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Ordering Coffee: Requesting Extra Hot Brew

Majority of Americans Concerned: Moderate Alcohol Impact on Health

Study: Improved EoE Control Reduces Esophagus Stiffening

New Study Reveals Breakthrough in AML Chemoresistance

Highly Sensitive People at Risk: Mental Health Study

Metabolic Syndrome Severity Linked to Chronic Kidney Disease

Missed Opportunities for Genetic Testing in HGSC

Early Detection of Diabetes Risk Factors in Households

Study: Sleep Fragmentation Impacts Quality of Life in Children with Nocturnal Enuresis

Breakthrough Discovery: 8 New Genes Linked to Schizophrenia

Innovative Strategies to Slow Biological Aging: JAMA Review

Study Finds Missing RNA Boosts Pediatric Brain Tumor Immunotherapy

How Visual Information Travels Through Your Brain

Millions Worldwide Affected by Devastating Rheumatoid Arthritis

Stem Cells from Muscles Enhance Bone Healing

Mifepristone Shows Promise in Breast Cancer Risk Reduction

Care Pathways for Drug-Dependent Women: Anxiety and Referrals

Groundbreaking Study Reveals Suicide Trends in England

Aerospace Industry's Digital Twins Enhance Aircraft Safety

Probiotic Reduces Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Preterm Infants

Scientists Map Mutations Causing Muscular Dystrophy

Gut Neurons Shape Immune Response: Key Findings & Implications

Unlocking Valuable Health Data: Hospitals and Clinics Collecting Vital Information

Clinical Trial Shows Biochemical Correction for GM2 Gangliosidosis

Alzheimer's Early Sign: Smell Loss Linked to Brain's Immune Response

New Genetically Modified Immune Cell Targets Organ Rejection

New Biological Pathway Links Type 2 Diabetes to Blood Clots

Columbia Engineers Develop Cancer Therapy with Bacteria-Virus Team

Positive Outcomes in Primary Progressive Aphasia Study

Youth Mental Health Crisis: Children Stuck in ERs

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Exploring New Horizons: Navigating Unseen Lands

Paris Agreement for Plastic Finalized This Week

New Findings: San Andreas Earthquake, Universe Shape, Food Thickeners

Exploring Skyrmionic Textures for Spintronics

"Hurricane Erin Strengthens, Heads Towards Caribbean"

SpaceX Starship Megarocket Set for Test Flight

Utah's Great Salt Lake: Human Activity Alters Biogeochemical State

Discovery of Active Flat Electronic Bands in Kagome Superconductor

Climate Stress: Linking Global Warming to Conflict

Researchers Uncover Virus Genetic Packing Mechanism

Scientists Uncover Crystal with Oxygen-Breathing Ability

Understanding Damped Harmonic Oscillators in Physics

Humans Adapt to Floods: Private Measures Reduce Losses

First Real-Time 3D Images of Human Embryo Implanting

Transition to Market-Oriented Farming in Trans-Himalayas

Ancient Humans in Kenya Used Oldowan Tools for Hunting

Improving Equitable Research Practices in Global Studies

"Deadly 7.7 Earthquake in Myanmar Triggers Supershear Rupture"

New Method Identifies Superconductors Preventing Energy Loss

New CRISPR Tech at UNSW Sydney: Safer Genetic Disease Treatment

Study Reveals Impact of Anonymous Authorship in Peer Review

New Discoveries Unveil Complex History of Gotska Sandön

Declining Trust in Public Institutions: Global Impact

Study Reveals Impact of Belief on Reducing Single-Use Plastics

Breakthrough: Supramolecular Co-Assembly for Full-Color CPL

Scientists Overcome Material Defects for Spintronic Breakthrough

"Ursa Major III: Compact Star Cluster with Black Hole Core"

Yale Researchers Cool Sound Vibrations with Lasers

Rare Subtropical Wood Stork Spotted in Wisconsin Wilds

Bumblebee Catfish Climbing Waterfalls in Brazil

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Australian Workers Embrace Gen AI Tools Without Boss Approval

Many Australians secretly use AI at work, a new report shows. Clearer rules could reduce 'shadow AI'

Caught in a social media echo chamber? AI can help you out

Beware: Clickbait Traps on Social Media

Sibling and friend game time key to keeping children safe in online video games, say researchers

Role of Older Siblings in Online Child Safety

Dry-Processed Electrodes: Eco-Friendly Battery Cell Innovation

A step toward circular batteries: Dry-processed cathodes can now be recycled without toxic solvents

Study Suggests Shifting Electricity Consumption for Lower Emissions

Study identifies best times to consume electricity and cut carbon emissions

Targeted doping strategy use copper ions to boost thermoelectric performance

Qut Researchers Enhance Germanium Telluride with Copper Ions

AI-driven method to reduce traffic delays and improve road safety

Boosting Lagging Productivity Growth with Artificial Intelligence

Does AI really boost productivity at work? Research shows gains don't come cheap or easy

Innovative Framework Estimates Traffic Queue Length Without Sensors

Climate Crisis Signals: Urgent Action Needed to Combat Disarray

Q&A: Expert discusses building a clean energy economy that benefits everyone

Enhancing Battery Life: Lithium Metal Batteries vs. Li-ion

Nanoengineered electrode material boosts cycling and efficiency in Li-metal batteries

Australian Researchers Discover Peer-to-Peer Solar Power Sharing

Sharing is power: Doing the neighborly thing when it comes to solar

YouTube turns to AI to spot children posing as adults

YouTube Utilizes AI to Detect Child Users Impersonating Adults

Apple Unveils Redesigned Blood Oxygen Sensing in Top Smartwatches

Apple Watch gets revamped blood oxygen feature

Graph AI Models for Industrial Analysis: Limitations in Full Graph Learning

Graph analysis AI model achieves training up to 95 times faster on a single GPU

New Method for Realistic Water Flow Simulations

Two-phase model incorporates interactions with air to facilitate realistic simulation of fluids

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Friday, 31 May 2019

Many immunosuppressed persons join in hurricane cleanup

(HealthDay)—About half of immunosuppressed persons reported participating in cleanup activities following Hurricane Harvey, and less than half of those who performed heavy cleanup reported wearing a respirator, according to research published in the May 31 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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Lab-grown diamonds: Technology is disrupting the diamond business

Forget what you know about cubic zirconia, crystals and any simulated diamonds. This isn't about that.

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Tornado outbreaks reminder to make smartphones disaster-ready

Tornadoes have torn their way across the country as the natural disaster season starts, leaving hundreds displaced from their homes and lives in disarray.

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A new way to predict complications after larynx cancer surgery

A technique that illuminates blood flow during surgery predicted which head and neck cancer patients were likely to have issues with wound healing. It could enable surgeons to make adjustments during surgery or recovery to improve outcomes.

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Research reveals role of fat storage cells in anti-obesity intervention

New research from a team at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine establishes a role of adipocyte Na/K-ATPase signaling in worsening obesity and its companion diseases, including neurodegeneration and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), that was enhanced by specific targeting of NaKtide, an antagonist of Na/K-ATPase signaling, to the adipocyte.

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30 dead deer found at Utah landfill starved, died of disease

Utah officials have determined that more than 30 deer found near a landfill in northeastern Utah died from starvation, diseases and other causes.

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Astrocytes protect neurons from toxic buildup

Astrocytes are overtaxed neurons' pit crew.

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Winter could pose solar farm 'ramping' snag for power grid

By adding utility-scale solar farms throughout New York state, summer electricity demand from conventional sources could be reduced by up to 9.6% in some places.

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More opioids given than prescribed in emergency department

(HealthDay)—The rate of emergency department visits with opioids only given during the visit is higher than the rate for visits with opioids only prescribed at discharge and for visits with opioids given and prescribed, according to a May data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics.

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US holds CBD hearing as fans, sellers await legal clarity

CBD products have surged in popularity despite confusion around their legal status . Now U.S. regulators are exploring ways to officially allow the hemp ingredient in food, drinks and dietary supplements.

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Guidelines updated for radiotherapy after prostatectomy

(HealthDay)—Clinical guidelines on adjuvant and salvage radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy have been updated, according to the American Society for Radiation Oncology and the American Urological Association.

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Making structural changes to antibody has potential for reducing cancer tumours

Guided by "blueprints" produced at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) at the University of Saskatchewan, a group of scientists from academia and industry made structural changes to an antibody that is now showing a lot of potential for reducing cancer tumours.

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'Miracle baby': Woman gets pregnant after having fallopian tubes removed

Elizabeth Kough had been pregnant before. She knew how it felt. She just couldn't believe it had happened this time.

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Sprint launches mobile 5G network in Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and Kansas City

Sprint is still sweating out regulatory approval for its would-be merger with T-Mobile.

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REPLAB: A low-cost benchmark platform for robotic learning

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a reproducible, low-cost and compact benchmark platform to evaluate robotic learning approaches, which they called REPLAB. Their recent study, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, was supported by Berkeley DeepDrive, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Google, NVIDIA and Amazon.

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Novel approach to test the adverse impacts of man-made chemical mixtures

Concerns over our seemingly constant exposure to chemical mixtures of all kinds have been growing in the past two decades. This is because endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) found in various materials such as pesticides, metals, additives in food and personal care products are believed to be associated with various health risks. These include altered reproductive function in males and females, increased incidence of breast cancer, abnormal growth patterns and neurodevelopmental delays in children.

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Combination of three gene mutations results in deadly human heart disease

Congenital heart disease occurs in up to 1% of live births, and the infants who are affected may require multiple surgeries, life-long medication, or heart transplants. In many patients, the exact cause of congenital heart disease is unknown. While it is becoming increasingly clear that these heart defects can be caused by genetic mutations, it is not well understood which genes are involved and how they interact. Genetic mutations, also called genetic variants, can also cause poor heart function, but the type and severity of dysfunction varies widely even among those with the same mutation.

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Three convolutional neural network models for facial expression recognition in the wild

Two researchers at Shanghai University of Electric Power have recently developed and evaluated new neural network models for facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild. Their study, published in Elsevier's Neurocomputing journal, presents three models of convolutional neural networks (CNNs): a Light-CNN, a dual-branch CNN and a pre-trained CNN.

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Research deepens understanding of gut bacteria's connections to human health, disease

Researchers at Oregon State University have made an important advance in understanding the roles that gut bacteria play in human health.

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K-Athena: a performance portable magnetohydrodynamics code

Running large-scale simulations is a crucial aspect of modern scientific research, yet it often requires a vast amount of computational resources. As we approach the era of exascale computing, which will be marked by the introduction of highly performing supercomputers, researchers have been trying to develop new architectures and codes to meet the huge computational requirements of our times. An important property to consider when developing codes for the exascale computing era is performance portability, which prevents the repeated, non-trivial refactoring of a code for different architectures.

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Swapping water for CO2 could make fracking greener and more effective

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that CO2 may make a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid than water. Their research, published May 30 in the journal Joule, could help pave the way for a more eco-friendly form of fracking that would double as a mechanism for storing captured atmospheric CO2.

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