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Europa’s Ocean May Have An Earthlike Chemical Balance

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This enhanced-color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/...

No link between eating dinner after 8pm, obesity in children

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Image Credit: © Brittany Randolph / Flickr Researchers at King's College London have found no significant link between eating the evening meal after 8pm and...

Loss of Y chromosome is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease:...

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Men with blood cells that do not carry the Y chromosome are at higher risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and this is...

How our emotions affect store prices

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Let's say you've just found a nice jacket in a store and are deciding whether to buy it. It's a little pricey, so should...

New research confirms continued, unabated and large-scale amphibian declines

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These are American bullfrogs at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, Georgia. Credit: Photo courtesy of Alan Cressler, USGS New U.S. Geological Survey-led research suggests that even though...

Knowledge of positive cologuard test improves colonoscopy performance

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An endoscopist's knowledge of a positive Cologuard test improves colonoscopy performance, according to a poster presentation at last week's Digestive Disease Week conference. Cologuard is...

Why children confuse simple words

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"Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction," observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although "it has been claimed children are very...

Astronomers confirm faintest early-universe galaxy ever seen

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Composite image of the galaxy cluster from three different filters on the Hubble Space Telescope. The wave charts (insets at left) show spectra of...

Ancient Chinese pottery reveals 5,000-yr-old beer brew

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Funnel for beer making from Mijiaya. Credit: Jiajing Wang. Residue on pottery unearthed at an archeological site in northern China has revealed traces of a...

A history of snowfall on Greenland, hidden in ancient leaf waxes

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A new study uses aquatic leaf waxes to study the history of precipitation at this lake in western Greenland. Credit: Jason Briner The history of Greenland's...

In changing oceans, cephalopods are booming

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Cuttlefish (stock image). Credit: © Kačka a Ondra / Flickr Humans have changed the world's oceans in ways that have been devastating to many marine...