Snakes show that eating can be bad for your health
Eating is essential for life. Animals must eat to live, grow, and reproduce. But like most things, eating comes with tradeoffs. Dr. Zach Stahlschmidt of the University of the Pacific and his colleagues...
View ArticleStudy identifies most vulnerable tropical reef fish
Scientists have identified the key drivers of why some species are absent from reefs in the Indian and Pacific oceans, and which species are most vulnerable. Incorporating this knowledge in to...
View ArticleMost precise measurement of reactor antineutrino spectrum reveals intriguing...
Members of the International Daya Bay Collaboration, who track the production and flavor-shifting behavior of electron antineutrinos generated at a nuclear power complex in China, have obtained the...
View ArticleHow well is the world protecting ecosystems and human health?
The new global environmental report card is out. The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) graded 180 countries on how well they are protecting human health and their ecosystems. Launched at the...
View ArticleGone is the solitary genius – science today is a group effort
Scientific discovery was once a mostly solitary endeavour and a common view was that genius was responsible for significant advances in knowledge.
View ArticleStratford Festival launches new Shakespeare online toolkit
The Stratford Festival in Canada is commemorating the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death by making his plays accessible to a generation raised on the Internet.
View ArticleGraphene-based remote controlled molecular switches
Imagine a world where you can tailor the properties of graphene to have the outcome you desire. By combining its unique properties with the precision of molecular chemistry, scientists from the...
View ArticleOpen-source collaborative platform to collect content from over 350...
With the technical and financial capacity of any currently existing single institution failing to answer the needs for a platform efficiently archiving the web, a team of American researchers have come...
View ArticleThin-film solar cells: How defects appear and disappear in CIGSe cells
An international collaboration of German, Israeli, and British teams has investigated the deposition of thin chalcopyrite layers. They were able to observe specific defects as these formed during...
View ArticleGravitational waves detected from second pair of colliding black holes
On December 26, 2015 at 03:38:53 UTC, scientists observed gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime—for the second time.
View ArticleEnvironmental peace building in the Middle East
This year's regional environmental sustainability course took us to a collection of sites and locations that brought up the environmental and political issues facing the Middle East. One major focus of...
View ArticleWorld's most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter experiment, which operates beneath a mile of rock at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the Black Hills of South Dakota, has completed its silent...
View ArticleSmarter brains are blood-thirsty brains
A University of Adelaide-led project has overturned the theory that the evolution of human intelligence was simply related to the size of the brain—but rather linked more closely to the supply of blood...
View ArticleFirst stars formed even later than previously thought
ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This new analysis also shows that...
View ArticleBorder fences need not harm large fauna
Although the increasing number of fences and walls along national boundaries is intended to prevent human migration, these can also have disastrous consequences for the natural spread of large animals....
View ArticleVLT detects unexpected giant glowing halos around distant quasars
An international collaboration of astronomers, led by a group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland, has used the unrivalled observing power of MUSE on the Very...
View ArticleATLAS releases first measurement of W mass using LHC data
The ATLAS collaboration today reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton–proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.
View ArticleALPHA observes light spectrum of antimatter for first time
In a paper published today in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reports the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This achievement features technological...
View ArticleMolecule shows ability to thwart pathogens' genetic resistance to antibiotic
Oregon State University researchers have developed a new weapon in the battle against antibiotic-resistant germs - a molecule that neutralizes the bugs' ability to destroy the antibiotic.
View ArticleInternational science collaboration growing at astonishing rate
Even those who follow science may be surprised by how quickly international collaboration in scientific studies is growing, according to new research.
View ArticleStart codons in DNA may be more numerous than previously thought
For decades, scientists working with genetic material have labored with a few basic rules in mind. To start, DNA is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA), and mRNA is translated into proteins, which...
View ArticleStudy: Being near colleagues helps cross-disciplinary research on papers and...
Want to boost collaboration among researchers? Even in an age of easy virtual communication, physical proximity increases collaborative activity among academic scholars, according to a new study...
View ArticleEvidence of the Higgs particle's decay in quarks
As part of the ATLAS collaboration, the Freiburg research group led by Prof. Dr. Karl Jakobs and Dr. Christian Weiser has contributed to finding strong evidence that, among other things, the Higgs...
View ArticleObservation of the hyperfine spectrum of antihydrogen
A Canadian-led investigation has opened a new chapter in antimatter research. In a study published today in Nature, the ALPHA Collaboration, which includes 50 physicists from 17 institutions, reports...
View ArticleATLAS observes direct evidence of light-by-light scattering
Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have found the first direct evidence of high energy light-by-light scattering, a very rare process in which two photons – particles of light – interact and...
View ArticleVideo: Cassini's legacy and the atmospheric chemistry of Titan
The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn, a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, is set to end on Sept. 15.
View ArticleNew gravitational wave data analysis now underway
Penn State LIGO physicists are members of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration to detect and characterize gravitational waves. The collaboration now is completing a very exciting Second Observing Run that is...
View ArticleCrowning the 'King of the Crops': Sequencing the white Guinea yam genome
An international collaboration involving the Earlham Institute, Norwich, UK, and the Iwate Biotechnology Research Centre, Japan, has for the first time provided a genome sequence for the white Guinea...
View ArticleIntelligence study IDs key factors for government, academia, industry...
A study of government and industry teamwork at a National Security Agency-funded research center found that an established suite of factors are key to fostering effective collaboration in a novel...
View ArticleData mining approach reveals collaborations are the key for pharmaceutical...
Basic research can lead to cures, drugs and other scientific breakthroughs through collaboration, confirms a new study in Heliyon (http://www.heliyon.com/). Understanding the extent of the...
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