(PhysOrg.com) -- Many children, when learning to read, are encouraged by their teachers to retell all they remember about a story in order to build their comprehension skills. But can similar comprehension strategies be applied ...
Mathematics
Aug 3, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After a decade of steady recovery, the southern sea otter--a federally listed threatened species--is in decline for the second year in a row, according to the latest population survey by U.S. Geological Survey ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2010
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The 53-foot-long tractor trailer that houses UC Riverside's mobile emissions laboratory was back on the road Friday and Monday on Interstate 10 between Redlands and Beaumont testing ways to better measure particulates from ...
Environment
Aug 3, 2010
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A research team based at the University of Pittsburgh has received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to tackle some of the most significant challenges preventing the development of quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Aug 3, 2010
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Fishermen barely eking out a profit because of overfishing of their target stock, shrimp, are now surviving by selling their bycatch (the low-value fish also caught in the large, indiscriminate nets). Although good for ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2010
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In June, a commercial angler netted a 19-pound Asian carp on Chicago's Lake Calumet, part of the waterway system that connects the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan. The fisherman's haul was ominous, suggesting that the ...
Ecology
Aug 3, 2010
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Large majorities of the residents of Florida, Maine and Massachusetts believe the Earth has been getting warmer gradually over the last 100 years (81 percent, 78 percent and 84 percent, respectively), and large majorities ...
Environment
Aug 3, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Emory computer scientists Eugene Agichtein and Qi Guo have developed on online tool that helps predict whether a person intends to buy or to browse by tracking the cursor movements.
Computer Sciences
Aug 3, 2010
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It's taken millions of dollars to cap it, and it could take billions more to clean it up. BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is acknowledged the environmental catastrophe of the century. But Tel Aviv University has a solution ...
Biotechnology
Aug 3, 2010
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Two University of Iowa biologists have published a paper on how cells make specific interactions during development -- in the hope of one day learning more about human developmental disorders -- in the Aug. 2 issue of the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 3, 2010
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