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Hundreds of U.S. scientists urge more transparency in animal research
Breaking with a history of reticence, nearly 600 scientists, students, and lab animal workers published a letter in USA Today this morning that calls on U.S. research...
Science & Technology
Environment & Energy
Vapor harvesting gets the edge
Vapor harvesting gets the edge
KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Surface wettability has little effect on atmospheric water gathering, but edge structure...
Education
Believing the future will be favorable may prevent action
Believing the future will be favorable may prevent action
Association for Psychological Science
People tend to believe that others will come around to their point of...
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RNA circuits transform cells into nanodevices
Public Release: 26-Jul-2017
Living computers: RNA circuits transform cells into nanodevices
Arizona State University
The interdisciplinary nexus of biology and engineering, known as synthetic biology, is growing at...
An NJIT researcher throws a global ham radio ‘party’ to study the eclipse
An NJIT researcher throws a global ham radio 'party' to study the eclipse
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
When a solar eclipse plunges the country into...
Psychologists keep policy on U.S. detainees, but issue remains open wound
The American Psychological Association (APA) in Washington, D.C., has decided to retain a policy banning military psychologists from working with detainees at the U.S....
Mobile Marketing and the Future of E-Commerce
All right. Well, take care yourself. I guess that's what you're best, presence old master? A tremor in the Force. The last time felt...
Health
Is a little radiation good for you? Controversial theory pops up in Senate hearing...
As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves to overhaul how scientific studies can inform regulations, a U.S. Senate panel briefly became a stage for a decades-old...
On a remote Pacific island, this doctor has revived a 60-year quest to eradicate...
LIHIR ISLAND IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA—In a small, poor village 15,000 kilometers from his home, Oriol Mitjà jumped out of a white van one early May...
Can bacteria-slaying viruses defeat antibiotic-resistant infections? A new U.S. clinical center aims to find...
One piece of good news can make all the difference. In the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections, a decades-old approach based on bacteria-slaying viruses called...
Arts & Humanities
The Maya civilization used chocolate as money
Your Hershey bar may have been worth its weight in gold in Mayan times. A new study reveals that chocolate became its own form...
Do dolphins feel grief?
When an adult striped dolphin emerged from the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 pushing, nudging, and circling the carcass of its dead female companion for...
Australia to ax support for long-term ecology sites
Australia to ax support for long-term ecology sites
By John Pickrell
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA—The Simpson Desert of central Australia is as starkly beautiful as it is ecologically entrancing....
Believing the future will be favorable may prevent action
Believing the future will be favorable may prevent action
Association for Psychological Science
People tend to believe that others will come around to their point of...
