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8 years ago+36 36 0 x 1Scientists rediscover a 10th century Anglo-Saxon treatment for the superbug, Staphylococcus aureus
We are rapidly running out of antibiotics that are able to control and effectively treat infections with the superbug, Staphylococcus aureus. Scientists at the University of Nottingham have now rediscovered - and validated - a natural recipe for cont ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Will we ever be able to predict the emergence of deadly new viruses like Ebola? Sort of.
Scientists at Columbia University have been looking for patterns - or randomness - across viral communities in monkeys to see if they can predict the emergence of new diseases.
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8 years ago+2 2 0Make job advertisements fair to all
Everyone’s heard that story about how a job was advertised to the global community, but there was no way an external candidate was going to get it. The recruiters already had an internal candidate pegged for the position, and were just going through ...
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8 years ago+23 23 0Our immune cells respond very differently to the deadly 1918 flu virus
This research offers new insights into what caused so many people to die from the flu strain of 1918, and to develop new treatments that could effectively treat similarly aggressive pandemic strains that may arise in the future.
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8 years ago+17 17 0New male scientists get bigger start-up packages than their female counterparts
Like, way bigger. Try $889,000 versus $350,000. Insanity. Image credit: stojdllab
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8 years ago+24 24 0Epic take-down of Donald Trump's insane vaccine remarks by UC Berkeley's Dr. John Schwartzberg
At last night's second Republican primary debate, Donald Trump claimed that spacing childhood vaccines out, and giving them in smaller doses would reduce the 'autism epidemic'. As Dr. Schwartzberg puts it: "It’s time for the ...
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8 years ago+17 17 0Behold: the 34 ingredients in your bag of Cool Ranch Doritos
The processed foods you eat look nothing like food when deconstructed.
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8 years ago+13 13 0MIT has a great big library cataloguing over 5,000 people's worth of genetic variation
And that’s really good for helping scientists decipher which genetic variants actually constitute harmful changes that cause disease, and designing treatments for those diseases.
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8 years ago+2 2 0Her Majesty The Queen becomes the UK's longest reigning monarch
Her Majesty The Queen enters the record books as she becomes the longest reigning monarch in British history. And this cool infographic from the Royal Mint explores the coins featuring her profile that have been struck during her 63 year and 216 day ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+14 14 0Papers with shorter titles get more citations
Vast numbers of scientific articles are published each year. How can we predict which will attract considerable attention and which will sink unnoticed? A team of scientists from the University of Warwick have found that a single metric - the length ...
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8 years ago+24 24 0Major flaws in clinical trials used to set public health policy show the importance of sharing data
Major flaws in two massive trials of deworming pills show the importance of sharing data — which most scientists don't do.
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8 years ago+18 18 0New abstract typeface created from NASA's ferrofluid
A new generative ornamental typeface has been created by mixing ferrofluid - originally developed by NASA - and Pantone ink. This series of unique letterpress prints has been created by typographer Craig Ward and biochemist and experimental photograp ...
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8 years ago+28 28 0 x 150% of the children born in 2015 will probably never see the Milky Way
Astronomer Tyler Nordgren talks about the plethora of stars in the sky above national parks, so rarely witnessed in the city.
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8 years ago+18 18 0When science gave us control over our fertility, did parenthood just become a great moral gamble?
I didn’t choose to have a child. Not if “choosing” means something rational—weighing pros and cons, coming to a conclusion. I tried that process but ran away from it because, even though I wanted a child, it seemed to me that creating a whole new per ...
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8 years ago+23 23 0Dusty space object on a crash course towards a supermassive black hole mysteriously survives being ripped apart.
The dusty space object, known as G2, was on a course towards the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way from 2006 to early 2014. Its closest approach to the black hole was in May 2014 and observations in September 2014 show that the object survive ...
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8 years ago+23 23 0 x 1Big data is solving the mysteries of how birds migrate in the dark
In Ithaca, New York, a virtual machine in a laboratory at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology sits in the night, humming. About every five minutes, Bubo grabs an image from Northeast weather radar stations, and feeds it through a pipeline of artificial-in ...
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8 years ago+9 10 1Fifty inaccurate, misleading, misused and ambiguous psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid.
Curb terminological misinformation and confusion by banishing terms like, "a gene for", "autism epidemic" and "love molecule".
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8 years ago+16 16 0The FDA is set to approve the "female Viagra." Critics say it's a mistake.
It has been a rocky road to market for a drug some see as "a textbook case of disease-mongering by the pharmaceutical industry." But as a slap in the face for evidence-driven medicine, the FDA looks set to approve "pink viagra".
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8 years ago+2 2 0The Almost Perfect World War II Plot To Bomb Japan With Bats
Imagine: a quiet, tense night in the middle of wartime. A plane rips through the air above your city, rupturing the stillness. The bay doors open, and out whistles a bomb. It drops and drops. Everyone braces. But when it explodes, the city is filled ...
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8 years ago+11 11 0Taking Stock of 2014 Fire Emissions
NASA's Aqua & Terra satellites tracked 2,030 teragrams of carbon being released from fires in 2014.