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Researchers one step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts. Study found locusts can quickly discriminate between different explosives’ smells.

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Meteorite study suggests Earth may have always been wet: Enstatite chondrite meteorites, once considered ‘dry,’ contain enough water to fill oceans

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Early exposure to emotional violence significantly increases the chances that youths will contemplate suicide, according to new research (n>9,300)

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Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago ...according to a new study that uncovers the consumption habits in what is now Kenya and Tanzania — and sheds a light on human evolution.

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Death by suicide in children has reached a 30-year high in the United States

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Chimpanzees more likely to share tools, teach skills when task is complex

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Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing

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Researchers find precise cause of Krabbe disease, a neurodegenerative condition that usually causes death by age 3

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Early exposure to emotional violence significantly increases the chances that youths will contemplate suicide, according to new research (n>9,300)

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New research draws a direct connection between artificial-intelligence-driven language translation and an increase in international trade

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‘Featherweight oxygen’ discovery opens window on nuclear symmetry

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‘Jumping genes’ drive many aggressive forms of cancer

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Probiotics can evolve inside the body and have the potential to become less effective and sometimes even harmful. Researchers studying a strain of E

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Team sports associated with less depression in boys as young as 9, suggests a new study (n=4,191), which has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.

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Chronic pain involves more than just hurting, suffers often experience sadness, depression and lethargy

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A combination of two topical creams already shown to clear precancerous lesions from sun-damaged skin also lowers the risk that patients will later develop squamous cell carcinoma of the skin…

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New research suggests that most US presidents will be largely forgotten within 50-to-100 years of their serving as president, based on presidential-recall tests given to three generations of undergraduate college students (1974…

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Children who have more conflict with their mothers during early years of school may find it more difficult to find a sense of purpose in life as adults, suggests new research

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Filter made with bacterial nanofibers to kill water-borne bacteria.

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Using bacteria to create a water filter that kills bacteria: New technology, using graphene oxide and bacterial nanocellulose, can clean water twice as fast as commercially available ultrafiltration membranes

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The people who hold the most extreme views against genetically modified foods think they know the most about GMO food science, but actually know the least, according to new research.

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New research suggests that tailoring treatments to men and women with glioblastoma based on the molecular subtypes of their tumors may improve survival for all patients.

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Isotretinoin, a form of vitamin A, reduces oil production in the skin, which helps prevent acne from forming

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A new study used a computational model to analyze overconfidence in entrepreneurs and found certain combinations of personality biases, which seem “toxic,” turn out to benefit entrepreneurs, such as this equation: overconfidence + overreaction to information gathered = near-optimal results.

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Study of 400,000+ people ages 18 to 85 finds that consuming 1-4 drinks 4 or more times per week — an amount deemed healthy by current guidelines — increases the risk of premature death by 20%…

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A new technique that analyzes overlooked data from MRI scans reveals how many and which brain cells patients have—and shows where they’ve lost cells through injury or disease

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New clues found to understanding relapse in breast cancer - A large genomic analysis has linked certain DNA mutations to a high risk of relapse in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.

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Dogs trained to locate poop for field biologists sometimes make mistakes because one animal has eaten another species' poop.

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Some of the African savanna’s most fertile and biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of dung deposited there over thousands of years.

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We may not be able to change recent events in our lives, but how well we remember them plays a key role in how our brains model what's happening in the present and predict what is likely to occur in the future…

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Researchers one step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts. Study found locusts can quickly discriminate between different explosives’ smells.

Meteorite study suggests Earth may have always been wet: Enstatite chondrite meteorites, once considered ‘dry,’ contain enough water to fill oceans

Early exposure to emotional violence significantly increases the chances that youths will contemplate suicide, according to new research (n>9,300)

Milk pioneers: East African herders consumed milk 5,000 years ago ...according to a new study that uncovers the consumption habits in what is now Kenya and Tanzania — and sheds a light on human evolution.

Death by suicide in children has reached a 30-year high in the United States

Chimpanzees more likely to share tools, teach skills when task is complex

Brain tunes itself to criticality, maximizing information processing

Researchers find precise cause of Krabbe disease, a neurodegenerative condition that usually causes death by age 3

Early exposure to emotional violence significantly increases the chances that youths will contemplate suicide, according to new research (n>9,300)

New research draws a direct connection between artificial-intelligence-driven language translation and an increase in international trade

‘Featherweight oxygen’ discovery opens window on nuclear symmetry

‘Jumping genes’ drive many aggressive forms of cancer

Probiotics can evolve inside the body and have the potential to become less effective and sometimes even harmful. Researchers studying a strain of E

Team sports associated with less depression in boys as young as 9, suggests a new study (n=4,191), which has linked participation in team sports to larger hippocampal volumes in children and less depression in boys ages 9 to 11.

Chronic pain involves more than just hurting, suffers often experience sadness, depression and lethargy

A combination of two topical creams already shown to clear precancerous lesions from sun-damaged skin also lowers the risk that patients will later develop squamous cell carcinoma of the skin…

New research suggests that most US presidents will be largely forgotten within 50-to-100 years of their serving as president, based on presidential-recall tests given to three generations of undergraduate college students (1974…

Children who have more conflict with their mothers during early years of school may find it more difficult to find a sense of purpose in life as adults, suggests new research

Filter made with bacterial nanofibers to kill water-borne bacteria.

Using bacteria to create a water filter that kills bacteria: New technology, using graphene oxide and bacterial nanocellulose, can clean water twice as fast as commercially available ultrafiltration membranes

The people who hold the most extreme views against genetically modified foods think they know the most about GMO food science, but actually know the least, according to new research.

New research suggests that tailoring treatments to men and women with glioblastoma based on the molecular subtypes of their tumors may improve survival for all patients.

Isotretinoin, a form of vitamin A, reduces oil production in the skin, which helps prevent acne from forming

A new study used a computational model to analyze overconfidence in entrepreneurs and found certain combinations of personality biases, which seem “toxic,” turn out to benefit entrepreneurs, such as this equation: overconfidence + overreaction to information gathered = near-optimal results.

Study of 400,000+ people ages 18 to 85 finds that consuming 1-4 drinks 4 or more times per week — an amount deemed healthy by current guidelines — increases the risk of premature death by 20%…

A new technique that analyzes overlooked data from MRI scans reveals how many and which brain cells patients have—and shows where they’ve lost cells through injury or disease

New clues found to understanding relapse in breast cancer - A large genomic analysis has linked certain DNA mutations to a high risk of relapse in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer.

Dogs trained to locate poop for field biologists sometimes make mistakes because one animal has eaten another species' poop.

Some of the African savanna’s most fertile and biologically diverse wildlife hotspots owe their vitality to heaps of dung deposited there over thousands of years.

We may not be able to change recent events in our lives, but how well we remember them plays a key role in how our brains model what's happening in the present and predict what is likely to occur in the future…