Israel's Spacecom begins operating Amos-7 satellite | Reuters

JERUSALEM Israel’s Space Communications has begun operating a new communications satellite, Amos-7, it said on Monday, a major milestone after it lost two satellites in the past two years.

Amos-7 will replace the aging Amos-2 and provide service to clients in Europe, Africa and the...

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Rare 'Ring of Fire' eclipse expected to cross Southern Hemisphere

Feb. 25 (UPI) — The sky above parts of Earth’s Southern Hemisphere will be illuminated Sunday in a “ring of fire” during the first solar eclipse of 2017, NASA said.
The annular eclipse will be mainly visible near parts of the Southern Hemisphere, including Chile,...

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Nasa release images of 'heart of Mars' Martian bedrock | Science | News

The Red planet is mainly covered with fine-grained rocks, which normally conceal the Martian bedrock. 
However this amazing shot captures the bedrock exposed and only partially covered with sand dunes.
High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) scientists shared the image on their...

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A Mysterious Blob Has Washed Ashore In The Philippines

A giant, hairy blob that washed ashore in the Philippines baffled local residents.


Some suggested it looked like a huge Shih Tzu, or even Appa, a fictional character from the animated TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender.


But now local scientists have identified the creature, revealing...

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How Much Do Sex Differences Matter in Mouse Studies?

WIKIMEDIA, TIIA MONTOWhen Kathleen Gardiner first encountered female mice with Down syndrome, she was surprised to find that the rodents’ brains showed unexpected abnormalities. Gardiner, a neuroscientist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Aurora, knew that trisomic male...

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SpaceX Launches Rocket to International Space Station - Video

By NASA | Feb. 19, 2017
| 0:58

A Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, was launched at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, carrying supplies, experiments and cargo to the International Space...

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Fearing Climate Change Policy Under Trump, STEM Group Works To Get Scientists Elected : NPR

Scientists across the country are planning to go to Washington — and take office. Shaughnessy Naughton is the founder of 314 Action a non profit that helps scientists run for office.





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How Far to the Next Forest? A New Way to Measure Deforestation

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A forest in Oregon, part of which has been clear-cut. Researchers say the average distance to the nearest forest from any point in the continental United States widened in the 1990s.

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Want to know the future? Most people don't, study suggests

Despite the popularity of horoscopes, most people don’t really want to know their futures, a new study from Europe suggests. That’s particularly true if future events are negative, such as the person’s death, the study found.
The research, which surveyed more than 2,000...

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Astronomers Find 7 Potentially Habitable Planets : NPR

Astronomers have discovered a solar system full of potentially habitable planets. Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, which searches for extraterrestrial intelligence.





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Trump asks NASA to explore putting crew on rocket's debut flight | Reuters

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The Trump administration has directed NASA to study whether it is feasible to fly astronauts on the debut flight of the agency’s heavy-lift rocket, a mission currently planned to be unmanned and targeted to...

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Toxic chemicals from electronics, furniture found in house cats

Feb. 24 (UPI) — Your cat is a repository for chemicals in your home. As scientists suspected, tests show harmful chemicals can accumulate in the blood of healthy cats.
Researchers measured significantly elevated levels of brominated flame retardants, BFRs, in feline blood samples. BFRs...

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REVEALED: Alien subatomic particles ‘destroying’ your gadgets | Science | News

New research from the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee found computer crashes and smartphone freezes may be caused by electrically charged particles generated by cosmic rays originating outside our solar system.
Vanderbilt Professor Bharat Bhuva describes it as a “big problem,...

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Unleashing The Hidden Figures In Your Organisation To Inspire The Next Generation Of STEM Professionals

On 17th February, 20th Century Fox released the award-winning film, Hidden Figures, in the UK. The film recounts the true story of three African-American women who worked at NASA during the 1960s ‘space race’. These mathematicians, or ‘computers’ as they were known...

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Ubadah Sabbagh: An American Scientist from the Middle East

UBADAH SABBAGHWhen asked where home is, Ubadah Sabbagh hesitated. It’s a difficult question for a man who grew up moving to a different country every few years and whose family is now spread across the Middle East. After a pause, he said, “I don’t really have an answer to that. . . . I...

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7 New Planets Could Host Alien Life - Video

By NEETI UPADHYE | Feb. 22, 2017
| 0:57

These new Earth-size planets orbit a dwarf star named Trappist-1 about 40 light years from Earth. Some of them could have water on their surfaces.

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Environmental Justice Groups Say California's Climate Program Has Not Helped Them : NPR

Some environmental justice advocates say California’s cap-and-trade program hasn’t done anything to clean up the air in low-income communities like Wilmington, where refineries are located near residential neighborhoods.

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Climate and weather: Extreme measures : Nature News

Published online 7 September 2011 |
Nature
477,
148-149
(2011)
| doi:10.1038/477148a

Can violent hurricanes, floods and droughts be pinned on climate change? Scientists are beginning to say yes.

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Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back

Brazil was aware of the challenge of keeping deforestation at bay, Everton Lucero, the secretary of climate change and forests of Brazil’s Ministry of the Environment, said in an interview.
“We are very uncomfortable with the bad news that we had a rise in deforestation, and we are taking...

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Pacific Ocean iron particles can travel thousands of miles, study finds

Can a better understanding of iron particles that are carried vast distances across the Pacific Ocean help scientists predict how our oceans can reduce carbon emissions?
A new study by researchers at Texas A&M, Rutgers University, the University of South Carolina, the University of...

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Can The Past Guide Us To Future Scientific Breakthroughs? : NPR

Part 5 of the TED Radio Hour episode The Spirit Of Inquiry.
About Eric Haseltine’s TED Talk
Trained as a neuroscientist, Eric Haseltine is always asking questions. He’s identified four concepts that lead to scientific breakthrough. One of them: acknowledging...

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Indian sungazers keep up family tradition for four generations | Reuters

By Danish Siddiqui
| KODAIKANAL, India


KODAIKANAL, India In the early morning darkness, Devendran P. walks up a hill to a solar observatory in India’s southern hill town of Kodaikanal, trudging the same path his father and grandfather walked in a century-old...

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Google celebrates NASA's Trappist-1 discovery with new Doodle

Feb. 23 (UPI) — Google has wasted no time in commemorating NASA’s recent discovery of seven earth-size planets with a new Doodle Thursday.
Google’s homepage features an animated short with a cartoon version of the earth alongside the moon using a telescope to view the seven...

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NASA announcement: What is an exoplanet and could there be alien life in our galaxy? | Science | News

Scientists have discovered seven Earth-like planets orbiting a star dubbed TRAPPIST-1.
All seven orbit close to the star – if they were circling our sun, they would all be closer than Mercury.
NASA is most interested in three of the exoplanets which lie in the hospitable zone.
Also known as...

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A New Drug Injection Could Reverse Hearing Loss

Each human is born with around 15,000 hair cells inside each ear. Once they’re damaged they’re gone, as unlike other animals humans can’t repair them.


Damage to these hair cells is one of the leading causes of hearing loss, something that affects some 45 million Americans. Finding a way...

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Itch Neurons in Mouse Spinal Cords Can Sense Pain

Fluorescently stained murine dorsal root ganglion neurons in the skin (pain-sensing neurons in red, itch-sensing neurons in purple and yellow)XINZHONG DONG

Neuroscientists have long debated how itch and pain overlap in the nervous system. Although itch was once thought to arise from the...

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7 Earth-Size Planets Orbit Dwarf Star, NASA and European Astronomers Say

Scientists could even discover compelling evidence of aliens.
“I think that we have made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there,” said Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge in England and another member of the research team. “Here, if life...

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Exoplanet's misstep raises doubts : Nature News

Astronomers argue over object’s status after it unexpectedly veers off course.

An artist’s impression of the planet Fomalhaut b.ESA/ NASA/L. Calcada
As astronomers continue to rack up exoplanet discoveries by the dozen (see Nature 477 , 383–384; 2011), the precise status of...

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Will The March For Science Make For Better Policy, Or Undermine It? : The Two-Way : NPR

Scientists rallied for evidence-based public policy outside the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco in December.

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Canada's ice cores seek new home : Nature News

Published online 15 September 2011 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news.2011.538
Corrected online: 19 September 2011
Corrected online: 19 September 2011

Confusion over fate of valuable climate record chills researchers.

Canada’s Arctic ice cores face...

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New Priority for Ocean Resorts: Restoring Reefs

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At the Outrigger Konotta Maldives Resort, coral has suffered from bleaching.

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Last April, Caterina Fattori stood on a beach in the Maldives feeling frustrated. The...

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'The blob' in Pacific Ocean linked to spike in ozone

A warm blob of water lurking in the Pacific Ocean in 2014 and 2015 led to a spike in ozone levels across the western U.S., new research suggests.
The blob of warm water, which sat about 310 miles off the Oregon coast, was linked to a high-pressure system in the atmosphere that resulted in...

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After Making History In Space, Mae Jemison Works To Prime Future Scientists : NPR

Mae Jemison addresses congressional representatives and distinguished guests at Bayer’s Making Science Make Sense 20th anniversary celebration in 2015.

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Trove of Dazzling Bronze Age Weapons Unearthed in Scotland

Excavations during the construction of two soccer fields in Scotland have turned up a rare discovery — a Bronze-Age weapon hoard, including a notched bronze sword and a gold-decorated spearhead.

The weapons, which likely date back to between 1000 B.C. and 800 B.C., were found in a pit...

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Rep. Chaffetz Vows To Investigate Utah Park's Tweet Welcoming Bears Ears Monument

WASHINGTON — Under fire for a perceived lack of interest in investigating President Donald Trump’s administration, House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) appears to have sniffed out his next big probe.


But it won’t be into Trump’s financial conflicts of...

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Parents' enthusiasm for science boosts teens' exam scores

Top of the class: parents can influence their child’s STEM performance
Teenagers with parents who conveyed the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) had higher scores in mathematics and science-college preparatory examinations, a long-term US study has...

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Harvesting therapeutic proteins from animal slobber

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Researchers hope to engineer pigs to secrete human therapeutic proteins in their saliva.
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Monitoring Snow Changes: NASA Scientist Dalia Kirschbaum Explains

By Steve Spaleta |
February 21, 2017 11:44am ET


Got snow? NASA’s new SnowEx campaign is taking a closer look at snow, an important source of freshwater for 60 million people in the U.S., and for 1.2 billion people worldwide. [Read the Full Story on...

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New U.S. environmental chief says agency can also be pro-jobs | Reuters

By Timothy Gardner
| WASHINGTON


WASHINGTON The new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that America need not choose between jobs and the environment, in a nod to the energy industry as the White House prepares executive orders that could...

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Thousands of horsemen may have swept into Bronze Age Europe, transforming the local population | Science

A Yamnaya skeleton from a grave in the Russian steppe, which was the homeland of men who migrated to Europe.

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By Ann GibbonsFeb. 21, 2017 , 12:00 PM

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UK government to set out powers paving way for first space satellite launch | Reuters

LONDON Britain will set out powers this week which would allow the launch of space satellites from the country for the first time, the government said on Monday.

Draft legislation, which will also allow for horizontal flights to the edge of space for scientific experiments and the...

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Marine snail could offer opioid alternative

Feb. 20 (UPI) — A novel compound produced by a tiny marine snail species could inspire an alternative to opioids, the highly addictive class of pain killers.
“Nature has evolved molecules that are extremely sophisticated and can have unexpected applications,” Baldomera...

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Has Nasa found ALIENS? Space agency to announce ‘discovery beyond our solar system’ | Science | News

The US space agency will hold a press conference on Wednesday, February 22, to discuss a major discovery from beyond our solar system.
NASA says it has important details to discuss regarding exoplanets beyond our galactic neighbourhood, but left much to the imagination with its brief press...

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Human Hibernation Could Halt The Spread Of Cancer Making It Easier To Fight

A leading scientist has suggested that placing humans into a state of hibernation could be a powerful new tool for fighting cancer, in particular terminal cancers.



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Marching for Science, from Berlin to Sydney

The Scientist‘s interactive map has information on science marches around the globe.THE SCIENTIST STAFF

In a small room at a community center in central Berlin, around 20 people representing various professions—including science, healthcare, and the arts—gathered on Thursday...

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Cosmos Controversy: The Universe Is Expanding, but How Fast?

Whether the standard cosmic recipe might now need to be modified — for example, to account for a new species of subatomic particles streaming through space from the Big Bang — depends on whom you talk to. Some say it is too soon to get excited about new physics sneaking through such a small...

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Saturn's moon has never-ending winter : Nature News

Millions of years of snowfall on Enceladus boost promise of subsurface ocean.

A 100-metre thick layer of snow has muted many of the surface features in this area of Enceladus.NASA/JPL / Paul Schenk
Jets of water vapour and ice shooting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus...

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New Research Shows How 'Atmospheric Rivers' Wreak Havoc Around The Globe : The Two-Way : NPR

Atmospheric rivers are sinews of moisture from the tropics. The one pictured here appeared over the Northern Pacific on Jan. 3.

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Greenland ice-melt map gets the cold shoulder : Nature News

Published online 20 September 2011 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news.2011.547
Updated online: 23 September 2011

Polar researchers mobilize to clear up atlas’s icesheet error.

Map of Greenland from the 13th edition of The Times Atlas of the World (left) and a mosaic of...

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Disappearing Seagrass Protects Against Pathogens, Even Climate Change, Scientists Find

The plants also draw fertilizer runoff and other pollutants out of the water, locking them safely away in meadow soil. Scientists have estimated that an acre of seagrass provides more than $11,000 worth of filtering every year.
These services alone would make seagrass meadows among the most...

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MYSTERY: Half-eaten shark on Florida beach raises speculation about what killed it

A half-eaten shark that washed up on a Florida beach Saturday raised questions about a bigger fish possibly lurking in the water.
A Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue lifeguard snapped a photo of the shark on New Smyrna Beach. Beach Safety spokeswoman Tammy Morris told News 4 Jax that...

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On Second Attempt, SpaceX Launches Rocket At NASA's Historic Kennedy Space Center : The Two-Way : NPR

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sits on the launch pad Saturday at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX scrubbed the Saturday launch due to a technical issue. The company is tried again — and succeeded — on Sunday.

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The Outer Space Treaty Has Been Successful – But Is It Fit for the Modern Age?

Space exploration and exploitation has changed a lot in 50 years.
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Hundreds Rally To Defend Science In Boston Protest

Hundreds gathered in Boston on Sunday to speak out in defense of research and against what they view as the Trump administration’s war on evidence-based science.


“When science and research are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back,” protesters chanted in the city’s Copley...

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Flash Physics: Massive planet sets star pulsating, new deputy director of BNL's Computational Science Initiative, UAE sets out Mars vision

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

Massive planet sets star pulsating
Planet pulse: HAT-P-2b’s highly eccentric orbit round its star
A distant star...

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CRISPR patent dispute ends well for Broad Institute. Berkeley says: Not so fast | February 16, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 8

The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) released a long-awaited decision in the contentious patent battle over CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology yesterday. The Broad Institute of Harvard University & MIT called the outcome a victory, while the University of California,...

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SpaceX Will Try Again to Launch from Historic NASA Pad: Watch Live Sunday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will try again to launch its robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station today (Feb. 19) at 9:38:59 a.m. EST (1438:59 GMT), and you can watch the liftoff live online.

Dragon was originally supposed to launch Saturday morning (Feb....

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Curiosity—not just knowledge—about science influences public perceptions about vaccines, climate change | Science

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By Teresa L. Carey Feb. 19, 2017 , 12:45 PM

BOSTON–Can a simple inquisitiveness about science make the difference between people who accept concepts like evolution and man-made climate change and those who don’t? That’s something Dan Kahan wants to figure...

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SpaceX rocket poised for second launch try from historic NASA pad | Reuters

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Countdown clocks were ticking down on Sunday for the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from a historic launchpad leased from NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Blastoff of Space Exploration...

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch aborted seconds before liftoff

Feb. 18 (UPI) — The launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket just before liftoff due to a second stage thrust vector control issue.
SpaceX announced the scheduled Saturday morning launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. was scrubbed at the T-minus 10 second mark as the...

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Yellowstone WARNING: Supervolcano could be on BRINK of erupting after 'increased activity' | Science | News

YouTuber Kat Martin has been uploading videos of the Yellowstone geysers for well over a year now, and says that the geysers are now erupting more frequently and stronger than anything she has witnessed in the past.
In the latest video that she uploaded, powerful plumes of steam can be seen...

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New Zealand Is Actually Part Of A 'Lost Continent' Called Zealandia, Say Scientists

New Zealand is perched on top of a “lost continent” submerged by water, according to an eye-opening new study.


Zealandia spans 1.9 million square miles and includes New Zealand’s North and South Islands, New Caledonia and many other territories.


Despite being 94 per cent underwater,...

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Wael Al-Delaimy: An American Scientist Born in Iraq

IMAGE COURTESY OF WAEL AL-DELAIMYWael Al-Delaimy, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), came to the United States from Iraq in the early 2000s in order to avail himself of the “the research environment, the academic system, and the freedom” afforded by...

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SpaceX Scrubs Rocket Launch - The New York Times

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Saturday.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX will have to wait at least another day to...

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Stellar performance nets physics prize : Nature News

Nobel for supernovae signals of accelerating Universe.

Saul PerlmutterRedux/eyevine
Three astrophysicists have been awarded a Nobel prize for planting a perplexing puzzle at the heart of cosmology.
Half of the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National...

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When Their Food Ran Out, These Reindeer Kept Digging : NPR

On one Alaskan island, reindeer have eaten the lichen faster than it could regrow. They’re now digging up roots and grazing on grass.

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Military surveillance data: Shared intelligence : Nature News

Published online 21 September 2011 |
Nature
477,
388-389
(2011)
| doi:10.1038/477388a

The military has a vast array of scientifically valuable data — some more accessible than you think.


No one monitors our planet more closely than the military. Thirty-six...

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A Push for Diesel Leaves London Gasping Amid Record Pollution

“No one at the time thought of the consequences of increased nitrogen dioxide emissions from diesel, and the policy of incentivizing diesel was so successful that an awful lot of people bought diesel cars,” said Anna Heslop, a lawyer at ClientEarth, an environmental law firm that last year...

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Biologists find weird cave life that may be 50,000 years old

BOSTON –  In a Mexican cave system so beautiful and hot that it is called both Fairyland and hell, scientists have discovered life trapped in crystals that could be 50,000 years old.
The bizarre and ancient microbes were found dormant in caves in Naica, Mexico, and were able to exist by...

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Have Spare Time? Try To Discover A Planet : The Two-Way : NPR

Astronomers are offering the general public a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: the chance to discover a new planet in our solar system.
Many astronomers now think there may be a massive, undiscovered planet lurking in the far reaches of our solar...

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Earth Has a Hidden 8th Continent, Geologists Say

Earth has eight continents, and world maps should reflect this, geologists say.

The eighth, a lost continent called Zealandia, isn’t a huge landmass that geographers have somehow missed. Rather, only small bits — including New Zealand, New Caledonia and a few other specks of land...

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Cavs' Kyrie Irving: The Earth Is Flat, And 'They' Are Lying To Us

Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers believes the Earth is flat.


To be sure, planet Earth is round. But during a Friday podcast hosted by his teammates Channing Frye and Richard Jefferson, Irving declared that the Earth is flat.


“This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is...

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Building blocks of life found on Ceres

Ceres’ mystery: it is unclear how organic compounds might have formed
Organic compounds have been discovered on the surface of the dwarf-planet Ceres. The Visual and Infrared Spectrometer (VIR) on NASA’s Dawn spacecraft detected the compounds while in orbit around the minor...

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Senate confirms Scott Pruitt to lead EPA

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The U.S. Senate on Feb. 17 confirmed Trump nominee Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Historic Liftoffs From Pad 39A - From Apollo to SpaceX

Relive the Apollo 4, Apollo 11, Skylab 1, STS-1 and STS-135 lift-offs from the historic launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX looks to make history on Saturday February 18 with its first launch from pad 39A. SpaceX Launching NASA Cargo from Apollo Pad Saturday: Watch It Live

The...

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Top U.S. universities host 10,000 students and researchers from nations covered by Trump travel ban | Science

The Trump administration’s immigration policies have sparked public debate and protest.

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By Jeffrey MervisFeb. 17, 2017 , 12:00 PM

Sixty top U.S. research universities have roughly 10,000 students and researchers on campus from the...

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Winston Churchill Ponders Extraterrestrial Life In Newly Discovered Essay

Astrophysicist Mario Livio discusses a recently unearthed essay written by Winston Churchill in 1939. Churchill wrote about the possibility of space travel and life on other planets.


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Dwarf planet Ceres boasts organic compounds, raising prospect of life | Reuters

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A NASA spacecraft has detected carbon-based materials, similar to what may have been the building blocks for life on Earth, on the Texas-sized dwarf planet Ceres that orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the...

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Scientists find naturally occurring organic compounds on Ceres

Feb. 16 (UPI) — All of the basic ingredients necessary for life can be found on the surface of Ceres, the dwarf planet found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Now, new research suggests organic compounds found on Ceres are naturally occurring, born of geochemical processes hiding...

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Paranormal phenomena exists in ANOTHER dimension that 'our consciousness connects with' | Science | News

Queen Mary University of London professor of mathematics and astronomy Bernard Carr believes that there are unfathomable dimensions that are linked to our consciousness.
Albert Einsteiin theorised that there are four-dimensions, although many physicists believe that there could be as many as...

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Rolls-Royce Set To Launch Crewless Ships In Just Three Years

As Google, Tesla and Uber push the boundaries of self-driving car technology, Rolls-Royce is pioneering crewless ships.


The British engineering giant has announced plans to release the first of its fleet of autonomous vessels by 2020.


Working with government-backed groups across Europe,...

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Abundant Sequence Errors in Public Databases

 

FLICKR, SAURI NASHSome sequence variants found in DNA specimens may actually be caused by damage during sample processing, according to a paper in Science today (February 16). A team of researchers at New England Biolabs (NEB) has devised an algorithm for assessing the degree of such...

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NASA Looks to Speed Timetable for Putting Astronauts in Deep Space

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An artist’s rendition of NASA’s Space Launch System. NASA announced on Wednesday that it wanted to consider taking astronauts on the rocket’s first flight.

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Comets take pole position as water bearers : Nature News

Comet Hartley 2 has a similar ratio of heavy water to ordinary water to Earth, indicating comets may have supplied much of Earth’s water.NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD
The tide of an ongoing debate about whether comets or asteroids supplied most of Earth’s water has turned back to comets...

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A Daughter Of Coal Country Battles Climate Change — And Her Father's Doubt : NPR

Ashley Funk plans to move back home to southwest Pennsylvania to work on environmental projects in a place where climate change and the local economy are intertwined.

Stephanie Strasburg for WBEZ

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Nitrogen pollution disrupts Pacific Ocean : Nature News

Surging nitrates in Asian waters could dramatically affect marine wildlife.

Rising nitrate levels provide perfect conditions for algal blooms.Imaginechina/Corbis
Nitrate levels in the waters off China, Japan and the Korean Peninsula are soaring, according to a 30-year study published in ...

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E.P.A. Workers Try to Block Pruitt in Show of Defiance

The union has sent emails and posted Facebook and Twitter messages urging members to make the calls.
“It is rare,” said James A. Thurber, the director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University. “I can’t think of any other time when people in the...

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Vast lake of molten carbon discovered under western US

Scientists have discovered a huge reservoir of molten carbon deep beneath the western U.S.
The research, which was conducted by geologists at the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London in the U.K., located the deep-Earth area of melting carbon that spans almost...

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Yangtze River: Longest River in Asia

The Yangtze River in China is the longest river in Asia, the third longest river in the world and the longest river to flow entirely in one country. The river begins its journey in the glacial meltwaters of the Tanggula Mountains in Tibet and flows approximately 3,915 miles (6,300...

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San Francisco Wages War On Puppy Mills, Says Pet Stores Can Only Sell Rescue Animals

The city of San Francisco has voted to ban the sale of non-rescue dogs and cats at local pet stores in a move to combat so-called “puppy mills” and help find homes for the thousands of animals that shelters take in each year.


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Blocking the symmetry of motion

One direction: metamaterial containing squares and diamonds overcomes mechanical reciprocity
A mechanical metamaterial that responds strongly to motion from one direction, while blocking it in the other, has been developed by an international team of researchers. The research, which in...

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International committee says push forward with human genome editing | February 15, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 8

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Ethical discussions on human genome editing were reignited at a meeting in December 2015.
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Dangerous Space Rocks Discussed at Asteroid Day Prep

An artist’s illustration of an asteroid headed for Earth.
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Experts from around the world gathered on Tuesday (Feb. 14) to discuss how humans can mitigate the threat of asteroid impacts, as...

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Alien species are accelerating their march across the globe | Science

Gray squirrels, introduced from North America in the 1900s, are now driving continental Europe’s native red squirrels to the brink of extinction. 

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By Claire AsherFeb. 15, 2017 , 12:45 PM

Invasive species, from feral pigs to Japanese knotweed, can...

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Want To Throw A Football More than 500,000 Yards? Just Head To Space : The Two-Way : NPR

Matt Ryan is no slouch.
The Atlanta Falcons quarterback, who will be vying for Super Bowl LI on Sunday, drew plaudits all year for what many have called an MVP-caliber season. By the end of the season, Ryan racked up 4,944 passing yards.
Still, it took Ryan 16 games — and more than 500...

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India launches record 104 satellites at one go | Reuters

NEW DELHI India successfully launched 104 satellites in a single mission on Wednesday, setting what its space agency says is a world record of launching the most satellites at one go.

Of the 104, 101 are foreign satellites to serve international customers as the South Asian nation seeks...

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The human brain is always working on a plan B, research shows

Feb. 14 (UPI) — New research suggests when it comes to the physical movements of daily life, the human brain is always weighing its options and prepping for plan B.
Think of the mini moments of hesitation that populate the day: Whether or not to cross the sidewalk or when to change...

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India launches 104 satellites today – the biggest number ever in one day | Science | News

Of the 104, 101 are foreign satellites to serve international customers as the South Asian nation seeks a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry. 
“This is a great moment for each and everyone of us. Today we have created history,” said project director B. Jayakumar. 


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Scientists Find A 'Super-Earth' Among 60 New Neighbouring Planets

An international group of astronomers have discovered what they’re called a “super-Earth” and it’s not too far from our own solar system.


In addition to the “super-Earth” the team, including Dr Mikko Tuomi from the University of Hertfordshire, have found a total of 114 new planets with 60...

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Duplicated Genes May Reduce Resilience in Yeast

RAINIS VENTA, WIKIMEDIA

Gene duplications are a major contributor to functional diversity within species. At times, extra copies of a gene can act as a backup mechanism to compensate when one gene fails. Some duplicated pairs, however, are dependent on one another, and the loss of one...

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Dubai Plans a Taxi That Skips the Driver, and the Roads

Like a scene from “The Jetsons,” commuters in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, may soon climb aboard automated flying taxis, soaring over busy streets and past the desert city’s gleaming skyscrapers, all — quite literally — at the push of a button.
Passenger drones, capable of carrying a...

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Sun-watchers hope giant telescope will get green light : Nature News

Published online 11 October 2011 |
Nature
478,
166-167
(2011)
| doi:10.1038/478166a

Observatory would reveal structures that trigger sunspots and space weather.

The summit of Haleakala in Hawaii will gain its largest telescope yet if plans are approved.K....

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In America's Heartland, A Power Company Leads Charge For Electric Cars

Kansas City Power & Light is building an ambitious, $20 million network of 1,000 charging stations. It’s turning its service area into one of the fastest-growing electric vehicle markets in the U.S.
(Image credit: Andrea Hsu/NPR)


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Scientists push for agricultural monitoring : Nature News

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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Is the ‘Anthropocene’ Epoch a Condemnation of Human Interference — or a Call for More?

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Perhaps you’ve noticed, amid the hot invective and dry mockery of daily events in your social-media feeds, reports of the glaciers melting at each pole. Arctic ice cover reached record lows...

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Baby supernova discovery hints at how star explosions are born

Baby pictures of a newborn supernova have captured this stellar explosion after the first half-dozen hours of its life, shedding light on how these giant explosions happen, a new study finds.
This newly discovered cosmic baby is the type of supernova that occurs when a giant star runs out of...

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10 Animals with Truly Weird Courtship Rituals

By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer |
February 14, 2017 07:01am ET








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'Extremely High Levels' Of Toxic Pollutants Found In Deepest Parts Of World's Oceans

Not even the very deepest, darkest depths of Earth’s oceans can escape mankind’s legacy of toxic pollution.


In a shocking discovery highlighting the interconnectedness of our planet, scientists have detected “extremely high levels” of organic chemicals in the fatty tissue of amphipods, a...

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New metamaterial enhances natural cooling without power input

Cool wrappings: roll-to-roll glass-polymer metamaterial cools 24/7
A new metamaterial film provides cooling without needing a power input. Made out of glass microspheres, polymer and silver, the material uses passive radiative cooling to dissipate heat from the object it covers. It emits the...

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Dispute over the legal rights to an anticancer agent continues | February 7, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 7

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The misassigned ONC201 structure (top) shows three rings in a linear conformation, while the correct structure has one of those three rings out of line with the other two (bottom).



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'Science Under Threat' In US - An Astrobiologist’s Take

By Steve Spaleta |
February 13, 2017 11:29am ET


“I believe in a hundred years we are going to be repairing the damage we are doing now,” says astrobiologist and “Earth In Human Hands”  author David Grinspoon in regards to Earth’s changing climate. He gives...

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Lawsuit aims to force USDA to repost scrubbed animal welfare records | Science

Juvenile monkeys at Primate Products, Inc., in Immokalee, Florida in 2015.

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By Meredith WadmanFeb. 13, 2017 , 11:45 AM

Put the records back on the internet. That’s the demand made in a lawsuit filed today against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by an animal...

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Green Comet 45P, 'Snow Moon' And Eclipse Make For A Space Trifecta : The Two-Way : NPR

A diptych of the lunar penumbral eclipse in progress, as seen by Slooh Community Observatory telescopes in the Canary Islands.

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Scientists find crop-destroying caterpillar spreading rapidly in Africa | Reuters

LONDON Scientists tracking a crop-destroying caterpillar known as armyworm say it is now spreading rapidly across mainland Africa and could reach tropical Asia and the Mediterranean in the next few years, threatening agricultural trade.

In research released on Monday, scientists at the...

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vertical at Florida's Kennedy Space Center

Feb. 11 (UPI) — Private space travel company SpaceX lifted it’s Falcon 9 rocket at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to undergo testing in preparation for a potential launch.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, shared a photo of the rocket in its upright position at the launchpad in Cape...

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Has China beaten Nasa in building warp-drive technology dubbed the 'impossible engine'? | Science | News

Back in November, leaked documents showed that Nasa believed that it had cracked the once impossible warp drive mystery and were working on an engine that could drastically reduce the time that it takes to travel through space.
Super-fast warp drive – faster than any travel currently...

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Europa Mission: NASA Wants To Hunt For Alien Life On One Of Jupiter's Moons

Beneath the icy shell of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moon, lies a liquid ocean 100km deep. It could be our best chance of finding alien life in the solar system.


Now NASA has unveiled plans to send a probe to the ocean world, beginning the search with a pathfinder mission.


It would have...

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Science Teaching Standards up for Revision in Texas

WIKIMEDIA, DBENBENNLast week, the Texas Board of Education approved a draft of revisions made to its science education standards. While board members approved nearly all of the changes suggested by a committee of educators, they also voted to partially replace cuts made to controversial...

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Looking at Your Home Planet from Mars

Greetings Earthlings! This is your planet and its moon as seen from Mars, some 127 million miles away.
This composite image, which was released by NASA on Friday, was created using a special camera aboard the agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is a spacecraft orbiting about 180...

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Europe looks to Russia after NASA falls short on ExoMars : Nature News

The US agency’s shrinking budget and growing space-telescope costs are squeezing other projects.

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is scheduled for launch in 2016.ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) will forge ahead with ExoMars, an ambitious two-part robotic mission that would look for...

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Emergency Evacuation Ordered For Thousands Of Residents : NPR

Water flows over the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam Saturday in Oroville, Calif.

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Brazil cooks up transgenic bean : Nature News

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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Scott Pruitt Is Seen Cutting the E.P.A. With a Scalpel, Not a Cleaver

Myron Ebell, an internationally prominent climate-change denier who led Mr. Trump’s E.P.A. transition team, has recommended that the new administration slash the E.P.A.’s staff by two-thirds, to 5,000 from about 15,000. And the president has promised to “eliminate” former President Barack...

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'Superflares' likely made Proxima b uninhabitable long ago

The nearby alien planet Proxima b is not a great candidate to host life as we know it, a new study suggests.
Immensely powerful flares from Proxima b’s parent star likely stripped some of life’s key building blocks from the Earth-size alien world’s atmosphere long ago,...

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Hundreds of Pilot Whales Beach Themselves Again

Update: Feb. 11, 9:15 a.m. ET: This morning (Feb. 11), about 100 pilot whales were on the beach, and DOC staff didn’t know where the whales that had been re-floated yesterday ended up. They made another re-floating attempt at 11:30 a.m. local time, managing to re-float the remaining...

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People Are Loving The Results Of This Breast Milk Petri Dish Experiment

A U.K. mom of three is going viral after she shared a photo from her breast milk science experiment.


Vicky Greene is a first year biosciences student at South Devon College, and for a microbiology research project, she decided to examine the properties of breast milk based on the nursing...

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Photons are a drag on the Sun

Slowing down: the Sun as seen by the SDO
Sunlight is slowing the rotation of the Sun’s outermost layers by stealing its angular momentum. That is the claim of researchers in the US and Brazil who have studied acoustic waves oscillating through the Sun’s visible surface – the photosphere – to...

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Pancreatic cancer biomarker bolsters nanoparticle-based diagnostic | February 13, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 7

Arizona State University’s Ye (Tony) Hu and his colleagues have delivered what they hope will be a double dose of good news for detecting pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths because it often goes undetected in early stages, according to the...

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Green Comet 45P Captured by Slooh Telescopes

By Steve Spaleta |
February 11, 2017 08:05am ET


On Feb. 10, 2017, Slooh.com captured imagery of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakov. It will make a close approach on Feb. 11, passing just 7.4 million miles (12 million km) from Earth.



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Senate confirms Price to lead HHS | Science

Orthopedic surgeon Tom Price, a Republican congressman from Georgia, is President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the $1 trillion Department of Health and Human Services.

Paul Morigi






By Meredith WadmanFeb. 10, 2017 , 9:45 AM

Former Representative Tom Price (R–GA), a...

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Look Up! Astronomer Details Upcoming Trifecta Of Celestial Activity : NPR

First, go outside, then look up! There’s a trifecta of celestial activity Friday night, says astronomer Jackie Faherty, plus another sky watching tip.





ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
Forget Netflix tonight. The best show is outside, where there’s a trifecta of...

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Swedish statistician and 'edutainer' Hans Rosling dies | Reuters

By Johan Ahlander and Niklas Pollard
| STOCKHOLM


STOCKHOLM Swedish academic Hans Rosling, a doctor and statistician who captured a worldwide audience with his witty style and original thinking on topics like population growth and development, has died at the age of...

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Humans are ALIENS that originated from 'cosmic genes' that fell to Earth - shock claim | Science | News

Our DNA holds a “dark secret” which threatens to debunk all evolutionary and creationist theories sending scientists back to the drawing board.
All lifeforms on our planet came from distant stars by way of meteors, comets and showers of dust containing extra-terrestrial bacteria and...

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Study: Litter is a growing problem in the Arctic

Feb. 10 (UPI) — Marine scientists from Germany have been monitoring litter levels in the Arctic since 2002. They say the problem is getting worse.
Litter is identified in photographs taken by their Ocean Floor Observation System, OFOS, which includes 21 underwater observatory stations....

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Ultrasound Can Be Used To Age Liquor In Days Rather Than Years, Study Finds

It normally takes years for brandy to mature, but researchers claim to have found a novel way to cut the process down to just a few days.


The miracle ingredient? Ultrasound energy.


Researchers blasted distilled wine as it flowed through American oak chips, accelerating the release of...

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Cytoskeletons Direct Hydra Regeneration | The Scientist Magazine®

WIKIMEDIA, FRANK FOXLike their mythical namesakes, hydra are incredibly difficult to kill. Whether they’re sliced in half or shredded into pieces, the tiny freshwater animals usually manage to regenerate. Now, a February 7 study in Cell Reports pinpoints the mechanical action behind the...

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Lunar Eclipse and Green Comet Make for Busy Friday Night in the Sky

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A penumbral lunar eclipse, similar to this one seen from Manila in February 2009, will occur Friday night.

Credit
Bullit Marquez/Associated Press


Two celestial events will take place on Friday night: a...

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Galileo gets ready for take off : Nature News

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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EPA Staff Pulled From Alaska Summit After Trump Team Orders : NPR

The White House transition team told about half of the Environmental Protection Agency officials scheduled to attend an Alaska climate and environment conference to stay home. The EPA cites travel costs, but some of those kept away live right in Anchorage.





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Scientific challenges in the Arctic: Open water : Nature News

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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Guardians of a Vast Lake, and a Refuge for Humanity

Great Bear Lake in Canada is the first Unesco Biosphere Reserve led by an indigenous community. They guard it as if it were the last hope for humanity. They may have a point.

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

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Stargazers' delight: Lunar eclipse, comet, and 'Snow Moon' in one incredible night

Stargazers are in for a triple treat: Friday night will feature a type of lunar eclipse, the Full Snow Moon, and even a comet. 
You’ve likely heard of a “supermoon,” when the full moon appears brighter than usual because it’s closer to Earth. Friday night, something different will happen, in...

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Beetles Pose as an Ant's Butt to Grab a Ride

An ant that appears to have a double abdomen is actually carrying a disguised beetle hitchhiker.
Credit: D. Kronauer




How do you hitch a ride on an army ant? Try masquerading as an ant butt. At least, that’s the strategy...

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Continent's Oldest Male Asian Elephant Is Euthanized After TB Battle

A 54-year-old elephant named Packy, who was celebrated as the oldest male Asian elephant in North America, was euthanized on Thursday at Oregon Zoo after suffering from tuberculosis.


The zoo’s decision, which followed outcry from animal activists, came three years after Packy and two...

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Decaying atoms feel a tiny frictional force, say physicists

Atomic friction: tiny effect may never be measured


An excited atom decaying in a vacuum experiences a force very similar to friction, according to calculations done by physicists in the UK. At first sight, the result appears to violate Einstein’s equivalence principle. However, the...

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House renews EPA inquiry | February 8, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 7

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AAAS CEO Rush Holt spoke against lawmaker-led reforms to the scientific process at a Feb. 7 congressional hearing.
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Legislation targeting “secret science” at the Environmental Protection Agency could be...

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Commercial Group Endorses Use of Space Launch System

WASHINGTON — The Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) says it supports the continued development and use of NASA’s Space Launch System, a move that may help placate space policy tensions in the new administration.

In a speech opening the 20th Annual Commercial Space...

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Could this pollinating drone replace butterflies and bees? | Science

By Rachael LallensackFeb. 9, 2017 , 12:00 PM

Pollinators around the world are in trouble: A recent report puts 40% of the smallest ones—like butterflies and bees—at risk of extinction. Could miniature drones fill the gap? To find out, researchers ordered a small drone online and souped...

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Astronauts May Hold Football Passing Record : NPR

In new video shot on the International Space Station, NASA posed the question: How far can you throw a football in a zero-G environment? Astronaut Tim Kopra threw for 564,664 yards.





RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
Good morning. I’m Rachel Martin with news of an...

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Genetic study may make ancient Incas quinoa a grain of the future | Reuters

WASHINGTON Quinoa, the sacred “mother grain” of the ancient Inca civilization suppressed by Spanish conquistadors, could become an increasingly important food source in the future thanks to genetic secrets revealed in a new study.

Scientists on Wednesday said they have mapped...

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World's first nuclear test site helps researchers test moon-formation theories

Feb. 8 (UPI) — In 1945, researchers detonated the first nuclear bomb at a test site in the New Mexico desert. More than 70 years later, fragments of radioactive glass collected at the Trinity test site helped scientists test the validity of popular moon-formation theories.
The light...

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Forget asteroids... there’s MILLIONS of wandering black holes capable of swallowing Earth | Science | News

By analysing the gas motion of a cosmic cloud shooting through our galaxy at 100 kilometres per second, researchers discovered a black hole lurking inside.
Following the revelation, scientists believe there could be millions of these black holes wandering the galaxy.
Black holes are...

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La La Lab - Sacrifice And Success In Science

*This does contain spoiler alerts!*


If you haven’t been to see the glittering La La Land, it’s the epitome of Hollywood glamour, bursting full of jazz and whimsical musical storytelling, painted by an alluring love story.


For me, one of the captivating themes from La La...

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Toward Killing Cancer with Bacteria

WIKIMEDIA, VOLKER BRINKMANNA genetically manipulated version of the gastroenteritis-causing bacteria Salmonella typhimurium is a potent destroyer of mouse tumors, according to a report published today (February 8) in Science Translational Medicine. The paper adds to a growing body of...

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Meteor Puts on a Light Show Over Midwest, and for the Cameras

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Meteor Caught on Dashcam Video


A meteor flying across the Midwest was captured by a police cruiser’s video camera in Lisle, Ill., near Chicago.

By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish...

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Climate researchers warn of data crisis : Nature News

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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From Measles To Syphilis, The Golden Age Of Germs : Goats and Soda : NPR

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What Causes Pandemics? We Do
If you think there are more disease outbreaks than ever, that’s because there are. The number of new viruses detected in a decade has...

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Redrawing the Arctic map: The new north : Nature News

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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No Data Manipulation in 2015 Climate Study, Researchers Say

After Mr. Rose’s article was published, the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology and its chairman, Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas, wrote about it on Twitter.



.@NOAA obstructed the committee’s oversight at every turn. Now we know what they...

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She was one of George Washington's slaves, until she managed to escape

It appears the world is about to get familiar with the fascinating story of Oney Judge. As the New York Times explains, Judge (also known as Ona) was one of George Washington’s slaves until she managed to escape.
The president took this as a personal affront—he huffed at her...

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Grave Belonging to 'Warrior of High Status' Uncovered

Archaeologists found several grave goods within the Viking burial, including a sword (top), mineralized textile remains (lower right) and a detail of the decoration after conservation (bottom left).
Credit: Pieta Greaves/AOC Archaeology
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Why 1 Billion People In Poor Countries Are Sick With 'Horror Movie Diseases'

This article is part of HuffPost’s Project Zero campaign, a yearlong series on neglected tropical diseases and efforts to fight them.


Over one billion people around the world suffer from neglected tropical diseases, a group of illnesses that tend to strike marginalized communities in the...

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‘Atomtronic’ battery made from Bose-Einstein condensate

Fully charged: the atomtronic battery in action
A battery-like device that supplies a current of ultracold atoms has been created by physicists at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Their “atomtronic” battery is based on a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and could be used to supply...

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Tracing the chemistry of household dust | February 7, 2017 Issue - Vol. 95 Issue 7

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House dust gathers toxic chemicals and is a source of exposure to these compounds.
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As sure as the sun rises, houses collect dust. It gathers on our knickknacks and dirties the carpets. More than just dirt, house dust is...

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Astronaut 'Sloshes' Fluids In Space For Experiment

By Steve Spaleta |
February 7, 2017 12:59pm ET


How fluids move without gravity is being studied in the SPHERES-Slosh experiment on the International Space Station . To verify some results, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet was asked to slosh some liquid in transparent...

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Updated: USDA responds to outcry over removal of animal welfare documents, lawsuit threats | Science

The U.S. Department of Agriculture inspects research facilities that use animals, such as this rabbit.

NiDerLander/iStockphoto






By Meredith WadmanFeb. 7, 2017 , 12:15 PM

*Update, 7 February, 12:15 p.m.: The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a statement this morning...

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Huge, Green Fireball Streaks Across Midwest Sky : The Two-Way : NPR

Dashcam video from the Lisle Police Department in Lisle, Ill., captured images of a meteor as it streaked over Lake Michigan early Monday morning.

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Exclusive: SpaceX to hit fastest launch pace with new Florida site

By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space Exploration Technologies Corp, better known as SpaceX, plans to launch its Falcon 9 rockets every two to three weeks, its fastest rate since starting launches in 2010, once a new launch pad is put into...

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Study details ancient earthworks construction in the Amazon

Feb. 6 (UPI) — Scientists have discovered more than 450 earthworks in the western Brazilian Amazon. The large geometrical geoglyphs in the Brazilian state of Acre were constructed by indigenous people more two thousand years ago, prior to the arrival of European people.
For most of...

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Tonight your brain will shrink by 20 per cent | Science | News

Sleep, the activity we spend one third of our lives doing, has been found to provide a time when the brain’s synapses rest and prepare for the next day so they can be strong and receive new input. 
This reset of the brain in known as “synaptic homeostatsis” and is needed so brains do not...

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Radiation In Fukushima Is Now At 'Unimaginable' Levels

Radiation levels have been detected at the crippled Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant that are being described by some experts as “unimaginable”.


According to the Japan Times Tepco, the company that ran Fukushima, detected atmospheric radiation levels of 530 sieverts an hour.



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Q&A: William Happer, Possible Science Advisor to the President

WIKIMEDIA, GAGE SKIDMOREA Princeton physicist who has been vocal about his belief that human activity is not contributing significantly to climate change last month met with then-President–elect Donald Trump to discuss, among other things, potentially assuming the role of Director of the...

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Venus Smiled, With a Mysterious Wave Across Its Atmosphere

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A bow-shape feature stretched across much of Venus’s atmosphere in December 2015. Scientists from Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft mission called it a gravity wave.


For a few days, Venus smiled — sideways.
When Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft pulled into...

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Astronomers gear up for asteroid fly-by : Nature News

An unusually close near-Earth asteroid gets observers excited.

About to get a whole lot clearer — a radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55 taken in 2010.NASA/Cornell/Arecibo
Marshalling everything from major radar facilities to backyard telescopes, astronomers are gearing up for a fantastic view...

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Tracking Marauding Pigs Goes High-Tech, Tracing DNA From Mud Puddles : The Salt : NPR

This wild hog from Hawaii was raised at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins, Colo. Feral pigs in the wild tend to eat anything containing a calorie — from rows of corn to sea turtle eggs, to baby deer and goats.

...

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Seven billion and counting : Nature News

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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A Remote Canadian Lake and Its People: Protecting a Last Refuge

In response, Mr. Neyelle told me the water-heart story, about a Sahtuto’ine ancestor who lived around Great Bear Lake, in an area called Caribou Point. One day the fisherman set out four hooks. When the fisherman returned to check on them, a lake trout had broken one of the lines and taken...

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Study questions how Mars could have supported different water sources

The early Martian atmosphere likely didn’t contain enough carbon dioxide to keep the planet warm enough for liquid water, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists.
New findings further complicate the mystery of how the chilly planet could have once been home to...

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Could the Human Body Be Trained to Fight Cancer?

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

The human immune system is powerful and complex. 

It can identify and destroy invaders of nearly infinite variety, yet spare...

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Fat Shaming Can Literally Break Your Heart

When it comes to the way people stigmatize different body shapes and sizes, words can hurt more than just your feelings. New research suggests they may have real health consequences.


People who reported feeling diminished by negative stereotypes about their weight were three times more...

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Heat-gated transistor could boost medical imaging

Hot topic: Linköping’s Dan Zhao and Xavier Crispin discuss the transistor
A heat-gated transistor in which an electric current can be modulated by changing the temperature of the gate electrode has been developed by researchers in Sweden. The device combines two developing scientific...

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