In an experimental study, participants' first impressions of photos of strangers' faces were strongly influenced by disclosure of the stranger's political partisanship. Brittany Cassidy of the University of North Carolina ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2022
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A trio of researchers at the University of Akron in Ohio has conducted a study of the polar bear paw with a focus on the papillae—the microstructures on the footpad that help with traction. Nathaniel Orndorf, Austin Garner ...
Scientists in Singapore and Spain have gained new insights into the activity of a tumor-suppressor protein in fruit flies that could aid the understanding of some human cancers. The study, published in PLOS Biology, might ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 19, 2022
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Discovery of intriguing material behavior at small scales could reduce energy demands for computing.
Nanophysics
Oct 19, 2022
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Social media are polarizing not because they isolate us with likeminded others, as often thought, but because they provide spaces where we create social identities that increasingly align with our political preferences. "This ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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The amazing survival strategies of polar marine creatures might help to explain how the first animals on Earth could have evolved earlier than the oldest fossils suggest, according to new research. These first simple and ...
Evolution
Oct 11, 2022
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A group of researchers led by Cornell is unlocking the full potential of aluminum nitride—an important material for the advancement of electronics and photonics—thanks to the development of a surface cleaning technique ...
Materials Science
Oct 5, 2022
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Today, more snow than rain falls in the Arctic, but this is expected to reverse by the end of the century. A new study shows the frequency of rainy days in the Arctic could roughly double by 2100.
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2022
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Bears are not cats or dogs, and feeding them like they are likely shortens their lives.
Plants & Animals
Oct 3, 2022
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An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean after discovering acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than ocean waters ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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