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Inside the fight over the sugar conspiracy
In a paper published in 2016, researchers suggested that in the 1960s, the sugar industry paid scientists to obscure the relationship between sugar and heart disease, derailing the course of nutrition science and policy for years to come. Two researchers at Columbia University say that those claims are not backed by the historical evidence.
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Mirrors have revealed something new about manta rays – and it reflects badly on us
Humans make huge use of marine vertebrates, but manta rays may pass the self-awareness test and other fish potentially could too. Ethically, where does that leave us?
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European Space Agency's ExoMars Orbiter is about to start sniffing the Red Planet for signs of life
In March of 2016 the European Space Agency - in collaboration with Roscosmos - launched The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter sending it on its way to the mysterious red planet that orbits our Sun, Mars. Its mission? To look for signs of life on the Red Giant that has held the interest of astronomers for centuries since first being discovered in the 17th century by Galileo Galilei.
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Novel study is first to demonstrate brain mechanisms that give “The Iceman” unusual resistance to cold
Dutch adventurer Wim Hof is known as “The Iceman” for good reason. Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self-developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation — known as the Wim Hof Method — that have been covered by the BBC, CNN, National Geographic and other global media outlets. Yet, how his brain responds during cold exposure and what brain mechanisms may endow him with this resistance have not been studied — until now.
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What happens to your brain after you die
Neurologists studying the brains of nine patients as they died have found surprising information about what happens to your brain after it dies. According to the new study, death is marked by a final wave of electrical activity in our brains called “spreading depression.” This “spreading depression” is a final flurry of activity that occurs in the brain before it finally shuts down, according to the experts.
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Termites Are Finally Being Recognized for What They Really Are: Social Cockroaches
Very quietly, and without any formal announcement, the Common Names Committee of the Entomological Society of America has decided to list termites in the same category as cockroaches. It seem weird to lump the two together, but it’s a move that scientists have been considering for nearly a century.
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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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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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"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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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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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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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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Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes have been charged with fraud by the SEC
She's going down
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WHO launches plastics health review
This makes me feel uneasy
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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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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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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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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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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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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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