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New from the Journal of Marketing Researchers from the University of Southern California, University of Houston, and Uber Technologies, Inc. published a new paper in...

The nicotine in e-cigarettes appears to impair mucus clearance

Credit: ATS June 7, 2019--E-cigarette vaping with nicotine appears to hamper mucus clearance from the airways, according to new research published online in the American...

NHS-funded private sector hip operations worsening health inequality

New research examining the impact of outsourcing NHS hip operations to the private sector concludes that continuing the trend towards private provision and reducing NHS...

Fishers keen to help address the problem of marine litter

Credit: Fishing for Litter Commercial fishers are acutely aware of the potential for marine litter to cause lasting damage to their catches and the wider...

Kessler foundation receives $1 million to study novel treatments for spinal cord injury

Tim Reynolds, co-founder of Wall Street's Jane Street Capital, funds new avenue of research at the Center for Spinal Stimulation at Kessler FoundationCredit: Kessler Foundation/Rob...

Understanding Amazonia’s mysterious ocelots

Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS Researchers conducted a 12-year study from 2010 to 2017 on ocelots (Leopardus pardalis) in the Brazilian Amazon, deploying 899 camera traps...

Bird personalities influenced by both age and experience, study shows

New research by University of Alberta biologists examines development of personality in birdsCredit: Jan J. Wijmenga For birds, differences in personality are a function of...

Changing minds: How do you communicate with climate change skeptics?

UNLV researcher develops new method for categorizing climate change beliefs and shares tactics for communicating with deniersCredit: Aaron Mayes/UNLV Creative Services Warming oceans. Shrinking ice...

Study confirms banded iron formations originated from oxidized iron

New research from University of Alberta scientists dispels misconceptions about origins of banded iron formationsCredit: Tom Price A new study by University of Alberta scientists...

New model predicts impact of invasive lionfish predators on coral reefs

Marine biologists uncover clues about what makes invasive lionfish such effective predators on reefs in the Atlantic and CaribbeanCredit: Mark Albins, Ohio State University A...

Taking stock of Indonesia’s reef fishes

Credit: Fakhrizal Setiawan A research team estimated the natural stock of reef fishes from three regencies in the lesser Sunda-Banda Seascape in Indonesia to fill...

Counting the uncounted

Credit: WCS Though abundance is a fundamental measure in ecology and environmental management, detecting all individuals in a population is usually impossible when monitoring, so...

Fertilizer plants emit 100 times more methane than reported

ITHACA, N.Y. - Emissions of methane from the industrial sector have been vastly underestimated, researchers from Cornell University and Environmental Defense Fund have found. Using...

Leopard coral grouper: Overexploited

Credit: Dhani Researchers measured the population stock in Saleh Bay, Indonesia of the commercially valuable leopard coral grouper (Plectropomus leopardus), a species subject to population...

Northeastern deer more susceptible to wasting disease than those to the west