Latest and Breaking Science News and Top Stories - July 4
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Better detection by the brain could explain why low-pitched notes carry the beat across musical cultures -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet orbiting a single star in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. The discovery is expected to help astronomers better understand how Earth-like, or even potentially ...
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Update as of 7:38 a.m. EDT: Hurricane Arthur has started moving offshore and away from North Carolina’s Outer Banks early Friday while heavy rains caused flooding in the region, according to media reports.
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The large-scale injection of wastewater from oil and gas production sites into a handful of disposal wells buried deep underground is the likely cause for a dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes in central Oklahoma since 2009, a...
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The people of the West Indies and the east coast of the United States are dealing with Hurricane Arthur first hand, but the six astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) undoubtedly have the best view of the storm. This morning...
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People would rather give themselves an electric shock than be alone with their thoughts, according to new research, but are the results so shocking?
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Are people who do physically demanding, not-afraid-to-get-dirty jobs like farming, mining and sheep castration (yes, you read that right) the happiest people on earth? So says Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs." See ...
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Writing Robot Mirko Tobias Schaefer/Gastev on Flickr, CC BY 2.0 176,000: the number of business stories the AP is now able to produce in a year, using its new, no-human-needed, story-writing software . 887: combined horsepower of the 201...
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This just may be the most terrifying place on Earth--at least if you happen to suffer from ophidiophobia, a.k.a fear of snakes . Ninety miles off the coast of São Paulo, Brazil lies Ilha de Queimada Grande , or "Snake Island" --a place s...
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A trio of technical troubles means that much-anticipated scientific results from the Gaia space telescope won't be released until the middle of 2016
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Friday (July 4) is a special summertime holiday for Americans on the ground and also in space. While people around the United States are barbecuing, drinking cold beverages and enjoying the summer sun, NASA astronauts aboard the Internat...
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Marine scientists see parrotfish protection as a vital step toward restoration of Caribbean reefs after decades of devastation.
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Three decades ago, researchers discovered that certain organic molecules become superconducting at low temperatures. This finding sparked numerous investigations into the properties of these lightweight, low-cost and easy-to-modify mater...
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When a massive star dies, it can collapse under its own gravity with such force that it produces a supernova, leaving behind an extremely dense remnant consisting almost entirely of neutrons—a neutron star. Some neutron stars, known as m...
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We need to spend an extra $1 trillion a year to avoid global warming – but a lot of the money could come from the subsidies currently handed to fossil fuels
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(Phys.org) —Sensors created by chemists at Queen Mary University of London could lead to a set of new tools for researchers to investigate conditions like diabetes resulting in earlier diagnosis and new treatments.
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(Phys.org) —Every day, above our planet, five Earth-observing satellites rush along like trains on the same "track," flying minutes, and sometimes seconds, behind one another. They carry more than 15 scientific instruments in total, look...
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(Phys.org) —NJIT researchers have developed a paint for use in coatings and packaging that changes color when exposed to high temperatures, delivering a visual warning to people handling material or equipment with the potential to malfun...
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US conservationists and a satellite imaging company have teamed up to use the power of crowdsourcing to halt the spread of destructive invasive plants.
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A group of Zambian chimps have developed a bizarre fad of sticking a blade of grass in their ears in behaviour which may prove that the primates are cabable of creating their own culture
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Animal tissue and elaborate structures for microelectronics could be engineered by generating tiny swells in a dish of saline solution
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Scientists are making food staples more sustainable, if not a little odd -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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If you are stuck in a highly repetitive, altogether routine job with no alternative employment options, then Scott Herriott of the Maharishi University of Management, in Fairfield, Iowa, suggests you take 20 minutes twice a day to experi...
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Move over, chimpanzees — there's a new brainiac in town, and this one has gills. A species of aquarium fish has a surprisingly long memory — it can recall the location of a tasty morsel of food up to 12 days after encountering it, accord...
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(Phys.org) —A groundbreaking study of the human ribosome is revealing that the tiny molecular machine is more versatile than previously understood. Minor changes in its sequencing can change its operation, allowing it to adapt to a chang...
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Joe Thornton's business is resurrection. He doesn't bring back people, or pets, or even proteobacteria. Thornton specializes in the science of re-engineering long-gone proteins. His artful attempts to re-create the path by which we arriv...
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(Phys.org) —Cholera against cholera: a novel inhibitor prevents the cholera toxin from binding to carbohydrates found on the surface of intestinal cells. An international team of researchers has described their elegant concept in the jou...
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In the universe of Bell's Brewery, Mars is a strong brew, Uranus a crafty potion mix and Mercury a nimble beer. Such is the thinking behind "The Planets" series of beers that Bell's is pioneering this August.
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The moon and Mars will rendezvous in the night sky Saturday, putting on a spectacular show. Some skywatchers will even see the moon blot out the Red Planet in an event known as an occultation.
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Why do we make the choices that we do? Are we born this way or have we become this way? The behavioural economists are looking for answers by the use of economic and math exercises in the laboratory.
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Singapore has used plasmonic properties to create a photorealistic printing technique. In their paper published in Nano Letters, the researchers describe how they created pillars of hydrogen silsequio...
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As the Doctor in Sociology of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country Laura Bilbao-Gómez admits, it was a bus shelter that prompted her to do her thesis on the image of the woman'’s body in advertising and its interaction with consu...
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from several facilities in California and from one in Australia has found evidence that an unfolded-protein-response can both activate and degrade the death receptor 5 protein (DR5). As the ...
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This July, a University of Kentucky professor is headed back to Lichfield Cathedral in England to continue a labor of love: digitizing the nearly 1,300-year-old St. Chad Gospels.
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Tapping another chimp means 'stop that' while the apes flirt by nibbling on a leaf, according to a study by the University of St Andrews
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Life as we know it on Earth is linked to our star, the Sun, which provides our planet with just the right amount of heat and energy for liquid water to be stable in our lakes, rivers and oceans. However, as the Sun ages, it is steadily g...
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Since the discovery of a Higgs boson by the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations in 2012, physicists at the LHC have been making intense efforts to measure this new particle's properties. The Standard Model Higgs boson is the particle associated...
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Everywhere you look, you see lithium-ion batteries. They're in your laptop, your cell phone, your power tools, maybe even your car. Lithium-ion battery research accounts for about 95% of all battery research and development, which has re...
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As the highest region on the planet, the Tibetan Plateau is often referred to as the Roof of the World. An average elevation in excess of 4,500 metres leaves most people struggling in the oxygen-poor air, but for the area’s Tibetan inhab...
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Even as cancer therapies improve, basic questions about drug resistance, tumour spread and the role of normal tissue remain unanswered -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Highly creative people often seem weirder than the rest of us. Now researchers know why -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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One of Europe's premier scientific research laboratories - the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - is to go through a 150m-euro (£120m) upgrade.
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The Galapagos Islands are as beautiful as they are unforgiving. Patrick Watkins could have told you as much when his captain rudely marooned him there in 1805 for acting like an ass. According to legend, mostly coming from Watkins himsel...
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Summer winds are intensifying along the west coasts of North and South America and southern Africa and climate change is a likely cause, a new study says.
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Earthquakes in Oklahoma are up more than a hundredfold in recent years, and a new study spies a pretty clear link between the shaking and the fracking that has given the state's economy a huge boost. Researchers took a close look at four...
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(Phys.org) —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.
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In the 1960s, scholar Paul R. Ehrlich warned that a looming global population explosion would usher in mass starvation and death by the end of the 20th century.
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If there's one thing nearly all modern technology has in common, it's heat. Whether it's your car, computer, television, or even refrigerator, they all generate large amounts of heat. And nearly all of it goes to waste.
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British entrepreneur and engineer Martin Myerscough has a plan to save the vast numbers of coffee cups that do not get recycled. You may be among the many who, when passing the coffee cups you see in the trashbins, see the waste—cups fas...
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have developed a way for superconducting quantum chips to talk to each other over large distances through an optical fibre, allowing quantum entanglement or teleportation - both key steps towards building a truly ...
