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Life & Chemistry

Fruit fly's 'sweet tooth' short-lived: U of British Columbia research

While the flies initially prefer food with a sweet flavour, they quickly learn to opt for less sweet food sources that offer more calories and nutritional…

Seminars Workshops

High-Performance Computing Innovations: China-Germany Symposium

Approximately 30 researchers from both countries will be dealing with the challenges that address the user’s wish for a more secure, efficient and comfortable…

Earth Sciences

Ice Sheet Retreat Shaped by Underlying Landscape Geometry

A UK team led by Durham University has found that the geometry of channels beneath the ice can be a strong control on ice behaviour, temporarily hiding the…

Health & Medicine

Less-invasive method of brain stimulation helps patients with Parkinson's disease

Electrical stimulation using extradural electrodes—placed underneath the skull but not implanted in the brain—is a safe approach with meaningful benefits for…

Studies and Analyses

Geographic Earnings Non-Disclosure: A Sign of Tax Avoidance?

Policy makers, lobby groups and citizens should take note—those who understand corporate tax avoidance behavior will be in a better position to deter it. A…

Life & Chemistry

Physics Reveals How Sickling Cells Cause Illness

Their experiment, the first to answer a scientific question about sickle cell disease using microfluidics engineering methods, may help future researchers…

Life & Chemistry

Origins of Vertebrate Air Breathing: Key Neural Insights

“To breathe air with a lung you need more than a lung, you need neural circuitry that is sensitive to carbon dioxide,” said Michael Harris, a UAF…

Health & Medicine

Cost-Effective Birth Control Device for Early Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial cancer, which starts in the lining of the uterus, is the third most common gynecologic cancer, striking more than 47,000 American women every year,…

Life & Chemistry

Viral Alliances: Overcoming Plant Defenses for Severe Infections

Washington State University researchers have found that viruses will join forces to overcome a plant's defenses and cause more severe infections.”These…

Physics & Astronomy

New Research Unveils Plasma-Liquid Chemistry Insights

An interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Notre Dame has revealed a critical interaction…

Life & Chemistry

Jelly-like atmospheric particles resist chemical aging

Atmospheric chemists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have found that when it comes to secondary organic material in the…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Aqua Satellite Monitors Tropical Storm Maria

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Maria on Oct. 16 at 0355 UTC, 12:55 p.m. local time Tokyo/Japan (Oct. 15 at 11:55 p.m. EDT) and the Moderate…

Life & Chemistry

Cold Viruses Inspire New Approaches to Cancer Therapies

Cold viruses generally get a bad rap—-which they've certainly earned—-but new findings by a team of scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies…

Earth Sciences

NASA sees Hurricane Paul 'eye' Mexico's Socorro Island, coastline

Hurricane Paul is stirring up rough seas in the eastern Pacific Ocean and warnings are posted along Baja California.A hurricane warning is in effect for the…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Image Captures Hurricane Rafael’s Impact on Bermuda

NOAA's GOES-14 satellite captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Rafael in the Atlantic on Oct. 16 at 7:45 a.m. EDT. The image shows the extent of Hurricane…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Dire Drought Ahead, May Lead to Massive Tree Death

For most, to find evidence that recent years' droughts have been record-breaking, they need not look past the withering garden or lawn. For Henri…

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