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cropped Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors

Printed electronics open way for electrified tattoos and personalized biosensors

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Electrical engineers at Duke University have devised a fully print-in-place technique for electronics that is gentle enough to work on delicate surfaces including paper...
cropped Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates study finds

Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds

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Breathing dirty air can make you sick. But according to new research, it can also make you more aggressive. That's the conclusion from a set...
cropped Plants alert neighbors to threats using common language

Plants alert neighbors to threats using common ‘language’

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New research from Cornell University shows that plants can communicate with each other when they come under attack from pests. The study shows that plants...
cropped Implanted memories teach birds a song

Implanted memories teach birds a song

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A father holds up his newborn, their faces only inches apart, and slowly repeats the syllables "da" and "dee." After months of hearing these...
cropped How much are you polluting your office air just by existing

How much are you polluting your office air just by existing?

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Just by breathing or wearing deodorant, you have more influence over your office space than you might think, a growing body of evidence shows....
cropped If warming exceeds 2 C Antarcticas melting ice sheets could raise seas 20 meters in coming centuries

If warming exceeds 2 C, Antarctica’s melting ice sheets could raise seas 20 meters...

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We know that our planet has experienced warmer periods in the past, during the Pliocene geological epoch around three million years ago. Our research, published...
cropped Combining spintronics and quantum thermodynamics to harvest energy at room temperature

Combining spintronics and quantum thermodynamics to harvest energy at room temperature

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Today's energy-hungry global society is struggling with how to mitigate the effects of man-made climate change, and under what conditions of voluntary/coercive adaptation. Present...
cropped 250millionyearold evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos

250-million-year-old evolutionary remnants seen in muscles of human embryos

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A team of evolutionary biologists, led by Dr. Rui Diogo at Howard University, and writing in the journal Development, have demonstrated that numerous atavistic limb...
cropped Hard as ceramic tough as steel Newly discovered connection could help design of nextgen alloys

Hard as ceramic, tough as steel: Newly discovered connection could help design of nextgen...

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A new way to calculate the interaction between a metal and its alloying material could speed the hunt for a new material that combines...
cropped New organic compounds found in Enceladus ice grains

New organic compounds found in Enceladus ice grains

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New kinds of organic compounds, the ingredients of amino acids, have been detected in the plumes bursting from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings are...
An India Pakistan nuclear war could kill millions threaten global starvation

An India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill millions, threaten global starvation

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A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people—more than the death toll...