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Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish
With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the ...
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Read moreScientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips
The researchers linked many powerful computer systems together to analyze enormous amounts of genetic data collected from all publicly available isolated strains of the H5N1 virus – the cause of avian...
Health and Medicine | Read moreGlimpsing a greener future
It's the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor.Look into Shane Stephens-Romero's crystal ba...
Power and Electrical Engineering | Read moreCell Phone Use Reduces Pedestrian Safety
The studies, in which participants crossed a virtual street while talking on the phone or listening to music, found that the music-listeners were able to navigate traffic as well as the average unencu...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreAncient High-Altitude Trees Grow Faster as Temperatures Rise
Pines close to treeline have wider annual growth rings for the period from1951 to 2000 than for the previous 3,700 years, reports a University of Arizona-led research team. Regional temperatures h...
Agricultural and Forestry Science | Read moreCross-Country Runabouts - Immune Cells on the Move
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich, Germany, have now deciphered the mechanism that illustrates how these mobile cells move on diverse surfaces....
Life Sciences | Read moreTeens Less Likely to Wash Hands, More Likely to Cross-contaminate Raw Food than Adults
"While half of the adults we observed washed their hands after touching raw chicken, none of the adolescents did," said Casey Jacob, a food safety research assistant at K-State. "The no...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreAisle placements affect grocery sales
"Retailers can benefit substantially by having better placement of items in their aisles," Bezawada says. His research shows that aisle placements can influence sales across product categori...
Business and Finance | Read moreWarm-blooded Dinosaurs Worked Up a Sweat
In a study published this week in the journal PLoS ONE, a team of researchers, including Herman Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, has found strong evidence that m...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreCentral Africa's tropical Congo Basin was arid, treeless in Late Jurassic
The Congo Basin — with its massive, lush tropical rain forest — was far different 150 million to 200 million years ago. At that time Africa and South America were part of the single continent Gondwana...
Earth Sciences | Read moreReducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change
According to Stone’s paper, as the international community meets in Copenhagen in December to develop a new framework for responding to climate change, policymakers need to give serious consideration ...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreWell-traveled wasps provide hope for vanishing species
The fig wasps travel these distances in search of trees to lay their eggs, which offers hope that trees pollinated by similar creatures have a good chance of surviving if they become isolated through ...
Life Sciences | Read moreImplications of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated
Weihong Xu, assistant professor of accounting in the University at Buffalo School of Management, analyzed more than 11,000 firm-quarter observations. She found that managers often underestimate the im...
Business and Finance | Read moreAnts are friendly to some trees, but not others
The research, published in the November issue of the American Naturalist, is the first to document that ants bore into live trees, and it reopens a centuries-old debate on the relationship between ant...
Life Sciences | Read moreScientists Propose a "Genome Zoo" of 10,000 Vertebrate Species
Known as the Genome 10K Project, it involves gathering specimens of thousands of animals from zoos, museums, and university collections throughout the world, and then sequencing the genome of each spe...
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