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October 2, 2019
Sep. 30, 2019 -- A triple drug combination has been used to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 48 percent in a new ... read more
Sep. 30, 2019 -- Faced with extreme weather events and unprecedented environmental change, animals and plants are scrambling to catch up -- with mixed results. A new ... read more
Sep. 30, 2019 -- Researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a protein complex involved in vertebrate vision at atomic resolution, a finding that has broad implications for our understanding of ... read more
Sep. 27, 2019 -- An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life -- nucleobases -- could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the ... read more
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Sep. 3, 2019 -- In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that testosterone administration did not affect cognitive empathy, a measure of the ability to recognize another's feelings and motivations. The finding contradicts an earlier, much-publicized study and calls into question the theory that the ... read more
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Sep. 30, 2019 -- Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how we're able to understand spoken language so rapidly, and it involves a huge and complex set of computations in ... read more
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Sep. 30, 2019 -- Contrary to previous advice, five new systematic reviews suggest that most people can continue to eat red and processed meat as they do now. The major studies have found cutting back has little impact ... read more
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Sep. 23, 2019 -- Researchers have developed a tiny nanolaser that can function inside of living tissues without ... read more
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Sep. 30, 2019 -- A new concept for an aluminium battery has twice the energy density as previous versions, is made of abundant materials, and could lead to reduced production costs and environmental impact. The idea has potential for large scale applications, including storage of solar and ... read more
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Sep. 30, 2019 -- MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of ... read more
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Sep. 26, 2019 -- Astronomers detected a giant planet orbiting a small star. The planet has much more mass than theoretical ... read more
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Sep. 23, 2019 -- Scientists have figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity. The discovery could create more efficient energy generation from heat in things like car exhaust, interplanetary space probes and ... read more
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Sep. 26, 2019 -- The extreme environment of Mono Lake was thought to only house two species of animals -- ... read more
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Sep. 23, 2019 -- The ancient Incan sanctuary of Machu Picchu is considered one of humanity's greatest architectural achievements. Built in a remote Andean setting atop a narrow ridge high above a precipitous river canyon, the site is renowned for its perfect integration with the spectacular landscape. But the ... read more
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Sep. 23, 2019 -- Mosasaurs were true sea monsters of late Cretaceous seas. These marine lizards -- related to modern snakes and monitor lizards -- grew as long as fifty feet, flashed two rows of sharp teeth, and shredded their victims with enormous, ... read more
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Sep. 23, 2019 -- Cats have a reputation for being aloof and independent. But a study of the way domestic cats respond to their caregivers suggests that their socio-cognitive abilities and the depth of their human attachments have been underestimated. The findings show that, much like children and dogs, pet cats ... read more
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Health News
October 2, 2019
Sep. 19, 2019 -- Researchers have shown that antimicrobial-resistant infections are rapidly increasing in animals in low and middle income countries. They produced the first global of resistance rates, and identified ... read more
Sep. 16, 2019 -- In experiments in mice, researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for lifelong anti-rejection ... read more
Sep. 11, 2019 -- Scientists successfully conducted a first-in-human, FDA-approved Phase 1 clinical trial of an injectable hydrogel that aims to repair damage and ... read more
Sep. 11, 2019 -- Scientists have successfully tested new neuroprosthetic technology that combines robotic control with users' voluntary control, opening avenues in the new interdisciplinary field of shared control ... read more
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Decades-Long Drop in Breast Cancer Death Rate Continues

Oct. 2, 2019 -- A decades-long decline in the breast cancer death rate continues, but has begun to slow in recent ... read more
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Ancient Genomes Provide Insight Into the Genetic History of the Second Plague Pandemic

Oct. 2, 2019 -- Researchers have analyzed remains from ten archaeological sites in England, France, Germany, Russia, and Switzerland to gain insight into the different stages of the second plague pandemic and the genetic diversity of Yersinia pestis during and after the Black Death. The researchers reconstructed 34 Y. pestis genomes, tracing the genetic history ... read more
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Discovery of New Source of Cancer Antigens May Expand Cancer Vaccine Capabilities

Oct. 2, 2019 -- Scientists have found a common, new source of tumor mutations that could offer three levels of therapy with a cancer vaccine: 1) a broadly protective, or pan-cancer vaccine 2) cancer-type specific vaccines (e.g. breast vs. pancreatic), 3) personalized cancer vaccines based on mutations unique to an ... read more
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Step Forward in Falling Research

Oct. 1, 2019 -- New research shows there is more at play than just a sinking feeling when you stumble during movement or trip in a hole in the ... read more
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Children Told Lies by Parents Subsequently Lie More as Adults, Face Adjustment Difficulty

Oct. 2, 2019 -- 'If you don't behave, I'll call the police,' is a lie that parents might use to get their young children to behave. Parents' lies elicit compliance in the short term, but a new psychology study suggests that they are associated with detrimental effects when the child becomes an ... read more
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Acute Psychotic Illness Triggered by Brexit Referendum

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Political events can take a serious toll on mental health, a doctor has warned, after treating a man with a brief episode of acute psychosis, triggered by the 2016 Referendum on Brexit -- the process of the UK leaving the European Union ... read more
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Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss in Children Leads to Changes in How Brain Processes Sound

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Deafness in early childhood is known to lead to lasting changes in how sounds are processed in the brain, but new research published today shows that even mild-to-moderate levels of hearing loss in young children can lead to similar ... read more
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Exploring the Brain in a New Way: Researcher Records Neurons to Understand Cognition

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Whether we're searching for Waldo or our keys in a room of clutter, we tap into a part of the frontal region of the brain when performing visual, goal-related tasks. Some of us do it well, whereas for others it's a bit challenging. One researcher set out to investigate why, and what specifically this part of the brain, called the pre-supplementary ... read more
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Smartphone Typing Speeds Catching Up With Keyboards

Oct. 2, 2019 -- The largest experiment to date on mobile typing sheds new light on average performance of touchscreen typing and factors impacting the text input speed. Researchers analyzed the typing speed of tens of thousands of users on both phones and computers. Their main finding is that typing speeds on smartphones are now catching up with physical ... read more
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No Evidence That Power Posing Works

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Striking a power pose before an important meeting or interview is not going to boost your confidence or make you feel more powerful, says a researcher. A psychology professor reviewed nearly 40 studies on the topic and found not a single one supports the claims that power posing ... read more
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Coastal Living Linked With Better Mental Health

Sep. 30, 2019 -- Researchers used survey data from nearly 26,000 respondents in their analysis, which marks one of the most detailed investigations ever into the well-being effects of being beside the sea. After taking other related factors into account, the study revealed that living in large towns and cities near to England's coastline is linked with better mental health for those in the lowest earning ... read more
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Better Sleep Habits Lead to Better College Grades

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Two professors have found a strong relationship between students' grades and how much sleep they're getting. What time students go to bed and the consistency of their sleep habits also make a big difference. And no, getting a good night's sleep just before a big test is not good enough -- it takes several nights in a row of good sleep to make a ... read more
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Physical/Tech News
October 2, 2019
Sep. 19, 2019 -- A new model for plasma flow within the sun provides novel explanations for sunspots, the 11-year sunspot cycle, solar magnetic reversals and other previously unexplained solar ... read more
Sep. 16, 2019 -- A new way to convert carbon dioxide into the building block for sustainable liquid fuels was very efficient in tests and did not have the reaction that destroys the conventional ... read more
Sep. 16, 2019 -- Astronomers have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, a rapidly spinning pulsar approximately 4,600 light-years from Earth. This record-breaking object is teetering on the edge of ... read more
Sep. 13, 2019 -- While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel computing have become the standard, we are about to hit a wall in energy and miniaturization. Now, researchers ... read more
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Quantum Vacuum: Less Than Zero Energy

Oct. 2, 2019 -- According to quantum physics, energy can be 'borrowed' -- at least for some time. Energies lower than zero are possible, much like a bank account that can be overdrawn. There are, however, certain restrictions to that. Scientists have now shown that these restrictions are very fundamental properties of our universe and must be true for various possible quantum ... read more
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Planes and Vehicles Main Culprits Masking Iconic Natural Sounds in Peaceful National Parks

Oct. 2, 2019 -- A team of scientists characterized the predominant human noise sources in 66 national parks in the US, in an effort to help parks better manage the noise ... read more
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2000 Atoms in Two Places at Once

Oct. 2, 2019 -- The quantum superposition principle has been tested on a scale as never before in a new study. Hot, complex molecules composed of nearly two thousand atoms were brought into a quantum superposition and made to interfere. By confirming this phenomenon -- 'the heart of quantum mechanics', in Richard Feynman's words -- on a new mass scale, improved constraints on alternative theories to quantum ... read more
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Researchers Use Drones to Weigh Whales

Oct. 2, 2019 -- Researchers have devised a way to accurately estimate the weight of free-living whales using only aerial images taken by ... read more
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Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies, Growing Old Together

Sep. 30, 2019 -- The 'special relationship' between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their hosts -- something astronomers and physicists have observed for quite a while -- can now be understood as a bond that begins early in a galaxy's formation and has a say in how both the galaxy and the SMBH at its center grow over time, according to a new ... read more
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Many Gas Giant Exoplanets Waiting to Be Discovered

Sep. 27, 2019 -- There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA's WFIRST space telescope, according to new models of gas giant planet ... read more
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Oldest Galaxy Protocluster Forms 'Queen's Court'

Sep. 27, 2019 -- Astronomers have discovered a collection of 12 galaxies which existed about 13.0 billion years ago. One of the 12 galaxies is a giant object, known as Himiko, which was named for a mythological queen in ancient Japan. This discovery suggests that large structures such as protoclusters already existed when the Universe was only about 800 million years old, 6% of its present ... read more
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Galaxy Found to Float in a Tranquil Sea of Halo Gas

Sep. 26, 2019 -- Using one cosmic mystery to probe another, astronomers have analyzed the signal from a fast radio burst, an enigmatic blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond, to characterize the diffuse gas in the halo of a massive ... read more
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A Metronome for Quantum Particles

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Physicists have found a way to measure the elusive quantum phase of electrons. This enables a new, better view of important phenomena used in photosensors or ... read more
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Why Multipartite Viruses Infect Plants Rather Than Animals

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Being in between living and non-living, viruses are, in general, strange. Among viruses, multipartite viruses are among the most peculiar -- their genome is not packed into one, but many, particles. Multipartite viruses primarily infect plants rather than animals. A recent article uses mathematical and computational models to explain this ... read more
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New Method Improves Measurement of Animal Behavior Using Deep Learning

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Researchers develop deep learning toolkit for high-speed measurement of body posture in ... read more
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Quantum Material Goes Where None Have Gone Before

Sep. 30, 2019 -- Physicists have created a quantum material that can travel through a previously unexplored region marked by strange electronic properties. The journey is by an alloy of cerium palladium and ... read more
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October 2, 2019
Sep. 19, 2019 -- Data show that since 1970, the US and Canada have lost nearly 3 billion birds, a massive reduction in abundance involving hundreds of species, from beloved backyard songbirds to long-distance ... read more
Sep. 16, 2019 -- Once dismissed as 'junk DNA' that served no purpose, a family of 'jumping genes' found in tomatoes has the potential to accelerate crop breeding for ... read more
Sep. 16, 2019 -- A key question for climate scientists in recent years has been whether the Atlantic Ocean's main circulation system is slowing down, a development that could have dramatic consequences for Europe and ... read more
Sep. 16, 2019 -- Researchers analyzed fish bones excavated from the Early Neolithic Jiahu site in Henan Province, China. By comparing the body-length distributions and species-composition ratios of the bones with ... read more
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Why Are There No Animal Species With Three Legs?

Oct. 2, 2019 -- If 'Why?' is the first question in science, 'Why not?' must be a close second. Sometimes it's worth thinking about why something does not exist. Such as a truly three-legged animal. At least one researcher has been pondering the non-existence of ... read more
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Preventing Future Forest Diebacks

Oct. 2, 2019 -- Removing dead trees from the forests and reforesting on a large scale: this is the German Federal Government's strategy against 'Forest Dieback 2.0', researchers say. Ecologists call for other ... read more
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Limited Seed Availability, Dry Climate Hamper Post-Wildfire Forest Recovery

Oct. 2, 2019 -- A lack of tree seedling establishment following recent wildfires represents a crucial bottleneck limiting coniferous forest recovery in the western US, new research ... read more
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Mob Mentality Rules Jackdaw Flocks

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Jackdaws are more likely to join a mob to drive off predators if lots of their fellow birds are up for the fight, new research ... read more
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Managing Stormwater and Stream Restoration Projects Together

Oct. 2, 2019 -- A unified approach may benefit water quality, environment more than ... read more
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Early Warning Signals Heralded Fatal Collapse of Krakatau Volcano

Oct. 1, 2019 -- On 22 December 2018, a flank of the Anak Krakatau plunged into the Sunda strait between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java, triggering a tsunami that killed 430 people. An international research team has now shown that the volcano produced clear warning signals before its collapse. The researchers recommend to use their study to improve monitoring of ... read more
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Glowing Bacteria in Anglerfish 'Lamp' Come from the Water

Oct. 1, 2019 -- New research shows that female deep-sea anglerfish's bioluminescent bacteria -- which illuminate their 'headlamp' -- most likely come from the ... read more
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How Sustainable Is Tuna? New Global Catch Database Exposes Dangerous Fishing Trends

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Scientists have found that global tuna catches have increased over 1,000 per cent in the past six decades, fueled by a massive expansion of industrial ... read more
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250-Million-Year-Old Evolutionary Remnants Seen in Muscles of Human Embryos

Oct. 1, 2019 -- A team of evolutionary biologists have demonstrated that some limb muscles known to be present in many mammals but absent in the adult human are actually formed during early human development and then lost prior to birth. These findings offer insight into how our arms and legs evolved from our mammalian ancestors, and also help explain rare limb anomalies found in humans born with congenital ... read more
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What Did Ancient Crocodiles Eat? Study Says as Much as a Snout Can Grab

Sep. 30, 2019 -- To study the diet of ancient crocodiles, two researchers combined mathematical analyses of the animals' shapes, surveys of modern crocodiles' diet, modeling methods for reconstructing the diet of fossil groups, and forensic-style interpretations of damaged bones from the distant ... read more
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Cooking Food Alters the Microbiome

Sep. 30, 2019 -- Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters the microbiomes of both mice and humans, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health and for understanding how cooking may have altered the evolution of the our microbiomes during human ... read more
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Insight Into Competitive Advantage of Modern Humans Over Neanderthals

Sep. 30, 2019 -- A team of researchers have evidenced mechanically delivered projectile weapons in Europe dating to 45,000-40,000 years -- more than 20,000 years than previously thought. This study indicated that the spear-thrower and bow-and-arrow technologies allowed modern humans to hunt more successfully than Neanderthals -- giving them a competitive advantage. This discovery offered important insight to ... read more
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October 2, 2019
Aug. 29, 2019 -- New research shows that reduced cognitive flexibility is associated with more 'extreme' beliefs and identities at both ends of the political ... read more
Aug. 23, 2019 -- A new study suggests that the time adolescents are spending on their phones and online is not that bad. The study tracked young adolescents on their smartphones to test whether more time spent using ... read more
Aug. 22, 2019 -- Australian men are now living longer than any other group of males in the world, according to new ... read more
July 29, 2019 -- It was the most serious release of radioactive material since Fukushima 2011, but the public took little notice of it: In September 2017, a slightly radioactive cloud moved across Europe. Now, a ... read more
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Barrier to Rural Opioid Treatment: Driving Distance to Methadone Clinics

Oct. 1, 2019 -- People who live in rural counties in five states heavily affected by the opioid epidemic must drive longer distances to obtain methadone, a treatment for opioid addiction, compared to individuals from urban counties, say researchers. Their study suggests these long drive times in rural counties could be reduced by making methadone more accessible in primary care ... read more
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Early Life Racial Discrimination Linked to Depression, Accelerated Aging

Sep. 30, 2019 -- Early life stress from racial discrimination puts African Americans at greater risk for accelerated aging, a marker for premature development of serious health problems and perhaps a shorter life expectancy, according to a new ... read more
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Science Demonstrates That What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Through advanced data analysis, researchers have established a causal relationship between failure and future ... read more
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Handgun Purchasers With a Prior DUI Have a Greater Risk for Serious Violence

Sep. 30, 2019 -- Legal purchasers of handguns with a prior DUI conviction have a greater risk of a future arrest for a violent offense -- including murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault and for firearm-related violent ... read more
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Neuroimaging Reveals Hidden Communication Between Brain Layers During Reading

Oct. 1, 2019 -- Language involves many different regions of the brain. Researchers have discovered previously hidden connections between brain layers during reading, in a neuroimaging study. The team used laminar Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (lfMRI) to investigate what happens when people read Dutch words like ''zalm'' (salmon) compared to pseudowords ... read more
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Teenagers Less Likely to Respond to Mothers With Controlling Tone of Voice

Sep. 26, 2019 -- Teenagers are less likely to cooperate and put effort into their mother's requests when they are said in a controlling tone of voice, researchers have ... read more
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How Neural Circuits Drive Hungry Individuals to Peak Performance

Sep. 26, 2019 -- Success is no accident: To reach your goal you need perseverance. But where does the motivation come from? Scientists have now identified the neural circuit in the brain of fruit flies which makes them perform at their best when searching for ... read more
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Better Way to Teach Physics to University Students

Sep. 25, 2019 -- Physicists and educators have developed a curriculum for college-level students that shows promise in helping students in introductory physics classes further practice and develop their calculus ... read more
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New Research Analyzes Video Game Player Engagement

Sep. 25, 2019 -- In the video game industry, the ability for gaming companies to track and respond to gamers' post-purchase play opens up new opportunities to enhance gamer engagement and retention and increase video game ... read more
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Impostor Syndrome Is More Common Than You Think; Study Finds Best Way to Cope With It

Sep. 24, 2019 -- A new study from researchers reveals that perceptions of impostorism are quite common both in the workplace and the classroom and uncovers one of the best ways to cope with such feelings: seeking social support from those outside their academic ... read more
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Investments to Address Climate Change Are Good Business

Sep. 19, 2019 -- New research suggests that over the next few decades, acting to reduce climate change is expected to cost much less than the damage otherwise inflicted by climate change on people, infrastructure and ... read more
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The Future of 'Extremely' Energy-Efficient Circuits

Sep. 18, 2019 -- Data centers are processing data and dispensing the results at astonishing rates and such robust systems require a significant amount of energy -- so much energy, in fact, that information communication technology is projected to account for 20% of total energy consumption in the United States by 2020. To answer this demand, a team of researchers have developed a framework to reduce energy ... read more
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