While the currently submitted national contributions to the new global climate agreement do not yet…
Month: October 2015
Turbulences on the rise
Turbulence not just affects our well-being during flights; it also plays a central role in…
Robot adapts voice and gestures just to get attention from you
Researchers have developed Talking-Ally, the novel robot that dynamically generate appropriate utterance and gestures based…
Evaporation takes place differently than previously thought: Implications for global warming
The process of evaporation, one of the most widespread on our planet, takes place differently…
New gene a key to fighting sepsis
Scientists have identified a gene that could potentially open the door for the development of…
Link between champion horses, offspring careers revealed
If a foal has race-winning parents it is more likely to have a champion career,…
When queuing in a supermarket, who do you let go first?
Unlike cooperation among individuals that meet on a regular basis, one-shot interactions among strangers are…
Subliminal effect of facial color on fearful faces
Facial color affects early stage of subliminal processing of facial expression, say researchers, providing the…
Measuring the impacts of severe wildfires in the Arctic
Based on the number of acres burned, 2015 is shaping up to be the second…
New technique permits cell-specific examination of proteins in alzheimer’s disease brain tissue
Using 10-year-old archival brain tissue from patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a research team has developed…