Smartphone use goes up in city parks, but down in forests
While a visit to the great outdoors is a common prescription for reducing screen use, a pioneering new study finds that time outdoors doesn't always reduce smartphone screentime.
While a visit to the great outdoors is a common prescription for reducing screen use, a pioneering new study finds that time outdoors doesn't always reduce smartphone screentime.
Social Sciences
May 15, 2023
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We all remember 2020. At the grocery store, toilet paper shelves were empty. Cleaning supplies and disinfectants were treasured finds. Rattled consumers, concerned that they would run out of essential items, swiftly stockpiled ...
Economics & Business
May 10, 2023
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Ever since Mary Schweitzer found soft, stretchy tissue in a T. rex fossil in 2004, scientists have been trying to come to grips with how some biological tissues and cells could preserve within ancient critters.
Molecular & Computational biology
May 1, 2023
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Evolution goes beyond the genetic code and the transformation of physical form, from land-mammal to whale or dinosaur to bird.
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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University of Wyoming researchers' study of how microscopic creatures called tardigrades survive extreme conditions has led to a major breakthrough that could eventually make life-saving treatments available to people where ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 20, 2023
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A novel role for molecular nano-syringes found in the antibiotic-producing bacteria Streptomyces has been revealed.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 16, 2023
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Crocodiles were mummified in a unique way at the Egyptian site of Qubbat al-Hawā during the 5th Century BC, according to a study published January 18, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Bea De Cupere of the Royal ...
Archaeology
Jan 18, 2023
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Recently, a research team led by Prof. Zhao Gang, Prof. Shi Qinghua from the University of Science and Technology (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Cao Yunxia from Anhui Medical University, realized the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 13, 2023
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Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of RAS and Lomonosov Moscow State University discovered a never-before-seen substance with anti-tumor properties in the ...
Biochemistry
Oct 7, 2022
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October is inarguably pumpkin season, which raises questions about food safety for everything from pumpkin pie to pumpkin seeds.
Agriculture
Oct 5, 2022
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