Music training has biological impact on aging process
Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the first...
Divorce hurts health more at earlier ages
Divorce at a younger age hurts people's health more than divorce later in life, according to a new study by a Michigan State University sociologist.
Research at Rice University leads to nanotube-based device for communication, security, sensing
Researchers at Rice University are using carbon nanotubes as the critical component of a robust terahertz polarizer that could accelerate the development of new security and communication devices, sensors and...
Earth's energy budget remained out of balance despite unusually low solar activity
A new NASA study underscores the fact that greenhouse gases generated by human activity -- not changes in solar activity -- are the primary force driving global warming.
Livestock, not Mongolian gazelles, drive foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks
Wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have
published evidence which supports the conclusion that Mongolian
gazelles -- one of the most populous large land mammals on the planet...
UCLA astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons
UCLA researchers have explained the puzzling disappearing act of energetic electrons in Earth's outer radiation belt, using data collected from a fleet of orbiting spacecraft.
Cutting off the oxygen supply to serious diseases
A new family of proteins which regulate the human body’s ‘hypoxic response’ to low levels of oxygen has been discovered by scientists at Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary, University...
Early intervention may curb dangerous college drinking
The first few weeks of college are a critical time in shaping students' drinking habits. Now Penn State researchers have a tailored approach that may help prevent students from becoming...
Rice professor's nanotube theory confirmed
The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube growth: That...
Warming in the Tasman Sea a global warming hot spot
Oceanographers have identified a series of ocean hotspots around the world generated by strengthening wind systems that have driven oceanic currents, including the East Australian Current, polewards beyond their known...
Mouse to elephant? Just wait 24 million generations
Scientists have for the first time measured how fast large-scale
evolution can occur in mammals, showing it takes 24 million
generations for a mouse-sized animal to evolve to the size...
Mammals shrink at faster rates than they grow
Just how big can mammals get and how fast can they get there? These
are questions examined by an international team of researchers
exploring increases in mammal size after the...
What do killer whales eat in the Arctic?
Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are the top marine predator,
wherever they are found, and seem to eat everything from schools of
small fish to large baleen whales, over twice their...
Learning-based tourism an opportunity for industry expansion
New research suggests that major growth in the travel, leisure and tourism industry in the coming century may be possible as more people begin to define recreation as a learning...
New probiotic bacteria shows promise for use in shellfish aquaculture
The use of probiotic bacteria, isolated from naturally-occurring bacterial communities, is gaining in popularity in the aquaculture industry as the preferred, environmentally-friendly management alternative to the use of antibiotics and...
Bright lights of purity
To the lengthy list of serendipitous discoveries -- gravity,
penicillin, the New World -- add this: Scientists with the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Berkeley Lab)...
Ferroelectric switching discovered for first time in soft biological tissue
The heart's inner workings are mysterious, perhaps even more so
with a new finding. Engineers at the University of Washington have
discovered an electrical property in arteries not seen before...
Smart paint could revolutionize structural safety
An innovative low-cost smart paint that can detect microscopic
faults in wind turbines, mines and bridges before structural damage
occurs is being developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde...
Alcohol and your heart: Friend or foe?
A meta-analysis done by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) into the relationship between alcohol consumption and heart disease provides new insight into the long-held belief that drinking...
UCSB researchers discover the processes leading to acute myeloid leukemia
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have discovered a molecular pathway
that may explain how a particularly deadly form of cancer develops.
The discovery may lead to new cancer therapies that...
The good news about carbon storage in tropical vegetation
A study recently published in Nature Climate Change finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a combination of remote sensing and field...
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- Study: Mammals vanishing as python spreads
- Bolivians demand controversial highway be built
- Skin transformed into brain cells
- Stimulation of brain hormone action may improve pneumonia survival
- Researchers visualize the development of Parkinson's cells
- Vital Signs: Screenings: Take Blood Pressure in Both Arms, Study Says
- First Picture of Alien Planet … Isn't?
- Inherited risk factors for childhood leukemia are more common in Hispanic patients, study finds
- U.S. plans for possible Cuban oil spills
- Superfluorescence seen from solid-state material: Many bodies make one coherent burst of light
- U.N. starts climate change strategy site
- Chimp 'X factor': Extensive adaptive evolution specifically targeting the X chromosome of chimpanzees
- The Arctic is already suffering the effects of a dangerous climate change
- Britain to be scoured for black squirrels
- Meet the beetles: Social networks provide clues to natural selection
- Preserved habitat near national parks helps species conservation
- How a Mother's Love Changes a Child's Brain
- Biological time-keeper linked to diabetes
- Single-shot laundry detergent re-surfaces
- Willpower and desires: Turning up the volume on what you want most
- Prescriptions Blog: F.D.A. Approves Drug for an Advanced Skin Cancer
- Sandia's Self-Guided Bullet Prototype Can Hit Target a Mile Away
- Volcanoes May Have Sparked Little Ice Age
- Oxygen molecule survives to enormously high pressures
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- Multitasking can be done differently, affect perceptions of work practices
- Research: Is fair value really fair?
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Biology & Nature
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Earth & Climate
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Health & Medicine
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Mathematics & Economics
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Physics & Chemistry
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