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Does This Steak Go with My Shoes? Consumer Demand for Convenience Reshaping Grocery Retail Sector

Growing consumer demand for convenience is the driving force behind changes to the grocery retailing sector over the past decade, according to a new report by…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Conservation Efforts Aided by New Legume

Reseeding efforts are routine in the Great Basin. While they are necessary to combat the losses of flora in the region, the have failed to address the demand…

Life & Chemistry

How Fire Ants Build Waterproof Rafts

Georgia Tech researchers – Nathan Mlot, mechanical engineering graduate student; Craig Tovey, professor of industrial and systems engineering; and David Hu,…

Earth Sciences

Geologists Gain New Insight on How the West Was Formed

Reporting in the April 28 issue of the journal Nature, the eight-member team reports that uplift occurred as bottom portions of the lithosphere — the upper…

Life & Chemistry

Scientists Can Track Origin of Shark Fins Using DNA Zip-Coding

An international team of scientists, led by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University, has used DNA to determine that groups of…

Health & Medicine

The Doctor Will See All of You Now? Group Doctor Visits May Be Feasible for Parkinson’s Disease

Group visits have shown benefits for people with other chronic conditions, but have not been evaluated for people with Parkinson’s disease. Group visits can…

Life & Chemistry

Low-Cost Sensor Detects Bacterial Infections by Smell

Researchers have demonstrated a quick, simple method to identify infectious bacteria by smell using a low-cost array of printed pigments as a chemical sensor….

Health & Medicine

New Screen Tool Detects Early Signs of Autism in Kids

A five-minute checklist that parents can fill out in pediatrician waiting rooms may someday help in the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD),…

Studies and Analyses

Adults with arthritis suffer with poorer health related quality of life

A new study reports that the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for U.S. adults with arthritis is much worse than for those without this condition. Both…

Studies and Analyses

Supervised Drinking in Teens Linked to Increased Alcohol Use

“Kids need parents to be parents and not drinking buddies,” according to the study's lead researcher, Barbara J. McMorris, Ph.D., of the School of Nursing at…

Life & Chemistry

New Study Reveals Unique Personalities in Animals

A new study led by Dr Kathryn Arnold, of the Environment Department at the University of York has added important experimental evidence showing that animal…

Environmental Conservation

Chernobyl's radioactivity reduced the populations of birds of orange plumage

Radiation causes oxidative stress, damages biological molecules and may have “important” negative effects on organisms in relatively high doses, like those…

Physics & Astronomy

NRL Scientists Explore Light Ions for Fusion Energy Advancements

The fast ignition concept has been conceived as an alternative to other approaches for nuclear fusion energy. In the fast ignitor scenario a high-energy…

Health & Medicine

Topical Treatment Shows Promise in Melanoma Prevention

“The steady increase in melanoma incidence suggests that additional preventive approaches are needed to complement these existing strategies,” said Gavin…

Life & Chemistry

Motor Protein Shows Promise for Ovarian Cancer Treatment

Among U.S. women, an estimated 21,880 new cases and 13,850 deaths occurred in 2010 from epithelial ovarian cancer, one of the most common forms of ovarian…

Life & Chemistry

New discovery could 'green up' hundreds of everyday products

The podcast and accompanying website focus on a new way to make acrylic acid, a key industrial material that's usually produced from pricey and increasingly…

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