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Sitting for long periods of time is the cause of 4% of deaths worldwide
Reducing the amount of time we sit by about two hours would mean a 2.3% decrease in mortality.Credit: © tripu / Flickr
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MRI scanner sees emotions flickering across an idle mind
A Duke team has mapped the distinct patterns of brain activity that correspond to seven different emotional states. The brain anatomy presented here is...
Physicists create nano-sized device with huge potential in field of quantum computing
Barclay's group used diamond to make their microdisk, which looks like a microscopic-sized hockey puck (the optical cavity) supported by a very tiny hourglass-shaped...
The first genomic history of Australia’s peopling
Australia has one of the longest histories of continuous human occupation outside Africa. But who exactly were the first people to settle there? Such...
The death of a planet nursery?
Planetary disk around the star known as TW Hydrae. Credit: S. Andrews (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
The dusty disk surrounding the star...
Antarctic mystery solved?
Sirius Group exposures near Mt. Fleming, Antarctica, circa 1986. The pattern of snow behind rocks shows the prevailing winds across the East Antarctic Ice...
Greenland ice is melting 7 percent faster than previously thought
Researchers at The Ohio State University and their colleagues have discovered that the same hotspot that feeds Iceland's active volcanoes has been causing them...
Gene therapy technique may help prevent cancer metastasis
Gene-regulating RNA molecules could help treat early-stage breast cancer tumors before they spread.
The spread of malignant cells around the body, known as metastasis, is...
Researchers find the menstrual cycle affects memory
New research shows tha estrogen and progesterone cause the brain to favor one memory system or strategy over another.Image Credit: Flickr/picturesbyann
It’s been suggested that...
Scientists triple known types of viruses in world’s oceans
The world's oceans teem with scientific mystery, unknowns that could prove to be tools that will one day protect the planet from global warming.
Today,...
Researchers Use Layered Metals to Show How Nature’s ‘Dislocations’ Occur
Drexel researchers have shown that a recently discovered deformation phenomenon, called ripplocation, occurs in bulk materials when constrained during compression.Credit: Drexel University
Every material can...
