It's not a coincidence that dogs are cuter than wolves, or that goats at a petting zoo have shorter horns and friendlier demeanors than their wild ancestors. Scientists call this "domestication syndrome"—the idea that breeding ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 15, 2020
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Scientists have been tracking changes to the genetic makeup of the new coronavirus to better understand how best to slow its spread. My research on the link between high blood sugar in patients and severity of illness from ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 7, 2020
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Everyone knows that losing your job hurts, but the negative effects are not solely experienced by the displaced worker and his or her family. Newly published research by a Case Western Reserve University economist finds that ...
Social Sciences
Mar 4, 2020
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In current quantum field theory, causality is typically defined by the vanishing of field commutators for spacelike separations. Two researchers at the University of Massachusetts and Universidade Federal Rural in Rio de ...
Scientists at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management have established a causal relationship between failure and future success, proving German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's adage that "what does not kill ...
Social Sciences
Oct 1, 2019
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Spiders start out social but later turn aggressive after dispersing and becoming solitary, according to a study publishing July 2 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Raphael Jeanson of the National Centre for Scientific ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2019
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For the first time, researchers have shown a causal link between print news media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events and increases in firearm acquisition, particularly in states with the ...
Social Sciences
Jun 24, 2019
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It's a simple enough equation: good soil is the key to good food. And good soil starts with trees.
Environment
May 31, 2019
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X-ray sources in the sky radiate "bar codes" revealing their properties. These bar codes consist of narrow peaks and troughs within the source's spectrum. The RGS instrument on the satellite XMM-Newton was built to find these ...
Astronomy
May 24, 2019
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Recreating the human mind's ability to infer patterns and relationships from complex events could lead to a universal model of artificial intelligence.
Computer Sciences
Feb 20, 2019
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