Perfect Manhattans & Mysterious Fungi
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Tennis players' grunts predict whether they will win or lose.
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Jupiter's Great Red Spot Imaged Like Never Before
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New, Noninvasive Imaging Technique Finds Heart Disease Before It Hurts
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Mapping fat accumulation around arteries in the heart. (Credit: A.S. Antonopoulos et al., Science Translational Medicine (2017)) A new, noninvasive imaging method lets researchers pick up on the warning signs of heart disease long before a heart attack or stroke can take place. The noninvasive technique uses current computed tomography (CT) scanning technology to analyze images of fatty deposits lining blood vessels in order to flag potentially dangerous inflammation. Using the data from heart ...read more
Satellite images reveal an iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie breaking off the Antarctic Peninsula
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An image acquired by the Suomi-NPP satellite on July 12, 2017 reveals a gargantuan iceberg calving from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Image source: NASA Worldview) It has been predicted for a long time, and now it has finally happened: One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken free of the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. Scientists monitoring a growing rift in the ice shelf confirmed today in a blog post that the trillion-ton iceberg had calved. ...read more