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3 Smart Things: What You Might Not Know About Attention

We do actually become less attentive as we get older, but refocusing someone's attention can have concrete physical effects.

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3 Smart Things: What You Might Not Know About Attention

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The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

After sepsis forced the amputation of Sheila Avento's hands, an intricate transplant technique made her whole again. Then came the side effects.

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The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

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Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data

While the eye is superior at perceiving sizes and ratios, the ear is better at detecting patterns that occur over *time*. Enter: sonification.

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Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data

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How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order

A long-standing mystery in neuroscience is how the brain attaches a timestamp to our memories. Researchers now may have identified a neural mechanism.

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How the Brain Keeps Its Memories in the Right Order

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California's Rain Was a 'Cat 4' Atmospheric River. Wait, What?

All that rain drenching California this week came from an atmospheric river. A new rating scale would tell you how much water is fueling the system.

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California's Rain Was a 'Cat 4' Atmospheric River. Wait, What?

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Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI

Social science has an image problem'too many findings don't hold up. A new project will crank through 30,000 studies to try to identify red flags.

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Darpa Wants to Solve Science's Reproducibility Crisis With AI

SingularityHUB

Sensors and Machine Learning Are Giving Robots a Sixth Sense

According to some scientists, humans really do have a sixth sense. There's nothing supernatural about it: the sense of proprioception tells you about the relative positions of your limbs and the rest of your body. Close your eyes, block out all sound, and you can still use this internal "map" of your ...

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Sensors and Machine Learning Are Giving Robots a Sixth Sense

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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 16)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AI Is Reinventing the Way We Invent David Rotman | MIT Technology Review “i‘This is where the action is,’ Alán Aspuru-Guzik says. ‘AIs that drive cars, AIs that improve medical diagnostics, AIs for personal shopping'the economic growth from AIs applied ...

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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through February 16)

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AI Is Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare and Longevity

When it comes to the future of healthcare, perhaps the only technology more powerful than CRISPR is artificial intelligence. Over the past five years, healthcare AI startups around the globe raised over $4.3 billion across 576 deals, topping all other industries in AI deal activity. During this same ...

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AI Is Rapidly Augmenting Healthcare and Longevity

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What It Will Take For Humans to Be Self-Sustaining in Space

We take for granted that we live on a planet that is rich in life. With over 14 million identified species, the sheer biodiversity on Earth is outstanding. We depend on this diversity for food and resources, which in return allow us to flourish and thrive. However, this symbiotic relationship doesn't ...

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What It Will Take For Humans to Be Self-Sustaining in Space

Yahoo Science

Morocco looks to French as language of economic success

With so many students dropping out of university because they don't speak French, the government has proposed reintroducing it as the language for teaching science, maths and technical subjects such as computer science in high schools. It also wants children to start learning French when they start ...

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Morocco looks to French as language of economic success

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Indonesian presidential hopefuls vow energy self-sufficiency via palm

Indonesia's two presidential candidates pledged to achieve energy self-sufficiency by boosting the use of bioenergy, particularly fueled by palm oil, to cut costly oil imports by Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil producer, has been pushing for all diesel fuel ...

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Indonesian presidential hopefuls vow energy self-sufficiency via palm

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U.S. pressing Gulf states to keep Syria isolated: sources

The opposing approaches are an early test of whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad can gain political and diplomatic credibility after a nearly eight-year civil war turned him into an international pariah. Many countries cut links with Syria at the start of the war. Several Gulf states shut or downgraded ...

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U.S. pressing Gulf states to keep Syria isolated: sources

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Odey Sets Sights on German Regulator for Wirecard Short Sale Ban

The move by BaFin, prohibiting investors from taking new short positions or increasing existing ones through April 18, opens the watchdog to potential litigation, Odey said in an interview Monday. Such a step would require the regulator to be sure that Wirecard's employees haven't engaged in any wrongdoing ...

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Odey Sets Sights on German Regulator for Wirecard Short Sale Ban

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Huawei Crackdown Exposes Europe as Laggard in Global 5G Race

A year later, the U.K. is among European nations weighing restrictions on the Chinese tech giant that phone carriers say could delay the fifth-generation mobile networks needed to connect driverless cars and automated factories. "The risk is that it puts Europe further behind the curve," said Neil Campling, ...

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Huawei Crackdown Exposes Europe as Laggard in Global 5G Race

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Chinese frozen food firm recalls products suspected of African swine fever contamination

Major Chinese frozen food producer Sanquan Food Co Ltd said on Monday it has recalled products that may be contaminated with African swine fever, following media reports that some of its dumplings tested positive for the virus. African swine fever is incurable in pigs but does not harm people. An epidemic ...

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Chinese frozen food firm recalls products suspected of African swine fever contamination

Science Daily

Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia

Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinction in the world. Resettlement of indigenous communities resulted in the spread of invasive species, the absence of human-set fires, and a general cascade in the interconnected food web that led to the largest mammalian extinction event ever recorded. In ...

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Indigenous hunters have positive impacts on food webs in desert Australia

Science Daily

There's a place for us: New research reveals humanity's roles in ecosystems

In two back-to-back symposia a cross-disciplinary cohort of scientists will present the first comprehensive investigations of how humans interacted with plant and animal species in different cultures worldwide through time.

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There's a place for us: New research reveals humanity's roles in ecosystems

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Drug combination may become new standard treatment for advanced kidney cancer

A combination of two drugs -- one of them an immunotherapy agent -- could become a new standard, first-line treatment for patients with metastatic kidney cancer, results from a phase 3 clinical trial suggest.

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Drug combination may become new standard treatment for advanced kidney cancer

Science Daily

A hidden source of air pollution? Your daily household tasks

Cooking, cleaning and other routine household activities generate significant levels of volatile and particulate chemicals inside the average home, leading to indoor air quality levels on par with a polluted major city.

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A hidden source of air pollution? Your daily household tasks

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Weak spots for Mission to Mars revealed

Researchers are developing a predictive model to help NASA anticipate conflicts and communication breakdowns among crew members and head off problems that could make or break the Mission to Mars.

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Weak spots for Mission to Mars revealed

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Tiny fibers create unseen plastic pollution

While the polyester leisure suit was a 1970s mistake, polyester and other synthetic fibers like nylon are still around and are a major contributor to the microplastics load in the environment, according to a materials scientist, who suggests switching to biosynthetic fibers to solve this problem.

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Tiny fibers create unseen plastic pollution

New York Times Science

Out There: Where’s the Nobel Prize for the Bureaucrats?

In science, as in sports, some of the most important action happens off season and on the sidelines.

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New York Times Science

Out There: Where’s the Nobel Prize for the Bureaucrats?

New York Times Science

Trilobites: Birds of a Feather May Stick Together, but This Bird’s Foot Got Stuck in Amber

Researchers say the feathered specimen known as “Ugly Foot” or “Hobbit Foot” offers long-sought clues to the evolutionary path of birds.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: Birds of a Feather May Stick Together, but This Bird’s Foot Got Stuck in Amber

National Science Foundation

Antarctic research vessel to deliver ailing individual to British research station

Acting on the advice of medical experts, National Science Foundation (NSF) officials have directed the NSF-chartered research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer to put ashore a person in need of a level of care not available aboard the ship. The Palmer, which is at sea in Antarctic waters, will divert to the ...

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National Science Foundation

Antarctic research vessel to deliver ailing individual to British research station