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Jan. 13, 2022 — A new study provides compelling evidence of causality between
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REMEMBERING FACES AND NAMES CAN BE IMPROVED DURING SLEEP
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Jan. 19, 2022 — Researchers have achieved a key milestone toward the development
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WHY WE FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT OUR DECISIONS
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NOVEL NANOANTIBIOTICS KILL BACTERIA WITHOUT HARMING HEALTHY CELLS
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TO STOP BLOOD CANCER, TARGET THE BONE
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IN VISUAL MEMORY, SIZE MATTERS
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SEX-TYPICAL BEHAVIOR OF MALE, FEMALE MICE GUIDED BY DIFFERENCES IN BRAIN’S GENE
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WHEN PEOPLE 'CLICK' THEY RESPOND FASTER TO EACH OTHER
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REINTERPRETING OUR BRAIN'S BODY MAPS
Jan. 21, 2022 — Our brain maps out our body to facilitate accurate motor
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types of motor actions. Now, a research group has revealed that the body relies
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SUPPLEMENT APPEARS TO BOOST MUSCLE, MITOCHONDRIA HEALTH
Jan. 20, 2022 — An oral supplement intended to stimulate a natural body process
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MEDITERRANEAN DIET ASSOCIATED WITH A LOWER RISK OF MORTALITY IN OLDER ADULTS
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BABIES CAN TELL WHO HAS CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON ONE CLUE: SALIVA
Jan. 20, 2022 — Neuroscientists have identified a specific signal that young
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TV WATCHING LINKED WITH POTENTIALLY FATAL BLOOD CLOTS
Jan. 19, 2022 — Take breaks when binge-watching TV to avoid blood clots, say
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fewer than 2.5 ...
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EXTREME SEASONS ON AN EXOPLANET
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OXYGEN IONS IN JUPITER'S INNER RADIATION BELTS
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Jan. 12, 2022 — Researchers find high-energy oxygen and sulfur ions in Jupiter's
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NEW EFFICIENCY RECORD FOR SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY
Jan. 21, 2022 — A research team has set a new record in the power conversion
efficiency of solar cells made using perovskite and organic materials. Their
latest work demonstrated a power conversion efficiency of 23.6%, approaching
that of conventional silicon solar cells. This technological breakthrough paves
the way for flexible, light-weight, low cost and ultra-thin photovoltaic cells
for wide-ranging ...
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FORM FIT: DEVICE WRAPS AROUND HOT SURFACES, TURNS WASTED HEAT TO ELECTRICITY
Jan. 21, 2022 — The energy systems that power our lives also produce wasted heat
-- like heat that radiates off hot water pipes in buildings and exhaust pipes on
vehicles. A new flexible thermoelectric generator can wrap around pipes and
other hot surfaces and convert wasted heat into electricity more efficiently
than previously possible, according to ...
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HARNESSING NOISE IN OPTICAL COMPUTING FOR AI
Jan. 21, 2022 — A research team has developed an optical computing system for AI
and machine learning that not only mitigates the noise inherent to optical
computing but actually uses some of it as input to help enhance the creative
output of the artificial neural network within the ...
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HOW ROBOTS LEARN TO HIKE
Jan. 21, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new control approach that enables a
legged robot, called ANYmal, to move quickly and robustly over difficult
terrain. Thanks to machine learning, the robot can combine its visual perception
of the environment with its sense of touch for the first ...
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SIDEWINDING YOUNG STELLAR JETS SPIED BY GEMINI SOUTH
Jan. 21, 2022 — Sinuous stellar jets meander lazily across a field of stars in
new images. The gently curving stellar jets are the outflow from young stars,
and astronomers suspect their sidewinding appearances are caused by the
gravitational attraction of companion stars. These crystal-clear observations
were made using the Gemini South telescope's adaptive optics system, which helps
astronomers counteract the ...
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CONSISTENT ASTEROID SHOWERS ROCK PREVIOUS THINKING ON MARS CRATERS
Jan. 21, 2022 — New research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions
that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million
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HIGHLY ECCENTRIC BLACK HOLE MERGER DISCOVERED
Jan. 20, 2022 — Scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black
holes with eccentric orbits. This can help explain how some of the previous
black hole mergers are much heavier than previously thought ...
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WORLDWIDE COORDINATED SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER
Jan. 20, 2022 — An international team of researchers has published comprehensive
data on the search for dark matter using a worldwide network of optical
magnetometers. According to the scientists, dark matter fields should produce a
characteristic signal pattern that can be detected by correlated measurements
at multiple stations of the GNOME ...
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QUANTUM DOTS BOOST PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCY AND SCALABILITY
Jan. 20, 2022 — Scientists have boosted the efficiency and scalability of
perovskite solar cells by replacing their electron-transport layers with a thin
layer of quantum ...
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AI LIGHT-FIELD CAMERA READS 3D FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
Jan. 21, 2022 — Machine-learned, light-field camera reads facial expressions
from high-contrast illumination invariant 3D facial ...
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ADVANCING MATERIALS SCIENCE WITH THE HELP OF BIOLOGY AND A DASH OF DISH SOAP
Jan. 20, 2022 — Scientists have finally found a way to probe delicate
microcrystals with powerful X-ray laser beams. They say their method could help
advance semiconductor and solar cell ...
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RESEARCHERS SIMULATE BEHAVIOR OF LIVING 'MINIMAL CELL' IN THREE DIMENSIONS
Jan. 20, 2022 — Scientists report that they have built a living 'minimal cell'
with a genome stripped down to its barest essentials -- and a computer model of
the cell that mirrors its behavior. By refining and testing their model, the
scientists say they are developing a system for predicting how changes to the
genomes, living conditions or physical characteristics of live cells will alter
how they ...
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EARLY HUMANS: RISKY FOOD-FINDING AND FREE TIME
LONG-LASTING, SAFER EV BATTERIES USE RUBBER
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RAINY DAYS HARM THE ECONOMY
Jan. 13, 2022 — When it comes to feeding behavior, humans are the inefficient
gas-guzzlers of the primate family, according to a new study of hunter-gatherer
energy budgets. Unlike our herbivorous cousins who spend ...
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Jan. 12, 2022 — For electric vehicles (EVs) to become mainstream, they need
cost-effective, safer, longer-lasting batteries that won't explode during use or
harm the environment. Researchers may have found a ...
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Jan. 12, 2022 — The age of the oldest fossils in eastern Africa widely
recognized as representing our species, Homo sapiens, has long been uncertain.
Now, dating of ...
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Jan. 12, 2022 — Economic growth goes down when the number of wet days and days
with extreme rainfall go up, a team of scientists finds. The data analysis of
more than 1,500 regions over the past 40 years shows a ...
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LIGHTED NETS DRAMATICALLY REDUCE BYCATCH OF SHARKS AND OTHER WILDLIFE WHILE
MAKING FISHING MORE EFFICIENT
Jan. 21, 2022 — In a win-win for commercial fisheries and marine wildlife,
researchers have found that using lighted nets greatly reduced accidental
bycatch of sharks, rays, sea turtles, and unwanted ...
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SHIFTING OCEAN CLOSURES BEST WAY TO PROTECT ANIMALS FROM ACCIDENTAL CATCH
Jan. 17, 2022 — A new analysis looks at how effective fishing closures are at
reducing accidental catch. Researchers found that permanent marine protected
areas are a relatively inefficient way to protect marine biodiversity that is
accidentally caught in fisheries. Dynamic ocean management -- changing the
pattern of closures as accidental catch hotspots shift -- is much more ...
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RIVER FLOWS LINKED TO THE UPS AND DOWNS OF IMPERILED CHINOOK SALMON POPULATION
Jan. 21, 2022 — A study has discovered that sufficient water flows during summer
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MANGE OUTBREAK DECIMATED A WILD VICUNA POPULATION IN ARGENTINA
Jan. 21, 2022 — Mange has decimated the population of wild vicunas and guanacos
in an Argentinian national park that was created to conserve them, according to
a new study. The findings suggest domestic llamas introduced to the site may
have been the source of the outbreak. Cascading consequences for local predator
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TUG OF SUN, MOON COULD BE DRIVING PLATE MOTIONS ON ‘IMBALANCED’ EARTH
Jan. 21, 2022 — A study proposes that imbalanced forces and torques in the
Earth-moon-sun system drive circulation of the whole mantle. The new analysis
provides an alternative to the hypothesis that the movement of tectonic plates
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BALANCED DIET CAN MITIGATE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF PESTS FOR BUMBLEBEES
Jan. 21, 2022 — Bumblebees are important pollinators because they pollinate many
different plant species and are extremely resilient. They can still manage to
fly at temperatures that are too cold for other pollinators. Like many other
insects, they are in sharp decline. This makes it even more important to find
out what bumblebees need to reproduce successfully. A team has shown that a
diverse landscape and a ...
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SCIENTISTS BUILD 'VALVES' IN DNA TO SHAPE BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION FLOWS
Jan. 21, 2022 — Scientists have developed new biological parts that are able to
shape the flow of cellular processes along ...
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JUST WHAT IS A ‘RESILIENT’ FOREST, ANYWAY?
Jan. 20, 2022 — What does a 'resilient' forest look like in California's Sierra
Nevada? A lot fewer trees than we're used to, according to a study of
frequent-fire ...
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SCIENTISTS IDENTIFY NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF LEGUME, NOW MYSTERIOUSLY EXTINCT
Jan. 20, 2022 — Researchers have described a new legume tree from flowers
embedded in several lumps of amber recovered from deep within an amber mine in
the mountains of the Dominican ...
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UNCOVERING THE UNDERLYING PATTERNS IN CONTEMPORARY EVOLUTION
Jan. 19, 2022 — Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental
changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described
instances of 'rapid evolution' in specific populations as their traits
(phenotypes) change in response to varying stressors. For example, Spanish
clover has developed a tolerance for copper from the mine tailings in which it
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WHY DID OCEAN PRODUCTIVITY DECLINE ABRUPTLY 4.6 MILLION YEARS AGO?
Jan. 18, 2022 — By drilling deep down into sediments on the ocean floor
researchers can travel back in time. A research team now presents new clues as
to when and why a period often referred to as the 'biogenic bloom' came to an
abrupt end. Changes in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun may have
played a part in the dramatic ...
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POWERFUL VOLCANIC BLAST NOT THE CAUSE FOR 2018 INDONESIAN ISLAND COLLAPSE
Jan. 14, 2022 — The dramatic collapse of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano in
December 2018 resulted from long-term destabilising processes, and was not
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Jan. 20, 2022 — Researchers have linked the fitness of elite soccer players to
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Jan. 18, 2022 — Climate change will force 45 per cent of the fish stocks that
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their historical habitats and migration paths by 2100, a challenge that may lead
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