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'Foreign Object' on Mars Spotted by Curiosity Rover Is Just a Rock
Live Science - 18 Aug 2018 15:06New NASA Images Show California's Largest Wildfire from Space. Canadian Blazes, Too
Live Science - 18 Aug 2018 12:27Students more likely to eat school breakfast when given extra time, new study finds
Science Daily - 18 Aug 2018 17:55
Using food weighting stations, the researchers collected information on the number of students who ate a school breakfast, how much they ate, and their exact nutritional intake.
Chemistry professor develops contaminant detection technique for heparin
Science Daily - 18 Aug 2018 17:56
In 2008, a contaminant eluded the quality safeguards in the pharmaceutical industry and infiltrated a large portion of the supply of the popular blood thinner heparin, sickening hundreds and killing about 100 in the US.
Perinatal hypoxia associated with long-term cerebellar learning deficits and Purkinje cell misfiring
Science Daily - 18 Aug 2018 17:55
The type of hypoxia that occurs with preterm birth is associated with locomotor miscoordination and long-term cerebellar learning deficits but can be partially alleviated with an off-the-shelf medicine, according to a st...
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Singularity Hub - 18 Aug 2018 17:00
FUTURE What the Year 2050 Has in Store for Humankind Yuval Noah Harari | Wired “Humankind is facing unprecedented revolutions, all our old stories are crumbling and no new story has so far emerged to replace them. How ...
Man Who Slapped Hippo's Butt at LA Zoo Is Still at Large
Live Science - 18 Aug 2018 12:28A valley so low: Electrons congregate in ways that could be useful to 'valleytronics'
Phys.org - 18 Aug 2018 10:45
A Princeton-led study has revealed an emergent electronic behavior on the surface of bismuth crystals that could lead to insights on the growing area of technology known as "valleytronics."