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Too much sleep bad for brain, study says | Conor Wild

Credit: University of Western Ontario Oct. 9, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- Preliminary results from the world's largest sleep study have shown that people who sleep on average between seven to eight hours per night performed better cognitively than those who slept less -- or more -- than this amount. Western neuroscientists at the Brain and Mind Institute released their findings today in Sleep. Accord ...

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Global warming will hike mental health woes, study finds | Nick Obradovich

Oct. 10, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Mental health problems will increase as temperatures rise due to climate change, a new study warns. The researchers said that over five years, a 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degr ...

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Researchers uncover security gaps in the 5G mobile communication standard | Markus Gross

The 5G mobile radio standard still needs to be improved. Image: europeansanctions.com Oct. 10, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Researchers in the Information Security Group subjected the upcoming 5G mobile comm ...

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Oysters at risk from changing climate | Yoann Thomas

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Climate change's effect on coastal ecosystems is very likely to increase mortality risks of adult oyster populations in the next 20 years. That is ...

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Affable apes live longer | Drew M Altschul

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests. A study of hundreds of captive chimpanze ...

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UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein

Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, ...

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The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou

Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...

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The Suffocation of Democracy | Christopher R. Browning

Donald Trump at the First In Nation Republican Leadership Summit, Nashua, New Hampshire. Photo by Michael Vadon, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Oct. 25, 2018 Issue (The New York Review of Books) -- As a histor ...

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A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany | Zack Beauchamp

Mitch McConnell“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.” Oct. 5, 2018 (Vox.com) -- Usually, comparisons between Donald ...

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Congolese doctor, Yazidi activist win Nobel Peace Prize for combating sexual violence | Nerijus Adomaitis, Terje Solsvik

Combination picture shows the Nobel Prize for Peace 2018 winners./REUTERS Oct. 5, 2018 -- OSLO (Reuters) -- Denis Mukwege, a doctor who helps victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of ...

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Day-time naps help us acquire information not consciously perceived, study finds | E. Coulthard

Photo credit: myke., Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Oct. 4, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The age-old adage "I'll sleep on it" has proven to be scientifically sound advice, according to a new study that measured ch ...

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