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Earliest Humans Had Diverse Range of Body Types, Just as We Do Today
Mar. 26, 2015 — New research harnessing fragmentary fossils suggests our genus has come in different shapes and sizes since its origins over two million years ago, and adds weight to the idea that humans began to ... full story
- Earliest Humans Had Diverse Range of Body Types
- How Did the Chicken Cross the Sea?
- Gene Editing of Mosquito That Transmits Diseases
- Magnetic Fields and High-Temp Superconductivity
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- Speeding Up Simulations in Computational ...
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- Neurodegeneration, Nerve Cells and Garbage
- DNA Nanomachines: Arm-Waving Nanorobots
- Bats Obey 'Traffic Rules' When Foraging
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Earliest Humans Had Diverse Range of Body Types, Just as We Do Today
Mar. 26, 2015 — New research harnessing fragmentary fossils suggests our genus has come in different shapes and sizes since its origins over two million years ago, and adds weight to the idea that humans began to ... full story -
Nuclear Weapon Modernization Program
Mar. 26, 2015 — Sandia National Laboratories has begun making silicon wafers for three nuclear weapon modernization programs, the largest production series in the history of its Microsystems and Engineering Sciences ... full story -
How Did the Chicken Cross the Sea?
Mar. 26, 2015 — It may sound like the makings of a joke, but answering the question of how chickens crossed the sea may soon provide more than just a punch line. Researchers have studied the mysterious ancestry of ... full story -
Researchers Master Gene Editing Technique in Mosquito That Transmits Deadly Diseases
Mar. 26, 2015 — Researchers have successfully harnessed a technique, CRISPR-Cas9 editing, to use in an important and understudied species: the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, which infects hundreds of millions of people ... full story -
Using Magnetic Fields to Understand High-Temperature Superconductivity
Mar. 26, 2015 — Taking our understanding of quantum matter to new levels, scientists are exposing high-temperature superconductors to very high magnetic fields, changing the temperature at which the materials become ... full story -
Dark Matter Even Darker Than Once Thought
Mar. 26, 2015 — Astronomers have studied how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide. The results show that dark matter interacts with itself even less than previously thought, and ... full story -
Engineers Develop New Methods to Speed Up Simulations in Computational Grand Challenge
Mar. 26, 2015 — Engineers have developed a new family of methods to significantly increase the speed of time-resolved numerical simulations in computational grand challenge problems. Such problems often arise from ... full story -
Bacteria Can Use Magnetic Particles to Create a 'Natural Battery'
Mar. 26, 2015 — New research shows bacteria can use tiny magnetic particles to effectively create a 'natural battery.' According to new work, the bacteria can load electrons onto and discharge electrons ... full story -
Avoiding Neurodegeneration: Nerve Cells Borrow a Trick from Their Synapses to Dispose of Garbage
Mar. 26, 2015 — Genetic defects affecting tiny channels in human nerve cells lead to several neurological diseases that result from aberrant nerve transmission, such as episodic ataxia, absence epilepsy, and ... full story -
Designer's Toolkit for Dynamic DNA Nanomachines: Arm-Waving Nanorobot Signals New Flexibility in DNA Origami
Mar. 26, 2015 — Researchers have demonstrated a new approach to joining -- and reconfiguring -- modular DNA building units, by snapping together complementary shapes instead of zipping together strings of base ... full story -
Bats Obey 'Traffic Rules' When Foraging for Food
Mar. 26, 2015 — Foraging bats obey their own set of 'traffic rules,' chasing, turning and avoiding collisions at high speed according to new ... full story -
Theory of the Strong Interaction Verified: Supercomputer Calculates Mass Difference Between Neutron and Proton
Mar. 26, 2015 — The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly those properties that make our world and ultimately our existence possible. Eighty ... full story -
Magnetic Quantum Crystals
Mar. 26, 2015 — In experiments with ultracold rubidium atoms scientists create magnetic quantum crystals made of gigantic Rydberg ... full story -
Antarctic Ice Shelves Rapidly Thinning
Mar. 26, 2015 — A new study has revealed that the thickness of Antarctica's floating ice shelves has recently decreased by as much as 18 percent in certain areas over nearly two decades, providing new insights ... full story -
Ebola Whole Virus Vaccine Shown Effective, Safe in Primates
Mar. 26, 2015 — An Ebola whole virus vaccine, constructed using a novel experimental platform, has been shown to effectively protect monkeys exposed to the often fatal virus. It differs from other Ebola vaccines ... full story -
Research Aims to Reduce Health Care Disparities
Mar. 26, 2015 — The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning and intersex (LGBTQI) population has been largely understudied by the medical community. Researchers found that the LGBTQI ... full story -
Chemists Make New Silicon-Based Nanomaterials
Mar. 26, 2015 — A new process uses silicon telluride to produce multilayered two-dimensional semiconductor materials in a variety of shapes and ... full story -
Study Adds Evidence on Link Between PTSD, Heart Disease
Mar. 26, 2015 — In a study of more than 8,000 veterans in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands, those with posttraumatic stress disorder had a nearly 50 percent greater risk of developing heart failure. The study adds to ... full story -
Most Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancer Avoid Extensive Lymph Node Removal
Mar. 26, 2015 — A new study of women with early-stage breast cancer finds that surgeons no longer universally remove most of the lymph nodes in the underarm area when a biopsy of the nearby lymph nodes shows cancer ... full story -
Twice the Coral Trout in Great Barrier Reef Protected Zones
Mar. 26, 2015 — Coral trout in protected 'green zones' are not only bigger and more abundant than those in fished 'blue zones' of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, but they are also better able ... full story
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