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E-cigarette vapor disables key immune cells in the lung and boosts inflammation
E-cigarette vapour boosts the production of inflammatory chemicals and disables key protective cells in the lung that keep the air spaces clear…
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Mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery
If you happen to have a box of spaghetti in your pantry, try this experiment: Pull out a single spaghetti stick and…
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Scarlet macaw DNA points to ancient breeding operation in Southwest
Somewhere in the American Southwest or northern Mexico, there are probably the ruins of a scarlet macaw breeding operation dating to between…
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When it comes to regrowing tails, neural stem cells are the key
Cut off a salamander’s tail and, in a few weeks, a near-perfect replacement grows. Do the same to a lizard and a…
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Amputees feel as though their prosthetic limb belongs to their own body
The famous idiom “seeing is believing” is not enough to help amputees with the use of their prosthetic limb. Many amputees opt…
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The behavior of water: Scientists find new properties of H2O
A team of scientists has uncovered new molecular properties of water — a discovery of a phenomenon that had previously gone unnoticed.…
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New soft bioelectronic mesh tested on human wrist and pulsating pig’s heart
A research team at the Center for Nanoparticle Research, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), has succeeded in developing a wearable…
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Meteorite bombardment likely to have created the Earth’s oldest rocks
Scientists have found that 4.02-billion-year-old silica-rich felsic rocks from the Acasta River, Canada — the oldest rock formation known on Earth —…
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‘Building up’ stretchable electronics to be as multipurpose as your smartphone
By stacking and connecting layers of stretchable circuits on top of one another, engineers have developed an approach to build soft, pliable…
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Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard Medical School reports a new…