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Dressing Down: Boosting Social Status with Style Choices

But there's always that one guy who wears the bright socks or the obnoxious bow tie. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, this type of…

Environmental Conservation

Urban Bees Innovate: Using Plastic for Hive Construction

A new study by a University of Guelph graduate and a U of G scientist reveals that some bees use bits of plastic bags and plastic building materials to…

Studies and Analyses

First Observation of Human HAT: Key Proteins in Pathologies

HAT amino acid transporters are involved in pathologies such as aminoacidurias, cancer, viral infections and cocaine addiction.The breakthrough published in…

Health & Medicine

Statins: A New Approach to Combat Hantavirus Infection?

Only about 30 known human cases of hantavirus are reported in the US each year. The respiratory syndrome caused by a hantavirus infection comes from breathing…

Environmental Conservation

How Poaching Impacts Savannah Ecosystems and Megaherbivores

The white rhino (Ceratotherium simum), and other megaherbivores, are key drivers of ecosystem functioning because they´re not controlled by predation. A new…

Physics & Astronomy

Source of ‘Moon Curse’ Revealed by Eclipse

So, when signals bounced off the lunar surface returned surprisingly faint echoes on full moon nights, scientists sought an explanation in reason rather than…

Medical Engineering

Ion Beam Accelerators Target Tumors in Cancer Treatment Advances

EVENT: Advances in the design and operation of particle accelerators built for basic physics research are leading to the rapid evolution of machines that…

Life & Chemistry

Game Changer: Biomarker identified for noncancerous pancreatic cysts

The findings are reported in “Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, a Novel and Highly Accurate Pancreatic Fluid Biomarker for Serous Pancreatic Cysts” online in…

Life & Chemistry

New Target Discovered for Acute Myeloid Leukemia Treatments

There are potentially effective treatments for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but they only work in 20 to 40 percent of cases. In a paper published today in…

Earth Sciences

NASA Monitors High Thunderstorms in Tropical Cyclone Fobane

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite passed over Fobane on February 11, 2014 at 0035 UTC. Fobane was very small but contained a few…

Life & Chemistry

Antibody Treatment Shields Humanized Mice From HIV

Led by David Baltimore, Ph.D., of the California Institute of Technology, the investigators inserted the genes encoding the NIH-discovered broadly HIV…

Studies and Analyses

When Popularity Dims: The Coolness Factor in Tech Products

That coolness can turn tepid if the product appears to be losing its edginess, they also found.”Everyone says they know what 'cool' is, but we wanted to get at…

Health & Medicine

UNC study reveals potential route to bladder cancer diagnostics, treatments

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis of invasive bladder cancer tumors to discover that the disease shares…

Health & Medicine

New ADA Guidelines Risk Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in Kids

New American Diabetes Association (ADA) screening guidelines may lead to the missed diagnoses of type 2 diabetes in children, according to a new study by…

Medical Engineering

New Imaging Technique Diagnoses Bicuspid Aortic Valve

A new imaging technique for measuring blood flow in the heart and vessels can diagnose a common congenital heart abnormality, bicuspid aortic valve, and may…

Physics & Astronomy

New Galaxy Clusters Reveal Insights Into Cosmic History

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck…

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