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 Ikea's New Chainless Bike Never Rusts Read More » Ultrathin 'E-Skin' Turns Your Hand into an Electronic Display Read More » Earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador Aren't Related: Here's Why Read More » 'Magic Mushroom' Drug Psilocybin May Ease Pain of Rejection During this game, people reported feeling less social pain when they received psilocybin, compared with when they received a placebo, or "dummy pill." In addition, participants' brain scans showed less activity in brain regions linked with feelings of social pain after they took psilocybin compared with after taking a placebo. Such treatments could be important for people with certain psychiatric disorders, who often encounter social rejection, and who may react more strongly to rejection than a healthy person, which can worsen mental health, the researchers said. "Social ties have repeatedly been shown to be crucial for physical and mental health," the researchers, from the University of Zurich in Switzerland, wrote in their findings published today (April 18) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read More »Eating Nuts Linked to Lower Risk of Colon Cancer Now, new findings from South Korea suggest that a nut-rich diet may also reduce a person's risk of colon cancer. Eating a serving of nuts three or more times a week appeared to have a big effect on risk, said Dr. Aesun Shin, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine in South Korea and an author of the study. This may be due to the availability of peanuts in South Korea, the researchers said. Read More »Your Genes May Influence When You Lose Your Virginity Genetics may have a say in when people lose their virginity. "Clearly some of the things that impact the age of first sex are social," study co-author Felix Day, a genetics researcher at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., told Live Science. Read More » | ||||
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| Exclusive: Florida wins contest for OneWeb satellite manufacturing facility - sources By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - OneWeb Ltd, an internet-via-satellite venture backed by Richard Branson's Virgin Group and other high-profile companies, will build a factory to mass produce small satellites near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sources involved in the agreement told Reuters. OneWeb plans an initial production run of 900 satellites to blanket the globe with high-speed internet access. The company has raised $500 million from Virgin, India's Bharti Enterprises, chipmaker Qualcomm, Hughes Network Systems, Intelsat, The Coca-Cola Co., and Mexico's ... Read More »Solar powered bid to bring modernity to developing world By Jim Drury A 40 meter long photovoltaic computer which provides clean water, while generating electricity to recharge external devices, has been designed by an Italian company for use in the developing world. Watly, set up by entrepreneur Marco Attisani, has started an Indiegogo campaign to fund the third version of its solar technology. "What you are looking at is a big machine, it's an infrastructural machine. It's 40 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 15 tonnes," Attisani told Reuters. It can clean contaminated water, including ocean water, within two hours. The photovoltaic panels located on the roof generate off-grid electricity to power the internal electronics of the machine, and also for recharging external devices such as mobiles phones and portable computers. "Watly purifies water from any source of contamination - chemical, bacteriological, or physical - without the need of filterings," said Attisani. Read More »Exclusive: Florida wins contest for OneWeb satellite manufacturing facility - sources By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - OneWeb Ltd, a privately owned startup bankrolled by Richard Branson's Virgin Group and other well-known firms, will build a factory to mass produce small satellites near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, two sources involved in the project told Reuters. OneWeb plans an initial production run of 900 satellites to provide global, high-speed Internet access as early as 2019. The multibillion-dollar network would be more than 10 times larger than any previous satellite constellation. Read More »Shackled Skeletons Could Be Ancient Greek Rebels Read More » The Real Reason AI Won't Take Over Anytime Soon Artificial intelligence has had its share of ups and downs recently. In what was widely seen as a key milestone for artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, one system beat a former world champion at a mind-bendingly intricate board game. In early March, a Google-made artificial intelligence system beat former world champ Lee Sedol four matches to one at an ancient Chinese game, called Go, that is considered more complex than chess, which was previously used as a benchmark to assess progress in machine intelligence. Read More »Turn Your Photos Into Fine-Art 'Paintings' on Free Website Read More » Lost Wright Brothers' 'Flying Machine' Patent Resurfaces Read More » Does The Full Moon Make Kids Hyper? Here's What Science Says Kids really do sleep less when there's a full moon, but only by a few minutes, according to a new study that included children from a dozen countries. What's more, the study failed to find a link between the occurrence of the full moon and kids' activity levels, debunking the myth that kids are more hyper during a full moon. The study "provides solid evidence … that the associations between moon phases and children's sleep duration/activity behaviors are not meaningful from a public health standpoint," the researchers, from the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute in Ottawa, Canada, wrote in the March 24 issue of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics. Read More »Chemicals in Fast Food: Should You Be Worried? People who eat fast food may be ingesting potentially harmful chemicals called phthalates, a new study finds — another reason to avoid eating these typically unhealthy foods, experts say. However, experts emphasize that most Americans are exposed to phthalates every day, and it's not clear exactly how much of this exposure comes from fast food. Still, for people who want to reduce their exposure to phthalates, a chemical used in plastics that can leach into foods, reducing fast food consumption could be one way to do this, said Dr. Kenneth Spaeth, chief of occupational and environmental medicine at Northwell Health, a health care network headquartered in Great Neck, New York. Read More »Mysterious Outbreak: 5 Things to Know About Elizabethkingia An outbreak of a rare bacterial illness that first appeared in Wisconsin has now popped up in two nearby states, officials say. This week, the Illinois Department of Public Health announced that a patient there died of an infection with the bacteria Elizabethkingia anophelis — the same bacteria that has infected 59 people in Wisconsin and one person in Michigan. Here are some important things to know about the outbreak. Read More »A robot to teach kids coding By Ben Gruber Cambridge, MASS (Reuters) - A robot named Root has been developed to expose kids of all ages to coding in a way that brings the often daunting world of computer science to life. Root looks like a smoke detector but is actually a sophisticated robot. Zivthan Dubrovsky of Harvard's Wyss Institute recalls testing out Root with kids for the first time. "If you ask kids can you make a text based java script line follower? Read More » | ||||
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| Impaled polar bear sculpture highlights global warming threat Read More » Why Do So Many Earthquakes Strike Japan? Read More » Experimental inflatable module attached to space station By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla (Reuters) - A NASA ground-control team on Saturday used a robot arm to unpack an expandable module and attach it to the International Space Station, setting the stage for a novel test of a habitat for astronauts, researchers and even tourists. The 3,100-pound (1,400 kg) module, manufactured and owned by Bigelow Aerospace, was launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule that reached the station on Sunday. The module was attached to the station at 5:36 am EDT (0936 GMT) as the station flew about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, the U.S. space agency said during a live broadcast on NASA TV. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, is scheduled to be inflated with air in late May, beginning a two-year experiment to see how it holds up in the harsh environment of space. Read More » | ||||
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Friday, April 15, 2016
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| DNA analysis could help improve your workout: study By Edward Baran LONDON (Reuters) - A new study suggests that athletes using DNA-matched training improved their performance almost three times more than those on mismatched programs. The study, published in Biology of Sport and conducted at the University of Central Lancashire, reviewed the performance of 28 young sportsmen and 39 young male soccer players over eight weeks. Reigning British Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford has also used the genetically guided information from the training test used in the study, DNAFit, as he prepares to go for gold in Rio. Read More »Ancient Human Sacrifice Had Gruesome Role in Creating Hierarchies Read More » Silvery Hairs Turn Ants into Walking Mirrors Read More » Road Rage Science: Former NFL Player's Death Reveals Why We Lose It Read More » Guys Give Each Other a Break on Weight (But Not Women) Read More » 'Love Handles' Transformed into Insulin-Producing Cells A body part that many would wish away — their love handles — can be turned it into life-saving transplant: Researchers reprogramed fat cells from a person's waistline into pancreatic cells capable of producing the crucial hormone insulin. If further testing shows that the cells are safe to implant into a person's body, and effectively produce insulin once they are there, they could one day be used to treat people with either type 1 or type 2 diabetes, experts say. In a petri dish, researchers coaxed these reprogrammed pancreatic cells, called beta cells, to produce ample amounts of the hormone insulin, which helps the body turn food into fuel for muscles and organs such as the brain. Read More »Skin Condition Linked to Risk of Aneurysm Read More » Here's the Best Way to Apologize, According to Science We've all been there — after you've given what seems to you like a heartfelt apology, the other person just doesn't buy it. Well, science is here to help: An effective apology has six key elements, according to a new study. "Apologies really do work, but you should make sure you hit as many of the six key elements as possible," Roy Lewicki, the lead author of the study and a professor emeritus of management and human resources at The Ohio State University, said in a statement. Read More » | ||||
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