A little more than half of family health teams in Ontario offer physical activity services…
Month: February 2015
Curious monkeys share our thirst for knowledge
Monkeys are notoriously curious, and new research has quantified just how eager they are to…
Research defines more behaviors that reveal romantic attraction
Jeffrey Hall coded 36 verbal flirting behaviors — such as making compliments, asking questions and…
Explaining 30-year-old ‘hidden order’ physics mystery
A new explanation for a type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made…
Urban pollinators get the job done
Native bees in San Francisco provide adequate pollination to crop plants such as tomato plants,…
Making teeth tough: Beavers show way to improve our enamel
Beavers don’t brush their teeth or drink fluoridated water, but a new study reports beavers…
Warming pushes Western U.S. toward driest period in 1,000 years: Unprecedented risk of drought in 21st century
During the second half of the 21st century, the US Southwest and Great Plains will…
An ocean of plastic: Magnitude of plastic waste going into the ocean calculated
Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world’s major oceanic…
Application of laser microprobe technology to Apollo samples refines lunar impact history
Researchers have now refined the timeline of meteorite impacts on the moon through a pioneering…
It takes more than merit: Alma mater’s prestige highly predictive of faculty placement
A new study finds that small differences in institutional prestige have an enormous impact on…