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New evidence from the University of California Berkeley shows that sleep deprivation spurs a vicious, self-sustaining cycle of loneliness.

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I, too, created my first timelapse this weekend. Through the smoke of California's wildfires.

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Is it difficult to determine the password for an encryption if you are given both the encrypted and unencrypted message?

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This will be the world's largest telescope: Engineers are building the Giant Magellan Telescope in a Chilean desert.

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A team of local scientists has found that the size of South Koreans’ heads grew rapidly after Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945.

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Researchers discover that the brains of bees and wasps can recognize faces. This is despite the tiny size of the insects' brains. They contain fewer than one million brain cells, compared with the 86 billion that make up a human brain.

206 points 17 comments

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For the first time, scientists have shown that in certain people living with HIV, a type of antibody called immunoglobulin G3 (IgG3) stops the immune system's B cells from doing their normal job of fighting pathogens.

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The largest star cluster in the Milky Way—Omega Centauri—is basically uninhabitable. The cluster's 10 million stars are so tightly packed together that they're only separated by about 0.2 light-years, which disrupts orbiting planets. For comparison, the Sun is 4.2 light-years from its nearest star.

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Wage gap between hospital executives and doctors is widening, study finds - Over the past decade, salaries for hospital CEOs have risen much faster than for surgeons, physicians, and nurses.

83 points 16 comments

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Of all the nuclear tests completed on American soil, in the Nevada desert, what were the effects on citizens living nearby and why have we not experienced a fallout type scenario with so many tests making the entire region uninhabitable?

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How are annual meteor showers annual?

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NASA on Sleeping Mars Opportunity Rover: "We Still Haven't Heard From It"

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A team of astronomers led by George Becker at the University of California, Riverside, has made a surprising discovery: 12.5 billion years ago, the most opaque place in the universe contained relatively little matter.

55 points 5 comments

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Are Mosquito Effected by Drug Content in Blood?

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe will soon explore the Sun's outer atmosphere, which can reach 2 million degrees Fahrenheit. But the difference between temperature and heat means the spacecraft's 4.5-inch-thick carbon shield will only reach 2,500 degrees F, keeping the probe at a comfortable 85 degrees F.

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A large population study in Manitoba, Canada finds that there is no increased risk of autism from early childhood antibiotic use.

229 points 8 comments

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Reports from cannabis users that the drug reduces the symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may finally be explained by new research that shows for the first time that endocannabinoids help control and prevent intestinal inflammation in mice.

1.15k points 107 comments

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Herschel detects that Ceres has large amounts of water

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Although chemotherapies have been highly useful as targeted treatments for cancer, unwanted side effects still plague patients. Now, researchers have demonstrated that specialized nucleic acid-based nanostructures could be used to target cancer cells while bypassing normal cells.

25 points 1 comment

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We had 20 530 664 stars, one Celeron CPU, 10 GB of RAM and 50 hours of continuous computations…

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Seizure-prediction tools work for only some of the 65 million people with epilepsy. So, researchers crowdsourced 10,000 algorithms from 646 developers, hoping to expand access and personalize the tech. The top algorithms improved seizure prediction by 90% for patients who were hardest to forecast.

250 points 11 comments

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MIT mathematicians solve age-old spaghetti mystery

134 points 43 comments

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U.S. warns on Russia's new space weapons - The United States voiced deep concern on Tuesday about Russia’s pursuit of weapons including a mobile laser system to destroy satellites in space, as well as its putting into orbit of a new “space apparatus inspector”.

85 points 39 comments

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The largest star cluster in the Milky Way—Omega Centauri—is basically uninhabitable. The cluster's 10 million stars are so tightly packed together that they're only separated by about 0.2 light-years, which disrupts orbiting planets. For comparison, the Sun is 4.2 light-years from its nearest star.

24 points 2 comments

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I am the "Chief Sniffer" and volunteer "Nasalnaut" for NASA. I smell objects before they go up to crewed space missions. Ask Me Anything

2.56k points 427 comments