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Astrophysicists simulate the sounds of stars to reveal their secrets
Sound may not be able to travel through the vacuum of space.
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Egyptologist in Canada presents theory of two queen rule before Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun, the boy king of ancient Egypt, came to power only after two of his sisters jointly held the throne, according to an Egyptologist at Canada’s Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM).
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The dead may outnumber the living on Facebook within 50 years
New analysis by academics from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), part of the University of Oxford, predicts the dead may outnumber the living on Facebook …
SOCIAL SCIENCES
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Antarctica’s effect on sea level rise in coming centuries
There are two primary causes of global mean sea level rise – added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers, and the expansion of sea water as it warms. …
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APR 26, 2019
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The giant galaxy around the giant black hole
On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole’s event horizon, the area beyond which light cannot …
ASTRONOMY
APR 26, 2019
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Gene-editing technology to create virus-resistant cassava plant has opposite effect, researchers find
Using gene-editing technology to create virus-resistant cassava plants could have serious negative ramifications, according to new research by plant biologists at the University of Alberta, the University of Liège in Belgium …
BIOTECHNOLOGY
APR 26, 2019
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Researchers find a better power law that predicts earthquakes, blood vessels, bank accounts
Giant earthquakes and extreme wealth may not appear to have much in common, but the frequency with which the “Big One” will hit San Francisco and how often someone will earn as much money as Bill Gates can both be predicted …
GENERAL PHYSICS
APR 26, 2019
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Chemists manipulate the quantum states of gold nanoclusters
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Chemistry have found a way to control the lifetime of the quantum states of gold nanoclusters by three orders of magnitude, which could lead to improvements in solar …
NANOPHYSICS
APR 26, 2019
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Bach and Adele: Knock yourselves out on MuseNet
OpenAI is introducing a musical MuseNet, the music-generating AI that was in the news earlier this week. Some AI watchers were calling the music OpenAI just unveiled as amazing.
Placental function linked to brain injuries associated with autism
Allopregnanolone (ALLO), a hormone made by the placenta late in pregnancy, is such a potent neurosteroid that disrupting its steady supply to the developing fetus can leave it vulnerable to brain injuries associated with …
OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY
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Large genome-wide association study is first to focus on both child and adult asthma
Asthma, a common respiratory disease that causes wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath, is the most prevalent chronic respiratory disease worldwide. A new study, published April 30, 2019 in Lancet Respiratory Medicine, …
GENETICS
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Early lipids boost brain growth for vulnerable micro-preemies
Dietary lipids, already an important source of energy for tiny preemies, also provide a much-needed brain boost by significantly increasing global brain volume as well as increasing volume in regions involved in motor activities …
PEDIATRICS
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‘Lock-‘n’-block’ drug may prevent cancer from metastasizing
“They got all of it” are the reassuring words people hope to hear following cancer surgery, but a growing understanding of the science of how cancer spreads, and metastasizes, is suggesting that not only is this almost never …
CANCER
APR 26, 2019
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Medical Xpress
Placental function linked to brain injuries associated with autism
Survey of pediatricians and family physicians assesses HPV vaccine delivery practices
New study aims to better understand Kawasaki disease
New study demonstrates viral family targeted by the immune response to Kawasaki disease
No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
Tech Xplore
Bach and Adele: Knock yourselves out on MuseNet
Little shopping cart speedster in Aisle 7 inspires Ford braking solution
Caffeine gives solar cells an energy boost
Using a printed adversarial patch to fool an AI system
Improving security as artificial intelligence moves to smartphones
Takes a licking and keeps on storing
New way to ‘see’ objects accelerates future of self-driving cars
Tesla CEO plans to hand the car keys to robots next year
Tesla eyes ‘robotaxis’ by 2020 with new self-driving technology (Update)
ExAG: An image-guessing game to evaluate the helpfulness of machine explanations
Tiny robots powered by magnetic fields could help drug-delivery nanoparticles reach their targets
MIT engineers have designed tiny robots that can help drug-delivery nanoparticles push their way out of the bloodstream and into a tumor or another disease site. Like crafts in “Fantastic Voyage”—a 1960s science fiction …
BIO & MEDICINE
APR 26, 2019
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Creativity is not just for the young, study finds
If you believe that great scientists are most creative when they’re young, you are missing part of the story.
SOCIAL SCIENCES
APR 26, 2019
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New insights into quantum measurements
Researchers from the University of Bristol have shed new light on the process of quantum measurement, one of the defining, and most quantum features of quantum mechanics.
QUANTUM PHYSICS
APR 26, 2019
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Research finds some bacteria travel an alternate path to antibiotic resistance
In a study with implications for efforts to halt the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers at Princeton have identified a new, troubling path that some bacteria take toward resistance.
CELL & MICROBIOLOGY
APR 26, 2019
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Little shopping cart speedster in Aisle 7 inspires Ford braking solution
For a child’s mom, supermarkets are where you fulfill your list of candles, berries, bologna and soap. For the child, supermarkets, like parks, are where you can run and, best of all, drive a grown-up trolley and command …
Stimulating the differentiation of bone precursors with organically modified hydroxyapatite (ormoHAP) nanospheres
Bioinspired materials mimic their natural counterparts for characteristic functionality in multidisciplinary applications forming a popular theme in biomaterials development. In bone tissue engineering, for instance, researchers …
Fast, efficient and durable artificial synapse developed
The brain’s capacity for simultaneously learning and memorizing large amounts of information while requiring little energy has inspired an entire field to pursue brain-like – or neuromorphic – computers. Researchers at …
ENGINEERING
APR 26, 2019
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No safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy, suggest researchers
An international group of researchers has taken one of the first major steps in finding the biological changes in the brain that drive fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). New work using chaos theory to analyze brain signals, …
MEDICAL RESEARCH
APR 26, 2019
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Gene repair improves memory and seizures in adult autism model
A new study challenges the presumption that people born with developmental brain disorders such as severe autism will benefit from medical interventions only if treated during a narrow window in infancy or early childhood.
GENETICS
APR 26, 2019
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3-D optical biopsies within reach thanks to advance in light field technology
Researchers have shown that existing optical fibre technology could be used to produce microscopic 3-D images of tissue inside the body, paving the way towards 3-D optical biopsies.
OPTICS & PHOTONICS
APR 26, 2019
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