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Dan Simmer

What Earth's gravity reveals about climate change

This so-called time-resolved satellite gravimetry makes it possible, among other things, to monitor the terrestrial water cycle, the mass balance of ice sheets and glaciers or sea-level change, and thus to better understand the mechanisms of the global climate system, to assess important climatic trends more precisely and to predict

Ice Ages occur when tropical islands and continents collide: Collisions in tropics expose rocks that take up carbon dioxide, cooling normally balmy Earth

The key trigger, they say, is mountain formation in the tropics as continental land masses collide with volcanic island arcs, such as the Aleutian Islands chain in Alaska.

6 Reasons Why Introverts Make Great Entrepreneurs

Did you know that some of the greatest entrepreneurs and inventors were, in fact, introverts? Most people tend to underestimate their skills and chances to reach success.

How Word Choice and Language Use Vary among Different Personality Types

Is it possible to tell your personality from the language you use? You’d be surprised how your word choice reveals your character.

Novel 5-minute workout improves blood pressure, may boost brain function

Preliminary results from a clinical trial of Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training (IMST), presented this week at the Experimental Biology conference in Orlando, suggest "yes." "IMST is basically strength-training for the muscles you breathe in with," said Daniel Craighead, a postdoctoral researcher in the the University of Colorado Boulder Integrative Physiology

Five-minute sample processing enhances DNA imaging and analysis

Described in ACS Nano, JILA's gentle, yet effective process involves binding DNA to mica, a flat silicate mineral.

Rainfall changes for key crops predicted even with reduced greenhouse gas emissions

The study uses four emissions scenarios from low to high to predict time of emergence (TOE) of permanent precipitation changes, meaning the year by which precipitation changes remain permanently outside their historical variation in a specific location. The research shows that quick action on emissions -- in line with 2015's

Large Antarctic Ice Shelf, home to a UK research station, is about to break apart

The rifting started several years ago and is now approaching its final phase.

VLA makes first direct image of key feature of powerful radio galaxies: Structure suggested by theorists decades ago

The scientists studied Cygnus A, a galaxy some 760 million light-years from Earth..

Researchers discover the source of new neurons in brain's hippocampus: Findings extend understanding of how a continuous supply of neurons throughout life is connected with learning and memory

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have shown, in mice, that one type of stem cell that makes adult neurons is the source of this lifetime stock of new cells in the hippocampus. Published this week in Cell, these findings may help neuroscientists figure

The brain's auto-complete function: New insights into associative memory

The researchers presented participants with a number of different scene images.Importantly, they paired each scene image with one of two different objects, such as a raspberry or a scorpion.

Macdonald Triad Traits That Predict Psychopathic Tendencies in a Child

Do you think it is possible to detect psychopathic tendencies in adults from early childhood behaviour? The Macdonald Triad theorises that three particular behaviours are common amongst children who then display psychopathic traits as adults. Children who exhibit all three of these traits are far more likely to engage in

Changing how a country types: New keyboard standard makes typing in French easier: New standard created with state-of-the-art algorithm adopted by France

"Algorithms, like the ones we have developed for the French keyboard, can help us make better decisions..

Robots to autocomplete Soldier tasks

New research published in Science Advances today looks at Soldier brain activity during specific tasks for ways to incorporate AI teaming to dynamically complete tasks..

Associating colors with vowels? Almost all of us do!

For the writer Vladimir Nabokov, "aa" was the colour of polished ebony and "ee" was yellow.Nabokov had synaesthesia: his sensory perceptions mingled with one another.