Live long and … Facebook?
A UC San Diego study links online social interactions to longevity.
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Is social media good for you, or bad? Well,...
Filling the early universe with knots can explain why the world is three-dimensional
This is a computer graphic showing the kind of tight network of flux tubes that the physicists propose may have filled the early universe.
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The blob that ate the tokamak: Physicists gain understanding of bubbles at edge of...
PPPL physicist Michael Churchill.
Credit: Elle Starkman
To fuse hydrogen atoms into helium, doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks must maintain the heat of the ultrahot plasma they...
Innovative smart watch and smart ring
The 2.5-D RetroShape -- a smart watch with a shape-deforming back -- is among Dartmouth's offerings at UIST 2017.
Credit: © Da-Yuan Huang
A watch that...
Potential human habitat located on the moon
The Marius Hills Skylight, as observed by the Japanese SELENE/Kaguya research team.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters confirms the existence...
Slow Internet? New technology to speed up home broadband dramatically
Data center (stock image).
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Slow internet speeds and the Internet 'rush hour' -- the peak time when data speeds drop by...
Liquid metal discovery ushers in new wave of chemistry and electronics
Metal droplets leave no thin layer of oxide skin on the surface, if this oxide skin is dissolved in an alkali base or acid.
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Ancient DNA used to track Mesa Verde exodus in 13th century
Ancient turkey DNA used to tracks migration of Mesa Verde Pueblo people from southwest Colorado.
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Ancient DNA used to track the mass...
Drug can dramatically reduce weight of people with obesity
A new developed drug is highly promising for weight loss.
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A drug that targets the appetite control system in the...
Older Neanderthal survived with a little help from his friends
The skull of a Neanderthal known as Shanidar 1 shows signs of a blow to the head received at an early age.
Credit: Erik Trinkaus
An...
Life goes on for marine ecosystems after cataclysmic mass extinction
This is s dead staghorn Coral.
Credit: Arc Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies
One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine...
