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Five new frog species discovered
![]() | In Madagascar five new frog species have been discovered. They are all very small, the smallest so tiny that it is as long as a grain of rice only. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Science News
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Neat News 2019-89 (added 2019-03-30)
Dogs can sniff epileptic seizures
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| Epileptic seizures are dangerous for persons suffering from epilepsy. Now research has found that dogs can smell seizures. This may be a first step to predicting seizures and potentially avoiding them. |
News seen at: BBC - Health
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Neat News 2019-88 (added 2019-03-29)
Longest salt cave discovered
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| A new salt cave has been discovered overlooking the Dead Sea. It is with around 10km of passages the longest known salt cave. |
News seen at: BBC - Science & Environment
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Neat News 2019-87 (added 2019-03-28)
Iceberg with climate info
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| Researchers are studying icebergs in Antarctica in order to find information about the climate in the past 20 million years. Icebergs breaking off the mainland provide the possibility to gather the information and shed light on possible future developments of the climate. |
News seen at: BBC - Science & Environment
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Neat News 2019-86 (added 2019-03-27)
Biggest Tyrannosaurus rex found
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| The biggest ever found Tyrannosaurus rex is 13 metres long and was more than 8800 kg heavy. It has been found in Saskatchewan, Canada, and will be on display from May 2019 onwards in the Royal Saskatchewan Museum. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Science News
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Neat News 2019-85 (added 2019-03-26)
New production of brain cells and Alzheimer's
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| In a new study, it has been found that the brain maintains a high rate of producing new brain cells throughout life. This ability is, however, significantly reduced in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The findings may be useful in finding some treatment against Alzheimer's disease. |
News seen at: BBC - Health
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Neat News 2019-84 (added 2019-03-25)
Prisoners reading bedtime stories
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| A charity offers prisoners the possibility to read bedtime stories to their children. On the one hand, this allows - in particular fathers - to stay in touch with their children and get through a difficult time. On the other hand, children feel that they are not abandoned by their fathers. |
News seen at: BBC - Stories
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Neat News 2019-83 (added 2019-03-24)
Around 4000 exoplanets known
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| By now around 4000 exoplanets, that is, planets outside our solar system, are known. There is indication that many stars have planets and that there habitable ones among those. |
News seen at: BBC - Science
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Neat News 2019-82 (added 2019-03-23)
3D scan of baby heart
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| By taking 2D scans from different angles it is possible to create three-dimensional models of hearts of unborn babies. This will be done if problems are discovered by a traditional scan. Then help for babies with severe heart problems can be prepared so that informed surgery can be performed as soon as the babies are born. |
News seen at: BBC - Health
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Neat News 2019-81 (added 2019-03-22)
Team sport against depression
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| Team sport seems to stimulate a region of the brain of children resulting in a larger hippocampal volume. According to a study this results in a reduced depression rate in boys aged 9 to 11. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Health
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Neat News 2019-80 (added 2019-03-21)
Humans seem to be able to sense the magnet field of the Earth
![]() | It has been known for long that some animals use the Earth's magnetic field for orientation. Now there is evidence that the brain can detect the Earth's magnetic field and react with particular brain waves to changes. |
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Neat News 2019-79 (added 2019-03-20)
Path do adulthood
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| Legally in many states people become adults on their 18th birthday. New research points in the direction that the process of the maturation of the brain is much more complex and there are fundamental changes in the brain up into the 30s so that full adulthood does not happen suddenly. |
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Neat News 2019-78 (added 2019-03-19)
Levitation by light
![]() | Specifically designed nano-particles can be levitated and propelled by light. The technique has the potential to be applied to bigger objects so that one day spacecrafts may be built that can travel to the nearest planet outside our solar system in 20 years, propelled only by light. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top News
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Neat News 2019-77 (added 2019-03-18)
Friendship bench - grandmothers against depression
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| An African psychiatrist explains why he is training grandmothers to treat depression. At a rate of about one psychiatrist per one million people in his country there is not the capacity to give every person with depression the necessary attention. Training grandmothers means they can provide much needed help on a friendship bench. |
News seen at: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Article not found online)
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Neat News 2019-76 (added 2019-03-17)
Light and sound against Alzheimer's
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| In experiments with mice, there is some indication that a daily extended exposure to sound and light at a particular frequency (of 40 Hz) may keep the development of Alzheimer's disease at bay. |
News seen at: Scientific American - Health
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Neat News 2019-75 (added 2019-03-16)
Students strike for climate
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| The Friday strikes by students have gone global yesterday. Thousands of students have been on strike in about 100 countries, countries in Europe, India, South Korea, Australia, and the USA. |
News seen at: BBC - World
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Neat News 2019-74 (added 2019-03-15)
Polar bear cub in Berlin outside
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| A 3 1/2 month old polar bear cub in Berlin Zoo has been for the first time outside, well protected by her mother. |
News seen at: Reuters - News (1:12)
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Neat News 2019-73 (added 2019-03-14)
Antioxidants in mushrooms for brain
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| Antioxidants in mushrooms may be good against "mild cognitive impairment" (MCI) such as forgetfulness or language problems. |
News seen at: BBC - Health
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Neat News 2019-72 (added 2019-03-13)
Immediate action may still make the future tolerable
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| Climate change needs immediate concerted action and we still have a chance to limit the consequences of global warming. These are the results of a new study on climate change. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Environment
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Neat News 2019-71 (added 2019-03-12)
Coral reef detected in Southern Italy
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| A two and a half kilometre long coral reef has been detected on the Adriatic coast in the South of Italy near the town of Monopoli in the region of Puglia. |
News seen at: The Guardian - World
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Neat News 2019-70 (added 2019-03-11)
New insects discovered on Indonesian island
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| More than a hundred new species of insects have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. They are beetles of a few millimetres in length. There may be even more species to be discovered on the island. |
News seen at: BBC - Science & Environment
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Neat News 2019-69 (added 2019-03-10)
Stars transformed to sound
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| NASA has transformed an image of stars taken by the Hubble telescope to sound. |
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Neat News 2019-68 (added 2019-03-09)
Weight of the Milky Way estimated
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| The mass of the Milky Way has been estimated to be 1.5 trillion times the mass of our Sun. It is estimated that it contains around 200 billion stars and contains also a black hole at its centre with a mass of about 4 million times the mass of our Sun. Most of the mass of the milky way is made up by dark matter. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Science News
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Neat News 2019-67 (added 2019-03-08)
Retinal disease treated by gene therapy
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| A form of inherited blindness due to a mutation of RPE65 can be treated now by gene therapy. This is the result of a big effort. Contributors describe the work that was necessary and that is needed in order to make further breakthroughs in the future. |
News seen at: Scientific American - Health
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Neat News 2019-66 (added 2019-03-07)
Levitation to study clustering
![]() | Scientists have used sound-induced levitation to understand better how particles cluster. From six objects onwards different interesting clusters are possible. |
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Neat News 2019-65 (added 2019-03-06)
Diet against diabetes type 2
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| A new study has confirmed the effectiveness of dieting to deal with type 2 diabetes. In the 2-year study 46 percent of the patients were in remission after the diet. |
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Neat News 2019-64 (added 2019-03-05)
HIV remission
![]() | A patient has received a stem cell treatment with cells from a donor who is resistant to HIV. This way, the patient has gone in remission with both his HIV infection and a subsequent Hodgkin's lymphoma. The treatment was done primarily because of the cancer and is not a general treatment, because of considerable side effects. |
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Neat News 2019-63 (added 2019-03-04)
Wireless monitoring of babies to allow cuddles
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| Cuddles are very important for babies. However, babies in hospitals need often to be monitored by sensors to check that they are okay. The wires used for this monitoring are in the way of cuddles. Now wireless monitoring has been developed to allow for problem-free parent-baby cuddling. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Top Health
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Neat News 2019-62 (added 2019-03-03)
Peak of intelligence
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| There is good news for ageing people: There seems to be no clear peak in intelligence related to age. Added knowledge seems to compensate for a decline in some functions of the brain. However, important for keeping up the mental capabilities is a purpose in life. |
News seen at: Scientific American - Blogs
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Neat News 2019-61 (added 2019-03-02)
Predicting earthquakes by machine learning
![]() | Predicting earthquakes can save lives. Now machine learning techniques are used to help predict earthquakes by evaluating loads of data that are gathered by seismographic stations. |
News seen at: ScienceDaily - Computers & Math
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Neat News 2019-60 (added 2019-03-01)
Exercising to reduce cancer growth
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| High intensity interval training can reduce the growth of colon cancer cells. This may mean that exercising can play a role in the treatment of cancer in general. |