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Hyper Suprime-Cam survey maps dark matter in the universe
3:52am, 26th September, 2018

Hyper Suprime-Cam survey maps dark matter in the universe

(Carnegie Mellon University) Today, an international group of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University's Rachel Mandelbaum, released the deepest wide field map of the three-dimensional distribution of matter in the universe ever made an...
More People But Less Hardship?
8:51pm, 25th September, 2018

More People But Less Hardship?

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann talks about the just-issued Goalkeepers Report, tracking progress against poverty and disease even as the population keeps rising. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Climate change not main driver of amphibian decline
3:57pm, 25th September, 2018

Climate change not main driver of amphibian decline

(Penn State) While a warming climate in recent decades may be a factor in the waning of some local populations of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders, it cannot explain the overall steep decline of amphibians, according to researchers.
Growing Brains in Lab
12:42pm, 25th September, 2018

Growing Brains in Lab

Scientists create 3-dimensional brain spheroids—small, spherical, laboratory-grown human brain tissue-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com