Tiny geolocator backpacks let researchers follow every step of songbirds’ journeys
Find solves decades-old debate about mysterious toxins
Toddler gesturing may improve children’s vocabularies; a new global view of the Moon; an update on the Neandertal genome; and more.
Rift Zones: New Understanding Of Incredible Forces, Oil And Gas Reserves Beneath The Earth’s Surface
Researchers have developed a new model to explain the forming of rift zones. Rift zones are long cracks in the Earth’s crust between the tectonic plates. They are generally over 1000km long, 30-100km wide and up to 10km deep. Over time they fill up with the remains of volcanic explosions and other sediment. The research [...]
Newly published research out of Wake Forest University School of Medicine finds that a popular class of anti-inflammatory inhalers significantly increases the risk of pneumonia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Scientists now are able to get a much clearer picture of what happens inside the lungs of asthma patients, thanks to an innovative MRI technique that shows the flow of air within the lung. The new images show that asthma patients can continue to have persistent narrowing of airways over a span of a month [...]
Researchers have found that increased angiogenesis, or blood vessel formation, and vascular endothelial growth factor expression are associated with poor survival in women with sex cord-stromal ovarian tumors.
Located five kilometers from the Spanish border, the Portuguese São Domingos mine, abandoned since 1966, continues to pollute the river ways that flow into Chanza dam, the largest drinking water reservoir in the province of Huelva, according to scientists. The new study shows that oxidation and the dissolving of sulfurs are processes that remain active [...]
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How do people read faces to judge age or fatigue? This question is explored in the February issue of Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
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Nanocarbon modeling may be the next step toward emulating human brain function. That’s the focus of a “synthetic cortex” under development.