Physicists performed a series of exact computer simulations of a liquid layer of charged particles…
Month: August 2013
Let’s have lunch! Teachers eating with their students provides nutrition education opportunities
Much attention has focused on school meals, both in the United States and across the…
Online predators not distinctively dangerous sex offenders
A new study challenges the view that online predators are a distinctly dangerous variety of…
From harmless colonizers to virulent pathogens: Microbiologists identify what triggers disease
The bacteria Streptococcus pneumoniae harmlessly colonizes the mucous linings of throats and noses in most…
Timber rattlesnakes indirectly benefit human health: Not-so-horrid top predator helps check Lyme disease
Biologists found timber rattlesnakes, which prey on mice and other small mammals, help check humans’…
Tidy desk or messy desk? Each has its benefits
Working at a clean and prim desk may promote healthy eating, generosity, and conventionality, according…
‘Nursery nests’ are better for survival of young black-and-white ruffed lemurs
Research shows it is easier for female ruffed lemurs to raise their young using a…
Rapid diversification despite morphological stasis: A snail’s pace in a snail’s place?
Evolutionary biologists have found an unusual system that allows narrowing the gap in the study…
Personality may affect a new mother’s decision to breastfeed
A new analysis has found that mothers who are more extroverted and less anxious are…
Walking to work cuts risk of diabetes and high blood pressure
People who walk to work are around 40 per cent less likely to have diabetes…