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Your Facebook friends don’t mean it, but they’re likely hurting you daily: study
Social media sites often present users with social exclusion information that may actually inhibit intelligent thought, according to the co-author of a University at...
Ice age discovery may reveal early migration route of first Americans
A group of researchers have discovered the retreat of an ancient ice sheet from the western coast of Canada occurred earlier than previously thought.
Dr....
Microbial dark matter dominates Earth’s environments
Uncultured microbes—those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture—could be dominating nearly all the...
Breakthrough in designing a better Salmonella vaccine
UC Davis researchers announce in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week a breakthrough in understanding which cells afford optimal protection...
Tiny soft robot with multilegs paves way for drugs delivery in human body
A novel tiny, soft robot with caterpillar-like legs capable of carrying heavy loads and adaptable to adverse environment was developed from a research led...
Powerful jet discovered coming from ‘wrong’ kind of star
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered a fast-moving jet of material propelled outward from a...
Scientists investigate how DEET confuses countless critters
DEET, thought to be the most effective insect repellent available, may not be an insect repellent at all.
It's not that DEET doesn't keep away...
Study demonstrates new mechanism for developing electronic devices
The prevalence of electronic devices has transformed life in the 21st century. At the heart of these devices is the movement of electrons across...
Elusive origin of stellar geysers revealed by 3-D simulations
Astrophysicists finally have an explanation for the violent mood swings of some of the biggest, brightest and rarest stars in the universe.
The stars, called...
The periodic motion of flexible knots, and the connection to DNA
Can the topology of microobjects influence the way they move in a fluid? Experiments and simulations of Polish and Swiss researchers published in the...
Hyper Suprime-Cam survey maps dark matter in the universe
Today, an international group of researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University's Rachel Mandelbaum, released the deepest wide field map of the three-dimensional distribution of matter...
