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June, 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentNasa launches a flying saucer-shaped vehicle to test the type of technologies it will need to put astronauts on the surface of Mars.
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June, 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanOne hundred years ago Scientific American documented the First World War as it engulfed soldiers, civilians and industries -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 28, 2014 from SPACE.comFrom night-shining clouds to stunning images of the Milky Way, don't miss these amazing objects to watch in the night sky.
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June, 28, 2014 from SPACE.comFrom the true size of sun's atmosphere to a trio of huge black holes, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for June 28, 2014.
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June, 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanPainter Greg Dunn describes how an aha moment kicked off his artistic career -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThe human brain sprouts more than 1,000 new neurons daily. These cells may hold a secret to treating a range of anxiety disorders -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanLetters to the editor from the March/April 2014 issue of Scientific American MIND -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanNanoparticles, laser cleaning, and glue-eating bacteria restore valuable frescoes and paintings -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 28, 2014 from SPACE.comJupiter will end its brilliant year-long showing on Sunday evening (June 29) with a rendezvous with a young and slender crescent moon. Both objects will sit low on the horizon in the twilight sky.
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June, 28, 2014 from International Business TimesA new study of deep ocean sediments has helped scientists determine why ice-age cycles became longer -- switching from 41,000-year cycles to 100,000-year cycles -- and more intense nearly 900,000 years ago. According to the study results...
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June, 28, 2014 from International Business TimesIn the remote deserts of southern Africa, scientists have discovered a new mammal species, which resembles a mouse but carries genes that are related to elephants. The new species of round-eared sengi, or elephant shrew, is the native of...
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June, 28, 2014 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesBack in 2013, Regina Dugan, the former DARPA head, and leading special projects for the Google-owned Motorola, showed electronic tattoos as one password authentication sign of the future.
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June, 28, 2014 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesHumans doing difficult, repetitive tasks or those who need assistance with movement may soon get a helping hand - literally - thanks to robotic technology developed to serve astronauts in space.
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June, 28, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsAs increasing numbers of teenage girls consult doctors about plastic surgery, what effect will the latest prescription for physical perfection have on the vulnerable, asks Rebecca Wilcox
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June, 28, 2014 from SPACE.comThe twin telescopes at the W.M. Keck Observatory are the largest optical and infrared telescopes in the world. The telescopes are located atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano in Hawaii.
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June, 28, 2014 from U.S. News - ScienceLOS ANGELES (AP) — After several weather delays, NASA will try to launch a "flying saucer" into Earth's atmosphere Saturday to test technology that could be used to land on Mars.
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June, 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsFor patients with KRAS wild-type untreated colorectal cancer, adding cetuximab or bevacizumab to combination chemotherapy offers equivalent survival, researchers said at the ESMO 16th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer in Barcelona.
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June, 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe new combination agent TAS-102 is able to improve overall survival compared to placebo in patients whose metastatic colorectal cancer is refractory to standard therapies, researchers said at the ESMO 16th World Congress on Gastrointes...
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June, 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAs the economic, political and personal costs of doing nothing to mitigate climate change skyrocket, there's one lifestyle change that slashes dietary greenhouse gas emissions in half: Veganism. Climate change is predicted to cost the U....
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June, 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comI am not strongly against the death penalty on principle or on moral grounds -- assuming, of course, that it could somehow be narrowly and efficiently restricted to a very few egregiously deserving and certainly guilty criminals. I don't...
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June, 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comResearch published today by the American Psychological Association has shown that chimpanzees prefer listening to West African akan and North Indian raga over listening to silence. What does this say about the evolutionary purpose of mus...
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsThe politically expedient way to mitigate climate change is essentially no way at all, according to a comprehensive new study by University of Chicago climatologist Raymond Pierrehumbert. read more
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsYou wouldn't think that mechanical force -- the simple kind used to eject unruly patrons from bars, shoe a horse or emboss the raised numerals on credit cards -- could process nanoparticles more subtly than the most advanced chemistry. r...
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsIn quantum physics, momentum and position are an example of conjugate variables. This means they are connected by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says that both quantities cannot be simultaneously measured precisely. Recently, ...
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsFor children, stress can go a long way. A little bit provides a platform for learning, adapting and coping. But a lot of it — chronic, toxic stress like poverty, neglect and physical abuse — can have lasting negative impacts....
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June, 27, 2014 from Scientific AmericanMachine-learning researchers are developing software that automatically searches through long videos to create edited summaries, or personalized trailers. Larry Greenemeier reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe Biological Records Centre, which supports more than 80 of the UK's wildlife recording societies and schemes, celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe huge number of ships sunk in the global conflict are be offered increased protection under a UN agreement.
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June, 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comClick here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. As an ocean scientist, undoubtedly, the most frequent question I am asked is about sharks. Is it safe to go into the ocean? Based on how sharks have been portrayed in movies, telev...
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June, 27, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserIt was a slowww reaction. When she was 14, a girl in Thailand got bit in the leg by a poisonous snake called the Malayan pit viper. A half-century later, she showed up at the doctor with a painful mass in that same leg, reports LiveScien...
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June, 27, 2014 from Inside SciencePutting foreign genetic material into bees may reveal insights into honeybee behavior. Originally published: Jun 27 2014 - 5:15pm By: Katharine Gammon, Contributor Science category: Animals Biology Materials News sectio...
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June, 27, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserStonehenge: Monumental human achievement, or total screwup? It's pretty much both, professor Ronald Hutton argued this week at a Daily Mail history festival , saying the structure was built by incompetent builders and left unfinished. Fo...
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June, 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comClick here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I must surely have a unique perspective on the subject of being eaten alive because, well, I have been. I lost my right arm from my elbow down to a shark and most of my right leg. ...
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June, 27, 2014 from SPACE.comThe sun's volatile atmosphere is even bigger than scientists expected, a NASA spacecraft has revealed. The space agency's STEREO satellite found that the solar atmosphere, known as the corona, stretches 5 million miles above the sun's su...
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > ScienceDr. Wing, a British psychiatrist, recognized autism as a mental disorder of many gradations, and she coined the term Asperger’s syndrome for its mildest form.
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June, 27, 2014 from Scientific AmericanBy analyzing what came out of Neanderthals, researchers have verified that at least some of them mixed vegetation into their meaty diet. Cynthia Graber reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 27, 2014 from Scientific AmericanTake a break from the heat this summer to step into some cool galleries exhibiting scienceart. If the exhibits keep pouring in at this rate, I’ll have to split up this post by region. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 27, 2014 from SPACE.comFootage from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, shows the mesmerizing flow of sound-like waves moving through the sun's corona.
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June, 27, 2014 from SPACE.comThe Angara rocket was scheduled to blast off today (June 27) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia, but automated control systems detected a problem and aborted the launch during the final countdown, Reuters reported.
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June, 27, 2014 from Scientific AmericanFirst-week-of-summer highlights include tech-savvy trees, gloppy oatmeal and vast swarms of now-extinct birds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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June, 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOcean swimmer Hamish Jolly wished there was a wetsuit that could keep sharks at bay -- so he invented one. Find out how he did it, and how you could apply the same techniques to create an innovation of your own. We want to know what you ...
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June, 27, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserScientists have discovered a new species that, though it looks a lot like a mouse, is actually a close genetic relative of an elephant. The mammal, which was found in a remote western African desert, is a type of elephant shrew or "round...
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June, 27, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearchers have given science a new and unprecedented 3-D view of one of the most important receptors in the brain -- a receptor that allows us to learn and remember, and whose dysfunction is involved in a wide range of neurological dis...
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June, 27, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsSome cancer patients with aggressive tumors may benefit from a class of anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, new research suggests. Studying triple-negative breast cancer, researchers found that some aggressive tum...
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June, 27, 2014 from SPACE.comTwo American astronauts on the International Space Station got a space-based head shaving yesterday courtesy of German crewmember Alexander Gerst after the three spaceflyers went in on a World Cup wager.
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsA small, drab and highly inconspicuous moth has been flitting nameless about its special niche among the middle elevations of one of the world's oldest mountain ranges, the southern Appalachian Mountains in North America. A team of Ameri...
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsNew research has revealed the causes and warning signs of rare tsunami earthquakes, which may lead to improved detection measures. read more
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June, 27, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsNew research in the journal Nature's Scientific Reports has provided a major new theory on the cause of the ice age that covered large parts of the Northern Hemisphere 2.6 million years ago. read more
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June, 27, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowNew shrew The newfound elephant shrew, Macroscelides micus. Dumbacher et al / Journal of Mammology In a remote area of northwest Namibia, scientists found a rust-colored shrew, which hides amongst the area's reddish volcanic rocks. Furth...
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June, 27, 2014 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.comAn international group of biologists led by Dr Jack Dumbacher from California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco has described a new species of elephant-shrew (round-eared sengi) from remote northwestern Namibia. The newly discovered s...
