Friday's Top 50 Science News & Stories
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A Europeanized Russian Soyuz rocket successfully placed four O3b Networks Ka-band broadband satellites into an unusual medium-Earth orbit on July 10, 2014.
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With storm clouds still lingering over the foggy Eastern Shore of Virginia today (July 11), the private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences Corp. again postponed the launch of its second unmanned mission to the International Space Station.
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Do you want to know what it's like to walk on the moon? On Monday (July 14), find out what it's like to bounce on the lunar surface from someone who has actually been there: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
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In The Air Or Under Water? When a Russian Soyuz rocket launched in Kazakhstan this week, onlookers were treated to a sight most reminiscent of the deep sea : a rocket plume that resembled a jellyfish. The plume formed when the core-stage...
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The United States has a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies than the global average.
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The emergency effort is one of the biggest direct reuse of water programs in the U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Genetically modified apples may soon hit the market Photograph by Travis Rathbone; Stylist: Sarah Guido for Halley Resources L ater this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture may approve the Arctic Granny and Arctic Golden, the first ...
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A co-designer of an experiment that might have confirmed gravitational waves isn't bothered by criticism that cosmic dust may account for his results -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Implants to restore brain function lost to injury and disease win support from a defense agency -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Eat Kelp. It’s chock-full of nutrients, it mitigates climate change by sequestering carbon, improves oceans by soaking up excess nitrogen and phosphorus, and has potential as a valuable... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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China has publicly admitted permitting the trade in skins from captive tigers, an international convention to protect endangered species hears.
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The movie Her makes a compelling case for a computer program with feelings. Is that actually possible? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Type in your city name and see what temperatures there will be in 2100 if current emissions trends continue -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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On Wednesday (July 9), the Planetary Society announced launch dates for its LightSail-1 spacecraft — a possible test flight in 2015 (LightSail-A) and a full mission the next year (LightSail-B) with nearly identical hardware.
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Recent photos snapped by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft suggest that its target comet, known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is a lumpy object sporting three large structures, or perhaps a deep hole.
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A list of communicative conservationists who press the case for animal care on Twitter.
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The Hearing specialist and sax player says that studying the brain during flights of improvisation may provide new understanding of creativity—as well as insight into the musical genius of John... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican...
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The torrents of data flowing out of cancer research and treatment are yielding fresh insight into the disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The greatest, smoothest gunslinger of all time—and I say it knowing full well I’m going to get emails for this opinion—is Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name, aka Blondie, of Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti w...
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A future lunar probe could be setting China up for a manned mission next decade. After details were released late last month of the Chang’e 5 mission—a robotic lander that will collect samples from the lunar surface and retur...
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Is there any science behind Planet of the Apes?
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A comet-galaxy conjunction is a rare opportunity for amateur astronomers.
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'Fertigation,' drip irrigation and decentralized water treatment are new keys to a lush, green, sustainable lawn.
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Mice consuming a supplement of omega 3 fatty acids had healthier joints than those fed diets high in saturated fats and omega 6 fatty acids, according to Duke Medicine researchers.
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The demonstration that astrocytes, the brain's most abundant cell type, participate in the formation of inhibitory synapses in the cortex suggests an important role for these cells in some neurological disorders.
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Using spider toxins to study the proteins that let nerve cells send out electrical signals, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have stumbled upon a biological tactic that may offer a new way to protect crops from insect plagues in a safe...
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Re-tearing a repaired knee anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) happens all too frequently, however a recent study being presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting suggests that identification an...
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Anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions occur more than 200,000 times a year, but the type of material used to create a new ligament may determine how long you stay in the game, say researchers presenting their work today at the Annua...
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Women are more likely to wear a red shirt when they are expecting to meet an attractive man, relative to an unattractive man or a woman. But do women view other women in red as being more sexually receptive? And would that result in a wo...
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A novel mouse model allows for the transplantation of human blood-forming stem cells without the need for irradiation therapy.
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This study published online in Cell Stell Cell provides an important theoretical foundation for stem cell-based gene therapy.
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A team of researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, BGI and other institutes have identified a gene of wild soybean linked to salt tolerance, with implication for improving this important crop to grow in saline soil. This stu...
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The incidence of inflammatory bowel diseases is rising sharply -- particularly among young people. However, new research from Aarhus University indicates that growing up on a livestock farm may have a protective effect.
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New research from UC San Francisco shows that an 'expressive therapy' group intervention conducted by The Medea Project helps women living with HIV disclose their health status and improves their social support, self-efficacy and the saf...
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Researchers from Umeå University, Sweden, have explored two different ways that allow unprecedented experimental insights into the reaction sequence leading to the formation of oxygen molecules in photosynthesis. The two studies have bee...
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An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, has just a reported a major step in understanding photosynthesis, the process by which the Earth first gained an...
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Social animals often develop relationships with other group members to reduce aggression and gain access to scarce resources. In wild chacma baboons the strategy for grooming activities shows a certain pattern across the day. The results...
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Guam and surrounding areas were under a Tropical Storm Warning and Watch on July 11 as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead. During the early morning hours on July 11, Tropical Depression 09W strengthened into a tropical storm.
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Young adults who screened positive for a history of hazardous or binge drinking reduced their binge drinking by more than 50 percent after receiving mobile phone text messages following a visit to the emergency department, according to a...
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Autonomous vehicles could automatically assume the right positions for photographic lighting.
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Research led by Professor van Staa, carried out while he was a member of the Clinical Practice Research Datalink and who is now based at The University of Manchester's Health eResearch Centre, published in Health Technology Assessment to...
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The increased risk of kidney injury related to the use of hydroxyethyl starch in resuscitation fluids reflects the mass of HES molecules, according to a report in Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia R...
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Researchers have pioneered a revolutionary new way to digitally navigate three-dimensional images. The new technology, called Virtual Finger, allows scientists to move through digital images of small structures like neurons and synapses ...
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Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain electric charge in the process. Now, the same team has demonstrated that this proces...
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Southern Japan received a soaking from Tropical Storm Neoguri on July 9 and 10 and data from the The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite was used to create a map that shows how much rain fell in Kyushu.
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X-ray phase-contrast imaging can provide high-quality images of objects with lower radiation dose. But until now these images have been hard to obtain and required special X-ray sources whose properties are only found at particle acceler...
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The Mills Canyon fire started near the City of Entiat on Tuesday, July 8, 2014.
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There were many fires burning in eastern New South Wales, Australia when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead on July 11.
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A researcher in Taiwan was accused of creating online accounts to judge his own academic papers in the journal called a “peer-review and citation ring.”
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People in Guernsey are being warned to be careful on the beach after blue jellyfish were spotted off the coast.
