(Phys.org) —A new discovery by researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences could change prevailing assumptions about the chemical makeup of the Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2013
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He's 8 years old, brown black, has a sense of humor, is very patient, tall—about 16.3 hands—and has a gorgeous tail. His name is Paco and not what you'd envision as a patient in a clinical trial using a novel, cutting-edge ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Making consumers exert more effort to buy something—through midnight releases, for example, or long waits outside the store—has been a successful marketing strategy for companies seeking to fuel consumer ...
Social Sciences
Nov 12, 2013
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It's a small, brown butterfly native to Michigan that's so scarce, two of the state's leading butterfly-lovers have never encountered one.
Ecology
Nov 12, 2013
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Universities across the country are racing to prepare the next generation of cybersecurity experts before a major cyberattack leaves the country's networks struggling to reboot.
Security
Nov 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Yale neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd has studied neurons for decades. But until recently he'd never had a neuron he could grasp with his own two hands: Neurons are much too small.
Engineering
Nov 12, 2013
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Japan inaugurated a floating offshore wind turbine Monday that energy industry leaders hope will open a new frontier in Japanese renewable technologies and help the country reduce its dependence on nuclear energy and fossil ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 12, 2013
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With last week's eye-popping initial stock offering, Twitter may have turned around the Facebook IPO curse.
Business
Nov 12, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Like a complex wiring system, the genetic network within a cell is an interconnected web of strands communicating to ensure the proper function of an organism. At Rutgers–Camden, computational biologists are ...
Biotechnology
Nov 12, 2013
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In the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine's search to understand early human tooth development, renowned paleoanthropologist Bruce Latimer has begun to reconstruct what life was like more than 20,000 ...
Archaeology
Nov 12, 2013
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