Science news articles about 'advent'

  • Stanford research: Chatting with your car may be useful to you -- but also to corporations

    ... persuade humans to drive more safely. Drivers have been talking back to artificial voices since the advent of those annoying "Your door is ajar" messages in the 1980s. But now the floodgates have ...
  • Video games and violence

    ... . However, Kierkegaard explains, there is no obvious link between real-world violence statistics and the advent of video games. If anything, the effect seems to be the exact opposite and one might ...
  • Unique adaptive evolution in snake proteins -- insight into vertebrate physiology

    Prior to the advent of large sequence datasets, it was assumed that innovation and divergence at the morphological and physiological level would be easily explained at the molecular level. Molecular ...
  • Economist labors over employment relationships

    ... not only to teach, but also to study a new aspect of the country’s economy: the advent of worker rights. Heywood, a professor and internationally known labor economist at the University of Wisconsin– ...
  • A trio of super-Earths

    ... and current statistics show that about 1 out of 14 stars harbours this kind of planet. "With the advent of much more precise instruments such as the HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at ...
  • The mystery of mass extinctions is no longer murky

    ... animals and plants survive or vanish, and generally determine the composition of life in the oceans. Since the advent of life on Earth 3.5 billion years ago, scientists think there may have been as ...
  • Birds communicate reproductive success in song

    ... important than what they actually see or experience. This ability, he said, may also be highly useful in the advent of climate change or other rapidly changing habitat conditions. It's a valuable ...
  • Radiation for health

    ... wide variety of ailments from arthritis to consumption. The discovery of antibiotics and the rapid advent of the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the fact that it became apparent that exposure to ...
  • 'Friday Effect' For Bad News No Longer A Factor

    ... . Some things don't change. But the 'Friday Effect' for publicly traded companies has diminished with the advent of instant news so they have little to gain from saving bad news until Fridays on the ...
  • Should doctors be increasing their carbon footprint by flying to medical conferences?

    ... the energy costs of large hotels and enormous conference centres. With the advent of teleconferencing, videoconferencing and other modern technologies there is no reason why doctors cannot attend ...
  • The 21st century tomato

    ... , flavor, shelf-life, and nutrient composition, more or less, one trait at a time. With the advent of molecular biology, mutagenesis and genetic transformation could produce tomatoes that were more ...
  • The 21st century tomato

    ... , flavor, shelf-life, and nutrient composition, more or less, one trait at a time. With the advent of molecular biology, mutagenesis and genetic transformation could produce tomatoes that were more ...
  • 15 human genomes each week

    ... obtained more data in six months than in the previous five years," explains Professor Stratton. "The advent of the next-generation sequencing technologies allows us now to search for all the types of ...
  • UNEP: Clean energy investments charge forward despite financial market turmoil

    ... billion of new capital and growing at an average annual rate of 254% since 2004, driven by the advent of larger project financings. The picture since the end of 2007 has been somewhat subdued across ...
  • Protein thought to promote cancer instead functions as a tumor suppressor

    ... said Dr. Lum, who is a Virginia Murchison Linthicum Scholar in Medical Research. "Prior to the advent of RNAi technology, this was very difficult to do in human cultured cells." The next step is to ...

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