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Black Howler Monkeys Adapt Mental Maps Like Humans for Efficient Navigation
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps are laid out in much...
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New Blood Test Improves Prostate Cancer Screening – Can Reduce the Number of MRIs Performed
From left: Martin Eklund and Tobias Nordström, associate professors at Karolinska Institutet. Credit: Stefan Zimmerman Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden recently reported that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) could reduce...
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New Theory Proposed To Explain the Transparency of Metallic Oxides
A collection of strontium and vanadium oxide (SrVO3) metallic films of increasing thickness. Credit: ICMAB-CSIC The electrons of some metal oxides, due to their large effective mass when coupled with...
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As COVID Delta Variant Infections Surge, More Americans Favor Vaccine Mandates
Support for mandates has increased across partisan and demographic subgroups. As infections from the delta variant surge, the percentage of Americans who support vaccine mandates has risen to 64% from...
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“Dental Origami” – How Snakes Got Their Fangs
Types of venom fangs in snakes: rear fangs (crab-eating water snake), fixed front fangs (taipan), and hinged front fangs (Gaboon viper); fangs highlighted in red. Credit A. Palci ‘Dental origami’...
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Public Health Experts: Global Eradication of COVID-19 Is Probably Feasible
Global eradication of COVID-19 probably feasible, and more so than for polio, say public health experts. Main challenges lie in securing high vaccine uptake and response to emergence of variants....
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Microbe Genetic “Rewiring” Technique in Biomanufacturing of Fuels, Materials and Chemicals
Study authors (from left to right) Andrew K. Lau, Thomas Eng, and Deepanwita Banerjee stand in front of a two-liter bioreactor containing P. putida cells that are producing indigoidine, which...
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Major Milestone for NASA’s Revolutionary Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Credit: NASA The Space Telescope Science Institute Will Host Roman’s Science Operations Center and Data Archive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has just...
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NASA Calculations Show Asteroid Bennu Has a Chance of Slamming Into Earth
This mosaic of Bennu was created using observations made by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft that was in close proximity to the asteroid for over two years. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona In...
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Optical Innovation Key to Unprecedented Accuracy in Beam Control of High-Power Lasers
Berkeley Lab doctoral student Fumika Isono (center), BELLA Center Deputy Director Jeroen van Tilborg (right), and research scientist Sam Barber set up a novel laser stabilization experiment at one of...