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Back to the black stuff?
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The new premier league players
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Paint it yellow for the real world
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Prescribing on your gut?
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A new way to calibrate the postmortem clock?
It's almost in every detective film or novel, the line where the detective asks the pathologist 'What was the time of death?'. The postmortem interval (PMI) as it is defined contains the answer to that question. There are several methods to evaluate the...
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Supernova observation first of its kind using...
on July, 2019 at 7:23 pm
Researchers have published findings about a supernova observed using TESS, adding new insights to long-held theories about the elements left behind after a white dwarf star explodes into a supernova. […]
Technology
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Your spending data may reveal aspects of your...
on July, 2019 at 12:43 pm
How you spend your money can signal aspects of your personality, according to new research. Analyses of over 2 million spending records from more than 2,000 individuals indicate that when people spend money in certain categories, this can be used to infer certain personality traits, such as how […]
Pharma
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Cancer device created to see if targeted...
on July, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Researchers have created a device that can determine whether targeted chemotherapy drugs are working on individual cancer patients. The portable device, which uses artificial intelligence and biosensors, is up to 95.9% accurate in counting live cancer cells when they pass through electrodes, […]
Health
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Sea level rise requires extra management to...
on July, 2019 at 2:53 pm
Salt marshes are important habitats for fish and birds and protect coasts under sea level rise against stronger wave attacks. However, marshes themselves are much more vulnerable than previously thought. Stronger waves due to sea level rise can not only reduce the marsh extent by erosion of the […]