Don’t smile too big to be effective in online marketing ads, study funds
Credit: Journal of Consumer Research LAWRENCE -- If you're seeking investments through online marketing or crowd-funding websites, be sure to...
Synthetic chemicals: Ignored agents of global change
Credit: © The Ecological Society of America (Millbrook, NY) Despite a steady rise in the manufacture and release of synthetic...
Monash awarded grant to lead global slum revitalisation research
Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research...
Scientists discover 6-million-year-old giant otter fossil in China’s Yunnan Province
Credit: Art by Maurcio Antón A paper in Journal of Systematic Paleontology, published by Taylor & Francis, reveals the discovery...
From tiny phytoplankton to massive tuna
Phytoplankton are the foundation of ocean life, providing the energy that supports nearly all marine species. Levels of phytoplankton in...
TSRI scientists create first stable semisynthetic organism
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by Madeline McCurry-Schmidt.) LA JOLLA, CA - January 23, 2017 - Life's genetic code...
New metamaterial can switch from hard to soft — and back again
ANN ARBOR--When a material is made, you typically cannot change whether that material is hard or soft. But a group...
New PET imaging technique may help monitor neurological disease progression
Olfactory neurons in the nasal cavity are the primary source of our sense of smell. Unlike many types of neurons,...
Liquid biopsy researchers to share their strategies for pairing digital PCR and next-generation sequencing at Precision Medicine World Conference
HERCULES, Calif. -- January 23, 2017 -- Global leaders in cancer research and clinical care will discuss how they combine...
Catalyst adds fluorine-containing groups to make new compounds
Drugs that contain one or more fluorine atoms tend to be more stable, more powerful, and easier for the body...
PPPL physicist uncovers clues to mechanism behind magnetic reconnection
Credit: Fatima Ebrahimi Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published...
New research on wine fermentation could lead to better bouquet
Washington, DC - Jan. 23, 2017 - The taste of wine arises from a symphony of compounds that are assembled...
Wasps, ants, and Ani DiFranco
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- A University of California, Riverside graduate student has discovered several news species of...
Your Android device’s Pattern Lock can be cracked within 5 attempts
Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...
New steps in the meiosis chromosome dance
Where would we be without meiosis and recombination? For a start, none of us sexually reproducing organisms would be here,...
Regulating ‘gasotransmitters’ could improve care for sleep apnea
Unbalanced signaling by two molecules that regulate breathing leads to sleep apnea in mice and rats, researchers report in the...
Scientists spin artificial silk from whey protein
Credit: Credit: DESY/Eberhard Reimann A Swedish-German team of researchers has cleared up a key process for the artificial production of...
Online media use shows strong genetic influence
Online media use such as social networking and gaming could be strongly influenced by our genes, according to a new...
How do people choose what plants to use?
There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic...
Crop achilles’ heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield
Credit: Don Hamerman/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be...