Nine Things You Never Knew About Sperm (PHOTOS)

How much do you know about sperm cells? You know guys make a lot of them–but how many? You know they’re small–but how small? You know sperm cells swim their way to an egg cell–but with no brains, how in the heck do they know which way to go?
See, men and women,...

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HEALTH WARNING: Particulates in traffic are DOUBLE previously thought | Science | News

New research has found that exposure to pollutants during the daily commute is significantly higher, with the chemicals inhaled believed to be involved in the development of a number of heart and respiratory diseases, cancers and even neurodegenerative diseases.
Michael Bergin, professor of...

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Study Tracks Gender Ratios at Conferences

PIXABAY, RAWPIXELThe roster of invited speakers from four major virology conferences has been dominated by men over the last three decades, according to a recent analysis appearing in the August issue of the Journal of Virology. While these trends are “bleak,” the authors write in their...

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What Nobody Will Tell You About Virtual Reality

There’s a lot of hype about virtual reality these days, and most of it is wrong. Science fiction films and books have created a hunger for Oculus-style, head-mounted displays (HMDs) and “immersive” experiences, but does wearing a pair of goggles really have more power to...

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Monsanto, RoundUp and Junk Science

Last weekend demonstrators joined a March Against Monsanto in some 428 cities in 38 countries, including more than 240 cities in the U.S. alone. What exactly has so many people riled up? Monsanto, of course, is an agrichemical and biotech giant, responsible for more than 90 percent of the...

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John M. Templeton Jr., President Of The Templeton Foundation, Dies At 75

WASHINGTON (RNS) John M. Templeton Jr., a pediatric surgeon who left medicine behind to carry on his father’s passion for pursuing “new spiritual information” through the sciences as president and chairman of the Templeton Foundation, has died. He was 75.
Known as “Jack,” the younger...

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70-Something Woman Gives Birth -- And She's Even Breastfeeding

There’s no question that Daljinder Kaur is one of the oldest moms on record, but just how old she is has yet to be determined.


Kaur of Amritsar City, India, gave birth to her first child last month with the help of in-vitro fertilization.


The boy, Arman Singh, was born on April...

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Nikola Tesla Fell In Love With A Pigeon--And Six More Freaky Facts About The Iconic Inventor

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is best known for his pioneering research in electricity and robotics and for his numerous inventions, which include the eponymous Tesla coil.
But the Serbian-born scientist-inventor is also known for his strange obsessions and some truly bizarre behavior. (How many...

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WARNING: Supermassive black hole heading Earth’s way at 110 KM per SECOND | Science | News

A black hole with millions of times more mass than the sun is hurtling towards Earth and will one day wipe out life as we know it.
The black hole is speeding towards us at 110 kilometres per second and is at the centre of the Andromeda Galaxy – the Milky Way’s nearest and much larger...

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Zebrafish Embryos Survive Deep Freeze and Quick Thaw

Cryoprotectant and gold nanoparticles injected into zebrafish embryos allowed them to be frozen and reanimated. It is the first time this has been done with zebrafish embryos, scientists say.FULL VIDEO ON YOUTUBE, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA/SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY...

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5 Resources to Learn to Code

Coding, otherwise known as programming, was at some point something that only the nerdiest of nerds knew about, the same nerds that established a solid foundation for what we call the Web today. The internet is much dependent on programming to serve people with websites — such as...

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Stop Conversion Therapy -- It's Based on Pseudoscience

A report released on October 15 is a major step in President Obama’s commitment to expand the number of states enacting “Leelah’s Law,” which would ban the use of conversion therapy to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of lesbian, gay and transgender...

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Should Scientists Be Atheists? More Nonsense From Lawrence Krauss

While Lawrence Krauss has publicly denounced philosophy, he can’t seem to stop himself from doing it and doing it badly (and publicly, to boot). His lack of intellectual self-control is remarkable given that he is an accomplished physicist. He might have profited in his latest rant,...

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Bionic Legs Turn Ailing Sheepdog Into 'Robo-Dog'

An 11-year-old Shetland sheepdog named “Robbie” has been nicknamed “Robo-Dog” thanks to a pair of new bionic legs.


Robbie recently received the prosthetic hind legs after a series of medical problems, including paw injuries, skin tumors and orthopedic issues,  made...

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Viking 'Compass' Suggests Medieval Mariners Could Navigate After Sunset

Often regarded as ruthless robbers, the Vikings were also impressive mariners capable of traversing the North Atlantic along a nearly straight line. Now, new interpretations of a medieval compass suggest the sea robbers may have skillfully used the sun to operate the compass even when the...

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WE are the aliens: Life on Earth started in far flung galaxy TRANSFORMING Big Bang theory | Science | News

Matter formed billions of miles away in other galaxies flew into the Milky Way, which helped life on Earth begin, the new study reveals.
Computer simulations revealed that massive explosions such as supernovas – when stars explode – shoved “extragalactic matter” out of one galaxy, across the...

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Stem Cells Seek Out Tumors Based on Stiffness

The collagen network (cyan) serves as a biophysical biomarker of cancerous cells (red).LINAN LIU & JENU V. CHACKOFor the first time, researchers have genetically engineered mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) to deliver a therapeutic to tumor cells based on their stiffness relative to...

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Magic Leap's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed

A secretive tech startup called Magic Leap has been funded to the tune of $1.4 billion by the global financial elite. These historical investments have sparked a lot of curiosity among the public, but answers aren’t readily available. I’m a computer geek with a PhD in this field...

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What Makes the New Atheists So Charitable?

Co-authored by Tee Barnett, Programs and Educational Officer at Charity Science

Before getting to know your local atheist, it’s very much worth rehashing the ABCs of non-belief that run the risk of remaining little known, especially now that the skeptic community has become more...

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Why Theists Need Atheists | HuffPost

I spent about five years as an atheist. I know there are many atheists who think that I wasn’t a “real atheist” because I eventually turned back to religion. I accept this criticism. Maybe I wasn’t a real atheist, but what I learned as an atheist and from atheists is...

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King Tut's Knife Was Made From A Meteorite

Scientists say an iron knife buried with King Tut is truly out of this world.


The knife was made with iron that came from a meteorite, according to an article in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science published online last month. 


The dagger in question was one of two found in...

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Sounds From Space -- Music for Yuri's Night 2014!

Wow, where did the past year go? It’s once again time to dust off your space helmets and dancing shoes and get ready to celebrate the anniversary of the first human space flight! 53 years ago, on April 12th, 1961, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel into outer...

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Sticker on underwear sends distress signals to STOP sexual assault | Science | News

The wearable technology could put an end to the “disease” that is sexual assault, according to its creators.
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created ‘smart stickers’ that can sense when a person is being sexually assaulted.
The invention, produced by...

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Technique Rapidly Generates Monoclonal Antibodies In Vitro

Representative transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of a B cell stimulated in vitro with CpG/antigen particle, showing endoplasmic reticulum (ER) characteristic of a plasma cell.SANJUAN NANDIN I., DOMART, M-C; COLLINSON, L. From life-saving diagnostics and treatments to essential...

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Beyond 'Pink' Games: Industry and Academia Must Work Together To Engage Women Gamers and Developers

Exhibiting the work of controversial game developer Jason Rohrer at Wellesley’s Davis Museum (currently open) might seem like an odd choice for the elite women’s college. Rohrer, an independent game designer, writer, and designer, is known for original and often controversial...

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The True Religion | HuffPost

Here’s yet another entry from my Opinionated Dictionary of Religion.The True Religion: noun. The religion that is true, however truth may be construed.
Which of ten thousand past, present, and future religions is The True Religion?
Here are the choices.Option one. Only one religion...

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Are You More Than Your Genes? All Together With Dr. Robert Klitzman

What if you could know the future of your health — what diseases you might get and how you might die? Would you want to know even if you couldn’t change it?  And if you could change it for your self, or your children, would you? Or would that be changing who you are, how you...

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How To Keep Your Shower Curtain From Attacking You

Picture this: it’s a regular weekday morning. You hop out of bed, step in the shower, turn on the faucet and WHOOSH! Your shower curtain attempts to murder you.


No, it’s not quite that bad…but close enough. Your shower curtain blows inward, smothering you in plastic and...

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Bill Nye Explains Why He Agreed To Debate Creationist Ken Ham

Was it wrong for Bill Nye to debate young-earth creationist Ken Ham? Some scientists–including celebrated evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins–have spoken out against such debates, saying they lend an air of legitimacy to views for which there is no scientific support.
Why...

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Total solar eclipse August 2017 date, map, path: When and where to see the eclipse | Science | News

Tonight’s new moon kicks off the countdown to the Great American Eclipse, the first total eclipse visible from the US in almost 50 years.
The total solar eclipse will darken skies, drop temperatures and reveal the solar corona – the hazy aura of light that surrounds the Sun, which is...

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Engineered Human Liver Tissue Grows in Mice

Microscopic image of a liver tissue seed grown in a mouse (hepatocytes in green, blood vessels in magenta)CHELSEA FORTIN, KELLY STEVENS, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, SANGEETA BHATIA, MIT, BOSTONEngineering human livers is a lofty goal. Human liver cells, hepatocytes, are particularly...

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These Photos Reveal How Magnificent Our World Is On The Micro Level

The winning photos this year in Nikon’s annual Small World Photomicrography Competition offer an up-close look at our world’s microscopic realm — things that can’t be seen with the naked eye.
The annual competition, in its 41st year, recognizes some of the best...

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IPOed: Tech@NYU Offering the Public More

Tech@NYU is not your average organization. With more than 10,000 unique students attending events throughout the year, it is the largest technology-oriented student organization in New York City. Tech@NYU has successfully provided opportunities for students for professional and personal...

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Outrage Culture Kills Important Conversation

President Obama took a lot of heat recently for criticizing college leftists who are offended by dissenting opinions. But he’s absolutely right: Productive discourse is dying, trampled over by closed minds who value comfortable opinion-holding over uncomfortable soul-searching. As...

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Axioms for Faith | HuffPost

I co-lead an emergent Christian community of conversation in my city. We have various streams of events — community service, common meals, contemplative practice, services, book discussions, speaker events, community action, and faith-and-science discussions. A few weekends ago, we...

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High-Fiving Octopuses Caught On Tape

Now comes the biggest proof that octopuses — not “octopi” — are truly intelligent creatures: They know how to high-five.


At least two cephalopods off the coast of Portugal can do so.


A diver managed to film the stunning sea encounter on June 1 of two octopuses...

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Physics Legend Freeman Dyson On The One Thing We Just Don't Get About Science (PODCAST)

In a science career that has spanned more than 60 years, Freeman Dyson has worked alongside some of the greatest minds in theoretical physics, including Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, Hans Bethe, and Richard Feynman.
Of course, Dyson, 90, is himself a mathematical physicist of almost...

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SHOCK THEORY: Universe and time has repeated itself INFINITELY | Science | News

Have you ever had the feeling that you have done this exact same thing before? A new theory claims humans probably have repeated the same behaviour an infinite amount of times thanks to time and the universe repeating itself over and over for eternity.
The universe has been expanding at an...

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Mammalian Immunity: What’s RNAi Got to Do with It?

ISTOCK, ADVENTTRHad Xi Zhou known what he was in for a few years ago, he might never have gone looking for RNA interference (RNAi) in mammals. “At that time we are very young and kind of naive,” he says of himself and his collaborators.

But Zhou, a biologist at the Wuhan Institute of...

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Scientists Link Common Personality Trait To Musical Ability

Psychologists have long known that some people are unusually curious and adventurous, and more willing than others to try new things.


Now there’s new research suggesting that these individuals — people with “open” personalities — are also more likely to be...

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The Benefits of Being a 'Dumb' Girl in Computer Science

The following is a short essay about my journey into the field of computer science — why I made the switch from a previous career path, my hopes and heart-breaks (so far), and where I hope to go in the future.
I am very passionate about helping women take an interest in computer...

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Letters From the Damned | HuffPost

From Cro-Magnon Woman in Hell:You always hear about Cro-Magnon Man, and I just want everyone to know there were women too amongst us Cromies.
All of us Cro-Magnons, the men, the women, and the children, are here in hell. Not a one made it elsewhere.
When I say ‘men’ and...

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Cardinal Sends New Year's Message to the World: Let Us Make 2016 a Year of Action on Climate Change

It has been heartening to see, at the end of 2015, the world come together to confront a challenge to all of humanity and to the natural world itself – the challenge of climate change.
The outcome of the climate negotiations in Paris surpassed expectations, committing 195 countries to...

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There's More To This Car Seat Than Meets The Eye

It’s not all black and white. A photo of a gray car seat now has the internet seeing red, thanks to a clever optical illusion.


This car seat brainteaser is the latest image to send viewers into a tizzy trying to figure out the big deal.


Olivia Green recently posted the optical...

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Archimedes: The Greatest Scientist Who Ever Lived

The scientist who personifies the greatest achievements of Greek and Western science was Archimedes. He applied mathematics for the understanding of the natural world and the cosmos.
In one of his books, Ψαμμιτης (Psammites), or The Sand-Reckoner, Archimedes attempted to measure the size of...

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What is this huge perfect HEXAGON on the surface of Saturn? | Science | News

Conspiracy theorists have suggested the hexagon – which has sides longer than the diameter of planet earth – is an Illuminati structure, an alien spacecraft or even the gates to Hell.
And as bizarre as those theories are, scientists haven’t come up with much to beat them.
NASA’s Cassini...

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Major German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts

BRYAN SATALINOIn Germany, the fight for open access and favorable pricing for journals is getting heated. At the end of last month (June 30), four major academic institutions in Berlin announced that they would not renew their subscriptions with the Dutch publishing giant Elsevier once...

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A Microbiologist Recreated 'Starry Night' With Bacteria In A Petri Dish

If only Vincent van Gogh could have lived to see this strikingly accurate reproduction of his iconic “Starry Night” — especially since, instead of oil on canvas, the work is a bacteria on petri. Because even with these most minute of materials, the night sky still swirls...

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Why Having a High I.Q. May Soon Be Irrelevant

What is the relationship between intelligence and wealth? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Auren Hoffman, former LiveRamp CEO, Chairman of Siftery, started and sold five...

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What is the Devil? | HuffPost

From An Opinionated Dictionary of Religion at uponreligion.comDEVIL. Noun. A felon on license from God to wreak havoc on Earth.
The notion that unfortunate events are caused by unseen evil entities is prehistoric and ubiquitous. Every tribe has had its dastardly creatures responsibly for...

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Make Way for Turkeys | HuffPost

“Even creatures you might regard as though they were superfluous were integral to the creation of the world.” Midrash Rabbah on Exodus 7
I won’t go so far as to call them old friends – tight bunch as they are, the gang of wild turkeys that occasionally wander up...

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NASA Engineer Builds World's Largest Nerf Gun And It's Awesome

A former NASA engineer may rocket to fame with his newest creation: the world’s largest Nerf gun.


Mark Rober said he built the supersized Nerf toy mostly to survive in the workplace.


“People have these Nerf dart wars at work,” Rober explained on a YouTube video showing...

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Physicists Pin Down Value Of Newton's Gravitational Constant

Physicists have used the quantum nature of matter to obtain a highly precise value for the universal gravitational constant, the ‘big G‘ that appears in Isaac Newton’s law of how gravity pulls together everything, from planets to apples. Although the technique still needs...

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Alzheimer's news: 'Incredible' gene discovery could lead to drug treatment for Alzheimer's | Science | News

A team led by Cardiff University said the findings has enable a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the disease and offer further hope in developing treatments.
Dr Rebecca Sims from Cardiff University’s School of Medicine said: “In addition to identifying two genes that affect...

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Ebola Persistence Documented in Monkeys

Ebola virus (red) in the eye of a rhesus monkey survivor COURTESY OF XIANKUN (KEVIN) ZENGAlthough the Ebola outbreak in West Africa that started in 2013 was declared over more than a year ago, the disease lingers on. Many Ebola survivors have suffered from joint aches, vision problems,...

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7 Contemporary Artists Who Are Engaging With Tech Culture In New Ways

Painting and sculpture have their roots in ancient cultures, practiced by prehistoric artists across the globe. Photography, an infant compared to the other two mediums, is still nearly two centuries old, introduced to the world by technologically hungry photographers as early as the...

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Simulating Evolution: How Close Do Computer Models Come to Reality?

Christoph Adami, Michigan State University
Darwin’s theory of evolution is a simple but powerful framework that explains how complexity can come from simplicity: how everything biological around us – from the microbial biofilms on your teeth to the majestic redwood trees –...

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Skeptical About Climate Deniers | HuffPost

Few concepts are more poorly understood or more abused than skepticism. The best example of this abuse is to attribute the moniker of “climate change skeptic” to those who ignore the overwhelming data concerning global warming.
The shortest definition of skepticism is “an...

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Enfold Science in Theological Arms

From An Opinionated Dictionary of Religion
Quarkism*. noun. A modern neotheology embracing science.
In the fifth century BC, a Greek man named Democritus speculated that matter was composed of particles he called atoms, a Greek word meaning uncuttable, indivisible. Democritus thought...

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Shedding Snake Gets Lost Inside Its Own Skin For 3 Hours

It’s one thing to get lost in your own thoughts. Getting lost in your own skin is another thing entirely.


That’s what happened to a snake in Alice Springs, Australia, that was trying to shed its skin.


The Stimson’s python was crawling out of its old skin when it...

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Feynman Lectures On Physics Now Available Online Free Of Charge

From his work on the Manhattan Project to the key role he played in explaining the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Richard Feynman (1918-1988) is known for many things. But to generations of students, the late physicist is perhaps best known as the brain behind The Feynman Lectures On...

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Widespread chaos to follow rising sea levels, warns ex-Nasa boss | Science | News

Predicted research has suggested that a two degree rise in global temperatures will bring with it rising sea levels of eight inches, while the five degree increase will see sea levels jump by two metres as a result of melting ice caps.
Some scientists have said that it is too late to stop...

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First Genetic Screen of Pigs Using ENU

These images show mutant Bama miniature pigs, with black coat denoting the mutations in pigs on the left and short limbs and small body size of those on the right. HAI ET AL., ELIFE, 2017For the first time, researchers report the use of the mutagenic chemical N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) to...

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Winnie The Pooh's Skull Is Here To Destroy Your Childhood

Morbid fans of the Hundred-Acre Wood rejoice: The skull of the bear that inspired A.A. Milne’s classic “Winnie the Pooh” stories is now on public display at the Royal College of Surgeon’s Hunterian Museum in London — and it holds clues to how the bear suffered tooth...

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Is Machine Learning Over Hyped?

Is machine learning currently overhyped? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Scott Aaronson, Theoretical computer scientist at MIT, soon to be at UT Austin, on Quora.
There are...

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What is a Cult ?

The word ‘cult’ is never benign in religious terminology as it is in the world of art, where Johnny Stonenoggin filmster extraordinaire may cult-ivate a cult following for his eccentricity in artistry. Eccentricity in religion, if recent enough, is rarely welcomed with approving...

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Historical and Conceptual Introduction to Religion and Science

A friend overheard that I would be writing essays on religion and science and laughed. “What do religion and science have to do with each other?” he asked. He had a good liberal arts education, and had majored in physics. I was surprised that he had not heard that...

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Doctors Remove 14-Pound Hairball From Woman's Stomach

A British woman who suffered unexplained abdominal pain for months “cried with relief” after doctors removed a 14-pound hairball from her stomach.


Sophie Cox, 23, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, told South West News Service that the giant ball of human hair was built up over seven years...

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Ancient Soil Shows Oxygen-Producing Life Existed Way Earlier Than We Thought

It may be time to rewrite geology textbooks.
Geologists say they’ve found evidence that oxygen-producing life existed on Earth some 3.02 billion years ago–60 million years earlier than previously thought.
“This is a very exciting finding, which helps to fill a gap in our...

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Residents TERRIFIED as ‘ALIEN FOOTPRINTS’ found in Indian village | Science | News

Residents of the Anturu village of Gadag district in Karnataka have been struck with fear after finding large, human-like footprints on a farm and hearing “heavy breathing”.
Local reports say that villagers found up to 30 large footprints that they say is unlike anything they have ever seen...

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Zika Vaccines Protect Mouse Fetuses

ISTOCK, DENBOMA

     

Pregnant women and their children bear the destructive brunt of Zika, and since appreciating the connection between prenatal viral infection and the irreparable fetal harm associated with Congenital Zika Syndrome, independent groups of scientists are taking...

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This Is What's Living In New York City's Subways

A stunning new portrait series reveals an up-close glimpse of the germs growing in New York City’s subway cars.


Brooklyn-based artist Craig Ward rode the city’s 22 subway lines this past summer and used sterilized sponges to collect bacterial samples from hand rails, seats and...

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Diversity In STEM Is A Practical Goal, Not A Moral One

This post is by Erika Hairston and originally appeared on The Well, Jopwell’s editorial hub.
“Women and minorities just can’t do STEM.”
Hearing this sentence my junior year in high school, back when I aspired to be a U.S. ambassador, chilled me to the bone. From that...

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Advice to Young Ph.D.s in Religious Studies

Circumstances may have changed. But in 1993 when I earned a newly minted Ph.D., a senior scholar gave me the following advice:“As a freshly minted Ph.D. in Religious Studies you must embrace epoche as an indispensable approach to the study of religion. Pronounce it epokay, with the...

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12 Famous Scientists On The Possibility Of God

When President Barack Obama nominated the Christian geneticist Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health in 2009, some American scientists questioned whether someone who professed a strong belief in God was qualified to lead the largest biomedical research agency in the...

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Filmmaker Says Bigfoot 'Ruined' His Life

The man who shot a Bigfoot video that many believe is the most compelling proof of the creature’s existence says the experience “ruined” him.


Bob Gimlin shot the controversial film footage with Roger Patterson near Bluff Creek in Northern California in the fall of 1967.


Nearly 50 years...

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You Know How The Universe Got Here. This Is Where It's Headed

Where did the universe come from, and how is it evolving? Those questions made little sense a century or so ago, before the existence of the Big Bang theory.
“When Einstein was developing his general theory of relativity in 1915, the scientific picture of the universe was that it was...

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New Study Shows What Happens Inside Concussed Brain

Using a novel technique to peer through the skulls of living mice, researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland are observing concussed brains in real time, transforming ideas of what happens at the molecular level and pointing the way to possible treatment for mild brain...

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Mass evacuation prepared as ‘Volcano of FIRE’ bursts into life & could erupt at ANY MOMENT | Science | News

Volcan de Fuego, which translates as ‘Volcano of Fire’, shot ash up to a kilometre into the air after it violently erupted in the evening of Monday, July 10.
The local communities of Morelia Panimaché, Santa Sofía, and El Porvenir have been littered with ash from the volcano, and experts...

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Caterpillars Turn to Cannibalism: Study

An armyworm on a tomato plantDR. BRIAN CONNOLLYWhen plants come under attack—by a hungry caterpillar, for instance—many of them activate defenses that make their foliage less tasty, less nutritious, or toxic. But until now, scientists weren’t sure what the consequences of these plant...

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Scientist Discovers Hidden Portrait Beneath The Mona Lisa

For centuries, human beings from all walks of life have spent countless hours wondering what lies behind Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. Is it superiority? Cunning? Boredom? Finally, after 500 years of wondering, French scientist Pascal Cotte thinks he knows what Mona Lisa has been...

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Hey Men: Just Wanting More Women in Tech Does Not Make You Their Ally

By Jeff Stern
This week, we at Girls Who Code are celebrating the kick-off of our 2016 Summer Immersion Programs. More than 1,500 high school girls will spend seven weeks immersed in the tech world and learning computer science at 78 locations across the United States. This is especially...

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What is Marriage ? | HuffPost

Surveying world religions and cultures, marriage can be described as a life-long agreement between two or more people typically involving three commitments: some degree of cohabitation, some degree of exclusivity in sexuality, and some degree of mutual effort in the rearing children.
Given...

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Evolution Weekend: An Example of Reasoned, Civil Discourse

Most people agree that the vitriolic nature of the Republican presidential primary is doing very little to advance meaningful understanding of complex policy. Similarly most people recognize that being rude and boorish is not likely to bring individuals holding diverse opinions together. ...

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Man Spends $51,000 On Supercomputer That Only Plays Tetris

Like millions of computer geeks all over the world, James Newman has gone to great time and expense building his own computer.


But the 55-year-old British software engineer’s machine is way different than other home-built models.


Newman’s computer, actually a megaprocessor, takes up a...

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Nanoengineers create liquid-solid composites using clues from nature -- ScienceDaily

Materials scientists at Rice University are looking to nature — at the discs in human spines and the skin in ocean-diving fish, for example — for clues about designing materials with seemingly contradictory properties — flexibility and stiffness.

In research appearing...

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Oil spill impacts in coastal wetland -- ScienceDaily

Crude oil from the BP spill can still be found buried in the wetland soils. Surface of the soil is at the top and the oil can be seen as a line of reddish brown material running horizontally about 5 cm below the surface.
Credit: J. Levine






Crude oil from the BP spill can still be...

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New study showed relief from current dry spell unlikely within next 10,000 years -- ScienceDaily

The results, which include information during the last glacial and interglacial periods, showed that relief from the current dry spell across the interior of the Middle East is unlikely within the next 10,000 years.

“Local governments generally prefer the narrative that the region is...

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Women Handle Breakups Differently Than Men, Suggests Study

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 BackgroundAfter studying romantic relationships for over 30 years, biological anthropologist Helen Fisher concluded, “We...

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From $0 to $13.3B: The Value of Great Communication

Forget about your great idea.
Sad fact: bad communication kills great ideas. So, in theory, you can have the greatest idea in the world. But if you can’t communicate in a clear, concise, and compelling manner? You can forget about it.
Take steel. Dick Teresi tells us in Lost...

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How to Run Your Best Race in the Rain

Bill Bowerman, co-founder of Nike, once said: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.” The weather is beyond our control, so don’t fret about it too much. Instead, focus on what you can do to make it work in your favor. In adverse conditions, a little...

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11 Things You Didn't Know About How the World Works

Astrophysicist Joanne Baker once remarked, “We all use physics every day. When we look in a mirror, or put on a pair of glasses, we are using the physics of optics. Our mobile phones connect us via invisible electromagnetic threads to satellites orbiting overhead. Even the blood...

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NASA ISS live stream: Watch the International Space Station over Earth | Science | News

The International Space Station (ISS) is circling some 240 miles above the surface of Earth and filming our planet from space. 
The largest man-made satellite is currently orbiting the Earth and providing a glimpse into the wonders of outer space, streamed live over the internet.
The...

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Smarter control for border patrol -- ScienceDaily

As the United States expands surveillance technologies on, above and below its 1,900-mile-long border with Mexico, operating them effectively grows more challenging.

Systems and industrial engineers at the University of Arizona are building a framework for border surveillance that uses...

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White House Science Office in Flux

An administration official counters news of an unstaffed division at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, admits the agency is still adjusting.




WIKIMEDIAMedia reports swirled late last week concerning the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). CBS News...

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High efficiency perovskite PV films with meniscus-assisted technique -- ScienceDaily

A new low-temperature solution printing technique allows fabrication of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with large crystals intended to minimize current-robbing grain boundaries. The meniscus-assisted solution printing (MASP) technique boosts power conversion efficiencies to nearly 20...

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New biosynthetic pathway unique to pathogenic microorganisms -- ScienceDaily

The newly discovered pathway involves two genes which facilitate the binding of L-Glu to UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala and then epimerize (isomerize) L-Glu to D-Glu.
Credit: Dairi T. et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, March 15, 2017






The newly discovered pathway involves two...

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Climate change threatens domestic bee species -- ScienceDaily

There are around 550 different bee species in Germany. Most of them are solitary bees. They don’t live in large beehives like the honeybee, but each female bee often builds multiple nests and feeds her offspring alone. Solitary bees use their short lifespan of a few weeks exclusively to...

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New connections between the solid earth and the climate system -- ScienceDaily

Climate evolution shows some regularities, which can be traced throughout long periods of earth’s history. One of them is that the global average temperature and the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere usually go hand-in-hand. To put it simple: If the temperatures decline,...

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Changes in brain regions may explain why some prefer order and certainty -- ScienceDaily

Why do some people prefer stable, predictable lives while others prefer frequent changes? Why do some people make rational decisions and others, impulsive and reckless ones? UCLA behavioral neuroscientists have identified changes in two brain regions that may hold answers to these...

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18 Award-Winning Videos That Prove The Hidden Micro Realm Is Beautiful

There is a micro world full of drama and action all around us that our naked eyes can’t see.


But thanks to the incredible power of microscopes and advancing video technologies, this hidden realm can be revealed — just check out the videos (below) that were recently honored in...

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What the Rapid Growth of Computer Science Means for the Future

What is next for Computer Science education in the next 10-20 years? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Bill Poucher, CS Professor at Baylor University and Executive Director of...

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What is a Koan ?

Koans are the special short questions of spiritual masters in the Chan and Zen traditions. (Chinese Chan became Japanese Zen). Some seventeen hundred koans have lasted for over a thousand years and have been itemized in various collections.
Koans are used to move students beyond reason,...

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The Heavens Sound a Tone That We Can Hear

(Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
Our reading from the Torah this week finds Moses up on Mount Sinai, receiving instructions for the construction of the sanctuary that is to be the focal point of the wandering Israelite encampment in the wilderness – precursor to the eventual...

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Twin Brothers Battle Rare Condition That Causes Never-Ending Hunger

Raising twin boys is a challenge for any single mom, but it’s especially difficult for one particular mom in New Haven, Connecticut.


Dianna Schatzlein-Ahern’s two youngest sons, Stevie and Eddie Ahern, are 11. They both suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic condition that makes...

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Dragline silk from golden orb weaver spiders dissipates energy to prevent spinning -- ScienceDaily

The last time you watched a spider drop from the ceiling on a line of silk, it likely descended gracefully on its dragline instead of spiraling uncontrollably, because spider silk has an unusual ability to resist twisting forces.

In a new paper appearing this week in Applied Physics Letters,...

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International research team discovers previously unknown processes in the Atlantic -- ScienceDaily

Oxygen in the seawater is not only vital to most marine organisms, its concentrations also affect the chemistry of the ocean and that of the atmosphere above. In oceanic regions with very little oxygen, for example, large amounts of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, also called...

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Earth's magnetic field 'simpler than we thought' -- ScienceDaily

Scientists have identified patterns in Earth’s magnetic field that evolve on the order of 1,000 years, providing new insight into how the field works and adding a measure of predictability to changes in the field not previously known.

The discovery also will allow researchers to study...

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People Worry More About Kids Sexting Than Smoking, Survey Suggests

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 BackgroundSexting, or electronically sending sexually explicit messages or images, has become the norm for adults — it can even be...

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Outrageous Acts of Thinking: The Misuse of Science

I met an installation artist at a dinner party a couple of months ago. When she asked what I did, I told her I was a physicist.
“I love physicists,” she gushed. “I work with a tribe in the Amazon and they are more quantum mechanical than us.”
“What do you...

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You Won't Believe The Amazing Shots These Guys Make With A Homemade Catapult

Physicists use complex mathematics to calculate a projectile’s trajectory–lots of sines, cosines, and the like. But sometimes you just get lucky, as you can see in this fun new video showing the YouTube trick-shot artists known as the Legendary Shots, who reload their homemade...

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This Nerdy Neil Armstrong Speech Will Absolutely Inspire You (VIDEO)

Neil Armstrong inspired millions when he took those first steps on the moon. But the man others saw as a heroic explorer saw himself as a big nerd who loved math and science.
“I am and ever will be a white-socks, pocket-protector nerdy engineer. Born under the second law of...

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Alien invasion: THIS is what would happen if extraterrestrials colonised Earth | Science | News

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Are we prepared for an alien invasion?


Governments around the globe remain tight-lipped on counter-invasion strategies, with the US claiming nothing is in place and it would have to react to what exactly is in front of them.
But what is clear is there would be no point...

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Surveying sea floor animals for offshore renewable energy -- ScienceDaily

There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. But not much is known about the sediment and animal life along the sea floor in the region.

That presents a problem for renewable energy companies because they need to consider...

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Snake Sex Determination Dogma Overturned

Boa imperator and Python bivittatus TONY GAMBLEFor more than 50 years, scientists have taken for granted that all snakes share a ZW sex determination system, in which males have two Z chromosomes and females have one Z and one W. But a study, published today (July 6) in Current Biology,...

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Using motion of the ocean to bring fresh water to coastal communities -- ScienceDaily

His first thought was a device that would use wave action to pump deep, cold seawater to the surface to dampen the intensity of hurricanes, which thrive on warm water. He proved the concept with a simple tube and one-way valve attached to a buoy, but the idea had no commercial potential as...

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How plants grow like human brains -- ScienceDaily

Plants and brains are more alike than you might think: Salk scientists discovered that the mathematical rules governing how plants grow are similar to how brain cells sprout connections. The new work, published in Current Biology on July 6, 2017, and based on data from 3D laser scanning of...

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Long-term sexual intimidation may be widespread in primate societies -- ScienceDaily

After observing the mating habits of chacma baboons living in the wild over a four-year period, researchers have found that males of the species often use long-term sexual intimidation to control their mates. The findings reported in Current Biology on July 6 suggest that this mating strategy...

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New research provides the first biological map of priority areas that capture several dimensions of mammalian biodiversity -- ScienceDaily

Right now, a prairie dog in Colorado is busy increasing soil carbon retention, increasing water infiltration, and clipping vegetation that will help maintain local grasslands and provide nutritious forage for large herbivores like cattle and bison. And, somewhere in Mexico, a pollinating bat...

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Scientists begin to unravel how the protein tau transitions from a soluble liquid state to solid fibrous tangles -- ScienceDaily

While much about Alzheimer’s disease remains a mystery, scientists do know that part of the disease’s progression involves a normal protein called tau, aggregating to form ropelike inclusions within brain cells that eventually strangle the neurons. Yet how this protein transitions...

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How One Architect Imagines The Future Of Sustainable Cities

If you think of the city of the future as being filled with impossibly tall skyscrapers, think again. Instead, we could one day become people of the sea who live in “oceanscrapers.”


That’s according to Paris-based architect Vincent Callebaut, who released a series of...

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Hillary Clinton's Tech Agenda Addresses Key Industry Weaknesses of Diversity, Pipeline

Hillary Clinton introduced an aggressive tech innovation agenda early this week intended to continue the Obama administration’s legacy of progress in government technology, open data, computer science education, research and development, tech jobs, broadband infrastructure, internet...

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The Trinity Is One (Plus Two)

The math is elusive. It was figured with sharp pencils.
God is three and yet God is one. So said a 3rd-century African theologian who coined the term ‘Trinity’ and bequeathed it to 1,800 bishops gathered in 4th-century Anatolia to compose an obligatory Trinitarian creed, a creed...

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In Praise of Not Knowing

(The Adoration of the Golden Calf, Nicolas Poussin – image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
We know the story.
Down in the plain is the People of Israel, and they are becoming fearful. Moses has been up on the mountain quite a long while – because it turns out things are a...

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Self-Proclaimed 'Donkey Whisperer' Uses Technology To Translates 'Ee-Aws'

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Researchers devise way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels -- ScienceDaily

Biofuels like the ethanol in U.S. gasoline could get cheaper thanks to experts at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University.

They’ve demonstrated how to design and genetically engineer enzyme surfaces so they bind less to corn stalks and other cellulosic biomass,...

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Harvest, fisheries management, protected areas may affect ocean health near some countries -- ScienceDaily

While global ocean health has remained relatively stable over the past five years, individual countries have seen changes, according to a study published July 5, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Benjamin Halpern from University of California Santa Barbara, USA and colleagues.

The...

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Researchers analyze 38 climate models and project California will get on average 12 percent more precipitation through 2100 -- ScienceDaily

Under business-as-usual greenhouse gas emissions, climate models predict California will get warmer during the rest of the century and most also predict the state will get drier.

But, new research, published in the journal Nature Communications, predicts that California will actually get...

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Some Kids Have Three Times The Suggested Amount Of Homework, Study Suggests

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 BackgroundAfter enduring an entire day’s worth of school, how much time should children really be spending on homework? In...

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DNA Study Yields Big Surprise About The Tiny 'Molecule Of Life'

You don’t have to be a molecular biologist to know that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has a “double helix” structure. But if you think the molecule of life is nothing more than the “two helical chains each coiled round the same axis” outlined by Watson and Crick...

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Here's Why 'Flopping' In Basketball Just Doesn't Pay Off

The NBA’s regular season kicked off Tuesday night, and already players are being accused of “flopping” — with fingers pointing at Charlotte Hornets’ Lance Stephenson, San Antonio Spurs’ Tim Duncan and Indiana Pacers’ Roy Hibbert, among...

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Nobel Prize James Chadwick Won For Discovery Of Neutron To Be Sold At Auction

There’s more than one way to get your hands on a Nobel gold medal.
The 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to English physicist James Chadwick for his discovery of the neutron will be offered this morning (June 3).
Sotheby’s, which is handling the sale in New York, has...

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Submerged SUPER-VOLCANO at favourite Brit holiday destination alarms scientists | Science | News

Volcanologists are warning over the destructive power of the Phlegraean Fields, also known as Campi Flegrei, near to Naples, Italy, as it is showing signs of erupting.
The huge volcano – technically an eight-mile wide caldera – which is mostly underwater in the Bay of Naples, is...

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Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do -- ScienceDaily

Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like humans do, or act like humans expect humans to? Contrary to previous thinking, a ground-breaking new study has found for the first time that human morality can be modelled meaning that machine based moral decisions are, in principle,...

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Olfaction Determines Weight in Mice

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Most of us are familiar with the role of smell in our dining habits—that basket of freshly baked cookies is usually much harder to resist than a plate of odorless carrot sticks, and the taste of food is strongly tied to its aroma. But animals’ sense of smell is even...

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But different calculations mean estimated cost is 3 times lower in EU than with US methodology -- ScienceDaily

One of the benefits to cutting fossil fuel consumption is lowering air pollution. A new study in the August issue of Ecological Indicators shows that, on average, an increase in pollution particles in the air of 10 micrograms per cubic meter cuts victims’ life expectancy by 9-11 years...

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Improving the preservation of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -- ScienceDaily

The 90% of the biodiversity related to the amphibian populations in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -one of the most threatened tropical forests- is not a protected area yet, according to an article published in the journal Science Advances.

The new study, which has the participation of the...

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Researchers have constructed a model that incorporates a cost function to explore the behavior of cow herds -- ScienceDaily

The image of grazing cows in a field has long conjured up a romantic nostalgia about a relaxed pace of rural life. With closer inspection, however, researchers have recognized that what appears to be a randomly dispersed herd peacefully eating grass is in fact a complex system of individuals...

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Turning the climate tide by 2020 -- ScienceDaily

The world needs high-speed climate action for an immediate bending-down of the global greenhouse-gas emissions curve, leading experts caution. Aggressive reduction of fossil-fuel usage is the key to averting devastating heat extremes and unmanageable sea level rise, the authors argue in a...

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AEP protease acts on amyloid, tau and now alpha-synuclein -- ScienceDaily

Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are not the same. They affect different regions of the brain and have distinct genetic and environmental risk factors.

But at the biochemical level, these two neurodegenerative diseases start to look similar. That’s how Emory...

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How Emotions Change The Way Musicians' Brains Work

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent,” author Victor Hugo once said.


Indeed, at the core of making music is the attempt to express and convey emotions — and it turns out that when musicians are actively attempting to express...

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How Can We Get More Girls and Women in Tech?

Folks, it’s important to support women in tech. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 68% of women enroll in college (compared to 63% of men), and women increasingly outnumber men in college graduation rates. Despite these stats, women still make up only a quarter of the tech...

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Evangelical Lips* | HuffPost

Trump has distilled American Evangelicalism to a vinegary residue. He has stripped it to a hollow husk. An acidic shell is all that remains as The Cynical & Crafty Far Right Guides conclude their long, long manipulation of Evangelical churches.
Decades ago, The Cynical & Crafty Far...

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Why Most Americans Give Little or Nothing to Charity

Americans like to think of themselves as a generous people.
Two-thirds of Americans agree that it is very important for them to be a generous person, according to the Science of Generosity survey.
Another quarter of Americans were neutral; just 10 percent disagreed that generosity was not a...

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From Olympic Bodies To Circadian Rhythms: This Week's Curios

Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest.
Last week’s Curios covered Olympic bodies, Circadian rhythm hacking, and why black cab drivers in...

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Tilted microscopy technique better reveals protein structures -- ScienceDaily

The conventional way of placing protein samples under an electron microscope during cryo-EM experiments may fall flat when it comes to getting the best picture of a protein’s structure. In some cases, tilting a sheet of frozen proteins — by anywhere from 10 to 50 degrees —...

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'Perfect storm' led to 2016 Great Barrier Reef bleaching -- ScienceDaily

Researchers from James Cook University and the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium say unprecedented oceanographic conditions in 2016 produced the perfect storm of factors that lead to a mass coral bleaching.

JCU’s Professor Eric Wolanski said even in very warm...

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New reference data set for model intercomparison studies published -- ScienceDaily

How much do solar cycle variations influence our climate system? Could the rising Earth temperatures due to anthropogenic effects partly be compensated by a reduction of solar forcing in the future? These questions have been in the focus of climate research for a long time. In order to answer...

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The Sexual Double Standard Starts With Making Out, Study Suggests

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 BackgroundBy the time teens reach ninth grade, about 30 percent of them have started experimenting with sexual activities, whether...

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Are You Science-Literate? Take Our Quiz And Find Out

How much do you know about science? You’re about to find out.


From astronomy to physics, our fun but challenging science literacy quiz covers just about every discipline there is.


There are 44 questions. Each has only one correct answer. We’ve also included full...

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How to Improve Running -- With Mathematical Equations

Connected objects are everywhere in a sportsman’s life. Every day, new applications to improve fitness can be downloaded on your smartphone. They involve a lot of measurements and statistics but how reliable are they from a scientific point of view? How should we train to improve our...

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Panama Canal, World's Greatest Engineering Project, Turns 100

One hundred years ago, on August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened when the S. S. Ancon steamed through from the Atlantic to the Pacific side. The debut was quieter than intended because it was overshadowed by the widescale war that had just erupted in Europe, where 16 million men...

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SPACE WARNING: Satellite is SPIRALLING out of control above Earth | Science | News

Spacecraft construction company SES says it lost control of its satellite on June 17 and is now struggling locate it.
SES’s AMC-9 satellite, which was 36,000 kilometres above the Earth’s surface, began spiralling out of control following a “significant anomaly”.
The company, which bills...

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Neurotech experts call for new measures to ensure brain-controlled devices are beneficial and safe -- ScienceDaily

As brain-controlled robots enter everyday life, an article published in Science states that now is the time to take action and put in place guidelines that ensure the safe and beneficial use of direct brain-machine interaction.

Accountability, responsibility, privacy and security are all key...

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Electrical Stimulation Steers Neural Stem Cells

Human neural stem cells (green) guided by electrical stimulation migrated to and colonized the subventricular zone of rats’ brains. This image was taken three weeks after stimulation.JUNFENG FENG/UC DAVIS, SACRAMENTO AND REN JI HOSPITAL, SHANGHAINeural stem cells normally go with the flow...

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Solving a sweet problem for renewable biofuels and chemicals -- ScienceDaily

Whether or not society shakes its addiction to oil and gasoline will depend on a number of profound environmental, geopolitical and societal factors.

But with current oil prices hovering around $50 dollars a barrel, it won’t likely be anytime soon.
Despite several major national...

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Ancient Swiss reptile shows its bizarre scale armor for the first time -- ScienceDaily

Grisons, 241 million years ago — Instead of amidst high mountains, a small reptile suns itself on an island beach in a warm shallow sea, where many fish and marine reptiles frolic. This is the story told by an excellently preserved new discovery of the reptile Eusaurosphargis dalsassoi...

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When estimating extinction risk, don't leave out the males -- ScienceDaily

Extinction risk for some species could be drastically underestimated because most demographic models of animal populations only analyse the number and fertility of females, dismissing male data as ‘noise’.

An international team of researchers, including a PhD student and a...

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NASA detects drop in global fires -- ScienceDaily

Shifting livelihoods across the tropical forest frontiers of South America, the Eurasian Steppe, and the savannas of Africa are altering landscapes and leading to a significant decline in the amount of land burned by fire, a trend that NASA’s satellites have detected from space.

The...

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Social status of listener alters our voice -- ScienceDaily

People tend to change the pitch of their voice depending on who they are talking to, and how dominant they feel, a study by the University of Stirling has found.

The psychology research, published in PLOS ONE, put participants through a simulated job interview task and discovered that...

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Vintage Floral X-Rays Reveal The True Beauty Of Our Favorite Flowers

You’ve never seen roses, daffodils, and calla lilies quite like this before.


The images, on display at Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, California until Feb. 19, are not only breathtaking but also offer a fascinating look into an era when radiology was in its formative phase....

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Computer Science Education Made Fun and Easy

Knowing how to code is the wave of the future. Being able to code helps you to break down problems procedurally and think of new ideas in terms of processes. If you see something in the world that’s inefficient, a knowledge of code allows you to come up with concrete...

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Faith = Credulity ? | HuffPost

Is faith just a pretty word for credulity? Is a person of deep faith just a deeply credulous person? Is gullibility a mark of religiosity? If someone praises a woman saying, ‘She is a person of deep faith and a saint!’ can that be translated as, “She’s so gullible...

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Partnership in the Landscape | HuffPost

(photograph by the author)
The One who enwraps in light as with a garment;stretches out the heavens like a tent-curtain –The One who frames His upper chambers in the heavenly waters, makes the clouds His chariotand rides on the wings of the wind.(Psalm 104:2-3)
On account of laziness,...

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Amazing Photo Captures T-Rex Lightning Bolt

Welcome to Jurassic spark.


The U.S. Department of the Interior recently posted a photo on Facebook of a lightning bolt that looks amazingly like the head of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.


The bizarrely-shaped lightning bolt struck Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park near a formation called...

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Spinning electrons open the door to future hybrid electronics -- ScienceDaily

A discovery of how to control and transfer spinning electrons paves the way for novel hybrid devices that could outperform existing semiconductor electronics. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden demonstrate how to combine a commonly...

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More summer sunshine leading to increased Greenland ice melt -- ScienceDaily

A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has discovered that a marked decrease in summer cloud cover during the last 20 years has significantly accelerated melt from the Greenland ice sheet.

The new findings, published in Science Advances, show that less cloud cover and more...

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The Black Forest and climate change -- ScienceDaily

As the climate change progresses, droughts are expected to become more and more common and more intense in Europe, as in many parts of the globe. However, many plants are not able to handle this kind of climate. This includes the Norway spruce, which is Germany’s most important...

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The Major Downside Of All Those #Fitspiration Photos

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 BackgroundA quick search of #fitspiration or #fitspo on Instagram will yield nearly 30 million (and counting) photos of gym...

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How The Columbia Tragedy Shifted NASA's Sights To The Moon

On the morning of February 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia zipped over the California coast at a height of 44 miles, traveling 23 times the speed of sound.


The shuttle was coming home after a 16-day mission. In just a few minutes, it would be on the other side of the United States,...

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Twin Study Suggests Exercise Has A Dramatic Effect On The Brain

You already know that exercise can give you bigger muscles. Now, fascinating new research involving identical twins suggests it can do the same for your brain.
A small-scale study showed that twins who worked out regularly had significantly more gray matter — especially in the regions...

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This Physicist Says She Has Proof Black Holes Simply Don't Exist

Scientists have lots of bizarre theories about black holes. Black holes gobble up everything that gets too close, even light. They can cause time to slow. They contain entire universes.
But here’s something about black holes you might not have heard: they simply don’t exist.
At...

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Russia to launch satellite set to be almost as bright as the MOON | Science | News

In two weeks’ time, the Mayak will blast off from Kazakhstan attached to a Souyuz 2 rocket, with the aim of becoming the third or fourth brightest object in the night sky. 
Once it reaches roughly 370 miles above earth, the tiny satellite – about the size of a loaf of bread –...

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Cellulosic biofuels can benefit the environment if managed correctly -- ScienceDaily

Could cellulosic biofuels — or liquid energy derived from grasses and wood — become a green fuel of the future, providing an environmentally sustainable way of meeting energy needs? In Science, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Great Lakes Bioenergy Research...

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Opinion: Hidden Environmental Cost in Green Solutions

PIXABAY, KIRAHOFFMANNIn the search for ways to diminish human impact on the earth by reducing emissions and promoting sustainable resources, researchers and engineers have introduced alternative energy sources such as biofuels, or fuel created from plant matter. The demand for biofuel from...

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