SCIENCE TUESDAY IN-DEPTH: Top 100 Breaking News & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share | 7/22
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Steady, sufficient investments in basic research are necessary to ensure the continued success of the U.S. in the future, four expert witnesses, including Scientific American’s editor in chief,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican...
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Star Wars Episode VII director, J.J. Abrams is giving fans yet another sneak peak at what lies ahead in the new trilogy. Check out an upgrade on an old cornerstone piece of the Star Wars franchise.
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Written testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing "The Federal Research Portfolio: Capitalizing on Investments in R&D" held on July 17,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Written testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing "The Federal Research Portfolio: Capitalizing on Investments in R&D" held on July 17,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Are computers taking our jobs? It is surprisingly hard to say, largely because of a lack of good data -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Written testimony for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing "The Federal Research Portfolio: Capitalizing on Investments in R&D" held on July 17,... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Our own track record proves that steady federal funding support leads to success -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Many studies have found that familiar songs enhance mood, relieve stress and reduce anxiety in patients with Alzheimer's, perhaps because musical memory is often spared even when a patient has... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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On July 22, 1969, the three men on NASA's Apollo 11 mission were in the homestretch of their historic moon voyage. See how they fired the engines on their spacecraft.
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The second Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation mission, known as Hi-SEAS 2, wraps up on Friday (July 25), ending four months of simulated Red Planet exploration on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano.
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The newly discovered exoplanet Kepler-421b — which crosses the face of, or transits, its host star from Earth's perspective — takes 704 days to complete one orbit. Thus, it has the longest year known for any transiting alien world.
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Take off. Rise. Soar. Bank. Turn. Stall. Swoop. Dive. Land. For each of the different kinds of flying an airplane has to do, there’s an ideal shape and configuration for its wings. Even though bird-like flappability isn’t fea...
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Oversleep causes a feeling similar to feeling hung over and it's caused by the same biological function that gives you jet lag.
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Think before you connect your A/C to the Internet of Things.
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Narcolepsy is real, and serious — one of many sleep disorders that afflict Americans.
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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The time that it takes for a planet, or planetary satellite, to orbit its star is considered the planet's year . For example, Earth's year is approximately 365 days, while Mercury's i...
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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Going without sleep over a long period of time can be detrimental to your health in many ways, including depression, heart disease, high blood pressure , weight gain and even a lack o...
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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While many previous studies on habitable planetary conditions have focused on the atmosphere, a new study from UK researchers at the University of East Anglia has found that the dynamic...
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Not much is known about the genus of planthopper known as Conosimus, which now includes six species after a new one was recently discovered in the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish city of Jaen. A description of it ap...
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In a study published online today by The American Journal of Sports Medicine, researchers found that high school players experienced 1,406 injuries over the four academic years from 2008 through 2012. The overall injury rate was 20 per 1...
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Viruses designed to target and kill cancer cells could boost the effectiveness of chemotherapy to the arms and legs and help avoid amputation, a new study reports.
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Saudi Arabian researchers have detected genetic fragments of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus in the air of a barn holding a camel infected with the virus. The work, published this week in mBio®, the online open-access journa...
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With over 170,000 students now playing high school lacrosse, more and more are being exposed to injuries during practice and competition, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health and the Center for Injury Resear...
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A type of immune cell widely believed to exacerbate chronic adult brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis, can actually protect the brain from traumatic brain injury and may slow the progression of neurodegener...
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Nature ‘choreographs’ the movements of flocking starlings to make sure these birds always know what’s going on around them.
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Researchers at MIT have developed a prototype that will benefit people with disabilities or limited arm strength.
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A new study has revealed that beef’s environmental impact is 10 times that of chicken and pork.
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A science fair project has shown that lionfish can survive in nearly fresh water.
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On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left the moon to begin their journey back to Earth with Michael Collins. Here are some photos inside the mission that are rarely seen.
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Australian researchers have developed a virus-killing condom, and recent government approval means it's one step closer to hitting the market.
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The circumstances of the downed Malaysian airplane in Ukraine made it ripe for conspiracy theories.
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Antiobiotics and fecal transplants in desert woodrats shown that gut microbes can help plant-eaters metabolize toxins.
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Coaches tend to overreact to close losses, and their hasty personnel adjustments tend to backfire in the long run, research shows. Researchers focused on whether coaches adjusted their personnel following games where the margin of victor...
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Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to new research, the famously fuzzy relatives of elephants liked living in Greater Cincinnati long b...
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Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research. The study concludes that ...
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The sun has gone quiet. Almost too quiet. A few weeks ago it was teeming with sunspots, as you would expect since we are supposed to be in the middle of solar maximum-the time in the sun's 11-year cycle when it is the most active.
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During extreme or unusual weather, Americans' political leanings seem to influence their Internet searches about the climate, new research suggests.
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Actor Morgan Freeman grilled NASA astronauts on the International Space Station about how their work can get humans to Mars someday.
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Eating food with "good bacteria" or taking probiotics supplements may help reduce blood pressure, according to a new analysis.
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In 2011, astronomers were getting excited for what promised to be a spectacular cosmic event. Sadly, it looks like it's turned out to be a galactic damp squib. Continue reading →
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Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research by McGill University physi...
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Today's food production relies heavily on irrigation, but across sub-Saharan Africa only 4 percent of cultivated land is irrigated, compared with a global average of 18 percent. Small-scale farming is the main livelihood for many people ...
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Child sex trafficking crimes occur each day in the United States, and doctors can play a role in identifying victims, getting them care, and ultimately preventing such crimes, researchers say.
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Bill Nye the Science Guy gave a lecture at Irving Plaza in New York City on the beginnings of his popular kids' TV show and the future of space exploration.
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Satellites have captured images of the scattered debris and charred wreckage where Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine last week, killing all 298 people on board.
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NASA's Apollo 11 moon landing was a human spaceflight feat, but also a dangerous journey. See some of the scariest moments of first manned moon landing as described by space historian and science writer Rod Pyle, author of 'Destination M...
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NASA honored the memory of Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong Monday (July 21), naming the Operations and Checkout building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the first man on the moon.
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The yield so far is small, but chemists at the University of Oregon have developed a low-energy, solution-based mineral substitution process to make a precursor to transparent thin films that could find use in electronics and alternative...
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By using sophisticated GPS tracking to monitor seals' every movement, researchers have shown for the first time that some individuals are repeatedly drawn to offshore wind farms and pipelines. Those man-made structures probably serve as ...
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Research meteorologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division (MMD) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, employing the Navy's Mid-Course Doppler Radar (MCR) at Cape Canaveral, were able to characteri...
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Wales is hailed as a jellyfish "hotspot" by researchers who say they could hit record numbers this summer.
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Astronomers in the US have discovered a distant world with the longest year of any planet outside our Solar System.
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There has been an increase in the number of slugs in Britain's gardens due to the warm and damp weather.
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More and more jellyfish are being spotted on the UK's coastline during the summer months, and now scientists have decided to try and find out why.
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The Rosetta spacecraft hibernated for 31 months while its orbit took it too far away from the sun for its solar arrays to keep it operational. It's ready for a rendezvous with a comet Aug. 6.
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Ted Stanley is giving $650 million to the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to find and treat the genetic underpinnings of mental illnesses. His son has bipolar disorder.
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Many scientists say capturing the carbon that spews from power plants and locking it away is necessary to stave off the worst effects of climate change.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A group of seven leading drugmakers has agreed to share an array of neglected experimental medicines with British academic researchers in the latest example of the deepening ties between industry and external scientists.
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In April 2014, C. Randal Mills was named President and CEO of CIRM, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, a San Francisco-based agency created in 2004 to allocate over $3 billion in funding for stem cell research for Califo...
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Eagerly anticipating a gas cloud’s collision with the Milky Way’s black hole, astronomers instead saw nothing. An intriguing explanation has emerged.
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As research into mental illness sputters, the father of a man effectively treated for bipolar disorder is donating $650 million to the cause through his foundation.
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A research team that liked listening to the music of Jennifer Lopez called an aquatic mite it discovered Litarachna Lopezae.
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Take-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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Once HIV invades the body, it doesn’t want to leave. Every strategy that scientists have developed or are developing so far to fight the virus – from powerful anti-HIV drugs to promising vaccines that target it – suffers from the same we...
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A fleet of remote-controlled aircraft has been deployed, and operators trained, not to conduct military operations, but to protect natural resources around the world.
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If you have entomophobia (or if you’re even the teensiest bit squeamish when it comes to bugs), you might want to avert your eyes. A giant aquatic insect has been found in China , and it’s the stuff that your very worst nightmares are ma...
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A study of alcohol — its manufacture and consumption — highlights its reliance on good chemistry and the magical process of fermentation that turns sugars into intoxicating drinks.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "may never know" how a fairly harmless form of bird flu was cross-contaminated with a dangerous bird flu strain before it was sent to a laboratory outside of the CDC...
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Letters to the editor and online comments.
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Construction is starting on several gargantuan observatories, mostly in Chile, the most ambitious spree of telescope-making in the history of astronomy.
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A new study on the environmental burdens of beef, pork, chicken, eggs, dairy and plant products finds that beef is by far the worst offender. According to the study, published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a ...
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We have a solution for your warm beer, and it's hiding in your container of salt. In the video above, lifehacker guru DaveHax (who already showed us how to cut tomatoes like a ninja ) shows viewers how to get their drink to chill out in ...
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A new study says the production of beef is around 10 times more damaging to the environment than any other form of livestock.
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Yesterday, July 20, marked 45 years since the United States put the first two astronauts safely on the moon. The cost for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs was more than $25 billion at the time -- more like $110 billion in today's ...
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Humans might think we can figure out the ultimate mysteries, but there is no reason to believe that we have all the pieces necessary for a theory of everything.
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Specially evolved bones and claws are some of the tools that allow animals like chipmunks and moles to dig in even rocky, root-clogged soil.
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Japanese scientists working with roundworms found that those with a genetic defect in a specific insulin receptor did not learn to avoid unpleasant situations the way other worms did.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The globe is on a hot streak, setting a heat record in June. That's after the world broke a record in May. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month's average global temperatur...
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Only in Berlin can you wake up, walk to your window, draw the curtains and be greeted by none other than some hot pink historic piping... Designed to prevent the city from becoming submerged by high groundwater levels, the pipes, which w...
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A Colombian conservationist has been locked in a contentious legal fight against a leading researcher who uses wild monkeys in his search for a malaria vaccine. A recent court decision that banned the practice is seen as a victory in eff...
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Scientists from Germany, the United States, the Czech Republic and Canada have assembled a draft of a genetic blueprint of bread wheat, also known as common wheat.
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On July 20, 1969, NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. The milestone was broadcast around the world and NASA was to celebrate the Apollo 11 45th anniversary with a live stream of the broadcast.
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.@NASA renamed a Kennedy Space Center building to honor Neil Armstrong >> http://bit.ly/1p2iGbH #inSCIder pic.twitter.com/2AAWyhCTC0
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Some seals prefer to forage for food at offshore wind farms, UK study suggests.
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Start rounding up your cash: A 40-inch long piece of fossilized dinosaur dung goes up for auction http://ind.pn/UmQZ4W via @Independent
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Fibre production drives deforestation in Indonesia http://dlvr.it/6NdtLP
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In 1964 Tom Herrala hand delivered these space suits to @NASA [Video] http://bit.ly/1rjl42p #SCI2 pic.twitter.com/azzbBp3kuL
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Sometimes it takes a kid to truly think outside the box. Such is the case of 12-year-old science fair entrant Lauren Arrington, who decided to investigate lionfish, which the Florida native had observed up close while snorkeling and fish...
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Brooks Hays WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- A new climate report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration offers another reminder that the planet is getting warmer.
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In several new studies and a short video, researchers from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics detail their work on the multiverse hypothesis. Perimeter Associate Faculty member Matthew Johnson and his colleagues are working ...
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Researchers in Virginia have developed software that can track each and every cell in a developing embryo.
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Meet the "biological pacemaker". http://scifri.me/1tZTHhq pic.twitter.com/Izyno12dVK
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Spider gene study reveals tangled evolution http://dlvr.it/6Nc3My
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Protons have a constant spin that is an intrinsic particle property like mass or charge. Yet where this spin comes from is such a mystery it’s dubbed the “ proton spin crisis .” Initially physicists thought a proton’s spin was the sum of...
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Tests this summer on Pierre Shale that stretches across much of the Great Plains could help build the case for an underground lab and, if feasible, lead to energy production or underground storage in the rock for...
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A new formula for cleaner, cheaper diesel fuel http://youtu.be/ip1FyksXzwI pic.twitter.com/sSXUXpzGDU
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We've come to expect impossible, even improbable standards of beauty to populate our magazines and our television shows. It's another thing entirely to find they've invaded our workplace. But as a new video from Vox reveals, there are re...
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By Vanessa Quirk ( Read the original story here ) Courtesy of Cristian Ehrmantraut "Plastic is an extremely durable material, taking 500 years to biodegrade, yet it’s designed to be used for an average of 5 minutes, and so it’s thrown aw...
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For two Harvard University undergrads, what began as "an excuse to eat a lot of cake" may turn into the invention of a lifetime. John McCallum, a 20-year-old from Louisiana, was daydreaming about cake his freshman year during his “Scienc...
