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Materials scientists have designed a way to harvest small amounts of waste energy and harness them to turn water into usable hydrogen fuel.
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Scientists may have uncovered a mechanism for resistance to paclitaxel in ovarian cancer, microRNA-31, suggesting a possible therapeutic target for overcoming chemotherapy resistance.
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Meet asteroid 1999 RQ36, a chunk of rock and dust about 1,900 feet in diameter that could tell us how the solar system was born,...
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Women in the UK who have ever used the oral contraceptive pill are less likely to die from any cause, including all cancers and heart...
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Engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider...
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R-rated movies portray violence and other behaviors deemed inappropriate for children under 17 year of age. A new study finds one more reason why parents...
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By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior....
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Seaweed extract may eventually emerge as a lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research. Seaweeds containing fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide similar to heparin in chemical structure,...
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Researchers have created a molecular image of a system that moves electrons between proteins in cells. The achievement is a breakthrough for biology and could...
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Current drugs used to treat heart failure and irregular heartbeat have limited effectiveness and have side effects. New basic science findings suggest a way that...
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Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse...
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Neural activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex can predict whether an individual will still be upset on the day after a conflict with his or...
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By studying the hydra, a member of an ancient group of sea creatures that is still flourishing, scientists have made a discovery in understanding the...
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Millions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings that identify a cell population that fights off...
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In most animal species, males and females show obvious differences in body size. But how can this be, given that both sexes share the same...
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Baylor College of Medicine's Dr. James Lupski came to the end of a personal quest earlier this year when the Baylor Human Genome Sequencing Center...
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Researchers have developed a new analytical method that opens the door to faster processing of large amounts of information, with applications in fields as diverse...
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Two new studies focus on the dramatic rise of pediatric sports injuries in recent years. However, despite this alarming trend, awareness, education, warning signs and...
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The increased frequency and intensity of oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along the world's coasts can negatively impact environmental conditions in far more than local waters. Scientists...
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French medical researchers have recently demonstrated the effectiveness of a new molecule in the fight against lice. Faced with the emergence of increasing resistance to...
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To get life-threatening diseases under control, patients in the intensive care unit usually are administered many medications at the same time. Even for experts, it...
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New research may change neutropenia treatment for all childhood cancer patients. Neutropenia is the dangerous drop in white blood cells that leaves cancer patients at...
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Has another mystery in the history of Israel been solved? Researchers have identified Khirbet Qeiyafa as "Neta'im", which is mentioned in the Bible's book of...
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Putting male names before female names in writing is a remnant of sexist thinking, new research suggests.
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A new study has concluded that Amazon rain forests were remarkably unaffected in the face of once-in-a-century drought in 2005, neither dying nor thriving, contrary...
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Researchers in the UK have made a new advance in understanding how the body fights certain types of cancer and other disease such as Lupus...
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By managing to express the protein that enables red blood cells infected with the malaria agent Plasmodium falciparum to bind to the placenta and by...
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Women's responsiveness to the second-line breast cancer drug fulvestrant may depend on whether the cancer cells are expressing two key proteins, scientists report.
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Researchers have discovered that the bacterium Cupriavidus basilensis breaks down harmful by-products which are produced when sugars are released from wood. They also managed to...
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When a romantic relationship ends, an individual's self-concept is vulnerable to change, according to new research.
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Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you...
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A clinical research trial of a new treatment to restore brain cells damaged by stroke has passed an important safety stage, according to the neurologist...
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You may have more in common with Kanzi, Panbanisha and Nyota, three language-competent bonobos living at Great Ape Trust, than you thought. And those similarities,...
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Physicians may be able to safely lower the platelet dosage in transfusions for cancer and bone-marrow transplant patients without risking increased bleeding, according to new...
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Scientists are working on a delicious new all-oat or all-barley bread.
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Throwing arm injuries are on the rise in Little League and other youth baseball programs. After these injuries occur, many players are out for the...
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A puzzle that has baffled scientists for centuries -- why some birds appear to be male on one side of the body and female on...
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Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinson's disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's...
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A team of physicists has achieved a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. It is the first time that this...
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Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially...
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In a finding that may speed efforts to conserve oil and intensify the search for alternative fuel sources, scientists in Kuwait predict that world conventional...
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A randomized trial shows three months after 10 massages, patients' anxiety symptoms were halved -- an improvement like that previously reported with psychotherapy, medications, or...
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Computer programs have been able to predict which of three short films a person is thinking about, just by looking at their brain activity. The...
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Rhesus monkey babies born to mothers who had the flu while pregnant had smaller brains and showed other brain changes similar to those observed in...
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Nanoparticles are atmospheric materials so small that they can't be seen with the naked eye, but they can very visibly affect both weather patterns and...
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Scientists have a greater understanding of how our genes are controlled following a major research project. The findings of the study, which looked at how...
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Scientists are using the principles of an iconic quantum mechanics thought experiment -- Schrödinger's superpositioned cat -- to test for quantum properties in objects composed...
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Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is by two or three times, and the more they overestimated it the...
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