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8 years ago+16 16 0The Many Colours of Sound
White noise isn’t the only sonic hue—pink, blue, gray, and brown all affect listeners in different ways.
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8 years ago+15 15 0New research suggests controlling diet is far more important than physical activity for weight loss
What if physical activity doesn't help us lose weight—or at least not as effectively as we might like?
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8 years ago+3 3 0A new soft opt-out system boosts organ donations in Wales
Fifteen people donated their organs in the first two months after a new soft opt-out system for organ donation was introduced in Wales, new figures show. Of the 15 people who donated their organs during December 2015 and January 2016, six had their ...
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8 years ago+5 5 0US deaths from opioid overdoses have increased five-fold since 1999, and jumped 17% in 2014 alone
From 1999 to 2014, over half a million Americans died from a drug overdose, according to CDC data. STAT news explores what’s driving the opioid epidemic.
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8 years ago+3 4 1Doctors and nurses who make thousands of deadly errors each year are reprimanded - but not really supported
A nurse gave an infant a fatal overdose of medication. Seven months later, she killed herself. Could either death have been prevented?
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8 years ago+19 19 0If pharmaceutical companies made cancer drug vials in smaller sizes, we'd save billions
Contradictory regulatory standards in the US currently allow drug manufacturers to boost profits by producing single dose vials containing quantities that increase leftover drug.
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8 years ago+2 2 0Feeding babies eggs, wheat, milk & peanuts could help prevent them from developing allergies later in life
The "Learning Early about Peanut Allergy" (LEAP) trial suggests it is possible to lower the risk of allergies by letting babies eat eggs, wheat, milk and peanuts, challenging years of advice to parents to avoid giving their babies these foo ...
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8 years ago+22 22 0The Bank of Canada wants you to nominate your favourite iconic Canadian woman to appear on a new bank note
Yeah, #science #sciwomen #STEM #diversity!
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8 years ago+22 22 0The Trouble with Growing Ecosystems in a Biosphere Bubble
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8 years ago+16 16 0Not a one-way street: new study suggests that antibiotic resistance genes can spread from humans to livestock
When bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, it becomes difficult or impossible to treat infections in both people and animals. There is particular concern that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock & the food production industry is contribut ...
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8 years ago+30 30 015 Works of Art Depicting Women in Science
Celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science by visualising notable women in the STEM fields through the lens of fine art!
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8 years ago+11 11 0Time to tear down the barriers at elite British universities
To counter elitism and inequality, UK universities will be required to publish student admissions and retention data by gender, ethnicity & socio-economic class, under new measures announced by the British prime minister.
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8 years ago+22 22 0Why we struggle with healthy behaviours - and how to stick to our good intentions
Our lifestyle matters when it comes to our health. Despite most people knowing what we should be doing to stay healthy, many of us struggle to engage in those activities. The problem is mostly not lack of knowledge. We have abundant information relat ...
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8 years ago+28 28 0Zika virus is likely to spread throughout the Americas
According to the World Health Organisation, only Canada and Chile are expected to be free of the mosquito-borne disease that is suspected of causing brain damage to babies in Brazil.
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8 years ago+26 26 0This epic $434M ecology project will build a biological observatory that spans America
More than 80 sites across the USA will make up the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). If all goes well, it will document the effects that climate change and land use have on ecosystems and provide scientists with a nearly real-time measu ...
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8 years ago+23 23 08 Astronomical Glass Plates That Made History
More than 200,000 astronomical plates are archived at the main offices of the Carnegie Observatories, in Pasadena, Ca. Made between 1892 and the early 1990s using telescopes at Mount Wilson, Palomar (near San Diego), and Las Campanas (in Chile) obser ...
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8 years ago+25 25 0New Mayo Clinic poll shows that as we age, the health problems we talk about change.
In your 20s: it's all about healthy eating; in your 30s: it's your parents’ health;i n your 40s: it's your kids’ health; and when you're over the hill: it's your health.
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8 years ago+24 24 0New historical genome analysis shows the same strain of plague kept popping up across at least 3 centuries
DNA from Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague, was extracted and compared from the teeth of 20 ancient human skeletons who died during three pandemics (the first from the 6th-8th centuries; the second spanning the 14th-18th centuries; ...
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8 years ago+26 26 0Grapefruit juice - the nemesis of many medicines
Grapefruit juice can be part of a healthy diet - most of the time. It has vitamin C and potassium - substances your body needs to work properly. But it isn’t good for you when it affects the way your prescription and non-prescription medicines work.
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8 years ago+26 26 0A Neuroscientist on the Calming Powers of the To-Do List
There are two kinds of people in the world: 1. Those who make lists. 2. Those who don’t. And, as one scientist recently argued, those who fall into the former group might hold the secret to being more productive individuals.