Most genetic mutations come from your father

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Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father's age but not the mother's, researchers have found in the largest study of human genetic mutations to date.

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Flat lens projects a perfect image

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Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses.

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DARPA's new inflatable robot

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iRobot and DARPA have teamed up once again to create a robot with an inflatable arm and gripper. It's effective and inexpensive to manufacture.

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Brain's code for pronouncing vowels discovered

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Scientists at UCLA and the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, have unraveled how our brain cells encode the pronunciation of individual vowels in speech.

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Neandertal's right-handedness hints at language
capacity

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There are precious few Neandertal skeletons available to science. One of the more complete was discovered in 1957 in France, roughly 900 yards away from the famous Lascaux Cave.

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How Epstein-Barr virus charts viral paths toward
cancer

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Researchers from The Wistar Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have teamed to publish the first annotated atlas of the Epstein-Barr virus genome, creating the most comprehensive study of how the viral genome interacts with its human host during a latent infection.

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Jury hands Apple huge win in Samsung patent case

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A federal court jury delivered a big win Friday to Apple Inc., finding that Samsung Electronics Co. infringed six Apple patents and awarding $1.05 billion in damages in a closely watched case over mobile devices.

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Only 2 percent of Canadians deny climate change

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Only two per cent of Canadians believe climate change is not occurring, a new important survey released today by IPAC-CO₂ Research Inc. concluded.

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A new way to disarm bacterial infections

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Rather than trying to kill bacteria outright with drugs, Université de Montréal researchers have discovered a way to disarm bacteria that may allow the body?s own defense mechanisms to destroy them.

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Manned Missions to Mars Aren't Just Sci-Fi

Space exploration is not just valuable to scientists; it is also popular with the public who pays taxes. And why not? The exploration of Mars is not only a search for signs of alien life. It is an exploration of the human future.

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