Student discovers slowest ever pulsar star

An approximately 14 million year old pulsar star that is the "slowest-spinning" of its kind ever identified has been discovered by a Ph.D. student from The University of Manchester. | Continue reading


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Tim Cook wants retraction of Chinese spy-chip story that named Apple, Supermicro

Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken the unusual step of going on the record to deny a news story, and is further asking the news agency that published it for a retraction. | Continue reading


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Researchers discover drug that could combat brain cell death in those with Alzheimer's disease

One of the hallmark traits of Alzheimer's disease, a debilitating disorder marked by memory deficits and general cognitive decline, is the accumulation in the brain of a protein called b-amyloid. These proteins form "plaques" and bind to unique proteins on the surface of brain ce … | Continue reading


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Taking a close look at bacteria

Yong Wang, assistant professor of physics, and graduate student Asmaa Sadoon have been studying how molecules travel through bacterial cytoplasm in order to understand more about how these tiny organisms function. Using new high-tech tools, they have been able to observe certain … | Continue reading


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New technique promises more accurate genomes

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a new technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes by determining the exact sections of the genome that come from each parent. | Continue reading


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Studying the hotbed of horizontal gene transfers

For over 200,000 years, humans and their gut microbiomes have coevolved into some of the most complex collections of living organisms on the planet. But as human lifestyles vary from the urban to rural, so do the bacterial diversities of gut microbiomes. | Continue reading


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Reading between the lines: Are we as savvy as we'd like to think when it comes to reviews?

New research suggests we are willing to blindly trust hotel reviews when they conform to our preconceived ideas. | Continue reading


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Highly efficient cooling using a new nanoporous solid

Heat recovery (solar energy, heat pump, air conditioning, cooling) is a key research focus toward reducing power consumption and encouraging sustainable development. Even if water recovery and release using nanoporous materials is a reliable strategy to achieve this goal, develop … | Continue reading


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Researchers validate 80-year-old ferroelectric theory

Researchers have successfully demonstrated that hypothetical particles that were proposed by Franz Preisach in 1935 actually exist. In an article published in Nature Communications, scientists from the universities in Linköping and Eindhoven show why ferroelectric materials act a … | Continue reading


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The role of the Atg2 protein in tethering pre-autophagosomal membranes to the endoplasmic reticulum

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Researchers have discovered a new cell structure

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Russian physicists postulate the existence of dark matter-based Bose stars

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Researchers observe organic chemical reaction with electron microscope

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Researchers report strategy for preventing the anthrax bacterium from absorbing iron

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Cheminformatics approaches to creating new hair dyes

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Women most likely to leave labor force after first child, not later births

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First-ever atlas of big-game migrations

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Google Maps for iOS will now allow you to share real-time updates with friends

Google Maps for the iPhone is about to get a little bit better. | Continue reading


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NASA's First Image of Mars from a CubeSat

NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO—which stands for Mars Cube One—has Mars in sight. | Continue reading


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Breakthrough test screens for all known bacterial infections

Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health have developed the first diagnostic platform that can simultaneously screen for all known human pathogenic bacteria as well as markers for virulence and antibiotic … | Continue reading


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Dyson to make electric cars in Singapore

British electric appliance pioneer Dyson said Tuesday it had picked Singapore as the site for its first electric car plant as part of a £2.5 billion (2.8 billion euro, $3.3 billion) global investment drive in new technology. | Continue reading


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Inexpensive chip-based device may transform spectrometry

Spectrometers—devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and are used to determine the chemical composition of everything from laboratory materials to distant stars—are large devices with six-figure price tags, and tend to be found in large university and industry la … | Continue reading


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Judge slashes award but upholds verdict in Monsanto cancer trial

A San Francisco judge on Monday upheld a jury verdict that found Monsanto liable for not warning a groundskeeper that its weed killer product Roundup might cause cancer, but slashed the damages award. | Continue reading


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Snapcrap app steps in to take on public poop

A freshly launched Snapcrap app is out to turn San Francisco smartphone users into poop-spotters. | Continue reading


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Cryptocurrency bitcoin marks 10 years

October 31, 2008 marked the birth of bitcoin. Ten years on, the world's first cryptocurrency is at the forefront of a complex financial system viewed warily by markets and investors. | Continue reading


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'Dinosaur country': fossil hunters' S. African paradise

The sun rises over the South African bush as scientists laden with backpacks climb a hillside. | Continue reading


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Q&A: What is bitcoin?

Bitcoin has carved out a name for itself as the world's most popular cryptocurrency since arriving on the scene ten years ago. | Continue reading


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Wall Street greets bitcoin with interest and worry

Bitcoin may be the fraud of the century, depending on whom you believe, or it could be a gold mine for early adopters. | Continue reading


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Facebook closes 'spam' pages, accounts helping Brazil presidential candidate

Social media platform Facebook has closed 68 pages and 43 accounts linked to a marketing group believed to be promoting the chances of Brazilian right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. | Continue reading


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Moscow cryptocurrency 'boutique' in legal grey area

First you ring, then push through heavy doors past a suspicious security guard before arriving at Moscow's pioneering cryptocurrency store—a physical portal to the virtual realm of bitcoin. | Continue reading


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Rise, fall and suspense: bitcoin's wild first decade

From its birth in an anonymous, academic style paper to one of the world's most volatile and closely watched financial instruments, bitcoin has lived through a tumultuous first 10 years. | Continue reading


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China opens mega-bridge linking Hong Kong to mainland

China on Tuesday opened the world's longest sea-crossing bridge linking Hong Kong to the mainland, a feat of engineering carrying immense economic and political significance. | Continue reading


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Black men have higher rates of recidivism despite lower risk factors: study

People of color are incarcerated at disproportionately higher rates than White people, and men of all races have higher rates of recidivism. A new study that estimated the effects of risk factors for Black and White men and women found that Black men were reincarcerated more ofte … | Continue reading


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New technology encodes and processes video orders of magnitude faster than current methods

Computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have developed a new technology that can encode, transform and edit video faster—several orders of magnitude faster—than the current state of the art. | Continue reading


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The secret to being more likeable on first dates and job interviews revealed

People who need to make a good impression on dates or in job interviews should concentrate on communicating the hard work and effort behind their success, rather than just emphasising their talent, new research from Cass Business School has found. | Continue reading


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Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study

Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday. | Continue reading


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35 top prize winners warn Brexit will damage science

Thirty-five Nobel and top mathematics prize winners have warned British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker that scientific research will suffer a serious setback without a good Brexit deal. | Continue reading


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Mexico braces for 'potentially catastrophic' Hurricane Willa

Mexico braced for the worst Monday as Hurricane Willa—upgraded to a maximum Category 5 storm—bore down on the Pacific coast, where it is expected to produce life-threatening wind and flooding. | Continue reading


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Dangerous Hurricane Willa probed By NASA and Japan's GPM satellite

Hurricane Willa is a major hurricane threatening western Mexico. Forecasters were able to see the rate of rainfall occurring within the powerful storm when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM's core satellite passed overhead and provided that data. | Continue reading


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Children as young as seven suffer effects of discrimination, study shows

A new UC Riverside study finds children are sensitive to and suffer the impacts of discrimination as young as 7 years old. | Continue reading


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How rants on social media can come back to haunt you

We all know that those angry rants on social media can come back to hurt you—and sooner than you think. "Good," positive chat resonates for a few seconds, generally, but negative chat, even in a chat room where exchanges happen more immediately than on Facebook or Twitter, persis … | Continue reading


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Huge lottery prizes due to simple math, with a few surprises

For all the anticipation about whether someone will finally snag the gigantic Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, the games come down to two things: simple math—and very long odds. | Continue reading


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Young climate activists say their lawsuit should go to trial

Young activists who are suing the U.S. government in a high-profile climate change lawsuit say the case poses important constitutional questions that should fully be evaluated at trial next week. | Continue reading


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'Himalayan Viagra' under threat from climate change: researchers

A prized caterpillar fungus that is more valuable than gold and is nicknamed "Himalayan Viagra" in Asia, where it is seen as a wonder drug, is becoming harder to find due to climate change, researchers said Monday. | Continue reading


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Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe joins exodus from Facebook

A co-founder of Facebook's virtual-reality division is joining the exodus of executives to leave the company after striking it rich in lucrative sales of their startups. | Continue reading


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Gravitational waves could soon provide measure of universe's expansion

Twenty years ago, scientists were shocked to realize that our universe is not only expanding, but that it's expanding fasterover time. | Continue reading


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Overspending on defense arsenal bankrupts a plant's economy

Defend or grow? Can plants do both at the same time? Michigan State University scientists might be inching closer to answering these questions. The answers matter. They could someday help us understand natural ecosystems or help farmers increase yields, without increasing depende … | Continue reading


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Structure of spherical viruses aren't as perfect as we thought

Determining the structure of a virus is an important step in understanding and treating viral disease. For decades, structural biologists have been using cryo-electron microscopy to create increasingly accurate pictures of biomolecules, but one of the assumptions they've been rel … | Continue reading


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