The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society congratulates Andrew Hampton and Valerie Shalin on receiving the 2016 Human Factors Prize for their article, "Sentinels of Breach: Lexical Choice as a Measure of Urgency in Social ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2017
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Ever wondered what makes the collective behaviour in insect swarms possible? Andy Reynolds from Rothamsted Research, UK, and colleagues at Stanford University, California, USA, modelled the effect of the attraction force, ...
General Physics
Apr 19, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Maryland have identified how the pathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses tension-activated membrane channels to stop itself from swelling up and bursting when it is suddenly exposed ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2017
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A team from Korea created more flexible neural electrodes that minimize tissue damage and still transmit clear brain signals.
Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2017
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Trump promised his supporters a "big and beautiful" wall. Accordingly, the recent design competition required it, among other things, to look good – from the US side. Yet it seems unlikely that the wall will ever be completed. ...
Other
Apr 19, 2017
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Desert lands cover about a quarter of the Earth's land mass and are home to some half a billion people and yet they are commonly portrayed as extreme places with marginalized communities. The people who live there are perceived ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2017
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Why do animals help raise offspring that aren't their own? A new study by an international team of researchers from Sweden, Canada and the UK shows that fish cooperate to raise another fish's offspring to reduce their own ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2017
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Senckenberg scientists have sequenced the entire genomes of four bear species, making it now possible to analyze the evolutionary history of all bears at the genome level. It shows that gene flow, or gene exchange, between ...
Ecology
Apr 19, 2017
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With this method can be measured e.g. the number of single walled carbon nanotubes and their concentration in a carbon nanotube layer.
Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2017
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Inequality is the defining social, political and economic phenomenon of our time. Just 1% of the world's population now holds over 35% of all private wealth, more than the bottom 95% combined. Bad as this may seem, trends ...
Social Sciences
Apr 19, 2017
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