Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach — even if it’s off — suggests new research. …read more Source:: Science
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Celestial Boondocks: Study Supports the Idea We Live in a Void
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•A new study not only firms up the idea that we exist in one of the holes of the Swiss cheese structure of the cosmos, but helps ease the apparent …read more Source:: Science
Scientists try to crack the brain’s memory codes
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•In a pair of studies, scientists explored how the human brain stores and retrieves memories. One study suggests that the brain etches each memory into unique firing patterns of individual …read more Source:: Science
Live cell imaging using a smartphone
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•A recent study shows how smartphones can be used to make movies of living cells, without the need for expensive equipment. The study makes it possible for laboratories around the …read more Source:: Science
Study pinpoints when the Galápagos Islands developed their unique ecology
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•A new study shows the geologic formation of one part of the Galapagos Islands archipelago — the one responsible for the biodiversity — formed roughly 1.6 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
El Niño fueled Zika outbreak, new study suggests
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•A change in weather patterns, brought on by the ‘Godzilla’ El Niño of 2015, fueled the Zika outbreak in South America, researchers report. …read more Source:: Science
Cellular reprogramming slows aging in mice
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•Scientists have rolled back time for live mice through systemic cellular reprogramming, according to a new study. In mice carrying a mutation leading to premature aging, reprogramming of chemical marks …read more Source:: Science
Oxytocin improves synchronization in leader-follower interaction
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•A new study shows that participants receiving oxytocin — a hormone known to promote social bonding – are more synchronized when finger-tapping together, than participants receiving placebo. This effect was …read more Source:: Science
Most of Greenland ice melted to bedrock in recent geologic past, says study
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•Scientists have found evidence in a chunk of bedrock drilled from nearly two miles below the summit of the Greenland ice sheet that the sheet nearly disappeared for an extended …read more Source:: Science
Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
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•A new study of one of our closest invertebrate relatives, the acorn worm, reveals that regenerating body parts might one day be possible. …read more Source:: Science