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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SPACE.comTwo Mars-bound spacecraft are both in excellent health ahead of their September arrivals in orbit around the Red Planet, managers for both missions report.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Psych Central NewsA new study suggests that physically fit sixth-graders — especially girls — are less likely to report feeling depressed when they reach seventh grade. The research was presented at the American Psychological Association’...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from SPACE.comClouds of gas among the stars of one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way are revealed in an incredible new image, one of the most detailed wide-angle views ever taken.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Psych Central NewsNew research from the UK finds that while weight loss was associated with improved health, the mental benefits, if any, were fleeting. Researchers followed 1,979 overweight and obese adults in the UK and found that people who lost five p...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from LiveScience.comDoes your pet reveal your political leanings?
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsPatients treated with a drug widely prescribed for type 2 diabetes can live longer than people without the condition, a large-scale study involving over 180,000 people has shown.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsA group of geneticists working in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva have focused for many years on the genetic characteristics of Down syndrome. They have sequenced the exome, a specific part of our genome, in a cohort ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsResearchers Franco Nori and Konstantin Bliokh from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, in collaboration with an experimental team in Austria, have made the first direct observations of free-electron Landau states -- fo...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsEconomic reforms declared in 1978 led to a surge of growth in China, but resulting increases in human impact activities are seriously degrading the nation's coastal ecosystems, according to a newly published analysis of economic and envi...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from EurekAlert! - Breaking NewsAdvice on how we should brush our teeth from dental associations and toothpaste companies is 'unacceptably inconsistent', finds new University College London research.The study, published in the British Dental Journal, looked at the brus...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsIn an extensive study of sleep monitoring and sleeping pill use in astronauts, researchers found that astronauts suffer considerable sleep deficiency in the weeks leading up to and during space flight. The research also highlights widesp...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsAstronomers and astrophysicists have found that some of the Universe's loneliest supernovae are likely created by the collisions of white dwarf stars into neutron stars.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsA commonly prescribed diabetes drug could offer surprising health benefits to non-diabetics. metformin, used to control glucose levels in the body and already known to exhibit anticancer properties, could offer prognostic and prophylacti...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Universe Today
Following the flawless and history making arrival of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft at its long sought destination of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Aug. 6, the goal of conducting ground breaking scie... -
Friday, August 8, 2014 from Discover Top StoriesAccording to a provocative paper just published, it's possible to accurately determine how narcissistic someone is by asking them just one thing. Here's the question in full: To what extent do you agree with this statement: I am a narcis...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from LiveScience.comAstronauts often suffer from sleep deprivation during space flight and in the months leading up to a mission, a new study finds.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesA drug that is commonly used to treat anxiety in humans and which regularly finds its way into surface waters through wastewater effluence has been shown to reduce mortality rates in fish.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Evolution News & Views
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Physics NewsFirst non-invasive technique could monitor vascular blood flow and structure in real time and potentially help stroke patients and those with Alzheimer's and brain tumours
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsPatients recovering from total joint replacement surgery who receive animal-assisted therapy (AAT) require less pain medication than those who do not experience this type of therapy. Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) has been used in a varie...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowWhen I told people I was going to a recent conference "about origami," I got some perplexed responses. Origami? Like paper cranes? Well, not exactly. Origami principles are now used in a wide variety of applications--from the design of s...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comThe first test will take place in November on the launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, while the second will be an in-flight trial originating from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Space News reported today (...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsExperiments in 1964 resulted in “exploding” clouds.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Discovery NewsTonight, the state of Hawaii is facing the first hurricane to make landfall on its islands since 1950. But Hurricane Iselle is only the first of a two that is cause for concern — Hurricane Julio following only a few … Continue reading →
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineNAZCA, PERU—Sandstorms are thought to have exposed what may be previously unknown geoglyphs in Peru’s Nazca desert, according to a report in El Comercio and translated in Phys.org . Spotted by pilot Eduardo Herrán Gómez de la Torre, the ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Discovery NewsA sandstorm exposes undiscovered geoglyphs near the mysterious Nazca rock lines.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comEurope's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) is scheduled to arrive at the orbiting lab on Aug. 12. There will be a number of opportunities to see both the space station and the cargo ship streaking across the night sky.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from LiveScience.comThe National Geographic Traveler magazine announced the winning photos for its 2014 photography contest.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SPACE.comA test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft was successfully hauled from the Pacific Ocean onboard a U.S. Navy ship.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA—Melinda Nelson-Hurst has been investigating Egyptian artifacts that have been housed at Tulane University since 1852, when they were donated by an associate of collector George Gliddon. It was not known if the two ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NSF NewsConstruction of the highly anticipated Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) can begin now that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has finalized funding. To be located in Chile, LSST is a proposed 8-meter wide-field survey telescope ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news storiesIs there a way to stack solar cells and convert more of the energy in sunlight into electricity? Not only has a company developed a method, but, as a headline said Wednesday in MIT Technology Review, the approach could make solar as chea...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from LiveScience.comNational Geographic Traveler magazine announced the winners of this year's photography contest.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from SkyandTelescope.com's Most Recent ArticlesIs the universe infinite, or just really, really big? How can we know? To answer these questions, we examine the possible shapes of the universe. The post Is the universe infinite? appeared first on Sky & Telescope .
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Phys.org: Other Sciences NewsPaleontologists are completing their first excavation in 30 years inside an unusual U.S. cave thought to hold the remains of tens of thousands of ancient animals that fell to their deaths.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Scientific AmericanFor the past few years, tech companies and academic researchers have been trying to build so-called neuromorphic computer architectures—chips that mimic the human brain's ability to be both... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsAn international team of researchers has found extremely small habitats that increase the potential for life on other planets while offering a way to clean up oil spills on our own. read more
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsA team of engineers used little more than paper and Shrinky dinks™ -- the classic children's toy that shrinks when heated -- to build a robot that assembles itself into a complex shape in four minutes flat, and crawls away without ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsRising temperatures may be seen as universally beneficial for non-native species expanding northward, but a Dartmouth College study suggests a warmer world may help some invaders but hurt others depending on how they and native enemies a...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsAt least one part of the human brain may be able to process information the same way in older age as it does in the prime of life, according to new research conducted at the University of Adelaide. read more
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from e! Science News - Popular science newsUC San Francisco researchers have identified cells' unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that large-scale cell surveys can...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future NowA red-footed tortoise Ltshears Tortoises are using their cleverness to do more than just win long distance races against hares–now they’re moving into the field of touchscreen technology. Researchers from the U.K.'s University of Lincoln...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsCognitive abilities such as memory and attention are not only important after a stroke but also before; according to researchers, declining memory and cognitive ability may increase the risk of stroke in adults over age 65. After stroke,...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsManipulating the neck has been associated with cervical dissection, a type of arterial tear that can lead to stroke. Although a direct cause-and-effect link has not been established between neck manipulation and the risk of stroke, healt...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ScienceDaily: Latest Science NewsPeople who suffer from a rare illness, the Mal de Debarquement Syndrome (MdDS), now have a chance for full recovery thanks to treatment. People often feel a sensation of movement, called Mal de Debarquement, after they have finished boat...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Archaeological News from Archaeology Magazine - Archaeology MagazineABERDEENSHIRE, SCOTLAND—A large, pink granite boulder carved with symbols on adjacent faces was discovered last year by a farmer after it broke his plow. The stone was carved by the Picts, who lived in the region between the third and ni...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Discovery NewsAs hurricanes take aim at Hawaii, astronomers in Hawaii aimed their telescopes at storms raging on another planet: distant Uranus. Continue reading →
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest Headlines | Science NewsUrine and nasal swabs can detect small amounts of the abnormal prions that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Physics NewsAllowing consumers to identify counterfeit goods is a tricky and expensive problem, as many security measures such as holograms might be easily mimicked by counterfeiters. A new nanoscale printing ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com » AstronomyArchival photographs from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have been used to uncover the progenitor to the supernova SN 2012Z – the binary star system containing a helium star transferring material to a white dwarf. SN 2012Z was seen ...
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAncient Japanese art inspires researchers to design self-folding robots that behave like "real-life transformers".
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentRoads outside Bearsden Academy in Glasgow have become so busy that the children have been resorted to checking-up on their parents.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentScientists. led by a team at IBM, develop a new computer chip that mimics the organisation of the human brain.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > SciencePublic health authorities are wrestling with whether and how to bring an experimental medicine to the countries in Africa afflicted with the virus.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA summit meeting of African leaders in Washington did not give priority to discussing the outbreak.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > ScienceSome Ebola patients still die at a Sierra Leone hospital, but just as many, if not more, are dying in the city and neighboring villages, increasing the risk of the disease’s spread.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > ScienceHawaii is poised to take its first direct hit from a hurricane since 1992, as two tropical cyclones barrel through the Pacific toward the state.
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Friday, August 8, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe Food and Drug Administration is permitting an experimental drug from Tekmira Pharmaceuticals even though it had halted a trial because side effects were observed.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentBBC News tells the story of the construction of one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesHumans have been fascinated by Mars for decades, preoccupied with the possibility of life on the red planet and the idea that humans will someday populate its vast deserts. That possibility is now more real than ever, according to expert...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesA doctor with experience in Liberia told Congress Thursday that “95 percent of the expatriate doctors” working in the country left when the Ebola virus broke out in March.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesAn earthquake rattled Hawaii early Thursday ahead of two major hurricanes . The 4.5-magnitude earthquake, centered about seven miles from the northern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island, struck around 6:30 a.m. local time, according to the Natio...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesCalifornia is launching an offensive against marijuana growers who are illegally guzzling water to grow their cannabis plants.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesIn spite of earlier predictions that Hurricane Iselle would weaken to tropical storm status as it approached Hawaii this week, the storm has maintained its vigor and will reach the Big Island late Thursday, according to the Central Pacif...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesMercury levels near the surface of many of the world’s oceans have more than tripled since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The paper stated that pollutants gener...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesWildlife corridors, whose purpose is to increase biodiversity by linking different wildlife habitats separated by human activity, can also act as a type of super highway to assist in the spread of invasive species, according to a new study.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyEnormous by terrestrial standards, Saturn's north polar hurricane-like storm is deep, red, and about 2,000 kilometers wide. Clouds at its outer edge travel at over 500 kilometers per hour.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- In addition to more common tick-borne diseases, doctors now say tick bites can also induce an allergy to red meat.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesFor most cancer patients and their doctors, the most important things to know about a tumor are where it arose in the body and how much it's grown. But in some cases, understanding a tumor's genomic profile is more likely to lead to an e...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comHow's this for a " state " of confusion? This YouTube video (above) features a flask of cyclohexane that's been put under a vacuum. As the pressure in the flask is lowered, the cyclohexane on top begins to freeze as the cyclohexane below...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from U.S. News - ScienceCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — North American lions, cheetahs and short-faced bears: Those are just a few fearsome critters from 25,000 years ago paleontologists already might have found in their first excavation of a bizarre northern Wyoming cav...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesThere’s nothing like a serious health scare to convince smokers to kick the habit, but new research finds that nearly 1 in 10 cancer survivors is still smoking nine years after their diagnosis.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comBy Rod Nickel Aug 7 (Reuters) - Tekmira Pharmaceutical Corp said on Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had modified its clinical hold status on Tekmira's experimental Ebola treatment to enable its potential use in humans...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from The Week: Most Recent Science PostsRead more about the facts mentioned: Poison yourself, it's good for you (OutsideOnline.com) Hummingbirds are freaks of nature (TheWeek.com) 9 poems penned by presidents (Mental Floss) The struggle is real (Reddit) Listen to more of The W...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comWomen with anorexia may experience a positive release from destructive weight-loss behaviors. Anorexia, a disorder that affects an estimated 30 million Americans and has a mortality rate of up to 20 percent , is often associated with low...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MyScienceAcademySolar energy duck will generate power for Copenhagen, by a British artists and designers team, an entertaining sculpture, functioning as a solar collector and buoyant energy store, in the form of a giant northern sea duck, the eider.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- On a refugee application recently accepted by New Zealand, a Tuvalu family claimed they'd be forced out by global warming if they returned home.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from National Geographic NewsCat Tracker uses GPS to reveal your cat's secret outdoor excursions—as well as help scientists figure out their impact on the environment.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesLong before there were urban plazas and parks filled with pigeons all across the world, pigeon ancestors and Neanderthals were hanging out together in rocky caves on the island of Gibraltar.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Harvard and MIT researchers have built self-folding robots called Origami robots.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceA creation made of composite paper can fold and assemble itself and start working without intervention. Such robots could be deployed cheaply and quickly.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsLONDON (Reuters - Scientists who believed they had started to decipher links between a GlaxoSmithKline H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine and the sleep disorder narcolepsy have retracted a study after saying they cannot replicate their findings.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceThe processor, named TrueNorth, may eventually excel at calculations that stump today’s supercomputers.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science News - UPI.comBrooks Hays MEDFORD, Calif., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A F-15C fighter jet with Oregon Air National Guard captured several images of smoke rising from California fires and forming what are called fire clouds.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comOften, art is where you least expect it. Sometimes art is a particularly foggy morning, other times it's a child's drawing made from pure imagination, or it could be, you know, a nasty brawl in the Ukrainian Parliament . Someone took a c...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserAn ancient skeleton gathering dust in the basement of the Penn Museum in Philadelphia for 85 years finally has an ID: It's a 6,500-year-old man newly nicknamed Noah, reports Philly.com . Historians didn't figure it out until a project to...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comA bug can turn you into a vegetarian, or at least make you swear off red meat. Doctors across the nation are seeing a surge of sudden meat allergies in people bitten by a certain kind of tick. This bizarre problem was only discovered a f...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comThis story originally appeared on Climate Central. Global temperatures are rising, but nothing brings global warming home to people like a really hot summer day — those few days a year when it actually feels like the planet is boiling ov...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from MyScienceAcademyNASA last week presented an “impossible” fuel-less Space Drive, a microwave thruster that may actually work.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science - Los Angeles TimesIt’s alive! Using some paper, a circuit board and the plastic used in Shrinky Dinks, a team of researchers has designed an origami-inspired crawling robot that folds itself into working order in about four minutes.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedObservant holidaymakers driving through Puglia’s hazy olive groves this summer might notice the unusually desiccated and unhealthy state of the trees.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - Science & EnvironmentAncient Japanese art inspires researchers to design self-folding robots that behave like 'real-life transformers'.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from - Science RSS FeedThey sound like real-life transformers – the toys that can change from one shape into another – but these robots are perhaps more akin to the flat-packed world of an Ikea catalogue.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NPR Topics: Health & ScienceStart with paper; add Shrinky Dinks, a microprocessor, heat, and voila! It's not quite that easy. But this engineering project might one day lead to a printable, flat spacecraft that folds itself.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: Science NewsBOSTON (Reuters) - Scientists say they have developed a low-cost robot prototype made from paper and children's trinkets that can assemble itself and perform a task without human help.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science & Health from NewserA tree with 40 different fruits sounds like something out of fairytale. But Syracuse University artist Sam Van Aken is turning plum trees into orchards unto themselves, reports Time . Most of the year, his trees appear to be common fruit...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > ScienceOfficials in Loving County, Tex., population 95, hope the federal government — with $28 billion to spend on the disposal of high-level radioactive waste — will consider it as a storage site.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Science on HuffingtonPost.comAs an experimental particle physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider, learning to handle large amounts of data is a necessary skill. In addition, one needs to learn how to differentiate between something that is useful and somethin...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsScientists at Harvard and MIT have developed an origami flat-pack robot which self assembles and then scuttles away like a spider when heated
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Latest science news breaking science news earth news space news technology newsScientists at Harvard and MIT have developed an origami flat-pack robot which self assembles and then scuttles away like a spider when heated
