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IKEA-Building Robot Conquers Touchy-Feely Challenge
The Swedish company’s furniture has become something of a benchmark for robotics engineers-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Is Your Gut Making You Depressed or Anxious?
Savvy Psychologist Dr. Ellen Hendriksen goes straight for the gut with three surprising mind-gut connections-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
First "Photos" of Ocean Carbon Molecules Hold Clues to Future Warming
The remains of tiny phytoplankton hold more carbon than all plants and animals; will it be released?-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Fulbright fellowship to fund study on mental health benefits of cooperative movement
(Virginia Tech) Brennan Delattre, a lab manager and research assistant at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year. The prestigious fellowship will fund research on the mental h...
INL wins two FLC Far West Regional Awards
(DOE/Idaho National Laboratory) Idaho National Laboratory has been honored with two Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards in 2018 in the Far West Region.
1 in 7 Babies Exposed to Zika in the Womb Have Health Problems
Some of the children looked healthy at birth-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Financially strapped Planetary Resources gets set to auction off equipment at HQ
Planetary Resources is selling off equipment from its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
In a fresh sign of the financial straits facing , the asteroid mining company will be auctioning off hundreds of items from its headq...
Research Brief: UMN Medical School researchers study how cues drive our behavior
(University of Minnesota) Recent research published in Nature Neuroscience by University of Minnesota Medical School neuroscientist Benjamin Saunders, PhD, uses a Pavlovian model of conditioning to see if turning on a light -- a simple cue -- just be...
Study finds behavioral changes insufficient at preventing early childhood obesity
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Young children and their families in poor communities were able to make some achievable and sustainable behavioral changes during the longest and largest obesity prevention intervention, but, in the end, the res...
Space Station Crew Photographs Raging California Wildfires
The Golden State’s fiery woes are clearly visible all the way from low-Earth orbit-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com