How do you make an optical fiber transmit light only one way? Researchers have experimentally…
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Children feel most positively about mothers who respect their autonomy
Mothers who support their children’s need for autonomy as the children grow tend to be…
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‘Healthy’ fat tissue could be key to reversing type 2 diabetes
Preventing inflammation in obese fat tissue may hold the key to preventing or even reversing…
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Ballooning offers platform for performing research in a space-like environment
A high-altitude (>20 km) balloon platform is nearly ideal for carrying out scientific observations in…
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Some older cancer patients can avoid radiotherapy, study finds
Some older women with breast cancer could safely avoid radiotherapy, without harming their chances of…
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Into the dark: Two new encrusting anemones found in coral reef caves
Three marine biologists from Japan have discovered two new and unusually unique species of encrusting…
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Urban sprawl promotes worm exchange across species
The complex exchange of parasitic worms between wildlife, rats and humans is a little more…
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Cell mechanism discovered that may cause pancreatic cancer
Researchers have found that defects in how cells are squeezed out of overcrowded tissue to…
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Blind beetles show extraordinary signs of sight
Researchers have made a surprising discovery in the aquifers beneath the Western Australian desert, which…
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Seeing selves as overweight may be self-fulfilling prophecy for some teens
Teens who mistakenly perceive themselves as overweight are actually at greater risk of obesity as…