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Nanopores created to filter the salt from the ocean

Scientists have developed a water filtration system that is designed to filter out contaminants, especially salt, from ocean water. The groundbreaking work being done at the University of Illinois may be a major step toward a sea water water filtration system that isn’t all that expensive. Many have been wondering for decades why the United …

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Cyclist to use new 3D printed leg in Paralympics

On September 7, the 2016 Paralympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro and a cyclist, Denise Schindler of Germany, will compete with a prosthetic leg that was created with a 3D printer. It is the first time anyone has competed in the Paralympic Games with a prosthetic that was generated in this way. …

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Study finds zinc may help cure autism

Recent research coming out of the University of Auckland, in Australia, has discovered that zinc is able to help the brain cells to communicate more effectively. It has built upon 2013 Japanese research that found zinc to be extremely deficient, even absent, in autistic children. The scientists believe that the zinc could stimulate and change …

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Damage from childhood bullying long lasting

A recent study out of the University of Illinois has found that the psychological pain and damage from childhood bullying is longer lasting that may have been previously anticipated. The researchers found that the long term affects of bullying can be as strong as damage done by sexual assault or rape. The research team studied …

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Student wins major contest by unringing a bell

A young student of biomedical engineering at the University of Wisconsin won first prize at General Electric’s Unimpossible Innovation Challenge by proving that a bell can, in fact, be unrung. The point of the contest, says GE officials, is to disprove a particular long held belief or idiom using any field of science the contestants …

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Tasmanian devils are breeding out a deadly contagious cancer

Scientists have discovered that the Tasmania Devil population may survive after all. It seems that in the last couple of generations, the creatures have somehow developed a resistance to a highly contagious face cancer that has threatened the species with extinction. Already, about 80% of the animals have disappeared because of the cancer. The amazing …

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Nothing negates the damage of helicopter parenting

Even though the technique known as “helicopter parenting” has been proven time and again to be ineffective, it has now been discovered that the concept is irreversible and that no amount of parental demonstrative love and affection can negate the damage it does in the long term. These were the recent findings of a research …

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