A team of researchers led by Michael T. French, professor of health economics at the University of Miami (UM), finds that high school grade point average (GPA) is a strong predictor of future earnings.
Social Sciences
May 19, 2014
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Chinese scientists from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and BGI successfully deciphered the genome sequence of another diploid cotton— Gossypium arboreum (AA) after the completed sequencing of G. raimondii (DD) ...
Biotechnology
May 19, 2014
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In the body, a skin cell will always be skin, and a heart cell will always be heart. But in the first hours of life, cells in the nascent embryo become totipotent: they have the incredible flexibility to mature into skin, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 19, 2014
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More than half of the fish consumed worldwide is cultivated in ponds or tanks. And the percentage of cultivated fish in relation to wild fish is increasing. The scale on which fish are currently farmed makes it necessary ...
Ecology
May 19, 2014
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In the paste of Roquefort and on the surface of Camembert, the microscopic filamentous fungi Penicillium roqueforti and Penicillium camembertii are responsible for the formation of a greenish-blue mould in the former ...
Biotechnology
May 19, 2014
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Ultrasonic bushcrickets could be using a similar method to communicate as that used by whales, according to newly published research.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2014
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University of Leicester researchers have captured stunning images of Saturn's auroras as the planet's magnetic field is battered by charged particles from the Sun.
Space Exploration
May 19, 2014
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One of the main aims of the Apollo missions of the 1960s was to determine whether the moon had any water on it. If man were to build a colony on the moon, having water present would make living there easier.
Space Exploration
May 19, 2014
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There is a disturbing lack of evidence about why people choose to share copyright content online, as well as about whether the practice harms the entertainment industry and society or if it is a benefit. That is a real problem ...
Internet
May 19, 2014
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Invisible wireless networks are transformed into beautiful beams of colour in a series of photographs.
Other
May 19, 2014
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