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Last Flu Season Was Deadliest In Decades. This Might Be One Reason Why
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Last Flu Season Was Deadliest in Decades. This Might Be One Reason Why Just 37.1% of adults got flu shot By Evann Gastaldo , Newser Staff Posted Oct 25, 2018 4:00 PM CDT...
Why some researchers say 'brain tingles' could be the next big trend in relaxation
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Oct. 24, 2018 / 5:53 PM EDT By Sarah DiGiulio Have you ever felt a static-like or tingling sensation on the top of your head when someone brushes your hair or whispers to you? The feeling may...
Genetic error led humans to evolve bigger, but more vulnerable, brains
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Newly-discovered genes that helped supersize human brains along with DNA retrieved from extinct humans, which can still be found in people living today, are expanding scientists' understanding...
Human powers of hibernation may be dormant in genetic code
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Bears do it. So do groundhogs, squirrels, turtles and many other animals. Humans, however, can’t hibernate — at least not right now. But scientists exploring the genetic underpinnings of...
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
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Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that if current...
A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made 'volcanic' eruption
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The international panel charged with reining in climate change said this week that the world needs to take "unprecedented" steps to remake its energy, transportation and agriculture systems...
A last-ditch global warming fix? A man-made 'volcanic' eruption
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The international panel charged with reining in climate change said this week that the world needs to take "unprecedented" steps to remake its energy, transportation and agriculture systems...
This teacher's favorite textbooks were taken from her classroom. Her principal did it
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Silverman, a 30-year veteran teacher whose scores deem her one of the best teachers in the state, has been using a textbook called "McDougal-Littell Literature" for a decade, although students...
Humanoid construction robot installs drywall by itself
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If Japan's Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute has its way, construction workers might be a thing of the past. Researchers have built HRP-5P, a humanoid bot that can...
Texas family fighting for 9-year-old daughter declared brain dead
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6 years ago
From CBS News: FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas couple has 10 days to find a hospital willing to keep their young daughter on life support. But doctors in Fort Worth say 9-year-old Payton Summons is...
Have you ever wondered how hot it can get?
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6 years ago
While doing some research this evening I came across a curious video about temperature and how hot temperatures can get. Here it is for viewing entertainment: While viewing the above video I...
GAIA spots stars flying between the galaxies
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A team of astronomers using the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way were surprised to find stars instead sprinting...
This Japanese probe just took an epic hop on a strange little asteroid
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After a three-and-a-half-year journey of 2 billion miles, a Japanese space probe last week dropped a pair of hopping, grapefruit-size rovers on an asteroid called Ryugu and began beaming back...
Taxing soda won't end America's unhealthy obsession with sugary drinks. Better education might.
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When I talk to my personal fitness clients, one of the most common concerns I hear is, I know it’s bad for me, but I just love soda. Unfortunately, it’s a common refrain: A 2012 study stated...
Weight Watchers' rebranding won't help save the company that built its business around fat-shaming
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The company that gifted us classic dogmatic weight loss rhetoric such as, “the thinner, the winner” and “nothing tastes as good as thin feels” has decided to instead focus on promoting “wellness...
Jamie Lee Curtis Parents, put down your cellphones. Your kids are watching.
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6 years ago
How many times have you sat with somebody and they're looking at their phone? It's so rude, but that's what's happening to a generation of children with their parents. Our mothers were, for most...
If teens aren't reading, it might be what and how we ask them to read
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One is to blame the kids. We all know that kids these days don’t seem to be reading books as much as they could since they have so many pictures and videos on their smartphones to distract them....
Hard choices in training Americans for AI workplace of future
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The inaugural meeting of the National Council for the American Worker took place this week. Formed by an executive order , the council aims to equip workers for future workforce needs....
Nurse practitioners: A solution to America’s primary care crisis
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Key Points Despite decades of spending, tens of millions of Americans do not have adequate access to primary care (particularly in rural areas), a number that is projected to continue...
Tor Browser goes mobile: browse anonymously on Android
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Using incognito or private browsing mode when surfing the web will prevent your device from saving your history. But it won’t stop internet service providers, websites, or other entities from...
NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft captures 'first light' image
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NASA's planet-hunting TESS spacecraft captures 'first light' image It shows one of the 26 sectors TESS will observe over the next two years. Mariella Moon , @mariella_moon...
The electric scooter boom — and cities’ misguided attempts to squash it
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Cities that take their own rhetoric about sustainability seriously should embrace the scooter. This summer, cities across America fought a strange new menace: electric scooters . They were...
Japan is about to launch a mini space elevator that could be a sign of things to come
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6 years ago
Getting into space can be a tricky thing. Right now, the hardware that can get you there — a rocket — is complex, pricey, and a bit dangerous. The idea of a space elevator which could haul...
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