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Computing hubs in the hippocampus and cortex
Neural computation occurs in large neural networks within dynamic brain states, yet it remains poorly understood if the functions are performed by a specific subset of neurons or if they occurred in specific, dynamic regions. …
JUL 05, 2019
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How the Avengers assemble: Ecology-based metrics model effective cast sizes for Marvel movies
In a recent study, researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) in Adelaide have tried to use ecology-related concepts to model effective cast sizes for movies, focusing on …
JUL 05, 2019
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First observation of native ferroelectric metal
In a paper released today in Science Advances, Australian researchers describe the first observation of a native ferroelectric metal: a native metal with …
GENERAL PHYSICS
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Self-assembling materials can form patterns that might be useful in optical devices
Self-assembling materials called block copolymers, which are known to form a variety of predictable, regular patterns, can now be made into much more …
MATERIALS SCIENCE
JUL 05, 2019
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Study shows potential for reduced methane from cows
An international team of scientists has shown it is possible to breed cattle to reduce their methane emissions.
ENVIRONMENT
JUL 05, 2019
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Hundreds of sharks and rays tangled in plastic
Hundreds of sharks and rays have become tangled in plastic waste in the world’s oceans, new research shows.
PLANTS & ANIMALS
JUL 05, 2019
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Molecular energy machine as a movie star
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have used the Swiss Light Source SLS to record a molecular energy machine in action and thus to reveal how energy production at cell membranes works. For this purpose they developed …
BIOCHEMISTRY
JUL 05, 2019
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Tuning the energy levels of organic semiconductors
Physicists from the Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the TU Dresden, together with researchers from Tübingen, Potsdam …
POLYMERS
JUL 05, 2019
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Tracking evolution through teeth: The small-fry ancestor of the great white shark
Mackerel sharks (Lamniformes) are a group consisting of some of the most iconic sharks we know, including the mako shark (the fastest shark in the world), the infamous great white shark, and Megalodon, the biggest predatory …
PLANTS & ANIMALS
JUL 05, 2019
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Toyota to test solar panels for electric cars
What’s not to like about this concept: high-efficiency solar cells gifting electric cars with mileage.
Companies spell out guiding principles for autonomous cars to be safe
“Safety First for Automated Driving” has been compiled by 11 authors representing automotive and mobility industry thought leadership.
Dementia tied to hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatment
Alzheimer’s disease may be a risk for older prostate cancer patients given hormone-blocking treatment, a large, U.S. government-funded analysis found.
ONCOLOGY & CANCER
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Hyperactivated ‘garbage disposal systems’: Revolutionary discovery in leukemia research
Leukemia affects over 6,000 Canadians per year. A team of researchers used the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan to discover a new way to kill leukemia cancer cells. When the scientists hyperactivated …
MEDICAL RESEARCH
JUL 05, 2019
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Medical Xpress
Dementia tied to hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatment
Flesh-eating bacteria in Florida waters: Three things you need to know
Mayo Clinic Q&A: Do you need a bone density test?
Exercising when you have high blood pressure
Computing hubs in the hippocampus and cortex
How protect against short- and long-term sun damage
How the brain remembers where you’re going
Discovered: The mechanism that makes infants more likely than adults to die from sepsis
Scientists discover origin of cell mask that hides stomach cancer
DR Congo Ebola death toll exceeds 1,600 mark
Ignoring cues for alcohol and fast food is hard—but is it out of our control?
Sports playbook helps doctors predict cancer patient outcomes
Simpler name for cancer genetic syndrome could save lives
Scientists discover autoimmune disease associated with testicular cancer
Tech Xplore
Toyota to test solar panels for electric cars
You’re on vacation and you’ve run out of phone storage—what to do?
Canon sees crowdfunding opportunity for little clippable camera
A new genetic algorithm for traffic control optimization
Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
A new, more user-friendly language for programming supercomputers
AI-designed heat pumps consume less energy
Ossia suits up for new day in wireless charging
Study shows how to improve production at wind farms
Teaching artificial intelligence to create visuals with more common sense
Researchers step back to mannequin viral wave to explore depth
Identification technology swings to focus on heartbeat
Solar energy could turn the Belt and Road Initiative green
Drag-and-drop data analytics
How the brain remembers where you’re going
Researchers have made new discoveries about how certain brainwaves aid navigation. They hope that the methods may benefit patients suffering from neurodegenerative disorders one day.
NEUROSCIENCE
JUL 05, 2019
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Discovery reveals prolific ability of Schwann cells to generate myelin
Scientists have discovered that a special type of cell is much more prolific in generating a protective sheath covering nerve fibers than previously believed.
NEUROSCIENCE
JUL 05, 2019
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Surgery restores arm function in some paralysed patients: study
Surgeons in Australia have managed to restore arm function in paralysed patients, allowing them to feed themselves, use tools and handle electronic devices, according to the results of a groundbreaking study released Friday.
NEUROSCIENCE
JUL 05, 2019
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Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees
The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more.
EARTH SCIENCES
JUL 04, 2019
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Scientists combine light and matter to make particles with new behaviors
Every type of atom in the universe has a unique fingerprint: It only absorbs or emits light at the particular energies that match the allowed orbits of its electrons. That fingerprint enables scientists to identify an atom …
QUANTUM PHYSICS
JUL 04, 2019
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Scientists discover the biggest seaweed bloom in the world
Scientists led by the USF College of Marine Science used NASA satellite observations to discover the largest bloom of macroalgae in the world called the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt (GASB), as reported in Science.
EARTH SCIENCES
JUL 04, 2019
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The rock-paper-scissors game and coexistence
In 1975, R.M. May and W.J. Leonard first used the rock-paper-scissors game to model ecological scenarios in which three species cyclically dominate each other: one species dominates a second species, the second species dominates …
Ignoring cues for alcohol and fast food is hard—but is it out of our control?
A UNSW psychology experiment has shown why it can be so hard to direct our attention away from cues that might lead to behavior we’d like to avoid, like drinking alcohol and eating unhealthy food.
PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY
JUL 04, 2019
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The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034 (Update)
Elizabeth Turtle was overjoyed when, on June 26, she received a call from NASA: her project to send a drone quadcopter to Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, was given the green light, which came with a budget of nearly a billion …
SPACE EXPLORATION
JUL 04, 2019
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Strongest earthquake in 20 years rattles Southern California (Update)
The strongest earthquake in 20 years shook a large swath of Southern California and parts of Nevada on Thursday, rattling nerves on the July 4th holiday and causing injuries and damage in a town near the epicenter, followed …
ENVIRONMENT
JUL 04, 2019
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Electric scooters: not so eco-friendly after all?
E-scooters touted as zero-carbon urban transport are flooding city streets worldwide, but just how green they are remains an open question.
Southern California reels from magnitude 7.1 quake
A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracking buildings, setting fires, breaking roads and causing several injuries while seismologists warned that large aftershocks were expected to continue for days, …
Amazon’s Bezos finalizes divorce with $38 bn settlement: report
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos finalized their divorce Friday to the tune of a $38-billion settlement, Bloomberg News reported.
A deadly fungus is killing millions of bats in the U.S. Now it’s in California
A mysterious fungus that has killed millions of bats in the eastern United States and left caves littered with their tiny carcasses has arrived in Northern California and appears poised to spread throughout the state, according …
Tech jobs soar to all-time record heights in Bay Area
The Bay Area’s technology boom is so robust that it has reached record highs, but the remarkable surge has also reduced Santa Clara County’s share of tech employment in the nine-county region as the San Francisco-San Mateo …
July 4th earthquake won’t delay the Big One. And it might have worsened quake strain
Does a good-size earthquake help relieve pent-up seismic stress? Does that postpone the day of reckoning when the Big One finally arrives?
Here’s how hackers are making your Tesla, GM and Chrysler less vulnerable to attack
In March, a Tesla Model 3 was hacked.
Alaska heat wave shatters city’s record, disrupts jobs and lives
Temperatures in Alaska’s largest city Anchorage have soared to a sweltering all-time record of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 centigrade) as a heat wave grips the US state which straddles the Arctic Circle.
Iceland glacier national park named World Heritage site
UNESCO on Friday added Iceland’s Vatnajokull National Park, Europe’s largest with a landscape of “fire and ice,” to its World Heritage List.
Being a Brexit remainer or leaver is more psychological than you think
In the newly published study, “How Many Ways to Say Goodbye? The Latent Class Structure and Psychological Correlates of European Union Sentiment in a Large Sample of UK Adults,” academics from the university’s Department …
New approach to energy strategy accounts for uncertainty
Many countries—including Switzerland—are developing an energy strategy to meet various objectives such as reducing reliance on fossil fuels, cutting CO2 emissions and promoting the energy transition. That means governments …
Programmed cell death: The roles of caspase-1 and gasdermin D in apoptosis and pyroptosis
Caspase-1 triggers programmed necrosis called pyroptosis by gasdermin-D (GSDMD) cleavage. GSDMD-deficient cells are, however, susceptible to caspase-1-mediated cell death. Researchers at Kanazawa University and others discovered …
Effect of insecticides on damselflies greater than expected
The latest research from the Leiden outdoor laboratory “Living Lab’ shows that the insecticide thiacloprid strongly influences even the most common and robust dragonfly species in the Netherlands. The study was published …
The impact of the slave trade on the Dutch economy
To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation “Walcherse Ketens,” Gerhard de Kok looks at Vlissingen and Middelburg, the most important slave trade cities in the Netherlands …
Slow progress: NASA’s still trying to get inSight’s Mole working again
The InSight lander has been on Mars for 213 Sols on its mission to understand the interior of the red planet. It’s armed with a seismometer, a temperature and wind sensor, and other instruments. But it’s primary instrument, …
Portable polarization-sensitive camera could be used in machine vision, autonomous vehicles, security and more
When the first full-length movie made with the advanced, three-color process of Technicolor premiered in 1935, The New York Times declared “it produced in the spectator all the excitement of standing upon a peak … and glimpsing …
OPTICS & PHOTONICS
JUL 04, 2019
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Genes, yes, but obesity pandemic mostly down to diet: study
A three-fold jump since 1975 in the percentage of adults worldwide who are obese has been driven mainly by a shift in diet and lack of exercise, but genes do play a role as well, according a large-scale study published Thursday.
GENETICS
JUL 04, 2019
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Tiny change has big effects, reverses prediabetes in mice
A small chemical change—shifting the position of two hydrogen atoms—makes the difference between mice that are healthy and mice with insulin resistance and fatty liver, major risk factors for diabetes and heart disease. …
DIABETES
JUL 04, 2019
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Scientists invent fast method for ‘directed evolution’ of molecules
UNC School of Medicine scientists created a powerful new “directed evolution” technique for the rapid development of scientific tools and new treatments for many diseases.
MOLECULAR & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
JUL 04, 2019
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New technique could brighten screens and make smartphone batteries last longer
Our future TV and smartphone screens could have double the energy efficiency, thanks to a technique invented by Imperial scientists.
NANOPHYSICS
JUL 04, 2019
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Canon sees crowdfunding opportunity for little clippable camera
Canon has turned to crowdfunding for a camera. The camera, said the campaign page, is feature-packed: 13.0 Megapixel 1/3-inch CMOS sensor, full HD video shooting at 1080p up to 60fps, Bluetooth and wireless connectivity.
Scientists develop new method for studying early life in ancient rocks
Scientists have developed a new method for detecting traces of primordial life in ancient rock formations using potassium.
EARTH SCIENCES
JUL 04, 2019
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Genes could play a role in tooth decay and gum disease
Tooth decay and gum disease impact on illness and healthcare spending, yet the role of genetics in dental problems is largely unknown. New research led by an international team, including researchers at the University of …
GENETICS
JUL 04, 2019
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Sports playbook helps doctors predict cancer patient outcomes
In this season of global soccer competitions and hotly contested political primaries, bookies and pundits are scouring every evolving scrap of information and sifting through mountains of data in an effort to predict the …
MEDICAL RESEARCH
JUL 04, 2019
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Creation of big data tool leads to new ideas on form and function of insect eggs
Sometimes disproving an old hypothesis is as important as proving a new one. In a new paper in Nature, Cassandra G. Extavour manages to do both, while helping create a tool that will enable similar big-data studies moving …
EVOLUTION
JUL 04, 2019
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