Itch is a dominant symptom in dermatitis (eczema), and scratching promotes cutaneous inflammation, thereby worsening disease. However, the mechanisms through which scratching exacerbates inflammation and whether scratching provides benefit to…
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Do science dioramas still have a place in today’s museums?
At first glance, it’s a simple scene. Six adult bison and a calf mill around a stream. But Matt Davis invites me to look closer. We are at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, where Davis is an exhibition developer. As he shows…
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Aibos in Hospitals, Chinese New Year Robots, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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Physics – Cooking Flawless Pasta
• Physics 18, 22
Scientists have pinpointed energy-efficient ways to cook al dente pasta and developed an infallible recipe for the perfect cacio e pepe sauce.
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Biologists Sequence Iberian Ribbed Newt Genome at High Resolution
Aquatic, tailed amphibians called newts have large genomes harboring many repeat elements. How these elements shape the genome and relate to newts’ unique regeneration ability remains unknown. In new research, scientists from Karolinska…
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Archaeologists find 4,500-year-old warrior burials in Saxony-Anhalt
Archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology (LDA) Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered 4,500-year-old warrior graves linked to the Bell Beaker Culture near Förderstedt, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
The Bell Beaker culture is…
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Bennu and Beyond: Tracing the Path to Possible Life on Distant Worlds
Does life exist beyond Earth and have the building blocks of life existed in our solar system for billions of years? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of…
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Scientists shocked by durability of surgery-sparing technique
A nanotechnology-based drug delivery system developed at UVA Health to save patients from repeated surgeries has proved to have unexpectedly long-lasting benefits in lab tests — a promising sign for its potential to help human patients.
The…
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AI Voices Should Sound Robotic Again: A Simple Solution
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new
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Better male birth control is on the horizon
In 1960, a new drug revolutionized society from the bedroom to the streets. The introduction of a hormonal contraceptive, the birth control pill, gave women reproductive autonomy and a more effective way to plan a family. Since then,…
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