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Climate change and urbanization are set to threaten groundwater drinking water quality, new research shows. Source: Natural contaminant threat to drinking water from groundwater
Continue Reading →People who rate themselves as highly knowledgeable about a new infectious disease threat could also be more likely to believe they don’t know enough, a new study suggests. In the case of this study, the infectious disease threat was the Zika virus. But the authors of the new study say the results could apply to […]
Continue Reading →An AI analysis of photographs posted on social media revealed a positive association between nature and happiness globally. Source: Study reveals positive connection between nature experiences and happiness
Continue Reading →A study provides new details about the collective motion of individual agents in a liquid-crystal-like system, which could help in better understanding bacterial colonies, structures and systems in the human body, and other forms of active matter. Source: Collective dynamics of active matter systems
Continue Reading →Viruses have been well studied, but many mysteries linger. One such mystery is how a spherical virus circumvents energy barriers to form symmetric shells. A research team has made progress is solving this mystery. The team reports that an interplay of energies at the molecular level makes the formation of a shell possible. Source: How […]
Continue Reading →Barth syndrome is a rare genetic disease in boys that can cause life-threatening heart failure and also weakens the skeletal muscles and the immune system. There is no specific treatment, but new research, involving new mouse models, shows the potential of a gene therapy approach in preventing and reversing cardiac dysfunction in Barth syndrome. Source: […]
Continue Reading →Our brains can predict the popularity of online videos, without us even knowing it. Source: Our brains are powerful — but secretive — forecasters of video virality
Continue Reading →A new study showed that the humans on teams that included a robot expressing vulnerability communicated more with each other and later reported having a more positive group experience than people teamed with silent robots or with robots that made neutral statements, like reciting the game’s score. Source: Robots that admit mistakes foster better conversation […]
Continue Reading →What we learn through our senses drives how knowledge is sorted in our brains, according to new research. Source: Sensory information underpins abstract knowledge
Continue Reading →Though not as prevalent in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas. Occurring naturally as well as being manmade, methane is much shorter-lived than CO2, but it is fast acting and 20 to 80 times as effective at trapping heat. A little extra methane goes a long way. Source: […]
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