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New online game invites public to help fight Alzheimer’s

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A new online game is inviting members of the public to look under a virtual microscope and contribute directly to Alzheimer’s disease research at...

First solar-powered wireless charging station for electric bikes

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On Wednesday, 12 October, Executive Board President Tim van der Hagen, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Rob Fastenau,...

Swiss employees do not hold back on cynical behaviour

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Every fourth employee regards promises made by the company they work for as having been broken and every third is not satisfied with their...
Privacy

Just Give Me Some Privacy — Anonymous Wikipedia Editors and Tor Users Explain Why...

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Drexel researchers took a look at internet users who strive to protect their privacy while working on collaborative projects, like Wikipedia. One of the...
Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters

Cosmological mystery solved by largest ever map of voids and superclusters

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The cosmic microwave background over the whole sky, with the unusual 'Cold Spot' feature circled at the lower right. Credit: Image courtesy of University of...
How this Martian moon became the Death Star

How this Martian moon became the ‘Death Star’

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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have demonstrated for the first time how an asteroid or comet could have caused the mega crater on Phobos...
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Breakthrough opens door to study hallucinations scientifically

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Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering migraines. Credit: Flickr/Guy...
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Soft robots that mimic human muscles

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Credit: Marc Delachaux/2016 EPFL Robots are usually expected to be rigid, fast and efficient. But researchers at EPFL's Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) have turned that...
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Vitamins A and C help erase cell memory

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Image Credit: Flickr/Ginny Vitamins A and C aren’t just good for your health, they affect your DNA too. Researchers at the Babraham Institute and their...
Mapping free fall styles of solid objects within fluids

Mapping free-fall styles of solid objects within fluids

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Four different modes for the way a plate free falls within a fluid.Credit: Yan Wang By carefully observing scenes as simple as leaves falling from...
calcium

Calcium supplements may damage the heart

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Image Credit: Flickr/kevinshine After analyzing 10 years of medical tests on more than 2,700 people in a federally funded heart disease study, researchers at Johns...