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Placenta in Females, Muscle Mass in Males: Dual Heritage of a Virus

Sep. 2, 2016 — It was already known that genes inherited from ancient retroviruses are essential to the placenta in mammals. Scientists have now revealed a new chapter in this astonishing ... read more

Crop Domestication Is a Balancing Act: Some Ants Are Still Trying to Get It Right

Sep. 2, 2016 — The ancestors of leaf-cutter ants swapped a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for a bucolic existence on small-scale subsistence ... read more

A Strange Thing Happened in the Stratosphere

Sep. 2, 2016 — High above Earth's tropics, a pattern of winds changed recently in a way that scientists had never seen in more than 60 years of ... read more

Printed Graphene Treated With Lasers to Enable 'Paper Electronics'

Sep. 1, 2016 — Engineers have led development of a laser-treatment process that allows them to use printed graphene for electric circuits and electrodes -- even on paper and other fragile ... read more

First Stars Formed Even Later Than Previously Thought

Sep. 2, 2016 — ESA's Planck satellite has revealed that the first stars in the Universe started forming later than previous observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background indicated. This ... read more

Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

Sep. 2, 2016 — NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments switched on. ... read more

EEG Recordings Prove Learning Foreign Languages Can Sharpen Our Minds

Sep. 2, 2016 — Scientists say the more foreign languages we learn, the more effectively our brain reacts and processes the data accumulated in the course ... read more

Cannabis Reduces Short-Term Motivation to Work for Money

Sep. 1, 2016 — Smoking the equivalent of a single 'spliff' of cannabis makes people less willing to work for money while 'high,' finds a new study. The research is the first to reliably ... read more

Organized Poaching Is Decimating Madagascar's Sea Turtles

Sep. 1, 2016 — The illegal hunting of Madagascar's sea turtles is reaching a crisis level as a result of organized trafficking networks says a team of conservationists. The team asserts ... read more

Team Tricks Solid Into Acting as Liquid

Sep. 1, 2016 — Two scientists have discovered how to get a solid material to act like a liquid without actually turning it into liquid, potentially opening a new world of possibilities for ... read more

Italy Quake Kills 159 as Rescuers Race to Find Survivors

Italy Quake Death Toll Nears 250, Rescue Work Intensifies

Quake Reduces Italian Village to Ruins

Death Toll Climbs in Italy Quake Disaster

Gene Mutations That Lead to More Aggressive Colorectal Cancer in African American Patients Discovered

Sep. 2, 2016 — Scientists who last year identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans, have now found that tumors with these mutations are highly aggressive and more likely to recur and ... read more

NASA's SDO Witnesses a Double Eclipse

Sep. 2, 2016 — Early in the morning of Sept. 1, 2016, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, caught both Earth and the moon crossing in front of the sun. SDO keeps a constant eye on the sun, but during ... read more

New Model Could Help Improve Prediction of Outbreaks of Ebola and Lassa Fever

Sep. 2, 2016 — Potential outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola and Lassa fever may be more accurately predicted thanks to a new mathematical model. This could in turn help inform public health messages to prevent ... read more

Adapting to Stress: Understanding the Neurobiology of Resilience

Sep. 2, 2016 — New research examines the way our bodies, specifically our brains, become “stress-resilient.” There is a significant variation in the way individuals react and respond to extreme stress and ... read more

'Ghost Snake' Discovered in Madagascar

Sep. 2, 2016 — Researchers discovered a new snake species in Madagascar and named it 'ghost snake' for its pale grey coloration and elusiveness. The researchers named it Madagascarophis lolo, pronounced ... read more

3-D Graphene Has Promise for Bio Applications

Sep. 2, 2016 — Graphene oxide flakes can be welded together into solid materials that may be suitable for bone implants, according to an international ... read more

Spiritual Meditation Plus Medication: Best Medicine for Migraines?

Sep. 2, 2016 — New research examines whether or not, and to what extent, a combination of spiritual meditation and migraine medication affects analgesic medication ... read more

Babies Chew on Subtle Social, Cultural Cues at Mealtime

Sep. 2, 2016 — At the dinner table, babies do a lot more than play with their sippy cups, new research ... read more

New Knowledge About the Building Blocks of Life

Sep. 2, 2016 — A study of an enzyme that helps build and repair DNA in living organisms increases our understanding of how these processes are controlled and how we can use this to combat ... read more

No Longer Lost in the Blink of an Eye

Sep. 2, 2016 — Researchers have re-invented the eye drop with technology that can deliver medicine much more efficiently, making life easier for patients. They have created microscopic packets of medicine that ... read more

Wearable Tracker Keeps Tabs on Patients, Soldiers

Sep. 2, 2016 — Wearable sensing device tracks movements, ambient environment, bio-signals and ... read more

Osteoporosis: Antibody Crystallized

Sep. 2, 2016 — Inhibiting a protein called sclerostin could probably help treating the bone-loss disease ... read more

Hereditary Diseases Are the Price of Protection Against Infections

Sep. 2, 2016 — Balancing selection is responsible for helping us fend off pathogens, but also for the occurrence of mutations in our genome that predispose us to hereditary ... read more

Babies Born With a Low Birth Weight May Be Less Active in Later Life

Sep. 2, 2016 — Individuals who are born with a low birth weight are less likely to be good at sports at school or participate in exercise later on in life. The study used data from the Medical Research Council ... read more

Luminous Heart Cells: Jellyfish Proteins Assist in Heart Rhythm Disorder Research

Sep. 2, 2016 — Cell models from stem cells serve an ever-increasing role in research of cardiac dysfunction. Researchers have succeeded in producing cells which offer new insights into properties of the heart. They ... read more

Living With Dementia: Life Story Work Proves Successful

Sep. 2, 2016 — Life story work has the potential to help people with dementia, a pioneering study has demonstrated. Life story work involves helping people to record aspects of their past and present lives along ... read more

New Light on the Complex Nature of 'Hot Jupiter' Atmospheres

Sep. 2, 2016 — A team of international researchers used state-of-the-art modelling techniques to extensively study the atmosphere of a 'hot Jupiter' found 150 light-years from Earth. The scientists ... read more

Edible Dormice: High Food Availability Slows Down Cell Aging

Sep. 2, 2016 — Hibernation has long been considered the secret behind the relatively long lifespan of the edible dormouse. However, a team of researchers has now shown for the first time that high food availability ... read more

Low-Cost and Defect-Free Graphene

Sep. 2, 2016 — Graphene is one of the most promising new materials. However, researchers across the globe are still looking for a way to produce defect-free graphene at low costs. Chemists have now succeeded in ... read more

Trauma Patient Deaths Peak at Two Weeks

Sep. 2, 2016 — Lower severity trauma patients could be more likely to die after two to three weeks, new research indicates. Using data from the largest trauma database in Europe, the Trauma Audit and Research ... read more

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