Children found capable of using the ‘wisdom of crowds’
Children, like adults, can improve their response to difficult tasks by the power of group work, new research led by the University of Bristol has...
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USDA grants $4.97 million for research evaluating snowpack and water allocation
Credit: University of Nevada, Reno RENO, Nev. - Mountain snowpack is a primary source of water for the arid western United States. This region, which...
Renewed project could protect environment for millennia
Credit: Clemson University A team that has included more than 85 researchers from three South Carolina universities is receiving $2 million to continue investigating how...
How will climate change stress the power grid? Hint: Look at dew point temperatures
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the United...
Why it doesn’t get dark when you blink
Credit: Caspar M. Schwiedrzik Every five seconds we close our eyes and blink to moisten them. During this brief moment no light falls on our...
Research forecasts US among top nations to suffer economic damage from climate change
For the first time, researchers have developed a data set quantifying what the social cost of carbon--the measure of the economic harm from carbon dioxide...
Burst of morning gene activity tells plants when to flower
Credit: Akane Kubota For angiosperms -- or flowering plants -- one of the most important decisions facing them each year is when to flower. It...
Mitochondrial diseases could be treated with gene therapy, study suggests
Researchers have developed a genome editing tool for the potential treatment of mitochondrial diseases: serious and often fatal conditions which affect 1 in 5,000 people....
How a molecular signal helps plant cells decide when to make oil
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--A study at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory identifies new details of how a sugar-signaling molecule helps...
NSF awards $15 million to understand how humans can better interact with the environment
Credit: WV DEP A toxic red tide, or harmful algae bloom, is killing swaths of marine life and affecting the health of people living along...
Mosquitoes that can carry malaria eliminated in lab experiments
The team from Imperial College London were able to crash caged populations of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae in only 7-11 generations. This is...
Women with non-small cell lung cancers live longer than men, WCLC study shows
Women diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC) live longer than their male counterparts, according to results of a SWOG study presented today by Kathy...
Does our environment affect the genes in our brains?
Is there a link between differences in IQ test performance and the activity of certain genes? Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have shown that...
A new remedy for celiac disease
Credit: TU Wien Celiac disease is a fairly common disease, affecting one to two percent of the European population. It is expressed as a hypersensitivity...
Call for new approaches to fill significant gaps in understanding Parkinson’s disease
Credit: CIPhotos WASHINGTON, DC (September 24, 2018)--Analysis published in Drug Discovery Today reveals the gap between animal models of Parkinson's disease (PD) and our understanding...
