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Unhealthy lifestyle responsible for 45,000 predicted cases of bowel cancer in next decade | Claire M Vajdic
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 25, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- A large proportion of bowel cancers in Australia are preventable by adopting a healthy lifestyle -- particularly for men, a new study ...
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Globally, 1.4 billion adults at risk of disease from lack of physical activity | Regina Guthold
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sept. 5, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of ...
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Monotreme and marsupial brain hemispheres communicated before development of corpus callosum | Bob Yirka
White matter fiber architecture of the brain. Credit: Human Connectome Project. Sept. 4, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Mammalian brain hemispheres had a means of communicating long before the development of ...
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Quantum weirdness in 'chicken or egg' paradox | Jacqui Romero
Sept. 3, 2018 (Phys.org) -- The "chicken or egg" paradox was first proposed by philosophers in Ancient Greece to describe the problem of determining cause-and-effect. Now, a team of physicists from ...
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New study reveals why women take sexy selfies | Isabelle Dubach
Credit: University of New South Wales Aug. 27, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study has revealed the science behind sexy selfies, showing that women tend to sexualize themselves in environments with ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- August 26, 2018 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation Aug. 26, 2018 Aug. 28 4:30-5:30 p.m., Francis Gavin, Johns Hopkins University, "Rethinking American grand strategy in the age of Trump," ...
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Evaluating creativity in computational co-creative systems | Ingrid Fadelli
Three main trends in creative systems: creativity support tools, fully autonomous systems and co-creative systems. Credit: Karimi et al. Aug. 8, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Computer programs assist humans ...
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Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone
Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global ...
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Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 30, 2018 On February 20, 2018, I embarked on a global book tour that has, thus far, taken me to eight nations. The main theme of all my talks in various ...
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Physicists invent flux capacitor, break time-reversal symmetry | Jared Cole
Schematic representation of the proposed circulator. Credit: FLEET May 28, 2018 (Phys.org) -- In the popular movie franchise "Back to the Future," an eccentric scientist creates a time machine that ...
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Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life on Earth | Harris A. Lewin
The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence all eukaryotic species. This superkingdom of life includes all organisms except bacteria and archaea. Credit: Mirhee Lee. April 23, 2018 (Phys.org) -- An ...
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