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Blue Whales Use Giant Mouths for Efficient Foraging

Diving blue whales can dive for anything up to 15 minutes. However, Bob Shadwick from the University of British Columbia, Canada, explains that blue whales may…

Studies and Analyses

Impact of Water-Based vs. Silicone Lubricants in Women’s Health

The study, involving 2,453 women, is the largest systematic study of this kind, despite the widespread commercial availability of lubricant and the gaps in…

Health & Medicine

La Jolla Institute validates Type 1 diabetes computer model's predictive success through lab testing

A La Jolla Institute team, led by leading type 1 diabetes researcher Matthias von Herrath, M.D., has demonstrated the effectiveness of a recently developed…

Studies and Analyses

Look: What your reaction to someone's eye movements says about your politics

It goes without saying that conservatives and liberals don't see the world in the same way. Now, research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that…

Studies and Analyses

'1-drop rule' appears to persist for biracial individuals

The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

EU Project SmartCoDe Enhances Intelligent Energy Management

The goal of the European Union (EU)-funded Project SmartCoDe is reducing the overall energy intensity while enabling residences and small commercial premises…

Social Sciences

EU Funding Key For SSH Researchers’ Internationalisation

The survey focused exclusively on the experience and assessment of SSH researchers within FP7. The goal was to investigate the main barriers and incentives…

Life & Chemistry

States Lead Funding in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research

In addition, states varied substantially in the extent to which they prioritized human embryonic stem cell research, and much of the research performed in the…

Earth Sciences

Solar Activity Changes and Their Impact on Local Climate

Raimund Muscheler is a researcher at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University in Sweden. In the latest issue of the journal Science,…

Physics & Astronomy

Self-Healing Autonomous Material Comes to Life

This “Terminator” scenario is becoming less far-fetched as recent advances in structural health monitoring systems have led to a variety of ways to identify…

Physics & Astronomy

What's the Matter? That's What U.Va. Physicists Are Seeking to Detect

Instead, for some reason, more matter was created than anti-matter, and the universe was born.”Without this asymmetry that occurred, without this slight…

Life & Chemistry

Uncovering Whale Falls: Unique Ecosystems from Sunken Carcasses

Previous research suggested that such “whale falls” were homes for unique animals that lived nowhere else. However, after sinking five whale carcasses in…

Physics & Astronomy

New technique for antihydrogen synthesis promises answers to mysteries of antimatter

Researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institution, have successfully devised the world’s first experimental technique for measuring ground-state…

Life & Chemistry

RIKEN chooses Helicos single molecule sequencing for global map of human promoters

Researchers in Japan have launched FANTOM5, Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome, an international effort to globally map transcription initiation in…

Life & Chemistry

Exploring Nanoquill Innovations in Dip-Pen Nanolithography

One process used to produce nanoscopic structures like ever-smaller integrated circuits, biosensors, and gene chips is known as dip-pen nanolithography, in…

Life & Chemistry

Brain's visual circuits do error correction on the fly

This new mechanism for visual cognition challenges the currently held model of sight and could change the way neuroscientists study the brain.The new vision…

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