Scientists have cracked the secret to Roman water-based structures’ strength – and findings could help today’s builders

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Forty years ago, the sound of human laughter was blasted out into the cosmos—but who is the person laughing? And why did the track disappear from official recordings?

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The more researchers learn about metformin, the more it seems like a medieval wonder drug that could extend lifespans in the 21st century.

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The world's most detailed scan of the brain's internal wiring has been produced by Cardiff University.

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Media and scientific uproar over admissible evidence 'exaggerated', say legal scholars.

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It was the biggest eruption for 700 years but scientists still can't find the volcano responsible.

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Researchers from MIT say that they have developed the world’s first five-atom quantum computer, and they assert that it is capable of cracking today’s traditional encryption methods—today’s most notable encryption methods. To break this down a bit, in computing, numbers are traditionally binary (represented by 0 and 1). However, in quantum computing, these units are known as “qubits,” which are in a state of superposition, being simultaneously 0 and 1. This opens a number of doors in relation to computing and encryption.

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Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm. This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature -- a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.

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The coming crackdown. By Masha Gessen.

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1. The Worst of Donald Trump’s Toxic Agenda Is Lying in Wait – a Major U.S. Crisis Will Unleash It. By Naomi Klein Added by AdelleChattre on July 4th 2017.

Why elephants do not get cancer is a famous conundrum that was posed — in a different form — by epidemiologist Richard Peto of the University of Oxford, UK, in the 1970s3. Peto noted that, in general, there is little relationship between cancer rates and the body size or age of animals. That is surprising: the cells of large-bodied or older animals should have divided many more times than those of smaller or younger ones, so should possess more random mutations predisposing them to cancer.

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Submitted on July 5th 2017 by TNY

Last week, as the Senate was still trying to deny healthcare to 22 million fellow Americans, a friend asked me whether I would choose to live forever if I could. We were discussing Silicon Valley billionaires and their investments in new biotechnologies that they hope will enable them to do what no human has ever done: cheat death. The technology includes some dubious treatments, such as being pumped with the blood of much younger people.

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A human protein -- called CyP40 -- can untangle the neurodegenerative clumps that characterize Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s diseases, according to a new study.

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Submitted on July 6th 2017 by LisMan

It’s not a matter of if it will happen--it’s a question of when.

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Repeated safety lapses hobble Los Alamos National Laboratory’s work on the cores of U.S. nuclear warheads. By Patrick Malone.

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Thousands of years after acupuncture was invented, controversy remains over whether the Chinese traditional medicine technique works. By Angela Chen.

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Although they were once feared as an evil omen, solar eclipses have helped to shape human history.

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At Ars Technica Live, we talked to Lindsey Dillon, who decided to do something about it.

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In what may be the best chance yet to learn the famous aviator's fate, forensic dogs are headed to a Pacific island to search for her bones.

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While dodging accusations of communism, Charlotte Serber made the nuclear bomb possible. By Michael Waters.

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By replicating the function of the human brain's 100 trillion synapses, scientists hope to boost the versatility of artificial neural networks.

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