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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from SPACE.comThe European Space Agency's Gaia mission will produce a 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is carrying a billion-pixel camera that will map each star it can resolve more than 70 times. There may as many as 400 Billion stars in our galaxy.
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research from the UK identifies a link between obesity in childhood and the lowering of the age of puberty. In a new investigation, endocrinologists studied a protein called sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). SHBG binds to the sex ...-
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Scientific AmericanSmall changes in the protein sequence of sodium channels of American compared with German cockroaches leave the latter susceptible to a venom that has little effect on the former. Cynthia Graber... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Psych Central NewsAccurate or not, first impressions appear to stem from how a person looks. Researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of York determined a first impression is accurately predicted from measurements of physical features...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Psych Central NewsOlder women with mild cognitive impairment may benefit significantly from regular aerobic exercise, new findings show. Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an established risk factor for dementia and “represents a vital opportunity f...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Scientific AmericanNew study reveals rat’s remorse — another way other animals are like humans -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from SPACE.comA rocket launch from South America Tuesday evening (July 29) will mark the beginning of the end for a venerable line of European cargo spacecraft.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from SPACE.comThe icy Saturn moon Enceladus sports at least 101 geysers, which reach all the way down to the satellite's subsurface ocean, new research suggests.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Psych Central NewsResearchers have found the practice of educating children with special needs in regular classes helps to improve the language skills of preschoolers with disabilities. Researchers found that the average language skills of a child’s class...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Psych Central NewsAn emerging theory may help to explain why older adults show declining cognitive ability with age, but don’t necessarily show declines in the workplace or daily life. Dr. Tom Hess, a psychology researcher at North Carolina State Universi...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Wired ScienceIt’s five o’clock, and your dog is excitedly wagging her tail and nuzzling against you. Your furry friend is hungry and seems to know that this is the hour you usually feed her. But was this performance a simple reaction to a...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Wired ScienceIltifat Husain has seen an awful lot of sickness and injury during his time as an emergency room doctor, but lately, he’s worried about something new. He’s worried about the ill effects of mobile healthcare apps. There are hu...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ScienceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a technical report on Monday revealing that of the top 10 US cities that have seen an increase in nuisance flooding...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceApril Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For decades, scientists have been debating over a fog of low-energy X-rays that has been observed over the entire sky. An international group of scientists has used a NASA-funded inst...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ScienceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen might have been the first person to reach the South Pole , but an international team of scientists has discovered that he was actually beaten to h...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceCAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., July 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket successfully launched the AFSPC-4 mission for the U.S. Air Force on July 28 at 7:28 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-3...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceredOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online UPDATE: July 29, 2014 4AM After losing contact with a satellite filled with geckos taking part in an unusual reproductive experiment late last week, Russian space officials have re...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsTwo beneficial variants of a gene controlling red blood cell development have spread from Africa into nearly all human populations across the globe, according to a new study led by King's College London. The international team studied th...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAbout 100 drugs already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for other purposes can also prevent the growth of certain bacterial pathogens inside human cells, including those that cause Legionnaires' disease, brucellosis, and ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new study from UC San Francisco is the first to show that while the impact of life's stressors accumulate overtime and accelerate cellular aging, these negative effects may be reduced by maintaining a healthy diet, exercising and sleep...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNew research shows that the whip-like appendages on many types of cells are able to synchronize their movements solely through interactions with the fluid that surrounds them.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWhen temperatures are extremely high or low, there is a significant increase in the number of deaths caused by heart failure or stroke. This has been confirmed by epidemiological studies conducted by researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWater is used around the world for the production of electricity, but new research results show that there will not be enough water in the world to meet demand by 2040 if the energy and power situation does not improve before then.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAchalasia is a rare disease -- it affects one in 100,000 people -- characterized by a loss of nerve cells in the esophageal wall. While its cause remains unknown, a new study by a team of researchers at KU Leuven in Belgium, the Universi...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA simplified anesthesia procedure may enable more widespread use of preoperative testing to demonstrate the cause of airway obstruction in patients with severe sleep apnea, suggests a study in Anesthesia & Analgesia.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThere's some good news for parents of preterm babies -- latest research from the University of Adelaide shows that by the time they become teenagers, the brains of many preterm children can perform almost as well as those born at term.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe method tested by IQWiG is in principle suitable to find out how important different treatment goals are for patients.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNew research from scientists at the University of Kent has shown for the first time how the structures inside cells are regulated -- a breakthrough that could have a major impact on cancer therapy development.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA new technique for repairing the most common cardiac birth defect in newborns, commonly referred to as 'a hole in the heart,' has been used successfully to mend the condition in six premature infants without subjecting the tiny patients...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsPeople who are blind can now read more than just words, such as graphs and graphics, following the development of an affordable digital reading system by Curtin University researchers.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWith a new method, researchers use a piece of DNA engineered to bind to metal ions. Using this 'control stick,' they direct another piece of DNA to a metal binding site on the protein.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsDenmark attracted international attention in 2012 when archaeological excavations revealed the bones of an entire army, whose warriors had been thrown into the bogs near the Alken Enge wetlands in East Jutland after losing a major engage...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsOcean acidification is driving changes in waters vital to Alaska's valuable commercial fisheries and subsistence way of life, according to new NOAA-led research that will be published online in Progress in Oceanography.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe wildfires that have been plaguing the Northern Territories in Canada and have sent smoke drifting down to the Great Lakes in the US continue on.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsTeach for America, known for recruiting teachers, is also setting its sights on capturing school board seats across the nation. Surprisingly, however, political candidates from the program aren't just pushing its national education agend...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African-American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools -- but the students' backgrou...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsSome people handle stressful situations better than others, and it's not all in their genes: Even identical twins show differences in how they respond to adversity. Researchers have identified an electrical pattern in the brains of genet...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ScienceAssociation for Psychological Science Millenials are narcissistic, scientists are geeky, and men like sports — or so cultural stereotypes would have us believe. Regardless of whether we believe them to be true, we all have extensive know...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpacePreston Dyches/Dwayne Brown/Steve Mullins, NASA Scientists using mission data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus . Their analysis suggests it is possible for liquid...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceGuy Webster and Dwayne Brown, NASA NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. The previous record was held by ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from RedOrbit News - SpaceElizabeth Landau, NASA JPL / Cynthia Eller, Caltech 3-D printers can create all kinds of things, from eyeglasses to implantable medical devices, straight from a computer model and without the need for molds. But for making spacecraft, en...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from ScienceUniversity of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science UM Rosenstiel scientists studied how fertilization of region could trigger carbonate formation A new study suggests that Saharan dust played a major role in the fo...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from SPACE.comThe three spacecraft — two of which are fully operational and one of which is an experimental satellite — blasted off today (July 28) from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, riding atop a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from Wired Science[HTML1] You can watch the spectacular night sky show of the Delta Aquarid meteor shower with a live online broadcast from the Slooh Space Camera, starting tonight at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET. Meteor showers occur when the Earth passes throug...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Scientific AmericanResearchers studying anesthetized rats discovered a handful of activity patterns that may mark the path to consciousness after anesthesia. Karen Hopkin reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Evolution News & Views
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from SPACE.comBy peering into the haze of Saturn's huge moon Titan, scientists could learn more about how the atmospheres of alien worlds behave.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from SPACE.comThis fall, the New York City home of NASA's space shuttle Enterprise will focus its attention on another big piece of space history: the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from SPACE.comAs of Sunday (July 27), Opportunity had traveled a total of 25.01 miles on the Red Planet, NASA officials said. The record had been held by the Soviet Union's remote-controlled Lunokhod 2 rover, which covered 24.2 miles on the moon in 1973.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowDiatoms. Images a and b are raw diatoms; c and d are fossilized, and e and f are fossilized diatoms that were frozen but not shot. Mark Burchell et al., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Since 1996, scientists have debated ...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NYT > ScienceFailing to reduce carbon pollution could cost the United States economy $150 billion a year, the Council of Economic Advisers said.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentDespite dissent, MPs have endorsed the findings of a UN climate panel that says humans are the dominant cause of global warming.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAs an outbreak worsened, a pay dispute with nurses left a short staff able to care primarily for just the sickest patients who had a chance of surviving.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentBirds' eggs show adaptations in pigment concentration and thickness to allow the right amount of sun for embryos, scientists say.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentScientists have identified a part of the brain that may help us predict when things are about to go wrong and could play a part in depression.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentFifty years of data about endangered primates goes online
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Reuters: Science News(Reuters) - An unmanned Delta 4 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday with a pair of U.S. military satellites designed to keep watch on other countries’ spacecraft.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from National Geographic NewsA lightning strike that left one man dead and 13 injured in Venice Beach is a rare event in Southern California.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAugust events at the intersection of science and culture.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceTwo major feeding grounds for the huge mammals are bisected by the routes of ships near seaports in San Francisco and Santa Barbara, Calif.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceAntarctic fur seal populations are declining, and changing genetically.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceVideos that evoke the tingling sensation of the “autonomous sensory meridian response” are popular on the Web, but scientists are only beginning to understand what might be involved.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceJust six weeks of training in simple techniques led to significant reductions in stress, depression and anxiety among the parents of children with developmental disabilities.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceLetters to the editor and online comments.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe Pacific Northwest is a home to the mountain beaver, which is home to the elusive Hystrichopsylla schefferi.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceReports give new details of not only the treasure discovered from the S.S. Central America, which sank more than 150 years ago, but also of the items that speak of the lives lost.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceAn extremely rare, albino hermaphroditic redwood tree was in danger of being sent to the chipper because it was growing too close to the path of a new railroad line in Cotati, Calif. But thanks to local outcry from arborists and the comm...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from National Geographic NewsThe discovery of an octopus that lives in big groups is shattering even the most expansive ideas of known octopus behavior.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentMarine experts have said a dolphin spotted in the River Severn in Gloucestershire will make its own way back to the sea.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentUK scientists model the physical attributes that underpin our social judgements about strangers.
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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 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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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsORLANDO Fla. (Reuters) - Babies in the womb show evidence of learning by their 34th week, three weeks earlier than previously thought, new research has found.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from National Geographic NewsThe Ebola virus has killed a Liberian doctor and infected two Americans in the worst-ever Ebola epidemic, which has now spread to Nigeria.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe work of the naturalist John Whipple Potter Jenks was thrown out and forgotten until a group of graduate students revived it, with an artist’s help, for a new exhibition.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentGovernment guidance that fracking licences can only be issued for beauty spots in "exceptional circumstances" receives a mixed response from campaigners.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA new breed of robots with sinewy arms, a powerful grip and the ability to work underwater is almost here.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceA switch to pass-fail grading is curbing the "perfection" culture among U.S. nuclear missile forces. Critics of the old way say striving to be perfect invited cheating by those who launch the nukes.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceContinuing rise in U.S. exports of coal work against domestic reductions in CO2 emissions.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentThe risks of walking in the English countryside
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceSome species of fly are adapted to feign dropping dead as a way to avoid a threat, and several other insects and spiders also show this behavior.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceThe string of genes that make a man a man used to be much bigger, and some geneticists say it may be wasting away. Back off, others say. Y has been stable — and crucial — for millennia.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > Science“The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death” is a kinetic trip through the percentages of risk and the primacy of perceptions.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceBirds are everywhere, but the greatest concentration of different birds — the "bird mecca" of America — is not in our great parks, not in our forests, not where you'd suppose. Not at all.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentFears recede over the fate of a Russian space satellite carrying gecko lizards as part of a sex experiment, after ground control restores contact.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA study shows that when kangaroos feed, they use a slower, walking motion that relies on the tail to exert force.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesMONROVIA (Reuters) - The Liberian government on Sunday closed most of the West African nation's border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 660 people ac...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesForget a reptilian appearance. The discovery of a new dinosaur species in Siberia suggests most probably had feathers. The journal Science reports feathers likely predated the split between meat-eating and plant-eating dinosaurs.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceFood in supermarkets is increasingly connected to child labor and trafficking. Many laws aimed at ending these abuses overlook a key source of the problem: the rapid decline of fish and fauna.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Twitter Search / naturenewsNeuroPod: Schizophrenia gene-hunt, erasing pain w/ a memory-wipe trick, & glia that turn into... listen to find out http://ow.ly/zEKw7
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWhy Fossil Fuels Can’t Solve the Problems Created by Fossil Fuels Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com Albert Einstein is rumored to have said that one cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that led to it. Yet this is precisel...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comJust before a large asteroid slammed into the Earth 66 million years ago, the diversity of plant-eating dinosaur species declined slightly, a new study suggests. That minor shift may have been enough to doom all dinosaurs when the space ...
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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 Twitter Search / cernTwo months to go: CERN looks to the future for the second edition of @TEDxCERN. http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2014/07/apply-now-tickets-tedxcern …
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserThe huge asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago was very bad timing for the dinosaurs, a new study says—it wiped them out, but they probably would have survived if it had hit at a "more convenient" time. The impact in what is now M...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAfter decades, possibly centuries, at the bottom of the sea — and a 2,200-mile-long (3,540 kilometers) road trip wrapped in damp blankets in the back of a pickup truck — a barnacle-crusted anchor arrived in Texas this week for a major cl...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comSleep deprivation is a serious safety issue and has been implicated in everything from oil spills to plane crashes to nuclear power plant explosions . It turns out that getting a healthy amount of sleep could also be a justice issue. A n...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comHuffPost Green is launching a week-long, community-driven effort to bust the myths and raise awareness about pit bulls, a maligned "breed" that often bears the brunt of dated, discriminatory legislation that can make it near impossible f...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriThe oarfish can grow up to 30 feet long - in fact, it used to be mistaken for a sea serpent. http://youtu.be/y5E9QkyB27k
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from National Geographic NewsKeeping tabs on polar bears, penguins, and other creatures via satellite can be cheaper, easier, and more accurate, scientists say.
