FOR GEOINFORMATICS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Dietary restriction -- the reduction of a specific nutrient or total dietary intake without triggering malnutrition -- increases longevity and improves learning, but are these processes regulated separately? A new study indicates that the answer is 'yes.'
Scientists have discovered that chemical weathering, a process in which carbon dioxide breaks down rocks and then gets trapped in sediment, can happen at a much faster rate than scientists previously assumed and could potentially counteract some of the current and future climate change caused by humans.
Random differences between cells early in development could be the key to making different cells in the body, according to new research. Different cell types -- brain, blood, skin, gut etc. -- all have unique and vital roles, yet they all start out the same. Cells become different as a result of a long sequence of biochemical choices made before we're born. For us to be healthy, these choices need to ensure we get the right number of each cell type.
Researchers have discovered that parents who participate in cognitive therapy with their children with autism also experience improvements in their own depression, emotion regulation.
Size matters in the carrion world, and so do habitat and temperature. New research has shed fresh light on the largely understudied area of vertebrate scavenging ecology.
Older adults who consume alcohol moderately on a regular basis are more likely to live to the age of 85 without dementia or other cognitive impairments than non-drinkers, according to a new study.
Unlike other back-saving devices, this one is mechanized and was tested with motion capture, force plates and electromyography.
Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is a true veteran of extraterrestrial living
Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by Wednesda