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7 years ago+18 18 0Underwater pigs help forensic scientists understand what happens to human remains at sea
Watching the decomposition of pig carcasses anchored to the seafloor is helping us understand what to expect of human remains dumped in the ocean.
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7 years ago+38 38 0 x 1From international space station to international spy station: using the ISS to track wildlife from space
Scientists have a new way to eavesdrop on the planet and its inhabitants.
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7 years ago+27 27 0How research into glowing fungi could lead to trees lighting our streets
How research into bioluminescent fungi could lead to trees replacing street lighting
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7 years ago+20 20 0How Big Can Life Get?
An illustrated trip from smallest to biggest.
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8 years ago+26 26 0How to build a 122-foot Titanosaur in under a minute
Thank you, American Museum of Natural History!
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8 years ago+22 22 0Blue & green lights have opposite effects on mouse sleepiness by delaying or inducing sleep
Light can produce either sleep or arousal in mice. A new study shows that these opposing effects depend upon the wavelength of light (blue, green, violet etc.) and appear to involve separate pathways, both controlled by the photopigment, melanopsin.
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8 years ago+17 17 0Science is about discovery, not just about solving human problems
This great PBS News Hour video elegantly highlights why knowledge for the pure sake of knowing is good enough to justify scientific research.
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8 years ago+28 28 0Why doesn't your stomach digest itself?
There are intricate forces at play to make sure that when stomach acid is done mashing up your meals, it doesn't move on to eating your gut itself.
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8 years ago+31 31 0Saving Coral Reefs, One Polyp at a Time
A new technique to study coral polyps in the lab is generating unprecedented insights that may help us to save our coral ecosystems. Image credit: Orr Shapiro and Assaf Vardi, Weizmann Institute of Science.
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8 years ago+7 7 0In the troposphere, where day-to-day weather happens, each cubic meter of cloud contains an average of >10,000 microbes
The science of bacteria in the atmosphere is getting its moment in the sun.
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8 years ago+9 9 0There's no real evidence that dressings prevent wound infection after surgery
Band-Aid® manufacturers: be afraid.
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8 years ago+23 23 0A space-style oxygen helmet works much better than a face mask for reducing deaths in patients with respiratory distress syndrome
Among patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, a new study shows that treatment with oxygen delivered through a space-style helmet significantly reduces the number of individuals who subsequently needed to be invasively intubated. Not only ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0Smartphone app maps data on sleep habits around the world
A new study predicts that if you go to bed late (I’m looking at you, Spain, Brazil, Japan, Singapore), you’re likely to be part of the ‘global sleep crisis’.
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8 years ago+20 20 0Nanoscale thermal physics guarantees our death, no matter how many diseases we cure
The inside of every cell in our body is like a crowded city, filled with tracks, transports, libraries, factories, power plants, and garbage disposal units. The city’s workers are protein machines. As these machines go about their business, they are ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight (but you should for your health)
Physical activity may have less to do with weight loss than we think.
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8 years ago+21 21 0The Extinction Invention
A genetic technology that can kill off mosquito species could eradicate malaria. But is it too risky to ever use?
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8 years ago+16 16 0A huge zinc surge accompanies the first spark of human life
The human egg has to be activated for an embryo to begin to develop. Now, researchers show that proper activation is accompanied by a large surge in zinc levels in the egg. This inorganic signature could be used to help IVF scientists predict which e ...
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8 years ago+20 20 0The 8-Bit Video Game That Makes Statistics Addictive
Players see a stream of scatter plots - graphs that visualize the relationship between two things, like temperature and ice-cream sales. Your job is to eyeball the plots and estimate the number R, which measures how correlated the two things are. In ...
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8 years ago+13 13 0An app that let's you drive an unmanned aerial vehicle
Up for a hands-on game challenge? Navigate a flying quadcopter during stormy Alaska weather, catch the perfect aerial shot of rare wildlife, and uncover trails through rough sea ice, all in the new mobile app game, Arctic UAVs
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8 years ago+16 16 0 x 1Rover's-Eye View of Marathon on Mars
Over 11 years of footage in one glorious video from hazard-avoidance cameras onboard NASA's Opportunity rover on Mars.