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Scientists Build Bacteria Powered Battery on Single Sheet of Paper

Scientists Build Bacteria-Powered Battery on Single Sheet of Paper

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Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York have created a bacteria-powered battery on a single sheet of paper that can power disposable...
Distinctive brain pattern may underlie dyslexia

Distinctive brain pattern may underlie dyslexia

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If a single, consistent voice speaks a stream of words, brains get used to the voice right away and adapt. But if every word...
Graphene able to transport huge currents on the nano scale

Graphene able to transport huge currents on the nano scale

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The strong electric field of the highly charged ions is able to tear dozens of electrons away from the graphene within a matter of...
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Heart attack risk doubled for people with less education

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Australians who leave school without a school certificate are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack as those with a university...
Astronomers find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way

Astronomers find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way

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The white/blue image is the Milky Way, with the central bulge on the left and the plane of the disk running horizontally across the...
First light for band 5 at ALMA

First light for band 5 at ALMA

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The compound view shows a new ALMA Band 5 view of the colliding galaxy system Arp 220 (in red) on top of an image...
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Cutting through the clamor—how the brain helps us understand spoken words in noisy settings

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Image Credit: Flickr/amy leonard Humans are exquisitely skilled at perceiving spoken words, even when speakers' voices are intermittently overwhelmed by noise, as happens in the...
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Study suggests that daily sugar intake guidelines are based on low quality evidence

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Study suggests that daily sugar intake guidelines are based on low quality evidence. Image Credit:Flickr/Andrei Niemimäki Nutritional guidelines restricting sugar intake are not based on...

Low-carb diet alleviates inherited form of intellectual disability in mice

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Experimenting on mice with a genetic change similar to that found in people with a rare inherited disease called Kabuki syndrome, Johns Hopkins scientists...

Common Mouthwash can help kill off gonorrhea in the mouth

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Daily use might be cheap and easy way of curbing spread of infection, say researchers A commercial brand of mouthwash that is readily available from...
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Fast delivery for Christmas? A study explains why we like it so much

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Image Credit: Flickr/George Grinsted Ioannis Evangelidis and coauthors, through five lab experiments, find that perceived goal conflict in everyday life causes anxiety and stress, which...