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ETH Zurich starts process to dismiss professor accused of bullying students
Science Magazine ETH Zurich in Switzerland has set in motion a procedure to dismiss astronomy professor Marcella Carollo. The university announced the move today after receiving the results of an independent investigation into allegations that she bullied students ... |
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ETH Zurich starts process to dismiss professor accused of bullying students - Science Magazine
The swamp science that lured travelers to their doom—and inspired the jack-o'-lantern - Popular Science
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The swamp science that lured travelers to their doom—and inspired the jack-o'-lantern
Popular Science The first European settlers learned just how flammable bogs can be in what some consider the first American science experiment. In 1783, while George Washington waited in Princeton, New Jersey for the freshly-signed Treaty of Paris to arrive, he killed ... |
The appendix is implicated in Parkinson's disease - Science News
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The appendix is implicated in Parkinson's disease
Science News Also, samples of appendix tissue from healthy individuals revealed protein clumps similar to those found in the brains of Parkinson's patients, researchers report online October 31 in Science Translational Medicine. Together, the findings suggest that ... Seeds of Parkinson's disease may hide in the appendix |
Three gas clouds nearly grazed the edge of the Milky Way's black hole - Science News
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Three gas clouds nearly grazed the edge of the Milky Way's black hole
Science News Scientists have spotted clouds of gas hurtling around the monster black hole at the center of the Milky Way, not far from the behemoth's edge. Observed on three separate occasions, the gas clouds careened along at unimaginably fast speeds — 30 percent ... Scientists finally confirm the Milky Way has a supermassive black hole 'Mind-boggling' monster black hole at Milky Way's center seen by scientists Most Detailed Observations of Material Orbiting close to a Black Hole | ESO |
Eggs evolved color and speckles only once — during the age of dinosaurs - Science News
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Eggs evolved color and speckles only once — during the age of dinosaurs
Science News Scientists once thought only birds produced colorful eggshells, says coauthor Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. But a growing body of literature suggests that many traits once thought to be unique to birds ... Dinosaur eggs came in many colors—just like birds' Birds Inherited Colorful Eggs From Dinosaurs, Scientists Prove Dinosaur eggs were colourful and passed pigmentation to birds today: study |
How Salespeople Should Schedule Their Days For Maximum Success, According To Science - Forbes
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How Salespeople Should Schedule Their Days For Maximum Success, According To Science
Forbes There's an art and science associated with effective time management. It entails more than the compilation of to-do lists. Effective time management is highly dependent on our body's internal clock. In his book “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect ... |
Stimulating the spinal cord helps 3 more paralyzed people walk - Science News
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Stimulating the spinal cord helps 3 more paralyzed people walk
Science News Paralysis is becoming less permanent — at least for some. There's now more evidence that stimulating the spinal cord can restore voluntary movement in paralyzed patients who haven't recovered after other treatments. After five months of training ... Swiss science: targeted electrical stimulation helps paralysed men walk again Paralysed men can stand and walk after electrical stimulation |
Three types of depression identified - Science Daily
Three types of depression identified
Science Daily Scientists from the Neural Computational Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), in collaboration with their colleagues at Nara Institute of Science and Technology and clinicians at Hiroshima University, have ... |
Three gas clouds nearly grazed the edge of the Milky Way's black hole - Science News
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Three gas clouds nearly grazed the edge of the Milky Way's black hole
Science News Scientists have spotted clouds of gas hurtling around the monster black hole at the center of the Milky Way, not far from the behemoth's edge. Observed on three separate occasions, the gas clouds careened along at unimaginably fast speeds — 30 percent ... 'Mind-boggling' monster black hole at Milky Way's center seen by ... This ball of gas is racing around the black hole at our galaxy's heart |
Girl Scouts Can Now Earn Space Science Merit Badges - Eos
Eos |
Girl Scouts Can Now Earn Space Science Merit Badges
Eos Girl Scouts as young as 5 now have the opportunity to earn merit badges while learning and exploring space science. The badges, unveiled by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America 2 months ago, are awarded to girls who make a dedicated effort ... |
Stimulating the spinal cord helps 3 more paralyzed people walk - Science News
Science News |
Stimulating the spinal cord helps 3 more paralyzed people walk
Science News Paralysis is becoming less permanent — at least for some. There's now more evidence that stimulating the spinal cord can restore voluntary movement in paralyzed patients who haven't recovered after other treatments. After five months of training ... Swiss science: targeted electrical stimulation helps paralysed men walk again Paralysed men can stand and walk after electrical stimulation |
The Kepler Space Telescope Found Science and Art in Exoplanets - TIME
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The Kepler Space Telescope Found Science and Art in Exoplanets
TIME It's a very good thing spacecraft can't get bored, because if spacecraft could get bored, the Kepler space telescope would have gone out of its mind long ago. It was in March 2009 when NASA launched Kepler into orbit around the sun, pointed it to a ... |
Seeds of Parkinson's disease may hide in the appendix - Science Magazine
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Seeds of Parkinson's disease may hide in the appendix
Science Magazine Scientists have found that people are less likely to get Parkinson's if they've had a vagotomy, a treatment for stomach ulcers that severs the vagal nerve, which branches down from the brain into various tissues of the gut. That finding feeds a still ... The appendix is implicated in Parkinson's disease |
Neanderthal children shivered and suffered in ancient Europe - Science Magazine
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Neanderthal children shivered and suffered in ancient Europe
Science Magazine This represents the oldest documented exposure to lead in hominin remains, the researchers report today in Science Advances. Two lead mines lie only 25 kilometers from the site, and the children may have ingested lead-rich food or water—or inhaled ... Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children |
ETH Zurich starts process to dismiss professor accused of bullying students - Science Magazine
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ETH Zurich starts process to dismiss professor accused of bullying students
Science Magazine ETH Zurich in Switzerland has set in motion a procedure to dismiss astronomy professor Marcella Carollo. The university announced the move today after receiving the results of an independent investigation into allegations that she bullied students ... |
Supporting Science Policy Advocacy and Outreach through Microgrants - Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog) |
Supporting Science Policy Advocacy and Outreach through Microgrants
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog) The National Science Policy Network (NSPN) unites groups of early career scientists and engineers nationwide who want to elevate the voice of scientific evidence in policy. We champion the value of science and evidence-based decision-making and believe ... |
Happy Science-o-ween! - Science Magazine
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Happy Science-o-ween!
Science Magazine But a costume contest at a science workplace is particularly fraught. It may sound innocuous and fun, but your colleagues and superiors are assessing the cleverness of your costume as a proxy for your general ingenuity—or, at least, you fear that they ... |
How roaches fight off wasps that turn their victims into zombies - Science News
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How roaches fight off wasps that turn their victims into zombies
Science News Real-life fights against zombie-makers offer plenty of tips for avoiding undeath. Just ask cockroaches, targets of the emerald jewel wasp. The female wasps (Ampulex compressa) specialize in attacking the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana). Here's how cockroaches fight off zombie-makers |
The swamp science that lured travelers to their doom—and inspired the jack-o'-lantern - Popular Science
The swamp science that lured travelers to their doom—and inspired the jack-o'-lantern
Popular Science The first European settlers learned just how flammable bogs can be in what some consider the first American science experiment. In 1783, while George Washington waited in Princeton, New Jersey for the freshly-signed Treaty of Paris to arrive, he killed ... |
Girl Scouts Can Now Earn Space Science Merit Badges - Eos
Eos |
Girl Scouts Can Now Earn Space Science Merit Badges
Eos Girl Scouts as young as 5 now have the opportunity to earn merit badges while learning and exploring space science. The badges, unveiled by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America 2 months ago, are awarded to girls who make a dedicated effort ... Science Museum Oklahoma offers Boy Scout astronomy badge class, Cub Scout overnight in November |
Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children - Science Advances
Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children
Science Advances Scholars endeavor to understand the relationship between human evolution and climate change. This is particularly germane for Neanderthals, who survived extreme Eurasian environmental variation and glaciations, mysteriously going extinct during a cool ... |
An integrated system for perception-driven autonomy with modular robots - Science
An integrated system for perception-driven autonomy with modular robots
Science The theoretical ability of modular robots to reconfigure in response to complex tasks in a priori unknown environments has frequently been cited as an advantage and remains a major motivator for work in the field. We present a modular robot system ... |
Dinosaur eggs came in many colors—just like birds' - Science Magazine
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Dinosaur eggs came in many colors—just like birds'
Science Magazine Bird eggs have been admired since ancient times for their many hues and patterns, from the vivid blue of American robin eggs to the deep green-black of emu eggs. Now, a study shows these colors and markings are even older than we thought—they may ... |
Sticky Science: the Evolution of Spider Webs - Scientific American
Scientific American |
Sticky Science: the Evolution of Spider Webs
Scientific American In the tree depicted below, scientists have sketched out a sampling of web designs of orb weavers and spiders that descended from them—just a subset of the spiders that use silk to hunt. The ground and trunk are occupied by ancestral relatives and ... |
This 4500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid - Live Science
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This 4500-Year-Old Ramp Contraption May Have Been Used to Build Egypt's Great Pyramid
Live Science "Thissystem is composed of a central ramp flanked by two staircases with numerous post holes," Yannis Gourdon, co-director of the joint mission at Hatnub, told Live Science. "Using a sled which carried a stone block and was attached with ropes to these ... |
State Science Advisory Board seeks public input - Laurinburg Exchange
State Science Advisory Board seeks public input
Laurinburg Exchange RALEIGH − Officials with the N.C. Secretaries' Science Advisory Board are asking the public for input on a report that will provide recommendations on the science and policies supporting trichloroethylene, or TCE, short-term inhalation action levels ... |
Researchers identify three shades of blue - EurekAlert (press release)
Researchers identify three shades of blue
EurekAlert (press release) Scientists from the Neural Computational Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), in collaboration with their colleagues at Nara Institute of Science and Technology and clinicians at Hiroshima University, have ... |
Neanderthals' barrel chests might not have been any bigger than ours - Science Magazine
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Neanderthals' barrel chests might not have been any bigger than ours
Science Magazine Though humans often consider ourselves far more evolved and refined than Neanderthals, new research has shown we have a lot common with our stocky, hairy cousins in terms of behavior and development. Now, scientists say Neanderthals' thoraxes—the ... |
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