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Comb jellies proven to be the sibling group to all other animals
New research proves comb jellies are a unique lineage or “sibling group” whose ancestors diverged before the common ancestor of all other animals.
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UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”
Aayush Jain’s dissertation, “Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Studied Assumptions,” established the feasibility of mathematically rigorous software obfuscation from well-studied hardness conjectures. The central goal of software obfuscation is to transform source code to make it unintelligible without…
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Hypersonic missiles are misunderstood
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Ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica hits new record
A report, released today, states that ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica has increased fivefold since the 1990s, and now accounts for a quarter of sea-level rise.
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Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings
The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world
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SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story
There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this...
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How Do Semiconductors Work? Introduction to SiliWiz
How SiliWiz helps you get an understanding of how semiconductors work and are manufactured
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Researchers treat depression by reversing brain signals traveling the wrong way
A new study led by Stanford Medicine researchers is the first to reveal how magnetic stimulation treats severe depression: by correcting the abnormal flow of brain signals.
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Seaflooding
The Surprising Solution to Mitigate Climate Change, Create More Life, and Grow the Economy
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Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?
Alles wat Jan bezighoudt, interesseert en irriteert... en ook een beetje onzin...
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Introduction to the Fourier transform for image processing (2001)
The definitons of the transform (to expansion coefficients) and the inverse transform are given below:
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Juice’s RIME antenna successfully unjammed
More than three weeks after efforts began to deploy Juice’s ice-penetrating Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) antenna, the 16-metre-long boom has finally escaped its mounting bracket.
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Chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology
Northwestern Medicine scientists report results of the first in-human clinical trial in which they used a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to open the blood-brain barrier and repeatedly permeate large, critical regions of the human brain to deliver chemotherapy that was injected intravenously.
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Place mushrooms in sunlight to get your vitamin D (2012)
(Originally published online in Huffington Post's Healthy Living section.) Vitamin D is an essential vitamin that boosts the immune system and plays vital roles in human metabolism. Did you know that tasty mushrooms are one source for vitamin D, and that you can naturally multiply their levels by exposing them to sunli
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Scientists regenerate hair cells that enable hearing
Researchers move closer to gene therapy solution for hearing loss
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Helion’s fusion power purchase agreement with Microsoft
Microsoft has agreed to purchase electricity from Helion’s first fusion power plant.
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Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in some juices and soft drinks
A new study has found that some commonly consumed beverages contained levels of toxic metals that exceed federal drinking water standards.
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Reduced cancer mortality with daily Vitamin D intake
Vitamin D intake could reduce cancer mortality in the population by twelve percent - provided the vitamin is taken daily. This was the result of an evaluation of 14 studies of the highest quality conducted at the German Cancer Research Center with a total of almost 105,000 participants.
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T cells can activate themselves to fight tumors
UC San Diego scientists find an auto-signaling mechanism driving the T cell anti-tumor response; findings may inspire new cancer therapeutics and biomarkers.
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Ultra Deep look at Messier 81 and 82
An ultra deep 393h look at the galaxy pair M81/M82 - Amateurs reveal full Ha stream for the first time
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Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten
A new population-based study, involving 22 million people, shows that autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten individuals
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Feynman’s Maze-Running Story
Richard Feynman recounts an amazing anecdote about philosophy of science; we trace it to a forgotten University of Michigan research programme into ‘floor cues’.
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Exercise increases number of immune cells in cancer patients
Two new Finnish studies show that short bouts of light or moderate exercise can increase the number of immune cells in the bloodstream of cancer patients.
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Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
We are charting the path to a future free from Parkinson’s. Your support will get us there.