Mining for answers on abandoned mines -- ScienceDaily

Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he’s working on is contaminated soils near abandoned mines.

In the western United States 160,000 abandoned mines contaminate soils in the region. Ippolito, associate professor of soil science at...

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Decoded genome may help Mojave Desert tortoise win race to survive -- ScienceDaily

Slow and steady wins the race.

While that may have been true in one of Aesop’s classic fables, the Mojave Desert tortoise may need to adapt more quickly than it has in decades past. The species is facing serious threats to its survival, from invasive plants to human-made changes in the...

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What a locust's nose taught engineers about monkeys' ears -- ScienceDaily

Is there an opposite for the smell of a rose? Is silence simply the absence of sound? The results of a recent study by a team of biomedical engineers in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis offer profound implications for how sensory...

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We're on the brink of mass extinction -- but there's still time to pull back -- ScienceDaily

Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your air tank behind you on a dive. Or a mountain climber and abandoning your ropes. Or a skydiver and shedding your parachute. That’s essentially what humans are doing as we expand our footprint on the planet without paying adequate attention to...

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Researchers closer to cracking neural code of love -- ScienceDaily

A team of neuroscientists from Emory University’s Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition has discovered a key connection between areas of the adult female prairie vole’s brain reward system that promotes the emergence of pair bonds. Results from this study, could...

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Bioimaging and security inks applications -- ScienceDaily

A gold compound shifts from a visible fluorescence to emitting infrared when ground — a big shift with potential applications in bioimaging and security inks.

Some materials luminesce, changing their color and intensity when under mechanical forces such as grinding or rubbing. These...

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Scientists uncover a cause for early 20th century Arctic warming -- ScienceDaily

Since the 1970s the northern polar region has warmed faster than global averages by a factor or two or more, in a process of ‘Arctic amplification’ which is linked to a drastic reduction in sea ice.
But then how to explain a similar rapid warming that occurred during the early...

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Which creates less carbon pollution? -- ScienceDaily

Delivering packages with drones can reduce carbon dioxide emissions in certain circumstances as compared to truck deliveries, a new study from University of Washington transportation engineers finds.

In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of Transportation Research Part D,...

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Life on Mars? Red Planet 'covered in water far longer than originally thought' | Science | News

Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds cracks and fissures in the surface suggests the red planet had liquid longer much longer than previously thought – because it left behind halo-like rings of silica.
The new finding is reported in a paper published today in Geophysical Research...

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Sensing insole for footstrike pattern detection in runners -- ScienceDaily

Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a mobile biofeedback device for footstrike pattern modification for injury prevention and rehabilitation in runners.

The annual injury risk for regular runners is up to 80%. It is largely related to how runner’s...

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Understanding T cell activation could lead to new vaccines -- ScienceDaily

Scientists could be one step closer to developing vaccines against viruses such as Zika, West Nile or HIV, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Most current vaccines work by stimulating a class of white blood cells called B cells to make antibodies that circulate and...

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Opinion: Address Taxonomic Skew | The Scientist Magazine®

Andrade’s lab studies some of the less celebrated subjects of animal behavior. Here, a Texas widow harlequin spiderKEN JONESAs researchers working to understand animal behavior, we have studied only a small subset of the more than 1.5 million described animal species. This is...

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A Creationist Wants Rocks to Study. The Grand Canyon Says No.

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Officials at the Grand Canyon are in a dispute with a geologist who is a creationist and wants rocks from the canyon to study.

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Harnessing energy from glass walls -- ScienceDaily

A Korean research team has developed semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could be great candidates for solar windows.

Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing...

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How dinosaurs may have evolved into birds -- ScienceDaily

Evolutionary biologists have suspected that anatomical differences within and between species are caused by cis-regulatory elements (CREs). CREs are regions of genome DNA that do not code for proteins, and control morphology and other traits by regulating genes.

The international group of...

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Declawing linked to aggression and other abnormal behaviors in cats -- ScienceDaily

Declaw surgery (onychectomy) is illegal in many countries but is still a surprisingly common practice in some. It is performed electively to stop cats from damaging furniture, or as a means of avoiding scratches. Previous research has focused on short-term issues following surgery, such as...

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'Heat island' effect could double climate change costs for world's cities -- ScienceDaily

Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the ‘urban heat island’ effect, new research shows.

The study by an international team of economists of all the world’s major cities is the first to quantify the...

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Visual brain predicts future events based on past experience -- ScienceDaily

For a long time, researchers thought of the visual cortex as a brain area that determines what you perceive based on information coming from the eyes. Neuroscientists from Radboud University now show that the area is also involved in the prediction of future events. Nature Communications...

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New method improves stability of perovskite quantum dots -- ScienceDaily

EPFL scientists have built a new type of inorganic nanocomposite that makes perovskite quantum dot exceptionally stable against air exposure, sunlight, heat, and water.

Quantum dots are nanometer-size, semiconducting materials whose tiny size gives them unique optical properties. Much effort...

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Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide -- ScienceDaily

That’s wind country. The blue band runs east from the Rockies to just south of the Great Lakes, then around Arkansas and down to south Texas. It shows where there’s potential capacity for wind turbines 80 meters (about 262 feet) above the ground. That height is the current...

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Are wolverines in the Arctic in the climate change crosshairs? -- ScienceDaily

Will reductions in Arctic snow cover make tundra-dwelling wolverines more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought?

That’s a question scientists hope an innovative method described in a new study co-authored by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) will help...

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Designer virus could KILL cancer by giving immune system boost | Science | News

Researchers at the University of Basel now hope the technique will soon be tested on human subjects after proving effective in mice. 
The study involved the introduction of cancer proteins to the designer virus, triggering an immune response which then makes it easier for the body to detect...

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Walls that impede animal movement may produce dramatic effects on populations -- ScienceDaily

With the prospect of a US-Mexico border wall looming, research and reporting on the ecological impacts of walls is both important and timely. Reporting in BioScience on such barriers’ known effects on wildlife, science journalist Lesley Evans Ogden describes the potential effects of the...

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Male Fish Borrows Egg to Clone Itself

Squalius alburnoidesISABEL CATALÃOResearchers in Portugal studying a rare type of hybrid fish in the Ocreza River have found an individual that is the exact genomic match to his father. While such androgenesis—the reproduction of a male with no female genetic component—occurs in some...

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Looking for Trump’s Climate Policy? Try the Energy Department

The agency’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, which has helped nudge down the cost of solar power, faces a 69 percent cut. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a program that funds research into long-shot energy technologies, like algae biofuels or advanced...

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Metals from Bolivian mines affect crops and pose potential health risk, study suggests -- ScienceDaily

A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the...

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Ancient genetic markers in sockeye salmon can help manage healthier fish stocks -- ScienceDaily

A recent study from UBC’s Okanagan campus identifies new genetic markers in sockeye salmon that can help improve management of fish populations.

The markers, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, are individual locations in the genome that, in this case, allow researchers to...

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Snakes, thought to be solitary eaters, coordinate hunts, study shows -- ScienceDaily

Snakes, although as social as birds and mammals, have long been thought to be solitary hunters and eaters. A new study from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, shows that some snakes coordinate their hunts to increase their chances of success.

Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant...

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Losing sleep over climate change -- ScienceDaily

Climate change may keep you awake — and not just metaphorically. Nights that are warmer than normal can harm human sleep, researchers show in a new paper, with the poor and elderly most affected. According to their findings, if climate change is not addressed, temperatures in 2050 could...

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Device reads brain signals, converts them into motion -- ScienceDaily

Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some control over their hands, according to a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

By mentally controlling the device with the help of a...

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Three-tiered structure of these impact-resistant shells could inspire better helmets, body armor -- ScienceDaily

The shells of marine organisms take a beating from impacts due to storms and tides, rocky shores, and sharp-toothed predators. But as recent research has demonstrated, one type of shell stands out above all the others in its toughness: the conch.

Now, researchers at MIT have explored the...

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South Sudan wildlife surviving civil war, but poaching and trafficking threats increase -- ScienceDaily

The first aerial assessment of the impact of South Sudan’s current civil war on the country’s wildlife and other natural resources shows that significant wildlife populations have so far survived, but poaching and commercial wildlife trafficking are increasing, as well as illegal...

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Future conditions not only stress marine creatures but also may throw off ocean carbon balance -- ScienceDaily

Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are underway, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

For the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists raised foraminifera — single-celled...

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JUPITER PICTURES: Dramatic images show Earth-sized cyclones | Science | News

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.
Juno found cyclones as big as 870 miles in diameter swirling...

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Government transparency limited when it comes to America's conserved private lands -- ScienceDaily

American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned lands. These lands provide public benefits like timber, water quality protection and food. Yet, information about conserved private lands — including where they are and what protections are in place...

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Researchers Discover Salt-Loving Methanogens | The Scientist Magazine®

A hypersaline salt lake in southeastern Siberia with halite crystal deposition; the red color is due to a high density of haloarchaea in the brines.DIMITRY SOROKINMany strains of archaea are capable of living in environments with high salt concentrations, and others are able to produce...

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Can the Paris Climate Deal Survive a Trump-Style Renegotiation?

One leading proponent of the renegotiation strategy has been Representative Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican and a Trump energy adviser during the campaign.


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Switching to off-peak delivery times reduced city congestion -- ScienceDaily

In some businesses — like supermarkets and restaurants — local restrictions on nighttime deliveries leave distributors no choice but to dispatch trucks during morning rush hours. But lifting these rules could reduce peak traffic volumes and increase transport efficiency, according...

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Nuclear spent fuel fire could force millions of people to relocate -- ScienceDaily

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis to justify its refusal to adopt a critical measure for protecting Americans from the occurrence of a catastrophic nuclear-waste fire at any one of dozens of reactor sites around the country, according to an article in the...

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Despite differences, mountain and savannah honey bees in East Africa are same sub-species -- ScienceDaily

Mountain-dwelling East African honey bees have distinct genetic variations compared to their savannah relatives that likely help them to survive at high altitudes, report Martin Hasselmann of the University of Hohenheim, Germany, Matthew Webster of Uppsala University, Sweden, and colleagues...

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Birds, bees and other critters have scruples, and for good reason -- ScienceDaily

Humans are not the only species to show a strong work ethic and scruples. UC Berkeley researchers have found evidence of conscientiousness in insects, reptiles, birds, fish and other critters.

In reviewing nearly 4,000 animal behavior studies, UC Berkeley psychologists Mikel Delgado and...

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Why the Sumatra earthquake was so severe -- ScienceDaily

An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of minerals deep below the ocean floor influenced the severity of the Sumatra earthquake, which took place on December 26, 2004.

The earthquake, measuring magnitude 9.2, and the subsequent tsunami, devastated...

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Brain images reveal roots of kids' increasing cognitive control -- ScienceDaily

As children age into adolescence and on into young adulthood, they show dramatic improvements in their ability to control impulses, stay organized, and make decisions. Those “executive functions” of the brain are key factors in determining outcomes, including educational success,...

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Scientists borrow from electronics to build circuits in living cells -- ScienceDaily

Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and arrive at an appropriate response.

Through billions of years of trial and error, evolution has arrived at a mode of information processing at the cellular level. In the microchips that run...

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The birth and death of a tectonic plate -- ScienceDaily

Several hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, a small tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca is slowly sliding under the North American continent. This subduction has created a collision zone with the potential to generate huge earthquakes and accompanying tsunamis, which happen when...

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Natural gas facilities with no carbon dioxide emissions -- ScienceDaily

How can we burn natural gas without releasing CO2 into the air? This feat is achieved using a special combustion method that TU Wien has been researching for years: chemical looping combustion (CLC). In this process, CO2 can be isolated during combustion without having to use any additional...

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Sea levels rising THREE times faster than in 1990 amid fears of vast land being SUBMERGED | Science | News

For years, scientists have warned that the pace of rising sea levels are going to accelerate, but it seems that the process is now well underway after new research found that they are rising at triple the pace of 1990 records.
Before 1990, sea levels were rising at just 1.1 millimetres per...

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Traffic-related air pollution linked to DNA damage in children -- ScienceDaily

Children and teens exposed to high levels of traffic-related air pollution have evidence of a specific type of DNA damage called telomere shortening, reports a study in the May Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Young people with asthma also have evidence of telomere...

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Opinion: Token Pharmacovigilance | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, GOROVITSEverything in science involves uncertainty. And for drugs and vaccines, “pharmacovigilance” helps researchers and patients navigate this uncertainty by gathering and processing information on the side effects of medical products in the post-marketing period. Clinical trials...

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For a Hotel Beekeeper, Honey Is Just the Beginning

I never intended to be a professional beekeeper, but for my birthday, my girlfriend at the time unexpectedly got me a beehive. She’s a talented organic farmer and built me a hive herself. I have a large property in downtown Tucson, and I grow as much of my own food as I can, but the one...

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Modified experimental vaccine protects monkeys from deadly malaria -- ScienceDaily

Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, modified an experimental malaria vaccine and showed that it completely protected four of eight monkeys that received it against challenge with the virulent Plasmodium...

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NASA calls EMERGENCY space walk after ISS equipment fails | Science | News

Astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer will take an impromptu walk on Tuesday, May 23, after being tasked with fixing a failed data relay box on the ISS’s exterior. 
NASA will be streaming the whole event, which you can watch live on Express.co.uk.
The event kicks off 1pm UK time.
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Triple play boosting value of renewable fuel could tip market in favor of biomass -- ScienceDaily

Technologies for converting non-edible biomass into chemicals and fuels traditionally made from petroleum exist aplenty. But when it comes to attracting commercial interest, these technologies compete financially with a petroleum-based production pipeline that has been perfected over the...

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Bacterial Photography Goes Technicolor | The Scientist Magazine®

FELIX MOSERMore than a decade ago, MIT researchers, led by biological engineer Christopher Voigt, engineered bacterial cultures to produce black-and-white photo negatives mirroring patterns of light projected onto the dish. Augmenting the cells to sense light and produce black pigment in...

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The Genetics of Pooched-Out Pooches

Raffan’s findings, published last year in the journal Cell Metabolism, suggest that roughly one-fifth of Labrador retrievers have the mutation she identified in their POMC gene, and that it is clearly associated with increased appetite and obesity. Exactly how this particular breed came to...

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Alien life to be discovered NEXT YEAR? James Webb Telescope ‘will change world forever' | Science | News

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is scheduled to take off next year and astronomers believe the super-powerful spier is experts’ best hope to date of finding life beyond Earth.
The JWST is the successor to the Hubble Telescope and is much more powerful.
The successor will be able...

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A Coral to Outlast Climate Change

Corals in the Gulf of AqabaEPFL / ITAMAR GRINBERG As global temperatures rise, coral bleaching events, in which ocean temperature hikes cause corals to expel their algal symbionts, are happening again and again (reefs worldwide are in the midst of one). Symbiont loss deprives the corals of...

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What Animals Taught Me About Being Human

By the time I was in my 30s, I thought I’d grown out of this habit. I had been a falconer for many years, which was a surprising education in emotional intelligence. It taught me to think clearly about the consequences of my actions, to understand the importance of positive reinforcement and...

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Laid to rest near the heavens: Company offers to send human ASHES into space | Science | News

A memorial spaceflight startup called Elysium Space announced earlier this week that it is offering people the chance to have their ashes sent into space.
The mission, known as Elysium Star II, will allow customers to have their loved one’s remains sent into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9...

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First In Vivo Human Genome Editing to Be Tested in New Clinical Trial

MEDICALGRAPHICS.DEResearchers have edited the human genome before, but always in cells outside the body. Now, biotech company Sangamo Therapeutics is recruiting participants for clinical trials in which patients with hemophilia B, Hurler syndrome, or Hunter syndrome will have the gene...

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A Strong Case Against a Pesticide Does Not Faze E.P.A. Under Trump

That study was one of many. Decades of research into the effects of chlorpyrifos strongly suggests that exposure at even low levels may threaten children. A few years ago, scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that it should be banned altogether.

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SpaceX successfully launches its heaviest satellite EVER into orbit | Science | News

SpaceX has been working tirelessly to create a line of reusable rockets, and after a few unsuccessful attempts, the revolutionary space travel firm succeeded in its goal this year.
However, the company opted out of landing its rockets this time as the load it was carrying was too...

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Science Celebrities: Where Are the Women?

EMILY CALANDRELLIAt the end of April, Netflix released the latest program to tap into the nostalgia of its largely millennial user base: Bill Nye Saves the World. Even before his new show aired, Nye had cemented his membership in a fraternity of science communicators that neatly package...

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The Mystery of the Wasting House-Cats

By the time Peterson met Sasha in the fall of 1978, the scrawny tuxedo cat was a regular at the Animal Medical Center in Manhattan. The 15-year-old had lost a profound amount of weight, despite a seemingly insatiable appetite. Her case stumped veterinarians, who had already ruled out many of...

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World will run out of food by 2050 thanks to population boom | Science | News

As the population continues to boom, humanity is slowly but surely running out of resources and by the middle of this century, there may be too many people to sustain.
Experts believe that the population will reach nine billion by the middle of the century, whereas the demand for food cannot...

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Fate of Rat’s Sex is Flexible

T. osimensis stem cells, originally derived from female rat cells, were found in both male and female rat-mouse chimeras.HONDA ET AL., SCI ADV, 3:E1602179, 2017In most mammals, females have two X chromosomes and males have one X and one Y. But both male and female Amami spiny rats...

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Tillerson, in Alaska, Gives No Hint on Paris Climate Accord

The question of whether to leave the Paris deal is the subject of much debate within the White House, with meetings between proponents of each side having been postponed several times. Mr. Tillerson has said he supports remaining in the agreement.

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'Warm Neptune’ Nasa discovers alien planet with signs of water and ‘primitive atmosphere’ | Science | News

The planet known as HAT-P-26b, which is a massive 437 light years from Earth, has been referred to as a “warm Neptune” due to it having a similar mass to the one in our solar system.
But the planet sits much closer to its host star.
What stunned researchers is that the planet’s atmosphere is...

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Opinion: The Frustrating Process of Manuscript Submission

© BRYAN SATALINOIn October 1676, when Antoni van Leeuwenhoek wanted to tell the world about his discovery of protists and bacteria, he simply sent a letter—in low Dutch—to Henry Oldenburg who was editor of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Oldenburg translated...

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A Photo From Space Shows Belgium Shining Bright, and Social Media Lights Up

PARIS — Suspended 250 miles above Earth on Tuesday evening, Thomas Pesquet looked down on Europe. Through a little window he saw a dark blue continent, sparkling with golden stars and the aurora borealis in the background. He could pick out most of the cities by their lights.
“In the front...

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Lava lake seen on Jupiter's moon Io in incredible new images | Science | News

Pictures were captured by ground-based telescopes, providing an exceptionally detailed map of the most volcanically active place in the solar system.
The breakthrough was possible thanks to an ‘occultation’ – a rare astronomical event similar to an eclipse where the larger...

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Opinion: Get to Know Why People Openly Share Genomic Data

ISTOCK, MA_RISHIn 2007, 54 years after his ground-breaking co-discovery of the structure of DNA, Nobel laureate James Watson was the first individual to have his genome sequenced for less than $1 million. Whereas the Human Genome Project amounted to $3 billion over a period of 13 years,...

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Trump Administration Delays Decision on Leaving Climate Pact

The push has started. On Monday, when Mr. Trump called President-elect Emmanuel Macron of France to congratulate him on his victory, Mr. Macron told the president that enforcing and strengthening the Paris accord would be a top priority for him. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Prime...

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4.4 billion years ago earth was FLAT and covered almost entirely in water, says resarch | Science | News

Scientists came to the conclusion after analysing tiny zircon mineral grains from a region of Western Australia containing the oldest rocks ever found.
Lead researcher Dr Antony Burnham, from The Australian National University, said: “The history of the Earth is like a book with its...

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Warmer Temps Tied to Altered Microbiome in Lizards

WIKIMEDIA, CHARLESJSHARPAs climate change warms the earth, scientists are beginning to catalog the potential consequences for organisms, from tropical coral reefs to Antarctic penguins. Researchers report today (May 8) in Nature Ecology and Evolution, that bacteria, too, feel the heat....

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E.P.A. Dismisses Members of Major Scientific Review Board

In his first outings as E.P.A. administrator, Mr. Pruitt has made a point of visiting coal mines and pledging that his agency will seek to restore that industry, even though many members of both of the E.P.A.’s scientific advisory boards have historically recommended stringent constraints on...

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Is this what Jesus really looked like? | Science | News

Retired medical artist Richard Neave created an image of Christ which he believes is a better representation of the Son of God.
Rather than having the long flowing locks, Caucasian skin and blue eyes, the scientifically created image of Christ has short brown hair, a Middle Eastern...

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Stem Cell Trial Data Mostly Go Unpublished

FLICKR, PETEThe results of about 45 percent of completed stem cell clinical trials end up published in academic journals, according to a study published in Stem Cell Reports (April 13). This trend is consistent with prior studies that found trial publication is not inevitable and only...

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Are These Birds Too Sexy to Survive?

To make those songs, the male club-wing needs unusual wing feathers. Those closest to his body are thickened and twisted, giving the species its name. Two are also twisted into knobs, like the handles of tiny shillelaghs, while the adjacent feather ends in a bent, sharp blade.
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RING OF FIRE FEARS: Chile in for ‘earthquake of the CENTURY’ within decade, scientists say | Science | News

The South American country, which sits upon the dreaded Ring Of Fire, could be in store for another huge earthquake within the next decade, according to a new study.
Seismologists from Chile and France made the terrifying prediction, and claim it could be the “earthquake of the century”.
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Opinion: When Science Meets Activism

March for Science in Chicago, April 22, 2017KERRY GRENSOn April 22nd, the March for Science drew hundreds of thousands of participants to 610 satellite marches around the world. The most unique feature of the march—scientists and science allies becoming vocal participants in a protest...

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In Disposable Mucus Houses, These Zooplankton Filter the Oceans

When it comes to the flow of carbon in the ocean, “we don’t know nearly as much as we should,” said Kakani Katija, a principal engineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the study’s lead author. “If we really want to understand how the system works, we have to look at all...

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Groundbreaking research claims time travel IS POSSIBLE - and this is why | Science | News

There is no mathematical reason why travel to a different time is impossible, according to a group of scientists.
In a paper titled “Traversable acausal retrograde domains in spacetime”, or TARDIS for short, experts outline how a machine could manipulate the spacetime continuum enough to...

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Gut Organoid Transplants Produce Colorectal Cancer in Mice

A cross section of a tumor arising in the colon of an organoid-based mouse model of colorectal cancerKEVIN O’ROURKE

In recent years, scientists have developed organoids, stem-cell-derived organs-in-a-dish, for a number of tissues, including kidneys, guts, and brains. While these...

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The New Threat to Wolves in and Around Yellowstone

Group dynamics also change significantly, sometimes in mercurial ways, when membership shifts or a pack loses individuals. “Personalities matter,” Dr. Smith said, noting that science doesn’t have a good way to assess the effect. “It’s really hard.”

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