Cities will need more resilient electricity networks to cope with extreme weather

Dense urban areas amplify the effects of higher temperatures, due to the phenomenon of heat islands…

Gossip influences who gets ahead in different cultures

Gossip influences if people receive advantages whether they work in an office in the U.S. or…

Warm liquid spewing from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault, could offer clues to earthquake hazards

Oceanographers discovered warm, chemically distinct liquid shooting up from the seafloor about 50 miles off Newport.…

Nanoplasmonic imaging reveals real-time protein secretion

Researchers have used a nanoplasmonics approach to observe the real-time production of cell secretions, including proteins…

Diverse teams survive longer when facing environmental changes

Researchers examined the interplay of environmental change and the internal and external conditions governing a venture’s…

Merons and antimerons

Sliding and twisting of van der Waals layers can produce fascinating physical phenomena. Scientists show that…

New insights on brain development sequence through adolescence

Brain development does not occur uniformly across the brain, but follows a newly identified developmental sequence,…

Early crop plants were more easily 'tamed'

Borrowing a page from what we know about animal behavior, archaeologists say that we should reassess…

Table tennis brain teaser: Playing against robots makes our brains work harder

Brain scans taken during table tennis reveal differences in how we respond to human versus machine…

Novel immunotherapy agent safe, shows promise against high-risk prostate cancers

A new drug, a monoclonal antibody known as enoblituzumab, is safe in men with aggressive prostate…