Uncategorized
- Computing
Scientists Get a 2nd Life
The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.
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- Life
Epic Genetics
The way genes are packaged by "epigenetic" changes may play a major role in the risk of addiction, depression and other mental disorders.
- Math
Sensitivity to the harmony of things
The work of Alexandre Grothendieck has transformed math the way the Internet has transformed communication: Once you’re used to it, you can’t imagine what life was like before it.
- Humans
The undeciders
A country’s development seems tied to the size of its executive cabinet, and a mathematical model helps explain why.
- Health & Medicine
Sticky when wet
An improved way to make the sticky protein that mussels use to cling to underwater rocks could lead to better cardiac stents.
- Space
A special place
Two proposed studies might determine whether dark energy is real or humans live in a special place in the cosmos
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Lost and found
Former child soldiers in Africa often adjust well to community life if they receive group rehabilitation and community acceptance, studies indicate
- Life
Duckbill decoded
With a mix of reptilian, bird and mammalian features, the duck-billed platypus genome looks as strange as the animal.
- Humans
Slowpoke settlers
Evidence suggests New World settlers slowly moved down the Pacific Coast and inhabited southern Chile by 14,000 years ago.
- Health & Medicine
Smart microbes
Bacteria are smarter than you might think. Single-celled microbes can learn to predict changes in their environments and prepare themselves.
- Climate
A little drier every day
The Sahara, one of the hottest and driest regions on Earth, gradually became arid over a period of centuries, a finding that contradicts many previous studies.
