Top 50 Science News & Stories - July 10
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The Angara rocket — which Russia has been developing for more than 20 years — blasted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia Wednesday (July 9) at 4:00 p.m. local time (8:00 a.m. EDT), carrying a dummy payload on its maiden ...
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Efforts to redirect a 36-year-old NASA spacecraft are in flux as controllers fear the spacecraft may have run out of fuel while performing maneuvers on Tuesday (July 9).
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Scientists patent a new way to make ultra-high resolution displays that are flexible and extremely thin.
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Cities can combat urban heat islands under global warming with trees, white roofs and other fixes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Rosetta's comet quarry shapes up
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Take a solar panel. Surround it with light-emitting diodes attached to a microprocessor and, in northern climes at least, some kind of heater. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Seattle and Raleigh top the list of cities that are grabbing patents fastest -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sexual dysfunction can emerge when certain nerves start misfiring. Are SSRIs partially to blame? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Iraq warns the UN that Sunni militants have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in Mosul.
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Warning: contains minor spoilers for The Fault in Our Stars. I recently read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, now a major motion picture that has led to theft in Amsterdam and a shortage of... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican...
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Much of the world is ill-equipped to cope with its rising cancer burden and are pushing prevention and screening -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Astronomers have found the farthest-flung stars yet known in the Milky Way. The two objects lie at least 775,000 light-years away, making them both about five times more distant than the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the ...
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Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum are planning a trip to Mars. They’ve been hashing out the details for 20 years now, and alternate between being extremely excited and utterly terrified by the prospect, refusing to discuss it after ...
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Violent supernova explosions create massive grains of cosmic dust large enough to survive the harsh environment of space.
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The number of scientific animal procedures carried out in the UK showed a small rise last year, despite a pledge by the government to reduce them.
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A team of researchers, studying fossils of pre-historic animals, has discovered a new site in Alaska’s Denali National Park, which is filled with a huge number of footprints believed to have been made by duck-billed dinosaurs, or “hadros...
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Heavy winds and rain that helped weaken Typhoon Neoguri triggered landslides, killing three people Wednesday in the country's south, reports said, adding that the storm is now expected to head northeast and hit major cities such as Osaka...
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When robots first started playing soccer, it was a challenge for them just to see the ball. And to stay upright.
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IBM announced plans to pump $3 billion into an overhaul of computer chip technology to better meet modern demands of "Big Data" and computing pushed to the Internet "cloud."
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Is the Higgs boson made up of other particles?
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A tiny spacecraft designed to sail by the power of the sun is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX rocket in 2016, a leading US space enthusiast said Wednesday.
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The breed of rooster that sires around a quarter of America's chickens hasn't been getting the job done and a genetic tweak is to blame. Aviagen Group, the world's largest chicken breeder, made a change to the standard Ross male that has...
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Even 45 years later, Buzz Aldrin has detailed memories of the Apollo 11 mission, when he became the second man to set foot on the moon. The ex-astronaut, who is speaking out this month ahead of the 45th anniversary of the 1969 moon landi...
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Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have uncovered new knowledge about the immune system in a mouse study, which indicates that natural birth improves the immune system of the pups.
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New research has uncovered how a complex protein pivotal in the development of cancer, viral infection and autoimmune diseases is activated. The discovery answers a key question about one of the most widely-researched proteins in human b...
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While Tofu is considered a healthy source of protein, that's not why the Millennials are eating it, according to a new study to be presented at Tops Club Inc.'s annual International Recognition Days convention July 10th in Milwaukee.
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For the first time, researchers have access to detailed information about how an urban Aboriginal population in Canada uses health care. A new study, called Our Health Counts, uses this health database to clearly demonstrate the unique c...
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Inflammatory diseases can occur simultaneously in distinct sites in the same patient, complicating treatment because a medication effective for one disorder may exacerbate the other. One such example is the anti-arthritic medication dexa...
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Australian researchers reveal that sudden, acute episodes of low back pain are not linked to weather conditions such as temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind direction and precipitation. Findings published in Arthritis Care & Researc...
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The World Health Organization recommends that youth participate in a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) each day. Studies have shown that youth experience most of their MVPA during school hours. Theref...
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If you think winning is one of the key determinants that makes organized sports fun for kids think again: Winning along with other mental bonuses ranked near the bottom of 81 determinants of fun, each of which falls into one of 11 big fu...
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The storage capacity of hard drives is increasing explosively, but the speed with which all that data can be written has reached its limits. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology and the FOM Foundation present a promising new...
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A recent study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides new insights on the physical mechanisms governing the interplay of spin and heat at the nanoscale, and addresses the fundamental limits of ultrafast...
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Shoulder instability is a common injury in football players but the rate of return to play has not been regularly determined following surgery. A new study, discussed at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeti...
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College athletes experiencing in-season shoulder instability regularly return to play within one week of injury, but developed recurrent instability in 63 percent of cases, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedi...
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Young patients who wait for ACL surgery may be at increased risk for secondary knee injuries, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Annual Meeting. The study adds to existing rese...
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The common elbow surgery made famous by Major League Baseball pitcher, Tommy John, definitely does its job to return pitchers to the mound, but risks for having the surgery may be able to be recognized earlier in a player's career, say r...
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As cases of Little League Shoulder occur more frequently, the need for additional information about the causes and outcomes of the condition has become clear. Researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine...
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Men who experience hot flashes are unlikely to talk much about it, but they may find relief from their silent suffering if they are willing to try an unusual treatment, according to findings from a Baylor University case study.
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Columbia University Medical Center researchers have created a way to develop personalized gene therapies for patients with retinitis pigmentosa, a leading cause of vision loss. The approach, the first of its kind, takes advantage of indu...
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The yellow crazy ant Anoplolepis gracilipes is ranked amongst the top 100 worst global invasive species and is responsible for catastrophic ecological impacts on islands. A new study published in the open access journal NeoBiota examines...
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Consuming a whole fresh avocado with either an orange-colored tomato sauce or raw carrots significantly enhanced provitamin A carotenoid (alpha- and beta-carotene) absorption and conversion of these carotenoids to an active form of vitam...
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Choosing mobile phone cases and customizing phones with charms and decorations may reveal a lot about a person's culture, as well as increase attachment to the devices, according to researchers.
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In many patients it is not easy to differentiate between the chronic inflammatory skin diseases psoriasis and eczema. Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich have now developed a procedure base...
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In newly published research in the journal Neuron, Michael Cole of Rutgers has determined that the underlying brain architecture of a person at rest is basically the same as that of a person performing a variety of tasks.This is importan...
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The discovery of a split-second burst of radio waves by scientists using the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico provides important new evidence of mysterious pulses that appear to come from deep in outer space.
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Cigarette warning labels can influence a smoker to try to quit even when the smoker is trying to avoid seeing the labels, according to a survey of thousands of adult smokers in four countries published by the American Psychological Assoc...
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Encryption might not be enough for all that data stored in the cloud. Usage patterns -- which files are accessed and when -- can give away secrets as well. Computer scientists at Brown have developed an algorithm to sweep away those digi...
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Researchers at sarcomas research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the Catalan Institute of Oncology have been tested in 19 patients a new therapeutic combination to combat resistant sarcomas. The clinical trial re...
July, 10, 2014 from SPACE.comThe Angara rocket — which Russia has been developing for more than 20 years — blasted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia Wednesday (July 9) at 4:00 p.m. local time (8:00 a.m. EDT), carrying a dummy payload on its maiden ...
