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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Universe Today
We’ve said it before: Mars’ moon Phobos is doomed. But a new study indicates it might be worse than we thought. One of the most striking features we see on images of Phobos is the parallel sets of grooves on the moon’s surface. They were...-
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from LiveScience.comOctopuses are highly intelligent, and thanks to their amazing, neuron-filled tentacles, they can do humanlike tasks such as unscrewing jars and lids.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Psych Central News
Although daily weighing is a useful tool to help adults control their weight, a new study does not recommend it for adolescents and young adults. Researchers from the University of Minnesota... -
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsA presentation by human factors/ergonomics researchers at the HFES 2015 International Annual Meeting in Los Angeles in October explained how a voter's positive or negative experience with a particular voting system is influenced not only...
- Going up? Attention space elevator button pushers! A feature-length documentary called Sky Line is being released this month, an impressive view that follows a group of scientists and entrepreneurs as egos collide in an attempt to reach...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Universe Today
Humans, cars and planets are made of molecules. And molecules are made of atoms. Atoms are made of protons, neutrons and electrons. What are they made of? This is the standard model of particle physics, which explains how everything is...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsMobile phone calls are analyzed to thwart crime and track diseases. Now, University at Buffalo researchers are studying if such data can help combat extreme poverty.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThe planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet's tenuous atmosphere and may lead to a new paradigm on how these airless bodies...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesFiled under Digital Disruptors by the BBC: Could we soon charge our phones through the air? Meredith Perry, CEO of uBeam, spoke about her vision: no more wires, no more international adapters every time you cross borders and no more...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsThe long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. read more
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent ArticlesThe post M 1 (The Crab Nebula) appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from LiveScience.comAn ozone hole larger than the North American continent was observed over Antarctica by researchers at the German Aerospace Center. It's the first time the ozone hole has been this large since 2006.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from SPACE.comAn asteroid found itself trapped by the tidal forces of the white dwarf ‘undead’ star SDSS J1228+1040, then ripped apart. Observations by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) reveal the remains of the space rock.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe remains of a fatal interaction between a dead star and its asteroid supper have been studied in detail for the first time by an international team of astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile....
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA surprise discovery may speed the transformation to hydrogen as a major fuel source in the future. Scientists discovered a biopolymer that was capturing and storing hydrogen. They have applied for a patent for the substance called...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent ArticlesThe post Leo Triplet with Tidal Tail and Dwarf Galaxy appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Discovery NewsRampant wildfires in Indonesia are destroying many of the world's few remaining natural habitats for endangered orangutans.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science BlogSeveral years ago, University at Buffalo biologists noticed something odd. They were studying how a worm called C. elegans would react when different genes were deleted from its DNA. One particularly interesting deletion resulted in...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesPurdue University is collaborating with General Motors to develop a new type of energy-absorbing material that might be 3-D printed and that could have an impact in areas ranging from earthquake engineering to safer football helmets.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent ArticlesThe post The Crab Nebula (M1) appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from SPACE.comA "zombie" star and the remains of its lunch are revealed in a new close-up view, 12 years in the making.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Discovery NewsScientists have known for some time that Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two small moons, is a victim of gravity, edging closer toward its parent planet.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from LiveScience.comA congenital heart defect went undetected for nearly seven decades.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from SPACE.comLego Star Wars kits, and especially its minifigures, pack a lot of personality into a few pieces of plastic. That goes double for photographer Vesa Lehtimäki's new Lego photo book.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesIn the quest for renewable fuels, scientists are taking lessons from a humble bacterium that fills our oceans and covers moist surfaces the world over. While the organism captures light to make food in a process called photosynthesis,...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsThe results of an opportunistic, pilot-scale study led by Virginia Wotring of the Center for Space Medicine and Department of Pharmacology at Baylor College of Medicine in the U.S. suggest that medication degradation on the International...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from SPACE.comChronicling the second chapter of the European Space Agency’s mission to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, this fairy tale-like treatment of the two probes’ primary findings will warm your heart.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsThe emergence of high-temperature superconductors that can also operate at high magnetic fields opens a new, lower-cost path to fusion energy.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Phys.org: Astronomy NewsThe sight of an asteroid being ripped apart by a dead star and forming a glowing debris ring has been captured in an image for the first time.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Psych Central News
A new study suggests the institution of marriage has changed, reflecting women’s educational attainment, earnings potential and involvement in the workforce. The commitment of women to jobs and careers has […] -
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Science BlogScientists have caught for the first time an image of an asteroid getting torn up by a dead star and forming a glowing red debris ring. The research, Doppler-imaging of the planetary debris disc at the white dwarf SDSS...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsNew advances in nanopore technology could lead to the development of a surgically implantable, artificial kidney.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Science BlogUIC bioengineers have developed an algorithm that can “see” your intention as you perform an ordinary action like reaching for a cup or driving straight up a road — even if the action is interrupted. The goal is software that, for...
- A new paper from British psychologists David Shanks and colleagues will add to the growing sense of a "reproducibility crisis" in the field of psychology. The paper is called Romance, Risk, and Replication and it examines the question of...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearchers have found that produce that contained bacteria would contaminate other produce items through the continued use of knives or graters -- the bacteria would latch on to the utensils commonly found in consumers' homes and...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Discovery NewsMany fish look misshapen, but there's a method behind the size madness: avoiding fitting into a predator’s mouth.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsDust begets life, and Earth's atmosphere 300 million years ago was perhaps the dustiest of all time, with large consequences for carbon cycling and the climate system. In a new article geologists examine the bioavailability of iron in...
- A University of Southampton-led of team of archaeologists has discovered almost two dozen shipwrecks around the Fourni archipelago, Greece. The Fourni archipelago is a group of small islands that lie in a triangle formed by the eastern...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsMore than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Discovery NewsNASA scientist offers kits for genetic hacking ranging from $75 to $5,000. Continue reading →
- A new map reveals the path the Ebola virus took as the deadly virus spread across Sierra Leone.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from SPACE.comA remotely piloted glider, with a wing designed like a bird's wing, could increase the efficiency of planes on Earth, or even inspire aircraft that cruise through the Martian atmosphere.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com » AstronomyUsing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered for the first time a population of ancient white dwarf stars embedded in the Milky Way Galaxy’s crowded central hub of stars. About 13 billion years ago, the...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsPluto’s heart is deep basin, possibly caused by a run in with something else in the Kuiper belt.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesGoogle on Tuesday updated its free map service to guide users of Android-powered smartphones to destinations without relying on Internet connections.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from e! Science News - Popular science newsAlmost every person has an appreciation for natural environments. In addition, most people find healthy or pristine locations with high biodiversity more beautiful and aesthetically pleasing than environmentally degraded locations. In a...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesLineFORM from the Tangible Media Group at MIT Media Lab is the result of its creators asking questions. What if we have a shape-changing material that consists of a Line? Using such material, how will interactions with computers or tools...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from LiveScience.comTheobroma cacao, the tree that produces chocolate, first diverged from its nearest relatives about 10 million years ago, new research suggests.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from LiveScience.comA middle-age woman in Africa who became infected with Ebola suffered a stroke during her bout with the virus but managed to survive both maladies, according to a new report of her case.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science BlogThere are many ways to divvy up a pile of cookies. Among the possibilities: Everyone can get an equal number, or those who contributed more to the cookie baking can get a larger share. In studies, young children usually default to...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaFor the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has recommended a cap on sugar consumption for Americans.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from National Geographic NewsA new model suggests the big cats will soon recolonize Arkansas, Missouri, and other parts of the American heartland.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science - Los Angeles TimesScientists have discovered that sperm have a previously unrecognized skill – they can swim in a “slither” mode when they are close to the wall of their environment. The motion of a slithering sperm cell resembles that of a snake...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from National Geographic NewsFine against U.S. retailer is a strike against an illicit industry that’s devastating forests—and vulnerable species—in eastern Russia.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from NYT > ScienceRubber and plastic dummies that have skin and internal organs with a realistic feel are providing blood-and-guts training for operations.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAn impoverished nation must balance domestic demands for development and international demands to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.com(function(){var...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaBhargava says Modi government the least knowledgeable about science.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Physics NewsMaterials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark's skin is used to develop materials that reduce drag in water, ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from NYT > ScienceAutonomous vehicles might remain an expensive novelty, or they might utterly transform society. Either way, they have much to teach us about how to look at the cities we live in.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from National Geographic NewsAmmonia detected on Ceres’ surface suggests a cold birth beyond Neptune’s orbit.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWe've seen recent headlines that President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL pipeline and that the New York Attorney General is investigating Exxon on the company's potentially illegal activities around climate change research. This is...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from MyScienceAcademyFamous pundits virtually never make falsifiable forecasts.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from MyScienceAcademyThis article explains how drinking water can help you lose weight.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentEnergy Secretary says the government remains committed to meeting renewable energy targets set by the EU following controversy over a leaked letter suggesting a shortfall.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from U.S. News - ScienceTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Scientists say an algae bloom that spread across Lake Erie this past summer was the largest on record and produced a thick scum about the size of New York City.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from National Geographic NewsThere’s a price on anything that walks, creeps, crawls, or flies, as a South African nature cop explains.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters) - British pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies face a major skills shortage which threatens future investment and the long-term success of the life sciences sector, according to a new industry report.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science & Health from NewserThe New York Times has an interesting roundup of recent discoveries made at and around Stonehenge that could shed new light on the famous monument and the people who built it nearly 5,000 years ago. Last month, archaeologists dug up an...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineCAIRO, EGYPT—Thermal scans of Khufu’s Great Pyramid were made at sunrise, as the sun heats the structure, and at sunset, when they pyramid cools, as part of Egypt’s Scan Pyramids Mission. Scientists from Cairo...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Top Science TweetsAPOD: 2015 November 10 - AE Aurigae and the Flaming Star Nebula http:// buff.ly/1HEnGgT pic.twitter.com/doyXLI9dh1
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaOperation Scan Pyramids began on October 25 to search for hidden chambers inside four pyramids, including Khufu’s, the tallest pyramid.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from U.S. News - SciencePhysicist Stephen Hawking unwell, canceling several public events, university says.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from RIA NovostiWhistleblower Edward Snowden said in a video-conference sponsored by the PEN America free speech association that spends the majority of his time in exile developing technological solutions to ensure communications remain private.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaMedical ethics clearly prohibit any sexual contact between a doctor and a patient.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from - Science RSS FeedThe horrifying photograph has been widely shared online as evidence of extraterrestrial visitors, but none of it appears to be as claimed
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - ScienceIt's a conundrum few researchers would hope to find themselves in.Emerging evidence has turned the positive hypothesis you've long been basing your work off on its head - and the new findings are going displease a lot of...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Top Science TweetsBreaking news: https://www. sciencenews.org/article/pluto- continues-deliver-surprises …
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comYou live on a world of dry red rock. Something's missing. Air? Check. Gravity? Check. 294 days worth of Tang? Check, check, check. So, what could it be? A visual sweep of the white half-sphere in which we dwell quickly reveals the...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from NYT > ScienceProfessor Girard’s explorations of literature and myth helped establish influential ideas about how people are motivated to want things.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWe can create an unlimited number of beautiful images by drawing ellipses. The following images are some examples that I have created by some computer programs. At the end of this post you can see the mathematical descriptions of "...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from - Science RSS FeedParents' 'favoured' child is more likely to suffer from depression as opposed to overlooked siblings
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays NATIONAL HARBOR, Md., Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Jean-Luc Margot, a professor of planetary astronomy at UCLA, wants to simplify the official definition of a planet.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaResearchers have developed a tool that can let even a novice build a customised 3D-printed walking robot.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Physics NewsA piezoelectric load-sensing washer being developed by a professor and a recent graduate at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) provides a more accurate way to measure the clamping ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from Science - Los Angeles TimesSmaller carbon footprints, generous tax rebates and lowering or eliminating fuel costs aren't the only reasons people buy the plug-in versions of electric and hybrid cars in California. In the first study of its type, UCLA's Luskin...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from NYT > ScienceDrone racing enthusiasts envision televised races and significant purses in their emerging sport.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaFUJIFILM Corporation on Tuesday announced to conduct a clinical trial of its anti-cancer drug FF-10101 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in the United States next year.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaSelf-weighing can be a useful tool to help adults control their weight, but for adolescents and young adults this behaviour may have negative psychological outcomes.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Researchers at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks say tundra fires are to blame for widespread permafrost thawing across the arctic.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comScience conducted at independent research institutes (IRI) is a critical part of so many of the scientific and health care advances that we all enjoy. The quality of the work at IRIs is extremely high, but the economic realities...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWinter is coming, and for many of us that means snowfall, comfy sweaters and, unfortunately, runny noses. But before you curse the reason for all those tissues, watch the TedEd video above. It'll help you appreciate the slimy stuff....
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 from National Geographic NewsA new report highlights the urgency for action at Paris climate talks later this month.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from nzherald.co.nz - ScienceDutch professor Mark Post, pioneer of the world's first laboratory-grown burger, expects cultured meat to eventually replace traditionally-farmed beef.Post, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and a keynote speaker at...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comNASA announced last week that it plans to hire new astronauts for its Mars and International Space Station missions. But before you fill out your application, bear in mind that space travel has some serious downsides, especially when it...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsScientists at Newcastle University have found clusters of cancer in certain years suggesting that they are linked to environmental factors like flu outbreaks or air pollution
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsThe team which created the HPV vaccine has used the same method to create a jab against cholesterol
- An atomic-scale fingerprint could boost the security of connected devices, according to the British scientists who have developed it.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comI couldn't agree more with the point that Jeremy Rifkin makes in the third part of his series on the Third Industrial Revolution -- countries that entered the 21st century with the most minimal infrastructure stand to gain the most in...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from Anthropology-NewsNote from the editor: Anthropology News shares here two essays that discuss the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction movement (BDS) as it relates to current discussions among anthropologists. As a reminder, all essays appearing in...
