Anyone who has spent more than a few minutes watching some of the more partisan "news" networks lurking in the bowels of cable television is aware that America has grown more polarized in recent years. What's not so certain ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Apr 01, 2013 4.3 / 5 (9) 15 |

(Phys.org) —The popular new strategy of planting genetically engineered crops that make two or more toxins to fend off insect pests rests on assumptions that don't always apply, UA researchers have discovered. ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 29, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 22 |

(Phys.org) —The term "survival of the fittest" refers to natural selection in biological systems, but Darwin's theory may apply more broadly than that. New research from the U.S. Department of Energy's ...

Biology - Other

Mar 29, 2013 4.4 / 5 (19) 43 |

(Phys.org) —Look what might help us live longer—worms! Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (BTI) and Cornell have shown that roundworms can live up to 20 percent longer when ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 29, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 2 |

Researchers with the joint program between IRB Barcelona and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have devised a new strategy to study the shape of proteins.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 27, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

A series of papers in scientific journals has established a general framework for the biogeographical evolution of palms.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 27, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

(Phys.org) —British scientists from several research facilities across the country have found that an enzyme called glutathione transferase which is known to neutralize toxins meant to stem the growth of tum ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 26, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 1 |

(Phys.org) —Excess carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere created by the widespread burning of fossil fuels is the major driving force of global climate change, and researchers the world over are looking ...

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Mar 26, 2013 4.1 / 5 (38) 26 |

A typical storage silo can hold several thousand tons of corn, seed, sawdust and other granular material. These particles funnel down through a hopper, or chute, into freight cars, which haul the material ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 26, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 2 |

(Phys.org) —Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 25, 2013 4.1 / 5 (14) 4 |

(Phys.org) —Researchers studied thousands of ceramic and obsidian artifacts from A.D. 1200-1450 to learn about the growth, collapse and change of social networks in the late pre-Hispanic Southwest.

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Mar 25, 2013 3.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Bubbling brooks and streams are a scenic and much loved feature of forest ecosystems, but long-term data at the U.S. Forest Service's Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest suggests that more productive forests ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 25, 2013 3 / 5 (2) 2 |

Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to come by. Research published in the March 28 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 25, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

Texas Longhorn cattle have a hybrid global ancestry, according to a study by University of Texas at Austin researchers published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes—a type of lemur—have been sequenced and analyzed in an effort to help guide conservation efforts. The results of the ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 25, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |