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Can't put down the phone? How smartphones are changing our brains — and lives
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7 years ago
By Lynne Peeples Until a year and a half ago, Samuel Veissiere's smartphone was the last thing he saw before he fell asleep and the first thing that greeted him when he woke up. During the...
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades about toxic baby powder
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7 years ago
Having failed to persuade the FDA that up to 1 percent asbestos contamination was tolerable, J&J began promoting self-policing as an alternative to regulation. The centerpiece of this...
NASA's Voyager 2 probe enters interstellar space
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7 years ago
This illustration shows the position of NASA’s Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes, outside of the heliosphere, a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends well past the orbit of Pluto....
Atheist Professor: Intelligent Design Arguments Should 'Be Taken Seriously'
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7 years ago
In a soon-to-be released book, an atheist professor has argued that the critiques of the Theory of Evolution by intelligent design defenders should "be taken seriously." A woman walks beside...
InSight Is Catching Rays on Mars
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7 years ago
First clear view of Elysium Planitia: Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the...
Breakthrough neurotechnology for treating paralysis
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7 years ago
Three paraplegics who sustained cervical spinal cord injuries many years ago are now able to walk with the aid of crutches or a walker thanks to new rehabilitation protocols that combine targeted...
The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before – AMNH SciCafe
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7 years ago
So, there I was looking for the next in a series of lectures concerning the geology of our Pacific North West and something caught my eye. Turns out a new satellite was recently launched which...
Huge, high-flying 'pseudo-satellite' will stay up for months
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7 years ago
By Tom Metcalfe More than an ordinary aerial drone but not quite a satellite, a huge solar-powered airplane with three tails and wings wider than a jumbo jet’s will soon be taking to the...
NASA's Mars InSight lander set for nail-biting touchdown on the red planet
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7 years ago
By Denise Chow After a roughly 300-million-mile journey lasting more than six months, a new NASA probe is set to touch down on Mars next week, beginning a two-year mission to peer deep inside...
Israeli scientists invent unrejectable organs
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7 years ago
Israeli scientists invent unrejectable organs By Israel21c, reported by World Israel News, November 19, 2018 Regenerative medicine (Illustrative/Valentina Kru via Shutterstock)...
Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life
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7 years ago
Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom...
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’
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7 years ago
Ask medieval historian Michael McCormick what year was the worst to be alive, and he's got an answer: "536." Not 1349, when the Black Death wiped out half of Europe. Not 1918, when the flu...
Meditation helps veterans with PTSD, Defense Dept. experiment finds
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7 years ago
By Associated Press Meditation worked as well as traditional therapy for military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder in a small experiment sponsored by the Department of Defense. One...
EKINDS – EXAMINATION OF KINDS IN NATURAL DIVERSIFICATION AND SPECIATION
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7 years ago
eKINDS – E xamination of K inds i n N atural D iversification and S peciation Many people are fascinated with the amazing diversity of life that God has place on earth. People...
Social relationships more important than hard evidence in partisan politics: study
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7 years ago
The basic human need to get along with others results in the formation of extreme political groupings, according to a study from Dartmouth College. The findings, published in the journal Royal...
What is 'emotional intelligence?' How to improve your EQ
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7 years ago
By Vivian Manning-Schaffel If you work in a corporate environment (and even if you don’t) you’ve likely heard someone extol the virtues of ‘emotional intelligence.’ You may have even...
Sex, gender two different things – a 'foundational lie'
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7 years ago
Anatomy at birth may prompt attending physicians or nurses to check the "male" or "female" box on a birth certificate, but according to The Associated Press , sex and gender aren't always the...
'Remarkable' decline in (Global) fertility rates
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7 years ago
'Remarkable' decline in fertility rates 2018 Mother and daughter There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers. Their report...
Civil War POW study finds a father's stress can alter a son's genetics
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7 years ago
By Kate Baggaley It may be hard to imagine a link between the Civil War and the science of heredity, but a provocative new study of the offspring of Union soldiers adds to a growing body of...
The science behind breast-feeding is lacking
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7 years ago
By now, you’ve likely heard that breast-feeding is good. Women hear the mantra “breast is best” practically from the moment they conceive — both the World Health Organization and the American...
Changing others’ minds, or our own, is a tricky business. Here’s how to make it happen.
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7 years ago
If you had asked me this question–How do you change a mind?–two years ago, I would have given you a different answer. As a former scientist, I would have cautioned you to rely on objective facts...
Daylight saving time: 4 surprising health effects of 'falling back'
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7 years ago
By Julianne Pepitone Twice a year, switching between daylight saving time and standard time throws us off our usual routine. We might expect to feel a bit sleepy or maybe even a little...
Mount Etna is sliding into the sea. History shows that could be catastrophic.
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7 years ago
Oct. 27, 2018 / 8:23 AM EDT By Denise Chow Sicily’s Mount Etna is one of the world’s most active volcanoes , but scientists say eruptions aren’t the only major threat posed by this...
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