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Yeast Coaxed To Make Morphine
Genetically manipulated yeast can produce morphine, which could help get around the problems with poppy crops, which include climate, disease and war. Karen Hopkin reports.
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App IDs Other Battery Eater Apps
More than a million volunteer users of the smarthphone app Carat have helped researchers identify those apps that really suck battery power in both the Android operating system and iOS. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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Quantum Bits Compressed for the First Time
Physicists have now shown how to encode three quantum bits, the kind of data that might be used in the computers of tomorrow, using just two photons -
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What Are the Most Dangerous Threats to Air Quality?
Smog and soot top the list, even though there are remedies for both -
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Lots or Little Sleep Linked to Sick Days
Absence from work due to illness increased dramatically for those who slept less than 6 hours or more than 9 hours per night. Christie Nicholson reports.
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Know the Jargon: “Human Shield Effect”
Animals aren’t as vigilant for predators when they know humans are around -
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Leaking CO2 Fails to Cause Marine Catastrophe
Carbon dioxide that escapes from storage underneath the seafloor is not likely to harm the environment, based on a recent experiment -
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New Solar Cells Use Perovskite to Turn Water into Energy
The material, replacing silicon, splits water into hydrogen and oxygen efficiently and inexpensively -
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Scientists Draw on Personal Experience to Guide Their Curiosity
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“Glass Brain” Offers Tours of the Space between Your Ears
3-D visualizations combine EEG and MRI data to illustrate how brain signals propagate and could be used to study neural disorders -
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Acting Classes Could Help Kids with Autism
Kids with autism may learn valuable social skills in drama-based therapies -
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No Airlifts for Sickened African Ebola Docs
West African physicians confront the same dangers as foreign health workers, but unlike their counterparts they do not receive emergency evacuations if they fall victim to the Ebola virus -
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Solar Energy Could Dominate Electricity by 2050
Plummeting costs of the equipment to generate solar energy are helping -
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When I Learned the Value of Diversity for Innovation
In a diverse team, the best ideas are more likely to rise to the top -
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At Least 36 Feared Dead on Japanese Volcano, Search Called Off
The volcano rained ash and stones on hikers, but the search for victims was abandoned on Monday due to fears of rising levels of toxic gases -
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The Importance of Possessions While Homeless
This post is part of a collaborative narrative series composed of my writing and Chris Arnade’s photos exploring issues of addiction, poverty, prostitution and urban anthropology in Hunts Point, Bronx. -
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A New Idea for Treating Alzheimer's
If it's good for the heart, it could also be good for the neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes, cells that make up the main items on the brain's parts list. -
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Teen Wins Big for His Sock Invention
Recipient of the Science in Action Award, a 15-year-old develops a sensor to monitor Alzheimer’s patients -
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Evolution versus Creation; Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon
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