Small farms and businesses may be the unintended victims of legislation aimed at cutting the…
Month: October 2013
Some video games promote unhealthy foods for kids
Not only do some online video games promote a less-than-active lifestyle for children, the content…
Cells prefer nanodiscs over nanorods
For years scientists have been working to fundamentally understand how nanoparticles move throughout the human…
Unlocking biology with math
Scientists have created a mathematical model that explains and predicts the biological process that creates…
Lance Armstrong failed social media, too, study suggests
Lance Armstrong used Twitter to employ image-repair strategies in a way that cultivated followers and…
How JC Polyomavirus invades cells
A new study identifies the means by which the JC Polyomavirus enters host cells. It’s…
Plastic waste is a hazard for subalpine lakes, too
Many subalpine lakes may look beautiful and even pristine, but new evidence suggests they may…
Numerically identifying pollen grains improves on conventional ID method
Researchers have developed a new quantitative — rather than qualitative — method of identifying pollen…
Infanticide linked to wet-nursing in meerkats
Mothers who lose their pups to infanticide by the dominant female in a meerkat group…
Hurricane Sandy’s impact on New Jersey coastal wetlands, one year later
In a stroke of good luck, scientists captured detailed measurements of water level and salinity…