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• Earth-sized telescope found its roots in Canada: Bob McDonald

  07-04-2017 22:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Canadian innovation helped pave the way for a project that will photograph a black hole's event horizon for the first time.
  
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• Google expands 'fact check' info in news searches

  07-04-2017 19:49 via cbc.ca
  
  Google will expand the use of "fact check" tags in its search results — the tech industry's latest effort to combat false and misleading news stories.
  
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• Adidas unveils 3D-printed shoe with Silicon Valley startup

  07-04-2017 19:18 via cbc.ca
  
  Adidas launched a new sneaker on Friday with a 3D-printed sole that it plans to mass-produce next year, part of a broader push by the German sportswear firm to react faster to changing fashions and create more customised products.
  
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• Genetic risk of getting second cancer tallied for pediatric survivors

  07-04-2017 19:00
  
  Inherited mutations, not only treatment, affect the chances that a childhood cancer survivor will develop a second cancer later in life.
  
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• Stone Age hunter-gatherers tackled their cavities with a sharp tool and tar

  07-04-2017 17:11
  
  Late Stone Age hunter-gatherers scraped and coated away tooth decay.
  
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• Too Much Information? FDA Clears 23AndMe to Sell Home Genetic Tests for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's

  07-04-2017 17:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  The controversial step will significantly expand direct-to-consumer testing—but what if the news is bad?
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• Squabbles in star nurseries result in celestial fireworks

  07-04-2017 15:00
  
  Images from the ALMA observatory in Chile reveal that early days of stars can be just as fiery as their death.
  
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• Diamond in the Rough: Precious Gem Coating May Protect Smartphone Screens

  07-04-2017 13:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  A company claims that coating glass with the world’s hardest gem could keep dropped handsets from cracking
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• Communities ill-prepared for oil spill in Arctic Ocean, report says

  07-04-2017 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new report from World Wildlife Fund Canada says communities on the Arctic coast are ill-prepared to handle a potential spill and urges the federal government to increase funding to those communities before one happens.
  
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• UTSA student-led team receives NSF grant to develop vein-finding medical device

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Texas at San Antonio) A student-led team from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is the beneficiary of a $50,000 grant to UTSA's CITE program from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support the continued development of their infrared medical camera, InfraVein, which makes simple work of finding veins. As a result of the grant, the team will be heading to Boston for the NSF I-Corps this month to test the business model of InfraVein and explore how to market the dev
  
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• Study: Bipartisan coalitions more likely as Congress becomes more polarized

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Dartmouth College) Congress passed a surprising number of bills between 1981 and 2008 with bipartisan majorities large enough to withstand a presidential veto despite growing ideological divisions between Democratic and Republican lawmakers. A new Dartmouth -- Miami University study in 'Political Research Quarterly' demonstrates that legislative leaders used their increased control over procedures, a development that coincided with greater polarization, to create veto-proof bills. Presidents, i
  
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• Space exploration experts look to next frontiers at event

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Please join leading visionaries, space scientists, NASA officials, astronauts and entrepreneurs from around the globe for a symposium that will celebrate the 60-year anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 and the beginning of the space age. Meet with participants including colleagues from various universities, aerospace companies and, most importantly, students throughout Massachusetts.
  
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• Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to 10 meters

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the EU North State project has developed a new method of using satellite images to evaluate the forest carbon balance. The carbon balance indicates how much carbon is sequestered or released by forests each year. This enables the carbon balance to be displayed on digital maps, with an accuracy of up to 10 meters.
  
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• Pitt designs new wheelchair powered by compressed air

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Pittsburgh) A new waterproof motorized wheelchair powered by compressed air was unveiled today at the Morgan's Wonderland theme park in San Antonio, Texas. The park, built specifically for individuals with disabilities, will use 10 of the chairs in its new splash park. Designed, developed, and constructed at the University of Pittsburgh Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), the patent-pending PneuChair takes just 10 minutes to recharge, compared to eight hours to charge
  
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• NYU professor wins award for research into sustainable clothing manufacturing

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (NYU Tandon School of Engineering) An NYU Tandon researcher was honored for a nylon production method that would eliminate the use of oil and bind greenhouse gases into the fabric. The method employs water, plant waste, and solar energy to deliver a material identical to nylon (produced at an estimated 6 million tons annually). Photovoltaic arrays drive the electrochemical process to synthesize hexanediamine, a precursor to nylon. Only sun, water, and carbon dioxide will be required as inputs.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Ernie intensify

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The storm formerly known as tropical cyclone 15S, now called Tropical Cyclone Ernie continued to strengthen as NASA's Aqua satellite captured a visible image that showed the storm developed an eye.
  
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• In-car cow avoidance

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Inderscience Publishers) Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The pressure then is how might some of the safety features of driverless cars be incorporated into conventional vehicles? Writing in the International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, researchers from India describe a real-time automatic obstacle detection and alert system for driver assistance.
  
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• Image release: ALMA captures explosive star birth

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as dramatically illustrated in new ALMA images.
  
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• Graphene Flagship researches create thin film transistors printed with layered materials

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Graphene Flagship) Graphene Flagship researchers from AMBER at Trinity College Dublin have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of layered materials. Published today in the leading journal Science the team's findings have the potential to cheaply print a range of electronic devices from solar cells to LEDs with applications from interactive smart food and drug labels to next-generation banknote security and e-passports.
  
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• Grant to support research aimed at benefitting patients with IBD

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (University of California - Riverside) Inflammatory bowel disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine that includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. A protective protein that plays a key role in IBD is TCPTP. Declan McCole, associate professor of biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has received a two-year grant of $150,000 from Pfizer Inc. to explore a therapeutic target for correcting intestinal barrier defects in IBD p
  
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• Driver privacy can be compromised in usage-based insurance systems

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 'Based on our research, an attacker only needs one part of the information provided to a UBI company to discover a driver's whereabouts, home, work, or who they met with. As connected vehicle networks become more widely used to collect driver data and provide information or entertainment, the opportunity for someone to uncover private information will also increase.'
  
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• Claude-André Faucher-Giguère receives NSF honor for young faculty

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Northwestern University) Northwestern University astrophysicist Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, an expert in galaxy formation, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. His research focuses on understanding how galaxies observed today formed from the Big Bang. With the NSF support, Faucher-Giguère will create the next generation of galaxy formation simulations as well as develop summer research opportunities f
  
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• Chapman University paper receives distinguished Cozzarelli Prize

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Chapman University) Physicists from Chapman University's Institute for Quantum Studies have received the prestigious Cozzarelli Prize for a paper published in 2016. The prize is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences for their article, Quantum violation of the pigeonhole principle and the nature of quantum correlations.The National Academy was founded by Abraham Lincoln.
  
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• ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (ESO) Stellar explosions are most often associated with supernovae, the spectacular deaths of stars. But new ALMA observations provide insights into explosions at the other end of the stellar life cycle, star birth. Astronomers captured these dramatic images as they explored the firework-like debris from the birth of a group of massive stars, demonstrating that star formation can be a violent and explosive process too.
  
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• A moldable scaffold for bone

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) A team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is developing a bioactive foaml that can be used to replace skull bone lost to injury, surgery, or birth defect.
  
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• 400 million years of a stable relationship

  07-04-2017 06:00
  
  (Boyce Thompson Institute) Researchers from the Harrison lab at BTI have identified a transcriptional program that drives arbuscule degeneration during AM symbiosis. This regulation of arbuscule lifespan has likely contributed to the 400MY stability of the symbiosis by preventing the persistence of fungal cheaters.
  
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• Early cannibalism not likely about the nutrition

  07-04-2017 02:06 via cbc.ca
  
  New research measures the caloric value of a human and concludes our early human ancestors who engaged in cannibalism probably weren't motivated by nutritional needs.
  
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• [Working Life] Getting my feet wet

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Erik S. Wright
  
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• [This Week in Science] X-ray vision catches Woodward-Hoffmann

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Jake Yeston
  
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• [This Week in Science] Viruses compound dietary pathology

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Authors: Caroline Ash, Kristen L. Mueller
  
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• [This Week in Science] Variation in prokaryote adaptive immunity

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Caroline Ash
  
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• [This Week in Science] The network of memory consolidation

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Peter Stern
  
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• [This Week in Science] The evolution of giant virus genomes

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Laura M. Zahn
  
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• [This Week in Science] Seeing hot carriers break the limit

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Phil Szuromi
  
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• [This Week in Science] Regulating the regulators

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Anand Balasubramani
  
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• [This Week in Science] Processable cross-linked polymers

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Marc S. Lavine
  
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• [This Week in Science] Probing the interaction of solitons

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Ian S. Osborne
  
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• [This Week in Science] Printing nanosheet-network transistors

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Phil Szuromi
  
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• [This Week in Science] Picking structures out of a lineup

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Jake Yeston
  
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• [This Week in Science] Patents from papers both basic and applied

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Brad Wible
  
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• [This Week in Science] Nanoparticles for drug delivery in lungs

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Philip Yeagle
  
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• [This Week in Science] Hi-C for mosquito genomes

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Laura M. Zahn
  
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• [This Week in Science] From learning to instinct

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Julia Fahrenkamp-Uppenbrink
  
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• [This Week in Science] Fighting filoviruses with antibody therapy

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Lindsey Pujanandez
  
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• [This Week in Science] DNA sequence and inherited gene silencing

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Beverly A. Purnell
  
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• [This Week in Science] An astrocyte call to arms after brain injury

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Leslie K. Ferrarelli
  
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• [This Week in Science] A tailored look at behavioral pharmacology

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Stella M. Hurtley
  
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• [This Week in Science] A mantle story told with metal and gas

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Author: Brent Grocholski
  
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• [Review] CRISPR-Cas: Adapting to change

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Bacteria and archaea are engaged in a constant arms race to defend against the ever-present threats of viruses and invasion by mobile genetic elements. The most flexible weapons in the prokaryotic defense arsenal are the CRISPR-Cas adaptive immune systems. These systems are capable of selective identification and neutralization of foreign DNA and/or RNA. CRISPR-Cas systems rely on stored genetic memories to facilitate target recognition. Thus, to keep pace with a changing pool of hostile invader
  
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• [Research Article] Unequivocal determination of complex molecular structures using anisotropic NMR measurements

  07-04-2017 02:00
  Assignment of complex molecular structures from nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data can be prone to interpretational mistakes. Residual dipolar couplings and residual chemical shift anisotropy provide a spatial view of the relative orientations between bonds and chemical shielding tensors, respectively, regardless of separation. Consequently, these data constitute a reliable reporter of global structural validity. Anisotropic NMR parameters can be used to evaluate investigators’ structure pr
  
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