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• New Data: Hurricanes Will Get Worse

  16-05-2018 23:30 via rss.sciam.com
  Analysis of Hurricane Harvey, which drowned Houston, confirms predictions that the storms are likely to get bigger, be more intense and last longer-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• No, Kilauea won’t cause mass destruction

  16-05-2018 23:02
  
  A steam explosion at Kilauea isn’t anything like the explosive eruptions of certain other volcanoes.
  
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• CBC warns past, current staff personal data may be at risk after break-in, theft of computer

  16-05-2018 22:20 via cbc.ca
  The CBC is warning more than 20,000 of its past, present and contract employees that their personal and financial information may be at risk after a break-in and the theft of computer equipment.
  
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• Oxygen presence in distant galaxy sheds light on early universe

  16-05-2018 22:05
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After detecting a whiff of oxygen, astronomers have determined that stars in a faraway galaxy formed 250 million years after the Big Bang -- a rather short time in cosmic terms -- in a finding that sheds light on conditions in the early universe.
  
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• Spacewalking astronauts perform pump swap at space station

  16-05-2018 21:13 via cbc.ca
  Spacewalking astronauts carried out a high-flying, high-tech version of musical chairs Wednesday, rearranging pumps outside the International Space Station.
  
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• Armed forces halt downtown training to avoid stressing Hamilton's baby falcons

  16-05-2018 21:01 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian Armed Forces have slammed the brakes on their downtown Hamilton military training because it was disturbing a nest of baby falcons.
  
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• Emissions of banned ozone-eating chemical rise mysteriously

  16-05-2018 20:57 via cbc.ca
  Something strange is happening with a now-banned chemical that eats away at Earth's protective ozone layer: Scientists say there's more of it — not less — going into the atmosphere and they don't know where it is coming from.
  
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• Mysterious rise in emissions of ozone-damaging chemical

  16-05-2018 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Researchers discover an unexplained rise in a compound that is highly destructive to the ozone layer.
  
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• Green blood in lizards probably evolved four times

  16-05-2018 20:10
  
  Pigment buildups that would cause jaundice in people are normal for some New Guinea skinks.
  
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• The inside of a proton endures more pressure than anything else we’ve seen

  16-05-2018 19:18
  
  For the first time, scientists used experimental data to estimate the pressure inside a proton.
  
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• These stars may have been born only 250 million years after the Big Bang

  16-05-2018 19:00
  
  Scientists find evidence that stars were forming just 250 million years after the universe was born.
  
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• Meet the speedsters of the plant world

  16-05-2018 18:11
  
  Researchers have recently uncovered a diverse array of mechanisms that allow plants to move — often faster than the blink of an eye.
  
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• Copy of BepiColombo Mercury mission goes on display

  16-05-2018 15:42 via bbc.co.uk
  London's Science Museum unveils a replica of the probe Europe will send to the inner-most planet.
  
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• Switzerland to vote on pesticide ban 'in 3 years'

  16-05-2018 15:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Campaigners force a referendum on the future use of synthetic pesticides in Switzerland.
  
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• 'Ballistic blocks' shot from Hawaii volcano could mark onset of explosive eruptions

  16-05-2018 15:35 via cbc.ca
  Eruptions of large rocks, last seen nearly a century ago, have been a looming threat since Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted nearly two weeks ago.
  
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• Ash cloud from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano sparks red alert for aircraft

  16-05-2018 15:35 via cbc.ca
  Explosions have intensified from Kilauea volcano, spewing ash and triggering the highest aviation alert level for the first time since the latest eruption began almost two weeks ago.
  
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• Stephen Hawking thanksgiving service public ballot closes

  16-05-2018 14:47 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 27,000 people applied for 1,000 public places at the scientist's Westminster Abbey service.
  
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• First right whale of the season spotted in Canadian waters

  16-05-2018 13:06 via cbc.ca
  The first right whale of the season has been spotted in Canadian waters after an unprecedented winter in which not a single calf was spotted.
  
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• Cosmic Conflict: Diverging Data on Universe's Expansion Polarizes Scientists

  16-05-2018 12:45 via rss.sciam.com
  A disagreement between two canonical measures of intergalactic distances could signal a renaissance in physics—or deep flaws in our studies of cosmic evolution-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
  
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• MPs criticise government clean energy policies

  16-05-2018 12:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Two parliamentary committees say ill-thought out policies have driven down clean energy investment.
  
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• Delay for Bloodhound supersonic car's high-speed trials

  16-05-2018 09:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Testing of the 1,000mph car is pushed back ahead of next year's attempt on the land speed record.
  
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• 1,600 IT workers and engineers denied UK visas

  16-05-2018 06:59 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 1,600 IT specialists and engineers offered jobs in the UK were denied visas between last December and March, BBC News has learned.
  
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• Would you share your scientific results before publication?

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Scientists who surveyed more than 7,000 active faculty researchers in the US and abroad report that more than half of them had disclosed their results before publication, largely to receive feedback.
  
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• World's strongest bio-material outperforms steel and spider silk

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) At DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III, a team led by Swedish researchers has produced the strongest bio-material that has ever been made. The artificial, but biodegradable cellulose fibers are stronger than steel and even than dragline spider silk, which is usually considered the strongest bio-based material. The team headed by Daniel Söderberg from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm reports the work in the journal ACS Nano of the Ame
  
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• Working or protesting

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (National Research University Higher School of Economics) The higher the unemployment rates in Western European countries, the more likely it is that socio-political destabilization will occur. At the same time, the highest levels of unemployment in Eastern European countries are accompanied by anti-government protests of very low intensity. These conclusions have been made by experts at the Higher School of Economics in the paper 'Unemployment as a predictor of socio-political destabilization i
  
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• UTHealth researcher reveals results of study on emergency breathing tubes

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) In a landmark study, researchers found that patients treated with paramedic oxygen delivery using a newer, more flexible laryngeal breathing tube may have a greater survival rate after sudden cardiac arrest than the traditional intubation breathing tube.
  
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• Understanding veteran privacy rules could help improve counseling strategies

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Missouri-Columbia) Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has found that veterans tend to disclose wartime information on a strict need-to-know basis, and that therapists treating veterans can improve their counseling strategies if they seek to understand veteran privacy rules that are formed by military culture.
  
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• Understanding drug-resistant gonorrhea

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)) Can whole genome sequencing illustrate changes in drug susceptibility of gonorrhea to antimicrobials used for treatment and so help to define more effective treatment regimens? The first study of this kind within an international surveillance program for sexually transmitted infections shows distribution of drug-resistant gonorrhea strains across Europe. The study results are published in an ECDC report and summarized in The Lancet Infe
  
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• Study shows increase in youth suicide attempts

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) The number of school-age children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or attempts has more than doubled since 2008, according to a new Vanderbilt-led study published today in Pediatrics.
  
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• Stars formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University College London) Stars in a galaxy 13.28 billion light years away formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang, finds a team of international astronomers led by groups at UCL and Osaka Sangyo University in Japan.
  
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• St. Jude named the WHO's first Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital) With the designation, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will support efforts to improve detection and treatment of childhood cancer around the globe
  
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• Space cloud discovery

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Case Western Reserve University) No one has ever seen what Case Western Reserve University astronomers first observed using a refurbished 75-year-old telescope in the Arizona mountains. 'I literally looked at the image and said, 'What in the world is that?'' said Case Western Reserve astronomy professor Chris Mihos. What it was turned out to be a massive cloud of ionized hydrogen gas spewed from a nearby galaxy and then essentially 'cooked' by radiation from the galaxy's central black hole.
  
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• Soho's 'unique' sexual character should be preserved, say researchers

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Kent) The unique, cosmopolitan sexual character of London's Soho should be preserved in the face of gentrification, a new study argues.
  
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• SF State study examines how stereotypes affect memory in older Chinese immigrants

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (San Francisco State University) Although studies have been done on how stereotypes about aging and memory affect older people in Western culture, no such studies had been done on older Asian people until recently. SF State researchers are the first to publish such a study, finding that older Chinese Americans underperform on memory tests when a negative stereotype is included.
  
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• Satellite study finds major shifts in global freshwater

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Maryland) A new global, satellite-based study of Earth's freshwater found that Earth's wet areas are getting wetter, while dry areas are getting drier. The data suggest this pattern is due to many factors, including human water management practices, human-caused climate change and natural climate cycles. The NASA-led research team used 14 years of observations from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission to track global trends in freshwater in 34 regions around
  
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• Samara scientists reconstruct monuments with the help of 3D technologies

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Samara Polytech (Samara State Technical University)) Engineering reconstruction is a new scientific direction which is actively developed in Samara Polytech. The university scientists take part in large restoration projects.
  
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• Saarbrücken mathematicians study the cooling of heavy plate from Dillingen

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Saarland University) The Department of Numerical Mathematics at Saarland University is studying the modelling of the cooling process of premium heavy plate at Dillinger. The focus of activity for Mathematics Professor Thomas Schuster and his PhD student Dimitri Rothermel is on the cooling from rolling heat.
  
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• RIT faculty wins NSF award for research on novel ultraviolet photonic

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Rochester Institute of Technology) Jing Zhang, a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, received a prestigious CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for work to develop new, highly efficient ultraviolet light sources.
  
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• Researchers take key step toward growing human organs in laboratory

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Oregon State University) Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels, blood cells and immune cells, pushing science one step closer to generating body parts in a laboratory.
  
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• Researchers find clues to treating psychoses in mental health patients

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Missouri-Columbia) Researchers at the University of Missouri recently found evidence that boosting how well people at risk for psychosis learn from positive and negative feedback could potentially keep psychosis at bay. The team also found that brain scans using functional magnetic resonance imaging, coupled with behavioral measures, could provide markers for the diagnosis of psychosis risk. Researchers hope findings will help mental health professionals to understand how to bette
  
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• Researchers control the properties of graphene transistors using pressure

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Columbia University) A Columbia University-led international team of researchers has developed a technique to manipulate the electrical conductivity of graphene with compression, bringing the material one step closer to being a viable semiconductor for use in today's electronic devices.
  
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• Researchers combine wearable technology and AI to predict the onset of health problems

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Waterloo) A team of Waterloo researchers found that applying artificial intelligence to the right combination of data retrieved from wearable technology may detect whether your health is failing.The study, which involved researchers from Waterloo's Faculties of Applied Health Sciences and Engineering, found that the data from wearable sensors and artificial intelligence that assesses changes in aerobic responses could one day predict whether a person is experiencing the onset of a
  
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• Research shows how 'navigational hazards' in metro maps confuse travellers

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Kent) Some features in metro maps cause passengers to make substantial mistakes in journey planning, but it may be possible to detect and rectify these with automated software, research being conducted at the University of Kent has indicated.
  
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• Research shows how 'navigational hazards' in metro maps confuse travelers

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (University of Kent) Some features in metro maps cause passengers to make substantial mistakes in journey planning, but it may be possible to detect and rectify these with automated software, research being conducted at the University of Kent has indicated.
  
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• Recent trends of marriage in Iran

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Bentham Science Publishers) Data about marriages in Iran points to the declining number of formal (arranged) marriages in recent decades despite strong cultural and religious traditions favoring such marriages.
  
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• Predicting what drives people to seek, stay in substance-use treatment

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Florida Atlantic University) About 22 million Americans are substance dependent, yet only 2.5 million seek treatment. Reviewing 5,443 records of adult substance use treatment clients, a new study examined treatment readiness, or the characteristics that are likely to promote treatment engagement, to predict who seeks and stays in treatment. Results show that white and black race, being male, lower levels of education, and being married or divorced (vs. never married) were all negatively related
  
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• PNNL successfully vitrifies three gallons of radioactive tank waste

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) Approximately three gallons of low-activity Hanford tank waste were vitrified at PNNL's Radiochemical Processing Laboratory in April.The laboratory-scale demonstration is an important step toward the eventual treatment of millions of gallons of hazardous waste generated during past plutonium production at Hanford.
  
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• Plug-and-play diagnostic devices

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Researchers at MIT's Little Devices Lab have developed modular blocks that can be put together in different ways to produce diagnostic devices. These 'plug-and-play' devices can test blood glucose levels in diabetic patients or detect viral infection, among other functions.
  
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• Petry finds missing ingredient to spark the fireworks of life

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (PrincetonUniversity) Using a novel imaging technique, the Petry Lab demonstrates that XMAP215, a protein known to help microtubules grow faster and longer, is necessary to nucleating microtubules. For decades, researchers have been struggling to understand why the gamma-tubulin ring complex (g-TuRC) nucleates only a few microtubules in the test tube, looking for some other factor that could activate or enhance g-TuRC. That search may now be over.
  
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• People make different moral choices in imagined versus real-life situations

  16-05-2018 06:00
  (Association for Psychological Science) Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect real-life behavior. The findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, showed that people tend to focus more on the outcome of their decision and less on absolute moral principles when faced with a real-life scenario as opposed
  
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