Research unlocks clues to language-based learning in children
Credit: MU College of Education COLUMBIA, Mo. - According to the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), one in five individuals are impacted by language-based...
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Faster (cheaper) method for making big bioactive ring molecules
Credit: Johnston lab, Vanderbilt University Ring molecules called cyclic depsipeptides play an important role in living organisms. Microbes make them as part of their chemical...
Chemists uncover a means to control catalytic reactions
TORONTO, ON - Scientists at the University of Toronto have found a way to make catalysis - the use of catalysts to facilitate chemical reactions...
Nutrition program improves food stamp family’s food security
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Food stamp participants who participated in a supplemental nutrition education program were able to improve their food security by 25 percent,...
What satellites can tell us about how animals will fare in a changing climate
Credit: US Fish and Wildlife Service/Eric Regehr From the Arctic to the Mojave Desert, terrestrial and marine habitats are rapidly changing. These changes impact animals...
Blood test could provide cheaper, better way for doctors to manage lung cancer
Profiling the genes of lung-tumor cells from patient blood samples may be a cheap, noninvasive way to help doctors choose the right treatments, according to...
Even with maximized yields, sub-Saharan Africa won’t grow enough grain in 2050
Lincoln, Nebraska, Dec. 12, 2016 - Maximizing cereal crops yields in sub-Saharan Africa would still fail to meet the region's skyrocketing grain demand by 2050,...
Reseracher finds ‘identity loan’ common in undocumented workers
A new study from the University of Colorado Denver challenges portrayals of identity theft in workplaces dominated by undocumented immigrants. Research published by anthropology researcher...
Mitigating the risk of geoengineering
Credit: NASA The planet is warming at an unprecedented rate and reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses alone is not enough to remove the risk. Last...
Researchers explain why feather shafts change shape when under stress
Credit: UC San Diego Researchers at the University of California San Diego for the first time have revealed why the shape of the feather shaft...
New study uncovers vivid patterns of neural activity in the resting mouse brain
Credit: Ying Ma and Elizabeth Hillman/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Columbia scientists have traced the origins of mysterious signals in the brain that have...
Penn researchers expand research on simplifying recycling of rare-earth metals
In a previous study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania pioneered a process that could enable the efficient recycling of two rare-earth metals, neodymium and...
Bacterial ‘sabotage’ handicaps ability to resolve devastating lung inflammation
Credit: Credit: Becca Flitter PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12, 2016 - The chronic lung inflammation that is a hallmark of cystic fibrosis, has, for the first time,...
How does water melt? Layer by layer!
Credit: © MPIP Mainz, Dec. 12, 2016 - we all know that water melts at 0°C. However, already 150 years ago the famous physicist Michael...
Mystery molecule is a key to inhibiting colon cancer
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / Peter Barta Immunologists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered that a protein called NLRC3 plays a...
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