By age 5 children have a sense of self-esteem comparable in strength to that of…
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What the [beep]? Infants link new communicative signals to meaning
Researchers have long known that adults can flexibly find new ways to communicate, for example,…
Juvenile cowbirds sneak out at night
A new study explores how a young cowbird, left as an egg in the nest…
Sugar-coated nanoworms not for breakfast in the human immune system
Nanoparticles could aid diagnosis and treatment of diseases including cancer — if the immune system…
Researchers are on their way to predicting what side effects you’ll experience from a drug
Researchers have developed a model that could be used to predict a drug’s side effects…
Less ice, more water in Arctic Ocean by 2050s
By the 2050s, parts of the Arctic Ocean once covered by sea ice much of…
New research opens door to understanding human tonsil cancer
Researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to identify and separate stem cells that reside in…
Making green fuels, no fossils required
Converting solar or wind into carbon-based ‘fossil’ fuels might seem anything but green, but when…
Chopin, Bach used human speech ‘cues’ to express emotion in music
Music has long been described, anecdotally, as a universal language. This may not be entirely…
90 percent of skin-based viruses represent viral ‘dark matter,’ scientists reveal
Scientists in recent years have made great progress in characterizing the bacterial population that normally…