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Climate change threatens domestic bee species
Credit: Photo: Mariela Schenk There are around 550 different bee species in Germany. Most of them are solitary bees. They ...
Two significant warming intervals in southern China since 1850
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Regenstrief & IU to offer unique public and population health informatics training program
Credit: Brian Dixon, Regenstrief Institute and IU INDIANAPOLIS -- The Regenstrief Institute, internationally recognized for its research and training programs ...
Are we still jealous? Infidelity in the age of social media
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Less myocardial infarctions during summer vacation — more on Mondays and winter holidays
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Learning with music can change brain structure, study shows
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Your hands may reveal the struggle to maintain self-control
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Birds’ migration genes are conditioned by geography
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New ways to create and deliver medications for immune-medicated neuropathies
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Role of cooperativity in hydrophobic interactions revealed in real-time monitoring
Credit: Department of Chemistry, HKUST Hydrophobic interactions is one major type of intermolecular force that plays a vital role in ...
Virus-derived expression vectors as gene therapy vehicles
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Fern fossil data clarifies origination and extinction of species
Credit: Samuli Lehtonen Throughout the history of life, new groups of species have flourished at the expense of earlier ones ...
NIH and collaborators identify the genomic cause for Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome
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Novel diagnostic approach could lead to earlier diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease
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Undersea life holds promise for killing tuberculosis
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Into the quantum world with a tennis racket
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Antibodies halt placental transmission of CMV-like virus in monkeys
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Steroids may do more harm than good in some cases of severe asthma
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Late teen years are key period for bone growth
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