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Is there a common sound of swearing across languages?
Swear words across different languages may tend to lack certain sounds such as l, r, and…
A journey across generations: Inheritance of the plant microbiome via seed
What defines us and other living organisms more strongly, genes or the environment? Only recently, researchers…
Religious violence increases anxiety among Muslims and Jews, even if they have never been personally targeted
Fear of hate crime looms especially large in the minds of Jews and Muslims, even if…
December serving up baked Alaska and warming most of Arctic
Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December warming. Click here…
Shhhh … speaking more quietly in restaurants means everyone can be heard
In a crowded restaurant, diners usually talk with their companions at their own table. But the…
Understanding the cryptic role fungi play in ecosystems
When you say “fungi,” most people think of mushrooms, showy fruiting bodies, but most fungi do…
Improving precision of pressure determination in nanosecond X-ray diffraction experiments
X-ray diffraction measurements under laser-driven dynamic compression allow researchers to investigate the atomic structure of matter…
More flexible than we thought: Worms provide new insights into the evolution and diversification of TGF-ß signaling
The TGF-ß cellular signaling network, essential to various functions in all metazoans and involved in many…
New research develops a model that optimizes political fairness for political redistricting
Political redistricting is a problem of national interest with consequences to electoral representation. It is a…