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Plants previously thought to be stable found to be responding to climate change

Many wild plant species thought to be "stable" in the face of climate change are actually responding to global warming, say researchers.

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Alcohol may trigger serious palpitations in heart patients

The term “holiday heart syndrome” was coined in a 1978 study to describe patients with atrial fibrillation who experienced a common and potentially dangerous form of heart palpitation after excessive...

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Unmanned NASA storm sentinels set for hurricane study

Ah, June. It marks the end of school, the start of summer ... and the official start of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, which got off to an early start in May with the formation of Tropical Storm...

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Venus: Planetary portrait of inner beauty

A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the sun b...

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Saturns geyser moon Enceladus provides a new kind of plasma laboratory

Recent findings from NASAs Cassini mission reveal that Saturns geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent finding...

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Astronomers discover faintest distant galaxy

Astronomers have found an exceptionally distant galaxy, ranked among the top 10 most distant objects currently known in space. Light from the recently detected galaxy left the object about 800 millio...

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Magnets May Help Prevent Rare Complication of Spinal Anesthesia

An simple technique using local anesthetic mixed with magnetized "ferrofluids" may provide a new approach to preventing a rare but serious complication of spinal anesthesia.

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How Does Exercise Affect Nerve Pain?

Exercise helps to alleviate pain related to nerve damage (neuropathic pain) by reducing levels of certain inflammation-promoting factors, suggests an experimental study.

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New method for picking the right egg in IVF

Medical researchers have identified the chromosomal make-up of a human egg. This discovery may soon allow them to avoid using abnormal -- or aneuploid -- eggs during infertility treatments, and inste...

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Open-fire cooking may affect child cognitive development

Children exposed to open-fire cooking in developing countries experience difficulty with memory, problem-solving and social skills. Research in the past decade has identified numerous health risks to...

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Neuroscientists reach major milestone in whole-brain circuit mapping project

Neuroscientists have just reached an important milestone, publicly releasing the first installment out of 500 terabytes of data so far collected in their pathbreaking project to construct the first w...

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Producing artificial bones from fish scales

Scientists have developed technology for producing artificial bones from fish scales and apatite.

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Chemical substitution: On early Earth, iron may have performed magnesiums RNA folding job

Researchers have used experiments and numerical calculations to show that iron, in the absence of oxygen, can substitute for magnesium in RNA binding, folding and catalysis. The findings suggest that...

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Catching solar particles infiltrating Earths atmosphere

On May 17, 2012, an M-class flare exploded from the sun. They caused a shower of particles to cascade down toward Earths surface. The shower created whats called a ground level enhancement (GLE).

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Dark chocolate could prevent heart problems in high-risk people

Daily consumption of dark chocolate can reduce cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks and strokes, in people with metabolic syndrome (a cluster of factors that increases the risk of developing ...

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New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency

A new solid oxide fuel cell system can achieve a record of up to 57 percent efficiency and is designed to be scaled up to generate electricity for individual homes or neighborhoods.

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X-ray Echoes map a supermassive black holes environs in distant galaxies

Astronomers have identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized black holes in distant galaxies.

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Cosmic calculations for exploring where stars are born

Astrophysicists can now analyze the vast molecular clouds of gas and dust where stars are born more accurately.

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Life scientists view biodiversity through a whole new dimension: Body size, feeding rates

How can blue whales, the largest animals on the planet, survive by feeding on krill, shrimp-like creatures that are the size of a penny? According to life scientists, its all a matter of dimensions.

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Is there a healthy obesity gene?

Researchers recently investigated whether a specific gene/enzyme could be help explain why some obese people do not get chronic diseases typically associated with obesity.

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Alzheimers protein structure suggests new treatment directions

The molecular structure of a protein involved in Alzheimers disease -- and the surprising discovery that it binds cholesterol -- could lead to new therapeutics for the disease, investigators report.

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Free-electron lasers reveal detailed architecture of proteins

Ultrashort flashes of X-radiation allow atomic structures of macromolecules to be obtained even from tiny protein crystals.

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Sex: Its a good thing, study of primroses shows

Way more than fun and games, sexual reproduction appears to give an evolutionary advantage, biologists have discovered.

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Finding good music in noisy online markets

Researchers have analyzed data on 14,000 users of a music-sharing site and have concluded that, while social-media marketing -- getting lots of "likes" on Facebook, for instance -- can drive ...

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NASA preparing to launch its newest X-ray eyes

NASAs Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. The mission will study everything fr...

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Dragon splashdown marks end of landmark flight

SpaceX completed a landmark mission May 31 that saw its Dragon capsule deliver half-a-ton of supplies and equipment to the International Space Station and return safely to Earth. The flight made hist...

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SpaceX Dragon capsule returns to Earth after first commercial flight to space station

SpaceXs Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 11:42 a.m. EDT a few hundred miles west of Baja California, Mexico, marking a successful end to the first mission by a commercial company ...

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Geoengineering for global warming: Increasing aerosols in atmosphere would make sky whiter

One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from Earths surface. But scientists theorize that this solar geoeng...

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Advanced visualization techniques could change the paradigm for diagnosis and treatment of heart di...

Researchers are pioneering new ultrasound techniques that provide the first characterization of multidirectional blood flow in the heart. By focusing on fluid dynamics – specifically, the efficiency ...

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Electric moon jolts the solar wind

With the moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or state of...

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