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First look at thermostat wars suggests women may be losing these battles
Your characterization of the thermostat war going on in your house is likely to depend at…
Knowing your neighbors may shape US household yard care practices
Neighbor peer pressure may be linked to increases in yard fertilization and irrigation across several distinct…
Understanding transporter proteins at a single-molecule level
Like a boat helping passengers cross a river, transporters move substances across cell membranes. This process…
Something old, something new in the ocean's blue
Charles Darwin suspected something in the “clear blue water” of the ocean that was even smaller…
Experts unlock key to photosynthesis, a find that could help us meet food security demands
Scientists have solved the structure of one of the key components of photosynthesis, a discovery that…
Could the mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked?
Could the profound mysteries of antimatter and dark matter be linked? Thinking that they might be,…
Extinct giant ape directly linked to the living orangutan
By using ancient protein sequencing, researchers have retrieved genetic information from a 1.9 million year old…
What survives, thrives and dominates over a thousand generations? The answer might be even more complex than thought
Aa team of scientists, led by Harvard researchers, has used a new method of DNA “re-barcoding”…
Urban development reduces flash flooding chances in arid West
Urban development in the eastern United States results in an increase in flash flooding in nearby…