Can a flow of information across Twitter signal when a momentous event is about to…
Month: April 2016
Top soccer players may be under-performing because of gambling, research suggests
Some top soccer players are under-performing because of worries about gambling losses, according to new…
Can corals keep up with ocean acidification?
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has successfully measured both pH and carbonate ion concentration directly…
Daily deal websites can capitalize by displaying sales numbers
Researchers developed a theoretical model that considers the strategic interaction between a daily deal website,…
Researchers help explain why we favor a black and white approach to morality
People gauge others’ trustworthiness based on their moral judgments, new research shows. People who are…
New understanding on how fundamental DNA sequences govern gene activity
Researchers have shed new light on how the structure of regulatory sequences in DNA is…
Fresh insights into early human embryo development
A detailed molecular analysis of the embryo’s first week of development has been conducted by…
Fruit flies live longer on lithium
Fruit flies live 16 percent longer than average when given low doses of the mood…
Modern men lack Y chromosome genes from Neanderthals
The Neanderthal counterpart of the human Y chromosome, or male sex chromosome, appears to have…
Trap-jaw spiders strike prey with lightning speed
Biologists have discovered that trap-jaw spiders have a surprising ability to strike their prey at…