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7 years ago+19 19 0Can science rob snakes of their deadliest weapon?
A new breed of obsessive scientists is trying to engineer better antidotes to snakebites, which kill 100,000 people a year. But venom is a wily target.
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7 years ago+6 6 0Songs to perform CPR to
A handy new song playlist on Spotify from the New York Presbyterian Hospital has all the 100 beats-per-minute songs that you can perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation to.
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7 years ago+9 9 0The gender gap in management positions explodes when women hit their 30s
The workforce analytics firm Visier has published a fascinating analysis of the gender wage gap using the salaries and positions of 165,000 workers at large American companies. It suggests one major driver of the workforce is that when women hit thei ...
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7 years ago+32 32 0Did you ever wonder how often men & women cry in different countries?
Turns out, someone's looked into that.
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7 years ago+33 33 0A pioneering pool of enterobacteria lead the charge in colonising your coffee machine leach tray
Scientists have now begun to explore how bacteria begin to colonise - and diversify - in that most toxic of environments - your coffee machine leach tray.
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7 years ago+39 39 0 x 1The search for flight MH370 made a remote part of the Indian Ocean one of the best-mapped deep water regions in the world
The ocean is vast, deep, and unexplored. When Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared three years ago this week, the search brought the ocean’s vastness into sharp relief. This is how deep and dark it is three miles down. This is how unlikely you ar ...
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7 years ago+20 20 0New "intelligent" traffic light management software has an astonishing impact on reducing traffic & travel times
Intelligent traffic systems have been adjusting traffic lights and signs to smooth out congestion in real time for more than three decades, all over the world. More than 100 cities, including London, Santiago, and Toronto, use the same car-corralling ...
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7 years ago+19 19 0Womb zoom
New ways to image the human foetus & newborn babies provide huge insights for development, infection & disease.
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7 years ago+1 1 0Pig to greet travelers at San Francisco airport
LiLou is the first pig to join the airport’s team of therapy animals, and is believed to be the only airport porker in the USA.
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7 years ago+25 25 0Big science has a buzzword problem
Cancer moonshots, project roadmaps: what do these terms even mean?
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7 years ago+3 3 0"Stop the Bleed" campaign educates bystanders on how to save lives while first responders arrive
No matter how rapid the arrival of professional emergency responders, bystanders will always be first on the scene. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within five minutes. This helpful website trains bystanders to quickly stop the blood ...
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7 years ago+35 35 0Amsterdam to open the first forensic cemetery in Europe to study body decomposition
The forensics cemetery - the first of its kind in Europe - will help researchers study what happens to decomposing bodies. Not only will this help to understand the science behind decomposition, but it will also aid in crime scene investigation, and ...
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7 years ago+25 25 0How warming seas are forcing fish to seek new waters
Rising sea temperatures are pushing shoals hundreds of miles from native grounds.
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8 years ago+23 23 0Turning tropical coral into artificial bone
How coral revolutionized human bone repair.
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8 years ago+18 18 0New research from Harvard University argues for the superiority of female over male doctors
If all physicians were women, 32,000 fewer Americans would die every year.
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8 years ago+20 20 0Giving newborns medicine is a dangerous guessing game. Can we make it safer?
Some 90% of medications administered to newborns are not approved by the FDA for use in children so young. Despite this, infants admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit may receive up to 60 medications in their first month. An FDA-funded nonprofit ...
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8 years ago+37 37 0 x 1At what age do people stop shopping at IKEA?
The credit and financing company Earnest recently analysed more than 10,000 American shoppers’ spending habits to address a pertinent question: When do consumers ditch IKEA? Turns out our taste in furniture changes significantly over time.
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8 years ago+21 21 0Researchers track eels on their journey across the Atlantic to settle a centuries-old migration mystery
In the early 20th century, Danish biologist Johannes Schmidt solved a puzzle that had confounded European fisherman for generations. Freshwater eels—popular for centuries on menus across northern Europe—were abundant in rivers and creeks, but only as ...
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8 years ago+25 25 0Nerdy birdies: meet the pigeons who are redefining "human" behaviour with their remarkable pattern recognition abilities
Nearly every day for two years, Scarf trained four pigeons. He would place the birds in a box with a touch screen, and then present the animals with either a real or fake four-letter word, along with a star below the letters. If the word was real, th ...
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8 years ago+18 18 0Silicon added to life's toolbox after scientists at Caltech make bacteria that form organic carbon-silicon bonds
Molecules containing both carbon and silicon have become a standard part of synthetic chemistry, but nature only uses silicon in inorganic compounds, such as the shells of diatoms. Now, Frances Arnold and her collaborators at the California Institute ...