Food tracking app links less sleeping to more eating: Even people who think they eat three meals a day may actually graze for most of their waking hours and consume fewer calories when they get more sleep, a small U.S. study suggests.
Source: reuters.com
Blood-cleansing biospleen device developed for sepsis therapy: Things can go downhill fast when a patient has sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which bacteria or fungi multiply in a patient's bloodâoften too fast for antibiotics to help. A new device inspired by the human spleen and developed...
Source: medicalxpress.com
The tropical steam-engine: how does El Niño warm the entire globe?: El Niño has a hugely pervasive effect on global temperatures - for every degree the tropical Pacific warms, land temperatures warm by 1.5 degrees. How? Because the tropical ocean is a very good heater.
Source: theconversation.com
New Zealand to turn Kermadec into vast marine reserve - BBC News: New Zealand reveals plans to turn an area of the South Pacific ocean about the size of France into a marine reserve.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Introducing Facebook and Summit’s K-12 Education Project | Facebook Newsroom: A group of Facebook engineers has partnered with local educators to create a classroom experience that takes advantage of all the technology and information accessible to a kid growing up today.
Source: newsroom.fb.com
Facebook founder calls for universal Internet to help cure global ills | Reuters
Source: reuters.com
Irish marchers demand referendum on legalising abortion: Thousands gather in capital to put pressure on government to call referendum on liberalising law after next general election
Source: theguardian.com
Facebook Takes a Step Into Education Software reports the New York Times.
Source: nytimes.com
Tools for illuminating brain function make their own light: A variant on the optogenetics technique gives neuroscientists the choice of activating neurons with light or an externally supplied chemical.
Source: eurekalert.org
Junior doctors' strike receives overwhelming support, poll shows: Patients and medical profession in favour of action over proposed contract that could cut pay by 30% and force junior doctors to work more antisocial shifts
Source: theguardian.com
The Fuzzy Logic of Fleeing for Your Life: Computer models are becoming more attuned to human fear during crowd evacuations
Source: ieee.org
NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars: New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
Source: nasa.gov
Junior doctors: why are you protesting?: Doctors and medical students are set to protest on Monday evening in London against proposed changes to trainee’s contracts. Will you be there?
Source: theguardian.com
Sanofi wins EU approval for Praluent anti-cholesterol drug: French drugmaker Sanofi said the European Commission had cleared its key cholesterol drug Praluent for the treatment of so-called "bad cholesterol," or low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, in certain adult patients with hypercholesterolemia.
Source: reuters.com
FDA Approves Two New Treatments for Diabetes NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Chemistry at heart of VW emissions cheating | Chemistry World
Source: rsc.org
“Volkswagen’s deception tarnishes big business” says FT in understatement of the weekend.
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This was a very fancy chicken that lived with us. She was very small but proud and we called her Shanie.
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Everyone should read what this man has to say about the refugee crisis: The British government has announced it will take in 20,000 refugees from camps in Syria and its neighbouring states.
Source: independent.co.uk
Here's what Volkswagen did and how it got caught: Volkswagen fooled the state exams but was caught by independent testers
Source: businessinsider.com