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Astronomers Discover Planet That Shouldn't Be There
Astronomers have discovered the most distantly orbiting planet found to date around a single, sun-like star. Weighing in at 11 times Jupiter's mass and orbiting its star at 650 times the ...full story -
Discovery of Partial Skeleton Suggests Ruggedly Built, Tree-Climbing Human Ancestor
A human ancestor characterized by "robust" jaw and skull bones was a muscular creature and more adaptive to its environment than previously thought, scientists have discovered. Researchers ...full story -
You Can't Get Entangled Without a Wormhole: Physicist Finds Entanglement Instantly Gives Rise to a Wormhole
Quantum entanglement is one of the more bizarre theories to come out of the study of quantum mechanics -- so strange, in fact, that Albert Einstein famously referred to it as "spooky action ...full story -
Probiotic Therapy Alleviates Autism-Like Behaviors in Mice
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed when individuals exhibit characteristic behaviors, decreased social interactions, and impaired communication. Curiously, many with ASD also ...full story -
How Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Human Skin and Breath
Scientists have found that the very receptors in the mosquito's maxillary palp that detect carbon dioxide are ones that detect skin odors as well, thus explaining why mosquitoes are ...full story -
Mother Lemon Sharks 'Home' to Their Birthplace to Give Birth
Research conducted in Bimini in The Bahamas spanning almost two decades shows that female lemon sharks that were born there returned 15 years later to give birth to their own young, ...full story -
Ultrathin 'Diagnostic Skin' Allows Continuous Patient Monitoring
A multidisciplinary research team has developed an ultrathin membrane that can stick to skin and carry arrays of diagnostic sensors and stimulatory components. The "electronic skin" allows ...full story -
New Fossil Species Found in Mozambique Reveals New Data on Ancient Mammal Relatives
In the remote province of Niassa, Mozambique, a new species and genus of fossil vertebrate was found. The species is a distant relative of living mammals and is approximately 256 million ...full story -
Crocodiles Are Cleverer Than Previously Thought: Some Crocodiles Use Lures to Hunt Their Prey
Biologists have observed two crocodilian species -- muggers and American alligators -- using twigs and sticks to lure birds, particularly during nest-building ...full story -
Glimpsing the Infrastructure of a Gamma-Ray Burst Jet
A new study using observations from a novel instrument provides the best look to date at magnetic fields at the heart of gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic explosions in the universe. An ...full story
- Astronomers Find Planet That Shouldn't Be There
- Ruggedly Built, Tree-Climbing Human Ancestor
- Entanglement Instantly Gives Rise to Wormhole
- Gut Bacteria and Autism-Like Behavior in Mice
- How Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Human Skin, Breath
- Lemon Sharks Return to Birthplace to Give Birth
- 'Diagnostic Skin' for Remote Patient Monitoring
- New Fossil: Clues to Ancient Mammal Relatives
- Crocodiles Use Lures to Hunt Their Prey
- Glimpsing Inside a Gamma-Ray Burst Jet
Surprising Discovery: Skin Communicates With Liver
Researchers have discovered that
the skin is capable of
communicating with the liver. The
discovery has surprised the
scientists, and they say that it
may help our understanding of how
skin diseases can affect the rest
of the body. ... > full story
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How Water Dissolves Stone, Molecule by Molecule
Scientists have combined
cutting-edge experimental
techniques and computer
simulations to find a new way of
predicting how water dissolves
crystalline structures like those
found in natural stone and cement. ... > full story
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'Spinning Trap' Developed to Measure Electron Roundness
Researchers have developed a
method of spinning electric and
magnetic fields around trapped
molecular ions to measure whether
the ions' tiny electrons are truly
round -- research with major
implications for future scientific
understanding of the universe. ... > full story
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New Jersey Shore Likely Faces Unprecedented Flooding by Mid-Century
Geoscientists estimate that the
New Jersey shore will likely
experience a sea-level rise of
about 1.5 feet by 2050 and of
about 3.5 feet by 2100 -- 11 to 15
inches higher than the average for
sea-level rise globally over the
... > full story
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Coffee or Beer? The Choice Could Affect Your Genome
Coffee and beer are polar
opposites in the beverage world --
coffee picks you up, and beer
winds you down. Now researchers
have discovered that the beverages
may also have opposite effects on
your genome. Working with a kind
of yeast that shares many
... > full story
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Sharks Prefer to Sneak Up from Behind: Caribbean Reef Sharks Can Tell If a Human Is Facing Toward Them
"Never turn your back on a shark"
is the message from a new article.
Biologists contend that sharks can
comprehend body orientation and
therefore know whether humans are
facing them or not. This ability h ... > full story
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Deep-Sea Study Reveals Cause of 2011 Tsunami: Unusually Thin, Slippery Geological Fault Found
The tsunami that struck
Japan’s Tohoku region in
2011 was touched off by a
submarine earthquake far more
massive than anything geologists
had expected in that zone. Now, a
... > full story
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Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
A research team reports today that
the brain can produce and release
estrogen — a discovery that
may lead to a better understanding
of hormonal changes observed from
before birth throughout the entire
aging process. ... > full story
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Stomach 'Clock' Tells Us How Much to Eat
Researchers have discovered the
first evidence that the nerves in
the stomach act as a circadian
clock, limiting food intake to
specific times of the day. ... > full story
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Structure of Key Pain-Related Protein Unveiled
In a technical tour de force,
scientists have determined, at
near-atomic resolution, the
structure of a protein that plays
a central role in the perception
of pain and heat. ... > full story
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Geoengineering Approaches to Reduce Climate Change Unlikely to Succeed
Reducing the amount of sunlight
reaching the planet’s
surface by geoengineering may not
undo climate change after all.
Researchers used a simple energy
balance analysis to explain how
the Earth’s water cycle
... > full story
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Rising Ocean Acidification Leads to Anxiety in Fish
A new research study combining
marine physiology, neuroscience,
pharmacology, and behavioral
psychology has revealed a
surprising outcome from increases
of carbon dioxide uptake in the
oceans: anxious fish. Scientists
have shown for the first time that
... > full story
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- Skin Communicates With Liver, Scientists Find
- How Water Dissolves Stone, Molecule by Molecule
- 'Spinning Trap' to Measure Electron Roundness
- Superstorm Sandy Was Just the Beginning
- Coffee or Beer? Choice Could Affect Your Genome
- Sharks Prefer to Sneak Up from Behind
- Deep-Sea Study Reveals Cause of 2011 Tsunami
- Estrogen: Not Just Produced by Ovaries
- Stomach 'Clock' Tells Us How Much to Eat
- Structure of Key Pain-Related Protein Unveiled
- Geoengineering to Protect Climate Problematic
- Fish Anxious With Rising Ocean Acidification
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Top Medical News
Study Finds Parental Stress Linked to Obesity in Children
Parental stress is linked to weight gain in children, according to a new ... > full story
Top Technology News
Thermoelectric Materials Nearing Production Scale
Half-Heusler compounds are especially suited for manufacturing thermoelectric modules. Waste heat can be converted to electricity with them. Researchers have manufactured the alloys for the first time in kilogram ... > full story
Top Environment News
Feeding by Tourists Compromises Health of Already-Endangered Iguanas, Study Finds
Feeding wildlife is an increasingly common tourist activity, but a new study shows that already-imperilled iguanas are suffering further physiological problems as a result of being fed by ... > full story
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Researchers Create Nonlinear Light-Generating Zero-Index Metamaterial
December 5, 2013 — Researchers have used a unique optical metamaterial with zero-index refraction to generate phase mismatch–free nonlinear light, an important step towards efficient light generation for future quantum networks and light ... > full story -
US Stroke Deaths Declining Due to Improved Prevention, Treatment
December 5, 2013 — Better blood pressure control, stop-smoking programs and faster treatment are a few of the reasons for a dramatic decline in US stroke deaths in recent ... > full story -
Bacteria; Biotechnology and Bioengineering; Biotechnology; Microbiology; New Species; Microbes and More;
New Method of DNA Editing Allows Synthetic Biologists to Unlock Secrets of a Bacterial Genome
December 5, 2013 — A group researchers has demonstrated the use of an innovative DNA engineering technique to discover potentially valuable functions hidden within bacterial ... > full story -
How Vision Dims: Chemists Crack Code of Cataract Creation
December 5, 2013 — Groundbreaking new findings by chemists about how cataracts form could be used to help prevent the world's leading cause of blindness, which currently affects nearly 20 million people ... > full story -
Experiment Is First to Simulate Warming of Arctic Permafrost
December 5, 2013 — Although vegetation growth in the Arctic is boosted by global warming, it’s not enough to offset the carbon released by the thawing of the permafrost beneath the surface, researchers have found in the first experiment in the Arctic environment ... > full story
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Endangered Plants; Virology; Agriculture and Food; Pests and Parasites; Insects (including Butterflies); Botany;
Crop-Infecting Virus Forces Aphids to Spread Disease
December 5, 2013 — Viruses alter plant biochemistry in order to manipulate visiting aphids into spreading ... > full story -
Biochemistry Research; Organic Chemistry; Biotechnology; Nanotechnology; Developmental Biology; Biology;
DNA Helicity, Elasticity Explained on Nanoscale
December 5, 2013 — A simple mechanical model to effectively implement the well-known double-stranded structure and the elasticity of DNA on a nano-meter scale has been developed, in an effort to more comprehensively explore the nucleic acid containing genetic material ... > full story -
New Guidelines Rule out Same-Day Return to Play for Athletes With Concussion
December 5, 2013 — Any athlete with concussion symptoms should not be allowed to return to play on the same day, according to the latest consensus statement on sports-related ... > full story -
Brain Shape Affects Children's Learning Capacities
December 5, 2013 — The anatomy of the brain affects cognitive control, an essential skill for learning and academic success. Scientists in this study showed that an asymmetry of the two brain hemispheres relative to a particular pattern of a cortical region could ... > full story -
Origin of Alzheimer's Gene Mutation Discovered
December 4, 2013 — The age and origin of the E280A gene mutation responsible for early-onset Alzheimer's in a Colombian family with an unusually high incidence of the disease has been traced to a single founder dating from the 16th ... > full story
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Elder Care; Parkinson's Research; Parkinson's; Caregiving; Today's Healthcare; Patient Education and Counseling;
Telemedicine Brings Parkinson's Care to 'Anyone, Anywhere'
December 4, 2013 — A new study shows that a neurologist in an office thousands of miles away can deliver effective specialized care to people with Parkinson's disease. For individuals with the condition -- many of whom have never seen a specialist -- these "virtual ... > full story -
Researchers Unravel Role of Rb Tumor Suppressor in Aggressive Breast Cancer
December 4, 2013 — The retinoblastoma protein plays a critical role in suppressing the multi-step process of cell migration through the bloodstream, lymphovascular invasion and the metastasis of an aggressive type of breast cancer to the lung, researchers have ... > full story -
Active Component of Grape Seed Extract Effective Against Cancer Cells
December 4, 2013 — Controlled lab studies of grape seed extract (GSE) show anti-cancer activity without toxicity to healthy ... > full story -
Shining Light on Damage from Daily Sun Exposure: Better Sunscreens Needed
December 4, 2013 — A low level of daily exposure to a common component of sunlight can cause skin damage at the molecular level after just a few days, new research shows. The findings highlight the need for better sunscreens to protect against these damaging ... > full story -
Vaccines; Diseases and Conditions; Infectious Diseases; Healthy Aging; Today's Healthcare; Pregnancy and Childbirth;
Could a Vaccine Help Ward Off MS?
December 4, 2013 — A vaccine used to prevent tuberculosis in other parts of the world may help prevent multiple sclerosis (MS) in people who show the beginning signs of the disease, according to a new study ... > full story
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Medical Implants: Tune In, Turn On, Power Up
December 4, 2013 — Human beings don’t come with power sockets, but a growing numbers of us have medical implants that run off electricity. To keep our bionic body parts from powering down, a group of researchers is developing a safe, noninvasive, and efficient ... > full story -
Inflammation Linked to Obesity in Adults May Be Protective in Young Children
December 4, 2013 — The first study of its kind reveals that the same pro-inflammatory proteins linked to obesity and the metabolic syndrome in adults appear to protect children prior to ... > full story -
Predicting Ovarian Cancer Survival by Counting Tumor-Attacking Immune Cells
December 4, 2013 — Scientists develop a new method for counting cancer-fighting cells in ovarian cancer ... > full story -
Heart Failure After Heart Attack Is Driven by Immune Cells Made in Spleen
December 4, 2013 — Damage to heart muscle caused by a heart attack turns on immune cells in the spleen that accelerate heart ... > full story -
How Our Nerves Keep Firing
December 4, 2013 — Biologists discovered how nerve cells recycle tiny bubbles or “vesicles” that send chemical nerve signals from one cell to the next. The process is much faster and different than two previously proposed mechanisms for recycling the ... > full story
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An Ecosystem-Based Approach to Protect the Deep Sea from Mining
December 5, 2013 — A new paper describes the expert-driven systematic conservation planning process applied to inform science-based recommendations to the International Seabed Authority for a system of deep-sea marine protected areas to safeguard biodiversity and ... > full story -
Laser Light at Useful Wavelengths from Semiconductor Nanowires
December 5, 2013 — Thread-like semiconductor structures called nanowires, so thin that they are effectively one-dimensional, show potential as lasers for applications in computing, communications, and sensing. Scientists have demonstrated laser action in semiconductor ... > full story -
Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Engineering; Robotics Research; Mobile Computing; Sports Science;
Soft Mini-Robots: Micro-Robots Will Become Soft and Move Like Biological Organisms, Experts Predict
December 5, 2013 — Increasingly small robots can carry out their functions even inside the human body. No, this isn’t a sci-fi dream. The technology is almost ready. However there is still one condition they must meet to be effective: these devices need to have ... > full story -
Literacy; Educational Psychology; Language Acquisition; Intelligence; Infant and Preschool Learning; Memory;
Study Gives New Meaning to 'Let Your Fingers Do the Walking'
December 4, 2013 — A psychological study has found that skilled typists can’t identify the positions of many of the keys on the QWERTY keyboard and probably didn’t memorize them even when they first learned to ... > full story -
Carbon Monoxide May Help Shrink Tumors, Amplify Effectiveness of Chemotherapy
December 4, 2013 — In recent years, research has suggested that carbon monoxide, the highly toxic gas emitted from auto exhausts and faulty heating systems, can be used to treat certain inflammatory medical conditions. Now a study shows for the first time that carbon ... > full story
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Gastrointestinal Problems; Medical Devices; Medical Technology; Heartburn; Cancer; Today's Healthcare;
Swallowing a Diagnostic Pill
December 4, 2013 — A tiny capsule that can carry out a chemical analysis of the contents of one's stomach could identify the presence of so-called "occult" blood at very low levels. The data is automatically broadcast to an external monitoring device for detection of ... > full story -
Agriculture and Food; Nature; Food and Agriculture; Genetics; Endangered Plants; Evolutionary Biology;
'Arabidopsis' Semidwarfs: The Green Revolution in Nature
December 4, 2013 — During the so-called ‘green revolution’ of the sixties, a movement that changed agricultural practices in many crops around the world, techniques for genetic improvement were applied in order to obtain grain varieties which were shorter, ... > full story -
Sleep Disorders; Sleep Disorder Research; Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Insomnia; Insomnia Research; Obesity;
Study Links Sleep to Mood Disturbance, Poor Quality of Life in Obese
December 4, 2013 — A new study shows that poor sleep quality is strongly associated with mood disturbance and lower quality of life among people with extreme ... > full story -
Dogs; Animal Learning and Intelligence; Veterinary Medicine; Brain-Computer Interfaces; Animals; Intelligence;
Multi-Dog Study Points to Canine Brain's Reward Center
December 4, 2013 — After capturing the first brain images of two alert, unrestrained dogs last year, researchers have confirmed their methods and results by replicating them in an experiment involving 13 dogs. The research showed that most of the dogs had a positive ... > full story -
Fertility; Multiple Sclerosis Research; Bioethics; Gynecology; Diseases and Conditions; Multiple Myeloma;
IVF Improving, but Fertility Treatments Keep Multiple Births High
December 4, 2013 — More than one in three twin births and three of four births of triplets or more in the United States arise from fertility treatments, according to new estimates published. Although in-vitro fertilization (IVF) practices have improved to produce ... > full story
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Fledgling Supernova Remnant Reveals Neutron Star's Secrets
December 4, 2013 — Astronomers have identified the glowing wreck of a star that exploded a mere 2,500 years ago — the blink of an eye in astronomical ... > full story -
Early Tree-Dwelling Bipedal Human Ancestor Was Similar to Ancient Apes and 'Lucy' but Not Living Apes
December 4, 2013 — An analysis of the femur of one of the oldest human ancestors reveals the six-million-year-old “Millenium Man” was bipedal but lived in the trees. The research could provide additional insight to the origins of human ... > full story -
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon
December 4, 2013 — NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north ... > full story -
Humans Threaten Wetlands' Ability to Keep Pace With Sea-Level Rise
December 4, 2013 — Left to themselves, coastal wetlands can withstand rapid levels of sea-level rise. But humans could be sabotaging some of their best defenses, according to a new ... > full story -
Industrial Age Helps Some Coastal Regions Capture Carbon Dioxide, Surprise Finding Shows
December 4, 2013 — Coastal portions of the world's oceans, once believed to be a source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, are now thought to absorb as much as two-thirds more carbon than they emitted in the preindustrial age, researchers ... > full story
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New Scheme Uses Shared Visual Cues to Help People Remember Multiple Passwords
December 4, 2013 — It turns out that the way to keep track of your many passwords to online accounts is the same as how to get to Carnegie Hall -- practice, practice, practice. So researchers have devised a scheme that enables users to create 100 or more passwords by ... > full story -
No Blue Skies for Mice: Scientist Study Differential Distribution of Photoreceptors in Retina of Mice
December 4, 2013 — Guppies, hyenas and mice share one particular retinal specialization in their eye: Photoreceptors (“cones”) sensitive to ‘green’ light are largely located in the top half of the eye, whereas cones sensitive to ... > full story -
Researchers Find Shape-Shifting Stops Migrating Cancer Cells
December 4, 2013 — Like a car with a front and back end, a steering mechanism and an engine to push it forward, cancer cells propel themselves through normal tissues and organs to spread cancer throughout the body. Researchers, however, have managed to turn these ... > full story -
Ten Times More Throughput on Optic Fibers
December 4, 2013 — Two scientists have shown how to achieve a dramatic increase in the capacity of optical fibers. Their simple, innovative solution, generating perfect "Nyquist sinc pulses," reduces the amount of space required between the pulses of light that ... > full story -
Radiographic Imaging Exposes Relationship Between Obesity, Cancer
December 4, 2013 — Researchers are working to improve understanding about obesity and cancer. A study published today is the first to use direct radiographic imaging of adipose tissue rather than estimates like body mass index or waist circumference, and focuses on ... > full story
Health & Biomedical Sciences
Health & Medicine
Enzalutamide in Prostate Cancer: Hints of Added Benefit
Enzalutamide can prolong survival in certain patients with prostate cancer, and delay occurrence of bone lesions. The new drug also offers advantages with regards to ... > full story
Mind & Brain
Study Points to Differences in High-School Crack, Powder Cocaine Use
The use of crack and powder cocaine both varies and overlaps among high school seniors, researchers have found. Their findings point to the need to take into account both common and different at-risk factors in developing programming and messaging ... > full story
Living Well
Blacks Happier at Work Than Whites Despite Fewer Friends, Less Autonomy
Despite working in more routine and less autonomous jobs, having fewer close friends at work, and feeling less supported by their coworkers, blacks report significantly more positive emotions in the workplace than whites, according to a new ... > full story
Biological & Earth Sciences
Plants & Animals
Scientists Discover Novel Hormone Essential for Heart Development
Scientists have identified a gene encoding a hormone that could potentially be used as a therapeutic molecule to treat heart diseases. The hormone -- which they have chosen to name ELABELA -- is only 32 amino-acids long, making it amongst the ... > full story
Earth & Climate
Sea-Level Rise to Drive Coastal Flooding, Regardless of Change in Cyclone Activity
Though recent studies focus on climate change impacts on intensity and frequency of tropical cyclones, a new review shows that sea level rise and shoreline retreat are the two more certain factors expected to drive an increase in future flood ... > full story
- First Evidence of Primates Regularly Sleeping in Caves
- Virtual Wall Could Stop Spread of Oil and Help Build Invisible Barrier for Oil Spills
- Turning Waste Into Power With Bacteria and Loofahs
- While the Arctic Ocean Is Largely a Carbon Sink, Parts Are Also a Source of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
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Fossils & Ruins
New Research Will Allow More Reliable Dating of Major Past Events
Academics have developed a new internationally agreed radiocarbon calibration curve which will allow key past events to be dated more ... > full story
- Oldest Hominin DNA Sequenced: Mitochondrial Genome of a 400,000-Year-Old Hominin from Spain Decoded
- Fossils Clarify the Origins of Wasps and Their Kin: Alderfly Ancestors, Snakefly Cousins
- Rapid Climate Changes at End of Last Glaciation, but With 120 Year Time Lag
- Domestication of Dogs May Have Elaborated on a Pre-Existing Capacity of Wolves to Learn from Humans
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Physical & Applied Sciences
Space & Time
Intricacy of Comet Lovejoy's Tail Captured
An international team of astronomers has captured an image of the intricate flow of Comet Lovejoy's ion ... > full story
Matter & Energy
Electricity from Waste Heat With More Efficient Materials
Thermoelectric materials can convert waste heat directly into electricity. Scientists have developed hybrid thermoelectric materials which combine useful properties from different types of ... > full story
Computers & Math
Pulsatile Blood Flow Unmasks New Migraine Features
With every heartbeat, the blood is sent to all our peripheral tissues, generating changes in pulsatile perfusion. Using these pulsatile changes as a source of information, researchers have developed a new method of 2D mapping of microcirculation, ... > full story
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