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• Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate
• Study explains why galaxies stop creating stars
• Tiny bacteria-powered 'windfarm' for your phone?
• Study finds no substantial harm from primary care melanoma screening
• An epigenetic mechanism is involved in development of autoinflammatory diseases
• Why Clinton and Trump backers don't mix
• Where did it all go wrong? Scientists identify 'cell of origin' in skin cancers
• Researchers reveal first sightings of rare whales off New Zealand coast
• Mixed response: Floodwaters return to the Colorado River but can release greenhouse gases
• Setting the gold standard: Chemistry professor is first to use light to make gold crystal nanoparticles
• New record in microwave detection
• After decades of clean up attempts, world's lakes still suffer from phosphorus pollution
• Atomic bits despite zero-point energy?
• Messaging by flow in the brain
• When red evokes mischief
• Physicists discover family of tetraquarks
• Agreeable personalities are more likely to help strangers
• Two years and counting: Cannabis legalization efforts are starting to paint a clearer picture
• How plants sense electric fields
• Why do we tap our feet to a musical beat?
• New work aiming to stop diabetes, a major global health challenge
• Preconceptions predict coping, health outcomes
• Transplant drug may provide benefits after spinal cord injury
• Exercise training in heart failure: Shaping your proteins
• Referees add more extra time when the big teams are losing
• Promising new methods for early detection of Alzheimer's disease
• Scientists develop brain-inspired memory material
• Bats take dangerous flight into the wind farm
• Novel discovery improves profiling of acute myeloid leukemia patients for targeted therapies
• A recipe for friendship: Similar food
• Deadly bug strikes in a day
• Exercise improves memory in breast cancer survivors
• Increase in childhood, adult asthma linked to London's 1952 Great Smog
• Preserving forest carbon sinks top of donors' climate mitigation agenda
• Antidepressants: Treatment for bad marriages?
• Athletes may have white matter brain changes six months after a concussion
• Researchers caution public about hidden risks of self-administered brain stimulation

Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate Posted: 08 Jul 2016 11:51 AM PDT Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres where ice deposits could exist now.

Study explains why galaxies stop creating stars Posted: 08 Jul 2016 11:49 AM PDT Using a large sample of around 70,000 galaxies, a team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside astronomers may have an answer to an outstanding problem in the study of the evolution of galaxies: Why do galaxies stop creating stars?

Tiny bacteria-powered 'windfarm' for your phone? Posted: 08 Jul 2016 11:48 AM PDT A team of scientists has shown how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to assemble and power microscopic 'windfarms' -- or other human-made micromachines such as smartphone components.

Study finds no substantial harm from primary care melanoma screening Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:36 AM PDT Experts concerned that primary care screening for melanomas could lead to widespread misdiagnoses or overtreatment can take comfort in the results of a new study that found no such problems.

An epigenetic mechanism is involved in development of autoinflammatory diseases Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:36 AM PDT Scientists have identified an epigenetic mechanism involved in the development of autoinflammatory diseases. The observed epigenetic changes open up possibilities for the development of novel biomarkers with clinical uses.

Why Clinton and Trump backers don't mix Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:36 AM PDT Living around people with opposing political viewpoints affects your ability to form close relationships and accept other perspectives -- and may even change your personality, finds an American national study.

Where did it all go wrong? Scientists identify 'cell of origin' in skin cancers Posted: 08 Jul 2016 09:36 AM PDT Scientists have identified for the first time the 'cell of origin' -- in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows -- in basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, and followed the chain of events that lead to the growth of these invasive tumors.

Researchers reveal first sightings of rare whales off New Zealand coast Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:55 AM PDT For the first time in New Zealand waters, an extremely rare grouping of Shepherd's Beaked Whales has been spotted from a research vessel off the coast of the city of Dunedin in the South Island.

Mixed response: Floodwaters return to the Colorado River but can release greenhouse gases Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:55 AM PDT Deliberately flooding riverbeds left parched by dams has great potential to restore wetlands but may also have a significant unintended consequence: the release of greenhouse gases.

Setting the gold standard: Chemistry professor is first to use light to make gold crystal nanoparticles Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:55 AM PDT A researchers has figured out how gold can be used in crystals grown by light to create nanoparticles, a discovery that has major implications for industry and cancer treatment and could improve the function of pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and solar panels.

New record in microwave detection Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT Scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection. The record was made using a partially superconducting microwave detector. The discovery may lead to ultrasensitive cameras and accessories for the emerging quantum computer.

After decades of clean up attempts, world's lakes still suffer from phosphorus pollution Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT Leading scientists warn: Phosphorus pollution is a major concern. We need to speed up recovery treatments of lakes -- or accept poor freshwater quality. In a new series of studies, leading scientists assess how to control phosphorus pollution in lakes.

Atomic bits despite zero-point energy? Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT Scientists have found out that zero-point energy plays an important role in the stability of nanomagnets. These are of great technical interest for the magnetic storage of data, but so far have never been sufficiently stable. Researchers are now pointing the way to making it possible to produce nanomagnets with low zero-point energy and thus a higher degree of stability.

Messaging by flow in the brain Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT Researchers visualize cilia-based networks in the brain, which could transport vital messenger substances.

When red evokes mischief Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT A new study shows that the color red may tempt certain personality types to rebel against expectations rather than comply.

Physicists discover family of tetraquarks Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT Physicists have made science history by confirming the existence of a rare four-quark particle and discovering evidence of three other 'exotic' siblings. Their findings are based on data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest, most powerful particle accelerator, located at the CERN science laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.

Agreeable personalities are more likely to help strangers Posted: 08 Jul 2016 07:54 AM PDT Prosocial behaviors, such as willingness to help others, may be linked to specific personalities. Agreeableness is one of the better predictors of prosocial behavior, say scientists.

Two years and counting: Cannabis legalization efforts are starting to paint a clearer picture Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:28 AM PDT What is the current landscape at the US federal level regarding cannabis legalization? A new report shows that from a public health perspective, the biggest concern -- the increase in youth consumption -- has apparently remained stable. From a financial perspective, it seems that it has been a success as well.

How plants sense electric fields Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:20 AM PDT An international group of researchers has pinpointed the sensor plants use to sense electric fields. A beneficial side effect: their work could contribute to the understanding of how the Ebola virus enters human cells.

Why do we tap our feet to a musical beat? Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:20 AM PDT Investigators have explored the theory behind the relationship between musical sound and body movement. Research shows that people tend to perceive affinities between sound and body motion when experiencing music. The so-called 'motor theory of perception' claims these similarity relationships are deeply rooted in human cognition.

New work aiming to stop diabetes, a major global health challenge Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:20 AM PDT A new study estimates the global prevalence of diabetes and anticipates future trends. According to the results, the world's adult population with diabetes increased from 108 million in 1980 to 422 millions in 2014 and if measures are not taken on time, this figure will exceed 700 millions in the next years.

Preconceptions predict coping, health outcomes Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:20 AM PDT A study into chronic kidney disease is currently underway. The work shows that people who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) form pre-conceived beliefs about their illness which can impact their health.

Transplant drug may provide benefits after spinal cord injury Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT New research in mice indicates that a drug commonly used to suppress the immune system in recipients of organ transplants may also reduce tissue damage and neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury. Rapamycin, which is an inhibitor of the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway, has a variety of cellular functions and is known to possess both immunosuppressant and anti-tumor properties.

Exercise training in heart failure: Shaping your proteins Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT Aerobic exercise training restored the cardiac protein quality control system in rats, showed a new study. More than 20 million people worldwide are estimated to have heart failure and this situation will get worse since the prevalence of heart failure will rise as the mean age of the population increases. The results of this study suggest that heart failure development is associated with disruption of cardiac protein quality control system and reinforce the importance of aerobic exercise training as a primary non-pharmacological therapy for treatment of heart failure patients.

Referees add more extra time when the big teams are losing Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT Football (soccer) enthusiasts suspected it, but now statistics is confirming it. After analyzing all the matches of the Spanish league "La Liga" from the 2014-2015 season, two experts in sports science have found that the greater the difference on the scoreboard, the less stoppage time is added to the end of the game. When the score is tighter, however, referees tend to add more stoppage time when the team in the higher division is losing.

Promising new methods for early detection of Alzheimer's disease Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT New methods to examine the brain and spinal fluid heighten the chance of early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. These findings may have important implications for early detection of the disease, the choice of drug treatment and the inclusion of patients in clinical trials.

Scientists develop brain-inspired memory material Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT Our brain does not work like a typical computer memory storing just ones and zeroes: thanks to a much larger variation in memory states, it can calculate faster consuming less energy. Scientists have now developed a ferro-electric material with a memory function resembling synapses and neurons in the brain, resulting in a multistate memory.

Bats take dangerous flight into the wind farm Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT Wind turbines attract bats. They seem to appear particularly appealing to female noctule bats in early summer. In a pilot study, researchers noticed this when they tracked the flight paths of noctule bats using the latest GPS tracking devices. The bats managed to take even seasoned experts by surprise.

Novel discovery improves profiling of acute myeloid leukemia patients for targeted therapies Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT Researchers have identified a set of genes, including DNMT3A, that could potentially be used to predict clinical outcomes of patients who suffer from a type of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) associated with an FLT3 internal tandem duplication (FLT3-ITD) mutation.

A recipe for friendship: Similar food Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:17 AM PDT Eating similar food promotes trust between strangers, new research indicates. The researchers also discovered that these findings applied to marketing products. Participants trusted information from advertisers when consumers ate the same type of food as advertisers giving a testimonial about the product.

Deadly bug strikes in a day Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:17 AM PDT It's like something out of a horror movie -- a killer bug that goes through your nose and can kill you in 24 hours. What's worse is it could be lurking in your body without you even knowing it.

Exercise improves memory in breast cancer survivors Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:17 AM PDT Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity is related to improved subjective memory in breast cancer survivors, who often complain about memory problems, reports a new study. It appears the physical activity alleviates stress and benefits women psychologically, which in turn aids their memory. Memory problems appear to be related to the high stress load cancer survivors experience, and may not be specific to chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

Increase in childhood, adult asthma linked to London's 1952 Great Smog Posted: 08 Jul 2016 05:17 AM PDT London's Great Smog of 1952 resulted in thousands of premature deaths and even more people becoming ill. The five December days the smog lasted may have also resulted in thousands more cases of childhood and adult asthma. Researchers studied how London's Great Smog affected early childhood health and the long-term health consequences. The results showed that the Great Smog event of 1952 likely still affects some people's health more than 60 years later.

Preserving forest carbon sinks top of donors' climate mitigation agenda Posted: 07 Jul 2016 06:50 PM PDT Developing countries with large carbon sinks and good governance tend to be the main destination for major green donors' climate mitigation funding, research shows. This study compared the factors used to allocate climate mitigation finance to 180 developing countries by the five largest donors -- Japan, Germany, France, Norway and the United States.

Antidepressants: Treatment for bad marriages? Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:23 PM PDT Psychiatrists nearly always responded with prescriptions for antidepressants when clients complained of bad marriages, according to a new study spanning 20 years at an American medical center. The assumption that people struggling with their marriages or other domestic issues are suffering from depression is not supported by the way depression is defined medically.

Athletes may have white matter brain changes six months after a concussion Posted: 07 Jul 2016 02:19 PM PDT New research finds white matter changes in the brains of athletes six months after a concussion, report investigators. The study involved 17 high school and college football players who experienced a sports-related concussion.

Researchers caution public about hidden risks of self-administered brain stimulation Posted: 07 Jul 2016 11:25 AM PDT Experts from the (cognitive) neuroscience research community warn about the risks involved in home use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), the application of electrical current to the brain.

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