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Here's Why Expanding Protected Areas Isn't Saving Nature
A new study proposes tools to gauge when an ecosystem is “intact”—and what might happen if that changes-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Nightingale Health & UK Biobank announce major initiative to analyze 500,000 blood samples
(Nightingale Health) Nightingale Health, the Finnish innovator of an internationally recognized blood biomarker technology for studying chronic diseases, will analyze the biomarker profiles of 500,000 blood samples from UK Biobank. The ground-breakin...
New study debunks Dale Carnegie advice to 'put yourself in their shoes'
(American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) The researchers debunk the theories canonized in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People that assuming you understand someone else's thoughts, feelings, attitude, or...
Novel therapy makes oxidative stress deadly to cancer
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one way novel cancer treatments work is by pushing levels to the point where it instead helps them die, scientists report.
Enhanced detection of nuclear events, thanks to deep learning
(DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) A deep neural network running on an ordinary desktop computer is interpreting highly technical data related to national security as well as -- and sometimes better than -- today's best automated method...
Envisioning a future where all the trees in Europe disappear
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Global climate change is already affecting the planet, as demonstrated by the shrinking polar ice cap, melting glaciers and cities in the grips of longer, more intense heat waves. Now a team of researc...
GPM satellite probes soaking storms in Southern Texas and the Gulf
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Southern Texas and the western Gulf of Mexico is getting a soaking because of a low pressure system. The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite passed over the western Gulf of Mexico and meas...
American Psychological Association's 126th Annual Convention Aug. 9 - 12, 2018, San Francisco
(American Psychological Association) The American Psychological Association's 126th annual convention will take place Aug. 9-12, 2018, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Boring barnacles prefer the shallow life on coral reefs
(Rice University) Scientists at Rice University, the University of the Virgin Islands and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration combine efforts to quantify how barnacles infest stony coral over a variety of conditions and reduce calcium...
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
(University of California - Davis) Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report by researchers at the California National Primate Research Center and School of Veteri...