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• Experimental blood test may be able to detect about 26 types Cancers before symptoms arise. Commercial application appears years away.

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  Published 8th May 2020
• VTT launches a two-year project to develop a concept for a process to capture and utilise carbon dioxide. The aim is to utilise the carbon dioxide produced during bioenergy production as a raw material for speciality chemicals.

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  Published 5th Mar 2020
• Cervical cancer could be eliminated worldwide within the next century, according to new research. With HPV vaccination alone, the cervical cancer cases will drop by 89% within a century in the 78 countries worst affected by the disease, with 60 million cases averted as a result.

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  Published 31st Jan 2020
• Global team enables child with a fatal genetic disease to recover

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  Published 16th Jan 2020
• US$1 dollar increase in minimum wage linked to 3.5-6% fall in suicide rate

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  Published 9th Jan 2020
• Recovery rates for generalized anxiety are high - "A recent study finds seven in ten Canadians with a history of generalized anxiety disorder are free of the disorder and 40% are in excellent mental health, with high levels of life satisfaction and happiness"

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  Published 8th Jan 2020
• Purchasing luxury goods can affirm buyers' sense of status and enjoyment of items like fancy cars or fine jewelry. However, for many consumers, luxury purchases can fail to ring true, sparking feelings of inauthenticity that fuel what researchers have labeled the "impostor syndrome"

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  Published 25th Dec 2019
• Affordable Care Act led to improved treatment of colorectal cancer among young adults, with patients under 26 having a shift to earlier-stage diagnosis and more timely receipt of adjuvant chemotherapy, finds a new study by the American Cancer Society.

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  Published 24th Dec 2019
• Families with higher carbon footprints are likely to consume more confectionary, alcohol, and restaurant food. Scientists analyzed the carbon footprints of the diets of 60,000 households across Japan's 47 prefectures.

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• Autism-related genetic mutations occur in aging brains of Alzheimer's patients

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• Time-to-death of Roman emperors followed pattern. Emperors faced a high risk of violent death during their first year of reign, a pattern also seen when engineering components fail early, as a result of a failure to function as intended or, in the case of an emperor, meet the demands of their role

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  Published 23rd Dec 2019
• Long work hours at the office linked to both regular and hidden high blood pressure

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  Published 19th Dec 2019
• Large study links sustained weight loss to reduced breast cancer risk

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  Published 17th Dec 2019
• Children who engaged in self-talk, saying favorable, encouraging words to themselves, improved their math performance when the talk focused on effort (e.g., "I will do my very best!"), not ability ("I am very good at this!"), suggests new study (n=212 ages 9 to 13 years).

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  Published 17th Dec 2019
• E-cigarette use significantly increases a person's risk of developing chronic lung diseases, according to new UC San Francisco research, the first longitudinal study linking e-cigarettes to respiratory illness in a sample representative of the entire US adult population.

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  Published 16th Dec 2019
• Microbes living in the rectum could make a difference to the effectiveness of experimental HIV vaccines, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis. Rectal Microbiome Composition Correlates with Humoral Immunity to HIV-1 in Vaccinated Rhesus Macaques (Dec 2019)

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  Published 15th Dec 2019
• A tortoise never forgets, and are like “elephants” of the reptile world, suggests a new study. Giant land tortoises have a reputation for being sluggish in both speed and brainpower, but a new study found that they were able to remember how to carry out tasks that they learned nine years ago.

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  Published 15th Dec 2019
• People willing to risk near-certain death for an HIV remedy. Nearly one-quarter of people living with HIV were willing to risk near-certain death in a clinical trial, if volunteering for the trial would help find a remedy for the disease, according to the new study

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  Published 13th Dec 2019
• Largest study of its kind reveals that many psychiatric disorders arise from common genes. Genes associated with multiple disorders show increased expression beginning in the second trimester of pregnancy and appear to play an important role in brain development.

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  Published 12th Dec 2019
• Middle-income countries are hardest hit by cardiovascular disease in Europe

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  Published 11th Dec 2019
• Potentially toxic chemicals from LCDs in nearly half of household dust samples tested. Researchers are sounding the alarm about liquid crystal monomers--the chemical building blocks of everything from flat screen TVs to solar panels--and the potential threat they pose to humans and the environment.

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  Published 11th Dec 2019
• In areas with low literacy rates, showing videos demonstrating agricultural techniques results in high retention and adoption rates of those techniques. Being shown an animated video on a postharvest bean storage method, farmers had a 97% retention rate and 89% adoption of the storage solution.

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  Published 9th Dec 2019
• Using conductive nanodiamond as electrode material in a water-based cell significantly increases its energy storage capacity, scientists find

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  Published 4th Dec 2019
• In sickness and in health: Study looks at how married couples face chronic conditions. Depression symptoms rise over time when facing multiple conditions that need different types of self-care, especially among husbands whose conditions differ from their wives'

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  Published 4th Dec 2019
• A new theory of gender dysphoria argues the symptoms of the condition are due to changes in network activity, rather than incorrect brain sex, according to work recently published in eNeuro.

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  Published 3rd Dec 2019
• Lack of tolerance, institutional confidence threaten democracies. Where confidence in institutions such as the government and the media is low, democracy tends to be unstable. The study was based on an analysis of survey data from 476,583 individuals in 109 countries.

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  Published 3rd Dec 2019
• New technique visually depicts how cancer cells grow and spread in colon tissue

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  Published 2nd Dec 2019
• Short term exposure to fine particulate matter in the air (known as PM2.5) is associated with several newly identified causes of hospital admissions. Researchers analysed more than 95 million Medicare hospital insurance claims for adults aged 65 or older in the United States from 2000 to 2012

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Half of all women with HIV are diagnosed late in Europe

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Researchers Get ‘Glimpse Into A Human Mind’ As It Makes Choices In Groups, Social Media. In large groups of essentially anonymous members, people make choices based on a model of the “mind of the group” and an evolving simulation of how a choice will affect that theorized mind.

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  Published 28th Nov 2019
• Finding unique magnetic transitions in quasicrystal-like structures is a big step towards deciphering the mystery of Quasicrystals

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  Published 27th Nov 2019
• Caring for family is what motivates people worldwide. People consistently rated kin care and mate retention as the most important motivations in their lives, and we found this over and over, in all 27 countries that participated

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  Published 27th Nov 2019
• UK and China research team have developed a personalised vaccine system for pancreatic cancer which in future could help in preventing cancer in individuals at high risk of developing this disease and to slow down tumour growth in patients who are affected by it

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  Published 26th Nov 2019
• Children of women who reported domestic violence in pregnancy or during the first six years of the child's life are almost 50% more likely to have a low IQ at age 8, research finds.

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  Published 26th Nov 2019
• Scientists Create a Device that Mimics Human Synapses to 'Forget' Memories. The smart design imitates a human brain synapse in a way it remembers information, and gradually drops that data if it's not accessed for a more extended period.

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• Intestinal stem cell genes may link dietary fat and colon cancer

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• Spanish Scientists found the hyperacidic, hypersaline hot springs of Dallol, Ethiopia are lifeless and that has implications for the origin of life on Earth and Mars

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• Research has found for the first known time that enough physical evidence spanning millennia has come together to allow researchers to say definitively that: El Ninos, La Ninas, and the climate phenomenon that drives them have become more extreme in the times of human-induced climate change.

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  Published 25th Nov 2019
• Excellent mental health for 2/3 of Indigenous people off reserve. Findings show that despite stark economic inequalities and a history of residential schools, the majority of Indigenous people are free of addictions, suicidal thoughts and mental illness

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  Published 22nd Nov 2019
• Young children can learn math skills from intelligent virtual characters. Children's parasocial emotional relationships with the intelligent character and their parasocial interactions led to quicker, more accurate math responses during virtual game play.

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  Published 21st Nov 2019
• Abortion does not increase a woman's risk of attempting suicide, finds a new 17-year-long Danish study (n=523,380), the first to compare risk of non-fatal suicide attempts before and after a first, first-trimester abortion.

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  Published 20th Nov 2019
• Study finds trans kids living as the gender they identify with act and develop similarly to their cisgender counterparts. There was a wide range in the strength of the identity and preferences in both trans and cisgender kids. There were 'tomboy' trans girls, just as there were 'tomboy' cis girls.

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  Published 19th Nov 2019
• Amazon deforestation and number of fires show summer of 2019 not a 'normal' year. Researchers found the number of active fires in August was actually three times higher than in 2018 and the highest number since 2010.

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  Published 16th Nov 2019
• Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to '17 Hiroshimas'

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  Published 15th Nov 2019
• Smokers and hypertensive individuals have higher risk of sudden death from brain bleed

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  Published 14th Nov 2019
• Depression linked to nutrition in middle-aged and older Canadians. Lower intakes of fruits and vegetables were found to be linked to depression. Men were more likely to experience depression if they consumed higher levels of fat, or lower levels of omega-3 eggs.

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  Published 13th Nov 2019
• Listening to music while driving reduces cardiac stress

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  Published 13th Nov 2019
• Hurricanes have become bigger and more destructive for USA; new study from the Niels Bohr Institute

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  Published 12th Nov 2019
• Columbia neuroengineers have found the first evidence that individual neurons in the human brain target specific memories during recall. Researchers correlate neuronal activity in the human EC -- one of the first regions of the brain affected by the onset of Alzheimer's

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  Published 12th Nov 2019
• A new study has found a link between air pollution and changes in the corpus callosum, a region of the brain associated with neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

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  Published 11th Nov 2019
• Many over-50s who were diagnosed with autism late in life had grown up believing they were bad people. It is thought to be the first study of its kind that examines the phenomenon of receiving a diagnosis exclusively in middle age.

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  Published 10th Nov 2019
• How Human Population came from our ability to cooperate. Human tendency to bear many children, engage in food sharing, division of labor, and cooperative childcare duties, sets us apart from our closest evolutionary counterparts, the apes.

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  Published 6th Nov 2019
• Scientists crack structure of a novel enzyme linked to cell growth and cancer

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  Published 6th Nov 2019
• China meets ultra-low emissions in advance of the 2020 goal. China's annual power plant emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter dropped by 65%, 60% and 72% from 2.21, 3.11 and 0.52 million tons in 2014 to 0.77, 1.26 and 0.14 million tons in 2017, respectively.

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  Published 6th Nov 2019
• A protein that breast, lung and other cancers use to promote their spread or metastasis to the brain, has been identified by a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian investigators. The protein, CEMIP, will now be a focus of efforts to predict, prevent and treat brain metastases

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  Published 5th Nov 2019
• Abrupt shifts in Arctic climate projected: Likelihood of an abrupt increase in wildfires also noted

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  Published 3rd Nov 2019
• Mutated ferns shed light on ancient mass extinction: Most researchers believe that the mass extinction 201 million years ago was caused by release of CO2 by volcanism with global warming as a consequence; now, new data from fern spores suggest that increased levels of mercury also played a role

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  Published 29th Oct 2019
• New chemical keeps plants plump. A UC Riverside-led team has created a chemical to help plants hold onto water, which could stem the tide of massive annual crop losses from drought and help farmers grow food despite a changing climate.

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  Published 25th Oct 2019
• Entrepreneurs: Get the trademark to succeed - "New research shows obtaining a trademark is an important predictor of success for entrepreneurial firms and helps them attract financing, both as private and public firms"

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  Published 24th Oct 2019
• Researchers have developed a new method for upcycling abundant, seemingly low-value plastics into high-quality liquid products, such as motor oils, lubricants, detergents and even cosmetics. The discovery also improves on current recycling methods that result in cheap, low-quality plastic products.

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  Published 24th Oct 2019
• The international homicide rate has dropped 20 percent since 1990. People are living longer and fewer are having children. This has caused the 15-29 age group to shrink worldwide, a demographic responsible for majority of homicides.

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  Published 9th Oct 2019
• In 2 states, legalization of recreational marijuana found to have little effect on crime, suggests a new study, which looked at legalization and sales of recreational cannabis in Colorado and Washington, and found minimal to no effect on rates of violent and property crimes in those states.

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  Published 8th Oct 2019
• 2,000 atoms in two places at once: A new record of quantum superposition

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  Published 3rd Oct 2019
• Stricter border enforcement may increase agent corruption. Analysis of corruption cases among customs officers and border patrol agents reveals alarming trends depending on their years of service.

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  Published 2nd Oct 2019
• How 'water bears' survive extremes: Scientists discover that a protein in tardigrades binds and forms a protective cloud against extreme survival threats such as radiation damage. Dsup (Damage suppression protein), found only in tardigrades, when tested in human cells, can protect them from X-rays.

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  Published 1st Oct 2019
• Political events can take a serious toll on mental health, a doctor has warned in the journal BMJ Case Reports, after treating a man with a brief episode of acute psychosis, triggered by Brexit. People who are already psychologically vulnerable may be particularly at risk in such circumstances.

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  Published 1st Oct 2019
• Risk of heart valve infections rising in hospitals

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  Published 29th Sep 2019
• Study suggests teenagers less likely to respond to mothers with controlling tone of voice, than mothers with supporting tone of voice

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  Published 27th Sep 2019
• Profiles of Native American DNA in modern populations show patterns of migration across the US. Much of the genetic legacy of the original inhabitants of the area that is now the continental U.S. can be found in the genomes of the descendants of European and African immigrants to the region.

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  Published 25th Sep 2019
• A new study finds that pet cats form attachments with their human owners that are similar to the bonds formed by children and dogs with their caretakers. It's the first time that researchers have empirically demonstrated that cats display the same main attachment styles as babies and dogs

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  Published 24th Sep 2019
• Mathematicians crack elusive puzzle involving the number 42

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  Published 6th Sep 2019
• Scientists have developed new synthetic molecules which are up to 24 times more effective at killing cancer cells than a widely-used cancer drug and they're built with resistance-fighting features to keep them effective over time, unlike current chemotherapies.

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  Published 6th Sep 2019
• Students who do not date are not social misfits, suggests new study of 594 10th graders, which found that adolescents who were not in a romantic relationship had good social skills and low depression, and fared better or equal to peers who dated, refuting the notion that non-daters are maladjusted.

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  Published 5th Sep 2019
• Cancer now leading cause of death in high-income countries - Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of mortality among middle aged adults globally, accounting for 40% of all deaths

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  Published 3rd Sep 2019
• Around 1.4 billion fewer cigarettes are being smoked every year in England. Between 2011 and 2018, average monthly cigarette consumption fell by nearly a quarter, equating to around 118 million fewer cigarettes being smoked every month

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  Published 29th Aug 2019
• Researchers isolated compound from Australian white rock sea snail which has not only antibacterial and anti-inflammatory qualities, but anti-cancer properties, preventing the formation of tumours in a colon cancer murine model. Natural compounds are valuable sources of future medicines for health.

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  Published 27th Aug 2019
• New blood test may detect concussion and subconcussive injuries in children and adults (n=3,462). Subconcussive injuries often show no symptoms or immediate effects, but can cause wear and tear on the brain over time with repeated injuries, so it’s better to spot these injuries as early as possible.

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  Published 27th Aug 2019
• Preventing the deactivation of a protein could be key to repairing the central nervous system. Scientists deciphered new mechanisms that enable the regeneration of nerve fibers in experiments with mice. This could open up new treatment approaches for the brain, optic nerve, and spinal cord injuries.

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  Published 25th Aug 2019
• Higher levels of physical activity (regardless of intensity) associated with a lower risk of early death in middle aged and older people. Sitting for 9.5 hours or more a day (excluding sleeping time) is associated with an increased risk of death.

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  Published 21st Aug 2019
• Speed identified as the best predictor of car crashes. Researchers examined data from 28 million trips for possible links between four bad driving behaviours - speeding, hard braking, hard acceleration and hard cornering.

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  Published 21st Aug 2019
• A University of California, Irvine-led study has found that online brain game exercises can enable people in their 70s and even 80s to multitask cognitively as well as individuals 50 years their junior

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• City parks lift mood as much as Christmas, Twitter study shows. A first-of-its-kind study shows that visitors to urban parks use happier words and express less negativity on Twitter than they did before their visit--and that their elevated mood lasts, like a glow, for up to four hours afterwards

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  Published 20th Aug 2019
• Erectile dysfunction (ED) has been linked with loss of work productivity and with lower health-related quality of life in an International Journal of Clinical Practice study of more than 52,000 men from eight countries.

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  Published 10th Aug 2019
• Earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters obey same mathematical pattern. Researchers were able to use one same mathematical technique to describe the functions related to the frequency of these phenomena and the value of their magnitude or size.

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  Published 10th Aug 2019
• Self-sterilizing polymer proves effective against drug-resistant pathogens, reports a new study, which found that an elastic polymer possesses broad-spectrum antimicrobial properties, allowing it to kill a range of viruses and drug-resistant bacteria in just minutes, including MRSA, VRE and CRA.

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  Published 2nd Aug 2019
• Police officers who were involved in complaints related to excessive force were more likely to work with officers with a history of such behaviors, suggesting that officers' peers may serve as social conduits through which misconduct is learned and transmitted (n = 8,642 Chicago police officers).

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  Published 2nd Aug 2019
• Japanese scientists have developed an efficient method of successfully generating hair growth in nude mice using "bead-based hair follicle germ" (bbHFG). The new method can be scaled up and therefore shows great potential for clinical applications in human hair regenerative therapy.

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  Published 31st Jul 2019
• A study of dictators over the past 150 years shows they are rarely associated with strong economies, and quite often with weaker ones. Autocratic leaders are often credited with purposefully delivering good economic outcomes, but new research challenges that long-held assumption.

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  Published 23rd Jul 2019
• Well that's an interesting twist. Autism and identifying as trans / non binary are related. Makes a lot of sense actually.

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  Published 18th Jul 2019