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Plants & Animals Jul 9, 2020

Gall fly outmaneuvers host plant in game of "Spy vs. Spy"

Over time goldenrod plants and the gall flies that feed on them have been one-upping each other in an ongoing competition for survival. Now, a team of researchers has discovered that by detecting the plants' chemical defenses, ...

Biochemistry Jun 27, 2019

Pig-Pen effect: Mixing skin oil and ozone can produce a personal pollution cloud

When ozone and skin oils meet, the resulting reaction may help remove ozone from an indoor environment, but it can also produce a personal cloud of pollutants that affects indoor air quality, according to a team of researchers.

Social Sciences Feb 5, 2019

Pop art and comics—imitation, confrontation, collaboration

The relationship between pop artist Roy Lichtenstein and the creators of comics was famously fraught, with accusations of imitation and idea-stealing from the 'strip men'. However, new research published in the journal Art ...

Cell & Microbiology Oct 19, 2018

From peaceful coexistence to potential peril: The bacteria that live in and on us

Bacteria are everywhere, including in and on our bodies. There are estimated to be as many bacteria in a human body as there are human cells.

Social Sciences Feb 21, 2018

Portrayals of doctors in comics have become more realistic, nuanced

The images of doctors found in comics can be comforting, such as the authoritative and compassionate "Rex Morgan, M.D.," or bizarre, as in the case of Marvel Comics character Dr. Strange, a neurosurgeon turned sorcerer.

Environment Oct 4, 2017

How U.S. chemical warfare in Vietnam unleashed an enduring disaster

In the end, the military campaign was called Operation Ranch Hand, but it originally went by a more appropriately hellish appellation: Operation Hades. As part of this Vietnam War effort, from 1961 to 1971, the United States ...

Social Sciences Jun 9, 2017

Bullying in organizations begets equally disruptive responses, study says

It has been said that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Now new research suggests that such a dynamic can play out in organizations, where bullying within decision-making groups appears to go hand in hand with ...

Hi Tech & Innovation Oct 20, 2016

Moving toward computing at the speed of thought

The first computers cost millions of dollars and were locked inside rooms equipped with special electrical circuits and air conditioning. The only people who could use them had been trained to write programs in that specific ...

Astronomy Mar 25, 2016

How astronomers could find the 'real' planet Krypton

The search for exoplanets, worlds orbiting stars other than our own, has become a major field of research in the last decade – with nearly 2,000 such planets discovered to date. So the release of Batman v Superman: Dawn ...

Astronomy Jan 13, 2015

Are gamma ray bursts dangerous?

If comics have taught me anything, it's that gamma powered superheroes and villains are some of the most formidable around.

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