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Scientists discover first-ever bee 'soldier'

Scientists discover first-ever bee 'soldier' | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it

University of Sussex scientists working with researchers in Brazil have identified the first example of a 'soldier' bee.

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Gray hair and vitiligo reversed at the root

It's true -- the cure for gray hair is coming. New research in The FASEB Journal shows that people going gray develop oxidative stress via accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicle, causing our hair to bleach itself from the inside out.

Deborah Verran's comment, May 4, 6:30 PM
What a breakthrough and will lead to a huge demand for any product that comes through to market
Deborah Austin's comment, May 20, 9:52 PM
I have always been told that my vitiligo is an autoimmune disorder - and can't be 'fixed'.
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Scientists discover new target for personalized cancer therapy

Scientists discover new target for personalized cancer therapy | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results.
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US team's battery 'breakthrough'

US team's battery 'breakthrough' | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Researchers believe they have found a way to radically shrink the size of batteries while offering the same amount of power and faster recharges than at present.
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Scientists discover dark lightning

Scientists discover dark lightning | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
scientists recently discovered something mind-bending about lightning: Sometimes its flashes are invisible, just sudden pulses of unexpectedly powerful radiation. It's what Joseph Dwyer, a lightning researcher at the Florida ...
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Discovery could increase efficacy of promising cystic fibrosis drug

Discovery could increase efficacy of promising cystic fibrosis drug | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Discovery could increase efficacy of promising cystic fibrosis drug. Friday, March 22, 2013. MU scientist Tzyh-Chang Hwang, Ph.D., and colleagues have redefined a key regulatory process in the defective protein responsible for cystic fibrosis, ...
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First optical-transmission technology to achieve 100 Gbps using 10 Gbps transmission components

First optical-transmission technology to achieve 100 Gbps using 10 Gbps transmission components | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced the development of the world's first optical-transmission technology that can achieve 100 Gbps transmission speeds using widely available, conventional components intended for 10 Gbps networking.
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Quantum computing moves forward

New tech­nolo­gies that exploit quan­tum behav­ior for com­put­ing and other appli­ca­tions are closer than ever to being real­ized due to recent advances, accord­ing to a review arti­cle pub­lished this week in the jour­nal Sci­ence.
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Scientists Discover Spectacular River on Mars

Scientists Discover Spectacular River on Mars | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Planetary scientists at the European Space Agency have released 3D images of the "striking upper part of the Reull Vallis region of Mars," which reveal a 932-mile-long (1500 kilometer) river running from the Promethei Terra Highlands to the vast...
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Nano Medicine Advance: 3D ‘Molecule Printer’ Prints Anti-Cancer Drugs from Self-Assembled DNA

Nano Medicine Advance: 3D ‘Molecule Printer’ Prints Anti-Cancer Drugs from Self-Assembled DNA | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Bioengineering scientists from Parabon Nanolabs have developed a new drug to fight gliobalstoma — a lethal brain cancer.– using a computer aided design (CAD) program linked to a special search platform and nano-scale, 3D printer.The technology allows a designed drug to be built, and then ‘printed out”, one atom/one molecule at a time, like a ‘molecular sentence’ on paper.
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How cancer cells talk to healthy cells: scientists unlock metastasis | Health | Life | National Post

How cancer cells talk to healthy cells: scientists unlock metastasis | Health | Life | National Post | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Canadian scientists have made a major discovery about how cancer spreads: tumour cells appear to co-opt normal cells around them (Canadian scientists discover how cancer cells communicate with healthy cells in major breakthrough
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Scientists discover five planets around Tau Ceti and one is in the habitable zone - SlashGear

Scientists discover five planets around Tau Ceti and one is in the habitable zone - SlashGear | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Scientists have announced a very interesting discovery around a star in our celestial backyard.
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New drug lifts hard-to-treat depression in hours

A new class of drugs that changes the way neurons interact in the brain can rapidly lift people out of depression
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DNA imaged with electron microscope for the first time

DNA imaged with electron microscope for the first time | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it

It's the most famous corkscrew in history. Now an electron microscope has captured the famous Watson-Crick double helix in all its glory, by imaging threads of DNA resting on a silicon bed of nails. The technique will let researchers see how proteins, RNA and other biomolecules interact with DNA.

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Scientists discover new way protein degradation is regulated

Scientists discover new way protein degradation is regulated | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
(Phys.org) —Proteins, unlike diamonds, aren't forever. And when they wear out, they need to be degraded in the cell back into amino acids, where they will be recycled into new proteins.
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Scientists Discover a Brain Region That Controls Aging

Scientists Discover a Brain Region That Controls Aging | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Medical researchers have found a way to control aging in mice and extend their lifespans by 20 percent (Scientists Discover a Brain Region That Controls Aging http://t.co/NifQTxQHkp via @BW)...
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Astronomers Have Discovered a New Type of Cosmic Explosion

Astronomers Have Discovered a New Type of Cosmic Explosion | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Scientists working at the University of Warwick have identified an undocumented type of gamma-ray burst, the product of massive stars destroyed in a way previously unknown to astronomers.
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IBM Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips - HPCwire

IBM Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips - HPCwire | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
IBM Scientists Discover New Atomic Technique to Charge Memory Chips HPCwire Rather than using conventional electrical means that operate today's semiconducting devices, IBM's scientists discovered a new way to operate chips using tiny ionic...
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Serotonin Receptors Offer Clues to New Antidepressants

Researchers have deciphered the molecular structures of two of the brain's crucial lock-and-key mechanisms.
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Cloud of atoms goes beyond absolute zero

Cloud of atoms goes beyond absolute zero | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
The existence of negative temperatures on the Kelvin scale could help us understand dark energy as well as revise the thinking about what temperature really is
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Controversial quantum computer aces entanglement tests

Controversial quantum computer aces entanglement tests | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
D-Wave chips using a novel quantum computing approach appear to show entanglement – boosting hopes that a computing revolution is closer than we thought
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Scientists discover how to make fuel from sunlight

Scientists discover how to make fuel from sunlight | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Scientists at the University of California, Davis have discovered how to make fuel from sunlight and engineered cyanobacteria — commonly known as blue-green algae.
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Scientists discover new form of magnetism

Scientists discover new form of magnetism | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Researchers at MIT have demonstrated the existence of an entirely new form of magnetism, called quantum spin liquid, only the third type ever to be discovered.
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BigPic: A Rare And Spectacular View Of Saturn

BigPic: A Rare And Spectacular View Of Saturn | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Saturn: A Splendor Seldom Seen Click here to see this amazing picture even larger! NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteNASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a dark planet, wreathed in the sunlit glow of its rings.
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Scientists Discover New Genetic Basis for Dystonia, a Debilitating Movement Disorder Impacting 500,000 North Americans - The Mount Sinai Hospital

Scientists Discover New Genetic Basis for Dystonia, a Debilitating Movement Disorder Impacting 500,000 North Americans - The Mount Sinai Hospital | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
RT @BachmannStrauss: What an accomplishment for our Foundation and the dystonia community...New Dystonia Genes Discovered! http://t.co/pVq9DCQg
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Newfound Asteroid Buzzes Earth Inside Moon's Orbit

Newfound Asteroid Buzzes Earth Inside Moon's Orbit | Scientific Discovery | Scoop.it
Asteroid 2012 XE54 came within 140,000 miles of our planet this morning.
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