The sound level of songs blue whales sing across the vast expanses of the ocean to attract potential mates has been steadily creeping downward for the past few decades, and scientists believe the trend may be good news for the population of the endangered marine mammal.
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Scientists have used worms to reel in information they hope will lead to a greater understanding of cellular mechanisms that may be exploited to treat epilepsy. In a new study, the researchers explain how the transparent roundworm, C. elegans, helped them identify key “molecular switches” that control the transport of a molecule (gamma-aminobutyric acid or [...]
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On December 8th, thousands of physicists around the world cheered as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashed together subatomic particles at the highest energies ever reached by a human-made accelerator and the giant ATLAS detector observed the products of the record-breaking reactions whizzing through its sophisticated tracking devices.
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Stem cell derived neurons may allow scientists to determine whether breakdowns in the transport of proteins, lipids and other materials within cells trigger the neuronal death and neurodegeneration that characterize Alzheimer’s disease and the rarer but always fatal neurological disorder, Niemann-Pick Type C, according to a recent presentation. Early defects in the intracellular physical transport [...]
Energy efficiency technologies that exist today or that are likely to be developed in the near future could save considerable money as well as energy, says a new report from the National Research Council. Fully adopting these technologies could lower projected US energy use 17 percent to 20 percent by 2020, and 25-31 percent by [...]
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Thinking of rewarding your sales department for a job well done? You might not want to make cash part of the payoff.
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A team is about to announce a possible detection of dark matter, but experts say the evidence will likely be unclear [Read more]
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Scientists delete people’s scary memories while the brain is editing them [Read more]
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Virtual nose reveals why Fido has such a keen sense of smell [Read more]
Researchers find new clues about one of the biggest floods in history [Read more]
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