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Wired Science

Instagram's Newest Star Is ... a Tree?

Tentree's Instagram post about planting trees has gone viral. But as with any celebrity's carefully orchestrated photo, the reality is much more complicated.

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Instagram's Newest Star Is ... a Tree?

Wired Science

Scientists Need to Talk More About Failure

The most radical talk at TED 2019 wasn't about a miracle cure or a moon shot. It was about a balloon that popped.

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Scientists Need to Talk More About Failure

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The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks (Sorta)

A new brain-computer interface takes the snap, crackle, pop from inside your motor cortex and translates it into digitally synthesized speech.

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Wired Science

The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks (Sorta)

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What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics

In the year since the arrest of the Golden State Killer, investigative genetic genealogy has emerged as the most powerful crime-fighting tool since DNA itself.

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What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics

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What's Known About the SpaceX Crew Dragon Accident

During engine tests of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft this past Saturday, the vehicle experienced what the company has characterized as an "anomaly."

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What's Known About the SpaceX Crew Dragon Accident

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The Physics of a Bolt Smashing a Watermelon (or Your Brain)

It's easier to follow rules when you know why they exist. In this case, you can calculate the force of an object hitting a melon to see why hard hats matter.

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Wired Science

The Physics of a Bolt Smashing a Watermelon (or Your Brain)

SingularityHUB

How AI Can Tap into the Collective Mind to Transform Healthcare

In 2013, IBM sold the University of Texas' MD Anderson Cancer Center on an audacious idea: that a single AI-powered platform, IBM Watson, could lend a digital hand to battle one of mankind's most abominable diseases'cancer. In less than four years, the trailblazing moonshot fell apart. Yet even as Watson ...

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How AI Can Tap into the Collective Mind to Transform Healthcare

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New Lifelike Biomaterial Self-Reproduces and Has a Metabolism

Life demands flux. Every living organism is constantly changing: cells divide and die, proteins build and disintegrate, DNA breaks and heals.

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New Lifelike Biomaterial Self-Reproduces and Has a Metabolism

SingularityHUB

Solving a Math Problem Just Brought Holograms Closer to Reality

Holograms are a staple in science fiction, but creating ones detailed enough to have serious applications in the real world has proved difficult. While scientists have been slowly pushing the field of holographic projection forward, they haven't been able to overcome a problem called cross-talk. However, ...

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Solving a Math Problem Just Brought Holograms Closer to Reality

Yahoo Science

Nike, Telegram, Facebook, and Everyone Else Suddenly Love Blockchain

By CCN: Nike is launching a blockchain product. Telegram is launching a blockchain. Samsung is reportedly planning to launch its own token platform; building with Ethereum for the S10 wasn't enough. Facebook is getting into blockchain. Google still hasn't done much with it, but JP Morgan now uses it. ...

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Nike, Telegram, Facebook, and Everyone Else Suddenly Love Blockchain

Yahoo Science

U.S. measles outbreak triggers quarantine at two Los Angeles universities

A nationwide measles outbreak has led health officials to quarantine dozens of people at two Los Angeles universities, officials said on Thursday. The quarantine affects the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) and comes as the United ...

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U.S. measles outbreak triggers quarantine at two Los Angeles universities

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Petrobras sells rights to two fields to Malaysia's Petronas for $1.29 billion

Brazil's state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro said on Thursday it had closed a $1.29 billion deal with Malaysia's Petronas to sell 50 percent of Petrobas' exploration and production rights in two of its offshore fields. The deal is part of Petrobras' divestment program, which seeks to reduce indebtedness. ...

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Petrobras sells rights to two fields to Malaysia's Petronas for $1.29 billion

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Nintendo Drops on Tepid Profit Outlook, No Date for New Switch

Shares tumbled as much as 5.1 percent after it forecast operating profit of 260 billion yen for the current fiscal year, compared with the 350.2 billion yen average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Operating profit was 29.7 billion yen ($266 million) in the three months ended March, below the 36 ...

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Nintendo Drops on Tepid Profit Outlook, No Date for New Switch

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China pledges to have the first Moon base within a decade

The Chinese space agency has spent the first few several months of 2019 exploring the far side of the Moon after being the first nation to successfully perform a soft landing on the half of Earth's neighbor that we never get to see. It deployed a rover -- which is likely nearing the end of its brief ...

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China pledges to have the first Moon base within a decade

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SpaceX's Crew Dragon fire sent hazardous chemical compounds into the environment

When a test fire of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule went up in smoke Saturday, the incident puffed up a reddish, toxic plume.

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SpaceX's Crew Dragon fire sent hazardous chemical compounds into the environment

Science Daily

Impeding white blood cells in antiphospholipid syndrome reduced blood clots

A new study examined APS at the cellular level and found that two drugs reduced development of blood clots in mice affected with the condition.

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Impeding white blood cells in antiphospholipid syndrome reduced blood clots

Science Daily

Preventing collapse after catastrophe

As the impacts of climate change escalate, ecosystems will likely undergo events that will disrupt entire populations. In marine ecosystems, anthropogenic warming has subjected organisms to elevated temperatures, oxygen loss, and acidification. The increased frequency and severity of catastrophic events ...

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Preventing collapse after catastrophe

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Maximizing conservation benefits

Overexploitation and population collapse pose significant threats to marine fish stocks across the globe. While certain fish populations have already collapsed, research indicates that nearly one third of fisheries worldwide are currently impacted by overharvesting.

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Maximizing conservation benefits

Science Daily

Bridge over coupled waters: Scientists 3D-print all-liquid 'lab on a chip'

Researchers have 3D-printed an all-liquid ''lab on a chip'' that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications - from making battery materials to screening drug candidates.

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Bridge over coupled waters: Scientists 3D-print all-liquid 'lab on a chip'

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Injections, exercise promote muscle regrowth after atrophy in mice

By injecting cells that support blood vessel growth into muscles depleted by inactivity, researchers say they are able to help restore muscle mass lost as a result of immobility.

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Injections, exercise promote muscle regrowth after atrophy in mice

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Ice-proof coating for big structures relies on a 'beautiful demonstration of mechanics'

A new class of coatings that sheds ice effortlessly from even large surfaces has moved researchers closer to their decades-long goal of ice-proofing cargo ships, airplanes, power lines and other large structures.

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Ice-proof coating for big structures relies on a 'beautiful demonstration of mechanics'

New York Times Science

A Respite From Record Losses, but Tropical Forests Are Still in Trouble

Satellite data suggest 2018 wasn't as bad as the previous two years for tropical deforestation, but the overall trend of losing trees continues.

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New York Times Science

A Respite From Record Losses, but Tropical Forests Are Still in Trouble

New York Times Science

Trilobites: An Emperor Penguin Colony in Antarctica Vanishes

A colony in Halley Bay lost more than 10,000 chicks in 2016 and hasn’t recovered. Some adults have relocated.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: An Emperor Penguin Colony in Antarctica Vanishes

New York Times Science

Sooner or Later Your Cousin’s DNA Is Going to Solve a Murder

The Golden State Killer case was just the start. Hundreds of cold cases are hot again thanks to a new genealogy technique. The price may be everyone’s genetic privacy.

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New York Times Science

Sooner or Later Your Cousin’s DNA Is Going to Solve a Murder

New York Times Science

Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals

A prosthetic voice decodes what the brain intends to say and generates (mostly) understandable speech, no muscle movement needed.

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New York Times Science

Scientists Create Speech From Brain Signals

New York Times Science

Feature: Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats

Feral felines are driving the country’s native species to extinction. Now a massive culling is underway to preserve what’s left of the wild.

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New York Times Science

Feature: Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats

New York Times Science

These Otters Are Popular Pets in Asia. That May Be Their Undoing.

Asian small-clawed otters are increasingly popular as novelty pets, particularly in Japan. Now international trade in the species may be banned.

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New York Times Science

These Otters Are Popular Pets in Asia. That May Be Their Undoing.