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attack
2018-03-15 17:48
What Is the Bystander Effect?
If you suffer a heart attack in a crowd, you would be less likely to get help than if there were only one or two people around you. Copied under Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 License
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teenagers
2018-03-15 17:42
Adolescent Risk-Takers: The Power of Peers
Teenagers are often thought of as reckless risk-takers. Nature Video asks a neuroscientist and a group of adolescents what's really behind risky behaviour. This video was reproduced with permission and
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surfaces
2018-03-15 17:37
Scaly Plastic Snakeskins Inch Immobile Robots Forward
These stretchy skins help robots move across rough surfaces, and potentially promote exploration and environmental monitoring. Copied under Creative Commons Attribution v4.0 License
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think
2018-03-15 17:32
If You Think It's Love, Switch to Decaf: How We Misinterpret Emotional Arousal
Cognition If You Think It's Love, Switch to Decaf: How We Misinterpret Emotional Arousal Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Email Print Share via Google+ Stumble Upon Psychology shows a
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science
2018-03-15 17:26
Stephen Hawking: 3 Publications That Shaped His Career
A pop culture icon and ground-breaking physicist, Stephen Hawking is one of the most prominent figures in modern science. Nature Video explores three of the publications that shaped his career and his
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science
2018-03-15 17:21
Gone in 2017: 12 Trailblazing Women in STEM
As we look back on 2017, it is once again time to commemorate some of the remarkable women recently passed who made critical contributions to the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and
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public
2018-03-15 17:16
How to Find a Woman Scientist
Women from across the world continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In the U.S.—where women make up nearly half of the workforce—they were merely 26
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traffic
2018-03-15 17:10
Is Daylight Saving Time Good or Bad for You?
A century ago, in 1918, the U.S. started the collective clock-changing ritual known as daylight saving time, or DST. Today more than 70 countries observe the practice, although how it is implemented has
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boost
2018-03-15 17:05
Child’s Play: Learning Like Infants May Boost Artificial Intelligence
Once they “understand” a topic or game completely, computers can calculate solutions with stunning speed, far faster than the wetware in our skulls. AlphaGo Zero, from British company DeepMind, accumulated
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nikitin
2018-03-15 16:53
New Evidence Fuels Debate over the Origin of Modern Languages
Five thousand years ago nomadic horseback riders from the Ukrainian steppe charged through Europe and parts of Asia. They brought with them a language that is the root of many of those spoken today—including
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group
2018-03-15 16:48
World’s Heaviest Bony Fish Was Misidentified
Scientists have long thought the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was the largest of the bony fishes, a group of animals with skeletons made of bone instead of cartilage. It turns out they were wrong. A research
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world
2018-03-15 16:43
The Women Who Made the Internet and Other Stories
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans. Portfolio, 2018 ($27) In the earliest days of computing, rooms of women performed manual calculations for research projects
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san
2018-03-15 16:37
A "Pit Bull" for Climate Could Soon Sit Next to Trump
An ascendant aide in the Trump White House has warned of the threats posed by climate change, has argued for taxing carbon, has promoted wind power and was even endorsed by the Sierra Club. The political
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does
2018-03-15 16:32
Does the Adult Brain Really Grow New Neurons?
The observation that the human brain churns out new neurons throughout life is one of the biggest neuroscience discoveries of the past 20 years. The idea has captured immense popular and scientific
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image
2018-03-15 16:27
You Are Here: Earth Shines in Image from Kepler Spacecraft
This is what Earth looks like through a planet hunter's eyes. Our home planet blazes like a cosmic lighthouse in a photo taken by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which has discovered more than 2,500 alien
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essay
2018-03-15 16:21
Should We Chill Out about Global Warming?
I work hard to maintain my optimistic outlook. Wishful thinking works. The first step toward building a more healthy, peaceful, just world is to believe we can do it. So how do I deal with all the bad
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agent
2018-03-15 16:16
What We Know about Novichok, the "Newby" Nerve Agent Linked to Russia
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. A Soviet-designed “Novichok” chemical is the nerve agent responsible for poisoning
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climate
2018-03-15 16:11
Arctic Warm Spells Linked to Nasty Winter Weather on East Coast
As yet another powerful nor’easter slams New England with wind and snow, some scientists suggest that the storm—and other extreme winter weather—could be linked to climate change in the Arctic. It’s a
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fraud
2018-03-15 16:05
Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes Charged with Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday charged Theranos and CEO Elizabeth Holmes with fraud, capping off a remarkable downfall for a once high-flying company that promised to revolutionize
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launch
2018-03-11 16:31
Sending a Tesla into space wasn’t such a dumb idea
Maybe it’s my instinctive distrust of bored billionaires treating the world as their playground, but I’m always dubious about Elon Musk’s various moonshot projects. He seems to be enjoying it all a little
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