Does female membership on corporate boards impact mergers and acquisitions? As the percentage of females on boards of America's largest companies has risen from 15 percent in 2005 to 20 percent in 2015, the question is relevant ...
Economics & Business
May 19, 2016
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3-D printing has inspired visions of manufacturing revolutions but is currently held back by inefficiency and the underwhelming quality of available materials.
Other
May 19, 2016
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The biggest decision many children have regarding their diets may be deciding whether to have fries with a fast-food burger. However, a new educational software application under development at the University of Illinois ...
Social Sciences
May 19, 2016
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What used to be dismissed by many as "junk DNA" is back with a vengeance as growing data points to the importance of non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs)—genome's messages that do not code for proteins—in development and disease. ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 19, 2016
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If you're a rattlesnake, you want to bring the right weapon to a squirrel fight.
Plants & Animals
May 19, 2016
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Scientists have understood quite well why so many poisonous animals have brightly colored bodies - the colors send a message to the predators: " don't eat me, or you'll get sick and die". But why some toxic animals actually ...
Evolution
May 19, 2016
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The origin of many of the most precious elements on the periodic table, such as gold, silver and platinum, has perplexed scientists for more than six decades. Now a recent study has an answer, evocatively conveyed in the ...
Astronomy
May 19, 2016
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New findings based on a year's worth of observations from NASA's Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current - an electrical current carried by energetic ions that encircles our planet - behaves in a much different ...
Space Exploration
May 19, 2016
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An international team of scientists has detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy ever using the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit on Maunakea, Hawaii. In addition to using the world's most powerful telescope, ...
Astronomy
May 19, 2016
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Google said Thursday it feared for free speech if France succeeded in forcing it to apply the right to have information about a person removed from its search engines not just in France, but worldwide.
Business
May 19, 2016
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