Contrary to what is often assumed, retailer price promotions such as "Buy One, Get One" or quantity discounts in supermarkets do not cause more food to go to waste. In fact, such offers appear to increase consumer awareness ...
Social Sciences
Mar 30, 2023
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State officials were supposed to take a conservative approach to approving salmon fishing season this year—and they did.
Ecology
Mar 30, 2023
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DNA testing has confirmed widespread—and probably illegal—international trading of critically endangered European eels.
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2023
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An international team of researchers, led by Drexel University, has found that a thin coating of MXene—a type of two-dimensional nanomaterial discovered and studied at Drexel for more than a decade—could enhance a material's ...
Nanophysics
Mar 30, 2023
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The recent discovery of a sabretooth cat skull in southwest Iowa is the first evidence the prehistoric predator once inhabited the state.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 30, 2023
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Many mammals suffer hearing loss in old age, but bats were thought to be immune to this phenomenon because of the importance of hearing for echolocation. However, researchers in Israel have discovered that bats lose their ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2023
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A team of biologists and engineers at Chapman University, working with colleagues from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Guelph, has found that slime produced by hagfish has far more clogging ...
A new study led by Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) brings into sharper focus the structural details of the COVID-19 virus, revealing an elliptical shape that "breathes," or changes shape, as it moves in the body. The ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2023
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Shigella bacteria can infect humans but not mice. In the March 29 issue of Nature, a team from UConn Health explains why. Their findings may explain the multifariousness of a key weapon of our immune system.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2023
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Microelectronics forms the foundation of much modern technology today, including smartphones, laptops and even supercomputers. It is based on the ability to allow and stop the flow of electrons through a material. Spin electronics, ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 30, 2023
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