today (November 30) in Stem Cell...

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Martine McCutcheon Admits She's Open To Role In Rival Soap 19 Years After 'EastEnders' Stint

It may have been 19 years since Tiffany Butcher was dramatically killed off at Christmas in ‘EastEnders’, but the popular character has remained in the forefront of fans’ minds over the years. 

Now, the actress who...

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Diesel cars unfairly DEMONISED for pollution with levels two times LESS than predicted | Science | News

Nitrogen dioxide, produced by diesel cars, is one of the worst polluting gases in the world and can have dramatic impacts on the environment and human health.
NO2 pollution is a series issue – however a new study suggests levels of NO2 in Europe could be two times smaller than...

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A Growing Open Access Toolbox

ISTOCK, SORBETTOOver the past year, major publishers began to crack down on illegal means of accessing paywalled articles for free. In November, the American Chemical Society (ACS) won a default judgement in its case against Sci-Hub, a pirate site for scholarly literature. ResearchGate, an...

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‘You will be talking with ALIENS’ Communist time capsule says ET would be here by now | Science | News

In 1967, locals in Siberia recorded their visions for the future in a time capsule and placed it in a wall in a building in the city of Novosibirsk.
The time capsule has now been opened to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution and humanity has not quite achieved all the...

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Genetic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Identified

Metastatic breast cancerFLICKR, ED UTHMANTwo studies published today (October 23) document a slew of common genetic variants that correlate with an increased or decreased risk of developing breast cancer. For one study, published in Nature, researchers considered the genotypes of more than...

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Davood Ghadami Rubbishes Claims Suggestive Judges' Comments Are Sexual Harassment

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Davood Ghadami has rubbished claims some of the judges’ comments directed at him are akin to sexual harassment.
Earlier this week, HuffPost UK blogger Jay McCarthy penned a post suggesting some things the panel said to him following his Paso Doble...

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Space news Scientists discover hole in fabric of the universe – but what is its purpose? | Science | News

The perfectly spherical hole is a mind-boggling 1.8 BILLION light years across. And it contains absolutely NOTHING.
The bizarre phenomenon is being called a ‘supervoid’ and is the largest individual structure ever identified by humanity, dwarfing supermassive black holes, and even...

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Opinion: Share Your Data | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, RAWPIXELShould you share your scientific data? If you pose this question to almost any scientist, the answer will usually be an emphatic “yes,” because everyone appears to benefit. 

The most obvious beneficiaries of open-source data are investigators who cannot gather their own...

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The Anti-Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Proved Angels Come In All Shapes And Sizes

The Victoria’s Secret Show has come under fire for only featuring slim able-bodied models.
To prove that all bodies – whatever their size, shape or ability – are catwalk worthy, and to show the world-famous lingerie brand that they’re seriously missing a trick, two...

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AI warning to humanity: Brain-computer interfaces could be HACKED by robots, experts say | Science | News

A host of researchers, including Elon Musk and the US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have been working on micro-chips for the brain that could boost human performance.
The objective of the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) include helping people with...

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Opinion: How to Define Cell Type

Neurons of the mouse hippocampus FLICKR, NICHDResearchers now recognize that there is far more heterogeneity within a given cell type than previously appreciated. Perhaps nowhere in the body is this more striking than in the brain. But as new technologies reveal differences in the genome,...

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Labour Students 'No Platform' Manchester Council Leader Sir Richard Leese Over Assault Allegation

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Labour students have decided to “no platform” the leader of Manchester City Council after they discovered he had received a police caution for assaulting his...

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Life after death shock claim: Heaven is REAL - 'I've been there' | Science | News

The Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) has been collecting people’s experiences of what it is like to be brought back from being clinically dead, and one person’s story suggests heaven is real.
A person by the username George J says that when they were a child, they were hit...

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Optogenetic Therapies Move Closer to Clinical Use

ISTOCK, COSMIN4000Early in 2016, a woman went to a clinic in Dallas to have a genetically modified adeno-associated virus injected into her eye. The woman was blind due to the degenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa, and the virus carried the gene for a light-responsive algae protein...

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Police Force Praised For Tweeting Powerful Open Letter To Women In Abusive Relationships

A police force in Scotland has been praised for using Twitter to help women in abusive relationships by writing an open letter telling them: “Help is out there.”
Officers on the Lochaber and Skye Police force, which covers the highlands ans islands of western Scotland, addressed a woman in...

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Aliens could contact humans within 25 years, claim top astronomers | Science | News

Scientists at the 2018 Sonar Festival in Spain have sent a message to a nearby star system, known as GJ 273 which is 12 lightyears from Earth, and if an intelligent race is there, they will hopefully reply.
Two planets are thought to be in the habitable zone – the area around a star which is...

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Telomere Length and Childhood Stress Don’t Always Correlate

ISTOCK, CHRISCHRISWStresses in adulthood can take their toll on the length of telomeres, those stretches of DNA protecting the ends of chromosomes that are widely regarded as markers for cellular aging. Studies of children living in tough environments, such as with abusive parents, also...

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Donald Tusk Calls David Davis' Brexit View 'English Humour' And Issues Ultimatum On Irish Border And Divorce Bill

Donald Tusk has called David Davis’ comments on Brexit an example of “English humour” and given him an ultimatum to move on the divorce bill and the Irish border.
He set a deadline of the start of December for Britain to make further movement on its Brexit divorce bill and the future of the...

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WHITE WINTER: 'Snow will cover Britain' when Nibiru approaches claims forecast | Science | News

Freezing temperatures and deep snow will cover the UK this winter following the catastrophic approach of Planet X, conspiracists are claiming.
An article shared on YogaEsoteric.com purports that the world is headed for an apocalyptic cataclysm caused by Nibiru.
The article reads:...

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Immune Checkpoint Found Lacking in Type 1 Diabetes

Watch the full video hereEUREKALERT, ANDREA PANIGADAType 1 diabetes is caused by the destruction of insulin-producing ß cells of the pancreas by the body’s own T cells. But why do these cells wreak such havoc in the first place and how might they be stopped?

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British Workers Wanted

At Christmas last year, someone called Sarah wrote an email to our company, Drummer TV. She had seen some of the programmes we make and wanted to tell us about the colourful lives she and her friends led while at work at their busy recruitment agency in Bognor Regis. We get...

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When is the Spacex Falcon 9 launch? Elon Musk to fire Zuma payload into space | Science | News

When is the SpaceX Zuma launch?
The latest launch in SpaceX’s busy flight schedule remains shrouded in mystery, although some details have emerged. 
Elon Musk’s company will launch its signature Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday morning, November 16 during a 1am to 3am GMT (8pm to 10pm EST...

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Researchers Build a Cancer Immunotherapy Without Immune Cells

Conceptual illustration of a designer cell sensing a target cellRYO TACHIBANA, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOEngineering an immune cell to recognize and kill a cancer cell is the key to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, but modified immune...

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Government's Brexit Vote U-Turn Changes Nothing

 
Just three weeks ago David Davis prompted a wave of gasps from anti-Brexit MPs when he stated what was surely blindingly obvious: if the talks with the EU go to the wire, Parliament will not get a vote until after the deal has been signed.
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Venus Jupiter conjunction: What time will the planets align TONIGHT? | Science | News

What time is the Venus Jupiter conjunction?
Venus and Jupiter will both be visible in the eastern sky about an hour before sunrise tomorrow (November 12), staying low on the horizon. 
In the UK, Venus will rise at 5.56am, with Jupiter following close behind at 5.58am. 
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Corals’ pH Sensor Identified | The Scientist Magazine®

WIKIMEDIA, AHMED ABDUL RAHMANResearchers have identified an enzyme that helps corals keep a steady pH in their cells, even as the acidity changes in their environments. Corals experience pH variation due to fluctuations in cellular metabolism, the differing pH needs of various parts of the...

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Paramedics Battling To Help 'Extremely Unwell' Patient Left Note Slamming Their Parking

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Paramedics in Birmingham were shocked to find the angry note on their windscreen


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Real-life Jurassic Park: Rare 80 million-year-old shark species FOUND off Portuguese coast | Science | News

Researchers from Portugal’s Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere found a rare frilled shark off the coast of the Algarve.
The prehistoric beast has been swimming the seas for up to 80 million years judging by remains which have previously been found.
This means the species has lived during...

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American Chemical Society Wins Lawsuit Against Sci-Hub

ISTOCK, SITADEThe American Chemical Society (ACS), a nonprofit scientific society and academic publisher, has won its lawsuit against Sci-Hub, a widely used pirate site for scientific papers that was established in 2011 by former neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan.

In June, ACS brought...

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Chinese space station Tiangong-1 to crash down on EUROPE, experts warn | Science | News

The 8.5 tonne space station, which been in a decaying orbit since March 2016, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere early next year.
Forecasts predict the debris could rain down on several European countries – including Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria and Greece.
The European Space Agency...

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Child Receives Transgenic Skin Over Most of His Body

Cultured epidermal sheetCMR UNIMOREThanks to an international team of scientists and doctors, a seven-year-old Syrian refugee who lost most of his outer skin to a life-threatening genetic disease now has a transgenic replacement, derived from his own cells, over approximately 80 percent of...

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May Told to Pay Up After Historic Vote By Own Workers

In a historic vote PCS members have sent a resounding message to Theresa May and her government.
An unprecedented majority (99%) of our union’s public sector members voting in a national ballot want an end to the pay cap. With 80% prepared to take industrial action if the...

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THE SIMPSONS MOVIE-inspired futuristic Mars habitat unveiled for life on Red Planet | Science | News

Each year, the Mars City Design holds a competition for entrants to design a Martian city for when humans finally make it to the Red Planet.
This year’s winning design was from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has unveiled a Simpsons Movie-inspired design.
In the 2007...

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Hormone Loss Prevents Obesity and Diabetes in Mice

Two very lean mice heterozygous for a mutation in FBN1 found in a patient with neonatal progeroid syndrome (left), with two wild-type mice (right). All four mice have been fed a high fat diet for three months.NATURE MEDICINE, 2017, C. DUERRSCHMID ET AL.Two people with a rare genetic...

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Jeremy Corbyn Warns Of 'Warped And Degrading' Westminster Culture Of Sexual Harassment

Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the “warped and degrading” culture of sexual harassment in Westminster.
The Labour leader told his party’s North West conference in Blackpool on Sunday that abuse was “hiding in plain sight”.

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Time travel is possible and black holes hold the key | Science | News

In a piece written for the University of Sussex by astrophysicist John Gribbin, co-authored with his wife Mary Gribbin, they say that “there is nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel. 
“It may be extremely difficult to put into practice; but it is not impossible.”
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Study Raises Questions About tACS Boosting Memory

Electrodes used for tDCS are attached the scalp of an individual before he performs a multitasking cognitive test. FLICKR, U.S. AIR FORCE, J.M. EDDINS, JR.Zapping the brain with alternating, low-intensity electricity—a technique called transcranial alternating current stimulation...

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Journalist Petronella Wyatt Tells Today Programme She Was 'Flattered' By Groping In Westminster

A senior political journalist has revealed she was “flattered” by men groping her when she worked in Westminster in the 1990s, during a heated exchange on Radio 4′s Today programme.
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Great Pyramid of Giza scientific discovery may have left researchers CURSED | Science | News

The curse dates back the construction of both the Great Pyramid and a nearby burial site – which has been opened to the public despite a chilling warning from archaeologists.
Egyptian authorities have restored and reopened the 4,500-year-old tomb located in the “tribal mountains” near to the...

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The Genetic Strategies of Dealing with High Altitude

Aymara-speaking people of the Andean Altiplano in Copacabana, on the border of Lake Titicaca in BoliviaWIKIMEDIA, KILOBUGPeople who both travel to and live at high altitudes typically cope with lower oxygen levels by increasing red blood cell production, which can help get more oxygenated...

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Guardian Columnist Calls Female Political Journalists 'Predators' Who Trick 'Poor Old Ugly' MPs

Female lobby journalists are “predators” who trick “poor old ugly” MPs in order to get stories, it has been claimed. 
Michael White, the former political editor of the Guardian, faces calls to apologise after making the remarks on BBC Radio 4′s Media Show. 
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When is the Taurid Meteor Shower 2017? How to watch the South Taurids THIS WEEKEND | Science | News

When is the Taurid Meteor Shower 2017?
Stargazers are looking forward to what astronomers have dubbed the “Halloween Fireballs” this weekend. 
Like the North Taurids, which peak on November 11 and 12, the shower is not the most active in the astronomical calendar but regularly produces...

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The Weird Growth Strategy of Earth’s First Trees

A Xinicaulis tree trunk fossilPNASDuring the Devonian period, from about 420 million to 359 million years ago, complex terrestrial plant life really took off. The first rooted plants evolved, and by the end of the period, forests had colonized the environment, sucking up vast amounts of...

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Who Is George Papadopoulos, Trump Aide Who Lied To FBI About Russian ‘Dirt’?

A foreign policy adviser to President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to FBI agents about “dirt” he was offered on Hillary Clinton.

George Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on October 5, but the case wasn’t unsealed until Monday, according to a...

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Nibiru latest: Vatican cover up of Planet X | Science | News

Pope Francis is aware of the planet known as Nibiru and its powers, and is keeping it a secret from the world, according to the new theory.
US Nibiru expert, CJ, who declined to reveal his surname, claims the Vatican is among a group of “elite leaders” involved in suppressing information...

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RNA Editing Possible with CRISPR-Cas13

WIKIMEDIA, NICOLLE RAGER, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONFusing an RNA-editing enzyme to an RNA-targeting Cas protein has enabled researchers to edit specific nucleotides within RNA molecules in human cells. The approach, called RNA Editing for Programmable A-to-I replacement (REPAIR), is...

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Barack Obama To Show Up For Jury Duty After Being Called To Serve In Cook County

Barack Obama reportedly plans to show up for jury duty next month after being called to serve in Illinois.
The former US President has said that he will fulfill his obligations on the jury, the chief judge of Cook County Circuit Court said on Friday.
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END OF THE WORLD: Earthquake November 19 Nibiru / Planet X / Black Star | Science | News

The destruction will hit vulnerable areas all over the world from France and Italy to Alaska and Russia, to the American West Coast, Indonesia and Japan – and loss of life is predicted to be in the millions.
The group has been charting the movements of the so-called Black Star, aka Nemesis,...

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University of Chicago Graduate Students Vote to Unionize

University of Chicago graduate students at the March on the Boss rally, a pro-unionizing event, held May 25, 2017CLAUDIO GONZÁLESIn a National Labor Review Board (NLRB) election last week (October 17-18), University of Chicago teaching and research assistants voted to authorize Graduate...

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Daily Telegraph Admits 'Decolonise' Cambridge Curriculum Story Was Wrong As Student Lola Olufemi Condemns Newspaper

The Daily Telegraph has admitted its story suggesting the University of Cambridge was being “forced” to drop white writers from its curriculum was inaccurate, as the black student who featured on its front page spoke out after suffering “racist and sexist abuse” as a result.
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Human skull thought to be 6,000 YEARS OLD could be world's earliest tsunami victim | Science | News

In 1929, Australian geologist Paul Hossfeld stumbled on a partial human skull in a mangrove outside the coastal town of Aitape in Papua New Guinea.
Originally thought to belong to Homo erectus, the skull was subsequently dated to the mid-Holocene period, about 6,000 years ago.
Now, new...

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Base Editing Now Able to Convert Adenine-Thymine to Guanine-Cytosine

ISTOCK, BEHOLDINGEYEBase editing is a relatively recent genome-editing technique that swaps one DNA base pair for another, offering researchers the potential to correct harmful, single-nucleotide mutations in the human genome. But current classes of base editors only allow the conversion...

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Gemma Collins Is Hoping PR From *That* Fall Will Help Boost 'TOWIE' Ratings, Says Charlie King

Gemma Collins’s fall at the Radio 1 Teen Awards is all anyone can talk about this week, and she is hoping to use that to TOWIE’s advantage, according to her co-star Charlie King. 
The fitness instructor, who appears on the ITVBe show alongside The GC, has claimed she believes...

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Have we found a way to LIVE FOREVER? Scientists discover method to HALT ageing | Science | News

A molecular pathway known as Kruppel-like transcription factors (KLFs) can be increased or decreased in terms of volume to potentially increase the lifetime of an animal.
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine made the discovery after artificially editing the...

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Building Blocks of Life May Have Formed in Water Droplets

PXHEREReactions in tiny droplets of water may have given rise to some of the molecules essential for the origin of life.

These reactions, which require a lot of energy in large vats of liquids, are nearly spontaneous in small droplets, researchers report today (October 23) in the...

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Orionids 2017 in India: Where to watch the Orionid meteor shower in India tonight? | Science | News

Star gazers across India will train their eyes on the remnants of Halley’s Comet as they burn up in the atmosphere at 66km/s.
The Orionids appear in the night skies every year towards the end of October, but will peak overnight on Friday October 20 and Sunday October 22.
As many as 10...

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Germany Sees Drastic Decrease in Insects

Insects within alcohol Malaise trapENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY KREFELD Sampling from 63 protected nature areas throughout Germany, researchers have found a drop in flying insect mass by about 76 percent over 27 years. The results, published today (October 18) in PLOS ONE, are drastic, but are...

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How to watch Uranus TONIGHT? Planet visible to the naked eye in the sky | Science | News

Astronomy enthusiasts will be treated to an unprecedented view of Uranus when the gas giant makes its closest approach to Earth tonight.
When Uranus reaches opposition, it will sit directly across from the sun and illuminate the sky, giving star gazers the best chance to spot it in the...

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Vaping vs. Smoking: Can E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit?

ISTOCK, RYANJLANE Kat Rose of Lakewood, Colorado, started smoking cigarettes when she was 12 years old. Ultimately, it was the smell that drove her to want to ditch the habit. “Constantly, my son was like, ‘Mom, you stink,’” she says. But quitting had been a struggle for Rose, a...

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LIFE AFTER DEATH: When you die you KNOW you’re dead | Science | News

When the heart stops the blood supply to the brain is quickly cut off – and in operating theatres this moment would be recorded as the official time of death.
But studies show that the dead person’s mind and consciousness continue to work, at least for a shoirt time – meaning the deceased...

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Bacteria Found in Women’s Upper Reproductive Tracts

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Scientists have long known that in healthy humans, a diverse universe of microbes exists in the vagina. But the existence of bacteria in women’s upper reproductive tract, which includes the uterus and fallopian tubes, remains controversial. A new study, published today...

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AI nano-machines injected into humans will REPAIR bodies from inside | Science | News

The micro technology, potentially available in just 20 years, would be injected into people to fix bones, muscles and cells.
That could include spotting abnormalities in the body’s cells like cancer and ridding them from the body.
And it could even boost our brains with cutting-edge computer...

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On Science and Hip Hop: Q&A with the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA

WIKIMEDIA, FLOWIZMYesterday evening (October 12), GZA, one of the founding members of the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, addressed a large crowd at the University of Colorado Boulder with a few of his verses: “There appeared a speck of light, infinitely hot and extremely bright. Within the center of...

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Asteroid 2012 TC4: Space rock could come back and SMASH into Earth in the near future | Science | News

Asteroid 2012 TC4 has been whizzing past Earth over the last few days in a historic flyby.
But now scientists say the asteroid’s orbit around the sun could lead it on to a collision course with Earth in the future.
The 30 metre-long asteroid flew past Earth at a distance of 27,300 miles –...

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GM Mosquitoes Closer to Release in U.S.

An adult Aedes aegypti mosquito emerges from its pupal case.OXITECLast week (October 5), the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will assume responsibility for overseeing the approval and use of mosquitoes genetically...

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Asteroid 2012 TC4 live stream: How to watch huge rock skim past Earth | Science | News

NASA expects Asteroid 2012 TC4 to shoot past the Earth at a distance of just 31,000 miles and could even come as close as 4,200 miles. 
For context, the Moon is about 384,000 miles from the surface of our planet.
Tonight’s passing will make 2012 TC4 is the first known asteroid to pass less...

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Circadian Gene Linked to Severe Epilepsy in Children

Arrows indicate the brain regions where seizures originate in one of the patients included in the study. LIU ET AL.

In the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the brain’s central pacemaker, CLOCK (circadian locomotor output cycles kaput) is a transcription factor that plays a crucial role in...

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SpaceX launch stream: Falcon 9 rocket launches 10 Iridium NEXT satellites – WATCH it here | Science | News

The SpaceX Falcon9 rocket took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 8.37am local time (1.37pm BST).
Onboard were 10 satellites for the Iridium NEXT constellation – a communications network which will eventually be made up of 66 primary satellites and nine back-ups.
The first...

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CRISPR System Targets RNA in Mammalian Cells

Cas13a bound to and cleaving single-stranded RNA.STEPHEN DIXONBack in 2016, scientists uncovered CRISPR proteins that bind and cleave single-stranded RNA, rather than DNA. Now, the same team from MIT has tweaked the system, called CRISPR-Cas13a, to work in mammalian cells.

“Prior to...

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When is the Draconid meteor shower 2017? What time can you see it? | Science | News

Up to a thousand shooting stars an hour could be on display during the peak of the shower expected on Sunday (October 8). 
The Draconids got their name because they radiate out from a constellation known as Draco the Dragon.
What is the best time to see the Draconids? 
This year’s Draconid...

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How Animals and Plants Weather Hurricanes

Despite the devastation to Puerto Rico, its only native parrot, Amazona vittata, appears to have weathered Hurricane Maria fairly well. That wasn’t the case for this endangered species in previous storms.WIKIMEDIA, TOM MACKENZIEHurricane Maria decimated Puerto Rico. With sustained winds of...

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Afterlife Files Takes The Deepest Possible Look Into Electronic Voice Phenomena

I think we all know about Electronic Voice Phenomena. But still, just FYI, when the dead attempt to communicate with the living, there are a number of stereotypical ways such a communication occurs. Sometimes, they appear as dewy apparitions, sometimes as floating orbs of light. Sometimes...

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Exploding shooting star 'superbolide' creates HUGE FIREBALL as it bursts over city | Science | News

The astrological event, dubbed a “superbolide” was an exploding meteor that shined brighter than the moon in Yunnan Province, Shangri-La County.
NASA described the star as a huge fireball that dazzled eyewitnesses who saw it flit through the sky yesterday.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing a...

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Effects of Neanderthal DNA on Modern Humans

WIKIMEDIA, HAIRYMUSEUMMATTPeople of Caucasian descent have, within their genomes, small amounts of Neanderthal DNA. Previous studies have shown this ancient DNA may influence a person’s health, but a new study in the American Journal of Human Genetics today (October 5) reveals that the...

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Liberals And Conservatives Are Both Biased Against Science, But In Different Ways

We usually think of political conservatives as the anti-science contingent, owing to their factions who deny, among other scientifically-verifiable facts, climate change and evolution. That may not be quite fair, as recent anti-vaccination arguments have often come from those who identify...

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DISASTER WARNING: Deadly storms and food shortages will get WORSE, warn scientists | Science | News

On the back of deadly storms in the Caribbean and wildfires raging across the US and Australia, scientists are warning that this is just the beginning of a growing number of disasters.
In the future, even parts of Southern Europe will be too hot for humans to reside in in the future, and...

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DNA-Delivered Antibodies Fight Off Lethal Bacterial Infection

Mouse muscle (nuclei stained blue) expresses monoclonal antibodies (green) that are protective against the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.AMI PATEL

US researchers have successfully delivered a monoclonal antibody against a severe bacterial infection using DNA—the first time such a...

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Spreading Pseudoscience: 5 Reasons Why Some Liberals Are as Bad as Conservatives

With the recent measles outbreak in Disneyland being linked to largely unvaccinated districts in Southern California, it is apparent that we are in the midst of a time when misinformation is running rampant. Although anti-science sentiment has historically been found in highly religious and...

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Big One WILL hit California soon as huge earthquake rattles Mexico, scientist warns | Science | News

In the days following the powerful 7.1 quake in Mexico City which killed more than 200 people, California was also hit by a handful of smaller tremors – with the most powerful registering at 3.2.
Beneath California, the Pacific and North American tectonic plates are moving northward –...

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Coastal Critters Make Epic Voyages After 2011 Tsunami

Coauthor John Chapman of Oregon State University inspects a Japanese vessel that washed ashore on Long Beach, Washington.RUSS LEWISPieces of plastic and other ocean debris gave coastal critters a ride to other continents following the enormous earthquake-generated tsunami that hit the...

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Plants Don't Have Mouths, But They Can Sing

Photo by Mark Leffingwell/Daily Camera

Susan Jeremy’s horse leads us to something peculiar, down the hill behind the Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette, Colorado.
A singing plant.
Like the story of the burning bush, this plant seems to have something to say, as well — at least based...

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BAE systems' new hybrid drones to 'revolutionise' warfare | Science | News

Engineers have unveiled ambitious an ambitious new concept for adaptable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are so agile they can take off and land like a helicopter and still fly like plane.
Experts believe the drones of the future, which will alternate between fixed-wing flight and...

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A Single Mutation in Zika Led to Devastating Effects

ISTOCK, ubrxOne mutation in the Zika virus is responsible for catastrophic consequences in its hosts. A sequence change resulting in one amino acid substitution can convert an ancestral Zika strain that causes only mild microcephaly into one that causes severe fetal microcephaly in mouse...

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Junk Science: The Fallacy of Fetal 'Pain'

In March of 2015, the West Virginia legislature overrode the Governor’s veto of HB 2568, the “Pain-Cable Unborn Child Protection Act.” As noted by the Governor, who vetoed a similar bill last year, the bill is unconstitutional. Arizona passed a similar law in 2012, and...

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Nasa and Russia team up for MANNED lunar satellite to act as human gateway to Mars | Science | News

The Nasa-led program will see the two space agencies build a lunar satellite much like the International Space Station (ISS) that can home astronauts and will orbit the moon.
Dubbed the Deep Space Gateway, the station will allow astronauts to study the moon in close detail and will also be...

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Opinion: Banning Shark Fin Sales in the U.S. Will Backfire

A proposal to do so would cause waste, promote less sustainable fisheries, and penalize US fishers who follow best practices.




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Arizona Lawmakers Approve Controversial Abortion Bill

PHOENIX, March 25 (Reuters) – Arizona lawmakers on Wednesday passed a controversial measure blocking women from buying insurance that includes abortion coverage through the federal health care exchange.
The fiercely-debated bill also requires doctors to tell women they could...

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Life after death: THIS is what it feels like to die | Science | News

Reddit users have taken to the social news aggregator site with some claiming their world “became soft and foggy”. 
For some people, death is not the end. Thanks to medical advancements, doctors are now able to bring some patients back from the dead after their heart has stopped...

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How Poison Frogs Avoid Poisoning Themselves

The phantasmal poison frog, Epipedobates anthonyi, is the original source of epibatidine, discovered by John Daly in 1974. In fact, epibatidine is named for frogs of this genus. Epibatidine has not been found in any animal outside of Ecuador, and its ultimate source, proposed to be an...

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Proof of alien life? Scientists discover 'cosmic rays from deep space' | Science | News

A team of scientists now believe that a rare form of cosmic ray is coming from far away galaxies 326million light-years away.
Experts had not seen anything like fast radio bursts (FRBs) before 2001 and some speculate they may be signals sent from life on other planets.
Since then, they have...

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The Caterpillar that Cries Wolf

REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION, JAYNE YACK, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY, DOI:10.1242/jeb.046805, 2011North American walnut sphinx moth caterpillars (Amorpha juglandis) look like easy meals for birds, but they have a trick up their sleeves—they produce whistles that sound like bird alarm...

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World to end on September 23 – but predictor David Meade says he’s available NEXT WEEK | Science | News

It is not known whether David Meade is losing confidence in his prediction the apocalypse will begin on Saturday, September 23, or whether he, like many others, believes the process will be long drawn out.
Canadian radio producer Robyn Flynn revealed the details from Mr Meade on her Twitter...

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Sexual Touch Promotes Early Puberty

ISTOCK, GETTYContrary to the longstanding belief that puberty is largely controlled by hormones, new evidence shows that sexual touch is a powerful puberty promoter. Touching prepubescent female rats’ genitals can cause the brain region that responds to such tactile stimuli to double in...

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End of the world: Will Planet X hit earth on September 23 in Nibiru crisis? | Science | News

Theorists believe a mysterious planet already hidden in the Solar System will collide with Earth, killing everyone and devastating the planet, sometime this Saturday. 
The bizarre claim has been put forward by a number of conspiracy fans, most notably David Meade. 
He has tied the disaster...

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Metabolomics Data Under Scrutiny | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, LUISMMOLINAMetabolomics screens can detect thousands of different compounds in a given sample, but contrary to the assumptions of numerous studies, not every detected compound represents a unique metabolite—far from it, according a to a study published today (September 15) in...

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Briton emerges from eight-month MARS mission probe into ALIEN planet 'for 2030 launch' | Science | News

The crew has been restricted to a dome as part of a Nasa-backed study into surviving on Mars.
The crew of four men and two women were placed into quarantine on a vast plain below the summit of the world’s largest active volcano in January.
It has sparked speculation that the space...

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Biology Labs Hit by Harvey’s Eye Face Long Road to Recovery

Damage from Hurricane Harvey to the main campus of the Marine Science Institute. In the background is the drilling rig (since removed) that smashed a research pier.THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTEWhen Edward Buskey of the Marine Science Institute (MSI) at the University of...

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End of the world: What is Nibiru? The mysterious planet ‘that will DESTROY Earth’ | Science | News

Christians claim that the arrival of the planet will mark the apocalypse and could herald Jesus’ return, while other conspiracy theorists believe that it is a rogue planet which has yet to be detected by space officials – or has but they are covering it up to prevent widespread panic.
The...

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After Harvey, Mosquito Control Ramps Up

FLICKR, AIR NATIONAL GUARD, SSGT DANIEL J. MARTINEZAt dusk on Thursday (September 14), U.S. Air Force Reserve cargo planes took to the skies over Harris County, Texas, to spray about 600,000 acres around Houston with a potent mosquito-killing insecticide, complementing similar efforts...

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Spacecraft makes lightning fast journey to International Space Station | Science | News

The craft launched on Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.30pm BST and arrived at its destination a mere five hours and 38 minutes later at 2.57am BST.
A Russian Soyuz rocket gave a flawless launch sequence and the crew made their journey in a Soyuz MS-06 space...

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Scientists’ Expectations for Brexit Mostly Grim

ISTOCK, DNY59On June 23, 2016, the UK electorate voted 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent to leave the European Union. As a community, scientists were overwhelmingly opposed to leaving: a Nature poll from March of that year showed that 83 percent of UK researchers were pro-remain, and only 12...

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Hurricane Jose latest - Jose and Irma caught in astronaut’s photo from space | Science | News

ISS commander Randy Bresnik has been keeping a close on Hurricane Irma from above and sharing the images with his followers on Twitter.
Not only did Mr Bresnik capture the weather disaster on photograph, but in the same picture, uploaded with the caption “Unfortunately, a tale of two...

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Sea Anemones Illuminate the Evolution of Embryo Development

Polyps of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis. Their single body opening (mouth) is surrounded by extended tentacles. The cells producing digestive enzymes and insulin-like peptides are part of the folds running internally along animal.PATRICK STEINMETZHumans and most other...

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What happens when you die - man reveals there are NO white lights or angels | Science | News

Reddit user ‘Pwnographik’ took to the social news aggregator site to tell his tale of what happened to him when he died.
He became ill in a foreign country and was forced to go on a Ketogenic (no carb) diet that ended up destroying the lining of his stomach.
As a result, he suffered from...

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Mongolian Dinosaurs and the Poaching Problem

The Nemegt Basin in Mongolia is a hotspot for oviraptorosaurs. The yellow silhouettes represent the known (right) and suspected (left) localities of the new species.GREGORY FUNSTON, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAIn 2006, Mongolian customs officials confiscated a slab of rock full of dinosaur bones...

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Hurricane Irma: Solar flares could wreak HAVOC on satellites as storm barrels towards US | Science | News

As Hurricane Irma barrels towards the US, devastating the Caribbean islands along the way, the likes of Nasa and weather forecasters will be relying on satellites to keep up to date with the powerful storm.
However, the two solar flares – the strongest in 12 years – could put satellite...

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Research Labs Evacuate Ahead of Irma

Hurricane Irma, September 4-5, 2017WIKIMEDIA, NOAAHurricane Irma has destroyed islands in the Caribbean, left 1 million residents without power in Puerto Rico, and killed at least 10 people. As the Category 5 hurricane takes aim at southern Florida, mandatory evacuations have pushed tens...

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Black hole WARNING: Huge void 100,000 bigger than sun discovered | Science | News

The team from Japan’s Keio University found a black hole, which is 100,000 times the size of our sun, within a molecular gas cloud near the centre of the Milky Way. 
And they believe its discovery might help explain the evolution of the phenomena.
Professor Tomoharu Oka, who led the...

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Scientists Fear DACA Cancellation | The Scientist Magazine®

FLICKR, JEFF POWERSUpdate (September 5): As expected, President Trump made his decision to end the DACA program official. “The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters this morning....

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THIS is how humanity will be killed off, according to Nobel Prize winners | Science | News

Some 50 Nobel Prize winners, representing a quarter of living winners from chemistry, physics, physiology, medicine and economics, were asked to participate in a Times Higher Education survey to give their theories on how humanity will die out.
Just over a third of the brainiacs believed...

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Opinion: Tales from the Nonacademic Career Path

ISTOCK, BAONAOver the last month, I have been on a quest: To find out how those of us scientists searching for jobs outside academia were faring and if my own experience in looking beyond the ivory tower was an outlier or a representative measurement. As I was preparing to leave The...

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Alien life hopes boosted as water discovered on star system’s planets | Science | News

At 40 light-years away, the TRAPPIST-1 star system is the closest solar system to Earth that has been discovered.
The solar system was discovered in February by Nasa which found seven planets orbit the relatively dim star.
The newly-discovered solar system has attracted the interest of alien...

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An Immunological Timeline for Pregnancy

ISTOCK, GRINVALDSDuring pregnancy, a woman’s immune system undergoes various changes as it balances protection against pathogens with tolerance of fetal antigens. But the timing of particular changes, and how they regulate the onset of labor, have so far been difficult to define. Now,...

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Life after death? Man who 'died' details afterlife experience… and THIS is what he saw | Science | News

A user on Reddit by the name of ‘Bovinerifle’ revealed what he saw during his experience after he technically died for a few moments following an accident. 
Bovinerifle wrote the accident resulted in him “being transported to hospital in an ambulance in a critical condition”. 
He...

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Parkinson’s Disease Cell Therapy Relieves Symptoms in Monkeys

Magnetic resonance image and positron emission tomography of the brain of a monkey that received grafts (represented as white regions in T2 weighted images). Position emission tomography showed that the uptake of [18F]DOPA gradually increased after transplantation. Dotted lines outline the...

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Actor Nikola Kent Plays a Tough Guy on Ray Donovan

If you’re a Ray Donovan fan, surely you’ve seen Nikola Kent kick some ass. I beat him up with crazy interview questions but I had to narrow the interview down so you’ll never get to know how I asked him out, what he said, and why he will stay clear of me for the rest of...

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Weather CHAOS: Supervolcano eruptions could spark extreme temperature in UK | Science | News

Researchers analysing data of eruptions over hundreds of years found that many of the UK’s most extreme summers and devastating winters were not random events but triggered by volcanic blasts.
Scientists from Liverpool University also warned that supervolcanoes could be among the greatest...

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Global Patterns of Human Epigenetic Variation

ISTOCK, BESTDESIGNSDNA methylation—changes to the activity of a DNA segment without changing the sequence—may be a rich source of raw material for natural selection, say the authors of a new study that analyzed DNA methylation, genotype, and gene expression data from five diverse human...

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Machine Learning: The New Infrastructure for Everything

The first half of the information age was programming computers to do what we want. In the second half of the information age computers will program
themselves.
Over the last 30 years, coding capabilities grew at a phenomenal rate topped only by the amount of data being...

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Life after death: These people died and went to HELL following a near death experience | Science | News

Most people who go through an NDE come back talking about the tranquillity of the experience and how they have seen bright lights which they perceive to be a heavenly afterlife.
But these unlucky few believe that they, or people they know, have experienced the darkest side of all… they...

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Labs in Texas Batten Down the Hatches

NASAUpdate (August 25): Hurricane Harvey is now rated a Category 4 storm.

With Hurricane Harvey now upgraded to a Category 3 hurricane and set to make landfall late today (August 25) or early tomorrow, researchers in its path have prepared their facilities and are waiting to see if their...

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Internet and Society - Looking Toward the Future

By Vinton G. CerfPast President, ACMVice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
The Internet is seemingly everywhere, thanks to smartphones, high-speed radio and fiber networks, social network applications, and the Web. But, in fact, only about 3 billion people are thought to be...

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SHOCK CLAIM: Alien life could have existed in the Milky Way for more than 10 BILLION years | Science | News

Researchers have found planets orbiting sun-like stars throughout the galaxy which are almost as old as the universe.
Scientists from the University of Birmingham have found a star – Kepler-444 – with orbiting planets that are almost as old as the Milky Way and more than twice the age of the...

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Hunter-gatherer Microbiomes Cycle with the Seasons

Hadza men prepare to hunt.IMAGE COURTESY OF JEFF LEACHFewer than 200 Hadza people live as hunter-gatherers near the shore of Lake Eyasi in Tanzania. In a study published today (August 24) in Science, a team led by Justin Sonnenburg of Stanford University has shown that their gut microbiota...

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Yes, There's Still a Need to Celebrate #WomenInSTEM

Ada Lovelace Day, which occurs on the second Tuesday of October every year, is an opportunity to celebrate women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Is there still such a need to talk about #womeninstem?
Let’s start with a little background on the person...

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Eclipse 2017: When is the next total solar eclipse in the UK? Time and date | Science | News

More than 12 million people sat in the path of totality of the August 21 solar eclipse, as it passed from the West Coast to the East Coast of the United States.
The spectacular miracle of nature saw the moon cross paths with the sun, blocking out sunlight and darkening the skies for minutes...

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Vitamin C Depletion Accelerates Leukemia in Mice

WIKIMEDIA, RAMAAscorbate, also known as vitamin C, plays a key role in determining whether blood-forming stem cells will become cancerous, according to a study of cell cultures and mice published today (August 21) in Nature.

Both human and mouse hematopoietic stem cells are flush with...

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This Is How People Used the Internet 20 Years Ago

This article originally appeared on Inverse.

By Ben Guarino
On October 16, 1995, back before America Online became AOL, the Pew Research Center published a survey of Americans online. “Americans Going Online…Explosive Growth, Uncertain Destinations” has been preserved for...

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Arianna And LinkedIn Co-Founder Reid Hoffman Discuss Science And Spirituality At DLD Conference

At the annual Digital-Life-Design conference in Munich, HuffPost’s own Arianna Huffington and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman discussed the clash of science and spirituality, arguing that both are essential for success.
Video of the event can be viewed above.
Hoffman, a well-known...

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Solar eclipse 2017: When was the last total eclipse visible from the US? | Science | News

When was the last total solar eclipse in the US?
Tomorrow’s eclipse has been called a once-in-a-lifetime event, which is true for many.
The last time that a total eclipse crossed the entire contiguous US was in 1932.
There was an eclipse in 1979 that passed over Washington, Oregon, Idaho,...

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How Journals Treat Papers from Researchers Who Committed Misconduct

ISTOCK, BRIANAJACKSONIn June, Nature Plants published a manuscript by Patrice Dunoyer, a plant biologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France who was previously found guilty of scientific misconduct. The paper, which describes a strategy used by viruses to...

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