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Leukemia drug shows early promise for treating Parkinson’s disease and dementia

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder that causes a range of motor and non-motor symptoms. During the course of the...

One Year Later: New Horizons’ Top 10 Discoveries at Pluto

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto's moon Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Charon’s striking...

Space Station View of the Full Moon

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Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA took this photograph on June 21, 2016, from the International Space Station, writing, "A spectacular rise of...

Los Angeles is a metropolitan den for mountain lions

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Mountain lion habitats. Credit: National Park Service/Flickr Los Angeles is one of only two megacities—Mumbai, India, is the other—where large predatory cats live among us,...

Mini-brain model of idiopathic autism reveals underlying pathology of neuronal overgrowth

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This image shows induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural progenitor cells after neuronal differentiation. The neurons express a pan neuronal marker Map2 in green and...

Electricity generated with water, salt and a 3-atoms-thick membrane

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Proponents of clean energy will soon have a new source to add to their existing array of solar, wind, and hydropower: osmotic power. Or...

Stellar outburst brings water snowline around a young star into view

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This artist's impression of the water snowline around the young star V883 Orionis, as detected with ALMA. Credit: A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) A violent outburst by...

New materials for construction of metal-organic 2-dimensional quasicrystals

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This is a scanning tunneling microscopic image of the quasicrystalline network built up with europium atoms linked with para-quaterphenyl-dicarbonitrile.Credit: J. I. Urgel / TUM Unlike...

Alaska’s shorebirds exposed to mercury

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Pectoral Sandpipers and other shorebirds are being exposed to high levels of mercury in Alaska.Credit: B. Lagasse Shorebirds breeding in Alaska are being exposed to...

Technological and cultural innovations amongst early humans not sparked by climate...

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Researchers working inside the Klipdrift complex. Credit: Magnus Haaland Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape suggest climate may not have...

Ravens learn best from their affiliates

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Preening helps ravens form and maintain social bonds with each other. Credit: Copyright: Flickr/yeliseev Transmission of information from one individual to another forms the basis...