Latest and Breaking Science News and Top Stories - July 7
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Look up tonight (July 7) to spot Saturn hovering very close to the moon. With its immediately recognizable rings, Saturn might be one of the most striking planets in the solar system, but many skywatchers find it hard to spot the planet ...
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PLOS ONE Meet the bone-house wasp. This newly-discovered Chinese wasp species is not afraid of spiders. In fact, it kills spiders with a sting and serves up the arachnids as food for the wasp's eggs. Unlike other wasps in the family Pomp...
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NASA's NEOWISE snapped a series of infrared images of C/2012 K1 (aka Pan-STARRS) in May 2014, when the comet was ~143 million miles away. The spiral galaxy, NGC 3726, is 55 million light years away, in the constellation Ursa Major.
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Property owners can help provide migrating and struggling monarch butterflies with a milkweed buffet and then map the insects’ arrival.
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In speaking about climate policy last week, President Obama chided senators who are trying to dodge the climate issue by claiming they were not scientists. The president went on to claim that he was not a scientist either, but that "I've...
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The mysterious makeup of the solar system's innermost planet may be due to a massive "hit and run" collision billions of years ago, a new study reports. A colossal but glancing smashup with a roughly Earth-size planet could have stripped...
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Two distinct population segments are now listed as threatened and two are listed as endangered by the National Marine Fisheries Service -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Targeting metacognition—our beliefs about thoughts—might alleviate mood disorders and even schizophrenia -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Customer service with a smile is the American way, but faking it all day can take an emotional and physical toll once workers head home, according to a small but compelling new study published in the journal Personnel Psychology . The fi...
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The colorful little guy pictured above puts the eyes of every other animal to shame. Whereas humans receive color information via three color receptors in our eyes, mantis shrimp ( Neogonodactylus oerstedii ) have 12 . Six of these diffe...
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Electric-blue noctilucent clouds glimmered in the sky just before dawn when this amazing image was captured.Astrophotographer John McConnell took the photo on June 20, 2014 from Maghaberry, Northern Ireland.
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'Active SETI' sounds like science fiction, but some astronomers are discussing it seriously today. The idea is a controversial, hot-button issue, with some researchers wary of sending signals out to touch base with intelligent aliens.
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By Sharon Begley NEW YORK, July 7 (Reuters) - One team of researchers assessing the risks of electronic cigarettes is counting the puffs taken by volunteer "vapers." Another will comb Facebook for posts on how people are tinkering with e...
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A trio of paleontologists has discovered a remarkable new tracksite in Alaska's Denali National Park filled with duck-billed dinosaur footprints -- technically referred to as hadrosaurs -- that demonstrates they not only lived in multi-g...
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While cigarette use is declining precipitously among youth, evidence indicates that American adolescents are turning to ethnically-linked alternative tobacco products, such as hookahs, cigars, and various smokeless tobacco products, acco...
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The results indicated that the science of pseudogene expression analysis may very well play a key role in explaining how cancer occurs by helping medical experts in the discovery of new biomarkers. The study's findings appear in today's ...
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Insights into how cells move through the body could lead to innovative techniques to stop cancer cells from spreading and causing secondary tumours, finds according to new UCL research.
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have headed a study that provides new knowledge about the EphA2 receptor, which is significant in several forms of cancer. This is important knowledge in itself -- but just as important is h...
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China's richest provinces have an outsized environmental impact on the country's water-scarce regions, according to new research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the University of Maryland.
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A variety of treatments for repairing the peripheral nerve injuries have been developed. Monitoring the peripheral nerve regeneration process in vivo without invasion, however, is less reported. This article describes the treatment optio...
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New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated.
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The retina and optic nerve are part of the CNS and this system is much used in experiments designed to test new ways of promoting regeneration after injury.
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Cerebral ischemia not only injuries neurons, but also involves the glial cells that provide a supportive scaffold to which the neurons are attached and the microvessels that provide energy for nervous tissue.
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Injury to the retina and optic nerve leads to irreversible loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and irreparable damage to their axons which ultimately leads to blindness. Providing a sustained source of neurotrophic growth factors is re...
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Cycling is a popular activity that offers clear health benefits, but there is an ongoing controversy about whether men who ride have a higher risk of urogenital disorders such as erectile dysfunction, infertility, or prostate cancer.
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Nearly half of doctors use staples over sutures to close C-sections. However new research has shown that sewing up a C-section skin incision with sutures leads to fewer complications than using surgical staples.
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Age limits on clinical trials need to be more flexible to allow more teenage cancer patients the chance to access new treatments, according to a report from the National Cancer Research Institute, published in the Lancet Oncology.
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Scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Florida have combined cookies, citizen science and robust research methods to track the diversity of ant species across the United States, and are now collaborating wi...
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Techniques for controlling ultra-cold atoms traveling in ring traps currently represent an important research area in physics. A new study gives a proof of principle, confirmed by numerical simulations, of the applicability to ultra-cold...
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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — They were dubbed the "forgotten souls" — the cremated remains of thousands of people who came through the doors of Oregon's state mental hospital, died there and whose ashes were abandoned inside 3,500 copper urns. Dis...
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The team intends to rescue the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 and then focus on what to use the spacecraft for -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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To influence carbon policy, the Natural Resources Defense Council followed a strategy used by the oil industry during the Bush administration.
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Colin Furze, a garage inventor and do-it-yourself daredevil from England, is a high school dropout who harnessed the powers of the X-Men superheroes to become a YouTube star.
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NASA's NEOWISE mission captured a series of pictures of comet C/2012 K1 -- also known as comet Pan-STARRS -- as it swept across our skies in May 2014. The comet is named after the astronomical survey project called the Panoramic Survey T...
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Scientists have completed the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of historic volcanic sulfate emissions in the Southern Hemisphere. The new record is derived from a large number of individual ice cores collected at location...
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What was your favorite space news story of the last week?
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A colossal but glancing smashup with a roughly Earth-size planet could have stripped away much of proto-Mercury's rocky mantle, explaining why the tiny, sun-scorched world has such a huge iron core today, researchers say.
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Wild elephants are being held in horrific conditions in Burma as smugglers seek to resume a lucrative trade to Thailand, a report says.
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official has ordered federal biologists to withdraw their conclusion that the last 300 wolverines in the continental United States deserve threatened species status.
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A new theory proposes methane-spurting single-celled organisms were behind the Permian extinctions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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High levels of blood glucose are linked to memory impairments -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Can excellent scientists be excellent physicians at the same time? "I would like to ask you about a trip to Thailand." This is not the kind of question I expected from a patient in my cardiology... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much are two pictures worth, especially if they show an odd-looking, allegedly descending light heading to the surface of Mars? These are real pictures, taken by the Curiosity rover -- some reports ...
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The bladed, quill-like feathers of modern birds are essential for flight, and over millions of years they have become highly specialized for this purpose. But this may not be the reason they first evolved, say researchers studying an unu...
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A new study has analyzed the difference between day hospital and inpatient stay in depression. Depending on the severity of depression, patients may be treated at different levels of care with psychotherapy and/or antidepressant medicati...
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A new study has analyzed the long-term effects of psychotherapy on borderline personality disorder. Authors report the effect of DBT compared to TAU on inpatient service use, and a follow-up 6 months after the end of treatment.
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A new study has addressed the relationship between personality and heart attacks. Distressed (type D) personality (TDP), characterized by high negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), along with depression, anxiety and other...
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Temperament has been traditionally associated with high blood pressure. A new study has substantiated this issue. Major depression and coronary heart disease have a strong, bidirectional relationship.
July, 6, 2014 from Scientific AmericanA new theory proposes methane-spurting single-celled organisms were behind the Permian extinctions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
