Archive: 08/06/2008
Vine invasion? Ecologist looks at coexistence of trees and lianas
Among the hundreds of species of woody vines that University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ecologist Stefan Schnitzer has encountered in the tropical forests of Panama, the largest has a stalk nearly 20 inches in ...
Biology /
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New grant supports emerging field of massive data analysis and visual analytics
Enormous amounts of data are being generated in health care, computational biology, homeland security and other areas, but analyzing these massive and unstructured data sets has proven cumbersome and difficult. An emerging ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Students with food allergies often not prepared
College students with food allergies aren't avoiding the foods they know they shouldn't eat. Students of all ages are not treated with potentially life-saving epinephrine as often as they should be. And instructors, ...
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Context and personality key in understanding responses to emotional facial expressions
It is well appreciated that facial expressions play a major role in non-verbal social communication among humans and other primates, because faces provide rapid access to information about the identity as well as the internal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive
With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Tuning in to a new language on the fly: Effects of context and seasonality on songbird brain
Research conducted at Rutgers University has shown that exposure to a changed acoustic and social environment can rewire the way the brain processes sounds. Beginning in the cochlea of the inner ear, nerve cells of the auditory ...
Biology /
Aug 06, 2008 |
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Arctic Map plots new 'gold rush'
Researchers at Durham University have drawn up the first ever 'Arctic Map' to show the disputed territories that states might lay claim to in the future.
Aug 06, 2008 |
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