Chen Wang, postdoctoral associate in Yale's department of applied physics and physics and
the author of a new study on the topic, told HowStuffWorks, «Not only does the [Schrödinger's] cat «paradox» no longer feel absurd conceptually to physicists [but] even more exotic quantum states are becoming commonplace and attainable.»
Extra-terrestrials that resemble humans should have evolved on other, Earth - like planets, making it increasingly paradoxical that we still appear to be alone in the universe,
the author of a new study on convergent evolution has claimed.
Not that deep and not that many of them,» says Janet Voight, associate curator of zoology at the Field Museum and
an author of a new study on the octopuses published in Deep Sea Research Part I.
Mitrovica is one of
the authors of a new study on the phenomenon, published in today's Science.
But
the authors of a new study on dying rats make a bold claim: After cardiac arrest, the rodents» brains enter a state similar to heightened consciousness in humans.
The specialists are those which are most flexible in adapting their foraging choices across seasons», explains Irene Bender, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre and German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), lead
author of a new study on this topic.
The placement tests that determine whether students are ready for college - level work are the first big hurdle to graduation, say
the authors of a new study on California community colleges.
«Every institution connected to the creation of knowledge and storytelling is experiencing a revolution in the way information is packaged and disseminated,» noted Lee Rainie of the Pew Internet Project, one of
the authors of a new study on the rise of e-reading.
«We knew that these warm waters were reaching the fjords, but we did not know if they were reaching the glaciers or how the melting was occurring,» said Straneo, lead
author of the new study on fjord dynamics.
«We've identified a new paradigm,» said Robert Pickart of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and
an author of a new study on the North Icelandic Jet.
Not exact matches
Jon Levs,
author of All in: How Our Work - First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can Fix It Together,
studied the effect
of paid leave in California and
New Jersey, which have paid family leave programs, and found that the majority
of businesses reported that their state's paid leave programs had either no effect or a positive effect
on their business.
Popular Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck,
author of Mindset: The
New Psychology
of Success, came to the same conclusion in her
studies on motivation.
And in the future, say the
authors of a
new study, the country's economic fortunes will continue to depend
on its willingness to welcome entrepreneurial talent from around the world.
«While some device vendors are hoping that strong consumer awareness will drive corporate wellness adoption for their products, they also need to understand and focus
on the most influential parts
of the healthcare value chain,» says Jonathan Collins,
author of the
new study.
It is not
new for internet firms to use algorithms to select content to show to users and Jacob Silverman,
author of Terms
of Service: Social Media, Surveillance, and the Price
of Constant Connection, told Wire magazine
on Sunday the internet was already «a vast collection
of market research
studies; we're the subjects».
After a long period
of literary, historical, and form - critical
study of the
New Testament, along with more recent work
on the «redaction»
of its several books in the light
of the motives that led their
authors to select and arrange the material then available to them, it is clear that any claim to «simple historicity» is false.
To assume that Christian
authors of the
New Testament in the first century could have known what God had said elsewhere, and that Christian thinkers
of the 20th century,
on the basis
of that Scripture, could pass judgment
on any non-Christian revelation without thoroughly objective and unbiased
study would be, at the very least, parochial.
The
author of several well - received scholarly works
on Spinoza, Steven Nadler has taken a step closer to the mass market with his
new, tantalizingly titled
study of the Theological - Political Treatise.
It's important to note that the
study did find that «high levels
of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 %
of vegetables and 40 %
of fruits
on their trays,» but the
authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus
on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the
new meal standards.
Firstly, the Centre for Policy
Studies has taken
on new senior staff, most notably in the form
of journalist and
author Rob Colvile, and No 10 policy adviser Alex Morton - respectively the think tank's
new director and head
of policy.
So there appears no minimum size that will permit the infected population to stabilize and hold
on,
authors of the
new study conclude.
«This
study offers
new insight
on the problem
of multiple stellar populations in star clusters,» said
study lead
author Chengyuan Li, an astronomer at KIAA and NAOC who also is affiliated with the Chinese Academy
of Sciences» Purple Mountain Observatory.
«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting
on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with
new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department
of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead
author of a
new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences.
«The mistiming prevents older people from being able to effectively hit the save button
on new memories, leading to overnight forgetting rather than remembering,» said
study senior
author Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley professor
of neuroscience and psychology and director
of the campus's Center for Human Sleep Science.
Richard Brodeur, a NOAA fisheries oceanographer and
author on the
study, said that while most
of these fish will adapt to their
new surroundings, some will move into less habitable waters with perhaps less available food.
«You're going to have great earthquakes
on planet Earth, and you're going to have great tsunamis,» said Rhett Butler, a geophysicist at the University
of Hawaii at Manoa and lead
author of the
new study published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal
of the American Geophysical Union.
The lead
author of the
new study, Paolo Molaro, at the INAF - Trieste Astronomical Observatory, takes up the story: «As soon as the Dawn spacecraft revealed the mysterious bright spots
on the surface
of Ceres, I immediately thought
of the possible measurable effects from Earth.
The
authors of a
new study say that there has been limited information available about the influence
of fertilizer sources
of nitrogen that can be injected and fertigated
on fruit yield and quality in organic blackberry.
Author of the
study, Tiffany A. Pempek, comments «Our
new results, along with past research finding negative effects
of background TV
on young children's play and parent - child interaction, provide evidence that adult - directed TV content should be avoided for infants and toddlers whenever possible.
As the pressure
on the ocean floor eases, magma erupts more readily at the spreading centers, thickening the plates and creating the abyssal hills, say the
authors of two
new studies, one published online this week in Science (http://scim.ag/JCrowley) and another posted online in Geophysical Research Letters.
«The feeling ultimately relies
on the same statistical computations a computer would make,» says Professor Adam Kepecs, a neuroscientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and lead
author of the
new study.
«Previous investigations into the effect
of the gender
of a baby
on its mother's lifespan have been mixed, so our
new analysis really is just another brick in the wall,» says Samuli Helle
of the University
of Turku in Finland, the
study's lead
author.
«People have tried really hard to figure out why it's working so fast, because understanding this could perhaps lead us to the core mechanism
of depression,» says Hailan Hu, a neuroscientist at Zhejiang University School
of Medicine in Hangzhou, China, and a senior
author on the
new study.
The
new model is based
on two simple rules, which the
authors of the
study call reciprocity and transitivity — or as
author Matthew Hutson puts it, «you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours; and a friend's friend is my friend.»
«After Hurricane Katrina devastated our city, the cardiology department found that we had very busy
on - call nights,» said Anand Irimpen, M.D.,
study lead
author and professor
of medicine at Tulane University School
of Medicine and chief
of cardiology at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Cara Ebbeling
of the
New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital, first
author on the
study, and her colleagues have found that what you eat can significantly affect your metabolism rate.
Scientists have known about the beneficial effects
of bone marrow transplants since the late 1960s, but «there really hasn't been much data available to explain what is going
on,» says immunologist James George
of the University
of Alabama, Birmingham, an
author of the
new study.
«As a society it's like we're learning a
new skill
of text communication, and we don't fully understand or reflect
on its power to affect so many people in ways that we may not have intended,» said Nels Oscar, an OSU graduate student in the College
of Engineering and lead
author on the
study.
«It's one
of the clearest examples
of how humans are actually changing the intensity
of storm processes
on Earth through the emission
of particulates from combustion,» said Joel Thornton, an atmospheric scientist at the University
of Washington in Seattle and lead
author of the
new study in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal
of the American Geophysical Union.
«We are pleased to have demonstrated such a potent and durable immune response to the vaccine,» said the
study's lead
author, Sita Awasthi, PhD, a research associate professor
of Infectious Diseases at Penn. «If found effective in clinical trials, the vaccine will have a huge impact
on reducing the overall prevalence
of genital herpes infections and could reduce
new HIV infections as well, especially in high - burden regions
of sub-Saharan Africa.»
As the
authors of the
new research explain: «There are three main levels
of analysis in the
study of proteins: the first is the sequence
of amino acids, the second is the three - dimensional structure that these filaments take
on a very short time after they are synthesized, while the third regards their function.
«Two percent sounds small,» says Krishnan Bhaskaran, a researcher at the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and lead
author on the
new study, «but the reason it's important is the whole population is exposed to the weather, and heart attacks are common in the first place.»
The
study, which appears today in The
New England Journal
of Medicine, comes with a number
of caveats, says lead
author Susan Stewart, an expert
on aging at the National Bureau
of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Yonju Ha, a lead
author of this article, said that further
studies on this receptor and its role in white blood cell recruitment following tissue injury may aid in the development
of new interventions for diseases associated with nerve injury, such as TON, stroke, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.
«The brown dwarfs we were turning up before this discovery were more like the temperature
of your oven,» said astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, a WISE science team member at the California Institute
of Technology in Pasadena, and lead
author of a
study on the 100
new brown dwarfs.
«The imaging technique could shed light
on the immune dysfunction that underpins a broad range
of neuroinflammatory diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction,» said Christine Sandiego, PhD, lead
author of the
study and a researcher from the department
of psychiatry at the Yale School
of Medicine in
New Haven, Conn. «This is the first human
study that accurately measures this immune response in the brain.
To the
authors of a
new study, the two power companies are more alike than their positions
on global warming indicate, and they reflect a trend
of corporate lobbying
on climate change.
By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as social media chatter and mass media coverage, Ion Bogdan Vasi, an associate professor
of sociology at the UI and corresponding
author of a
new study, demonstrated how local screenings
of Gasland — a 2010 American documentary that focused
on communities affected by natural gas drilling — affected the public debate
on hydraulic fracking.
According to another
author of the
study, CiRA Professor Junya Toguchida, the discovered relationship between inflammation and bone formation gives a whole
new perspective
on treatments.
In contrast to previous
studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied
on patient surveys, which the
authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the
new study is one
of the few to rely
on objectively measured outcomes and was based
on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.