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Global Body Seeks Unified Approach to Assessing Science
The leaders of about 50 national research agencies in both the developed and developing worlds have announced the establishment...
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Stanford Scientists Document Fragile Land-Sea Ecological Chain
Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles did not set out to discover one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever...
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Many Rare Mutations May Underpin Diseases
The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems much harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics...
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Astrophysicists Observe How Black Holes Are Fueled
By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase...
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Suspicion Resides in Two Regions of the Brain
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus. Scientists at the Virginia Tech...
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Chip Off the Old Block: Silicon Trick for Next-Gen Memory
Researchers have revealed details of a promising way to make a fundamentally different kind of computer memory chip. The...
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Academia Suppresses Creativity
Creativity enhances life. It enables the great thinkers, artists, and leaders of our world to continually push forward new...
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Higher Education, Coffee Linked to Longer Life
People with higher levels of education and higher income have lower rates of many chronic diseases compared to those...
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Particles Walk Through Walls While Physicists Watch
Sometimes, particles can pass through walls. Though it sounds like science fiction, the phenomenon is well documented and even...
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Paralyzed Woman Moves Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts
A paralyzed Massachusetts woman picked up a bottle of coffee and sipped from it by moving a robotic arm...