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August 2016

Every article published in August 2016. 17 articles · Back to full archive

Activity tracker uses heart rate to personalize amount of exercise needed to prevent death

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 27, 2016

Smartphone speech recognition can write text messages three times faster than human typing

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 26, 2016

Structural, regulatory and human error were factors in Washington highway bridge collapse

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 24, 2016

NSF awards $110 million to bring advanced cyberinfrastructure to nation’s scientists, engineers

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 23, 2016

Brain & Behavior

FDA allows marketing of first-of-kind computerized cognitive tests to help assess cognitive skills after a head injury

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 23, 2016

The Division of Life

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 18, 2016

Zika infection may affect adult brain cells, suggesting risk may not be limited to pregnant women

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 18, 2016

Scientists Take Big Step Toward Recreating Primordial ‘RNA World’ of Four Billion Years Ago

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 16, 2016

Nobody Dies of Arthritis

By Josh Mitteldorf · Aug 15, 2016

The Veins of Mars

By Sam Illingworth · Aug 12, 2016

Streamers

By Nathaniel Comfort · Aug 8, 2016

Medicaid expansion under ACA linked with better health care, improved health for low-income adults

By ScienceBlog.com · Aug 8, 2016

Forbidden Dreams

By Sam Illingworth · Aug 5, 2016

Microbe Safari II: Geyser Creek

By Nathaniel Comfort · Aug 4, 2016