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March 1, 2020
Feb. 27, 2020 — A new study provides the most detailed report to date of the cellular effects of a calorie-restricted diet in rats. While the benefits of caloric restriction have long been known, the new results ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — A new study identifies a transition in the strong nuclear force that illuminates the structure of a neutron star's ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — A comparison of normal and germ-free mice revealed that as much as 70 percent of a mouse's gut chemistry is determined by its gut microbiome. Even in distant organs, such as the uterus or the brain, approximately 20 percent of molecules were different in the mice with ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — Research on novel nanoelectronics devices has enabled brain neurons and artificial neurons to communicate with each other over ...
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Feb. 24, 2020 — In search of new ways to sequence human genomes and read critical alterations in DNA, researchers say they have successfully used the gene cutting tool CRISPR to make cuts in DNA around lengthy tumor genes, which can be used to collect ...
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Feb. 20, 2020 — Using a machine-learning algorithm, researchers have identified a powerful new antibiotic compound. In laboratory tests, the drug killed many of the world's most problematic disease-causing bacteria, including some strains that are resistant to all known antibiotics. It also cleared infections in ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — Scientists have devised new analytical tools to break down the enigmatic history of Mars' atmosphere -- and whether life was once possible there. It could help astrobiologists understand the alkalinity, pH and nitrogen content of ancient waters on Mars, and by extension, the carbon dioxide ...
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Feb. 24, 2020 — A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers reveal a planet alive with quakes, dust devils and strange ...
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Feb. 24, 2020 — New data gleaned from the magnetic sensor aboard NASA's InSight spacecraft is offering an unprecedented close-up of magnetic fields ...
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Feb. 20, 2020 — Astronomers used two of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world to create more than three hundred images of planet-forming disks around very young stars in the Orion Clouds. These images reveal new details about the birthplaces of planets and the earliest stages of ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several meters. A new study shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the climate, as they prevent rising ocean temperatures and melting ...
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Feb. 25, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a new non-oxygen breathing animal. The tiny, less than 10-celled parasite demonstrates that evolution can go in strange directions, the ...
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Feb. 20, 2020 — As global temperatures rise, permafrost and methane hydrates -- large reservoirs of ancient carbon -- have the potential to break down, releasing enormous quantities of the potent greenhouse gas methane. But would this methane actually reach the ...
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Feb. 20, 2020 — A new study documented the earliest known interbreeding event between ancient human populations -- a group known as the 'super-archaics' in Eurasia interbred with a Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestor about 700,000 years ago. The event was between two populations more distantly related than any other ...
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Health News
March 1, 2020
Feb. 20, 2020 — A first cell atlas of the human thymus gland could lead to new immune therapies to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. Researchers mapped thymus ...
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Feb. 18, 2020 — Using 'BPA-free' plastic products could be as harmful to human health -- including a developing brain -- as those products that contain the controversial chemical, suggest ...
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Feb. 18, 2020 — Researchers have found that it is possible to assess a person's ability to feel empathy by studying their brain activity while they are resting rather than while they are engaged in specific ...
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Feb. 14, 2020 — Brain imprints on cranial bones from great apes and humans refute the long-held notion that the human pattern of brain asymmetry is unique, according to new ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — When disease epidemics and outbreaks occur, conspiracy theories often emerge that compete with the information provided by public health officials. A new study finds that information used to counter myths about Zika in Brazil not only failed to reduce misperceptions but also reduced the accuracy of people's other beliefs about the ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — The body's immune response to fungal infections changes when a patient is also infected by a virus, according to new research which investigated the two types of infection together for the first ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Celiac disease affects 0.3-2.4% of people in most countries world-wide, and approx. 2% in Finland. Celiac patients suffer from a variety of symptoms, typically intestinal complaints, such as diarrhea, but are often symptom-free. Immunologists developed and tested nanoparticles containing gliadin for the immunomodulatory treatment of celiac ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — A new study shows that lung stem cell secretions -- specifically exosomes and secretomes -- delivered via nebulizer, can help repair lung injuries due to multiple types of pulmonary fibrosis in mice and ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Each day, humans and animals rely on habits to complete routine tasks such as eating. As new habits are formed, this enables us to do things automatically without thinking. As the brain starts to develop a new habit, in as little as a half a second, one region of the brain, the dorsolateral striatum, experiences a short burst in activity, which increases as the habit becomes stronger. A new study ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — A research team has found that brains treated with certain drugs within a few days of an injury have a dramatically reduced risk of developing epilepsy later in life. The development of epilepsy is a major clinical complication after brain injury, and the disease can often take years to ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — A new study exposes the fallacy of relying on pronunciation as a measure of linguistic ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Scientists have detected that a previously overlooked gene behavior could potentially lead to a new way to diagnose Alzheimer's ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — How high altitudes affect people's breathing and its coordination with the heart beat is due to genetic differences say researchers. Clear physiological differences have already been demonstrated between people living in the Himalayas and Andes compared with people living at sea level, revealing an evolutionary adaptation in the control of blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain and the rest ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — The balance between weight gain and weight gain loss is predominantly determined by what you eat, how much you eat, and by how much exercise you get. But another important factor is often neglected... it's not just how many calories you eat, but WHEN you eat them that will determine how well you burn those ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Researchers have found that sugar content is the most important factor for people when making healthy food choices -- overriding fat and ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — A new study by public health researchers finds the number of calories kids consume from post-game snacks far exceeds the number of calories they actually burn playing in the ...
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Physical/Tech News
March 1, 2020
Feb. 20, 2020 — By measuring iron isotopes, researchers have shown that our planet originally formed much faster than previously thought. This finding provides new insights on both planetary formation and the ...
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Feb. 18, 2020 — Researchers have developed a mathematical model that describes how rotating detonation engines ...
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Feb. 14, 2020 — Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured the unprecedented dimming of Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. The stunning new images of the star's ...
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Feb. 15, 2020 — New technologies that enable new strategies are revitalizing the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), by not only augmenting the traditional search for intelligently generated radio ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Ultrafast, multidimensional spectroscopy unlocks macroscopic-scale effects of quantum electronic correlations. Researchers found that low-energy and high energy states are correlated in a layered, superconducting material. Exciting the material with an ultrafast beam of near-infrared light produces coherent excitations lasting a surprisingly 'long' time of around 500 femtoseconds, originating ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — With the goal of eliminating brownouts and blackouts, new research is redesigning how electricity is distributed within power grids. The research describes a power system operation that will consist of multiple microgrids -- separate grids operating like individual islands that can disconnect from the main power supply and run ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Using the most detailed model to date of global data center energy use, researchers found that massive efficiency gains by data centers have kept energy use roughly flat over the past ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — For the first time, researchers have used an advanced analytical technique known as dual-comb spectroscopy to rapidly acquire extremely detailed hyperspectral images. By acquiring a full spectrum of information for each pixel in a scene with high sensitivity and speed, the new approach could greatly advance a wide range of scientific and industrial applications such as chemical analysis and ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Researchers found two processes immediately after the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact that likely supplied chalcophile elements to the ocean, i.e., impact heating and acid rain. The former produced iron oxides/hydroxides and released chalcophile elements from the struck rock. Iron oxides/hydroxides could have carried chalcophile elements to the seafloor. Acid rain could have supplied some ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Scientists have measured a property of the neutron -- a fundamental particle in the universe -- more precisely than ever ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Betelgeuse has been the center of significant media attention lately. The red supergiant is nearing the end of its life, and when a star over 10 times the mass of the Sun dies, it goes out in spectacular fashion. With its brightness recently dipping to the lowest point in the last hundred years, many space enthusiasts are excited that Betelgeuse may soon go supernova, exploding in a dazzling ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will unlock secrets of the atmospheres of Uranus and ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — Scientists have designed a novel processor architecture that can solve combinatorial optimization problems much faster than existing ones. Combinatorial optimization are complex problems that show up across many different fields of science and engineering and are difficult for conventional computers to handle, making specialized processor architectures very ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Researchers have designed an artificial intelligence model that can determine whether lower back pain is acute or chronic by scouring doctors' notes within electronic medical records, an approach that can help to treat patients more accurately, according to a new ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — A new mathematical tool could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes as well as other self-assembled patterns in ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Virtual reality could help physiotherapy patients complete their exercises at home successfully thanks to researchers who managed to combine VR technology with 3D motion ...
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Environment News
March 1, 2020
Feb. 20, 2020 — The ability to recognize objects across different senses is present in the tiny brains of an insect, researchers have ...
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Feb. 20, 2020 — Scientists studying sperm whales have discovered earthquakes affect their ability to find food for at least a year. The research is among the first to examine the impact of a large earthquake on a ...
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Feb. 19, 2020 — Researchers measured methane levels in ancient air samples and found that scientists have been vastly underestimating the amount of methane humans are emitting into the atmosphere via fossil fuels. ...
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Feb. 18, 2020 — Rising sea surface temperatures and acidic waters could eliminate nearly all existing coral reef habitats by 2100, suggesting restoration projects in these areas will likely meet serious challenges, ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Only a fraction of conventional row crop farmers grow cover crops after harvest, but a new global analysis from the University of Illinois shows the practice can boost soil microbial abundance by ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Scientists have discovered the earliest known example of an animal evolving to lose body parts it no longer ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Female sea turtles mate multiply to ensure fertilization. A study of nesting loggerhead female sea turtles in southwest Florida used genotyping to uncover how many fathers were represented in their nests. Surprisingly, scientists found that 75 percent of the female sea turtles had mated singly. No male was represented in more than one female's clutches. Findings provide insights into the relative ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Two tree species native to the Northeast have been found to be structurally sound for use in cross-laminated timber (CLT) - a revolutionary new type of building material with sought-after sustainability characteristics, according to new ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Sea levels along a stretch of the Atlantic coast of North America in the 18th century were rising almost as fast as in the 20th century, a new study has ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — A new study of individually radio-tracked tropical fish in a Bahamian mangrove estuary highlights the importance of highly active individuals in maintaining ecosystem ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Humans began developing a complex culture as early as the Stone Age. This development was brought about by social interactions between various groups of hunters and gatherers, a new study has now confirmed. The researchers mapped the social networks of present-day hunter-gatherers in the Philippines and simulated the discovery of a medicinal plant ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Methane is a gas that deserves more attention in the climate debate as it contributes to almost half of human-made global warming in the short-term. A new study shows that it is possible to significantly contribute to reduced global warming through the implementation of available technology that limits methane release to the ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Slow, steady evolution in animal groups that contain many different ecological lifestyles has been a key buffer against extinction, the new research ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — The tiny forefoot of a lizard of the genus Anolis was trapped in amber about 15 to 20 million years ago. Every detail of this rare fossil is visible under the microscope. But the seemingly very good condition is deceptive: The bone is largely decomposed and chemically transformed, very little of the original structure remains. The results provide important clues as to what exactly happens during ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Over the past three millennia, selective breeding has dramatically widened the array of plant domestication traits. However, a close look at the archaeobotanical record illustrates a similar suite of linked traits emerging before humans began selectively breeding food crops. A researchers now summarizes all of these early evolutionary responses in plants, arguing that these shared traits evolved ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Scientists have shown that some key points of animal evolution -- like the ones leading to humans or insects -- were associated with a large loss of genes in the genome. The study compared over 100 genomes to investigate what happened at the gene level during the evolution of animals after their ...
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Society/Education News
March 1, 2020
Feb. 17, 2020 — A new study suggests that iron fertilization may not have a significant impact on phytoplankton growth, at least on a global ...
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Jan. 22, 2020 — A new study uses machine learning to project migration patterns resulting from sea-level rise. Researchers found the impact of rising oceans will ripple across the country, beyond coastal areas at ...
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Jan. 21, 2020 — Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists has found ...
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Jan. 8, 2020 — The cancer death rate declined by 29 percent from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2 percent drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — One year into Philadelphia's 1.5-cents-per-ounce 'soda tax,' new findings show that the law had minimal to no influence on what Philadelphians are ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — The emergence and rapid increase in cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a respiratory illness caused by a novel coronavirus, pose complex challenges to the global public health, research and medical communities, write ...
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Feb. 28, 2020 — Researchers have developed a computational model that can be used to expedite military operations aimed at evacuating noncombatants, disaster response or humanitarian ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — The sights and sounds of winning on a slot machine may increase your desire to play -- and your memories of winning big, according to new ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Speech and music are two fundamentally human activities that are decoded in different brain hemispheres. A new study used a unique approach to reveal why this specialization ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' within the brain is much more strongly related to children's ...
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Feb. 25, 2020 — Babies born into bilingual homes change the focus of their attention more quickly and more frequently than babies in homes where only one language is spoken, according to new ...
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Feb. 25, 2020 — Young burglars are driven by a desire for excitement when they initially commit crime, new research has ...
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Feb. 27, 2020 — Using ultrasound waves propagating through a solid surface, researchers were able to read text messages and make fraudulent calls on a cellphone sitting on a desk up to 30 feet ...
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Feb. 26, 2020 — Drawing on Cybernetic Big Five Theory, this study proposes that chronic job insecurity is associated with an increase in neuroticism and decreases in agreeableness and ...
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Feb. 20, 2020 — Researchers describe the science behind creating lighting to make us all happy and productive indoors. A company is using the technology to create commercial lightbulbs available later this ...
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Feb. 18, 2020 — Competitive behavior among employees may be triggered by the type of feedback they have ...
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