A cultural look at moral purity: Wiping the face clean
Moral people have a pure heart. Immoral acts feel dirty.
View ArticleUniversity of Delaware professor’s research inspired by milk adulteration...
In 2008, thousands of children in China fell ill after drinking milk that had been adulterated with the chemical melamine.
View ArticleBrewer’s yeast breed within wasp intestines
The yeast responsible for fermenting wine, beer, and bread (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) mates within the intestines of wasps, a study finds.
View ArticleFungal evolution and Paleozoic coal production
The most significant coal-forming period in Earth’s history likely reflects tectonic activity during rainy climates in the tropics, according to a study.
View ArticleReducing side effects of dopamine treatment
Blocking a neurotransmitter scaffold protein improves motor function and reduces the side effects of dopamine treatment in a mouse model of Parkinson’s disease, according to a study.
View ArticleAdolescent marijuana use and intelligence
A study suggests that adolescent marijuana use might not directly cause cognitive decline. Marijuana is one of the most commonly used recreational drugs in the United States, and marijuana use during...
View ArticleClimbing ability and adhesive footpads
A study examines how the ability to climb surfaces using adhesive pads has evolved in animals of different body sizes.
View ArticleAlso of interest from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Researchers combined a carbon balance model with satellite observations of biomass and leaf area and soil carbon data to map plant carbon allocation as well as organic carbon residence times and...
View ArticleDirect writing of graphene patterns and devices on graphene oxide films by...
An inkjet reduction technique is developed to directly write conductive graphene patterns and devices on graphene oxide films. The directly-written graphene patterns show self-limiting reduction and a...
View ArticleFindings suggest earlier hospice enrollment, avoidance of ICU admissions,...
Among family members of older patients who died of advanced-stage cancer, earlier hospice enrollment, avoidance of intensive care unit (ICU) admissions within 30 days of death, and death occurring...
View ArticleStudy compares health care usage, costs in developed countries for patients...
Among seven developed countries in 2010, all had high rates of hospital admissions and hospital days near the end of life, with the United States having the lowest proportion of patients with cancer...
View ArticleSize-dependent gene delivery of amine-modified silica nanoparticles
Amine-modified monodispersed Stöber spheres (NH2-SS) were synthesized with different diameters ranging from 125 to 570 nm to investigate the influence of particle size on plasmid DNA transfection...
View ArticleThermoelectric properties of solution-synthesized n-type Bi2Te3...
Nanostructures have attracted great research interests in thermoelectrics due to their low thermal conductivity. We developed a solution reaction to synthesize Bi2Te3 nanowires in a large scale. The...
View ArticleGenetic risk of prion disease reevaluated, thanks to big data
ter crunching genetic data from more than 600,000 people, researchers have found that the genetic mutations underlying prion diseases differ greatly in how likely they are to cause the disease,...
View ArticleIntegration of chemoselective ligation with enzymespecific catalysissaccharic...
Based on the combination of chemoselective ligation and enzyme specific catalysis, a general colorimetric method is developed in this work, taking the detection of galactose (Gal) as an example, by...
View ArticleSmall farms benefit significantly from a few extra pollinators
Higher numbers of pollinators can significantly increase crop productivity of small-sized farms, while large farms experience a similar yield benefit only if increases in pollinator density are...
View ArticleEmpathy: A trait that doesn’t require advanced cognition
A new study reveals that prairie voles console loved ones who are feeling stressed -- and it appears that the infamous 'love hormone', oxytocin, is the underlying mechanism.
View ArticleSuccessful synthesis of threaded polymers
Researchers have synthesized a material with a distinctive structure involving woven organic polymers that provide it with special elastic properties.
View ArticleEditorial expression of concern for paper byGgugliotti et al.
The Report “RNA-Mediated Metal-Metal Bond Formation in the Synthesis of Hexagonal Palladium Nanoparticles” by Lina A. Gugliotti et al.
View ArticleRemarkable anisotropic phonon response in uniaxially strained few-layer black...
Prof. Yu Ting’s group has reported a systematic experimental investigation of the phonon properties in few-layer black phosphorus under strain and used density functional theory calculation results to...
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