Servers perceive well-dressed diners as better tippers, study finds
COLUMBIA, Mo. - With tipping a central part of the American restaurant industry, better service often is attributed to whether or not a server believes...
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Team discovers a new invasive clam in the US
Credit: Graphic by Danielle Ruffatto CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- They found it in the Illinois River near the city of Marseilles, Illinois, about 80 miles west...
$2.4 million grant funds new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program
A new $2.4-million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established at Penn State University with...
UTA student wins UT System Regents award
Credit: UT Arlington UTA senior Frederick Tran won the 2017 Regents' Outstanding Arts and Humanities Award in Creative Writing, Short Fiction. The winning selection, "Airstrikes,"...
MDI Biological Laboratory scientist receives grant to study peripheral neuropathy
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that Sandra Rieger, Ph.D., has been awarded a highly competitive grant...
NASA eyes intensifying Tropical Cyclone Frances
Credit: NASA Two NASA satellites provided forecasters in Australia with visible and rainfall data as Tropical Cyclone Frances strengthened in the western Timor Sea. NASA's...
Researchers track impact of Brazil’s ‘Soy Moratorium’ on an advancing agricultural frontier
Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso produces enough soybeans to be the equivalent of Iowa and Illinois put together....
Ultracold atom waves may shed light on rogue ocean killers
Credit: J. Nguyen/Rice University HOUSTON -- (April 28, 2017) -- By precisely controlling the quantum behavior of an ultracold atomic gas, Rice University physicists have...
Unraveling the mystery of DNA attacks in cells’ powerhouse could pave way for new cancer treatments
Five-year study finds mechanism responsible for repairing damage to mitochondrial DNA Discovery could pave the way for new treatments for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases Research...
PowerPoint & LED projector enable new technique for self-folding origami
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Peking University have found a new use for the ubiquitous PowerPoint...
New organic lasers one step closer to reality
Credit: Atula S. D. Sandanayaka and Willam J. Potscavage, Jr. New research could make lasers emitting a wide range of colors more accessible and open...
Discovery of a facile process for H2 production using ammonia as a carrier
Credit: Oita University Hydrogen (H2) has attracted considerable attention as a clean energy source because the only by-product of its reaction with oxygen is water,...
Testosterone makes men less likely to question their impulses
Hotheaded, impulsive men who shoot first and ask questions later are a staple of Westerns and 1970s cop films, but new research shows there might...
Hybrid circuits can increase computational power of chaos-based systems
New research from North Carolina State University has found that combining digital and analog components in nonlinear, chaos-based integrated circuits can improve their computational power...
You and I can help climate researchers
(Umea University) A new citizen science project in Abisko in northern Sweden aims to teach the public how we do climate change science while collecting...
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