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Revamped crew scheduling model cuts airline delays by as much as 30%
Delays and disruptions in airline operations annually result in billions of dollars of additional costs to…
Scientists invent new technology to streamline drug discovery
George Mason University researchers have discovered the exact location where two proteins responsible for hiding cancer…
Costs of natural disasters are increasing at the high end
While the economic cost of natural disasters has not increased much on average, averages can be…
New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be 'reprinted'
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have developed silk materials that can wrinkle into highly…
Ancient Maya canals and fields show early and extensive impacts on tropical forests
New evidence in Belize shows the ancient Maya responded to population and environmental pressures by creating…
Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today
To understand the environmental pressures that shaped human evolution, scientists must first piece together the details…
Archaea hold clues to ancient ocean temperatures
Solving a decades-old mystery, Stanford researchers have discovered proteins that enable hardy microbes called archaea to…
Voltage gated calcium channels 'read' electric patterns in embryos to create cartilage and bone
Scientists at Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University and Harvard Medical School have revealed how, in…
Big data reveals extraordinary unity underlying life's diversity
From microscopic algae to elephants, life has devised countless ways to thrive in every environment on…