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Mammoth and Mastodon Behavior Was Less Roam, More Stay at Home
July 21, 2014 — Their scruffy beards weren't ironic, but there are reasons mammoths and mastodons could have been the hipsters of the Ice Age. According to new research, the famously fuzzy relatives of ... full story -
Global Warming 'Pause' Since 1998 Reflects Natural Fluctuation
July 21, 2014 — Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according ... full story -
Understanding Graphene's Electrical Properties on an Atomic Level
July 21, 2014 — For the first time, researchers have used a cutting-edge microscope to study the relationship between the atomic geometry of a ribbon of graphene and its electrical ... full story -
Real Price of Steak: Comparing Environmental Costs of Livestock-Based Foods
July 21, 2014 — New research reveals the comparative environmental costs of livestock-based foods. While we are told that eating beef is bad for the environment, do we know its real cost? Are the other animal or ... full story -
Transiting Exoplanet With Longest Known Year: 704 Earth Days
July 21, 2014 — Astronomers have discovered a transiting exoplanet with the longest known year. Kepler-421b circles its star once every 704 days. In comparison, Mars orbits our Sun once every 780 days. Most of the ... full story -
Epigenetic Tie to Neuropsychiatric Disorders Found
July 21, 2014 — Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric ... full story -
Try, Try Again? Study Says No: Trying Harder Makes It More Difficult to Learn Some Aspects of Language, Neuroscientists Find
July 21, 2014 — Neuroscientists find that trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language. When it comes to learning languages, adults and children have different strengths. Adults excel at ... full story -
Parents Rank Their Obese Children as 'Very Healthy'
July 21, 2014 — Parents of obese children often do not recognize the potentially serious health consequences of childhood weight gain or the importance of daily physical activity in helping their child reach a ... full story -
Chemists Eye Improved Thin Films With Metal Substitution
July 21, 2014 — The yield so far is small, but chemists have developed a low-energy, solution-based mineral substitution process to make a precursor to transparent thin films that could find use in electronics and ... full story -
Stem Cells Aid Muscle Repair, Strengthening After Resistance Exercise
July 21, 2014 — By injecting mesenchymal stem cells into mouse leg muscles prior to several bouts of eccentric exercise (similar to the lengthening contractions performed during resistance training in humans), ... full story -
Carbyne Morphs When Stretched: Calculations Show Carbon-Atom Chain Would Go Metal to Semiconductor
July 21, 2014 — Applying just the right amount of tension to a chain of carbon atoms can turn it from a metallic conductor to an insulator. The research has implications for mechanically activated nanoscale ... full story -
Climate: Meat Turns Up the Heat as Livestock Emit Greenhouse Gases
July 21, 2014 — Eating meat contributes to climate change, due to greenhouse gasses emitted by livestock. New research finds that livestock emissions are on the rise and that beef cattle are responsible for far more ... full story -
More Than Glitter: How Gold Nanoparticles Easily Penetrate Cells, Making Them Useful for Delivering Drugs
July 21, 2014 — A special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells. Scientists can now explain how gold nanoparticles ... full story -
Mammals Metabolize Some Pesticides to Limit Their Biomagnification
July 21, 2014 — The concentrations of many historically used, and now widely banned, pesticides and other toxic chemicals -- called legacy contaminants -- can become magnified in an animal that eats contaminated ... full story -
New Research Links Bad Diet to Loss of Smell
July 21, 2014 — Could stuffing yourself full of high-fat foods cause you to lose your sense of smell? A new study by neuroscientists says so, and it has researchers taking a closer look at how our diets could impact ... full story -
Replacing Coal, Oil With Natural Gas Will Not Help Fight Global Warming, Expert Argues
July 21, 2014 — Both shale gas and conventional natural gas have a larger greenhouse gas footprint than do coal or oil, especially for the primary uses of residential and commercial heating. "While emissions of ... full story -
Process to Purify Water Using Seed Extracts Now Simplified
July 21, 2014 — Researchers have streamlined and simplified a process that uses extracts from seeds of Moringa oleifa trees to purify water, reducing levels of harmful bacteria by 90 percent to 99 percent. The hardy ... full story -
New Meteorological Insight Into Mid-Level Clouds
July 21, 2014 — At medium altitudes ranging from 6,000 feet to 20,000 feet above mean sea level, water droplets in altocumulus clouds can remain in a supercooled liquid phase that cannot be reasonably resolved in ... full story -
Genes That Contribute to Radiation Resistance Identified
July 21, 2014 — Forty-six genes in Escherichia coli have been discovered that are necessary for its survival at exceptionally high levels of radiation, researchers report in a new article. "The research has ... full story -
Seals Forage at Offshore Wind Farms
July 21, 2014 — By using sophisticated GPS tracking to monitor seals' every movement, researchers have shown for the first time that some individual seals are repeatedly drawn to offshore wind farms and ... full story
- Mammoth and mastodon behavior was less roam, more stay at home
- Global warming 'pause' since 1998 reflects natural fluctuation
- Understanding graphene's electrical properties on an atomic level
- Real price of steak: Comparing environmental costs of livestock-based foods
- Transiting exoplanet with longest known year: 704 Earth days
- Epigenetic tie to neuropsychiatric disorders found
- Try, try again? Study says no: Trying harder makes it more difficult to learn some aspects of language, neuroscientists find
- Parents rank their obese children as 'very healthy'
- Chemists eye improved thin films with metal substitution
- Stem cells aid muscle repair, strengthening after resistance exercise
- Carbyne morphs when stretched: Calculations show carbon-atom chain would go metal to semiconductor
- Climate: Meat turns up the heat as livestock emit greenhouse gases
- More than glitter: How gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells, making them useful for delivering drugs
- Mammals metabolize some pesticides to limit their biomagnification
- New research links bad diet to loss of smell
- Replacing coal, oil with natural gas will not help fight global warming, expert argues
- Process to purify water using seed extracts now simplified
- New meteorological insight into mid-level clouds
- Genes that contribute to radiation resistance identified
- Seals forage at offshore wind farms
- Science and art bring back to life 300-million-year-old specimens of a primitive reptile-like vertebrate
- Philosopher uses game theory to understand how words, actions acquire meaning
- Mysterious dance of dwarf galaxies may force a cosmic rethink
- Diagnostic criteria for Christianson Syndrome
- Missing sleep may hurt your memory
- Brain waves show learning to read does not end in 4th grade, contrary to popular theory
- Human platelets successfully generated using next-generation bioreactor
- Technology tracks the elusive Nightjar
- Age-related macular degeneration occurs much earlier than previously assumed
- First study worldwide to show higher concentration of trace elements in bone cancer
- Children as young as three recognize 'cuteness' in faces of people, animals
- Fecal transplants let packrats eat poison
- Large twin study suggests that language delay due more to nature than nurture
- When temperatures get cold, newly-discovered process helps fruit flies cope
- Enzyme linked to Alzheimer’s disease
- Healing the heart with fat? 18-HEPE might help, study suggests
- Genetic risk for autism stems mostly from common genes
- Size and age of plants impact their productivity more than climate
- Tiny laser sensor heightens bomb detection sensitivity
- Sea level rising in western tropical Pacific anthropogenic as result of human activity, study concludes
- New technique maps life's effects on our DNA: Powerful single-cell technique to study environmental effects on DNA
- Genetic cause of common breast tumors found
- A noble gas cage: New material traps gases from nuclear fuel better and uses less energy than currently available options
- Marmoset sequence sheds new light on primate biology and evolution
- Metabolic enzyme stops progression of most common type of kidney cancer
- Scientists map one of most important proteins in life -- and cancer
- Srikingly early seeding of HIV viral reservoir shown in study
- Mixing it up: Study provides new insight into Southern Ocean behavior
- Oceans vital for possibility for alien life
- Speedy computation enables scientists to reconstruct an animal's development cell by cell
- Astronauts to test free-flying 'housekeeper' robots
- Growth hormone analog may reduce risk of fatty liver disease in HIV-infected patients
- Effect on pregnancy of receiving antiretroviral therapy for prevention of HIV
- Combination treatment for hep C associated with favorable response among HIV patients
- Rate of HIV diagnosis in U.S. examined in study
- Researchers identify brain network with mapping technique
- New trigger for ovulation could make IVF safer
- Negative HPV test may predict lower cervical cancer risk than a negative Pap
- Antipsychotic drugs linked to slight decrease in brain volume
- Experts urge new discipline combining benefits of neuroscience, psychology treatments
- New clues to brain's wiring found by scientists
- Highly charged ions: Multiply ionized atoms for clocks, qubits, and constants
- Targets for immunotherapy in early-stage breast cancer
- Immune cell's role in intestinal movement may lead to better understanding of irritable bowel syndrome
- Universal three-body relation: Physicists succeed in revealing the scaling behavior of exotic giant molecules
- The bend in the Appalachian mountain chain is finally explained
- Microplastics worse for crabs and other marine life than previously thought: Enter through gills
- Genetic variations may modify cardiovascular benefit of aspirin
- New cellular garbage control pathway with relevance for human neurodegenerative diseases
- New material puts a twist in light
- A 10-year endeavor: NASA's Aura and climate change
- Rosetta spacecraft approaching twofold comet
- Weight management program also reduces depression among black women
- Four new species of tuco-tucos identified from Bolivia
- 'Support' cells in brain play important role in Down syndrome
- Getting a grip on robotic grasp: New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers
- Big data used to guide conservation efforts
- Measuring the number of protein molecules inside cells
- Revealed: The mystery behind starling flocks
- Consuming probiotics for a month helps diminish fat accumulation in the liver, according to a new study
- Nature's strongest glue comes unstuck
- Why the immune system fails to kill HIV
- More energy from a liter of biofuel
- Catastrophic debris avalanches: A second volcanic hazard
- Random nature of metastasis revealed by physicists
- Bowel cancer breakthrough may benefit thousands of patients
- Causes of death shifting in people with HIV
- 'Nanocamera' takes pictures at distances smaller than light's own wavelength
- Future electronics may depend on lasers, not quartz
- Choosing cheese: Research identifies microbial communities in cheese
- Losing sleep over your divorce? Your blood pressure could suffer
- Discovery may make it easier to develop life-saving stem cells
- Sexual abuse in childhood linked to signs of atherosclerosis in midlife
- Adding alcohol to energy drinks leads to an increased urge to drink
- Adolescent alcohol abuse disrupts transitions into early adulthood
- Lunar pits could shelter astronauts, reveal details of how 'man in the moon' formed
- Tiniest catch: Scientists' fishing expedition reveals viral diversity in sea
- Fish oil may benefit alcohol abusers
- Cheap, highly efficient solar cells: A new stable and cost-cutting type of perovskite solar cell
- Personalized approach enhances communication skills in children with autism
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