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British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for pulsar work
Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will donate the money to help students underrepresented in physics
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Scientists Use Acoustic Forces to Print Like Never Before
Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses soundwaves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity.
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Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
Nematodes moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age in major scientific breakthrough, say experts.
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Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas
Scientists have discovered what they say is “direct evidence” supporting the theory that Ice Age migrants from Asia traveled down the Pacific Coast, rather than through North America’s interior.
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Alan Turing’s chemistry hypothesis turned into a desalination filter
A chemical reaction he suggested can now be done, and it makes a great membrane.
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The Future of Science Storytelling
Science is messy, full of plot twists and competing interpretations—and the way we talk about it should reflect that truth
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These ants have evolved a complex system of battlefield triage and rescue
Ants have an incredible instinct to help their comrades.
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Men think they're smarter than women do in college experiment
By any definition, Gwen Pearson is pretty smart. She’s got a Ph.D in entomology from North Carolina State University and she is now a science writer and education coordinator at Purdue University. But she remembers how often she was told she wasn’t good enough, simply because she was female. “As a graduate student, a fellow male student said, to my face, that he had no idea how I was admitted to the program because I clearly wasn't smart enough to be there,” Pearson recalls.
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Cat-like 'hearing' with device tens of trillions times smaller than human eardrum
Researchers are developing atomically thin 'drumheads'-- tens of trillions of times thinner than the human eardrum -- able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the human ear. Their work will likely contribute to making the next generation of ultralow-power communications and sensory devices smaller and with greater detection and tuning ranges.
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NASA Shapes Science Plan for Deep-Space Outpost Near the Moon
NASA is pressing forward on plans to build a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, an outpost for astronauts positioned in the space near Earth's moon. According to NASA, the Gateway will not only be a place to live, learn and work around the moon but will also support an array of missions to the lunar surface. And scientists foresee a host of uses for the station.
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Titanium, zircon industry could blossom out of Alberta oilsands waste
After several years and nearly $100 million of research and testing, engineers say they have developed new technology to extract valuable metals from waste products in the Alberta oilsands.
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Teens Should Stay Far, Far Away from E-Cigarettes
"While they may be beneficial to adults as a form of harm reduction, kids should not be using them at all.”
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WHO launches plastics health review
This makes me feel uneasy
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Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes have been charged with fraud by the SEC
She's going down
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Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists
The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised, according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion power on the grid within 15 years. The project, a collaboration between scientists at MIT and a private company, will take a radically different approach to other efforts to transform fusion from an expensive science experiment into a viable commercial energy source. The team intend to use a new class of high-temperature superconductors they predict will allow them to create the world’s first fusion reactor that produces more energy than needs to be put in to get the fusion reaction going.
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Disney Marks Black Panther's Success By Donating $1 Million To STEM Programs
Disney has decided to place even more emphasis behind its Black Panther movie by putting their money where their mouth is. They will be making a $1 million donation to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America so that they can expand their STEM programs. They're also founding 12 STEM Centers of Innovation across the nation. They will serve as a place where kids can get hands-on experience in the different fields and hopefully become inspired to pursue careers of their own.
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist Stephen Hawking dies at 76
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Stephen Hawking died early Wednesday morning, a family spokesman told ABC News. He was 76. Hawking, who wrote several influential books including "A Brief History of Time," was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1962.
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"What Used to be Fraud is Now Alternative Medicine": Doc-to-Doc with Steve Novella
An insightful conversation as to how alternative "medicine" has weaseled in by the back door.
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Copper Age Iberians 'exported' their culture -- but not their genes -- all over Europe
The spread of the Beaker culture throughout Europe now seems to have been mainly cultural and not through migration according to a study by the Spanish National Research Council of 400 prehistoric cultures.
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Scientists just found a breakthrough new way of using lasers
Scientists have found a breakthrough technique to separate two liquids from each other using a laser. The research is something like taking the milk out of your tea after you've made it, say researchers – and just as difficult as that sounds. But scientists say the breakthrough will have far more advanced applications than making sure you get the tea round right. Eventually the breakthrough could help make a technique used in the production of computers, phones, drugs, paints, light bulbs and solar cells far easier, potentially making them much cheaper.
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