Research has discovered a role for prolactin, the hormone that stimulates milk production in nursing mothers, in the bond between parents.
Plants & Animals
Mar 30, 2015
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Scientists have found a way to measure the unseen toll that environmental stress places on living creatures—showing that they can rev up their metabolism to work more than twice as hard as normal to cope with change.
Environment
Mar 30, 2015
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Ocean ecosystems that experience rapid upheaval because of climate change can take thousands of years to recover, according to an examination of fossilized ocean fauna on the seafloor by the University of California, Davis.
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2015
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Swiss scientists from ETH Zurich have developed a thermometer that is at least 100 times more sensitive than previous temperature sensors. It consists of a bio-synthetic hybrid material of tobacco cells and nanotubes.
Nanomaterials
Mar 30, 2015
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Plants living in arid, mountainous and humid regions of the planet often rely on their leaves to obtain the moisture they need for survival by pulling mist out of the air. But how exactly they manage this feat has been a ...
General Physics
Mar 30, 2015
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Two former federal agents are accused of using their positions and savvy computer skills to siphon more than $1 million in digital currency from the illegal black market Silk Road website while they and their agencies were ...
Internet
Mar 30, 2015
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In the first study of its kind, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) quantitatively show that electric vehicles (EVs) will meet the daily travel needs of drivers longer ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 30, 2015
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HTC's flagship One phone has a lot going for it—except for strong sales.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 30, 2015
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Scientists on Monday said they have found a gene to help protect potatoes from a blight that unleashed a devastating famine in Ireland in the 19th century.
Biotechnology
Mar 30, 2015
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Located in the Marmara Sea, major earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault (NAF) system have repeatedly struck what is current-day Istanbul and the surrounding region, but determining the recurrence rate has proven difficult ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2015
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