Researchers make significant progress toward sequencing highly complex crop
Researchers make significant progress toward sequencing highly complex crop
Feeling amuck makes people more likely to perceive patterns that aren’t there
Stalagmites may serve as record of past earthquakes
Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of [...]
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An overload of calories throws critical portions of the brain out of whack, reveals a new study. That response in the brain’s hypothalamus — the “headquarters” for maintaining energy balance — can happen even in the absence of any weight gain, according to the new studies in mice.
With brains less than a millionth the size of humans’, paper wasps hardly seem like mental giants. But new research shows that these insects can remember individuals for at least a week, even after meeting and interacting with many other wasps in the meantime.
Infants who experience viral respiratory illnesses with wheezing are known to be at increased risk for developing asthma later during childhood. Using new molecular techniques to identify different viruses, researchers now believe they have pinpointed the biggest culprit: rhinovirus.
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Physicists have discovered that the size of grains, such as sand, above a buried object is important in determining the force required to begin raising the object. No one, until now, has discovered how much force is required to initiate an object’s movement through grains. The discovery may be useful for engineering foundations for objects [...]
Cyberbullying is common among teens who are frequent internet users, with 72 percent of respondents reporting at least one incident during the past year.