Cholesterol carried in high-density lipoprotein particles, or HDL cholesterol, has been dubbed the good cholesterol, because people whose HDL levels are high have a lower risk of developing heart disease. That link was first ...
Biochemistry
Feb 14, 2019
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When it comes to processing coffee beans, longer fermentation times can result in better taste, contrary to conventional wisdom. Lactic acid bacteria play an important, positive role in this process. Other species of microbes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2019
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IIASA-led research has established a causal link between climate, conflict and migration for the first time, something which has been widely suggested in the media, but for which scientific evidence is scarce.
Environment
Jan 23, 2019
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Natural little scientists, human babies love letting go of things and watching them fall. Baby's first experiment teaches them about more than the force of gravity. It establishes the concept of causality—the relationship ...
General Physics
Sep 28, 2018
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Australian and German researchers have collaborated to develop a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical notions of causality.
Quantum Physics
Apr 28, 2017
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(Phys.org)—For the first time, physicists have experimentally demonstrated the violation of "bilocal causality"—a concept that is related to the more standard local causality, except that it accounts for the precise way ...
A court said Friday that exposure to carcinogens at a Samsung chip factory caused a worker's ovarian cancer in the first ruling in South Korea to link the disease with chemicals that chip workers were exposed to.
Business
Jan 29, 2016
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(Phys.org)—In a quantum superposition, a quantum object can be in two incompatible states at the same time, which is famously illustrated by Schrödinger's dead-and-alive cat. Recent research has shown that it's possible ...
(Phys.org)—Unlike electromagnetic radiation, which consists of massless and accelerated charged particles, galactic cosmic rays (CR) are composed mostly of atomic nuclei and solitary electrons, objects that have mass. Cosmic ...
If you would like to produce good quantitative social-science research, try remembering these two words: "ceteris paribus."
Economics & Business
Dec 1, 2014
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