Science news articles about 'nature report'

  • The science suggests access to nature is essential to human health

    ... housing units with no immediate view of or access to nature reported a greater number of aggressive – including violent ... now? Do we know that people need nature?' I say: 'As a scientist I can't tell ...
  • Austrian breakthrough in quantum cryptography: report

    Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to be bounced off satellites, the British journal Nature reported Sunday.
  • How to Date Your Fat Cells With Nuclear Bombs

    ... understand how and when we gain or lose fat cells, and now a paper in this week's issue of Nature reports that nuclear bombs are the key to solving this problem. To understand how our bodies regulate ...
  • The mystery of mass extinctions is no longer murky

    ... University of Wisconsin-Madison assistant professor of geology and geophysics and the author of the new Nature report. In short, according to Peters, changes in ocean environments related to sea level ...
  • Rutgers research identifies brain cells related to fear

    ... effective treatments of anxiety disorders, a recent Nature report by Denis Paré, professor at the Center ... behavior. His research was published online by Nature on July 9, 2008 and is scheduled to appear ...
  • A rash of scientific plagiarism?

    Nature reports that Harold Garner of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas has been scouring the medical literature using an automated text-matching software package to catch ...
  • Spectacular heating of planet observed

    ... fronts bring temporary changes in temperature of no more than tens of degrees. Now astronomers writing in the January 29 Nature report on an extra-solar planetary system where global ...
  • At 2,500 pounds and 43 feet, prehistoric snake is the largest on record

    ... snake's environment might have been like. Paleontologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto-Mississauga, the Nature report's lead author, used information gleaned by his collaborators to make an ...
  • Asteroid impact helps trace meteorite origins

    ... to Earth. Researchers rushed to collect the resulting meteorite debris, and a new paper in Nature reports on this first-ever opportunity to calibrate telescopic observations of a known asteroid with ...
  • Cold water ocean circulation doesn't work as expected

    ... Labrador sea water within the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC)," said the new Nature ... belt of the Deep Western Boundary Current, according to the Nature report. About 75 percent of them "escaped" ...
  • Study finds surprising new pathway for North Atlantic circulation

    ... of the RAFOS floats' followed the conveyor belt of the Deep Western Boundary Current, according to the Nature report. About 75 percent of them "escaped" that coast-hugging deep underwater pathway and ...
  • Stream of sand behaves like water

    ... levels of surface tension and detect droplet formation in flows of dry granular materials. The science journal Nature reports the finding in its June 25 issue. The materials research ...
  • More than 800 wildlife species now extinct

    ... 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday.
  • Plants put limit on ice ages

    ... plummet, possibly leading to runaway "icehouse" conditions. Now researchers writing in the July 2, 2009, Nature report on the missing piece of the puzzle – plants. "Atmospheric CO2 ...
  • NYU physicists make room for oddballs

    ... particulate packing that predicts our experimental findings," said Brujic. The latest issue of the journal Nature reports the findings. The National Science Foundation funds the research. The new ...

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