Former journalist Graham Hancock suggests a huge chunk of flaming rock up to 30kms wide, hidden in a comet stream, could hit Earth with devastating effects in just 13 years.Mr Hancock, a former east Africa correspondent for the Economist, publishes the theory in his latest book Magicians of...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Comet 'bigger than dinosaur killer could destroy Earth by 2030, says author Graham Hancock | Science | News
Behavior Brief | The Scientist Magazine®
An ant carrying an injured ant homeERIK FRANK
The Matabele ant (Megaponera analis) hunts by attacking termite-foraging sites in groups of around 200 to 500. These raids are often brutal: the termites will fight back, tearing limbs and handicapping attackers by clinging tightly to their...
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Court Gives Trump Small Victory in Push Against Clean Power Plan
Had the court rejected Mr. Trump’s request and upheld the Clean Power Plan, it would have made it far more difficult for Mr. Pruitt to roll back the rule.
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Friday, April 28, 2017
SEX ROBOTS UNVEILED: Race on for AI dolls who will change sex industry | Science | News
Twitter/ Abyss Creations
Harmony is among the most realistic robots on the market by Abyss Creations
The stunningly real sex bots, are a part of a growing £20billion industry aimed at pushing the boundaries to create dolls who are just like real women.
But the dolls are not...
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Zika Virus Persists in the Nervous System and Elsewhere
WIKIMEDIA, NIAIDWhen the immune system has eliminated the last traces of Zika virus from the blood, low-level infection may continue at certain sites around the body. A study published in Cell today (April 27) reveals that the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is one such sanctuary, which, if also...
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Philippines Moves to Shut Mines Accused of Polluting
On Feb. 14, she followed up by canceling 75 contracts to develop new mines, in what she called a “gift of love” for the Filipino people.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
LIFE IN SPACE: China and Europe to build collaborative MOON VILLAGE | Science | News
The European Space Agency (ESA) and China’s space exploration arm China National Space Administration have held talks in regards to building a moon-base, a spokesperson for the ESA confirmed.
The secretary general for China’s space agency, Tian Yulong, told the east-Asian country’s...
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March for Science: Dispatches from Berlin
March for Science, Berlin, Germany April 22, 2017DIANA KWONThe sun began to peak through the clouds on a rainy day in Berlin as marchers gathered in the courtyard of Humboldt University, one of the cities’ oldest academic institutions. As pre-march speakers took to the stage, what started...
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As Rising Seas Erode Shorelines, Tasmania Shows What Can Be Lost
Over the long term, the rise of the sea appears to be accelerating because of runaway growth in greenhouse emissions, and scientists fear much bigger effects this century, perhaps so large they could ultimately force the abandonment of entire coastlines.
Though awareness of the risk to...
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Monday, April 24, 2017
Scientists use tiny 'cages' to protect vaccines from high temperatures
April 24 (UPI) — Vaccines, antibodies and other types of vital medications could soon be more effectively transported to underserved populations in remote and dangerous regions thanks to researchers at the University of Bath.
Scientists at Bath have created tiny silica...
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MONSTER asteroid 1999 AN10 could destroy a COUNTRY and WILL skim the Earth, says NASA | Science | News
Experts have known about the dangerous space rock since it was discovered in 1999.
Named 1999 AN10 after its discovery date, and the asteroid is being monitored because of an upcoming close pass in just over a decade on August 7, 2027.
Last Wednesday the 0.8-mile asteroid 2014 JO25 passed us...
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Will The March For Science Increase Public Support For Science?
The upcoming March for Science looks set to generate an international public discourse on the role of science in society, making this a unique opportunity to communicate a message about the value of science that will be seen and heard by millions of people. As an organisation Climate...
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March for Science: Dispatches from Chicago
Between the shore of Lake Michigan and the skyline of downtown Chicago, thousands of science supporters gathered for the March for Science. Stretching down Columbus Drive, the crowd was silent during speeches before the planned procession, except for intermittent chants of,...
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Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites
In the past, NASA has built and operated climate satellites and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has operated weather satellites. While there is some overlap, weather satellites focus on basics like clouds, winds, temperatures and moisture to provide information for...
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Astronaut Peggy Whitson Sets New NASA Record For Most Days In Space : The Two-Way : NPR
Astronaut Peggy Whitson became NASA’s astronaut with the most time in orbit Monday. She’s seen here earlier this year in the Quest airlock of the International Space Station with fellow astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Indonesian hobbit evolved from African ancestor
April 21 (UPI) — New analysis of the remains of Flores man — the most complete Homo floresiensis specimen — suggests the Indonesian “hobbits” evolved from an African relative, not from Homo erectus.
Homo erectus is the only other hominid species found on the...
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NASA releases stunning view of Earth… all the way from Saturn | Science | News
NASA’s Cassini space craft has sent back an image of Earth from 1.4 billion kilometres away.
The space agency posted a photo to its Twitter of what looks like a bright star in the distance, in-between the famous rings of Saturn.
NASA wrote alongside the photograph: “See that dot between...
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March For Science. Why? Because A General Election Gives UK Scientists A Real Chance To Make Their Voices Heard
This Saturday millions of people around the world will come together to be part of the March for Science. Devised in the US in response to the new President’s policies towards climate change and cuts to science funding, the movement quickly spread to over 500 cities around the world....
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March for Science: Dispatches from Washington, DC
The Scientist's Bob Grant and Tracy Vence are in the nation's capitol, covering the demonstration designed to celebrate the research enterprise and advocate for evidence-based policymaking.
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Trillions of Plastic Bits, Swept Up by Current, Are Littering Arctic Waters
The scientists sampled floating plastic debris from 42 sites in the Arctic Ocean aboard Tara, a research vessel that completed a trip around the North Pole from June to October 2013, with data from two additional sites from a previous trip. They scooped up plastic debris and determined the...
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Lyrid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight : The Two-Way : NPR
This long-exposure photograph taken on April 23, 2015, on Earth Day, shows Lyrids meteors shower passing near the Milky Way in the clear night sky of Thanlyin, Myanmar.
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Thursday, April 20, 2017
U.S.-Russian crew reaches space station with one empty seat | Reuters
By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A scaled-down, two-man U.S.-Russian crew arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, six hours after blasting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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Ideal habitable world would be mostly ocean, model suggests
April 20 (UPI) — An exoplanet made up of mostly oceans would offer astronomers the greatest chance of finding alien life, according to a new model developed by Fergus Simpson.
Simpson, a researcher at the University of Barcelona’s Institute of Cosmos Sciences, used Bayesian...
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ICEBERG FEARS: HUGE crack appears on massive Greenland glacier | Science | News
A giant crack has spread across the Petermann Glacier in Greenland which could release a massive iceberg into the Arctic Sea.
What has worried scientists is that the crack has formed almost across the centre of the glacier, whereas usually only small chunks fall off.
In spite of the fact...
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Constantly Craving A Net Fix: When Our Kids Can't Stop Swiping
‘I’ll have a dopamine chaser, please. With ice and a slice. Oh, actually, make that a double’. If you’re aware of the brain’s bio-chemical brilliance, you’ll know that dopamine is the ‘reward’ hormone. A kind of chemical ‘well done you...
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Does Farming Drive Fish Disease?
Salmon farm in western NorwayADÈLE MENNERATFish farming is one of the fastest growing food production sectors in the world, but infections caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites cost the industry billions of dollars in worldwide losses each year. Now, emerging research suggests that...
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Asteroid Misses Earth Narrowly, by Cosmic Standards
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A computer-generated image depicts the flyby of asteroid 2014 JO25, which didn’t hit the Earth, but NASA is preparing for one that might.
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Yosemite Rangers Use Technology To Save Bears From Cars
Speeding cars have become the biggest threat for bears in Yosemite. But rangers hope tracking tools, like the website where the public can track bears, will help keep both humans and bears safe.
(Image credit: Yosemite National Park via AP)
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Why the Menace of Mosquitoes Will Only Get Worse
That Dallas’s unusual weather favored the growth of mosquitoes might seem like random bad luck. But Haley doesn’t think of it as an accident. He considers it a warning. Climate change is turning abnormal weather into a common occurrence: Last year was the warmest year on record, the third in...
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Atlas V rocket poised for Space Station cargo run today
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An Orbital ATK cargo ship bound for the International Space Station is poised for liftoff Tuesday aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.
ULA’s 71st Atlas V rocket is scheduled for launch at 11:11 a.m. EDT (1411 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Air Force...
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An Asteroid Is Swinging By Earth Today For Its Closest Visit In 400 Years : The Two-Way : NPR
This composite of 30 images of asteroid 2014 JO25 was generated with radar data collected using NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar in California’s Mojave Desert.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
UK-based start-up hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls | Reuters
By Matthew J. Stock
| LONDON
LONDON Small transparent spheres filled with natural or flavored water could help provide a solution to London’s plastic waste problem, according to the start-up company based in the British capital that manufactures them.
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Ceres landslides reveal patches of hidden ice
April 18 (UPI) — The evidence of water ice on Ceres continues to mount. Scientists say newly discovered landslides on the dwarf planet offer further proof that significant amounts of ice are hiding just beneath Ceres’ surface.
Using images captured by NASA’s Dawn...
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REVEALED: Are experts about to PROVE the existence of Jesus Christ? | Science | News
A pastor from Los Angeles and a geneticist from Oxford University have teamed up to determine once and for all if Jesus was a real person and, if so, of divine origin.
Scientist George Busby and Pastor Joe Basile, who is also a biblical scholar, have embarked on a journey to find DNA traces...
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Drone Captures Spectacular Volcanic Eruption In Slow Motion
The dramatic moment a Guatemalan volcano blew its top has been captured by a drone in the midst of the eruption.
The spectacular footage was filmed earlier this year as the remote vehicle harvested fresh data about the Volcan de Fuego.
The volcano erupts every month and threatens the...
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Gut Microbes Contribute to Age-Associated Inflammation in Mice
Using young and old germ-free and conventional mice, the authors demonstrated that age-related microbiota changes drive intestinal permeability, age-associated inflammation, and decreased macrophage function. Reducing TNF levels rescued microbiota changes and protected old mice from...
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‘Genius’ Unravels the Mysteries of Einstein’s Universe
Frustrated, she declares that he might know a lot about the universe, but nothing about people.
If your image of Albert Einstein is the sockless frizzy-haired wizard who wandered the streets of Princeton, you might be taken aback to first encounter the great wizard with his pants down. But...
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In The Rockies, Climate Change Spells Trouble For Cutthroat Trout : The Two-Way : NPR
Native westslope cutthroat trout swim in the north fork of the Flathead River in northwestern Montana. However, cutthroat trout populations are threatened by hybridization from mating with rainbow trout.
Jonny Armstrong/USGS
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Climate Change Reroutes a Yukon River in a Geological Instant
The impacts of climate change, like sea level rise or the shrinkage of a major glacier, are generally measured over decades, not months as in this case. “It’s not something you could see if you were just standing on the beach for a couple of months,” Professor Shugar said.
The researchers...
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Archaeologists find 1,000 statues in tomb in Egypt's Luxor
CAIRO – Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered more than 1,000 statues and 10 sarcophagi in an ancient noble’s tomb on the west bank of the Nile River in Luxor.
The Antiquities Ministry said Tuesday that the tomb was built for a judge during the New Kingdom period, from roughly 1,500...
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Russia To Send Gun-Toting Humanoid Into Space : NPR
Russia’s space-bound robot FEDOR, Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research, is being trained to shoot guns from both of its hands. An official says the robot is not a real-life Terminator.
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Sunday, April 16, 2017
UK-based start-up hopes to cut plastic waste with innovative water balls | Reuters
By Matthew J. Stock
| LONDON
LONDON Small transparent spheres filled with natural or flavored water could help provide a solution to London’s plastic waste problem, according to the start-up company based in the British capital that manufactures them.
With...
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Sketching can help students learn, research shows
April 14 (UPI) — Researchers at the University of Northwestern think sketching exercises are underutilized in school classrooms.
Sketching can help students process and absorb information, studies show, but drawing exercises can be difficult for teachers to monitor and...
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Saturn spaceship Cassini to be DESTROYED on final mission | Science | News
After 20 years in orbit, NASA scientists are preparing the Cassini spacecraft for the “Grand Finale” – a spectacular, one-way trip into Saturn’s atmosphere.
It will circle inside the rings of Saturn for five months, a total of 22 ‘fly bys’, gathering data...
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NASA: Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets In Twin Star Systems Could Support Conditions For Life
Double rainbows and double sunsets are among the spectacular features that would welcome a visitor to a planet with two suns.
Now NASA has offered another reason to investigate the so-called Tatooine worlds, which are named after Anakin Skywalker’s home in Star Wars.
In the right...
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CRISPR Corrects Duchenne-Causing Mutations | The Scientist Magazine®
Cardiomyocytes from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) corrected by CRISPR-Cpf1 reframing during stemness (right) show restored dystrophin expression (red), compared to uncorrected cells (left). SCIENCE ADVANCES, Y. ZHANG ET AL. Researchers have been studying the CRISPR-Cas9...
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Life on Mars: Get to Know the Crew
Six people are living in isolation for eight months on a volcano in Hawaii as part of a study to simulate human exploration of Mars. In the second episode of this 360-video series, we find out how they are settling in — and how they clean the toilet.
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Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas : The Salt : NPR
Allie Wist’s “Flooded” dinner spread includes burdock and dandelion root hummus with sunchoke chips; jellyfish salad; roasted hen of the woods mushroom; fried potatoes with chipotle vegan mayo; salted anchovies; and oysters with slippers. Most of...
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Scott Pruitt Faces Anger From Right Over E.P.A. Finding He Won’t Fight
“If you get rid of the endangerment finding, the rest of the climate regulations just sweep themselves away. But if they don’t get rid of it, the environmentalists can sue, and then there’s going to have to be a Trump Clean Power Plan,” said Mr. Milloy, who is also a former policy director...
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Big, shiny asteroid to fly (safely) past Earth on April 19
A whopper of an asteroid will make a close approach to Earth on April 19. There’s no need to panic, though; NASA says it won’t collide with our planet. But it will get extremely close for an asteroid of that size.
Named 2014 JO25, this giant space rock measures approximately...
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Friday, April 14, 2017
Migrating fish leave behind a trail of DNA
April 14 (UPI) — Wherever fish go, they leave behind traces of DNA. As new research shows, scientists can track fish migrations by following their trail of DNA.
Researchers at Rockefeller University sequenced DNA from water samples collected daily in New York’s East and Hudson...
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Is this proof dinosaurs lived with HUMANS? Creationist claims REAL truth COVERED UP | Science | News
Ken Ham, founder of Creation Museum in Kentucky, United States, has put the supposed evidence on display at his centre.
Standard scientific evidence shows dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago following an asteroid colliding with Earth, which eventually led to the giant reptiles’...
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Four Signs You Have High Emotional Intelligence
Jose M. Mestre, University of Cadiz and Kimberly A. Barchard, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Emotional intelligence can mean the difference between behaving in a socially acceptable way and being considered to be way out of line. While most people will have heard of emotional intelligence,...
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CRISPR-Based Nucleic Acid Test Debuts
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A CRISPR-based diagnostic tool can detect pathogens, identify cancerous mutations, and genotype human DNA, researchers reported today (April 13) in Science.
“This project is the culmination of a lot of work we’ve been doing in the lab,” study coauthor Omar Abudayyeh,...
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Plumes From Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Hint That It Could Support Life
Cassini’s findings also show that levels of carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane measured in the Enceladus plume were out of equilibrium, an imbalance that could provide an energy source that organisms could tap into for food, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal...
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A New Approach To Helping Men Of Color Heal After A Violent Incident : Code Switch : NPR
To figure out the best ways to help young black and Latino men heal, a nonprofit will train young men in New York City to conduct interviews with other young men of color.
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It’s Like It Never Left: Another El Niño May Be on the Way
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Flooding in Asunción, Paraguay, brought on by the strong El Niño in 2016.
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Less than a year after one of the strongest El Niños on record, forecasters...
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Metal detected in Mars' atmosphere
Mars has metal in its air.
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter has spotted iron, magnesium and sodium ions — electrically charged atoms — high up in the Red Planet’s atmosphere over the past two years, a new study reports.
“MAVEN has made the first...
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Scientists Find Signs That Saturn's Moon Enceladus Might Be Hospitable To Life : The Two-Way : NPR
New NASA evidence suggests that there’s a chemical reaction taking place under the moon’s icy surface that could provide conditions for life.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Japan automakers look to robots to keep elderly on the move | Reuters
TOKYO Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move.
Toyota Motor Corp said it saw the possibility of becoming a mass producer of robots to...
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Fungus uses light to invade, attack wheat plants
April 12 (UPI) — The fungus Parastagonospora nodorum has forged a deadly partnership with sunlight, and wheat plants are paying the price.
According to scientists at the University of Western Australia, Parastagonospora nodorum produces an herbicide compound called elsinochrome which...
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SPACE WARNING: Debris ready to EXPLODE like GRENADES above Earth | Science | News
It is believed some 7,000 tonnes of space junk circle our planet, as defunct satellites, junk from rockets and other metals and rocks build up close to Earth, which the ESA has warned could cause a problem for other satellites and even astronauts.
And if two pieces of kit collide – or worse...
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Understanding Why The Human Face Is The Way It Is
What is the face of an animal for? In biological terms, what is the “function” of the animal’s face? The answer is not immediately obvious, as it is for other parts of the body, for example, the heart (pumping blood) or the lungs (breathing). Initially, it is easier to...
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Scientists Identify More-Precise Neural Correlates of Dreaming
“The Dream,” Pablo Picasso, 1932FLICKR, NICHODESIGNNeuroscientists have long associated rapid eye movement (REM) sleep—the sleep stage that occurs before waking—with dreaming, and non-REM sleep with dreamlessness. These generalizations are not fully accurate, however; study participants...
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‘Godspeed, John Glenn’ - The New York Times
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A Forgotten Piece Of African-American History In The Former Town Of Dearfield On The Great Plains : The Salt : NPR
What remains of the home of O.T. Jackson, the founder of Dearfield, Colo., sits on the town site in rural Weld County.
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Trilobites: An Ice Scientist’s Worst Nightmare
A storage freezer in the Canadian Ice Core Archive failed this month, resulting in the loss of millennia-old samples gathered from around the Canadian Arctic.
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'Pink Moon' will be visible tonight - but it won't be pink
The so-called “Pink Moon” has arrived this week, but if you spot it in the sky, you’re eyes won’t be deceiving you — it won’t look pink.
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Top U.S. Scientists Advise On Ways To Foster Research Integrity : Shots
The new report from leading U.S. scientists shines a spotlight on how the research enterprise as a whole creates incentives that can be detrimental to good research.
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Monday, April 10, 2017
U.S., Russian crew lands after six-month stay on space station | Reuters
By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts made a parachute landing in Kazakhstan on Monday, wrapping up a nearly six-month mission aboard the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
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Scientists look for life's building blocks in outer space
April 10 (UPI) — Scientists have long theorized comets delivered key ingredients for life on Earth. Scientists in Germany are currently testing the theory.
Researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum are replicating the conditions of outer space to test whether cometary chemical reactions...
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Pink Moon 2017: Is the April full moon pink? | Science | News
When is the April Pink Moon?
The Pink Moon will reach its peak on Tuesday April 11 but you may also be able to spot the the nearly full moon tonight.
Astronomers should be able to spot the the Pink Moon before it reaches its fullest phase at 7.08am BST as dawn breaks on Tuesday.
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My Job Means I Can Be Many Things - Does Yours?
Last month, it was fantastic to read about the finalists of the Global Teacher Prize. What a wonderful set of individuals doing amazing things around the world! It also shows how varied the job of a teacher can be, and how you can make your approach, lessons and style your own.
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Online Platform Aims to Facilitate Replication Studies
PIXNIOStudySwap, a platform hosted on the Center for Open Science’s Open Science Framework site, enables users to post their research “haves” and “needs,” with the goal of helping scientists exchange resources and find suitable collaborators for replication studies. After launching in beta...
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Meteorite Finder Fights China’s (Mostly Terrestrial) Property Law
But the case is also unique, experts say, because it exposes what is essentially a legal black hole: Chinese statutes do not clearly indicate who owns property with intergalactic characteristics.
“We’re left with a blank, a vacuum, in Chinese law, with no definition of natural resources and...
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The Creamy, Sculpted Dunes Of White Sands National Monument : NPR
Landscape of White Sands National Monument in southern New Mexico.
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South African Court Ends Ban on Sale of Rhinoceros Horns
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A veterinarian and ranch workers helping to raise a sedated rhino after it was dehorned northwest of Johannesburg in an attempt to prevent poaching. An order effectively overturning a national ban on the trade of rhino horns appeared to have been issued in late March, but...
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Indiana roller-coaster weather tweet goes viral
What’s the forecast in Indiana for the week? A little bit of everything, per usual.
VIRAL PHOTO: SC GIRL DEFENDS HER CHOICE OF DOLL, ‘SHE’S A DOCTOR LIKE I’M A DOCTOR’
Ball State University student Hannah Sauer captured the crazy forecast in a single screenshot and...
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Saturday, April 8, 2017
Air Force space chief open to flying on recycled SpaceX rockets | Reuters
By Irene Klotz
| COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. The U.S. Air Force is open to buying rides on previously flown SpaceX rockets to put military satellites into orbit, a move expected to cut launch costs for the Pentagon, the head of the Air Force...
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World's oldest dental fillings found in Italy
April 7 (UPI) — Researchers have discovered ancient dental fillings in northern Italy, the world’s oldest. The fillings were found inside a pair of 13,000-year-old front teeth. They were made of bitumen, a semi-solid form of petroleum.
Each of the two teeth feature large...
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Scientists discover 'beautiful' secret of how memories are made | Science | News
They were surprised to find the brain makes two copies of every event – one for the present and the other for the long-term.
Experts say the findings from the Riken-MIT Centre for Neural Circuit Genetics in the US along with a team from Japan were “beautiful and convincing.”
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Hubble Has Captured A Stunning Close-Up Portrait Of Jupiter
Astronomers seized the opportunity to capture a stunning portrait of Jupiter as it made its closest approach to Earth in a year.
The image was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope at a distance of 415 million and presents the Great Red Spot in striking detail.
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Keeping the Blood Supply Zika-Free
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After cases of mosquito-borne Zika virus infection were first announced in Florida last summer, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required that certain blood donation centers implement screening for the virus. Health officials were concerned that patients...
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Photos of Jupiter From NASA Spacecraft, Both Near and Far
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For People With Celiac Disease, A Common Virus May Be The Trigger : The Salt : NPR
For people with celiac disease gluten-free food is a must. A new study suggests that a common virus may trigger the onset of the disease.
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The Mucus-Shooting Worm-Snail That Turned Up in the Florida Keys
It’s bright orange and yellow and about as long as your finger. It lives underwater in a limestone tube with an opening at the tip about as wide as a pencil eraser. It glues its home to hard surfaces and stays for the rest of its life. It’s a species of worm-snail that may never have been...
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Egypt just found another ancient pyramid
An excavation team in Egypt has found what appears to be the interior of a buried pyramid dating back 3,700 years to the 13th dynasty. The antiquities ministry says that both a corridor and a block engraved with 10 lines of hieroglyphics are in good condition, reports the BBC, and the team...
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Thursday, April 6, 2017
How artificial life spawned a billion-dollar industry | Reuters
By Ben Hirschler
| LONDON
LONDON Scientists are getting closer to building life from scratch and technology pioneers are taking notice, with record sums moving into a field that could deliver novel drugs, materials, chemicals and even perfumes.
Despite ethical and...
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Citizen scientist photographs space station space debris from Earth
April 6 (UPI) — Marco Langbroek is a satellite tracker. But occasionally, his photographs spot chunks of space debris, too.
This week, Langbroek’s camera spotted an especially large piece of space debris — a massive thermal shield. The shield was mishandled by NASA...
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Science news - Artificial life could be created from scratch | Science | News
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Scientists are getting closer to creating artificial life from scratch
Technology pioneers are now taking notice, with record sums of money moving into a field which could deliver novel drugs, materials, chemicals and even perfumes.
Despite ethical and safety concerns,...
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A Driverless Bus Has Been Rolled Out In Greenwich
A bus shuttling passengers across Greenwich might not sound newsworthy, but this one’s a little different: its driver is a robot.
Resembling the pods that ferry passengers to and from airport terminals, the shuttle carries four people and travels at speeds of up to 10mph.
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Opinion: Why I Published in a Predatory Journal
MAX PIXELLast month I was invited to submit a paper to a dubious urology journal. I’m not a physician, much less a urologist. But I am an editor of scientific writing who has a strong antipathy for predatory journals. I’m also a Seinfeld fanatic.
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Jeff Bezos Says He Is Selling $1 Billion a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space
“If we can make access to space low-cost, then entrepreneurs will be unleashed,” he said. “You will see creativity, you will see dynamism, you will see the same thing in space that I’ve witnessed on the internet in the last 20 years.”
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Badger Burying A Cow Surprises Scientists : The Two-Way : NPR
Camera trap image of an American badger burying a calf carcass by itself in Utah’s Grassy Mountains, January 2016.
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Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Accelerating Plant Growth
The increase is due to the carbon dioxide that humans are putting into the atmosphere, which fertilizes the plants, Dr. Campbell said. The carbon in the extra plant growth amounts to a staggering 28 billion tons each year. For a sense of scale, that’s three times the carbon stored in all the...
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Why the English once chopped up their dead
We humans can be a superstitious lot, and scientists are revealing yet another example of the extremes we’ll go to in the fight to keep evil and danger at bay.
In this case, experts report in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports that human bones excavated in 1963 and 1964...
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NASA's Cassini Begins Its Final Mission Before Self-Destruction : NPR
NASA’s Cassini’s spacecraft will begin the final stages of its 20-year mission to Saturn before diving into the planet and ending its lengthy stretch orbiting the planet.
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In 1997, the spacecraft Cassini left Earth. And seven years later,...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017
SpaceX successfully launches first recycled rocket booster | Reuters
By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket recovered at sea from its maiden flight last year blasted off again from Florida on Thursday in the first successful launch of a recycled orbital-class booster, then capped the feat...
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People tend to believe those with mental illness are more dangerous than they really are
April 3 (UPI) — The general public tends to assume people diagnosed with mental illness are more dangerous than they actually are.
“We want to understand whether the stigma arises from noticing symptoms or from finding out that somebody has had psychiatric treatment,”...
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Lyrid meteor shower 2017: Date, time, how to watch the next meteor shower | Science | News
When is the Lyrid meteor shower 2017?
The Lyrid shower is an annual event that takes place between April 16 and April 25.
The shower will peak this year on the night of April 22, which is when there will be the highest concentration of meteors in the sky.
What are the Lyrids?
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Graphene Sieves Could Make Seawater Drinkable, Bringing Clean Water To Millions
Despite being just an atom thick, graphene is 200 times stronger than steel and a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Now the so-called miracle material can lay claim to another credential: the ability to turn seawater into drinking water.
Scientists at the University of...
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CRISPR Screen Detects Functional Gene Regulation
© BRYAN SATALINOMost DNA does not code for proteins. And figuring out how, when, and where this genomic “dark matter” plays a role in gene regulation is a huge undertaking. Now, scientists have developed a tool that could help. In a paper published today (April 3) in Nature Biotechnology,...
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What Happens to Spores in Space?
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Q. Are any microbes hardy enough to survive in outer space?
A. Experiments have found that many microbes survive and even thrive in a space-vessel environment. But most do much worse when exposed to some...
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Owl Baiting Causes Debate Among Wildlife Photographers : NPR
A group of photographers gathered to search and wait for a sighting of the great gray owl north of Two Harbors, Minn. The owl, often called the “Phantom of the North,” flew to within 20 yards and rested on a highway sign.
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Trump Lays Plans to Reverse Obama’s Climate Change Legacy
In an announcement that could come as soon as Thursday or as late as next month, according to people familiar with the White House’s planning, Mr. Trump will order Mr. Pruitt to withdraw and rewrite a set of Obama-era regulations known as the Clean Power Plan, according to a draft document...
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SpaceX's launch of used rocket is a 'huge revolution in spaceflight'
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Reboot, Reuse, ReLAUNCH!
The excitement, the eagerness and, in the end, the exuberance of the employees at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California was like the players on the field when they win the Super Bowl, going practically berserk with cheering and...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017
Extra portion of SpaceX rocket recovered from launch, Musk says | Reuters
By Irene Klotz
| CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday salvaged half of the $6 million nosecone of its rocket, in what the space entrepreneur deemed an important feat in the drive to recover more of its launch hardware and cut the...
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Considered extinct, Tasmanian tigers may be alive and kicking
March 31 (UPI) — Tasmanian Tigers once roamed Australia before the last captive thylacine died in 1936. Or so it was believed.
But they weren’t really tigers. And they might not be extinct.
Researchers from John Cook University have been inspired by recent eyewitness accounts to...
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Time travel IS possible – and THIS is how | Science | News
For centuries, scientists, philosophers and the public have been exploring the possibility of time travel.
A greater understanding of physics and the laws of the universe have allowed scientists to virtually reach the conclusion that time travel backwards is not realistic, but travelling...
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NASA Has Discovered How Mars Was Transformed Into A Barren Desert
Billions of years ago, Mars was awash with water and cloaked in an abundant atmosphere. It might even have supported life.
But over time, the Red Planet was transformed into a barren desert as its atmosphere was gradually stripped away.
Now scientists think they know why.
A new study...
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Experimental MERS Treatments Target Host Cell Receptor
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A virus component called spike glycoprotein (S) and a host cell receptor called dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4) are targets in researchers’ efforts to stop the spread of MERS, the Middle East respiratory syndrome, and possibly treat it....
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A Mysterious Flash From a Faraway Galaxy
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A mysterious flash of X-rays detected by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
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The Call-In: Answering Your Questions About Trump And Climate Change
President Trump has signed an executive order rolling back a number of climate change initiatives. This week, we answer listener questions about the Trump administration’s environmental policies.
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Planned Rollback of Climate Rules Unlikely to Achieve All Trump’s Goals
Yet, coal miners also should not assume their jobs will return if Trump’s regulations take effect.
The new order would mean that older coal plants that had been marked for closings would probably stay open, said Robert W. Godby, an energy economist at the University of Wyoming. That would...
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Archaeologists in Israel stunned by dolmen discovery
Archaeologists in the Upper Galilee region of Israel have uncovered a huge dolmen — a large flat stone that is laid upon upright ones, like a table top — that they say contradicts theories about the sophistication of civilization more than 4,000 years ago, during the “middle ages” of the...
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