All posts tagged "gallery"
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251SpaceNASA’s New Planet-Hunting Space Telescope
Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these...
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152HealthBrain Scans Confirm There’s No Difference Between Boy And Girl Brains Doing Math
There are no gender differences in the brain when it comes to maths processing ability, a new study has confirmed. This could...
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188PhysicsNew Quantum Physics Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum...
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184TechnologyAn ‘Unsinkable’ Metal That Floats Even When Damaged
It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided with an iceberg in 1912.Before the disaster, the...
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187EnvironmentAntidepressants Affecting Fish in a Strange Way, Study Shows
Immersed in a ‘drug soup‘ of pharmaceutical pollutants, aquatic wildlife acts in ways that puts them at risk of becoming an easily...
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201HealthAlgae inside blood vessels could act as oxygen factories
CHICAGO — It’s a strange mash-up, but it works: Algae living inside tadpoles’ blood vessels can pump out oxygen for nearby oxygen-starved...
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204Life ScienceSleep may trigger rhythmic power washing in the brain
Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain. These slow, rhythmic blasts, described for the first...
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174ChemistryPlant-based fire retardants may offer a less toxic way to tame flames
Flame retardants are going green. Using compounds from plants, researchers are concocting a new generation of flame retardants, which one day could...
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165ChemistryBrett McGuire searches space for the chemistry of life
In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the chemicals in the cosmos have found benzonitrile; just...
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200ChemistryMolecular jiggling may explain why some solids shrink when heated
When things heat up, most solids expand as higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate more dramatically, necessitating more space. But some solid...
