The Discovery Files
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Your Brain Is Always Listening
Your brain is always at work, whether you are consciously listening or not.
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Smart Streetscapes
How could a smarter street improve your life? "Smart Streetscapes," a new NSF ERC.
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Carbon Negative Cement
The manufacture of cement contributes up to 8% of global CO2 emissions.
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What Weddell Seal Moms Sacrifice
What makes Weddell seals such excellent divers?
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What Weddell Seal Moms Sacrifice
What makes Weddell seals such excellent divers, able to forage underwater for food for as long as...
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Did Shipwrecked Horses Survive?
Folklore about a shipwrecked Spanish galleon comes to light in the oldest sequenced DNA ever found.
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Infant Word Association
Babies are like sponges constantly absorbing information. One vital component is learning a language
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Shedding New Light on Dark Matter
What is "Cosmic Microwave Background?"
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Brightest Fluorescents Ever Made
What makes the images on television screens, hand-held video games, and smartphones so dynamic?
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A Mega Predator of Predators
Explore with us the largest marine predator that has ever existed,
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A Mega Predator Of Predators
While others focus on today’s sharks, explore with us the largest marine predator that has ever...
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Protective Food Packaging
Researchers adapted technology to develop a food packaging system that is biodegradable
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Brightest Fluorescents Ever Made
What makes the images on television screens, hand-held video games, and smartphones so dynamic?
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Neutron Star May Be Devouring Companion
There are two dozen Black Widows in the Milky Way. But what is a Black Widow and why does a neutron
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No Sunscreen for Corals
Six thousand tons of sunscreen wash through U.S. coral reefs every year.
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No Sunscreen for Corals
Six thousand tons of sunscreen wash through U.S. coral reefs every year.
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Bone Therapy
What is 3D bioprinting? It’s been used to print living human tissue, but what else could it create
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Bone Therapy
What is 3D bioprinting? It’s been used to print living human tissue, but what else could it create
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DFV-Fish on the menu
Fish habitats are in fluctuation.
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Fish on the Menu?
As marine ecosystems change with warming ocean temperatures, will seafood still be on the menu.
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Brains in Space
The harsh environment of space poses serious physical challenges on our bodies.
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Brains in Space
The infinite adventure of space travel has us reaching for the stars, but the harsh environment of..
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Upcycling with Sunlight
Researchers are using the power of the sun to upcycle plastic waste.
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Enhancing AI Diagnosis
Researchers are working to improve radiologists’ interpretation of AI data.
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Making Biopsies Obsolete
A team of researchers have developed a high-speed, 3D microscope, called MediSCAPE.
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Making Biopsies Obsolete
What if invasive biopsies were a thing of the past?
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Crowdsourcing Research
“Citizen Scientists” have helped researchers document how coyotes and small gray foxes have foun
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Future Pollen Forecasts!
By the end of this century, Spring pollen emissions could begin 40 days earlier.
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What's in the Wind?
Researchers have learned the human impact on climate change can play a major role in wildfires.
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Earth Trojan Asteroids!
Like the Trojan Horse of Greek mythology, Earth Trojan Asteroids also hold secrets!