When paleontologist Iyad Zalmout went looking for fossil whales and dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia, he never expected to come face-to-face with a significant, early primate fossil.
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Miss Marple notwithstanding, arsenic might not be many people’s favorite chemical. But the notorious poison does have some medical applications. Specifically, a form called arsenic trioxide has been used as a therapy for a particular type of leukemia for more than 10 years. Now researchers have shown that it may be useful in treating a [...]
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Glaciers that lose their footing on the seafloor and begin floating behave very erratically, according to a new study. Floating glaciers produce larger icebergs than their grounded cousins and do so at unpredictable intervals, researchers find.
The positive effects of exercise while growing up seem to last longer than previously believed. New findings suggest that physical activity when young increases bone density and size, which may mean a reduced risk of osteoporosis later in life.
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Scientists are reporting discovery of a way to help proteins such as the new generation of protein-based drugs — sometimes heralded as tomorrow’s potential “miracle cures” — get past the biochemical “Entrance Forbidden” barrier that keeps them from entering cells and doing their work. The new technique represents a new use for an engineered form [...]
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Five major fast food chains have significantly decreased trans fats in the oils they use to cook food, according to new research.
A new study shows mice without rods and cones function can still see — and not just light, but also patterns and images — thanks to a third kind of photosensitive cell in the retina.
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Researchers have used a newly discovered class of biomarkers to investigate the possibility that the shape of brain protein deposits is different in people with Alzheimer’s who have the highest-risk gene type than in those with the condition who have a neutral risk gene type.
Scientists have discovered a fundamental difference in how electrons behave at the two distinct oxygen-atom sites in a copper-oxide superconductor. Understanding this broken symmetry in the non-superconducting pseudogap phase may lead to new approaches to understanding the pseudogap, long hypothesized as a key hurdle to achieving room-temperature superconductivity.
Fine-tuning radiotherapy to take into account which parts of a patient’s tumor are growing fastest could improve control of cancer while subjecting patients to lower doses of radiation
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