May 7, 2013
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Nerve stimulation for severe depression changes brain function

For nearly a decade, doctors have used implanted electronic stimulators to treat severe depression in people who don’t respond to standard antidepressant treatments. Now, preliminary brain scan studies are revealing that vagus nerve stimulation brings … Continue reading

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May 7, 2013
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Clouded leopards declared extinct in Taiwan

After more than a decade of in the field study, there has been no evidence of the rare and majestic leopard. Continue reading

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May 5, 2013
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Childhood disability rate jumps 16 percent over past decade

More children today have a disability than a decade ago, and the greatest increase is among kids in higher-income families, according to a new study. Continue reading

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May 2, 2013
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Robotic insects make first controlled flight

In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leaped a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, an… Continue reading

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April 29, 2013
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U. S. children born outside the United States have lower risk of allergic disease

A new study suggests children living the in the United States but born outside the U.S. have a lower prevalence of allergic disease that increases after residing in the United States for one decade. Continue reading

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April 22, 2013
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Earth’s current warmth not seen in the last 1,400 years or more, says study

Fueled by industrial greenhouse gas emissions, Earth’s climate warmed more between 1971 and 2000 than during any other three-decade interval in the last 1,400 years, according to new regional temperature reconstructions covering all seven continents. Continue reading

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April 19, 2013
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New carnivorous dinosaur from Madagascar raises more questions than it answers

The first new dinosaur named from Madagascar in nearly a decade, Dahalokely tokana was a carnivore measuring 9-14 feet long. Its fossils were found in 90-million-year-old rocks of northernmost Madagascar, from the time when Madagascar and India were a … Continue reading

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April 10, 2013
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Dark lightning: Are airplane passengers exposed to radiation from intense bursts of gamma-rays from thunderclouds?

Scientists have known for almost a decade that thunderstorms are capable of generating brief but powerful bursts of gamma-rays called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs. Because they can originate near the same altitudes at which commercial aircraf… Continue reading

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April 4, 2013
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Listening to the Big Bang — in high fidelity

Physicist have updated the decade-old re-creation of the sound of the Big Bang that started the universe. Continue reading

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April 4, 2013
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Assessing disease surveillance and notification systems after a pandemic

Significant investments over the past decade into disease surveillance and notification systems appear to have “paid off” and the systems “work remarkably well,” says a researcher who examined the public health response systems during the 2009 H1N1 inf… Continue reading

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April 4, 2013
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Advances in molecular testing offer new hope for lung cancer patients

The emergence of molecular diagnostic testing in lung cancer offers new hope for patients battling the number one cancer killer in the United States and abroad. Now, for the first time after a decade of biomarker testing in lung cancer, a uniform appro… Continue reading

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April 2, 2013
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NASA’s SORCE satellite marks a decade in the sun

NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite has been providing data on the sun’s irradiance for 10 years. SORCE measures electromagnetic radiation produced by the sun and the power per unit area of that energy on Earth’s surface. Continue reading

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March 29, 2013
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Decimation of critically endangered forest elephant detailed

African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A new study shows that a staggering 62 percent of all forest elephants have been killed across their range in central Africa, for their ivory over the past decade. Continue reading

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March 11, 2013
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China to become world’s biggest market for solar power in 2013

Over the past decade, we’ve seen China come to dominate the solar manufacturing industry. Now they’re also becoming the biggest buyer of solar. Continue reading

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March 8, 2013
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Global temps higher now than for most of past 11,300 years. It’s not a hockey stick. This is a scythe.

A new study into global warming finds that average global temperature was higher in past decade than in previous 11,300 years. Continue reading

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March 6, 2013
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Universe measured more accurately than ever before: New results pin down distance to galaxy next door

After nearly a decade of careful observations astronomers have measured the distance to our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, more accurately than ever before. This new measurement also improves our knowledge of the rate of expansion of the Universe — the Hubble Constant — and is a crucial step towards understanding the nature of the mysterious dark energy that is causing the expansion to accelerate. Continue reading

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March 5, 2013
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Extinction looms for forest elephants: 60 percent of Africa’s forest elephants killed for their ivory over past decade

Across their range in central Africa, a staggering 62 percent of all forest elephants have been killed for their ivory over the past decade, new research shows. Continue reading

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March 4, 2013
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Studies advance knowledge of HIV impact on hepatitis C infection and genes that may thwart hepatitis C infection

Infectious disease experts have found that among people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), co-infection with HIV, speeds damage and scarring of liver tissue by almost a decade. Continue reading

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March 4, 2013
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The fight between dirty energy dinosaurs and clean-tech mammals

Grist and Bloomberg have good reports on what the future of clean energy looks like in the coming decade. Continue reading

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February 28, 2013
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Kala-azar treatment failing in Nepal

In a recent study, scientists have concluded that the cure rates of Miltefosine, the only oral drug for visceral leishmaniasis available, have significantly decreased. Miltefosine was introduced in the Indian subcontinent a decade ago. Despite adhering… Continue reading

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