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Ocean Food Web Is Key in the Global Carbon Cycle
Mar. 11, 2014 Nothing dies of old age in the ocean. Everything gets eaten and all that remains of anything is waste. But that waste is pure gold to an oceanographer. In a study of the ocean's role in the ... full story -
Cellular Alchemy: How to Make Insulin-Producing Cells from Gut Cells
Mar. 11, 2014 Introducing three proteins that control the regulation of DNA in the nucleus -- called transcription factors -- into an immune-deficient mouse turned a specific group of cells in the gut lining into ... full story -
Free Online Software Helps Speed Up Genetic Discoveries
Mar. 11, 2014 Microarray analysis -- a complex technology commonly used in many applications such as discovering genes, disease diagnosis, drug development and toxicological research -- has just become easier and ... full story -
Why Antisocial Youth Are Less Able to See Perspective of Others
Mar. 11, 2014 Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet known about the underlying neural processes. ... full story -
After Major Earthquake, Silence: Dynamic Stressing of a Global System of Faults Results in Rare Seismic Silence
Mar. 11, 2014 In the global aftershock zone that followed the major April 2012 Indian Ocean earthquake, seismologists noticed an unusual pattern -- a dynamic 'stress shadow,' or period of seismic silence ... full story -
Improving Safety, Effectiveness of Lithium Therapy: Closer Than Ever
Mar. 11, 2014 Lithium, one of the oldest and most widely used drugs to treat neuropsychiatric illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, has a serious drawback -- toxicity. In a continued effort to find a safer form of ... full story -
Gesturing With Hands a Powerful Tool for Children's Math Learning
Mar. 11, 2014 Children who use their hands to gesture during a math lesson gain a deep understanding of the problems they are taught, according to new research. Previous research has found that gestures can help ... full story -
Restoring Order in Brain: Brain Cell Regeneration May Alleviate Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease
Mar. 11, 2014 Researchers have discovered that when they re-established a population of new cells in the part of the brain associated with behavior, some symptoms of Alzheimer's disease significantly ... full story -
Empathy Chimpanzees Offer Is Key to Understanding Human Engagement
Mar. 11, 2014 New findings show that chimpanzees exhibit flexibility in their empathy, just as humans do. This may help explain the evolution of how and when humans engage with others and choose to offer ... full story -
More Secure Communications Thanks to Quantum Physics
Mar. 11, 2014 One of the recent revelations by Edward Snowden is that the U.S. National Security Agency is currently developing a quantum computer. Physicists aren’t surprised by this news; such a computer could ... full story -
Bending the Light With a Tiny Chip: Silicon Chip Acts as a Lens-Free Projector, May One Day Fit in Cell Phones
Mar. 11, 2014 Traditional projectors -- like those used to project a film or classroom lecture notes -- pass a beam of light through a tiny image, using lenses to map each point of the small picture to ... full story -
Anesthetic Technique Improves Quality of Recovery for Women Having Breast Cancer Surgery
Mar. 11, 2014 Anesthesiologists using a technique similar to a dental freeze can improve the quality of recovery and decrease recovery time for breast cancer surgery patients, according to a new study. The ... full story -
To Drink or Not to Drink: Decision-Making Center of Brain Identified
Mar. 11, 2014 Although choosing to do something because the perceived benefit outweighs the financial cost is something people do daily, little is known about what happens in the brain when a person makes these ... full story -
Saturn and Jupiter: X-Ray Laser Spies Deep Into Giant Gas Planets
Mar. 11, 2014 Using DESY's X-ray laser FLASH, researchers took a sneak peek deep into the lower atmospheric layers of giant gas planets such as Jupiter or Saturn. The observations reveal how liquid hydrogen ... full story -
Speed Trap for Fish Catches Domestic Trout Moving Too Slow
Mar. 11, 2014 Researchers have documented dramatic differences in the swimming ability of domesticated trout and their wilder relatives. The study calls into question the ability of hatcheries to mitigate more ... full story -
Statins May Lower Blood Clot Risk Following Joint Replacement Surgery
Mar. 11, 2014 New, first-of-its-kind research has found that statins, when used in conjunction with conventional blood clot prevention therapies, significantly reduced the risk for venous thromboembolic events ... full story -
Personality Predicts Social Learning in Wild Monkeys: Bold or Anxious Baboons Learn to Solve Tasks from Other Baboons
Mar. 11, 2014 Baboons learn from other baboons about new food sources -- but only if they are bold or anxious. The results suggest that personality plays a key role in social learning in animals, something ... full story -
Timid Jumping Spider Uses Ant as Bodyguard
Mar. 11, 2014 Ants are the unlikely guardians of jumping spiders in their battle against aggressive spitting spiders. A timid jumping spider uses the scent of ants as a secret weapon to save itself from becoming ... full story -
Milky Way Amidst a 'Council of Giants'
Mar. 11, 2014 We live in a galaxy known as the Milky Way -- a vast conglomeration of 300 billion stars, planets whizzing around them, and clouds of gas and dust floating in between. Though it has long been known ... full story -
Plaques Detected in Brain Scans Forecast Cognitive Impairment
Mar. 11, 2014 Brain imaging using radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer's disease that may predict future cognitive decline among adults with mild or no cognitive impairment, according to a ... full story -
Effective Thermal Camouflage and Invisibility Device for Soldiers Created
Mar. 11, 2014 Scientists have created a thermal illusion device to control thermal camouflage and invisibility using thermotic materials. Every natural object exhibits thermal signatures. However, if these signals ... full story
- Ocean food web is key in the global carbon cycle
- Cellular alchemy: How to make insulin-producing cells from gut cells
- Free online software helps speed up genetic discoveries
- Why antisocial youth are less able to see perspective of others
- After major earthquake, silence: Dynamic stressing of a global system of faults results in rare seismic silence
- Improving safety, effectiveness of lithium therapy: Closer than ever
- Gesturing with hands a powerful tool for children's math learning
- Restoring order in brain: Brain cell regeneration may alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease
- Empathy chimpanzees offer is key to understanding human engagement
- More secure communications thanks to quantum physics
- Bending the light with a tiny chip: Silicon chip acts as a lens-free projector, may one day fit in cell phones
- Anesthetic technique improves quality of recovery for women having breast cancer surgery
- To drink or not to drink: Decision-making center of brain identified
- Saturn and Jupiter: X-ray laser spies deep into giant gas planets
- Speed trap for fish catches domestic trout moving too slow
- Statins may lower blood clot risk following joint replacement surgery
- Personality predicts social learning in wild monkeys: Bold or anxious baboons learn to solve tasks from other baboons
- Timid jumping spider uses ant as bodyguard
- Milky Way amidst a 'Council of Giants'
- Plaques detected in brain scans forecast cognitive impairment
- Effective thermal camouflage and invisibility device for soldiers created
- Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years
- Possible evidence for dark matter particle presented at UCLA physics symposium
- Girls born small or underweight twice as likely to be infertile in adulthood
- Light pollution impairs rainforest regeneration: Seed-dispersing bats avoid feeding in light polluted areas
- New light shed on changing Greenland ice
- Impersonating poisonous prey: Evolution of interspecific communication
- Natural selection has altered the appearance of Europeans over the past 5,000 years
- Unique individual with lupus and HIV demonstrates desired immune response to HIV
- Small biomass power plants could help rural economies, stabilize national power grid
- Key breaking point involved in traumatic brain injury modeled by researchers
- National U.S. study reveals how urban lawn care habits vary
- Turing's theory of chemical morphogenesis validated 60 years after his death
- Mongol Empire rode wave of mild climate, but warming now may be tipping region into unparalleled drought
- Volcanoes helped species survive ice ages
- Serious side effect: Several FDA-approved anti-cancer drugs induce stem cell tumors
- Outside the body our memories fail us
- How light affects our brain's performance: Photic memory for executive brain responses
- A shocking diet: Researchers describe microbe that 'eats' electricity
- One step closer to ovarian cancer marker, researchers report
- West Virginia spill activates engineers to determine effects of chemicals
- Predation on invertebrates by woodland salamanders increases carbon capture
- U.S. cocaine use cut by half, while marijuana consumption jumps
- Scientists build thinnest-possible LEDs to be stronger, more energy efficient
- Two-dimensional material shows promise for optoelectronics: LEDs, photovoltaic cells, and light detectors
- Synthetic biologists shine light on genetic circuit analysis
- Emotional expressions in ancient funerary art served as therapy for the bereaved
- Computer system simulates the behavior of tax evaders
- Young skin cancer survivors at risk of other cancers later
- Feeding gut microbiota: Nutrition, probiotics key factors for digestive health
- Tricky balancing act: Antibiotics versus the gut microbiota
- Scents and sustainability: Renewable sources for artificial scents and flavors
- Alaska the Last Frontier ... not for long
- Healthy eating may reduce the risk of preterm delivery
- Smokers' brains biased against negative images of smoking
- Microwave radar monitors sliding slopes: Geodesists research in the Alps
- Dropped your toast? Five-second food rule exists, new research suggests
- Lower IQ and poorer cardiovascular fitness in teen years increase risk of early-onset dementia
- Aerosols from human activities tend to weaken hurricanes and cyclones
- Biomolecular tweezers facilitate study of mechanical force effects on cells and proteins
- 'Death stars' in Orion blast planets before they even form
- Farm salmon pose clear reproductive threat to wild gene pools, researchers say
- IBS and bloating: When gut microbiota gets out of balance
- More than just bacteria: Importance of microbial diversity in gut health, disease
- Mapping behavior of charges in correlated spin-orbit coupled materials: Electronic disruption prods Mott insulator's conversion to metallic state
- PSA testing, early treatment decreases risk of prostate cancer death
- Sweet test to reduce false-positive cancer diagnoses
- Healthy midlife diet may prevent dementia later
- 'Super bacteria' clean up after oil spills
- Weirdness in cosmic web of the universe: Faint strings of galaxies in 'empty' space arranged in way never before seen
- Combination of sensory signals draw mosquitoes in for a bite
- 'Tree of life' distances are no shortcut to conservation
- Atomically thin, flexible, semi-transparent solar cells created
- Spread of antibiotic resistance understood by unravelling bacterial secretion system
- Mutations in leukemia gene linked to new childhood growth disorder
- First animals oxygenated Earth's oceans, study suggests
- In grasslands remade by humans, animals may protect biodiversity: Grazers let in the light, rescue imperiled plants
- Four new human-made ozone depleting gases found in the atmosphere
- Blood test identifies those at-risk for cognitive decline, Alzheimer's within three years
- Can the blind 'hear' colors, shapes? Yes, show researchers
- Sun's energy influences 1,000 years of natural climate variability in North Atlantic
- Stem cell study opens door to undiscovered world of biology
- New tool to unravel mysteries of metastasis created
- Deer proliferation disrupts a forest's natural growth
- Combined use of oxytocin and human chorionic gonadotropin in intractable pain patients
- Stem cell transplant shows 'landmark' promise for treatment of degenerative disc disease
- New NASA Van Allen Probes observations helping to improve space weather models
- Research on 3-D scaffolds sets new bar in lung regeneration
- New class of antibiotics discovered by chemists
- Ever-so-slight delay improves decision-making accuracy
- The dark side of fair play: Why would evolution let spite stick around?
- Personalized treatment prolongs the life of lung cancer patients
- Over demanding market affects fisheries more than climate change
- NASA's WISE survey finds thousands of new stars, but no 'Planet X'
- Anti-psychotic meds offer hope against brain cancer
- Promising news for producing fuels through artificial photosynthesis
- New theory on cause of endometriosis
- That sinking feeling: NASA radar demonstrates ability to foresee sinkholes
- Mystery of planet-forming disks explained by magnetism
- Cells appearing normal may actually be harbingers of lung cancer
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