When it comes to your profile picture, let a stranger do the choosing
Credit: Please credit 'choosing face infographic by David White' When trying to pick the most flattering pictures for online profiles, it may be best to...
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The world’s most spoken language is…’Terpene’
Credit: 21 Lux photography/Heike Engel If you're small, smells are a good way to stand out. A team of researchers led by the Netherlands Institute...
Scientists tag humpback whales in southeast Pacific
Credit: Anne Gordon, Whale Watching Panama Whales from both poles migrate long distances to breed in tropical waters. Smithsonian scientist Hector M. Guzman and Fernando...
Kent State University at Stark research unravels mysteries of mouthparts of butterflies
Imagine that the way flies and butterflies drink nectar and other fluids can be imitated for use in medicine, potentially to deliver life-saving drugs to...
Advantage: Water
Credit: Zdenek Dohnalek RICHLAND, Wash. - When a molecule of water comes in for a landing on the common catalyst titanium oxide, it sometimes breaks...
A tool to improve the way physicians and patients talk about GI issues
Credit: Michigan Medcine Although GI disorders are among the most common medical conditions, many patients don't consider their symptoms serious enough to consult a physician...
Two early career researchers honored with Alan T. Waterman Award
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology (left); Denise Applewhite, Princeton University (right) The National Science Foundation (NSF) today recognized Baratunde "Bara" A. Cola of the Georgia...
Drinking iced tea may boost cholera risk in endemic countries
After more than a decade of declining cholera incidence, Vietnam faced an increase in cases of the diarrheal disease during 2007-2010. Risk factors for contracting...
Deciphering plant immunity against parasites
(University of Bonn) Nematodes are a huge threat to agriculture since they parasitize important crops such as wheat, soybean, and banana; but plants can defend...
AI systems exhibit gender and racial biases when learning language
Loading video... Credit: Aaron Nathans, Princeton University As artificial intelligence systems "learn" language from existing texts, they exhibit the same biases that humans do, a...
Harnessing CRISPR for rapid detection of viral and bacterial infection
Loading video... Credit: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Researchers have created a version of CRISPR-Cas that can be used to diagnose infections, such as...
Biased bots: Human prejudices sneak into artificial intelligence systems
Credit: Princeton University In debates over the future of artificial intelligence, many experts think of the new systems as coldly logical and objectively rational. But...
Unveiling how nucleosome repositioning occurs to shed light on genetic diseases
Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, April 14 - A research group led by Hitoshi Kurumizaka, a professor of structural biology at Waseda University, unveiled the crystal...
Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun
Credit: Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally, UC Berkeley. Harvester photos courtesy of MIT. Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance...
Bacterial supermachine reveals streamlined protein assembly line
Credit: Image courtesy of Robert Landick MADISON, Wisconsin -- There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of...
