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Friday, July 25, 2014 from SPACE.comAs the world celebrates the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11's giant leap to the moon, some people are eyeing the celestial body's bounty of resources. But it's unclear at the moment who is allowed to extract and profit from the moon's reso...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from SPACE.comUsing observations by NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers determined that the exoplanet Kepler-93b is 1.48 times the size of Earth, allowing scientists to conclude that the planet is very likely composed of iron and r...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from SPACE.comIs the moon made of green cheese? Is it a hollow spaceship? Apollo 11 helped put these and other ideas to rest.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Psych Central NewsFor decades, sociologists have known that when a wife possessed a higher degree of educational obtainment than that her husband, her risk of divorce was higher than average. Now, a new study finds this is no longer the case. “We al...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Scientific AmericanCreativity may be defined as productivity marked by originality. Leonardo's studies of the brain were as creative as his art -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Wired Science“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare once asked, apparently in Romeo and Juliet, which I just learned from Google because I did not pay attention in that class in college. “That which we call a rose by any other name w...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Psych Central NewsHumans enjoy sharing life stories with others. And the ability to share personal news — both good and bad — has exploded over the last decade, particularly via social media and texting. However, existing research on “so...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent Articles
Friday, July 25 Mars and Spica shine in the southwest at nightfall. Mars keeps pulling farther away from Spica; they're now 6° apart. Saturn glows pale yellow to their upper left. Arcturus sparkles high to their upper right. Saturday, Ju... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from Phys.org: Astronomy NewsWhile missions like the Kepler can tell us quite a bit about other worlds, but to actually look into the heart of a planet we had to put a diamond through a pretty rough road-test.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from LiveScience.comWhen even Walmart can't buy as much green energy as it wants, there's a problem.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Whales have been endangered by human activity for hundreds of years mainly due to commercial hunting and fishing concerns. A new study from Oregon State University, published in PLOS ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online After nearly 3.5 billion years of evolutionary trial and error, the biodiversity of our planet is the highest it has ever been. An international group of scientists warns, however, th...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online An international team of researchers has discovered the first-ever fossils belonging to a plant-eating dinosaur that contained both scales and featherlike structures, suggesting th...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsExposure to light at night, which shuts off nighttime production of the hormone melatonin, renders breast cancer completely resistant to tamoxifen, a widely used breast cancer drug, says a new study by Tulane University School of Medicin...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsFor rats bearing human breast tumors, exposure to dim light at night made the tumors resistant to the breast cancer drug tamoxifen, according to data published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new study of participants in the National Lung Screening Trial finds that a false positive screen result -- a screening test in which initial findings of concern for cancer are later found not to be worrisome -- did not cause participa...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe European Society for Medical Oncology has expressed concern that the proposed EU General Data Protection Regulation could make cancer research impossible and add a significant burden to both doctors and cancer patients.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsToday, nearly 700,000 people in the US are living with a brain tumor, and yet, when it comes to pinpointing causes or risk factors, scientists are still searching for answers.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsDoes responsiveness increase sexual desire in the other person? Do men perceive responsive women as more attractive, and does the same hold true for women's perceptions of men? A study published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulle...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Evolution News & Views
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Evolution News & Views
Orb-weaver spiders are one of the most common types of spiders. They're the ones you find in your garden, building those beautiful big circular webs. -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA new material structure generates steam by soaking up the sun. The structure -- a layer of graphite flakes and an underlying carbon foam -- is a porous, insulating material structure that floats on water. When sunlight hits the structur...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesWe’re immediately trying this at home. All you need to recreate this awesome experiment is milk, food colouring and a drop of dish soap.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesThe team of students behind the Sunswift eVe has broken a 26-year-old speed record.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesAfter seven hours of surgery, doctors removed 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old Indian boy.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Physics NewsEfficient as fiber optic cables are at transmitting data in the form of light pulses, they do need to be physically supported, and they can only handle a finite amount of power. Still, what's ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Universe Today
The three man crew of Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 45 years ago today on July 24, 1969 – successfully concluding Earth’s first journey to land humans on another world and return them safely to our Home Planet. Apoll... -
Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesThis song will brighten your day - another great example of what happens when art and science collide.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from New Scientist - NewsChina's biggest search engine is pushing at the boundaries of artificial intelligence – and self-driving bikes are just the beginning
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsExcavations at an archaeological site at Kathu in the Northern Cape province of South Africa have produced tens of thousands of Earlier Stone Age artifacts, including hand axes and other tools. These discoveries were made by archaeologis...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsReversing the increasing rate of global biodiversity losses may not be possible without embracing intensive, and sometimes controversial, forms of threatened species management, according to a New Zealand zoologist and colleagues writing...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsActin is the most abundant protein in the body, and when you look more closely at its fundamental role in life, it's easy to see why. It is the basis of most movement in the body, and all cells and components within them have the capacit...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsWhen asked who is going to win an election, people tend to predict their own candidate will come out on top. When that doesn't happen, according to a new study from the University of Georgia, these "surprised losers" often have less trus...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsNarcissism, considered by some as the "dark side of the executive personality," may actually be a good thing when it comes to certain financial measures, with companies led by narcissistic CEOs outperforming those helmed by non-narcissis...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsInsecticides similar to nicotine, known as neonicotinoids, were found commonly in streams throughout the Midwest, according to a new USGS study. This is the first broad-scale investigation of neonicotinoid insecticides in the Midwestern ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesDitch your glasses and contacts for this new display technology that automatically addresses your vision problems.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe obsessive attention to the state of the latest El Niño comes from the major global impacts it can have.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Scientific AmericanWhen refilled prescriptions for post-heart-attack care resulted in the same medication looking different in shape or color, patients were significantly more likely to stop taking their meds. Dina... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from LiveScience.comYoung men in the U.S. military are more likely to have erectile dysfunction than their civilian counterparts, but few military men get treatment, according to a new study.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from LiveScience.comAbout a third of parents of obese children in a new study said they didn't see their child's weight as a health problem, a new study suggests.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science BlogSpinach gave Popeye super strength, but it also holds the […]
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanA commonly used blood thinner does not appear to lower the risk of blood clots or miscarriage during pregnancy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science BlogHoney bees, especially the young, are highly sensitive to temperature […]
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe sky is thick with smoke in central Washington, as the state's largest wildfire in recorded history leaves a charred trail of burned homes and blackened trees.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Discovery NewsThe son of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky says memories of abuse have come back to him, but there are reasons for caution. Continue reading →
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe birds of the American Southwest are as numerous and diverse as the multiple environments and landscapes upon which they carry on their daily life cycles.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from LiveScience.comFour astronauts are currently living in a school-bus-size habitat that is anchored 62 feet (19 meters) underwater for a nine-day mission to test tech for future space expeditions.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Scientific AmericanEvidence of feather-like structures have been found for the first time in the fossil of a plant-eating dinosaur rather than the dinosaur lineage closely related to birds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineWILLIMASBURG, VIRGINIA—An excavation near the Sir Christopher Wren Building at the College of William and Mary is investigating an early eighteenth-century structure thought to have been a brewery because of its central fire pit. The bee...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe Southwest's underground water supplies are shrinking faster than they're being replenished.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentSpecially designed mobile games can help scientists answer important questions about cognition, a team finds.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe atomic ship that totally failed to change the world
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from Reuters: Science News(Reuters) - Scientists will begin excavation early next week of an ancient Wyoming sinkhole containing a rare bounty of fossil remains of prehistoric animals, such as mammoths and dire wolves, preserved in unusually good condition, resea...
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe nuclear power industry is not as prepared for those external events, according to a National Academy of Sciences study ordered by Congress after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in Japan in 2011.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from NYT > ScienceWhile researchers pursue high-cost remedies for rare ailments, development of broadly useful drugs like antibiotics is lagging.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentSub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of biotechnology in order to establish sustainable development, says a Chatham House report.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA discovery of 150 million year old fossils in Siberia indicates that feathers were much more widespread among dinosaurs than previously thought.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentNew research suggests that the global reduction in wildlife is connected to an increase in human trafficking and child slavery.
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Friday, July 25, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA moratorium imposed after two accidents at other labs that could have exposed workers to anthrax and H5N1 was lifted because the lab has passed safety inspections and its work is crucial, a spokesman said.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceUnder pressure to reduce smog and carbon emissions, China is considering a mandatory cap on coal use, but it would be an adjustable ceiling and would allow coal consumption to grow for years.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Science News(Reuters) - A pivotal trial of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc's experimental drug Zerenex showed that it improved levels of serum phosphorus and iron in patients on kidney dialysis, according to results published on Thursday.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsCAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) - For the past four months, a team of researchers have been living in a mockup Mars habitat on a Hawaiian volcano practicing isolated living on the Red Planet.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceSo much of the food we eat these days is encased in plastic. And behind it is a whole lot of research and innovation. We dive into some of the materials that keep food fresh and portable.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentMPs have called for a ban on food waste going in to landfill.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentA ban on sending leftover food to landfill is needed to move away from a 'throwaway society', say MPs.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe plight of the nearly 30-year-old polar bear, who lost his enclosure mate two years ago, has attracted attention from well-wishers the world over who want him moved.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceResearch on flies in drier conditions indicates that some have the genes to survive longer over generations.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceScientists have discovered what may be the most common virus in people worldwide. The tiny critter doesn't make us sick but may be involved in obesity and diabetes.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentEurope's Rosetta probe has acquired new images of the comet it is chasing through space.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe UK government wants to scrap a community veto which allows local politicians to block a future £12bn nuclear waste repository.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from International Business TimesAt a time when scientists are unclear about the current location of NASA’s Voyager 1, which began its journey toward interstellar space in 1990, a new study has proposed a test to determine whether the spacecraft has indeed left the heli...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from International Business Times“To feel envy is human,” German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said. However, research findings from a study conducted by psychologists in California suggest that even our canine companions might suffer an occasional pang of jealousy.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - The director of a U.S. government bioterror lab that potentially exposed scores of workers to live anthrax last month has resigned, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday. Michael Farrell, head ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriWe've been included in @lifehackorg's list of mind-blowing podcasts! http://www.lifehack.org/?p=172031
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / sciencechannelScience Channel is at @Comic_Con! Check out our #UnexplainedFiles panel Fri 7pm Room 7AB & follow for a chance to win prizes at home! #SDCC
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBill and Barbara Westbrook are frequent visitors to the Olare Motorogi Conservancy in Kenya, but they'll be the first to say that their most recent visit was the best yet. While at the conservancy's Kicheche Bush Camp, the Westbrooks wit...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comIf you're wondering how our food will be grown eons from now, a good place to start your research might be -- not so surprisingly -- in the contemporary art world. One need only visit the website of one Sam Van Aken , an American artist ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / nsf.@calpoly students' #NSFfunded invention will allow disabled man to compete in triathalon: http://bit.ly/1tFrl8f via @SLOTribune
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / nsfWhy #engineers want to mimic this beetle http://1.usa.gov/1nkg9xd #biodiversity #materialscience pic.twitter.com/jrSKPeoh8b
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NYT > ScienceTwo operational coal-to-gas plants in China and 48 proposed ones would together emit an estimated 1.1 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, Greenpeace said.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comSome 70 million years ago, three tyrannosaurs stalked together across a mud flat in Canada, possibly searching for prey. The new insight comes from several parallel tyrannosaur tracks unearthed in Canada. The dinosaur tracks provide stro...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / nsfTake a super slo-mo ride with water droplets and some superhydrophobic surfaces in NSF's Video of the Week http://youtu.be/UG4IMfH7I3E
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentBurning wood to fuel power stations can create as many harmful carbon emissions as burning coal, according to a government report.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / nsf#tbt This was the #STEM commercial from when i was a kid from @NSF ...careful, it's catchy tune: http://youtu.be/KSR2Ov9LuhM via @YouTube
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriHelp us improve our website by taking this quick survey for us! https://scifri.typeform.com/to/N7yOen
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentNasa is asking for help to get data back from future science missions orbiting Mars or roaming its surface.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserWhen an isolated tribe emerged from the Amazon in recent weeks and initiated contact with Brazilian scientists in the village of Ashaninka near the Peruvian border, some called the move "potentially tragic" —and, indeed, though they were...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / nsfEconomic incentives can increase blood donations without diminishing blood safety http://go.usa.gov/5RFG
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedIf you hate de-seeding you favourite fruit, you might be glad to hear that scientists in India have reportedly successfully grown a “seedless” mango.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comMy doctor gave me one of those heart-to-heart talks: You need to lose some weight and exercise more, he said. The "or else" was implied. I know that being overweight increases your risk of heart disease, diabetes, strokes, and a million ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriFor your next #camping trip, consider these apps: http://scifri.me/1tc8FNh pic.twitter.com/mMIoTYsOPQ
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / naturenewsOutlook #AssessingScience: The lessons learned from Australia and New Zealand http://bit.ly/1pK4ndn pic.twitter.com/Ef77O9kK0C
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceNew research examines the effects of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month during which millions of people around the world go without food all day. Does religious practice affect economic growth?
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters) - Paracetamol, a painkiller universally recommended to treat people with acute low back pain, does not speed recovery or reduce pain from the condition, according to the results of a large trial published on Thursday.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Widespread drought across the West had forecasters expecting an above-average wildfire season this summer, which so far has not lived up to expectations. U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell said Wednesday that ...
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe timing of when a girl reaches puberty is controlled by hundreds of genes, say scientists.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesBlue whales cluster for long periods in the busy shipping lanes off the California coast, according to a new study that raises concern about collisions between vessels and the endangered animals.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new form of the powerful and controversial pain reliever OxyContin that is designed to be more resistant to abuse, but experts warned the drug could wind up having the opposite effect.
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsCharles Dawin's observation that dogs exhibit jealousy has been proven right by scientists at the University of California
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 from Twitter Search / sciencechannelA man in China built several replica Batmobiles [Video] http://bit.ly/1nWrPS4 #SCI2 #BatmanDay pic.twitter.com/HvpvbEZEQb
