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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsBiological researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) are a step closer to finding a new cost-effective vaccine for the intestinal disease, coccidiosis, which can have devastating effects on poultry production.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanThree experiments will begin upgrades that could help them corner the particles responsible for the universe’s missing mass -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanA three-step plan for using data right in an age of government overreach -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research suggests that the emotional connections and desires established on a first date, determine the fate of a potential relationship. Responsiveness, or the support for another’s needs and goals, may be one of those initial ̶...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsResearchers using statistical tools to map social connections in prairie dogs have uncovered relationships that escaped traditional observational techniques, shedding light on prairie dog communities that may help limit the spread of bub...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanEnhance your well-being by focusing on deeper goals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA new study demonstrates that childhood abuse affects the way genes are activated, thereby influencing a child’s long-term development. Previous studies focused on how a particular child’s individual characteristics and genet...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanWhen patients take too many unnecessary antibiotics it inches us ever closer to a world where essential drugs are no longer effective. More than two million people in the United States develop... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsA team of researchers with members from several countries working together in Rome, Italy, has come up with a new explanation of how it is that starlings are able to fly in a flock in a way that makes them appear as a single organism. In...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from SPACE.comThe supermassive black hole at the center of a far-off galaxy is putting on a fireworks display of cosmic proportions.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from SPACE.comThe founding population of an interstellar colony should consist of 20,000 to 40,000 people, one expert says. Such a large group would possess a great deal of genetic and demographic diversity, giving the settlement the best chance of su...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research finds a key element in the treatment of overweight and obese preschoolers is parental involvement. Investigators discovered traditional approaches to overweight prevention and treatment focusing only on the child are outdate...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsWhen it comes to monitoring the abundance and behaviors of whales, most research and conservation efforts rely on visual observations. People go out on a boat and systematically scan the ocean, clipboard in hand. "But the ocean is very v...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research suggests material items designed to create or enhance an experience can make shoppers just as happy as performance of life activities. San Francisco State University researchers discovered the products satisfy a different, b...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Wired ScienceKatherine Freese, a physicist who will soon lead the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, reflects on the hunt for dark matter and how dark matter heating may have produced the first stars.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Wired ScienceIn a new study, scientists tracked the activity of 80 percent of the neurons in the brain of a baby zebrafish as the animal as the animal responds to what it sees. The scientists who made it say their new technique, called light-sheet im...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanNew prize favors boldness and promise -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsThe enduring popularity of "little tiger" as a snack to accompany a beer in Vietnam means that cat owners live in constant fear of animal snatchers, despite an official ban.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Phys.org: Plants & Animals NewsScientists have discovered a new species of mayfly in the southern Western Ghats, a mountain range along the west coast of India. In fact, this is the first time that any mayfly belonging to the genus Labiobaetis has been collected in pe...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online After spending the past four months living and working in a simulated Mars environment in Hawaii, six volunteers emerged from the mock base on Friday, various media outlets reporte...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe space rock that wiped out most of the dinosaurs may have had a colossal case of bad timing. If the impact had occurred a few million years earlier or later, more of the majestic beasts may have survived, scientists say.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIn one of the largest prevalence studies to date, researchers from the UK provide national, regional, and global genotype prevalence estimates for the hepatitis C virus. Findings published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Associa...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsDinosaurs might have survived the asteroid strike that wiped them out if it had taken place slightly earlier or later in history, scientists say.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new in vitro study has revealed that nicotine and cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine, can potentially inhibit DNA damage caused by a certain carcinogen in smoke.The carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone or NNK is pr...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new study has found that following a healthy lifestyle may lower childhood cancer survivors' risk of developing the metabolic syndrome.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAn elusive state of matter called superconductivity could be realized in stacks of sheetlike crystals just a few atoms thick, new analysis determined. Electrons and 'holes' would accumulate in separate layers of a 2D semiconductor compou...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new technique which uses light like a needle to thread long chains of particles could help bring sci-fi concepts such as cloaking devices one step closer to reality.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNorwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole in December of 1911. More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists led by Joe McConnell of Nevada's Desert Research Institute have proven tha...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsGender inequalities in health vary in European countries according to their family policies model. Countries with traditional policies (central and southern Europe) and contradictory policies (eastern Europe), present higher inequalities...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers from the University of Bradford, UK, have devised a simple blood test that can be used to diagnose whether people have cancer or not.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThanks to a small, wearable device that can hang on a pair of eyeglasses, a common complication of diabetes may get caught sooner. Researchers in Taiwan have developed a pupillometer that scans the patient's eyes for early signs of diabe...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA psychology researcher at North Carolina State University is proposing a new theory to explain why older adults show declining cognitive ability with age, but don't necessarily show declines in the workplace or daily life. One key appea...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsStrapping two individual electrons to two ions enabled Weizmann physicists to measure the magnetic interactions between them.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWeizmann Institute researchers explain why genetic fertility problems can persist in a population.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsVirus-killing molecules may need all their skills, including inflammation, to fight HIV infection.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA recent study shows that the emission is dominated by the local hot bubble of gas -- 1 million degrees -- with, at most, 40 percent of emission originating within the solar system. The findings, published in the journal Nature, should p...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new research project from Aarhus University shows that many adolescents suffer from knee pain for several years. The pain impacts both sporting activities and quality of life.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsDespite saving thousands of lives yearly, nearly half of organ transplant surgeons report a low sense of personal accomplishment and 40 percent feel emotionally exhausted, according to a new national study on transplant surgeon burnout.T...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Plants & Animals NewsMicroorganisms like bacteria and fungi can evade treatment by acquiring mutations in the genes targeted by antibiotics or antifungal drugs. These permanent mutations were once thought to be the only way for drug resistant strains to evol...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Scientific AmericanOf four common corals and algae tested, three still produced shells in conditions that mimic oceans if atmospheric CO2 concentrations reached 1000 ppm. David Biello reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Scientific AmericanExercises, surgeries and pharmacological interventions can aid vertigo sufferers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from SPACE.comThe environment can produce sudden shocks to the life of our planet through impacting space rocks, erupting volcanoes and other events.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from SPACE.comStargazers often overlook six minor meteor showers in the northern summer, but these celestial fireworks displays can be must-see events. Here's Space.com's guide to the minor meteor showers of Summer 2014.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Psych Central NewsBabies in the womb begin to respond to the rhythm of a familiar nursery rhyme by 34 weeks gestational age and are able to remember a set rhyme just before birth, according to new research by the University of Florida. The study also high...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA simple test that measures how fast people walk and whether they have any cognitive complaints can predict the likelihood of developing dementia, according to a new study. The study, involving about 27,000 older adults on five continent...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Psych Central NewsEarly life experiences, such as childhood socioeconomic status and literacy, may have greater influence on the risk of cognitive impairment later in life than demographic characteristics such as race and ethnicity, according to new resea...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research has found that when people have to choose between two or more equally positive outcomes, they often experience paradoxical feelings of pleasure and anxiety — feelings associated with activity in different regions of th...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from LiveScience.comWhen AIDS first emerged in the early 1980s, HIV infection was a death sentence. But a global effort has ensured this is no longer the case for a growing number of people.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from ScienceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online While men tend to be attracted to ladies who seem nice on a first date , women seem to prefer guys who play hard to get, according to new research appearing in Friday’s edition of ...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from LiveScience.comFix your gaze upon the moon.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from National Geographic NewsAmid volcanoes and climate zig-zags, an asteroid impact bumped off dinosaurs at a weak moment for the giant beasts.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from National Geographic NewsTen million men died during the 1914-18 conflict—and so did eight million horses.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe bidding process for licences to extract shale gas - using the controversial process fracking - will begin later on Monday, the government announces.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceCentral American coffee farmers are facing off against a deadly fungus that has wiped out thousands of acres of crops. Coffee companies like Starbucks are pooling money to support them in the fight.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceTo withstand their 9,300-mile migration, red knots feast on eggs from horseshoe crabs each spring in Delaware Bay. Scientists worry many crabs are starting to lay eggs before the birds can get there.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & SciencePeople sometimes avoid information because they're afraid of bad news. But this "information aversion" can lead people to avoid medical tests that could save their lives.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceWhen sharks started cropping up in Chatham, Mass., a few years ago, the town leaders at first feared they would flatline the robust tourist economy. Instead, local merchants and hoteliers embraced their arrival.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentDinosaurs might have survived if the asteroid that wiped them out had hit the Earth a few million years later or earlier, a new study suggests.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentTwo fast-moving fires in California destroy 10 homes and force the evacuation of hundreds more, as a man dies in a lightning strike in Los Angeles.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceWildlife and conservation groups are citing new evidence gathered from post-mortem examinations by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceHealth workers with Doctors Without Borders have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes by Guineans who believe they are the cause of the virus’ spread.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceTake-home sleep tests, self-administered in more realistic settings, without myriad wires and sensors, promise more accurate results for people who may have sleep apnea or other conditions.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceDr. Marler showed that certain songbirds not only learned their songs, but also learned to sing in a dialect peculiar to the region in which they were born.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesThree days after Russia lost communication with the Foton-M4 satellite, carrying geckos, fruit flies and mushrooms, Roscosmos announced it had regained control of the “sex gecko” satellite.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceFor the past 25 years, a giant flock of purple martins has gathered in Lake Murray, S.C., in late July. This year, they didn't show up.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comPeople-eating sharks whipped up in a tornado, Manhattan as an ice-capped frozen wasteland, and solar flares that rapidly increase the temperature of the Earth's core resulting in cataclysmic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and biblical-...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe new Scarlett Johannson movie, Lucy , is based on the idea that most people only use only 10 percent of their brains. As it turns out, that idea is completely untrue — but it's oddly persistent.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedThe Government has been accused of misleading the public over the introduction of a new in vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique that some experts believe will result in the birth of “genetically modified babies”.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserMassive offshore wind farms like Sheringham Shoal in England appear to be doing more than converting wind energy. The turbines also serve as artificial reefs, which become rich hunting grounds for seals in the area, according to a report...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOzone pollution, which worsens breathing problems and causes air quality warnings, may compound global warming's damage to the world's food crops, according to a new study. Ground-level ozone , formed mainly from pollutants emitted by bu...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from nzherald.co.nz - ScienceHelping close achievement gaps in our classrooms will be a priority for a leading academic appointed to a major new science education role.Professor Stuart McNaughton, New Zealand's first Chief Education Scientific Advisor, told...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThis story originally appeared on Mother Nature Network. It’s been well-established that summertime’s most irksome creature, the female mosquito , requires stagnant water to lay her eggs. And in Florida, the nation’s leader in both naked...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA researcher has complained that coverage in NPR and other outlets ignores his work and gives undue credit to a sixth-grader's project. But that sixth grader did make an original contribution.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserDon’t you hate it when you get distracted after opening an ice cream sandwich and it melts? On the flip side, don’t you hate it when it … doesn’t melt? An Ohio mom tells Cincinnati's WCPO that she got a little alarmed upon discovering th...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThe seafaring empire of Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean once spanned more than a thousand miles, serving as the hub through which distant settlements exchanged artifacts and ideas, researchers say. This finding could help explain the ri...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesAlmost one-third of American children and teenagers are either obese or overweight, but a new study carried out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, found 30 percent of them -- about 9.1 million -- believe they...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesEver looked at the ingredients on a bottle of water? Why would you when it’s just hydrogen and oxygen, right? Wrong. A large number of bottled-water companies that market their products as “purified” and “natural” are actually adding sev...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesNigerian officials have put all airports, seaports and land borders on “red alert,” after a Liberian man died of Ebola virus disease in the capital city of Lagos. The outbreak that has killed more than 660 people and infected more than 1...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesTo celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first successful ascent of K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, located in Pakistan, a team of Pakistani climbers and three Italians, reached the summit at 22:30 GMT on Friday, reports BBC .
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesThe most deadly Ebola outbreak in history threatens to expand again this week after the largely isolated virus made its way to the capital of Sierra Leone and Africa’s most populous city, Lagos, Nigeria.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from International Business TimesIn a recent study published in the journal Menopause, scientists found that menopausal women who drank caffeine were more likely to experience hot flashes and night sweats than those who avoided the drug. It is estimated that 85 percent ...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from National Geographic NewsAmelia Earhart's first-person account on becoming the first pilot to fly from Hawaii to California
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAs long as everything appears to be working properly, we may not pay much attention to our feet. They are often covered with socks or shoes and, as the saying goes, “out of sight, out of mind.” However, as soon as something feels off, it...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserImagine life without electricity or running water, and you'll understand what nearly befell our planet two years ago. Scientists say that on July 23, 2012, the sun belched its biggest solar flare in more than 150 years and barely missed ...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from National Geographic NewsBloodshed in the Middle East today can be traced back to the war that began a hundred years ago tomorrow.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe risks of walking in the English countryside
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe search for the killer in a sensational murder case revealed personal details about a suspect and set off a debate about the risks of privacy violations in DNA searches.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriCalorie for calorie, beef produces 8 times more pollution than poultry. http://scifri.me/1rA66oS
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriHappy #NationalMothWeek! How are you celebrating? @Moth_Week http://scifri.me/1rA6fsj pic.twitter.com/odiVUazSPT
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / sciencechannelMy Files #UnexplainedFiles @ScienceChannel #SDCC #SDCC2014 #File #WonderWhatItIs #SCI #Investigations… http://instagram.com/p/q7TfUkRr1x/
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriWe're reading Dune. Come join us! #SciFriBookClub http://sciencefriday.com/bookclub pic.twitter.com/58ZJdhSJEe
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserDinosaurs were scaly old things, right? Not so much, apparently. A Science study of 150-million-year-old fossils uncovered in Siberia is playing a big role in flipping that perception on its head, suggesting that nearly all dinosaurs act...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / sciencechannelThe #UnexplainedFiles truck is back at 3rd ave & K st! Come get your FREE evidence packages #SDCC #SDCC2014 pic.twitter.com/hnRe3OvOd9
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comTokyo (AFP) - Brazilian superstar Neymar's brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 percent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on auto-pilot, according to Japanese neurologists.
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriPeople prefer products that require effort to use. http://scifri.me/UsBx7Q @PacificStand
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from Twitter Search / nsf#Ocean #plastics problem - AAAS podcast w/@SEA_Semester Kara Lavender Law featured @Science360 Radio: http://1.usa.gov/1lH6LCp
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Saturday, July 26, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedAlmost every dinosaur was either covered in feathers, or had the capacity to grow fluffy 'chick-like' feathers, new findings suggest.
