What your body odour says about you
Smells emanating from you can reveal anything from your health status to your personality or political taste.
Plants & Animals
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How Australian museums regulate the display of human remains
Protesters are urging a boycott of Real Bodies: The Exhibition, which recently opened in Sydney, due to the possibility that the plastinated human bodies and organs on display were taken without consent from executed Chinese ...
Archaeology
Apr 30, 2018
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Dealing with the reproducibility crisis: what can ECRs do about it?
Unless you've been living under a rock (no judgment, by the way), I'm sure you've heard about the reproducibility crisis in scientific research. In 2016, two posts on this blog covered what the main causes of irreproducibility ...
Other
Apr 30, 2018
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Enhanced human body response to implants
UPM researchers have developed a new surface treatment to reduce metallic biomaterial implant rejection. This will extend the prosthesis life and thus increase the quality of life for patients.
Materials Science
Apr 30, 2018
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Nanoparticles developed to improve magnetic resonance scan images
Researchers at the Chemical Technology Institute (ITQ) of the Unviersitat Politècnica de València and collaborating institutions have developed nanoparticles that improve the contrast in magnetic resonance scan images. ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 30, 2018
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Math puzzle goes viral
A University of Huddersfield lecturer has puzzled the world.
Mathematics
Apr 30, 2018
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600 seismographs listen in on the Alps
600 sensors placed on and around the Alps constitute the largest academic seismographic network in the world. The AlpArray project will enable better understanding of the birth of the Alps as well as homogeneous seismic hazard ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2018
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Positron luminescence outshines that of electrons
In old cathode ray TVs, a picture is generated when an electron beam excites a phosphor screen, causing the phosphor to radiate light. Now in a new study, researchers have found that a beam of positrons (positively charged ...
Snake in the clouds—astronomers discover a new dwarf galaxy in the Magellanic Bridge
An international group of astronomers reports the detection of a new dwarf galaxy in the so-called Magellanic Bridge – a stream of gas linking the two Magellanic Clouds. The newly found galaxy, designated Hydrus 1, is described ...
Genes might play unrecognized role in aging, intervention
While aging is familiar to all of us, exactly how it occurs on a molecular basis has been an area of intense study and interest. We take it for granted that different species age at different rates, yet we do not have a good ...
Biotechnology
Apr 30, 2018
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