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Two of four Ebola treatments prove highly effective in a clinical trial

Aug 12 2019 6:01 PM

An Ebola field trial in Congo is shifting its focus toward treatments that preliminary data suggest can help prevent death from the disease.

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News in Brief

Even without concussions, just one football season may damage players' brains

Aug 12 2019 10:28 AM

A group of college football players underwent brain scans after a season of play. The results suggest the sport could impact neural signaling.

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Plants don't have feelings and aren't conscious, a biologist argues

Aug 12 2019 6:00 AM

The rise of the field of "plant neurobiology" has this scientist and his colleagues pushing back.

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Rethink

A proposed space telescope would use Earth's atmosphere as a lens

Aug 09 2019 11:55 AM

One astronomer has a bold solution to the high cost of building big telescopes.

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Are researchers asking the right questions to prevent mass shootings?

Aug 09 2019 8:00 AM

Understanding how to thwart these violent events may be more effective than analyzing perpetrators' backgrounds.

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Exploding stars scattered traces of iron over Antarctic snow

Aug 09 2019 6:00 AM

Researchers melted half a ton of snow to find just 10 atoms of a radioactive variety of iron.

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How these tiny insect larvae leap without legs
Aug 08 2019 6:20 PM

High-speed filming reveals how a blob of an insect can leap more efficiently than it crawls.

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The worst wildfires can send smoke high enough to affect the ozone layer
Aug 08 2019 2:00 PM

The first direct observations of wildfire smoke in the stratosphere confirm what could happen in a "nuclear winter," a study finds.

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50 Years Ago
50 years ago, Fermilab turned to bubbles
Aug 08 2019 8:00 AM

The National Accelerator Laboratory, now called Fermilab, used to have a bubble chamber to study particles. Today, most bubble chambers have gone flat.

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One in 4 people live in places at high risk of running out of water
Aug 08 2019 6:00 AM

An update to the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas reveals that 17 countries withdraw more than 80 percent of water available yearly.

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Mercury levels in fish are rising despite reduced emissions
Aug 07 2019 3:37 PM

Climate change and overfishing can increase how much mercury accumulates in fish, counteracting efforts to reduce human-caused emissions.

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Why people with celiac disease suffer so soon after eating gluten
Aug 07 2019 2:00 PM

In people with celiac disease, some T cells release immune chemicals within hours of encountering gluten, triggering the fast onset of symptoms.

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Giant, active galaxies from the early universe may have finally been found
Aug 07 2019 1:00 PM

Overlooked galaxies from when the universe was younger than 2 billion years old could be the ancestors of other ancient and modern monster galaxies.

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How pieces of live human brain are helping scientists map nerve cells
Aug 07 2019 6:00 AM

Experiments on live nerve cells - donated from patients undergoing brain surgery - may turn up clues about how the human brain works.

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Racist words and acts, like the El Paso shooting, harm children's health
Aug 06 2019 3:37 PM

Racism can take a lifelong toll on children's and adolescents' health. U.S. pediatricians are tackling the problem.

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A fungus makes a chemical that neutralizes the stench of skunk spray
Aug 06 2019 10:00 AM

A compound produced by fungi reacts with skunk spray to form residues that aren't offensive to the nose and can be more easily washed away.

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