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Project creates energy source from hog waste
Duke U. scientists are giving a new meaning to the term hogwash—and Google, Inc. wants in. The University and Duke Energy have collaborated to create a technology that extracts methane from hog waste and creates electricity while reducing carbon emissions. The $1.
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Study finds correlation between belief in God and cognitive style
There exists a correlation between an individual’s belief in God and his or her cognitive style, suggests a study by Harvard researchers published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General on Monday.
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New method could prove existence of dark matter
One of the cosmology’s greatest unsolved mysteries is the nature of dark matter, a mysterious and invisible substance that dominates over 20 percent of the universe’s observable mass.
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Professors abroad search for ‘God’ particle to answer life questions
As we stepped off the tram 100 meters away from the Swiss-French border, a huge, bronze globe dominated the skyline. The sign in front read “CERN: Accelerating Science.” We had arrived at the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.
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Study claims fatherhood causes drop in testosterone levels
The male hormone, testosterone, takes a hit once men make the transition to fatherhood, suggesting it may be in a man's biological makeup to provide direct care for his children once they're born, according to a recent Northwestern U.-led study.
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Psychology professor studies mother-son relationships, behavior
Wayne State U. psychology assistant professor Christopher Trentacosta has conducted a survey with psychologists from other universities to research the change of mother-son relationships in low-income communities in Pittsburgh, Penn.
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Mutant protein is key to fighting Ebola virus
The African Ebola filovirus is a master hijacker. Co-opting a host cell’s cargo-transport system, an Ebola virus passes undetected through a cell’s outer membrane and overtakes the host’s molecular machinery for its own proliferation.
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Cornell library sued for copyright infringement
Individual authors and authors’ groups around the world are suing Cornell U. and four other universities, alleging that the universities’ library digitization projects are an illegal infringement of copyright law.
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Fossils believed to be earliest form of humanity
After studying the remains of a nearly 2-million-year-old being, Duke U. researchers believe they have found the oldest link in humanity’s family tree—a discovery that could cause the entire field of paleoanthropology to shift greatly.