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• Bears letting cubs stay home longer to avoid hunters

  28-03-2018 22:21 via cbc.ca
  Like many millennials, bear cubs in Sweden are living at home with their moms longer than previous generations — and researchers think it's because female bears are trying to stay safe from hunters.
  
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• Meet the interstitium, medical science's latest and largest organ candidate

  28-03-2018 20:36 via cbc.ca
  A group of scientists say they have discovered a new, fluid-filled space inside human tissue that could be its largest organ.
  
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• By river, ocean, or wind, rocks round the same way

  28-03-2018 20:33
  River rocks tend to be rounded, as do grains of dune sand and beach glass. Geophysicist Douglas Jerolmack of the University of Pennsylvania led a team in showing that all of these types of particles acquire a curved shape in a similar manner. The finding may help scientists understand how floodplains are built and predict when ash or dust clouds are likely to form.
  
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• Live heart cells make this material shift color like a chameleon

  28-03-2018 20:00
  
  A new material made of heart cells from rats and hydrogel changes color as the living cells contract and relax.
  
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• Footprints put people on Canada’s west coast 13,000 years ago

  28-03-2018 20:00
  
  Island tracks indicate early New World settlers’ traveled down the North American Pacific coast about 13,000 years ago.
  
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• Astronomers perplexed to find that distant galaxy has no dark matter

  28-03-2018 19:39 via cbc.ca
  A galaxy far, far away is perplexing astronomers not by what it contains, but by what it doesn't: dark matter.
  
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• Brain waves of concertgoers sync up at shows

  28-03-2018 19:30
  
  During a live musical performance, audience members’ brain waves get in sync.
  
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• Ghostly galaxy may be missing dark matter

  28-03-2018 19:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Scientists have imaged a "transparent" galaxy that may have no dark matter.
  
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• Dark matter is MIA in this strange galaxy

  28-03-2018 19:00
  
  A galaxy without dark matter bolsters the case that the invisible substance really exists.
  
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• Astronomers Boggle at Distant Galaxy Devoid of Dark Matter

  28-03-2018 19:00 via rss.sciam.com
  The newfound object NGC1052-DF2 defies easy explanation, and could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Astronomers Boggle at a Distant Galaxy Devoid of Dark Matter

  28-03-2018 19:00 via rss.sciam.com
  The newfound object NGC 1052-DF2 defies easy explanation, and could lead to breakthroughs in our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Airbus says EU should keep Britain in Galileo space project despite Brexit

  28-03-2018 18:42
  LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of aerospace firm Airbus said Britain should not be frozen out of the European Union's Galileo space program after Brexit, calling on both sides to find a long-term solution in the interest of security.
  
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• B.C. river report highlights perilous state of steelhead stock

  28-03-2018 17:50 via cbc.ca
  The federal government should include steelhead trout in Canada's Species at Risk Act, says a B.C. outdoor advocacy group, following a recent survey of the province's rivers.
  
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• U.S. opens probe into fatal Tesla crash in California as shares plunge

  28-03-2018 16:38 via cbc.ca
  A fatal crash and vehicle fire of a Tesla Inc Model X near Mountain View, California, last week has prompted a federal field investigation, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday, sparking a big sell-off in Tesla stock.
  
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• Facebook beefs up privacy tools as scrutiny heightens

  28-03-2018 14:42 via cbc.ca
  Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as it reels from criticisms over its data practices and faces tighter European regulations in the coming months.
  
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• Facebook beefs up privacy tools as scrutiny continues

  28-03-2018 14:42 via cbc.ca
  Facebook is giving its privacy tools a makeover as it reels from criticisms over its data practices and faces tighter European regulations in the coming months.
  
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• The Sun Is Spitting Out Strange Patterns of Gamma Rays--and No One Knows Why

  28-03-2018 14:00 via rss.sciam.com
  The discovery, although mysterious, might provide a new window into the depths of our most familiar star-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Drinks bottles and can deposit return scheme proposed

  28-03-2018 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  A money-back scheme for returning glass, plastic bottles and cans in England is to be introduced.
  
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• Umbilical cord banking gets a lot of buzz. Why all the excitement?

  28-03-2018 13:00
  
  Here are the facts behind the promise of umbilical cord banking and cord blood transplants.
  
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• Why You Can't Learn about Money behind a Pro-Science Political Group

  28-03-2018 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  314 Action, raising millions of dollars for candidates, is not required to disclose donors but says most gifts are small-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• Tech trials to find Antarctica's 'missing' iron meteorites

  28-03-2018 11:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A Manchester-led team tests the detector system it will use in Antarctica to find hidden iron meteorites.
  
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• Iron test

  28-03-2018 11:48 via bbc.co.uk
  A Manchester-led team tests the detector system it will use in Antarctica to find hidden iron meteorites.
  
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• Everything you need to know about AggregateIQ, the Canadian tech company with ties to Brexit and Ted Cruz

  28-03-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  Whistleblower Christopher Wylie had some harsh words for his former employer Cambridge Analytica before a British parliamentary committee on Tuesday — delivered alongside new accusations about the practices of a small Canadian company called AggregateIQ.
  
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• China is no longer world's dumping ground, but cleaning up its own backyard is proving to be a challenge

  28-03-2018 10:00 via cbc.ca
  China has a plan designed to clean up the world's biggest pile of waste, one that's been building across the country for decades
  
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• Techno teachers: Finnish school trials robot educators

  28-03-2018 09:31
  (In Tuesday story, corrects spelling of teacher's first name in paragraph 6.)
  
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• Weather phenomena such as El Niño affect up to two-thirds of the world's harvests

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Aalto University) According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large-scale weather cycles, such as the one related to the El Niño phenomenon, affect two-thirds of the world's cropland. In these so called climate oscillations, air pressure, sea level temperature or other similar factors fluctuate regularly in areas far apart in a way that causes rain and temperature patterns to shift significantly.
  
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• Want people to fund your Kickstarter project? Sell them on your reputation first

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Binghamton University) When trying to entice people to invest in your product on a crowdfunding website, potential funders are more concerned about your ethical characteristics than your actual ability to make and deliver the product, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York.
  
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• USDA's NIFA invests in food safety outreach and educational programs

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (National Institute of Food and Agriculture ) The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced awards to provide food safety education for producers and processors affected by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Funding is provided through the NIFA's Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP).
  
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• USDA invests in research to develop genetic control of waterhemp

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences) The USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture has announced a $500,000 grant to University of Illinois researchers in the Department of Crop Sciences. The project will lay the groundwork towards developing a new type of weed control system, known as genetic control, for waterhemp and Palmer amaranth.
  
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• The physics of finance helps solve a century-old mystery

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Tokyo Institute of Technology) By unleashing the power of big data and statistical physics, researchers in Japan have developed a model that aids understanding of how and why financial Brownian motion arises.
  
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• Supernova may have 'burped' before exploding

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Notre Dame) Only by increasing the rate at which telescopes monitor the sky has it been possible to catch more Fast-Evolving Luminous Transients (FELTs) and begin to understand them.
  
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• Study: Parental conflict can do lasting damage to kids

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Vermont) Even relatively low-level adversity like parental conflict can do lasting damage to children, a new study finds. Shy children are especially vulnerable.
  
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• Study changes long-held concepts of cell decoding

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse) Scientists at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program have uncovered evidence that shows a more complex and elaborate role for the body's hard-working G protein-coupled receptors than previously thought, suggesting a conceptual advance in the fields of biochemistry and pharmacology.
  
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• Stroke affects more than just the physical

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (American Academy of Neurology) A new study looks at what problems affect people most after a stroke and it provides a broader picture than what some may usually expect to see. Stroke affects more than just physical functioning, according to a study is published the March 28, 2018, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
  
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• Stand Up To Cancer grants encourage 'innovation in collaboration'

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Entertainment Industry Foundation) SU2C is awarding $1.25 million to researchers within the SU2C community to collaborate across institutional and national lines on new research projects, to Claire F. Friedman, MD (MSKCC)/Marta ?uksza, PhD (Mount Sinai); Raul Rabadan, PhD (Columbia University )/Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD, (Weill Cornell); E. John Wherry, PhD (University Pennsylvania)/ Matthew Hellmann, MD (MSKCC); Trevor Pugh, PhD (Princess Margaret)/David Barrett, MD, PhD (CHOP); Michal Sheffer, P
  
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• Social awareness increases prove brain changing in adults with autism

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Center for BrainHealth ) Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, in collaboration with co-leading authors at George Washington University and Yale, have demonstrated in a pilot study that a clinician-driven virtual learning platform, tailored to young adults on the autism spectrum, shows improved social competency. Findings published in Autism Research reveal that increases in socio-emotional and socio-cognitive abilities correlate with brain change.
  
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• Sensors to prevent Parkinson's patients from falling

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) A groundbreaking project for Parkinson's patients from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Health (EIT Health) titled 'MoveIT' has now been launched under the lead of the Molecular-Neurological Department at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen in collaboration with researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and other European partners. Using telemedicine based on sensors placed in patients' shoes and attached to
  
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• Scientists elucidate the crystal structure of sodium boride

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology) An international team of scientists predicts the ground-state structure of sodium boride.Researchers worked out the chemical composition, crystal structure, and properties of Na2B30 -- a compound that remains stable at standard conditions and has long been the subject of heated debate. The compound is potentially superhard and can exist at standard conditions.
  
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• Researchers reveal how brain circuits are affected by infections in mothers and newborns

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (McLean Hospital) McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that immune system activation during pregnancy and right at birth can cause alterations in the brain's neural circuits during young adulthood that are consistent with behavioral symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.
  
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• Relationship changes after bariatric surgery

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Gothenburg) Individuals who have undergone bariatric surgery have a higher probability of getting married, separating from their partner or getting divorced, according to a Swedish study published in JAMA Surgery.
  
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• Public willing to pay to improve water quality

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Missouri-Columbia) Researchers from the University of Missouri have found in a nationwide survey that members of the public are more willing to pay for improved water quality than other ecosystem services such as flood control or protecting wildlife habitats.
  
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• PSU researcher to examine volcanic ash to aid evacuations

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Portland State University) Helping emergency responders predict where ash from exploding volcanoes will fall and how heavy it will accumulate is the focus of new $624,000 National Science Foundation-funded project that involves researchers from Portland State University.
  
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• Penn State participates in consortium to demonstrate remote monitoring of nuclear reactors

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Penn State) Penn State researchers will participate in a new international multi-laboratory and multi-university collaboration that harnesses the unusual characteristics of the elusive subatomic particles known as antineutrinos for nuclear nonproliferation.
  
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• Overcoming a battery's fatal flaw

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) Electric vehicles, wind turbines or smart grids require batteries with far greater energy capacity than currently available. A leading contender is the lithium-metal battery. However, dendrite, or sharp needles, made of clumps of lithium atoms can cause the batteries to heat up, lose efficiency and occasionally short-circuit. Using supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, researchers from Texas A&M University simu
  
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• Oregon memory researchers link two brain regions to conceptual organization

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (University of Oregon) If your idea of a perfect dog is an abstract rendering of canine qualities extracted across many encounters in your life, you are not alone in how your brain connects memories, say University of Oregon scientists.
  
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• NASA set to launch rocket carrying Penn State-led experiment

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Penn State) NASA will launch a suborbital sounding rocket carrying a Penn State-led experiment to test a newly developed X-ray spectrograph and study the X-rays from a supernova remnant in the Milky Way galaxy. The rocket mission will also be the first to use a newly developed NASA water recovery system for astronomical payloads.
  
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• NASA finds Tropical Storm Jelawat strengthening

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed that Tropical Storm Jelawat was getting stronger as it moved through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Most of Earth's water was likely present before the moon-forming giant impact

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Based on an extensive collection of lunar and terrestrial samples, a new study probing the elusive origins of the moon -- now typically thought to have formed from a collision between a proto-Earth and a solid impactor -- supports theories of a collision with extremely high energy. So high, in fact, that it resulted in nearly complete mixing of materials between the impactor and proto-Earth.
  
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• Mitochondrial replacement moratorium should be reconsidered, researchers say

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Brown University) Professors from Brown's medical school and Harvard's law school urge the US to allow for the replacement of mutation-bearing mitochondria to prevent fatal illnesses in children.
  
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• Misestimating travel times may stop people from walking or biking to work

  28-03-2018 06:00
  (Penn State) The extra amount of time needed to walk or bike to work is often cited as a reason most people drive instead. But people are often bad at guessing how it takes to get somewhere, and researchers say most people think it will take longer to walk or bike somewhere than it actually does.
  
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