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    Drug discount cards could actually cost patients more

    Brand discount cards have become a popular way for patients to reduce out-of-pocket spending on drugs; however, controversy exists over their potential to increase insurers’ costs.

    16 Nov 2019 ⋅ Canadian Medical Association Journal

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    A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked

    2 hours ago ⋅ Journal of Animal Ecology

    A step in a new direction

    19 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Neuroscience

    The first global geologic map of Titan completed

    19 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Astronomy

    Tiny filters help detect cancerous blood cells

    19 Nov 2019 ⋅ Biomicrofluidics

    Malaria discovery could lead to better HIV and lupus treatments

    19 Nov 2019 ⋅ Cell Reports

    Directed evolution and smart plants: Lehman College researcher reimagines the future of biology

    19 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Plants

    New study shows agency plans inadequate to protect endangered animals from climate change

    19 Nov 2019 ⋅ Nature Climate Change

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    Winds of Change: Scope, causes and implications for wind energy of a reversal in global terrestrial stilling

    Wind energy is a rapidly developing alternative to conventional fossil fuels.

    18 Nov 2019

    Large storage potential in future ice-free glacier basins

    13 Nov 2019

    Hurricanes have become bigger and more destructive for USA; new study from the Niels Bohr Institute

    11 Nov 2019

    Nitrous oxide emissions set to rise in the Pacific Ocean

    11 Nov 2019

    Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought

    11 Nov 2019

    #space

    The first global geologic map of Titan completed
    Titan is the only planetary body in our solar system other than Earth known to have stable liquid on its surface.

    19 Nov 2019

    How to observe a ‘black hole symphony’ using gravitational wave astronomy
    Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe.

    18 Nov 2019

    Milky Way’s big black hole hurls star to infinity and beyond
    An international study has discovered a star travelling at more than six million km/h through the Milky Way after being flung from the centre of our galaxy by a supermassive black hole.

    13 Nov 2019

    #technology

    Ironclad climate protection

    The metal industry and materials science have numerous possibilities to make metallic materials more climate-friendly.

    13 Nov 2019

    New approach needed for defining AI standards in cybersecurity, say Oxford academics

    11 Nov 2019

    Three-dimensional printing of multicomponent glasses using phase-separating resins

    11 Nov 2019

    Free Internet access should be a basic human right

    11 Nov 2019

    #health

    A step in a new direction

    New Krembil study changes our understanding of how the brain directs the body to walk.

    19 Nov 2019

    Tiny filters help detect cancerous blood cells

    19 Nov 2019

    Malaria discovery could lead to better HIV and lupus treatments

    19 Nov 2019

    Tracking inheritance of human mitochondrial DNA

    18 Nov 2019

    Comparative genetic architectures of schizophrenia in East Asian and European populations

    18 Nov 2019

    #physics

    A remote control for everything small
    Atoms, molecules or even living cells can be manipulated with light beams. At TU Wien a method was developed to revolutionize such "optical tweezers".

    18 Nov 2019

    A four-way switch promises greater tunability of layered materials
    The newly discovered phase couples with a known phase to enable unique control over material properties--an advance that paves the way to eventual manipulation of electrical conduction in two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene.

    18 Nov 2019

    Hot electrons harvested without tricks
    The results showed that hot electrons from the perovskite semiconductor were readily absorbed by the bphen.

    15 Nov 2019

    New laser opens up large, underused region of the electromagnetic spectrum
    Researchers have developed a compact, room temperature, widely tunable terahertz laser.

    14 Nov 2019

    #archaeology

    Early DNA lineages shed light on the diverse origins of the contemporary population

    Early DNA lineages from Finland shed light on the diverse origins of the contemporary population.

    15 Nov 2019

    Lichens are way younger than scientists thought

    Four hundred and eighty-five million years ago, Earth was very different from what we see today.

    15 Nov 2019

    Climate change influenced rise and fall of Northern Iraq’s Neo-Assyrian Empire

    13 Nov 2019

    Ancient Egyptians gathered birds from the wild for sacrifice and mummification

    13 Nov 2019

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    Inactivity linked to teen suicide risk in developing countries

    14 Nov 2019

    Stretchable, degradable semiconductors

    13 Nov 2019

    Farmers face unexpected challenges as they navigate modern life on the land

    10 Nov 2019

    Enjoyment of pop music classics linked to combination of uncertainty and surprise

    7 Nov 2019

    Higher earning “elite” political lobbyists overstate their own achievements, study shows

    7 Nov 2019

    Learning is optimized when we fail 15% of the time

    5 Nov 2019

    Scientists develop strategy to stabilize single atoms with ionic liquid as electronic stabilizer

    4 Nov 2019