Drexel study: Smartphone app detects diet cheat
OnTrack, first-of-its-kind smartphone app, can predict ahead of time when users are likely to lapse in their weight loss plan.Credit: Drexel University More than two-thirds...
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Physicists constrain dark matter
Credit: ESO/WFI (optical), MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A. Weiss et al. (submillimeter), NASA/CXC/CfA/R. Kraft et al. (X-ray) Researchers from Russia, Finland, and the U.S. have put a constraint on...
Codifying the universal language of honey bees
Credit: Virginia Tech For Virginia Tech researchers Margaret Couvillon and Roger Schürch, the Tower of Babel origin myth - intended to explain the genesis of...
Massive earthquakes provide new insight into deep Earth
Credit: Wenyuan Fan TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the waning months of 2018, two of the mightiest deep earthquakes ever recorded in human history rattled the...
Freshwater coastal erosion alters global carbon budget
Credit: Ethan Theuerkauf CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Shoreline erosion can transform freshwater wetlands from carbon-storage pools to carbon sources, according to a new study led by...
High-speed videos capture how kangaroo rat escapes rattlesnake attack
Bipedalism may have been favored in kangaroo rats to avoid ambush predators like vipers and owls, says UC Riverside biologistCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE,...
Lying, sitting or standing: Resting postures determined by animals’ size
Credit: Christian Schiffmann Why do we never see cows lying on their sides in fields? In ruminants such as cows, sheep, antelopes, deer and giraffes,...
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