Video: How much Halloween candy would kill you?
Halloween is almost here, which means costumes, scary movies and lots of candy.
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NOAA: Americans added an extra pound of seafood to their diet in 2015
Across the nation, U.S. fishermen landed 9.7 billion pounds of fish and shellfish valued at $5.2 billion, a volume and value similar to recent years. The highest value U.S. commercial species were lobster ($679.2 million), ...
Ecology
Oct 26, 2016
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Nickel-78 is a 'doubly magic' isotope, supercomputing calculations confirm
For many of us, the term "doubly magic" may evoke images of Penn & Teller. However, for nuclear physicists, it describes atomic nuclei that have greater stability than their neighbors thanks to having shells that are fully ...
General Physics
Oct 26, 2016
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Autonomous search agents could support researchers
Researchers could soon enlist help from digital assistants to review vast swathes of literature, according to a new report on artificial intelligence.
Computer Sciences
Oct 26, 2016
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NASA provides a 3-D look at Hurricane Seymour
Hurricane Seymour became a major hurricane on Oct. 25 as the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite analyzed the storm's very heavy rainfall and provided a 3-D image of the storm's structure.
Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2016
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What happens to a pathogenic fungus grown in space?
A new study, published this week in mSphere, provides evidence that Aspergillus fumigatus, a significant opportunistic fungal threat to human health, grows and behaves similarly on the International Space Station compared ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2016
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Universal clamping protein stabilizes folded proteins: New insight into how the chaperone protein Hsp70 works
On October 26th Nature will publish a study that overturns the decades-old textbook model of action for a protein that is central for many processes in living cells. Researchers at the FOM Institute AMOLF and the University ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2016
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Young stellar system caught in act of forming close multiples
For the first time, astronomers have seen a dusty disk of material around a young star fragmenting into a multiple-star system. Scientists had suspected such a process, caused by gravitational instability, was at work, but ...
Astronomy
Oct 26, 2016
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Lithium battery dangers mean Samsung recall won't be last
A faulty battery has cost Samsung a pile of money and tarnished its reputation.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 26, 2016
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For the first time, brain surface stimulation provides 'touch' feedback to direct movement
In the quest to restore movement to people with spinal cord injuries, researchers have focused on getting brain signals to disconnected nerves and muscles that no longer receive messages that would spur them to move.
Engineering
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