Scientists claim their research settles a prolonged debate over whether mankind or climate change was…
Month: August 2015
Tetris can block cravings, new study reveals
Playing Tetris on a smarthphone for as little as three minutes can weaken cravings for…
Smoking ban linked to drop in stillbirths, newborn deaths
Stillbirths have dropped by almost 8 percent in England since the smoking ban was introduced,…
Toxic blue-green algae pose increasing threat to nation;s drinking, recreational water
Blooms of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, are a poorly monitored and underappreciated risk to…
How do continents break up? Classical theory of mantle plume is put in question
When the western part of the super-continent Gondwana broke up around 130 Million years ago,…
Grammar: Eventually the brain opts for the easy route
Languages are constantly evolving — and grammar is no exception. The way in which the…
As days warm, emergency visits, deaths could rise
In Rhode Island heat-related emergency department visits and deaths increase notably among people of all…
Chinese cave ‘graffiti’ tells a 500-year story of climate change and impact on society
Unique inscriptions found in a cave in China, combined with chemical analysis of cave formations,…
Remote sensing, satellite imagery, surveys use to estimate population of Mogadishu
The results of the first population survey of Mogadishu, Somalia, conducted in a quarter century…
Statistical advances help unlock mysteries of the human microbiome
Advances in the field of statistics are helping to unlock the mysteries of the human…