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Dunkin' Donuts wants to leave a doughnut-sized hole in its name

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Aug 4 2017
  1. Dunkin' Donuts wants to leave a doughnut-sized hole in its name  Washington Post

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  2. Vendors may be selling 'fake' solar eclipse glasses. Here's how to make sure yours are real.

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    Aug 4 2017
    1. Vendors may be selling 'fake' solar eclipse glasses.

    Drug short-circuits cancer signaling

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    Aug 4 2017

    A new drug zeroes in on mutated nuclear receptors found in cancer and leaves normal proteins alone.

    Recreating the wild: De-extinction, technology, and the ethics of conservation

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    Aug 4 2017

    Is extinction forever? Efforts are under way to use gene editing and other tools of biotechnology to "recreate" extinct species such as the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon. Could such "de-extinction" initiatives aid conservation by reviving species lost to habitat destruction and climate change? Or are they more likely to hinder conservation? What should the guiding ideals of conservation be in a new age of biotechnology? These are some of the questions addressed in a new report.

    Primordial black holes may have helped to forge heavy elements

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    Aug 4 2017

    Astronomers like to say we are the byproducts of stars, stellar furnaces that long ago fused hydrogen and helium into the elements needed for life through the process of stellar nucleosynthesis. But what about the heavier elements in the periodic chart, elements such as gold, platinum and uranium? Astronomers believe most of these "r-process elements" -- elements much heavier than iron -- were created, either in the aftermath of the collapse of massive stars and the associated supernova explosions, or in the merging of binary neutron star systems.

    Bipolar kindergarten teacher found alive in field weeks after crash

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    Aug 4 2017
    1. Bipolar kindergarten teacher found alive in field weeks after crash  Fox News

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    2. Immune cells may be key to better allergy, infection therapies

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      Aug 4 2017

      By learning how a recently discovered immune cell works in the body, researchers hope to one day harness the cells to better treat allergies and infections.

      Software lets designers exploit the extremely high resolution of 3-D printers

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      Aug 4 2017

      Today's 3-D printers have a resolution of 600 dots per inch, which means that they could pack a billion tiny cubes of different materials into a volume that measures just 1.67 cubic inches. Such precise control of printed objects' microstructure gives designers commensurate control of the objects' physical properties. But evaluating the physical effects of every possible combination of even just two materials, for an object consisting of tens of billions of cubes, would be prohibitively time consuming. A new software lets designers exploit this issue of extremely high resolution.

      Simultaneous design and nanomanufacturing speeds up fabrication

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      Aug 4 2017

      By using concurrent design and nanomanufacturing, researchers produce inexpensive material surfaces for use in ultra-thin solar cells that can absorb more light.

      Multiple roles of glucose metabolism identified in platelet activation and survival

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      Aug 4 2017

      Platelets, the cells in blood that enable clotting, are highly reliant on their ability to metabolize glucose, according to a new study.