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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Psych Central NewsPerhaps it is not a surprise that a new study on perceived happiness shows that many college students are stressed out and aren’t coping. Many would agree that a study of the American population at-large would result in a similar f...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NSF NewsHeading for a summer picnic or hike, or just out to mow your lawn? In the U.S. Southeast and beyond, you might want to watch where you walk. Fire ants. Crossing the border from South America, they're on the march northward. How does habi...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsIn a new study published in the advanced online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Peng Shi, et al., have shown that prestin has also independently evolved to play a critical role in the ultrasonic hearing range of animal sonar,...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsEight conservation biologists from various organizations and institutions, including Princeton University, found that shale-gas extraction in the United States has vastly outpaced scientists' understanding of the industry's environmental...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsFinding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWomen who recently used birth control pills containing high-dose estrogen and a few other formulations had an increased risk for breast cancer, whereas women using some other formulations did not, according to data published in Cancer Re...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsNew guidelines to assist patients in recognizing and treating acute loss of asthma control. They apply to the home setting only; not providers' offices, emergency departments or hospital settings.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWomen over the age of 65 who have asthma, are also likely to have a range of other health-related issues which are barriers to them staying healthy. Among other things, this group of women tends to not make asthma a priority when caring ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThe co-authors of a new study, including two Simon Fraser University research associates, cite new reasons why scientists, industry representatives and policymakers must collaborate closely on minimizing damage to the natural world from ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsThis supplement covers the current knowledge of anticoagulant-associated intracerebral hemorrhage and methods in use for management of the condition.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA team of chemists from NYU and the University of Cambridge has developed a method for examining the inner workings of battery-like devices called supercapacitors, which can be charged up extremely quickly and can deliver high electrical...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsWorldwide, non-cardiac surgery is associated with an average overall complication rate of between 7 and 11 percent and a mortality rate between 0.8 and 1.5 percent, depending on safety precautions. Up to 42 percent of these are caused by...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen here as it looked 9.6 billion years ago, this monster elliptical galaxy breaks the previous...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Discover Top StoriesThe Event Horizon Telescope will give astronomers an extreme close-up when our galaxy's black hole lights up.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesMeet graphene’s one-dimensional cousin, carbyne - the newest contender for the strongest material in the world.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from LiveScience.comScientists have rendered a once-furry mouse transparent, its brain, guts and all. Here's a look at the beauty beneath the rodent's skin.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from LiveScience.comA pale, gooey-looking "see-through" mouse could help scientists gain a better understand processes in the body, according to a new study.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceAlert - Latest StoriesUsing a new kind of optical fibre, researchers in Denmark have set the new record for the fastest single-laser data transfer ever performed.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from LiveScience.comIn a study of cultural mobility over the past 2000 years in Europe and the United States, a map of the birth and death sites of notable figures has been plotted.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsScientists calculate the transformation of a protein associated with influenza and discover details of intermediate states that may be treated with new drugs.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsScientists have new clues this week about one of the baffling electronic properties of the iron-based high-temperature superconductor barium iron nickel arsenide. Scientists have the first evidence, based on sophisticated neutron measure...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearchers who studied 100 twin pairs have identified a gene mutation that may allow the carrier to function normally on less than six hours of sleep per night. The genetic variant also appears to provide greater resistance to the effec...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsResearch demonstrates that it isn't just the carbon dioxide from biomass burning that's the problem. Black carbon and brown carbon maximize the thermal impacts of such fires. They essentially allow biomass burning to cause much more glob...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsNew research counters a widely-held scientific view that thawing permafrost uniformly accelerates atmospheric warming, indicating instead that certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they emit into the atmosphere.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe fourth week of pregnancy is usually when women discover they are pregnant. Now is the time to take a pregnancy test to know for sure.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Universe Today
Sometimes there’s a chance alignment — faraway in the universe, where objects are separated by unimaginable distances measured in billions of light-years — when a galaxy cluster in the foreground intersects light from an even more distan... -
Friday, August 1, 2014 from The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel: Sci, Space, Tech
Join the 312,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page. Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists, astronauts, space observatories, news organizations, universities an...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from LiveScience.comTheories explaining the forked tongues of snakes have been around for thousands of years.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe idea that conscious experiences lie outside the realm of scientific inquiry regularly appears in the press.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comFrom corneas to nasal cells, biology is evocative art.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Discovery NewsTargeted for a 2020 launch, NASA's next Mars rover may look like Curiosity's twin, but it will have a very different suite of instruments aboard. Continue reading →
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comIn the third week of pregnancy, there won't be any major outward changes in a woman's body, but some pregnancy symptoms may have started.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Discover Top StoriesAfter a profound lack of precipitation, parts of the Southwestern United States have finally begun to get some desperately needed relief. New Mexico, where the spectacular photo above was taken yesterday, has been suffering through four ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Evolution News & Views
A British philosopher seeks to deliver animals from the endless torment of "blind Darwinian processes." -
Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineDUBLIN, IRELAND—After 15 years of study, archaeologists are ready to release a massive report that collects and presents evidence for the astounding number of Viking warrior burials beneath the streets of Dublin, reports the Irish Centra...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comAdvocates for indigenous tribes are increasingly worried about a group of people near the Brazil-Peru border who may be facing violent attacks from illegal loggers and drug traffickers exploiting the densely forested region.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineLONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA—After studying ancient Egyptian, Peruvian, Native American, and Mongolian mummies, medical researchers with a group known as the HORUS study team have found evidence for narrowing of ancient peoples' arteries due t...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsNews images are giving astronomers a sense of the size of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's coma and the shape of its core.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsAstronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have unexpectedly discovered the most distant galaxy that acts as a cosmic magnifying glass. Seen here as it looked 9.6 billion years ago, this monster elliptical galaxy breaks the previous...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comScientists are still assessing the damage to coral communities from the catastrophic 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.comA new study published in the journal Science highlights the dramatic evolutionary transformation of carnivorous, ground-dwelling theropod dinosaurs into flying birds. “Birds out-shrank and out-evolved their dinosaurian ancestors, survivi...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Discover Top StoriesAs a "World Cup tie in post" this one's a bit late, but here's a story that's been getting a lot of attention: According to scientists, Neymar uses instinct and not his brain when playing football Yes, if you believe the headlines, resea...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from SPACE.comIn a surprising find, astronomers discovered a faraway galaxy that doubles as a cosmic "magnifying glass." At 9.6 billion light-years away, it could be the most distant such object known to science, NASA announced.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe reasons why the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has grown so large, and why it is happening now, may have to do with the travel patterns of bats across Africa and recent weather patterns in the region, as well as other factors.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Universe Today
In a classical nova, a white dwarf siphons material off a companion star, building up a layer on its surface until the temperature and pressure are so high (a process which can take tens of thousands of years) that its hydrogen begins to... -
Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comAmericans should avoid traveling to the three West African countries experiencing an outbreak of Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineSAINT-AUBIN-DES-CHAMPS, FRANCE—Researchers from France's public archaeology agency INRAP are excavating an early medieval necropolis in Normandy. Dating from the fifth to the seventh centuries A.D., the village cemetery held more t...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NSF NewsAs our lives and businesses become ever more intertwined with the Internet and networked technologies, it is crucial to continue to develop and improve cybersecurity measures to keep our data, devices and critical systems safe, secure, p...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe extent of damage from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be greater than scientists previously thought. A study of coral communities in the region found evidence of damage more than 13 miles (21 kilometers) away from the spill ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from LiveScience.comA company that makes tethered blimps for the military is now developing them for commercial uses, from surveillance of bridges and roadways to assistance after natural disasters.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesEmory University Hospital in Atlanta says it expects to receive one of the two American aid workers infected with the Ebola virus within the next few days, the Associated Press says . Emory University Hospital is near the headquarter of ...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesThe Xtreme Eating 2014 competition is an annual round up of the unhealthiest entrees on American menus and this year, nearly every winning dish contains at least 2,000 calories - the recommended daily allowance for a woman.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesThe World Health Organization (WHO) and the presidents of the three countries most affected by Ebola announced on Thursday it is launching a $100 million response plan to fight the viral outbreak that’s claimed over 700 lives since March...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business Times
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesThe Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed 729 people from late March through last weekend, the World Health Organization announced Thursday . Between July 24 and 27, 122 new cases were reported across Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria (one cas...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesIn an observation that will give further credence to climate change warnings, 16-foot waves were recorded for the first time in an area of the Arctic Ocean that was, until recently, permanently covered in ice.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesScientists, studying a massive accumulation of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, have discovered a tiny fossilized grasshopper that is believed to have existed 18 million to 20 million year...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesA blood test could soon predict the likelihood of a person committing suicide, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, after scientists identified a common gene mutation in people with suicidal tendencies. S...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesNASA announced Thursday that its next rover to Mars, in 2020, will carry seven special instruments to conduct an unprecedented study of the red planet. Scientists picked the seven instruments from 58 proposals that NASA received in Janua...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from International Business TimesModern-day birds were once massive, meat-eating, ground-dwelling dinosaurs, according to a new study, published in the journal Science on Friday. Large terrestrial carnivorous dinosaurs, known as theropods, evolved more rapidly than thei...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Large flesh-eating dinosaurs evolved into small flying birds, but it did not happen overnight.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / naturenewsDefining the optimal path through quantum space http://bit.ly/1m4DvTc #naturecovers pic.twitter.com/rzlgzK854E
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / naturenews#scifi fans, the #Futures2 anthology is now available to pre-order! http://bit.ly/1qmKh9v pic.twitter.com/5x5aH6W1JI
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedScientists have created see-through mice complete with transparent organs, in a new technique that could pave the way to a new generation of therapies for conditions ranging from autism to chronic pain.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsAs the Government announces a huge, pioneering project to sequence 100,000 genomes, Mark Henderson looks at what needs to happen to make the technique live up to its promise
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from U.S. News - ScienceDENVER (AP) — Water providers from four western states and the federal government announced an $11 million agreement Thursday to fund projects meant to counteract critically low water levels in the Colorado River basin, which supplies wa...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriHow did this LEGO shuttle make it to space? http://scifri.me/UNYnXt pic.twitter.com/AMOdmUbfsB
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriHow did this LEGO shuttle make it to space? http://scifri.me/UNYnXt pic.twitter.com/pC76GKj8IM
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / sciencechannelWalking on water is old news. Try push-ups on water! [Video] http://bit.ly/1lgTahY @devinsupertramp @KeithStOnge pic.twitter.com/fTPB4vJvGO
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comScientists are making exciting headway in the search for a treatment (and even a cure) for Alzheimer's disease. Earlier this month I joined some of the world's preeminent physicians and neuroscientists in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the Alz...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesResearchers have created see-through mice and rats using a new technique for so-called tissue clearing.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriAnimals can suffer from mental illness, too. http://scifri.me/WPHnSr
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesThe Food & Drug Administration on Thursday announced it would step up its regulation of a class of lab tests that have been key in ushering in an era of personalized medicine -- a step the agency has long considered against strong opposi...
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Health News & Science News - Times of IndiaWhen coconut water broke into the American market 10 years ago, it was billed as a miracle drink able to fight viruses, kidney disease and other ailments like osteoporosis.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriThe Invisible Mouse: Scientists have made one transparent using detergent. http://bit.ly/1nXC4eL @Gizmodo
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from NYT > ScienceNew measures to combat the disease included house-to-house searches, advisories against travel and the deployment of the army and the police.
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriDamage from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill may be more widespread than initially thought. https://www.sciencenews.org/node/188910 @ScienceNewsOrg
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Friday, August 1, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedIf someone tossed a coin and got heads three times in a row, and then asked you to place a bet on the outcome of the fourth toss, what would you put your money on; heads or tails?
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesPenalty kick shootouts are not a goalkeeper’s favorite way to settle a soccer match. Alone in the net, goalies must face off against a string of kickers and try to anticipate which way the ball will come hurtling toward the goal. Psychol...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesIt’s official: The Mars 2020 rover’s instruments have been chosen, and they include a super-laser and stereo vision!
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe instruments on the robotic vehicle that will depart for the Red Planet in 2020 will include a device for making oxygen out of carbon dioxide.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsCancer patients will no longer have to put up with the debilitating side-effects of chemotherapy after David Cameron launched a new landmark project to map the genetic causes of disease
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesDozens of the nation’s leading conservation scientists on Thursday expressed strong concern over a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official’s order to override a recommendation by federal biologists that wolverines deserve threatened spec...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriFrom @WorldSciFest: An interview with @LaurelBraitman on "Animal Madness". Tune in when we talk to her tomorrow! http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/?p=11906
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThe ebola outbreak in West Africa has the world on edge: Will the virus spill into new communities? Will it cross more borders? Even oceans? How can caregivers raise the victims' chances of survival, as well as reduce their own chances o...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from The Week: Most Recent Science PostsRead more about the facts mentioned: The Moon Could be Littered With Fossils From Earth ( Popular Science ) Study finds that like yawning, sniffing is contagious ( Discover ) Elephants appear to be super sniffers ( Student Science ) Phys...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyToday’s infographic challenges us to change our salty ways in less than a month. In three weeks you can change your sodium palate, which will lead to your enjoyment of less salty food, and ultimately less bloating.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAdolescence is a critical time period during human social-emotional development. It is generally associated with changes in teenagers' brain structure and function, as well as behavior . There is, however, also a major environmental chan...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriAnyone? MT @cintagliata: What travels faster in a swift-moving river: heavy raft or light one? Having trouble reconciling drag vs momentum
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWhen Marybeth Jeitner saw this brightly-colored lobster sitting in a tank at the supermarket, she knew it was something special. How special? According to the University of Maine Lobster Institute, the odds of finding a yellow lobster ar...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Twitter Search / sciencechannel#TBT that time Buzz Aldrin punched a harassing moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face >> http://bit.ly/1tzwAsM
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comA new study could be the key to creating a blood test that can screen people for suicide risk. Such a test, experts say, could improve treatment in hospitals, clinics or even help military leaders assess which active-duty members and vet...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThis question originally appeared on Quora . Answer by Robert Frost , instructor/engineer in the Mission Operations Directorate at NASA They don't get a lot of free time and when they do, they don't always get it at the same time, so fun...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriWatch this amazing footage of a LEGO shuttle sent into space. http://youtu.be/xiFM5lYngOw
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAt a Halliburton fracking site in Clarington, Ohio, in the southeastern part of the state, a fire broke out on a recent Saturday morning. What happened next should be a wake-up call to every U.S. citizen, especially the millions of Ameri...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyResearchers at the University of Rhode Island and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute have observed a deep-sea octopus brooding its eggs for four-and-a-half years—longer than any other known animal. Throughout this time, the fem...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyThe United Nations this weekend released images showing the destruction in Gaza caused by fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas militants.
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesThere’s a saying going around that sitting is the new smoking. It’s a bit snarky and perhaps a none-too-subtle dig at those of us who spend a lot of time on our rear ends for work and pleasure. But Dr. James Levine, who is credited with ...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from Twitter Search / scifriFrom @carlzimmer at @nytimesscience, the risks of human genetic mosaics. http://nyti.ms/1rTIuxj
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Thursday, July 31, 2014 from National Geographic NewsTermites move a fourth of a metric ton of dirt to build mounds that can reach 17 feet (5 meters) and higher.
