In football, player-vs.-player hits will likely cause more severe head impacts than other impacts, according…
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Trees’ surprising role in the boreal water cycle quantified
This is the first study to show that deciduous tree water uptake of snowmelt water…
Biologists home in on paleo gut for clues to our evolutionary history
A new study of the gut microbiomes of humans, chimps, bonobos and gorillas shows that…
New mechanism of tuberculosis infection
Researchers have identified a new way that tuberculosis bacteria get into the body, revealing a…
Mars rover’s laser can now target rocks all by itself
New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, to select…
An accelerated pipeline to open materials research
The Bellerophon Environment for Analysis of Materials (BEAM) is an ORNL platform that combines scientific…
More doesn’t mean better when it comes to trauma centers
For the first time, research shows that changes over time in the volume of patients…
Temperature helps drive the emergence of different personalities in spiders
Not a single aggressive spider was able to reproduce at 93 degrees Fahrenheit and most…
Large protein nanocages could improve drug design and delivery
Using novel computational and biochemical approaches, scientists have designed and built from scratch 10 large…
Researchers discuss challenges, successes of HIV cure research in science
A better understanding of HIV latency is the key to eradicating the virus, researchers write…