Researchers in France believe they have made preliminary steps towards establishing a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) platform for quantum information processing. Quantum information processing ...
A study published on 2 February 2016 in Volume 315, Issue 5 of the Journal of the American Medical Association has found eating seafood at least once a week could lower an individual’s chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease. ...
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The Chinese government's leading think-tank has released a new study downplaying concerns about the level of debt being held by local governments, suggesting that more spending needs to take place to cope with social issues. On the heels ...
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Chinese researchers say H1N1 swine flu viruses, which have circulated in pig populations since 1979, have obtained the ability to infect humans and may "pose the highest pandemic threat" among flu viruses currently in the animal population. ...
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U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
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Photo provided by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows tooth fossils found in Daoxian county in central China's Hunan Province. These tooth fossils indicate the early ...
Swedish researchers said on Wednesday they had taken steps towards developing a more efficient drug to fight alcoholism by tweaking the brain's reward system. A dopamine stabilizer reduces alcohol cravings in humans and normalizes the ...
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Chinese researchers on Monday announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of adzuki bean, an important source of starch, digestible protein, mineral elements and vitamins for at least a billion people worldwide. "Adzuki bean ...
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A new report in the scientific journal "Nature" is generating new discussions among researchers about which paths modern humans took out of Africa to help populate the rest of the world. The report notes Chinese research done on 47 ...
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Thanks to a powerful new gene-editing technique, scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs. In a paper in the U.S. journal Science this week, the researchers described using the ...
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Opportunistic bacterial pathogens, including those linked to inflammations or skin irritations, have been found living on the International Space Station, according to a study conducted by the U.S. space agency NASA. "Where there are ...
Too much TV and not having enough physical exercise as a young adult were associated with worse cognitive function 25 years later in midlife, showed a study published online Wednesday by U.S. journal JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers at the ...
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NASA's Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft has gathered new evidence which scientists say appears to prove its the sun that has been robbing the red planet of its atmosphere and water. Researchers say solar winds are still stripping Mars of ...
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Australian scientists have identified a network of nine genes that play a key role in the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. The discovery could help researchers develop new treatments to delay the onset of the chronic brain disease, which ...
Chinese researchers have developed a heavy-ion medical accelerator to be used in radiotherapy for cancer, researchers said Thursday. A recent test of the machine's beam was successful, marking the end of China's dependence on imported ...
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