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Released: 26-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Japanese Tadpoles Relax in Hot Springs
Hiroshima University

Japanese tadpoles can live and grow in natural hots springs, or onsen, with water temperatures as high as 46.1oC (115oF). Living in onsen may benefit the tadpoles' immune systems, speed their growth, and allow the tadpoles to survive on small volcanic islands where there are few other natural sources of fresh water.

Released: 26-Jul-2016 10:05 AM EDT
What's Going on When Babies Twitch in Their Sleep?
University of Iowa

University of Iowa researchers suspect that sleep twitches in human infants are linked to sensorimotor development. Read on to learn how new parents can contribute to their study.

   
22-Jul-2016 9:00 AM EDT
Hot News Flash! Menopause, Sleepless Nights Make Women’s Bodies Age Faster
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

Two UCLA studies reveal that menopause--and the insomnia that often accompanies it --make women age faster.

Released: 25-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Unusual New Zoantharian Species Is the First Described Solitary Species in Over 100 Years
Pensoft Publishers

A very unusual new species of zoantharian surprised Drs Takuma Fujii and James Davis Reimer, affiliated with Kagoshima University and University of the Ryukyus.

19-Jul-2016 9:40 AM EDT
Salad Days – Tomatoes That Last Longer and Still Taste Good
University of Nottingham

The precise mechanisms involved in tomato softening have remained a mystery until now. Research led by Graham Seymour, Professor of Plant Biotechnology in the School of Biosciences at The University of Nottingham, has identified a gene that encodes an enzyme which plays a crucial role in controlling softening of the tomato fruit.

Released: 22-Jul-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Study: Car Sharing Stalls Under Tax Burdens, Competition
DePaul University

Researchers at DePaul University found that car rental taxes originally aimed at tourists and business travelers are hurting the car-sharing sector.

   
22-Jul-2016 9:10 AM EDT
Ultrasensitive Sensor Using N-Doped Graphene
Penn State Materials Research Institute

A highly sensitive chemical sensor based on Raman spectroscopy and using nitrogen-doped graphene as a substrate was developed by an international team of researchers working at Penn State.

Released: 21-Jul-2016 11:05 PM EDT
Scorpionfish Too Deep for SCUBA Divers Caught by Submersible Turns Out to Be a New Species
Pensoft Publishers

Discovered by scientists using the manned submersible Curasub in the deep-reef waters of the Caribbean island of Curaçao, a new scorpionfish species is the latest one captured with the help of the sub's two robotic arms.

Released: 20-Jul-2016 11:05 PM EDT
Birds on Top of the World, with Nowhere to Go
University of Queensland

Climate change could make much of the Arctic unsuitable for millions of migratory birds that travel north to breed each year, according to a new international study published today in Global Change Biology.

20-Jul-2016 12:05 PM EDT
Murusraptor barrosaensis Likely a Megaraptorid “Giant Thief”: Patagonian Fossil of New Dinosaur Species Gives Clues to Evolutionary Origins
University of Alberta

A new species of megaraptorid dinosaur discovered in Sierra Barrosa in northwest Patagonia may help discern the evolutionary origins of the megaraptorid group, according to a study published July 20, 2016, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Philip Currie from the University of Alberta and Rodolfo Coria from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas in Argentina.

20-Jul-2016 1:00 PM EDT
NASA's Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Astronomers have used Hubble to conduct the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system, uncovering clues that increase the chances of habitability on two exoplanets. They discovered that the exoplanets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, approximately 40 light-years away, are unlikely to have puffy, hydrogen-dominated atmospheres usually found on gaseous worlds.

18-Jul-2016 8:00 AM EDT
Map Provides Detailed Picture of How the Brain Is Organized
Washington University in St. Louis

A detailed new map by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis lays out the landscape of the human cerebral cortex. The map will accelerate progress in the study of brain diseases, as well as help to elucidate what makes us unique as a species.

   
Released: 19-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Travel Broadens Chimps' Horizons Too
eLife

Chimpanzees who travel are more frequent tool users, according to new findings from the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Geneva, Switzerland, to be published in eLife.

Released: 19-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Cave Discoveries Shed New Light on Native and European Religious Encounters in the Americas
University of Leicester

A project led by archaeologists from the British Museum and the University of Leicester has discovered remarkable evidence which shows how the first generations of Europeans to arrive in the Americas engaged with indigenous peoples and their spiritual beliefs deep inside the caves of a remote Caribbean island.

Released: 19-Jul-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Abnormalities Found in ‘Insight’ Areas of the Brain in Anorexia
University of Illinois Chicago

Abnormalities in brain regions involved in forming insight may help explain why some people with anorexia nervosa have trouble recognizing their dangerous, dysfunctional eating habits.

Released: 19-Jul-2016 8:05 AM EDT
For Ancient Deep-Sea Plankton, a Long Decline Before Extinction
University at Buffalo

A study of nearly 22,000 fossils finds that ancient plankton communities began changing in important ways as much as 400,000 years before massive die-offs ensued during one of Earth’s great mass extinctions. This turmoil, in a time of ancient climate change, could hold lessons for the modern world.

Released: 18-Jul-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Medication Costs Likely to Jump This Year
University of Illinois Chicago

Prescription medication costs are expected to rise at least 11 percent, and possibly up to 13 percent, in 2016, according to a new report on national trends and projections in prescription drug expenditures.

15-Jul-2016 11:00 AM EDT
Stem Cells Engineered to Grow Cartilage, Fight Inflammation
Washington University in St. Louis

With a goal of treating worn, arthritic hips without extensive surgery to replace them, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have programmed stem cells to grow new cartilage on a 3-D template shaped like the ball of a hip joint. What’s more, using gene therapy, they have activated the new cartilage to release anti-inflammatory molecules to fend off a return of arthritis.

Released: 18-Jul-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Freaky New Role Found for the Immune System: Controlling Social Interaction
University of Virginia Health System

Could immune system problems contribute to an inability to have normal social interactions? The answer appears to be yes, and that finding could have great implications for neurological conditions such as autism-spectrum disorders and schizophrenia.

   
Released: 15-Jul-2016 11:05 PM EDT
40-Year-Old Chorus Frog Tissues Vital to Louisiana Hybrid Zone Study
Louisiana State University

LSU researchers Jeremy M. Brown and Eric N. Rittmeyer, in collaboration with colleagues at Florida State University, are shedding light on how often and where species hybridize through time, thanks to the rediscovery of 40-year-old tissue samples preserved at the LSU Museum of Natural Science, or LSUMNS. In a recent study published in Ecology and Evolution, they show that two species of chorus frogs now form hybrids across a much wider area of Louisiana and Mississippi than they did just 30-40 years earlier. A widening area of hybridization has important implications for the future of these species and suggests that recent alterations to their environment have affected their fitness or dispersal ability.

Released: 15-Jul-2016 11:05 PM EDT
New Theropod Dinosaur Suggests That Small T. Rex-Like Arms Evolved Multiple Times
PLOS

The discovery of a theropod dinosaur with Tyrannosaurus rex-like arms suggests that these unusual forelimbs may have evolved multiple times, according to a study published July 13, 2016 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sebastián Apesteguía from the Universidad Maimónides, Argentina, and colleagues.

Released: 15-Jul-2016 4:05 AM EDT
Calcification – Does It Pay Off in the Future Ocean?
University of Southampton

An international research team has calculated the costs and benefits of calcification for phytoplankton and the impact of climate change on their important role in the world’s oceans.

11-Jul-2016 12:05 AM EDT
New Study of Toddlers Sheds Light on Value of FaceTime Video Chat as Meaningful Interaction
Lafayette College

Working parents and grandparents who FaceTime with their toddlers can take heart from a soon-to-be-published study from Lafayette College that sheds new light that on young children and how they engage in—and learn from—screen-time interactions.

Released: 14-Jul-2016 5:00 PM EDT
Researchers Find More Aggressive Behavior in City Birds Than Rural Ones
Virginia Tech

The researchers' observations shed light on the effects of human population expansion on wildlife.

Released: 14-Jul-2016 4:05 PM EDT
UW, Purdue Scientists Solve Structure of Cold Virus Linked to Childhood Asthma
University of Wisconsin–Madison

The atomic structure of an elusive cold virus linked to severe asthma and respiratory infections in children has been solved by a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Purdue University. The findings provide the foundation for future antiviral drug and vaccine development against the virus, rhinovirus C.

13-Jul-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Researchers Find Exceptional Species Diversity on Island in Philippines
Florida State University

The largest island in the Philippines may be home to the greatest concentration of mammal diversity in the world, according to a research team that has been exploring the island for the past 15 years.

14-Jul-2016 9:00 AM EDT
Ecologists Identify Potential New Sources of Ebola and Other Filoviruses
University of Georgia

Researchers identify bat species most likely to carry filoviruses and map hotspots for disease surveillance and virus discovery efforts.

10-Jul-2016 8:05 PM EDT
New Control Strategies Needed for Zika and Other Unexpected Mosquito-Borne Outbreaks
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

A recent spate of unexpected mosquito-borne disease outbreaks – most recently the Zika virus, which has swept through parts of the Americas – have highlighted the need to better understand the development and spread of little-known diseases and for new strategies to control them, a new review by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

Released: 14-Jul-2016 1:05 PM EDT
The Success of the Plant-Eating Dinosaurs
University of Bristol

There has been a long debate about why dinosaurs were so successful. Say dinosaur, and most people think of the great flesh-eaters such as Tyrannosaurus rex, but the most successful dinosaurs were of course the plant-eaters.

Released: 14-Jul-2016 6:05 AM EDT
23 Shipwrecks Discovered Off Greece
University of Southampton

An expedition to the Fourni archipelago in Greece, co-directed by a University of Southampton archaeologist, has found 23 new shipwrecks dating from around 1,000 BC to the 19th century AD.

Released: 14-Jul-2016 4:05 AM EDT
Social Media Sites Obstruct Children’s Moral Development, Say Parents
University of Birmingham

The ‘parent poll’ carried out by a team at the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues found that only 15% of parents thought that popular social media sites, such as Facebook, provided a positive influence on a young person’s character.

Released: 13-Jul-2016 4:05 PM EDT
More Proof That Male and Female Brains Are Wired Differently
UCLA School of Nursing

While measuring brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging during blood pressure trials, UCLA researchers found that men and women had opposite responses in the right front of the insular cortex, a part of the brain integral to the experience of emotions, blood pressure control, and self-awareness.

Released: 13-Jul-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Stand-Up Comics More Likely to Die Prematurely Than Film Comedians and Dramatic Actors
Australian Catholic University (ACU)

The world's best stand-up comedians - household names including Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfield, Ricky Gervais and Eddie Murphy - are more likely to die than comedic and dramatic screen and stage actors, according to a landmark study published in the International Journal of Cardiology

   
12-Jul-2016 10:00 AM EDT
Stellar Outburst Brings Water Snowline Into View
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

A violent outburst by the young star V883 Orionis has given astronomers using ALMA their first view of a water "snowline" in a protoplanetary disk – the transition point around the star where the temperature and pressure are low enough for water ice to form.

Released: 13-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Gravitational Vortex Provides New Way to Study Matter Close to a Black Hole
University of Southampton

Dr Diego Altamirano from the University of Southampton has contributed to new research that has proved the existence of a ‘gravitational vortex’ around a black hole.

Released: 13-Jul-2016 5:05 AM EDT
Humans Perceive Time Somewhere in Between Reality and Our Expectations
University of Birmingham

New research, using a Bayesian inference model of audio and visual stimuli, has shown how our perception of time lies mid-way between reality and our expectations.

   
Released: 12-Jul-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Scavenger Crows Provide Public Service, Research Shows
University of Exeter

Crows are performing a useful function and keeping our environment free from rotting carcasses, research carried out at the University of Exeter in Cornwall has discovered.

Released: 11-Jul-2016 1:05 PM EDT
More Assassins on the Radar: As Many as 24 New Species of Assassin Bugs Described
Pensoft Publishers

As many as 24 assassin bugs new to science were discovered and described by Dr. Guanyang Zhang and his colleagues. In their article, published in the open access Biodiversity Data Journal, they describe the new insects along with treating another 47 assassin bugs in the same genus. To do this, the scientists examined more than 10,000 specimens, coming from both museum collections and newly undertaken field trips.

Released: 11-Jul-2016 10:45 AM EDT
Climate Tipping Points: What Do They Mean for Society?
Rutgers University

The phrase “tipping point” passed its own tipping point and caught fire after author Malcolm Gladwell’s so-named 2000 book. It’s now frequently used in discussions about climate change, but what are “climate tipping points”? And what do they mean for society and the economy? Scientists at Rutgers University and Harvard University tackle the terminology and outline a strategy for investigating the consequences of climate tipping points in a study published online today in the journal Earth’s Future.

6-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
Home Alone: Parents More Confident Tweens Will Avoid Fire, Storms Than Guns
Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

Parents are more confident their pre-teen child would know what to do if there were a house fire or tornado than whether the child would avoid playing with guns if home alone.

Released: 10-Jul-2016 10:05 PM EDT
New Record in Microwave Detection
Aalto University

Aalto University scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection.

Released: 8-Jul-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Dam Good! Beavers May Restore Imperiled Streams, Fish Populations
Utah State University

Utah State, Eco Logical Research, NOAA, Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, South Fork Research Publish in Nature's Scientific Reports.

Released: 7-Jul-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Breeding Populations of White-Naped Cranes on Decline in Eastern Mongolian Stronghold
Wildlife Conservation Society

A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) says that breeding populations of white-naped cranes have decreased by 60 percent in Ulz River basin – an important stronghold for the species in Eastern Mongolia.

Released: 7-Jul-2016 10:00 AM EDT
Hubble Captures the Beating Heart of the Crab Nebula
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

This new Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the beating heart of one of the most visually appealing, and most studied, supernova remnants known — the Crab Nebula.

Released: 7-Jul-2016 3:00 AM EDT
Baylor University Professor and Students Help Unearth Ancient Mosaics and Coins in Synagogue Ruins in Israel
Baylor University

Ancient mosaics depicting Noah’s ark and the parting of the Red Sea have been discovered by university scholars and students excavating a synagogue in Israel that dates to the fifth century.

Released: 6-Jul-2016 1:05 PM EDT
What Does a Healthy Aging Cat Look Like?
SAGE Publications UK

Just as improved diet and medical care have resulted in increased life expectancy in humans, advances in nutrition and veterinary care have increased the life span of pet cats. The result is a growing population of ageing cats; in the USA, for example, it is estimated that 20% of pet cats are 11 years of age or older.

Released: 5-Jul-2016 11:00 PM EDT
Theoretical Climbing Rope Could Brake Falls
University of Utah

University of Utah mathematicians showed it is theoretically possible to design ideal climbing ropes to safely slow falling rock and mountain climbers like brakes decelerate a car. They hope someone develops a material to turn theory into reality.

Released: 5-Jul-2016 4:05 PM EDT
Lush Venus? Searing Earth? It Could Have Happened
Rice University

Rice University scientists propose that life in the solar system could have been very different.

Released: 5-Jul-2016 1:05 PM EDT
ORNL Scientists Isolate, Culture Elusive Yellowstone Microbe
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A microbial partnership thriving in an acidic hot spring in Yellowstone National Park has surrendered some of its lifestyle secrets to researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

1-Jul-2016 11:05 AM EDT
First Facial Tumour Fossil Discovered in a Dwarf Duck-Billed Dinosaur From Transylvania
University of Southampton

The first-ever record of a tumourous facial swelling found in a fossil has been discovered in the jaw of the dwarf dinosaur Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a type of primitive duck-billed dinosaur known as a hadrosaur.



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