Reusable duodenoscopes infected patients in a series of notorious outbreaks. Now there’s a disposable model to be used just once. NYTimes.com - Published
Scientists are scouring the remote Antarctic ice cap for rare meteorites chock-full of iron and holding secrets to the history of our solar system going back some 4.5 billion years. FOXNews.com - Published
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the comet 21/Borisov zooming through our solar system at a breakneck speed of 175,000 kilometers per hour. FOXNews.com - Published
Every day, members of the Cloud Appreciation Society post photos of the sky from around the world. This is why they stop to look up. NYTimes.com - Published
Scientists have announced that the world's deepest land canyon has been discovered in Antarctica, deep beneath a glacier, stretching down almost 2.2 miles below sea level. Newsmax - Published Also reported by •FOXNews.com
Nurses sleep nearly an hour and a half less before work days compared to days off, which hurts patient care and safety, finds a new study. Science Daily - Published
People willing to risk near-certain death for an HIV cure; protecting individuals and families in genetic and psychiatric research, considerations for including pregnant women in research. Science Daily - Published
Researchers have made significant advances in developing a novel vaccine against Zika virus, which could potentially lead to global elimination of the disease. Science Daily - Published
A new study showed that environmentally relevant exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), a brominated flame retardant, through the umbilical cord and breast milk permanently changed liver.. Science Daily - Published
When proteins in the brain form deposits consisting of insoluble aggregates, diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's can occur. Now a research team has come a step closer to understanding this.. Science Daily - Published
A scientific collaboration has resulted in the construction of a synthetic DNA nanopore capable of selectively translocating protein-size macromolecules across lipid bilayers. Science Daily - Published
A new study on wild banded mongooses reveals that females may use spontaneous abortion to cope with reproductive competition, and to save their energy for future breeding attempts in better conditions. Science Daily - Published
Scientists pinpionted the role of a receptor in the plasticity underlying the degradation of vision in the common childhood condition amblyopia, but expected that receptor would play a bigger role in.. Science Daily - Published
Researchers have engineered a patch or bandage that captures a pro-healing molecule called adenosine that briefly surges at the site of a bone break or fracture to accelerate and improve the natural.. Science Daily - Published
Using a brain-computer interface, a team of researchers has reconstructed English words from the brain activity of rhesus macaques that listened as the words were spoken. Science Daily - Published
JAXA and NASA satellite observations show where killer electrons are generated in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth. Science Daily - Published
At a prehistoric archaeological site in Turkey, researchers have discovered two 8,500-year-old human teeth, which had been used as pendants in a necklace or bracelet. Researchers have never documented.. Science Daily - Published
How is knowledge exchanged and shared when interdisciplinary research teams work together? Researchers have investigated this by studying several different research projects. Their study makes concrete.. Science Daily - Published
While trying to develop a comparatively easy, inexpensive way to give physicians and their patients with bladder cancer a better idea of likely outcome and best treatment options, scientists found that.. Science Daily - Published
A new study demonstrates that an existing technique is better suited for probing superconductivity in pure, single-layer graphene than previously thought. The insight could allow physicists to.. Science Daily - Published
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*BERLIN* –– When the American President holds out a benevolent hand to officially pardon the turkey, we know Thanksgiving is just around the corner. This important.. Worldcrunch - Published
The truth about UFOs is out there — and now enthusiasts and researchers will have a chance to comb through a massive trove of documents. FOXNews.com - Published
An Antarctic field campaign last winter led by the US and Australia has successfully extracted some of the largest samples of air dating from the 1870s until today. Researchers will use the samples to.. Science Daily - Published
The manipulation of rivers in California is jeopardizing the resilience of native Chinook salmon. It compresses their migration timing to the point that they crowd their habitats. They may miss the.. Science Daily - Published
Microbes living in the rectum could make a difference to the effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines, according to researchers. Science Daily - Published
Tune in to ESA Web TV from 08:30 GMT (09:30 CET) Tuesday 17 December to watch ESA’s exoplanet mission soar into space on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ESA - Published
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Le petit oiseau va sortir...!
"Here flies the little bird!" is what we say in France when we want our subjects to pay attention and look at the camera. That time in.. Worldcrunch - Published
This coming Tuesday, ESA is launching the most powerful flight computer ever flown in space – inside a satellite smaller than a shoebox. The OPS-SAT nanosatellite will be the world’s first orbiting.. ESA - Published
As France’s top rugby players scrum, run and tackle they are being tracked by more than just TV cameras and the watching eyes of the crowd. Satnav-based tracking devices between their shoulder blades.. ESA - Published
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The work of Dr Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) is well known for being central to the discovery of the iconic double-helix structure of DNA, the fabric of life as we know it on Earth. More than.. ESA - Published
The European Space Agency says a self-destructing robot will be sent into orbit in 2025 to begin work on the world's first space cleanup mission. Jan Woerner of the European Space Agency discusses. NPR - Published
It is now almost 10 years since ESA’s CryoSat was launched. Throughout its decade in orbit, this novel satellite, which carries a radar altimeter to measure changes in the height of the world’s.. ESA - Published
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Sébastien Perrault talks about his YGT experience as a System Engineer working the Clean Space Office at ESOC, Germany. ESA - Published
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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea.
'Algae bloom' is the term used to describe the rapid multiplying of phytoplankton –.. ESA - Published
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In this week's edition of the Earth from Space programme, Copernicus Sentinel-2 takes us over the green algae blooms swirling around the Baltic Sea.
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On 17 December, ESA will launch a first-of-its-kind space laboratory, OPS-SAT. The small, low-cost, test satellite has been specifically designed for operational experimentation in.. ESA - Published
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*BUENOS AIRES* — Why do we dance? This primordial expression that connects us, almost instinctively, with our emotions, emerged in antiquity and has evolved with the.. Worldcrunch - Published
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