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Sunflowers move by the clock
Sunflowers near the UC Davis campus in Yolo County, northern California. Growing sunflowers face dawn in the morning and swing west during the day....
Study reveals hidden pollution exchange between oceans and groundwater
Researchers at The Ohio State University and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created the first-ever map of key regions of "submarine groundwater discharge," where...
Three new species identified amongst the Tegu lizard family
Tupinambis cryptus from Trinidad's Northern Range.Credit: John Murphy; CCAL
The golden tegu lizard, previously thought to be a single species, may actually comprise four distinct...
Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste
The northeast portal to Camp Century during construction in 1959 is shown. Credit: U.S. Army
Camp Century, a U.S. military base built within the Greenland...
Flying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals
You may have heard of plans to use drones for delivering packages, monitoring wildlife, or tracking storms. But painting murals?
That’s the idea behind a...
How proteins control gene expression by binding both DNA and RNA
Proteins that bind DNA or RNA are usually put in different categories, but researchers at Umeå University in Sweden and Inserm in France recently...
Study suggests ‘use it or lose it’ to defend against memory loss
Iowa State University researchers have identified a protein essential for building memories that appears to predict the progression of memory loss and brain atrophy...
Growing up on an Amish farm protects children against asthma by reprogramming immune cells
Cows in an Amish barn.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Chicago Medical Center
By probing the differences between two farming communities -- the Amish of...
New biochip-based blood test detects elevated risk for Alzheimer’s disease
Researchers today unveiled results from a new blood test to help identify which patients are at an elevated risk of Alzheimer's disease. The findings,...
What’s Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data
This artist's concept shows a diagram of how the inside of Ceres could be structured, based on data about the dwarf planet's gravity field...
The keys to a major process in DNA repair
The DNA of our cells is continuously damaged by numerous external agents, such as carcinogens contained in tobacco smoke or UV radiation emitted by...
