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• US Spy Satellite Launches Atop World's Most Powerful Rocket

  12-06-2016 16:07
  
  A new U.S. spy satellite roared into orbit Saturday (June 11) atop the most powerful rocket currently in operation.
  
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• ‘Silent Sparks’ illuminates fascinating world of fireflies

  12-06-2016 16:00
  
  In a new book, a firefly researcher explores why scientists and kids alike are captivated by lightning bugs.
  
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• For harbor porpoises, the ocean is a 24-hour buffet

  12-06-2016 13:00
  
  Scientists tagged harbor porpoises with monitoring equipment and found that the small cetaceans eat thousands of fish throughout the day.
  
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• Rush to make money from amateur video can leave creators behind

  12-06-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Companies are stepping up to help amateurs turn their online and smartphone videos into cash. But there's no standard yet for how much creators are paid or how their video is used.
  
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• Musk explains his 'cargo route' to Mars

  12-06-2016 06:49
  
  SpaceX chief Elon Musk shed light on his new plan to send an unmanned spaceship to Mars as early as 2018, as part of his quest to some day colonize the Red Planet.
  
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• Rethink rehabilitation to reverse frailty

  12-06-2016 06:00
  
  (King's College London) One in four patients with COPD referred for exercise rehabilitation are frail, but nevertheless can respond favourably to rehabilitation and their frailty can be reversed, finds a new study led by King's College London and Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. The findings have wider implications for treating frailty, which affects one in ten over-65s, where adapting other rehabilitation programmes could potentially benefit more patients.
  
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• Predicting disease outbreaks using environmental changes

  12-06-2016 06:00
  
  (University College London) A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases -- those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika -- based on changes in climate, population growth and land use has been developed by a UCL-led team of researchers.
  
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• PET/CT reveals adaptations of the alcoholic brain

  12-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Society of Nuclear Medicine) Alcoholism is a devastating disorder that too often leads to a perpetual cycle of abuse. An emerging molecular imaging technique may provide a way to break that cycle. It could signal patients' heightened risk and lead to targeted drug treatments that reduce the compulsion to drink, say researchers presenting at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
  
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• PET detects neuroinflammation in multiple sclerosis

  12-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Society of Nuclear Medicine) The triggers of autoimmune inflammation in multiple sclerosis (MS) have eluded scientists for many years, but molecular imaging is bringing researchers closer to identifying them, while providing a means of evaluating next-generation therapies for MS, say researchers introducing a study at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging.
  
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• New 'ukidama' nanoparticle structure revealed

  12-06-2016 06:00
  
  (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University) A unique structure of copper-silver nanoparticles has been identified that resemble the Japanese glass fishing floats called ukidama.
  
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• Boosting immunity in older adults: UA unmasks new infection-fighting T cells

  12-06-2016 06:00
  
  (University of Arizona Health Sciences) Immune-system frailty in adults 65 and older is a widespread public health issue. A study led by the Department of Immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine -- Tucson and published in Nature Immunology points to a new cells that may hold a solution.
  
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• Pioneering solar pilots 'make sci-fi a reality'

  12-06-2016 04:52
  
  The Swiss pilot readying to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered plane on the next leg of a record-breaking, round-the-world mission says he is making science fiction reality.
  
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• 'We cannot be an island in science': Nobel winners urge voters to avoid Brexit

  12-06-2016 02:10 via cbc.ca
  
  First it was statesmen, then soldiers, and finally CEOs. Now a group of scientists has urged U.K. voters to remain in the European Union, warning Saturday that Britain will lose funding, global influence and access to expertise if the nation votes to leave the 28-nation bloc.
  
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