Thanks to three scientists, including Simon Fraser University's Jeffery Joy, we can now see in OneZoom how a major portion of life originated from one cell and remains interconnected in the Tree of Life. The software has been loade ...

Biology - Other

Apr 01, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 1

It's not easy, or economically feasible, to ship freshwater across the globe. But when scientists use food as a proxy for that water - taking into account how much crops are irrigated and livestock are fed - they can get ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 22, 2012 4.7 / 5 (6) 0

Yahoo Inc. and Facebook Inc. are joining forces to test an iconic 1960s-era social experiment that showed there are just six degrees of separation between most people on the planet.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Aug 17, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 2

As the eurozone continues to wobble, new analysis of countries' economic interconnectedness finds that some of the countries with the greatest potential to cause a global crash have surprisingly small gross domestic production.

Physics - General Physics

Nov 25, 2010 2.8 / 5 (4) 2 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer networks become more complex and pervasive, and their development is in a state of constant flux, leaving their design and management to human intervention is becoming increasingly ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jun 29, 2010 4.2 / 5 (6) 0

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Jonna Mazet (University of California, Davis) and colleagues describe their work in the Tanzania-based HALI Project, which adopts the "One Health" approach to address emerging zoonoses, recogn ...

Medicine & Health - Other

Dec 15, 2009 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities are organized like brains, and the evolution of cities mirrors the evolution of human and animal brains, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Sep 03, 2009 4.2 / 5 (11) 0