In use for more than 20 years, the varicella zoster virus vaccine for chickenpox and…
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Like air traffic, information flows through neuron ‘hubs’ in the brain
70 percent of all information within cortical regions in the brain passes through only 20…
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Bluetooth and Wi-Fi sensing from mobile devices may help improve bus service
Transportation engineers have developed an inexpensive system to sense Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals from bus…
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Switchable material could enable new memory chips
Small voltage can flip thin film between two crystal states — one metallic, one semiconducting…
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New species of bird discovered in India, China by international team of scientists
A new species of bird has been described in north-eastern India and adjacent parts of…
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Self-heating lithium-ion battery could beat the winter woes
A lithium-ion battery that self heats if the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit has…
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Rising carbon dioxide emissions pose ‘intoxication’ threat to world’s ocean fish
Researchers have found that carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater could reach levels high enough to…
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Evidence of a prehistoric massacre extends the history of warfare
Skeletal remains of a group of foragers massacred around 10,000 years ago on the shores…
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Mining social media can help improve disaster response efforts
Leveraging publicly available social media posts could help disaster response agencies quickly identify impacted areas…
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No evidence of seasonal differences in depressive symptoms
A large-scale survey of US adults provides no evidence that levels of depressive symptoms vary…