Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter -- ScienceDaily

Smart windows equipped with controllable glazing can augment lighting, cooling and heating systems by varying their tint, saving up to 40 percent in an average building’s energy costs.

These smart windows require power for operation, so they are relatively complicated to install in...

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Mistaken identity of East Asian vine species resolved after 100 years -- ScienceDaily

New light has been shed on a misclassified vine species in the Ryukyu Islands of East Asia. This plant was first discovered in 1917 in Taiwan, when it was provisionally identified as Kadsura japonica. The plant was recently spotted again after 100 years, and further investigation proved that...

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Piglets prefer new toys, behavior study shows -- ScienceDaily

We can’t help but be tempted by new things. We see it in a child’s eyes when she opens a new toy, and feel it every time a new version of the iPhone is released. It turns out our preference for shiny, new things is pretty universal throughout the animal kingdom. Yes, even piglets...

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Hyperlocal thinning by tree-specific enemies helps set the global pattern of forest biodiversity -- ScienceDaily

If aliens sent an exploratory mission to Earth, one of the first things they’d notice — after the fluffy white clouds and blue oceans of our water world — would be the way vegetation grades from exuberance at the equator through moderation at mid-latitudes toward monotony at...

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Japanese children learn to write through rhythm -- ScienceDaily

How do we learn to write? Associate Professor NONAKA Tetsushi (Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development and Environment) looked at the development of writing skills in Japanese first-grade students learning the hiragana script. By quantifying their pen movements, he revealed the...

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How Studying The Minds Of Cultural Icons May Combat Mental Illness Stigma

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

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Computers Are For Girls, Too

I remember three things about my first computer science class in college. First, improbably, the professor was named Ramm, as in “random access memory.” Second, the class was about processors, and I only had a vague idea what a processor was. Third, it was the last computer...

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God Is Unconvincing To Smart Folks

As far as I can discover from interviews and from books, there are at least 21 reasons smart people find God unconvincing. Here are the 21 reasons, explained:
1. God as an old white man in the sky is unconvincingDepictions of God as a humanoid (this is called...

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A Graphic Novel Is In The Works To Show How Science And Faith Can Coexist

Religion and science are often pitted against one another as supposedly irreconcilable foes. 


But that isn’t the whole picture. In fact, 51 percent of American scientists believe in God or a higher power, and some of the most renowned scientists throughout history have used their...

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Whale Vomit Chunk May Increase British Family's Gross Income

A British family may be $85,000 richer after finding a good-sized chunk of what they believe is rare whale vomit.


Alan Derrick, 67, and his son Tom, 39, were strolling along a beach in Somerset, U.K., when they spotted what Alan described to South West News Service as a “smelly, rubbery”...

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Exciting new material developed by Swansea scientists uses solar energy to remove man-made dye pollutants from water -- ScienceDaily

A novel composite material has been developed by scientists in the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University which shows promise as a catalyst for the degradation of environmentally-harmful synthetic dye pollutants, which are released at a rate of nearly 300,000 tonnes a...

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Researcher studies waves to help better forecast weather, climate -- ScienceDaily

For surfers, finding the “sweet spot,” the most powerful part of the wave, is part of the thrill and the challenge.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California postdoctoral researcher Nick Pizzo has found the exact location on the wave where a surfer gains...

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Severe costs ahead especially in south and lower midwest, pioneering analysis projects -- ScienceDaily

Unmitigated climate change will make the United States poorer and more unequal, according to a new study published in the journal Science. The poorest third of counties could sustain economic damages costing as much as 20 percent of their income if warming proceeds unabated.

States in the...

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If You Can't Get Hard, Don't Assume Condoms Are To Blame

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 


The BackgroundIt’s hard to pinpoint exactly how many young men suffer from occasional erectile dysfunction, but estimates range...

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How Buzz Aldrin Used A Felt-Tip Pen To Get Back From The Moon

Buzz Aldrin took his most famous step almost five decades ago, when he followed fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong out of their lunar module to become the first humans to set foot on the moon.


On Wednesday, the 86-year-old celebrated the 47th anniversary of their Apollo 11 mission by...

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Collisions At Home Plate May Not Be Baseball Catchers' Biggest Injury Risk

In baseball, violent collisions at home plate seem to be a major issue — so much so that Major League Baseball and the league’s Players Association enacted a rule last year to prevent them. (Rule 7.13 requires catchers to give base runners a clear path to home plate and forbids...

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Alan Turing's Biographer On The Truth About The Troubled Genius And His Tragic Death

Sixty years after his tragic death, the brilliant English mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) has come back to life, if only virtually, in the new movie The Imitation Game.
The movie spotlights Turing’s work as a codebreaker during World War II. That’s a logical choice given...

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Live longer: Study suggests humans could reach 125 years old | Science | News

Previous analyses of 534 so-called “supercentenarians” – people who have lived beyond their 110th birthday – suggested the ever-increasing maximum age a person is capable of reaching had plateaued.
The study found the average maximum reported ages at death (MRAD) was slowly increasing from...

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Bullying and bias can cost schools millions in lost funding -- ScienceDaily

When children avoid school to avoid bullying, many states can lose tens of millions of dollars in lost funding, and California alone loses an estimated $276 million each year because children feel unsafe.

New research from The University of Texas at Austin published in School Psychology...

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Transgenic Mouse Illuminates Melanoma Metastasis

Melanoma metastasis in vivo, visualized using MetAlert mice. The image on the right is an animal that emits bioluminescence upon the induction of new lymphatic vessels, an early stage in the development of metastasis. On the left is an equivalent animal with non-aggressive melanoma.MARISOL...

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Study of US seniors strengthens link between air pollution and premature death -- ScienceDaily

A new study of 60 million Americans — about 97% of people age 65 and older in the United States — shows that long-term exposure to airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and ozone increases the risk of premature death, even when that exposure is at levels below the National...

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Potentially lethal parasite rat lungworm found throughout Florida -- ScienceDaily

University of Florida researchers have found rat lungworm, a parasitic nematode that can cause meningitis in humans and animals, in five Florida counties.

Rats and snails in Alachua, Leon, St. Johns, Orange and Hillsborough counties tested positive for the parasite, according to a study in...

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Researchers review the pros and cons of co-sleeping with animals or children -- ScienceDaily

About half of all pet owners share their beds or bedrooms with their pets at night. Although this has been the case through the ages, remarkably few studies have been done about the benefits and drawbacks of this practice. Studies about co-sleeping are limited to the bedtime arrangements of...

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'Bulges' in volcanoes could be used to predict eruptions -- ScienceDaily

A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new way of measuring the pressure inside volcanoes, and found that it can be a reliable indicator of future eruptions.

Using a technique called ‘seismic noise interferometry’ combined with geophysical...

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Mathematical method for fair definition of electoral districts -- ScienceDaily

For democratic elections to be fair, voting districts must have similar sizes. When populations shift, districts need to be redistributed — a complex and, in many countries, controversial task when political parties attempt to influence redistricting. Mathematicians at the Technical...

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Serotonin contributions to cocaine's allure -- ScienceDaily

Once a hip drug of the ’70s and ’80s party scene, cocaine is not only making a comeback, it’s proving its staying power thanks to its potent allure. In fact, Drug Enforcement Administration officials say that traffickers are producing more cocaine now than at the height of...

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This Artist Paints With Bacteria, And It's Strangely Beautiful

You’ve never seen bacteria quite like this before.


Mixed media artist Maria Peñil Cobo, who was born in Spain and currently resides in Massachusetts, told The Huffington Post on Thursday that she has often turned to nature as inspiration for her artwork. But instead of looking to...

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We're Just Scratching the Surface of What Programming Can Do in the Classroom

At what age should children be introduced to coding, and how? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by David Yang, Co-Founder and Lead Instructor at Fullstack Academy, on Quora:
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Filthy Little Atheist | HuffPost

President Teddy Roosevelt called Thomas Paine a ‘Filthy Little Atheist,’ a phrase with as many errors in it as words, since Paine was fastidiously clean, stood taller than most of his contemporaries at five feet ten inches, and was a professed believer in God.
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Listen To Carl Sagan Open Up About Religion And The Possibility Of Alien Life

When you imagine an alien, what do you think of? A green, slimy creature with jagged teeth? Or maybe a cute little E.T.-like figure? 


Generally, we envision aliens as somewhat like us — slightly more bizarre or fearsome versions of ourselves, but humanlike nonetheless. These...

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Do Carrots Actually Improve Your Eyesight?

By Jennifer Chaussee for Wired.


You probably grew up hearing that eating carrots could help your eyesight—even make you see in the dark. That would be nice, except it’s not entirely true (unless you have one helluva vitamin deficiency). The idea that carrots can give you supervision has...

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Project disperses single atoms on graphene to match platinum standard -- ScienceDaily

Rice University scientists have fabricated a durable catalyst for high-performance fuel cells by attaching single ruthenium atoms to graphene.

Catalysts that drive the oxygen reduction reaction that lets fuel cells turn chemical energy into electricity are usually made of platinum, which...

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Study provides new estimate of global inland fishery production -- ScienceDaily

Harvests from freshwater fisheries such as the Great Lakes could total more than 12 million tons a year globally and contribute more to global food supplies and economies than previous estimates indicate, according to a study published by Michigan State University and the U.S. Geological...

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Geoscientists are learning how to better predict volcanic eruptions using GPS and the same method that helps forecast the weather -- ScienceDaily

Volcanologists are beginning to use satellite measurements and mathematical methods to forecast eruptions and to better understand how volcanoes work, shows a new article in Frontiers in Earth Science.

As magma shifts and flows beneath the earth’s surface, the ground above flexes and...

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Proof Traditional Masculinity May Actually Be Dangerous

Academic studies can be fascinating… and totally confusing. So we decided to strip away all of the scientific jargon and break them down for you. 


The BackgroundThe pressure to be traditionally masculine can cause men to overcompensate when their masculinity is threatened. But...

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Did Arabic Scholars Discover Evolution in the Ninth Century?

One thousand years ago, when the United States of America did not exist and Oxford and Cambridge were backwaters of ignorance, the light of human reason shone brightly in places like Tunis, Cairo, and Baghdad. During the Abbasid caliphate for much of the 8th through middle 11th centuries,...

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Here's How Some Race Starts May Give Athletes An Unfair Advantage

“On your marks, set, go!” 


Those words have a surprising influence over just how well athletes perform in a race, according to new research published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology on Wednesday. 


The longer an official waits between cueing athletes to “get...

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James Watson's Nobel Prize Fetches Record Sum At Auction

How much is a Nobel prize worth?
If you’re James Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel for his role in the discovery of the structure of DNA, it’s worth about $4.76 million. That’s how much his 23-carat gold medal fetched at auction in New York City on Thursday night (the price...

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AI created which can READ MINDS | Science | News

Scientists from the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are now able to use brain activation patterns to identify complex thoughts and their roots.
The ‘mind reading’ technology shows that the brain forms complex thoughts through various sub-systems and are not word-based.
The research carried...

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Team launches 'comb and copter' system to map atmospheric gases -- ScienceDaily

Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder have demonstrated a new mobile, ground-based system that could scan and map atmospheric gas plumes over kilometer distances.

The system uses an eye-safe laser instrument to send...

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The Consequences of Sequencing Healthy People

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  Physicians are increasingly using patients’ genomic data to fight cancer or diagnose unexplained symptoms. But in individuals with no discernable signs of illness, it’s uncertain whether knowing their genomic blueprints is beneficial, and whether primary care physicians...

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System of quadcopters that fly and drive suggest another approach to developing flying cars -- ScienceDaily

Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature — many birds, insects, and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many possibilities: Imagine machines that could fly into construction areas or disaster zones that...

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China, India, Arabian peninsula -- ScienceDaily

Global solar energy production is taking a major hit due to air pollution and dust.

According to a new study, airborne particles and their accumulation on solar cells are cutting energy output by more than 25 percent in certain parts of the world. The regions hardest hit are also those...

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Communication between genes is the key -- ScienceDaily

When Mark Martindale decided to trace the evolutionary origin of muscle cells, like the ones that form our hearts, he looked in an unlikely place: the genes of animals without hearts or muscles.

In a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the...

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Researchers develop a technique to visualize and control the neural activities that underlie behavior -- ScienceDaily

Since scientists began studying the brain, they have asked whether the biology they observed can really be tied to external behaviors. Researchers are building a substantial understanding of the biophysical, molecular, and cellular interactions of neurons, but directly relating those...

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Biodiversity loss from deep-sea mining will be unavoidable -- ScienceDaily

Biodiversity losses from deep-sea mining are unavoidable and possibly irrevocable, an international team of 15 marine scientists, resource economists and legal scholars argue in a letter published today in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The experts say the International Seabed Authority...

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Insomnia medication may wake up some patients from vegetative state -- ScienceDaily

In a new systematic review in JAMA Neurology, Michigan Medicine researchers found reason to further explore the surprising effects of zolpidem that have been observed outside the scope of its primary Food and Drug Administration approval.

“We saw a dramatic effect in a small amount of...

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These Hypnotic 'Paintings' Of The Animal Kingdom Are Made From Medicine

Mercurochrome, charcoal tablets, Friar’s Balsam, iodine tincture, potassium permanganate, Med-Lemon, Gastropect and copper sulphate.


These medicinal remedies double as artistic media in Cape Town-based artist Jo Voysey‘s unorthodox practice. Voysey began using medicine as material...

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Girls Who Code Isn't Just An Organization -- We're Building A Movement

By Reshma Saujani, CEO and Founder, Girls Who Code

This summer Girls Who Code taught 1,560 girls computer science across the US. During the past seven weeks, girls from all over the nation got hands-on experience learning and writing code, went on field trips to local tech companies,...

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This College Class On 'Historical Frauds' Is Fighting Pseudoscience Head-On

Pseudoscience has been enjoying a major resurgence as of late, thanks in large part to the leadership of our conspiracy theorist in chief, President Donald Trump. Public trust in scientific research ― not to mention in the concept of evidence itself ―  has been steadily eroding as “fake...

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Weekend Roundup: Being Is Not an Algorithm

Recently, The WorldPost published an interview with “Sapiens” author Yuval Harari in which he envisioned a future where “organisms become algorithms” as computer and biological sciences converge. In a response, Deepak Chopra writes this week that being cannot be...

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Egyptian Man Has One Honey Of A Bee Beard

Mohamed Hagras stands barechested as dozens of honeybees congregate around his face, eventually forming what he calls the “Beard of Bees.” To attract the insects he has a box housing their queen’s hormones strapped to his chin.



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Atomic imperfections move quantum communication network closer to reality -- ScienceDaily

An international team led by the University of Chicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.

The work advances the possibility of...

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Great opportunities for marine research with new underwater vehicle -- ScienceDaily

The University of Gothenburg soon will have its first autonomous underwater vehicle for research use. This will make it possible to conduct detailed studies of the seabed at great depths and track the climate thousands of years back in time.

After more than two years of preparation, the...

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Accelerating rate of temperature rise in the Pyrenees -- ScienceDaily

The Iberian Peninsula is undergoing climate change, with temperatures on the rise, and mountain ranges are not exempt from this trend. A team of scientists has analysed regional climate series from the Central Pyrenees for 1910 to 2013 (the most extensive climate records to date for the...

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NASA close to finding aliens, Anonymous hacking group claims | Science | News

The internet collective posted a video on YouTube with the words “NASA says aliens are coming!”
The group has based its assertion on a recent meeting of the US Science Space and Technology Committee.
It was there that Professor Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the...

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Critical gaps in our knowledge of where infectious diseases occur -- ScienceDaily

Scientists have called for action. The scientific journal Nature ecology & evolution have published a joint statement from scientists at Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen and North Carolina State University. The scientists call attention to a...

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How Roundworms Sleep | The Scientist Magazine®

An illustration of a sleeping worm (above) where most neurons are quiet (blue dots) and an awake worm (below) in which the nerve cells are active (yellow dots) ANNIKA NICHOLS AND MANUEL ZIMMERAcross the animal kingdom, nearly all creatures sleep or display sleep-like states. The roundworm,...

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Increased risk for autism when genetic variation and air pollution meet -- ScienceDaily

A new analysis shows that individuals with high levels of genetic variation and elevated exposure to ozone in the environment are at an even higher risk for developing autism than would be expected by adding the two risk factors together. The study is the first to look at the combined effects...

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Dune ecosystem modelling -- ScienceDaily

Acacia longifolia, which is native to Australia, is a species which was cultivated in Portugal primarily to stabilize dunes and as an ornamental plant; now it has spread out uncontrollably in Portugal and into many ecosystems around the world. This has varying effects on native species....

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Distinct neural circuits convert chemical signals into specific behavior -- ScienceDaily

A study by a group of Japanese scientists showed how a male pheromone in mice enhances sexual behaviors in females — and how it may enhance a different behavior, aggression, in males — by identifying distinct neural circuits and neurons that generate a particular behavioral...

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New theory of wave propagation in oceans provides insight into climate-dependent ocean currents -- ScienceDaily

Ocean circulation patterns have a profound effect on global climate. Waves deep within the ocean play an important role in establishing this circulation, arising when tidal currents oscillate over an uneven ocean bottom. The internal waves that are generated by this process stir and mix the...

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The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, study shows -- ScienceDaily

Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach — even if it’s off. That’s the takeaway finding from a new study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

McCombs Assistant Professor Adrian Ward and...

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Single electron's tiny leap sets off 'molecular sunscreen' response -- ScienceDaily

In experiments at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, scientists were able to see the first step of a process that protects a DNA building block called thymine from sun damage: When it’s hit with ultraviolet light, a single electron jumps into a...

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Hot summer frequents Europe-west Asia and northeast Asia after the mid-1990s -- ScienceDaily

After the mid-1990s, the global surface temperature presents a significant warming trend. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the global mean surface temperature of the period 2011-2015 has increased by 0.57 degrees than that of 1961-1990. This warming trend provides favorable...

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Gradual changes in CO2 levels can induce abrupt climate changes -- ScienceDaily

During the last glacial period, within only a few decades the influence of atmospheric CO2 on the North Atlantic circulation resulted in temperature increases of up to 10 degrees Celsius in Greenland — as indicated by new climate calculations from researchers at the Alfred Wegener...

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Lab-grown human colons could signal end of IBS and colon cancer | Science | News

Scientists have revealed they have successfully used pluripotent stem cells to grow human embryonic colons in a lab as part of efforts to study diseases of the colon.
The embryonic colons, which function much like natural human tissue when transplanted in mice, will allow scientists to study...

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Low-temperature 'water gas shift' reaction produces high levels of pure hydrogen for potential applications, including fuel cells -- ScienceDaily

Scientists have developed a new low-temperature catalyst for producing high-purity hydrogen gas while simultaneously using up carbon monoxide (CO). The discovery — described in a paper set to publish online in the journal Science on June 22, 2017 — could improve the performance of...

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Ribosomal DNA Copy Numbers Decrease in Some Cancers

Human chromosomes stained blue and ribosomal DNA in greenTAMARA POTAPOVA (WITH PERMISSION)Ribosomal DNA (rDNA) is highly repetitive, making it tough for scientists to analyze. But a new study, published today (June 22) in PLOS Genetics, reveals that the genomes of cancer cells in both...

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Catalyst mimics the z-scheme of photosynthesis -- ScienceDaily

A team of chemists from the University of Kentucky and the Institute of Physics Research of Mar del Plata in Argentina has just reported a way to trigger a fundamental step in the mechanism of photosynthesis, providing a process with great potential for developing new technology to reduce...

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How do genes get new jobs? Wasp venom offers new insights -- ScienceDaily

Amid the incredible diversity of living things on our planet, there is a common theme. Organisms need to acquire new genes, or change the functions of existing genes, in order to adapt and survive.

How does that happen?
A common view is that genes duplicate, with one of the copies picking up...

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Bees lacking insect equivalent of the cerebral cortex may still be able to learn odors -- ScienceDaily

Honeybees may not need key brain structures known as mushroom bodies in order to learn complex associations between odors and rewards, according to new research published in PLOS Computational Biology.

The new findings surprised the research team because mushroom bodies are thought to be...

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Satellite data to map endangered monkey populations on Earth -- ScienceDaily

A team of scientists led by the Universities of Leicester and East Anglia are leading research to protect wildlife by using satellite data to identify monkey populations that have declined through hunting.

In a new article in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, a working group chaired...

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UV-sensing protein in brain of marine annelid zooplankton -- ScienceDaily

Researchers at Institute for Molecular Sciences reported that a photoreceptive protein expressed in the brain a marine annelid zooplankton (Platynereis dumerilii) is UV-sensitive. This work was carried out as a collaborative work of Drs. Hisao Tsukamoto and Yuji Furutani (Institute for...

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Chemists create 3-D printed graphene foam -- ScienceDaily

Nanotechnologists from Rice University and China’s Tianjin University have used 3-D laser printing to fabricate centimeter-sized objects of atomically thin graphene.

The research could yield industrially useful quantities of bulk graphene and is described online in a new study in the...

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America's most vulnerable communities -- ScienceDaily

Floods are the natural disaster that kill the most people. They are also the most common natural disaster. As the threat of flooding increases worldwide, a group of scientists at LSU have gathered valuable information on flood hazard, exposure and vulnerability in counties throughout the U.S....

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Cloud systems 'well buffered' against aerosol changes in the atmosphere, research shows -- ScienceDaily

A spectacular six-month Icelandic lava field eruption could provide the crucial key for scientists to unlock the role aerosols play in climate change, through their interactions with clouds.

An international team of climate scientists, led by the University of Exeter, have meticulously...

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Humans could have moon base in 30 years then reach Mars, Stephen Hawking tells Starmus | Science | News

The scientist said once established Mars could be reachable within another 20 years.
He said technology to allow us to function on the Moon was almost ready.
He said: “We could have a base therewithin 30 years.
“It is close by and relatively easy to reach. We have already landed on it and...

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Optimized immunizations reliably elicit protective antibodies in preclinical study, marking an important milestone on the way to an effective HIV vaccine -- ScienceDaily

For decades, HIV has successfully evaded all efforts to create an effective vaccine but researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology (LJI) are steadily inching closer. Their latest study, published in the current issue of Immunity,...

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T Cells That Drive Toxic Shock in Mice Identified

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (brown) is one of the strains of staph that can cause sepsis.WIKIMEDIA, NIAIDWhen a subset of T cells tries to fend off toxins, or superantigens, secreted by common pathogenic bacteria, the response can be harmful, new research shows. Working...

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How phytoplankton rule the oceans -- ScienceDaily

Photosynthesis is a unique biological process that has permitted the colonization of land and sea by plants and phytoplankton respectively. While the mechanisms of photosynthesis in plants are well understood, scientists are only now beginning to elucidate how the process developed in...

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Selfish gene acts as both poison and antidote to eliminate competition -- ScienceDaily

Researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center researchers have identified an unprecedented genetic survival strategy that would be right at home in an Agatha Christie murder mystery novel.

In their report published...

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Birds of all feathers work together to hunt when army ants march -- ScienceDaily

Army ants scare up a lot of food when they’re on the move, which makes following them valuable for predator birds. But instead of competing and chasing each other off from the ant “raids,” as scientists had thought, birds actually give each other a heads up when the ants are...

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Corn better used as food than biofuel, study finds -- ScienceDaily

Corn is grown not only for food, it is also an important renewable energy source. Renewable biofuels can come with hidden economic and environmental issues, and the question of whether corn is better utilized as food or as a biofuel has persisted since ethanol came into use. For the first...

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Neuroscientist explores the complex brain connections employed during word retrieval -- ScienceDaily

When you look at a picture of a mug, the neurons that store your memory of what a mug is begin firing. But it’s not a pinpoint process; a host of neurons that code for related ideas and items — bowl, coffee, spoon, plate, breakfast — are activated as well. How your brain...

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Discovery could benefit renewable energy, transportation, personal electronics -- ScienceDaily

Modern batteries power everything from cars to cell phones, but they are far from perfect — they catch fire, they perform poorly in cold weather and they have relatively short lifecycles, among other issues. Now researchers from the University of Houston have described a new class of...

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Volcanic eruptions triggered dawn of the dinosaurs -- ScienceDaily

Huge pulses of volcanic activity are likely to have played a key role in triggering the end Triassic mass extinction, which set the scene for the rise and age of the dinosaurs, new Oxford University research has found.

The Triassic extinction took place approximately 200 million years ago,...

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Fighting global warming and climate change requires a broad energy portfolio -- ScienceDaily

Can the continental United States make a rapid, reliable and low-cost transition to an energy system that relies almost exclusively on wind, solar and hydroelectric power? While there is growing excitement for this vision, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...

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Watch LIVE: NASA to reveal exoplanet discoveries | Science | News

The NASA TV live stream will kick off at 4pm BST (11am EDT) live from the Kepler Science Conference in California today. 
Four experts linked to the Kepler space mission will sit on the panel to reveal more about the planets outside Earth’s solar system.
The panelists will include Kepler...

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Gaps remain in surveillance for mosquitoes that transmit Zika, new CDC data shows -- ScienceDaily

As concerns over Zika virus have grown since 2015, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has turned to local public health professionals to compile data on distribution of the two primary mosquito species capable of transmitting the virus, Aedes aegypti (the primary vector...

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Immune Cells Deliver Cancer Drugs to the Brain

Cerebral glioblastomaWIKIMEDIA, KGHGlioblastomas, highly aggressive malignant brain tumors, have a high propensity for recurrence and are associated with low survival rates. Even when surgeons remove these tumors, deeply infiltrated cancer cells often remain and contribute to relapse. By...

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Technology which makes electricity from urine also kills pathogens, researchers find -- ScienceDaily

A scientific breakthrough has taken an emerging biotechnology a step closer to being used to treat wastewater in the Developing World.

Researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) (Ieropoulos & Greenman) have discovered that technology they have developed which has...

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Advanced 3-D models of bite data -- ScienceDaily

The skulls of alligators protect their brains, eyes and sense organs while producing some of the most powerful bite forces in the animal kingdom. The ability to bite hard is critical for crocodilians to eat their food such as turtles, wildebeest and other large prey; therefore, their anatomy...

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Bee antennae offer links between the evolution of social behavior and communication -- ScienceDaily

As bees’ social behavior evolved, their complex chemical communication systems evolved in concert, according to a study published online by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

An international team of researchers, including those from Princeton University,...

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Dryland cropping systems research addresses future drought and hunger issues -- ScienceDaily

Murali Darapuneni recalls stories about how difficult it was for his ancestors during times of drought conditions and famine in India in the early 1900s.

“They had limited resources and research at that time,” he said. “My grandparents told me about those stories and how...

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Distant brain regions selectively recruit stem cells -- ScienceDaily

Stem cells persist in the adult mammalian brain and generate new neurons throughout life. A research group at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel reports in the current issue of “Science” that long-distance brain connections can target discrete pools of stem cells in their...

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Compound shows potential for high-temperature superconductivity -- ScienceDaily

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has identified a nickel oxide compound as an unconventional but promising candidate material for high-temperature superconductivity.

The team successfully synthesized single crystals of a...

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Large Canadian Arctic climate change study cancelled due to climate change -- ScienceDaily

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

This regrettably postpones the much-anticipated Hudson Bay...

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Animal evolution: Hot start, followed by cold shock

The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession — prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago.

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Volcanoes: Earthquake swarm hits 'ticking time bomb' Yellowstone super volcano, Wyoming | Science | News

A 4.5 magnitude trembler struck Yellowstone, according to data from the US Geological Survey.
Scientists said Thursday’s earthquake was part of a swarm hitting the area since Monday.
Yellowstone volcano, located in the US state of Wyoming, is one of the most feared on the planet and...

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After states suffer job loss, college attendance drops for poor students -- ScienceDaily

When states suffer a widespread loss of jobs, the damage extends to the next generation, where college attendance drops among the poorest students, says new research from Duke University.

As a result, states marked by shuttered factories or dormant mines also show a widening gap in college...

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Stomach Cells Change Identity to Drive Precancerous State

WIKIMEDIA, OPENSTAX COLLEGEIn healthy individuals, chief cells, which are found at the base of corpus glands in the stomach, act as producers of digestive enzymes. However, if the gut undergoes damage or genetic mutation, these cells have the ability to convert into stem cells that can...

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We Might Soon Resurrect Extinct Species. Is It Worth the Cost?

“If you have the millions of dollars it would take to resurrect a species and choose to do that, you are making an ethical decision to bring one species back and let several others go extinct,” Dr. Bennett said. “It would be one step forward, and three to eight steps back.”

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Japanese slow earthquakes could shed light on tsunami generation -- ScienceDaily

Understanding slow-slip earthquakes in subduction zone areas may help researchers understand large earthquakes and the creation of tsunamis, according to an international team of researchers that used data from instruments placed on the seafloor and in boreholes east of the Japanese...

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Scientists solve 30-year old mystery on how resistance genes spread -- ScienceDaily

To win the war against antibiotic resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance genes. Further, they try to identify how the genes are introduced to disease-causing bacteria — so-called pathogens. Identifying where resistance genes come from and how they spread...

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Holes drilled in shells point to bigger predators picking on small prey -- ScienceDaily

The drill holes left in fossil shells by hunters such as snails and slugs show marine predators have grown steadily bigger and more powerful over time but stuck to picking off small prey, rather than using their added heft to pursue larger quarry, new research shows.

The study, published...

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Volcanic crystals give a new view of magma -- ScienceDaily

Volcanologists are gaining a new understanding of what’s going on inside the magma reservoir that lies below an active volcano and they’re finding a colder, more solid place than previously thought, according to new research published June 16 in the journal Science. It’s a...

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Gene transfer as a treatment of neurodegenerative diseases -- ScienceDaily

Gene transfer is seen as a hopeful therapy for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s patients. The approach involves using harmless laboratory-produced viruses to introduce important genes into the brain cells. In a study on mice, a team of researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna for the first...

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Development of low-dimensional nanomaterials could revolutionize future technologies -- ScienceDaily

Javier Vela, scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, believes improvements in computer processors, TV displays and solar cells will come from scientific advancements in the synthesis of low-dimensional nanomaterials.

Ames Laboratory scientists are known for their...

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Weight of state's precipitation and subsequent summer rebound change stress on faults -- ScienceDaily

California’s winter rains and snow depress the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges, which then rebound during the summer, changing the stress on the state’s earthquake faults and causing seasonal upticks in small quakes, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley...

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Strong El Nino played a major role in warming the air above the ice, researchers report -- ScienceDaily

An area of West Antarctica more than twice the size of California partially melted in 2016 when warm winds forced by an especially strong El Nino blew over the continent, an international group of researchers has determined.

In the June 15 issue of the journal Nature Communications, they...

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Volcano eruptions can be predicted years in advance by 'black box' | Science | News

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A study of crystals from an eruption in New Zealand about 700 years ago found a pattern in the thermal history of magma that reveals when the next one is due.
The analysis found it went...

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New map highlights sinking Louisiana coast -- ScienceDaily

Researchers at Tulane University have developed a subsidence map of coastal Louisiana, putting the rate at which this region is sinking at just over one third of an inch per year.

The map, published in GSA Today, has long been considered the “holy grail” by researchers and policy...

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Authors Peeved by APA’s Article Takedown Pilot

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       The American Psychological Association (APA) has been doling out Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notices of infringement to authors who posted unauthorized versions of their own articles to their university websites. The notices are part of a pilot...

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Antarctic Ice Reveals Earth’s Accelerating Plant Growth

The increase is because of 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 is three times the carbon stored in...

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Stored energy from electric vehicles (EVs) can be used to power large buildings -- creating new possibilities for the future of smart, renewable energy -- thanks to ground-breaking battery research from WMG at the University of Warwick -- ScienceDaily

Stored energy from electric vehicles (EVs) can be used to power large buildings — creating new possibilities for the future of smart, renewable energy — thanks to ground-breaking battery research from WMG at the University of Warwick.

Dr Kotub Uddin, with colleagues from...

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Potential new target identified -- ScienceDaily

A newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant malaria parasites. The protein, the transcription factor PfAP2-I, regulates a number of genes involved with the parasite’s invasion of red blood cells, a critical part of the parasite’s complex...

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Strategies include moving less, and favoring safer areas when near roads -- ScienceDaily

As female elk get older, they adopt strategies for avoiding hunters in Canada, according to a study published June 14, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Henrik Thurfjell from University of Alberta, Canada, and colleagues.

Once female elk reach the age of about 10 years, they are...

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Hydroelectric dams may jeopardize the Amazon's future -- ScienceDaily

Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico. These findings, published in Nature, emerge from a multidisciplinary,...

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Surprising new link between inflammation and mental illness -- ScienceDaily

Up to 75 percent of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus — an incurable autoimmune disease commonly known as lupus — experience neuropsychiatric symptoms. But so far, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying lupus’ effects on the brain has remained murky. Now,...

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Compound catalyses splitting of water atoms -- ScienceDaily

Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen — the cleanest source of energy.

The paint contains a newly developed compound that acts like silica gel, which is used in sachets to absorb moisture and keep food, medicines and...

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Ancient otter tooth found in Mexico suggests mammals migrated across America -- ScienceDaily

Late in the afternoon on a hot March day in central Mexico, a paleontologist uncovered a jaw bone and called over to Jack Tseng.

Tseng, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University...

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Solar material for producing clean hydrogen fuel -- ScienceDaily

Osaka University researchers create new material based on gold and black phosphorus to produce clean hydrogen fuel using the full spectrum of sunlight

Global climate change and the energy crisis mean that alternatives to fossil fuels are urgently needed. Among the cleanest low-carbon fuels...

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Could edible insects help global food security? -- ScienceDaily

Australian consumers in Adelaide are taking part in a University of Adelaide research study to help realize the potential for edible insects as a food industry.

Consumer attitudes are being put to the test at Adelaide Central Market with an offering of roasted crickets and ants, mealworm...

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Aliens news: NASA Curiosity rover finds evidence Mars could have been teeming with life | Science | News

The announcement follows studies on the latest samples taken by the Curiosity rover. 
The space rover is a 4WD droid exploring the planet remotely and taking samples of the surface for any sign of alien life.
The rover examined a mudstone outcrop area called “Pahrump Hills” on...

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Robotic device developed to help stroke survivors recover -- ScienceDaily

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has introduced a new robotic tool for assessments of muscle overactivity and movement dysfunction in stroke survivors. Their robotic-assisted rehabilitation therapy, combined with standard rehabilitation, is expected to improve the mobility of patients...

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Recycled tires create stronger concrete -- ScienceDaily

UBC engineers have developed a more resilient type of concrete using recycled tires that could be used for concrete structures like buildings, roads, dams and bridges while reducing landfill waste.

The researchers experimented with different proportions of recycled tire fibres and other...

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Journal Cleans Up Image Archives

WIKIMEDIA, COENAs part of a comprehensive—and uncommon—plan to maintain a squeaky-clean literature, Molecular and Cellular Biology has picked through its archives from the past several years to find troublesome figures, duplications in particular. Last month, the journal began to publish...

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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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Islands and coastal regions -- ScienceDaily

The study was published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution on 12 June 2017.

Humans are responsible for the movement of an increasing number of species into new territories which they previously never inhabited. The number of established alien species varies according to world...

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Late-nesting birds, bees face habitat threat -- ScienceDaily

Bird and bumblebee species that nest late in the year are suffering more from the destruction of habitats, new research suggests.

With habitats such as hedgerows and hay meadows in decline in many countries, fewer nest sites are available — leading to more competition.
The University...

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Genetic differences across species guide vocal learning in juvenile songbirds -- ScienceDaily

Juvenile birds discriminate and selectively learn their own species’ songs even when primarily exposed to the songs of other species, but the underlying mechanism has remained unknown. A new study, by researchers at Uppsala University, shows that song discrimination arises due to...

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Volcanic 'plumerang' could impact human health -- ScienceDaily

A new study has found a previously undetected potential health risk from the high concentration of small particles found in a boomerang-like return of a volcanic plume.

A team of scientists, led by Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya at the University of Leeds, traced the evolution of the plume chemistry...

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Dyslexic children from lower-income families benefit more from summer reading intervention -- ScienceDaily

About 20 percent of children in the United States have difficulty learning to read, and educators have devised a variety of interventions to try to help them. Not every program helps every student, however, in part because the origins of their struggles are not identical.

MIT neuroscientist...

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Graphene electrodes offer new functionalities in molecular electronic nanodevices -- ScienceDaily

An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has revealed a new way to tune the functionality of next-generation molecular electronic devices using graphene. The results could be exploited to develop smaller, higher-performance...

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New evidence reveals source of 1586 Sanriku, Japan tsunami -- ScienceDaily

A team of researchers, led by Dr. Rhett Butler, geophysicist at the University of Hawai’i at M?noa (UHM), re-examined historical evidence around the Pacific and discovered the origin of the tsunami that hit Sanriku, Japan in 1586 — a mega-earthquake from the Aleutian Islands that...

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Scientists advancing hope for reefs in the Philippines -- ScienceDaily

The California Academy of Sciences’ Hope for Reefs initiative continues to advance global understanding of coral reef science through a series of ambitious expeditions. The team most recently returned from the Verde Island Passage in the Philippines — a longtime regional focus of...

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NASA’s new solar probe will help protect Earth from ‘DEVASTATING’ solar storms | Science | News

In May, Nasa announced plans to send a probe, also known as the Parker Solar Probe after astrophysicist Eugene Parker who developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind, as close as possible to the sun where it will battle extreme temperatures and radiation.
The mission is set for a 2018...

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The strength test -- ScienceDaily

Wind turbines rise into the sky on enormous feet. To ensure these giants can reliably generate electricity for many years to come, the iron processing industry must manufacture their massive components in a stable, resource-saving and yet cost-effective way. However, material inclusions such...

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Medical Devices Aspire to Ditch Batteries

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   Medical device technologies have come a long way in recent years, from leadless cardiac pacemakers to ingestible electronics that deliver drugs or monitor a patient’s vital signs in real...

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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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Biodegradable microbeads made from cellulose -- ScienceDaily

Scientists and engineers from the University of Bath have developed biodegradable cellulose microbeads from a sustainable source that could potentially replace harmful plastic ones that contribute to ocean pollution.

Microbeads are little spheres of plastic less than 0.5 mm in size that are...

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The plant pests owe their success to large, hybridized genomes that help them adapt -- ScienceDaily

The nematode worms that cause the world’s most devastating crop losses have given up on sexual reproduction and instead rely on their large, duplicated genomes to thrive in new environments. A group led by Etienne G. J. Danchin of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research...

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Experiments aboard International Space Station point to anatomical, behavioral and bacteriological impacts of space travel -- ScienceDaily

Flatworms that spent five weeks aboard the International Space Station are helping researchers led by Tufts University scientists to study how an absence of normal gravity and geomagnetic fields can have anatomical, behavioral, and bacteriological consequences, according to a paper to be...

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Geology, biology agree on Pangaea supercontinent breakup dates -- ScienceDaily

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found that independent estimates from geology and biology agree on the timing of the breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent into today’s continents.

When continents break up, single species are divided into two and drift apart...

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Researchers identify the wiring process of a unique type of inhibitory cells implicated in several diseases -- ScienceDaily

A basic tenet of neural development is that young neurons make far more connections than they will actually use, with very little specificity. They selectively maintain only the ones that they end up needing. Once many of these connections are made, the brain employs a use-it or lose-it...

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Chemists develop hydrogel strings using compound found in sea creatures -- ScienceDaily

Rice University chemists can thank the mussel for putting the muscle into their new macroscale scaffold fibers.

The Rice lab of chemist Jeffrey Hartgerink had already figured out how to make biocompatible nanofibers out of synthetic peptides. In new work, the lab is using an amino acid found...

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The mysterious bend in the Hawaiian-Emperor chain -- ScienceDaily

The volcanic islands of Hawaii represent the youngest end of a 80 million years old and roughly 6,000 kilometres long mountain chain on the ground of the Pacific Ocean. The so-called Hawaiian-Emperor chain consisting of dozens of volcanoes is well known for its peculiar 60 degrees bend. The...

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Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters -- ScienceDaily

Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off the coast of southern California have discovered a lost ecosystem that for thousands of years had nurtured communities of scallops and shelled marine organisms called brachiopods.

These brachiopods and scallops had thrived along a section of...

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FIRST CONTACT: If humans come face-to-face with aliens THIS could be how we communicate | Science | News

As scientists seem to edge closer to discovering life elsewhere in the cosmos, experts have begun estimating what is the best way to communicate with them.
A language on another planet will likely be unfathomable to humans, so experts are turning to what could be a universal language:...

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Why microplastic debris may be the next big threat to our seas -- ScienceDaily

Plastic, metal, rubber and paper are some of the materials that pollute the world’s oceans, often in the form of soda cans, cigarette butts, plastic bags and bottles, and fishing gear.

Environmental and marine science specialists call it “marine debris,” which, simply put,...

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Making Public Data Public | The Scientist Magazine®

WIKIMEDIA, MIGUEL ANDRADEA paper in PLOS Biology today (June 8) describes Wide-Open—an automated system that scans published papers for references to publically available datasets and determines whether those data are indeed available. The system, which identified hundreds of datasets...

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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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Nanoparticles and magnets offer new, efficient method of removing oil from water -- ScienceDaily

When oil mixes with or enters into water, conventional methods of cleaning the water and removing the oil can be challenging, expensive and environmentally risky. But researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin believe they may have developed a...

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Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows -- ScienceDaily

Whales rely on a keen sense of hearing for their underwater existence. But whales show surprisingly vast differences in hearing ability. Baleen whales tune into infrasonic sounds — at frequencies too low for humans to hear — to communicate over long distances. Toothed whales do...

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Capuchin monkeys learn best-payoff ways to open fruit from others -- ScienceDaily

Wild capuchin monkeys readily learn skills from each other — but that social learning is driven home by the payoff of learning a useful new skill. It’s the first demonstration of “payoff bias” learning in a wild animal, and could inform whether and how animals can...

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Tomographic model indicates Southern Tibet formed within 10 million years -- ScienceDaily

Using seismic data and supercomputers, Rice University geophysicists have conducted a massive seismic CT scan of the upper mantle beneath the Tibetan Plateau and concluded that the southern half of the “Roof of the World” formed in less than one-quarter of the time since the...

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How the brain recognizes what the eye sees -- ScienceDaily

If you think self-driving cars can’t get here soon enough, you’re not alone. But programming computers to recognize objects is very technically challenging, especially since scientists don’t fully understand how our own brains do it.

Now, Salk Institute researchers have...

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Researchers are investigating a protein found inside the spicules of a sea urchin embryo to understand what makes these proteins such efficient 'brick organizers' -- ScienceDaily

Calcium carbonate, or CaCO3, comprises more than 4% of Earth’s crust. Its most common natural forms are chalk, limestone, and marble, produced by the sedimentation of the shells of small fossilized snails, shellfish, and coral over millions of years.

New York University College of...

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Finding new homes won't help emperor penguins cope with climate change -- ScienceDaily

If projections for melting Antarctic sea ice through 2100 are correct, the vanishing landscape will strip Emperor penguins of their breeding and feeding grounds and put populations at risk. But like other species that migrate to escape the wrath of climate change, can these iconic animals be...

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UCI-led analysis of data from India could have dire implications for future -- ScienceDaily

An increase in mean temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius over half a century may not seem all that serious, but it’s enough to have more than doubled the probability of a heat wave killing in excess of 100 people in India, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine...

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Guts to glory? Newly discovered enzyme complexes in herbivore digestive tracts show promise for sustainable fuels, medicines -- ScienceDaily

Herbivore gut fungi hold a lot of promise. Just ask Michelle O’Malley.

“Most of what we do that resonates with the public is to get weird, unexpected microbes out of the environment,” said the assistant professor of chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Often, the...

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Man has been around 100,000 YEARS longer than previously thought | Science | News

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Man has been around 100,000 years longer than previously thought


State-of-the-art dating methods have pushed back the origins of our species by an unprecedented 100,000 years, uncovering the oldest modern human and our deep biological history in Africa.
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Possible explanation for unparalleled spread of Ebola virus discovered -- ScienceDaily

The world may be closer to knowing why Ebola spreads so easily thanks to a team of researchers from Tulane University and other leading institutions who discovered a new biological activity in a small protein from the deadly virus. The team’s findings were recently published in the...

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NSF Cuts PhD Training Grant

WIKIMEDIA, GARY PEEPLES/USFWSThe National Science Foundation (NSF) is shuttering a source of funding for PhD candidates in environmental sciences at US universities. In a “Dear Colleague Letter,” sent out yesterday morning (June 6), the agency announced that it would no longer offer PhD...

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Mass Die-Off of Whales in Atlantic Is Being Investigated

On average, eight humpback whales are stranded each year from Maine to Virginia, and fewer than two are hit by ships, according to data from NOAA.

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New way to detect Palmer amaranth in contaminated seedlots -- ScienceDaily

Last summer, farmers in the Midwest got an unwelcome surprise after planting native seed on Conservation Reserve Program acres. Palmer amaranth, the aggressive and hard-to-kill weed, had established in droves. As a possible solution, some states declared Palmer a noxious weed, which prohibits...

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The physics of baleen whales' eating habits -- ScienceDaily

In a recent paper published in PLOS One, Saint Louis University professor of physics Jean Potvin, Ph.D., and biologist Alexander Werth, Ph.D. at Hampden-Sydney College, detail for the first time how baleen whales use crossflow filtration to separate prey from water without ever coming into...

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AI system to diagnose pain levels in sheep -- ScienceDaily

The researchers have developed an AI system which uses five different facial expressions to recognise whether a sheep is in pain, and estimate the severity of that pain. The results could be used to improve sheep welfare, and could be applied to other types of animals, such as rodents used in...

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El Niño and global warming combine to cause record-breaking heat in Southeast Asia -- ScienceDaily

Scientists at The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have found that a devastating combination of global warming and El Niño is responsible for causing extreme temperatures in April 2016 in Southeast Asia.

The research, published on June 6 in the journal Nature...

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Lesser-known brain cell takes center stage -- ScienceDaily

Neurons have long enjoyed the spotlight in neuroscience — and for good reason: they are incredibly important cellular actors. But, increasingly, star-shaped support cells called astrocytes are being seen as more than bit players in the brain’s rich pageant.

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A step closer to finding CP violation -- ScienceDaily

The different rates of neutrino and anti-neutrino oscillations recorded by an international collaboration of researchers in Japan — including from Kavli IPMU — is an important step in the search for a new source of asymmetry in the laws that govern matter and antimatter.

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What caused the most toxic algal bloom ever observed in Monterey Bay? -- ScienceDaily

In late spring 2015, the West Coast of North America experienced one of the most toxic algal blooms on record. The bloom affected wildlife, including anchovies, sea birds, and sea lions, and led to the closure of commercial fisheries from California to Washington. Scientists quickly learned...

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Could acidifying oceans slow down coral disease? -- ScienceDaily

Coral reefs face intensifying struggles as greenhouse gases warm and acidify the ocean, but new research suggests a potential silver lining: Some coral diseases might also dwindle amid environmental change.

A controlled lab study led by Mote Marine Laboratory and published June 1 in the...

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