science
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Majority of US adults prescribed epinephrine report not using it in an emergencyA new study shows in an emergency, 52 percent of adults with potentially life-threatening allergies didn't use the epinephrine auto-injectors (EAI)...
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Fish's use of electricity might shed light on human illnesses
African weakly electric fish, commonly called baby whales, use incredibly brief electrical pulses to sense the world around them and communicate...
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Water can be very dead, electrically speaking
Water is one of the most fascinating substances on Earth and at the heart of its many unusual properties is high polarizability, a strong response...
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First ancient syphilis genomes decoded
An international research team has recovered the first historic genomes from the bacterium Treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis. It was...
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Einstein proved right in another galaxy
Astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system. By combining data taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and...
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Waking up is hard to do: Prefrontal cortex implicated in consciousness
Researchers discover that stimulating the prefrontal cortex can induce wake-like behavior in anesthetized rats.
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Fundamental rule of brain plasticity
A series of complex experiments in the visual cortex of mice has yielded a simple rule about plasticity: When a synapse strengthens, others...
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How snowshoe hares evolved to stay seasonally camouflaged
Many animals have evolved fur or feather colors to blend in with the environment and hide from predators. But how do animals stay camouflaged when...
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Mice not only experience regret, but also learn to avoid it in the future
New research has discovered that mice are capable of learning to plan ahead in order to avoid regret down the road even if there is no additional...
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DNA enzyme shuffles cell membranes a thousand times faster than its natural counterpart
A new synthetic enzyme, crafted from DNA rather than protein, flips lipid molecules within the cell membrane, triggering a signal pathway that...
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Changes in stress after meditation
or a thousand years, people have reported feeling better by meditating but there are few systematic studies that quantified stress and how much...
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Cells stop dividing when this gene kicks into high gear
Scientists seeking to unlock secrets of cellular aging have identified a gene that triggers senescence, a phenomenon in which cells stop dividing....
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Ask Amy: My ex, whom I later learned was gay, keeps dating #WomenDear Amy: I was widowed in my 30s, with three young children. It was a very painful process to lose my husband at the young age of 39. I began...