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How Modern Life Influences Our Sharing Habits

“Sharing is a fundamental consumer behavior that we have either tended to overlook or to confuse with commodity exchange and gift giving,” writes author…

Earth Sciences

Satellite Imagery Reveals Typhoon Vamco’s Massive Eye

At 2 a.m. EDT on August 25, Vamco was still enroute to the Alaskan islands headed north-northeast at 38 mph in the north Central Pacific Ocean. He was about…

Life & Chemistry

Fly eyes help researchers 'see' new proteins involved in memory

With more than 1,500 eyes, not much escapes the fruit fly's sight. Now, a new research report in the journal GENETICS, describes how researchers from the…

Life & Chemistry

New DNA Sequencing Method Detects Copy Number Variants

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. – A research team led by Associate Professor Jonathan Sebat, Ph.D., of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has developed a sensitive…

Health & Medicine

Fat in the liver — not the belly — is a better marker for disease risk

Having too much liver fat is known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. The researchers report online in the journal PNAS Early Edition that when fat collects…

Studies and Analyses

UCLA scientists uncover immune system's role in bone loss

A new UCLA study sheds light on the link between high cholesterol and osteoporosis and identifies a new way that the body's immune cells play a role in bone…

Studies and Analyses

Researchers Find Saying 'I'm Sorry' Influences Jurors

Assistant accounting professors Rick Warne of Mason and Robert Cornell of OSU found that remedial tactics such as apologizing or first-person justification can…

Studies and Analyses

Combined Transplant and Vaccine Therapy Shows Promise for Leukemia

In a study to be published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Aug. 24, the researchers report that…

Studies and Analyses

Engaged Employees Enjoy Happier Home Lives, Study Finds

K-State psychology researchers studied how positive work experiences extend into family life and facilitate family interactions. They found that employees who…

Health & Medicine

Concussions Linked to Brain Tissue Injury: Key Findings Unveiled

Concussions, whether from an accident, sporting event, or combat, can lead to permanent loss of higher level mental processes. Scientists have debated for…

Health & Medicine

Low-Carb Diets Linked to Atherosclerosis Risks and Vessel Growth

Even as low-carbohydrate/high-protein diets have proven successful at helping individuals rapidly lose weight, little is known about the diets' long-term…

Awards Funding

Gates Foundation Grants $3M for Tuberculosis Vaccine Research

In the coming 10 years TBVI hopes to raise 200 million euros from governments, foundations and private industry for the discovery and early clinical…

Life & Chemistry

Unlocking the body’s defences against cancer

University of Manchester researchers found that a special type of the chemicals known as ‘kinase inhibitors’ opened up communication channels on the surface of…

Life & Chemistry

Nottingham Scientists Study Swine Flu Contagion Duration

Researchers want to find out how long someone is contagious for and advise on a ‘safe distance’ from the patient.The study is being led by Professor Jonathan…

Awards Funding

World Cultural Council Awards 2009: Honoring Prof. Houghton

The Members of the Interdisciplinary Committee of the World Cultural Council make this year’s Science award to Prof. Sir John Houghton for his leading…

Earth Sciences

Ancient 'missing' ice may have formed on West Antarctica

“Using data from prior geological studies, we have constructed a model for the topography of West Antarctic bedrock at the time of the start of the global…

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