Modeling urban mobility patterns
Researchers report a modeling framework that uses passive datasets from information and communication networks to generate high-resolution urban mobility patterns.
View ArticleSafe, opioid-like pain relief in monkeys
Simultaneously targeting two brain receptors may produce opioid-like pain relief without the risk of addiction, drug abuse, and side effects, according to a study.
View ArticleModern diets and gut microbiome composition
A study suggests that modern Western diets poor in plant-based fibers may be associated with imbalance and reduced diversity of human gut microbiomes.
View ArticleGlaciation and kiwi diversification
Researchers report a burst of kiwi diversification during recent glacial cycles.
View ArticleBiofuel crops and commercial beekeeping
Shifts to biofuel crops in the Northern Great Plains could diminish the region's suitability for commercial beekeeping, a study suggests.
View ArticleImproving drought predictions using plant transpiration
A study suggests that reductions in plant water loss under rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) may result in lower future drought stress than predicted by current metrics.
View ArticleSalmon use by Ice Age hunter-gatherers
Some of the earliest Americans, hunter-gatherers who crossed into Beringia during the last Ice Age, relied more heavily on salmon and freshwater fish than previously thought, a study suggests.
View ArticleAlso of interest from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
A targeted plasma metabolomics study of 45 people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and 39 healthy individuals, 20 to 69 years of age, revealed in people with CFS a pattern of abnormalities in 20...
View ArticleDogs understand both vocabulary and intonation of their owner’s speech
Dogs have the ability to distinguish vocabulary and intonation of human speech through similar brain regions that humans use, a new study reports.
View ArticleWidely used brain cancer cell line faces identity crisis
A cell line considered to be the most commonly used in brain cancer research is different from the original patient tumor from which it was derived, say Bengt Westermark and colleagues, who first...
View ArticleA potential application in quantum networks
The latest survey shows that Quantum Operation Sharing can be achieved only by Bell states without applying multiparty entangled states. A paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics &...
View ArticleDeveloping a global use strategy for first dengue vaccine deployment
An analysis performed by scientists studying the world’s first marketed dengue virus vaccine (Dengvaxia) has identified the need for a better understanding of how it should be deployed on a global...
View ArticleDawn spacecraft at Ceres
This package of papers highlights new and unexpected insights into Ceres, a dwarf planet and the largest object in the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter).
View ArticleThis new clothing is super 'cool'
Researchers have developed a cloth that reflects sunlight, but allows heat radiating from a person’s body to escape.
View ArticleMicrobial synthesis of minerals known to form only under deep Earth
The transformation from smectite to illite, synthesis of autogenic plagioclase, and synthesis of some geolipids could be induced by microbial activities but were previously believed to only occur...
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