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Why you might be a ‘speech innovator’?
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- Written by Krissy Eliot
Berkeley, California - It seems as if every time a women opens her mouth, she runs the risk of antagonizing the vocal police.
Deworming debunked? Or good science gone bad?
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- Written by IVN
Berkeley, California - According to the World Health Organization, more than 870 million children around the globe are at risk of infection by a group of parasites, commonly referred to as “worms,” that can lead to nutritional and cognitive impairment.
World’s quietest gas lets physicists hear faint quantum effects
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- Written by Robert Sanders
Berkeley, California - UC Berkeley physicists have cooled a gas to the quietest state ever achieved, hoping to detect faint quantum effects lost in the din of colder but noisier fluids.
How chronic inflammation can lead to cancer
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- Written by Helen Knight
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Chronic inflammation caused by disease or exposure to dangerous chemicals has long been linked to cancer, but exactly how this process takes place has remained unclear.
“Yolks” and “shells” improve rechargeable batteries
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- Written by David L. Chandler
Cambridge, Massachusetts - One big problem faced by electrodes in rechargeable batteries, as they go through repeated cycles of charging and discharging, is that they must expand and shrink during each cycle - sometimes doubling in volume, and then shrinking back. This can lead to repeated shedding and reformation of its “skin” layer that consumes lithium irreversibly, degrading the battery’s performance over time.
Real-time data for cancer therapy
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- Written by Chris Berdik
Cambridge, Massachusetts - In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide each year, doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemotherapy and radiation. What they lack, however, is good reconnaissance - a reliable way to obtain real-time data about how well a particular therapy is working for any given patient.
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