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UC-San Francisco

Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a "speech neuroprosthesis" that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen.

Stephen Johnson, B Think

The transition from unicellular to multicellular life was one of the most momentous events in the evolution of life. Estimated to have first occurred more than 1.5 billion years ago, the shift to multicellularity gave rise to increasingly complex life forms on Earth, from ancient algae-like organisms to dinosaurs to human beings.

Urvi Mange, PToday

Citation is a tool that aids scientists in providing appropriate credit to the work of another researcher when using it as a reference in their work. In other words, citation is an indicator of the impact a scientific research paper has on the community.

Sandia National Laboratories

For decades, scientists have tried to make reliable lithium-metal batteries. These high-performance storage cells hold 50% more energy than their prolific, lithium-ion cousins, but higher failure rates and safety problems like fires and explosions have crippled commercialization efforts. Researchers have hypothesized why the devices fail, but direct evidence has been sparse.

Beth Mole, Ars Technica

Leading public health organizations and a growing number of independent health experts are coming together to push health care facilities to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all health care workers. Some experts say such mandates are overdue and that failure for any health care worker to get vaccinated against the deadly pandemic coronavirus is both "unethical and appalling."

Josie Fischels, NPR

For beachgoers in the Tampa Bay area, the last few weeks have been anything but normal. Discolored, soupy waters have been lapping the shore, and the beaches are laden with dead, rotting sea life.

Shi En Kim, Sonian

Food has long been the currency of the 10,000-year-old friendship between humans and dogs. The rapport started with our ancestors sharing food with wolves, and today, we show our love to our canine pets with treats and train them with goodies as motivation.

Mike Wall, Space.com

Nuclear-powered spaceships for fast trips to Mars may now be one step closer to reality.

Charles Day, Phys Today

Three-quarters of the asteroids orbiting the Sun are of the carbon-rich C-type, whose significant freight of hydrated minerals has a similar ratio of deuterium to hydrogen as the water in Earth's oceans. Asteroids of all types were far more abundant when Earth's oceans formed around 4.6 billion years ago. Unsurprisingly, asteroids are a leading contender for the source of Earth's water.

Ross Pomeroy, RealClearScience

One of the most mind-bending aspects of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity is time dilation. Time moves more slowly for a person in motion compared to a person at rest. This effect also applies in gravitational fields. Someone closer to a gravitationally-dense body like a black hole would be subject to a slowdown in time compared to others farther away.

David Gorski, Resp Insol

There's a name that's been popping up more and more in the COVID-19 conspiracy theory and antivaccine social media underground, one that I've been meaning to look into but somehow never got around to doing. I'm referring to Robert Malone, PhD. Currently, Malone shows up as CEO of RW Malone MD, LLC, a company, a consultancy and analytics company, for which Dr. Malone "specializes in clinical research, medical affairs, regulatory affairs, project management, proposal...

Nafeez Ahmed, Motherboard

A remarkable new study by a director at one of the largest accounting firms in the world has found that a famous, decades-old warning from MIT about the risk of industrial civilization collapsing appears to be accurate based on new empirical data.

Richard Bernstein, RCI

The push to create "equity" and more "social justice" in public schools in America's largest state rests on this basic premise: "We reject ideas of natural gifts and talents," declares the current draft of the California Math Framework, which also states that it rejects "the cult of genius."

Searches were made of a hotel and bus at the Tour de France on Wednesday night.

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After a month of head-scratching, NASA engineers finally think they've identified the glitch that took out the world's most powerful space telescope more than a month ago.

Amid the other curiosities of former President Donald Trump’s recent visit to the border was his peculiar complaint about the border wall: President Biden is refusing to paint it.

President Biden, taking the stage near Independence Hall in Philadelphia this week, could not have been more clear, or urgent, in describing the high stakes of the current battle to preserve voting rights.

The minister has also stated that the proposed agreement has to provide for current and future needs as the per capita fisheries subsidy given by most developing countries is minuscule compared to advanced fishing nations.

The former Wolves boss succeeded Jose Mourinho at Spurs.

At least 30 people were killed and dozens of others are missing after torrential rains triggered flash floods in Germany. A government spokesman said on Twitter that Chancellor Angela Merkel was "s

The 496th FSL Gold Draw was held on Friday 9th July 2021. The first four balls drawn for the Euro Millions Draw in ascending order were 06, 19, 36, 37 resulting in a FSL Gold Draw Number of 6967. The jackpot of £1,150 was won by: Mrs Callow (from Preston with No 6967) The jackpot […]

The Israeli army said Thursday it had arrested between 20 and 30 Palestinian students in the occupied West Bank it accused of being "terror operatives" of Islamist group Hamas.

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THURSDAY, July 15, 2021 -- If you need another reason to eat healthy, new research suggests that eating lots of packaged snacks and other ultra-processed foods could increase your risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Ultra-processed foods also...

THURSDAY, July 15, 2021 -- Vaccine advocate Ethan Lindenberger, now 20, had to wait until age 18 to get the vaccinations that he knew he needed to protect his health. "I knew growing up my mom was very anti-vaccine. Because of the legal...