In one species of ants, workers duel to establish new leadership after the death of their queen. While these sparring matches stretch for more than a month, changes in behavior and gene expression in the first three days ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2021
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A team of researchers has devised a method using smartphones in order to measure food consumption—an approach that also offers new ways to predict physical well-being.
Environment
Feb 18, 2021
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A mutation in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2—one of several genetic mutations in the concerning variants that have emerged in the United Kingdom, South Africa, and Brazil—makes the virus up to eight times more infectious ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2021
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Adolescent mothers often fall through the cracks of educational programming. This is highly problematic given that globally an estimated 12 million girls between the ages of 15-19, and 777,000 girls under the age of 15, give ...
Social Sciences
Feb 2, 2021
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Associate Professor of Biology Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani and NYUAD Senior Research Scientist David Nelson report in a new study that they have successfully cultured and sequenced 107 microalgae species from 11 different phyla ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2021
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41
A team of researchers, using satellite data and other analytical tools, has identified companies fishing in high seas—waters that lie outside of national jurisdiction where fishing has raised fears about environmental and ...
Environment
Dec 18, 2020
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28
Researchers at NYU and the University of California, Irvine have found that information about economic inequality focusing on the disadvantages facing people from the lower-socioeconomic class, as opposed to messages highlighting ...
Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2020
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41
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals—including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds—follow a cycle of about 27 million years, coinciding with previously reported mass extinctions of ocean life, according to a ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2020
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A team of researchers from the NYU Abu Dhabi's (NYUAD) Smart Materials Lab (SML) led by Professor of Chemistry Panče Naumov has conducted a thorough review of the scientific literature surrounding the natural production ...
Biochemistry
Dec 10, 2020
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A new study by researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi examined data representing thousands of mentor-protégé relationships and found that mentorship quality predicted the scientific impact of the papers written by protégés—without ...
Education
Nov 18, 2020
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