Climate change - or global warming - is a term we are all familiar with. The warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to the consumption of fossil fuels by human activity was predicted in the 19th century. It can be seen in ...
Environment
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The "share economy," where people rent goods and services, including their residences and automobiles, has numerous benefits for people trying to make extra money. One downside, however, is the prospect of people's biases ...
Social Sciences
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University of Arkansas physicists have developed a new way for quantifying data from microscopic observations that could help scientists better study how cancer cells respond to treatment, among other benefits. The research, ...
General Physics
Sep 6, 2017
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Life scientists who have published papers that are retracted by journals subsequently suffer a 10 percent drop in citations of their remaining work, compared to similar but unaffected scientists, according to a new study ...
Social Sciences
Sep 6, 2017
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Half of all people are chronically infected with Helicobacter pylori, a Gram negative bacterium that plays a causative role in the development of gastric cancer. It comes in two types, one that is relatively harmless and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2017
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White-footed mice in Howard County, Maryland are being collared as part of a study to improve control of the ticks that spread Lyme disease. The mouse collaring research, never before done in Maryland, is a partnership of ...
Ecology
Sep 6, 2017
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A pioneering new study conducted by older people has provided valuable insight into what people want and need to make them happy as they age.
Social Sciences
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Cassini-Huygens was launched on 15 October 1997 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Space Exploration
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Considerable interest in new single-photon detector technologies has been scaling in this past decade. Nowadays, quantum optics and quantum information applications are, among others, one of the main precursors for the accelerated ...
Quantum Physics
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A series of sperm whale strandings saw 29 of the animals beached across the North Sea in early 2016. As these whales are not normally found in the North Sea, the strandings were a bit of a mystery. But a study is now proposing ...
Plants & Animals
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