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High levels of PFOA found in mid-Ohio River Valley residents from 1991 to 2013
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reveals that residents of the Mid-Ohio River Valley (from Evansville, Indiana, north...
Why communication is vital — even among plants and funghi
Plant scientists at the University of Cambridge have found a plant protein indispensable for communication early in the formation of...
Dog skull study reveals genetic changes linked to face shape
A study of dog DNA has revealed a genetic mutation linked to flat face shapes such as those seen in...
New insights into the ancestors of all complex life
Credit: Tim Bertelink A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol has provided new insights into the origins...
Marine species distribution shifts will continue under ocean warming
Scientists using a high-resolution global climate model and historical observations of species distributions on the Northeast U.S. Shelf have found...
Venetian physician had a key role in shaping early modern chemistry
Credit: Santorio's marginal note to col. 406C-D, in Santorio Santori, Commentaria In Primam Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (Venice, 1625),...
Darwin was right: Females prefer sex with good listeners
Credit: Peter Marriott Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection,...
Open-access genetic screening for hereditary breast cancer is feasible and effective
Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic...
Government transparency limited when it comes to America’s conserved private lands
Credit: Courtesy of Adena Rissman/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned...
Engines of twingenuity: NASA’s twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds
Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach...
Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe
Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP-JRSO CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years...
A flip switch for binge-eating?
Credit: Carla Schaffer / AAAS Researchers have identified a subgroup of neurons in the mouse brain that, upon activation, immediately...
Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Cancer is an extremely complex disease, but its definition is quite simple: the abnormal...
Research could bring ‘drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone
Credit: University of Central Florida Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable...
US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security PRINCETON, N.J.--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
Researchers develop magnetic switch to turn on and off a strange quantum property
Credit: Christopher Gutiérrez, Daniel Walkup/NIST When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when...
The big star that couldn’t become a supernova
Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Jeffries (STScI) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the first time in history, astronomers have been able...
Jupiter’s complex transient auroras
Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic...
Collapsing star gives birth to a black hole
Credit: NASA, ESA, and C. Kochanek (OSU) Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a...
Study provides better understanding of how brain tumors ‘feed’
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center All cancer tumors have one thing in common - they must feed themselves to grow...
