A key discovery has been made regarding Fraser River sockeye’s vulnerability to sea lice. Their…
Month: May 2015
Good things in store for retailers
Adding brick-and-mortar stores to online and catalog retailing increases sales overall, research shows. Online and…
Lava Lake Loki on Jupiter’s moon Io, up close
Io, the innermost of the four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610…
School reform in post-Katrina New Orleans harmful to black community, scholars say
By most media accounts, education reform in post-Katrina New Orleans is a success. Test scores…
Housing market cycles have become longer
A statistical analysis of data from 20 industrial countries covering the period 1970 to 2012…
Chemistry, topography and mechanics probed with one instrument
Scientists have combined atomic force microscopy and mass spectrometry into one instrument that can probe…
Flowing against the stream: Inanimate beads behave in lifelike ways
Synthetic microscopic beads sense changes in their environment and self-propel to migrate upstream, a step…
Long-term galactic cosmic ray exposure leads to dementia-like cognitive impairments
What happens to an astronaut’s brain during a mission to Mars? Nothing good. It’s besieged…
Global decline of large herbivores may lead to an ’empty landscape’
The decline of the world’s large herbivores, especially in Africa and parts of Asia, is…
Frailty among older heart patients helps predict severe outcomes
Frailty among older people with cardiovascular disease appears to be more predictive than age for…