This isn't the ice of snowflakes or ice cubes. No, this ice needs such intense cold and low pressure to form that the right conditions rarely, if ever, occur…
Since the mid-1800s, doctors have used drugs to induce general anesthesia in patients undergoing surgery. Despite their widespread use, little is known about…
Back in 2010, the ideas behind a squid's sticky tendrils and Spiderman's super-strong webbing were combined to create a prototype for the first remote device…
The study, which is published in the scientific periodical Molecular Psychiatry, identifies a gene variant associated with an increased production of KYNA. The…
The study revealed that people with schizophrenia who had a particular version of the microRNA-137 gene (or MIR137), tended to develop the illness at a younger…
“In real life and in academic studies, we tend to focus on the harm done to victims in cases of social aggression,” says co-author Richard Ryan, professor of…
Fish is healthy: easy to digest and with a high level of precious proteins, fish is considered an important part of a healthy diet. And with the so-called…
Fishers near marine protected areas end up traveling farther to catch fish but maintain their social and economic well-being, according to a study by fisheries…
The sexual development, mating habits and social hierarchy of the orangutans are more heavily dependent on their environment than had previously been assumed:…
This invention relates to the prevention of struvite deposition at wastewater treatment
plants with biological phosphorus removal. For this purpose calcium…
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Chromosomal aneuploidy is a main cause of human prenatal and postnatal morbidity and mortality, and the most frequent genetic…
A century after Western explorers first crossed the dangerous landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic, researchers funded by the National Science Foundation…
Vortex knots should, in principle, be persistent, stable phenomena. “The unexpected thing is that they're not,” said Dustin Kleckner, a postdoctoral scientist…
The study, which measures varying levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other forms of carbon in the ocean, was conducted by scientists from 11 institutions…
And, you could give yourself a gold medal for being a bona fide, recycling, polar-bear-saving rock star.Michigan Technological University’s Joshua Pearce is…
In the last decade, theoretical computer science has seen remarkable progress on the problem of solving graph Laplacians — the esoteric name for a calculation…
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