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Supportive Moms and Sisters Boost Female Baboon's Rank
July 30, 2014 — A study of dominance in female baboons suggests that the route to a higher rank is to maintain close ties with mom, and to have lots of supportive ... full story -
Saving Seeds the Right Way Can Save the World's Plants
July 30, 2014 — Exotic pests, shrinking ranges and a changing climate threaten some of the world's most rare and ecologically important plants, and so conservationists establish seed collections to save the ... full story -
Dimly Lit Working Environments: Correcting Body Clock Is Possible
July 30, 2014 — Researchers have, for the first time, conducted a study under real conditions on the body clocks of members of an international polar research station. The researchers have shown that a particular ... full story -
Naltrexone May Be Effective in Diminishing Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson's Disease Patients
July 30, 2014 — Parkinson's disease (PD) patients may confront a common but largely unrecognized challenge: the occurrence of impulse control disorders (ICDs) such as compulsive gambling, sexual behavior, ... full story -
Many Depressed Preschoolers Still Suffer in Later School Years
July 30, 2014 — Children diagnosed with depression as preschoolers are likely to suffer from depression as school-age children and young adolescents, new research shows. The investigators followed 246 children, now ... full story -
Nature Inspires a Greener Way to Make Colorful Plastics
July 30, 2014 — Long before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process -- think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues, for example. Now scientists are tapping ... full story -
Exploring 3-D Printing to Make Organs for Transplants
July 30, 2014 — Printing whole new organs for transplants sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but the real-life budding technology could one day make actual kidneys, livers, hearts and other organs for ... full story -
Decades-Old Amber Collection Offers New Views of a Lost World: Tiny Grasshopper Encased in Amber
July 30, 2014 — Scientists are searching through a massive collection of 20-million-year-old amber found in the Dominican Republic more than 50 years ago, and the effort is yielding fresh insights into ancient ... full story -
Mercury's Bizzare Magnetic Field Tells Scientists How Its Interior Is Different from Earth's
July 30, 2014 — Mercury's interior is different from the Earth's interior in a way that explains Mercury's bizarre magnetic field, planetary physicists report. Measurements from NASA's Messenger ... full story -
Scientists Caution Against Exploitation of Deep Ocean
July 30, 2014 — The world's oceans are vast and deep, yet rapidly advancing technology and the quest for extracting resources from previously unreachable depths is beginning to put the deep seas on the cusp of ... full story -
Sugar Mimics Guide Stem Cells Toward Neural Fate
July 30, 2014 — Many growth factors that influence the fate of embryonic stem cells must bind to sugars attached to specific receptors on the surface of the cell to work. Because the sugars are difficult to ... full story -
Climate Extremes Are Here to Stay: Expect More Heat Waves and Cold Snaps
July 30, 2014 — Researchers show how they've used advanced computational data science tools to demonstrate that despite global warming, we may still experience severe cold snaps due to increasing variability in ... full story -
Spin-Based Electronics: New Material Successfully Tested
July 30, 2014 — Spintronics is a new field of electronics, using electron spin rather than motion. This technology requires insulating components that can control this quantum property. Scientists have shown ... full story -
New Catalyst Converts Carbon Dioxide to Fuel
July 30, 2014 — Scientists have synthesized a catalyst that improves their system for converting waste carbon dioxide into syngas, a precursor of gasoline and other energy-rich products, bringing the process closer ... full story -
Peru's Carbon Quantified: Economic and Conservation Boon
July 30, 2014 — Today scientists unveiled the first high-resolution map of the carbon stocks stored on land throughout the entire country of Peru. The new and improved methodology used to make the map marks a sea ... full story -
Numerical Learning Disability: Dyscalculia Linked to Difficulties in Reading and Spelling
July 30, 2014 — Between three and six percent of schoolchildren suffer from an arithmetic-related learning disability. Researchers now show that these children are also more likely to exhibit deficits in reading and ... full story -
Ice Age Lion Figurine: Ancient Fragment of Ivory Belonging to 40,000 Year Old Animal Figurine Unearthed
July 30, 2014 — Archaeologists have found an ancient fragment of ivory belonging to a 40,000 year old animal figurine. Both pieces were found in the Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany, which has yielded a number ... full story -
Good News for Couch Potatoes: 3-D TV May Be the Victim of Negative Preconceptions
July 30, 2014 — An academic led a lab-based research, involving 433 viewers of ages from 4 to 82 years, in which participants were asked to watch Toy Story in either 2-D or 3-D (S3D) and report on their viewing ... full story -
Chinese Mosquitoes on the Baltic Sea: Ancient Insect Inclusions in East-Asian Amber
July 30, 2014 — The analysis of the roughly 3,000 pieces is still in its infant stage. But it is already evident that the results will be of major significance. The Baltic amber comes from the Baltic Sea region, ... full story -
Ablation Increases Survival for Adults With Atrial Fibrillation
July 30, 2014 — Easing heart palpitations is one benefit of catheter ablation. A longer life span is another. Study shows 60 drop in cardiovascular mortality after ablation for atrial fibrillation. More than 4 ... full story
- Supportive moms and sisters boost female baboon's rank
- Saving seeds the right way can save the world's plants
- Dimly lit working environments: Correcting body clock is possible
- Naltrexone may be effective in diminishing impulse control disorders in Parkinson's disease patients
- Many depressed preschoolers still suffer in later school years
- Nature inspires a greener way to make colorful plastics
- Exploring 3-D printing to make organs for transplants
- Decades-old amber collection offers new views of a lost world: Tiny grasshopper encased in amber
- Mercury's bizzare magnetic field tells scientists how its interior is different from Earth's
- Scientists caution against exploitation of deep ocean
- Sugar mimics guide stem cells toward neural fate
- Climate extremes are here to stay: Expect more heat waves and cold snaps
- Spin-based electronics: New material successfully tested
- New catalyst converts carbon dioxide to fuel
- Peru's carbon quantified: Economic and conservation boon
- Numerical learning disability: Dyscalculia linked to difficulties in reading and spelling
- Ice age lion figurine: Ancient fragment of ivory belonging to 40,000 year old animal figurine unearthed
- Good news for couch potatoes: 3-D TV may be the victim of negative preconceptions
- Chinese mosquitoes on the Baltic Sea: Ancient insect inclusions in East-Asian amber
- Ablation increases survival for adults with atrial fibrillation
- Brain response to appetizing food cues varies among obese people
- Teen insomnia linked with depression, anxiety
- Fossils found in Siberia suggest all dinosaurs could have been feathered
- Acupuncture provides significant quality of life improvements among breast cancer patients taking drugs to prevent recurrence, study shows
- A blood test for suicide risk? Alterations to a single gene could predict risk of suicide attempt
- Revolutionary microshutter technology hurdles significant challenges
- NASA-funded X-ray instrument settles interstellar debate
- Weighing the Milky Way: Researchers devise precise method for calculating the mass of galaxies
- Prehistoric dairy farming at the extremes
- Problem drinking in midlife doubles chance of memory problems in later life
- Striatal dopamine transporter binding correlates with body composition and visual attention bias for food cues in healthy young men
- Dieting young may lead to poor health outcomes later: Trends in dieting strategies in young adult women from 1982 to 2012
- Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages during adolescence impairs memory, animal study suggests
- Blood sugar levels closely linked to how our brains respond to the sight of food, twin study finds
- Maternal obesity modulates offspring microflora composition and gastrointestinal functions, animal study shows
- Time of arrival at hospital impacts time to treatment and survival of heart attack patients
- World's smallest propeller could be used for microscopic medicine
- Vaccine against tick-transmitted disease under development
- Vision-correcting display makes reading glasses so yesterday
- Underwater elephants: Mixed impacts of the world's largest -- and threatened -- parrotfish
- Huge waves measured for first time in Arctic Ocean
- Making cancer glow to improve surgical outcomes
- Mysterious molecules in space: Silicon-capped hydrocarbons may be source of 'diffuse interstellar bands'
- 'Killer sperm' prevents mating between worm species
- Watching neurons fire from a front-row seat
- Brainwaves can predict audience reaction of television programming
- Brand-specific television alcohol ads a significant predictor of brand consumption among underage youth
- A new way to make microstructured surfaces: Method can produce strong, lightweight materials with specific surface properties
- Research may explain how foremost anticancer 'guardian' protein learned to switch sides
- Tough foam from tiny sheets: Lab uses atom-thick materials to make ultralight foam
- The Quantum Cheshire Cat: Can neutrons be located at a different place than their own spin?
- Do your stem cells sound like cancer? While-you-wait, non-invasive cancer diagnosis by converting stem cell data into sound
- Social origins of intelligence in the brain
- Diet affects males' and females' gut microbes differently
- Autistic brain less flexible at taking on tasks
- Famine in the Horn of Africa (1984) was caused by El Nino and currents in the Indian Ocean
- Optimum inertial self-propulsion design for snowman-like nanorobot
- Beyond invisibility cloaks? Flexible metamaterial absorbers developed
- Kill switch in cell phones could save consumers more than $3.4 billion annually
- Help your infant or toddler cope with stressful events
- From finding Nemo to minerals: What riches lie in the deep sea?
- Congenital heart disease specialists develop nonsurgical technique to correct birth defects in premature infants
- Evolution in rainforest flies points to climate change survival
- Herpes remains active even when no symptoms appear
- Preterm children's brains can catch up years later
- Violent aftermath for the warriors at Alken Enge
- Worldwide water shortage by 2040
- New gadget helps vision-impaired to read graphs
- When it comes to gluten-free diets, unfounded beliefs abound
- Gasses from Kilauea volcano affected tropical storm Flossie formation
- Microscopic rowing -- without a cox: Cells' whip-like appendages can synchronize their movements
- Mysterious esophagus disease is autoimmune after all
- Mortality rates increase due to extreme heat and cold
- Using TV, videos or a computer game as a stress reducer after a tough day at work can lead to feelings of guilt and failure
- Healthy lifestyle may buffer against stress-related cell aging
- Generating a genome to feed the world: African rice sequenced
- Lead pollution beat explorers to South Pole, persists today
- First controlled malaria infection trial in Africa paves way for drug and vaccine development
- Stem cell advance may increase efficiency of tissue regeneration
- NASA long-lived Mars Opportunity rover passes 25 miles of driving
- Printing the metals of the future
- Cassini spacecraft reveals 101 geysers and more on icy Saturn moon
- Forced mutations doom HIV: How potential HIV drug exacts its toll on viral populations
- Mineral magic? Common mineral capable of making and breaking bonds
- Dementia patients more likely to get implanted pacemakers, says study
- Endurance runners more likely to die of heat stroke than heart condition
- Running reduces risk of death regardless of duration, speed
- Memory relies on astrocytes, the brain's lesser known cells: supportive cells vital in cognitive function
- Physicists unlock nature of high-temperature superconductivity
- Stress-tolerant tomato relative sequenced
- Stimulation of brain region restores consciousness to animals under general anesthesia
- Glucose 'control switch' in the brain key to both types of diabetes
- Cell's recycling center implicated in division decisions
- Brain's habenula signals how bad things could be
- Impact of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on coral is deeper and broader than predicted
- Global warming amplifier: Rising water vapor in upper troposphere to intensify climate change
- Facial features are the key to first impressions
- Irreversible inhibitor for KRAS gene mutation involved in lung, colon, and pancreatic cancers
- Genetic mutations linked to salivary gland tumors
- Researchers produce record-length mirror-image protein
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