Supermoon 2017: What is the supermoon and why does it look so big? | Science | News

The upcoming full moon is the first and only supermoon to rise in the night skies this year. 
It will rise in the afternoon hours on Sunday December 3, before setting in the morning hours on the following Monday.
But despite what its name might suggest, the supermoon does not go through any...

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Partial Reprogramming Offers a Way to Generate High Volumes of Progenitor-Like Cells

Hollow iPL colonyLILY GUOThe promise of cell-based therapy is limited by the challenge of generating large enough numbers of the correct type of cells. But a strategy called interrupted reprogramming could help overcome this limitation. In study published today (November 30) in Stem Cell...

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Martine McCutcheon Admits She's Open To Role In Rival Soap 19 Years After 'EastEnders' Stint

It may have been 19 years since Tiffany Butcher was dramatically killed off at Christmas in ‘EastEnders’, but the popular character has remained in the forefront of fans’ minds over the years. 

Now, the actress who...

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Diesel cars unfairly DEMONISED for pollution with levels two times LESS than predicted | Science | News

Nitrogen dioxide, produced by diesel cars, is one of the worst polluting gases in the world and can have dramatic impacts on the environment and human health.
NO2 pollution is a series issue – however a new study suggests levels of NO2 in Europe could be two times smaller than...

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A Growing Open Access Toolbox

ISTOCK, SORBETTOOver the past year, major publishers began to crack down on illegal means of accessing paywalled articles for free. In November, the American Chemical Society (ACS) won a default judgement in its case against Sci-Hub, a pirate site for scholarly literature. ResearchGate, an...

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‘You will be talking with ALIENS’ Communist time capsule says ET would be here by now | Science | News

In 1967, locals in Siberia recorded their visions for the future in a time capsule and placed it in a wall in a building in the city of Novosibirsk.
The time capsule has now been opened to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Revolution and humanity has not quite achieved all the...

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Genetic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Identified

Metastatic breast cancerFLICKR, ED UTHMANTwo studies published today (October 23) document a slew of common genetic variants that correlate with an increased or decreased risk of developing breast cancer. For one study, published in Nature, researchers considered the genotypes of more than...

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Davood Ghadami Rubbishes Claims Suggestive Judges' Comments Are Sexual Harassment

‘Strictly Come Dancing’ star Davood Ghadami has rubbished claims some of the judges’ comments directed at him are akin to sexual harassment.
Earlier this week, HuffPost UK blogger Jay McCarthy penned a post suggesting some things the panel said to him following his Paso Doble...

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Space news Scientists discover hole in fabric of the universe – but what is its purpose? | Science | News

The perfectly spherical hole is a mind-boggling 1.8 BILLION light years across. And it contains absolutely NOTHING.
The bizarre phenomenon is being called a ‘supervoid’ and is the largest individual structure ever identified by humanity, dwarfing supermassive black holes, and even...

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Opinion: Share Your Data | The Scientist Magazine®

ISTOCK, RAWPIXELShould you share your scientific data? If you pose this question to almost any scientist, the answer will usually be an emphatic “yes,” because everyone appears to benefit. 

The most obvious beneficiaries of open-source data are investigators who cannot gather their own...

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The Anti-Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Proved Angels Come In All Shapes And Sizes

The Victoria’s Secret Show has come under fire for only featuring slim able-bodied models.
To prove that all bodies – whatever their size, shape or ability – are catwalk worthy, and to show the world-famous lingerie brand that they’re seriously missing a trick, two...

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AI warning to humanity: Brain-computer interfaces could be HACKED by robots, experts say | Science | News

A host of researchers, including Elon Musk and the US Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have been working on micro-chips for the brain that could boost human performance.
The objective of the brain-computer interfaces (BCI) include helping people with...

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Opinion: How to Define Cell Type

Neurons of the mouse hippocampus FLICKR, NICHDResearchers now recognize that there is far more heterogeneity within a given cell type than previously appreciated. Perhaps nowhere in the body is this more striking than in the brain. But as new technologies reveal differences in the genome,...

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Labour Students 'No Platform' Manchester Council Leader Sir Richard Leese Over Assault Allegation

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Labour students have decided to “no platform” the leader of Manchester City Council after they discovered he had received a police caution for assaulting his...

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Life after death shock claim: Heaven is REAL - 'I've been there' | Science | News

The Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) has been collecting people’s experiences of what it is like to be brought back from being clinically dead, and one person’s story suggests heaven is real.
A person by the username George J says that when they were a child, they were hit...

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Optogenetic Therapies Move Closer to Clinical Use

ISTOCK, COSMIN4000Early in 2016, a woman went to a clinic in Dallas to have a genetically modified adeno-associated virus injected into her eye. The woman was blind due to the degenerative disease retinitis pigmentosa, and the virus carried the gene for a light-responsive algae protein...

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Police Force Praised For Tweeting Powerful Open Letter To Women In Abusive Relationships

A police force in Scotland has been praised for using Twitter to help women in abusive relationships by writing an open letter telling them: “Help is out there.”
Officers on the Lochaber and Skye Police force, which covers the highlands ans islands of western Scotland, addressed a woman in...

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Aliens could contact humans within 25 years, claim top astronomers | Science | News

Scientists at the 2018 Sonar Festival in Spain have sent a message to a nearby star system, known as GJ 273 which is 12 lightyears from Earth, and if an intelligent race is there, they will hopefully reply.
Two planets are thought to be in the habitable zone – the area around a star which is...

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Telomere Length and Childhood Stress Don’t Always Correlate

ISTOCK, CHRISCHRISWStresses in adulthood can take their toll on the length of telomeres, those stretches of DNA protecting the ends of chromosomes that are widely regarded as markers for cellular aging. Studies of children living in tough environments, such as with abusive parents, also...

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Donald Tusk Calls David Davis' Brexit View 'English Humour' And Issues Ultimatum On Irish Border And Divorce Bill

Donald Tusk has called David Davis’ comments on Brexit an example of “English humour” and given him an ultimatum to move on the divorce bill and the Irish border.
He set a deadline of the start of December for Britain to make further movement on its Brexit divorce bill and the future of the...

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WHITE WINTER: 'Snow will cover Britain' when Nibiru approaches claims forecast | Science | News

Freezing temperatures and deep snow will cover the UK this winter following the catastrophic approach of Planet X, conspiracists are claiming.
An article shared on YogaEsoteric.com purports that the world is headed for an apocalyptic cataclysm caused by Nibiru.
The article reads:...

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Immune Checkpoint Found Lacking in Type 1 Diabetes

Watch the full video hereEUREKALERT, ANDREA PANIGADAType 1 diabetes is caused by the destruction of insulin-producing ß cells of the pancreas by the body’s own T cells. But why do these cells wreak such havoc in the first place and how might they be stopped?

A report in Science...

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British Workers Wanted

At Christmas last year, someone called Sarah wrote an email to our company, Drummer TV. She had seen some of the programmes we make and wanted to tell us about the colourful lives she and her friends led while at work at their busy recruitment agency in Bognor Regis. We get...

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When is the Spacex Falcon 9 launch? Elon Musk to fire Zuma payload into space | Science | News

When is the SpaceX Zuma launch?
The latest launch in SpaceX’s busy flight schedule remains shrouded in mystery, although some details have emerged. 
Elon Musk’s company will launch its signature Falcon 9 rocket on Thursday morning, November 16 during a 1am to 3am GMT (8pm to 10pm EST...

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Researchers Build a Cancer Immunotherapy Without Immune Cells

Conceptual illustration of a designer cell sensing a target cellRYO TACHIBANA, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOEngineering an immune cell to recognize and kill a cancer cell is the key to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, but modified immune...

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Government's Brexit Vote U-Turn Changes Nothing

 
Just three weeks ago David Davis prompted a wave of gasps from anti-Brexit MPs when he stated what was surely blindingly obvious: if the talks with the EU go to the wire, Parliament will not get a vote until after the deal has been signed.
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Venus Jupiter conjunction: What time will the planets align TONIGHT? | Science | News

What time is the Venus Jupiter conjunction?
Venus and Jupiter will both be visible in the eastern sky about an hour before sunrise tomorrow (November 12), staying low on the horizon. 
In the UK, Venus will rise at 5.56am, with Jupiter following close behind at 5.58am. 
The two planets are...

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Corals’ pH Sensor Identified | The Scientist Magazine®

WIKIMEDIA, AHMED ABDUL RAHMANResearchers have identified an enzyme that helps corals keep a steady pH in their cells, even as the acidity changes in their environments. Corals experience pH variation due to fluctuations in cellular metabolism, the differing pH needs of various parts of the...

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Paramedics Battling To Help 'Extremely Unwell' Patient Left Note Slamming Their Parking

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Paramedics in Birmingham were shocked to find the angry note on their windscreen


Paramedics treating a critically-ill patient who needed blue-lighting to hospital were...

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Real-life Jurassic Park: Rare 80 million-year-old shark species FOUND off Portuguese coast | Science | News

Researchers from Portugal’s Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere found a rare frilled shark off the coast of the Algarve.
The prehistoric beast has been swimming the seas for up to 80 million years judging by remains which have previously been found.
This means the species has lived during...

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American Chemical Society Wins Lawsuit Against Sci-Hub

ISTOCK, SITADEThe American Chemical Society (ACS), a nonprofit scientific society and academic publisher, has won its lawsuit against Sci-Hub, a widely used pirate site for scientific papers that was established in 2011 by former neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan.

In June, ACS brought...

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Chinese space station Tiangong-1 to crash down on EUROPE, experts warn | Science | News

The 8.5 tonne space station, which been in a decaying orbit since March 2016, is expected to re-enter the atmosphere early next year.
Forecasts predict the debris could rain down on several European countries – including Spain, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria and Greece.
The European Space Agency...

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Child Receives Transgenic Skin Over Most of His Body

Cultured epidermal sheetCMR UNIMOREThanks to an international team of scientists and doctors, a seven-year-old Syrian refugee who lost most of his outer skin to a life-threatening genetic disease now has a transgenic replacement, derived from his own cells, over approximately 80 percent of...

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May Told to Pay Up After Historic Vote By Own Workers

In a historic vote PCS members have sent a resounding message to Theresa May and her government.
An unprecedented majority (99%) of our union’s public sector members voting in a national ballot want an end to the pay cap. With 80% prepared to take industrial action if the...

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THE SIMPSONS MOVIE-inspired futuristic Mars habitat unveiled for life on Red Planet | Science | News

Each year, the Mars City Design holds a competition for entrants to design a Martian city for when humans finally make it to the Red Planet.
This year’s winning design was from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has unveiled a Simpsons Movie-inspired design.
In the 2007...

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Hormone Loss Prevents Obesity and Diabetes in Mice

Two very lean mice heterozygous for a mutation in FBN1 found in a patient with neonatal progeroid syndrome (left), with two wild-type mice (right). All four mice have been fed a high fat diet for three months.NATURE MEDICINE, 2017, C. DUERRSCHMID ET AL.Two people with a rare genetic...

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Jeremy Corbyn Warns Of 'Warped And Degrading' Westminster Culture Of Sexual Harassment

Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at the “warped and degrading” culture of sexual harassment in Westminster.
The Labour leader told his party’s North West conference in Blackpool on Sunday that abuse was “hiding in plain sight”.

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Time travel is possible and black holes hold the key | Science | News

In a piece written for the University of Sussex by astrophysicist John Gribbin, co-authored with his wife Mary Gribbin, they say that “there is nothing in the laws of physics to prevent time travel. 
“It may be extremely difficult to put into practice; but it is not impossible.”
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Study Raises Questions About tACS Boosting Memory

Electrodes used for tDCS are attached the scalp of an individual before he performs a multitasking cognitive test. FLICKR, U.S. AIR FORCE, J.M. EDDINS, JR.Zapping the brain with alternating, low-intensity electricity—a technique called transcranial alternating current stimulation...

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Journalist Petronella Wyatt Tells Today Programme She Was 'Flattered' By Groping In Westminster

A senior political journalist has revealed she was “flattered” by men groping her when she worked in Westminster in the 1990s, during a heated exchange on Radio 4′s Today programme.
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Great Pyramid of Giza scientific discovery may have left researchers CURSED | Science | News

The curse dates back the construction of both the Great Pyramid and a nearby burial site – which has been opened to the public despite a chilling warning from archaeologists.
Egyptian authorities have restored and reopened the 4,500-year-old tomb located in the “tribal mountains” near to the...

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The Genetic Strategies of Dealing with High Altitude

Aymara-speaking people of the Andean Altiplano in Copacabana, on the border of Lake Titicaca in BoliviaWIKIMEDIA, KILOBUGPeople who both travel to and live at high altitudes typically cope with lower oxygen levels by increasing red blood cell production, which can help get more oxygenated...

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Guardian Columnist Calls Female Political Journalists 'Predators' Who Trick 'Poor Old Ugly' MPs

Female lobby journalists are “predators” who trick “poor old ugly” MPs in order to get stories, it has been claimed. 
Michael White, the former political editor of the Guardian, faces calls to apologise after making the remarks on BBC Radio 4′s Media Show. 
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