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Melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled in recent years: Fast-paced warming is consistently affecting huge region, says new study

"This is the clearest picture yet of how fast Himalayan glaciers are melting over this time interval, and why," said lead author Joshua Maurer, a Ph.D.

Fresh look at mysterious Nasca lines in Peru: Using a taxonomic approach, scientists have re-identified the huge birds drawn on the desert plains of Peru as hermits or pelicans

The lines and geoglyphs of Nasca and Palpa are located some 400 kilometers south of Lima, Peru and form a World Heritage Site covering an area of about 450 square kilometers..

Processed foods and effect on developing fetus' brain: Autism link?

Saleh Naser, Latifa Abdelli and UCF undergraduate research assistant Aseela Samsam have identified the molecular changes that happen when neural stem cells are exposed to high levels of an acid commonly found in processed foods.

How information is like snacks, money, and drugs -- to your brain: Researchers demonstrate common neural code for information and money; both act on the brain's dopamine-producing reward system

A new study by researchers at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business has found that information acts on the brain's dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food.

Human migration in Oceania recreated through paper mulberry genetics: Humans carried the plant, used to make barkcloth, as they colonized new islands across Oceania

The colonization of the remote, long-uninhabited Pacific islands has fascinated early European explorers, current scientists and members of Pacific Island communities today.

First-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm without brain implants

Being able to noninvasively control robotic devices using only thoughts will have broad applications, in particular benefiting the lives of paralyzed patients and those with movement disorders.

Animals' brain activity 'syncs' during social interactions

Animal models are really important for being able to study brain phenomena at levels that we can't normally access in humans," says Michael Yartsev of the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and senior author of one of the papers

In romantic relationships, people do indeed have a 'type': Study finds consistency among people's current and past partners

However, new research by social psychologists at the University of Toronto (U of T) suggests that might be easier said than done.

Rare 'superflares' could one day threaten Earth

These events occur when stars, for reasons that scientists still don't understand, eject huge bursts of energy that can be seen from hundreds of light years away.

Bitcoin causing carbon dioxide emissions comparable to Las Vegas or Hamburg: Hardware and IP addresses analyzed to assess the carbon footprint of the cryptocurrency

Although Bitcoin is a virtual currency, the energy consumption associated with its use is very real.

Could climate change make Siberia more habitable?

A study team from the Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, Russia, and the National Institute of Aerospace, USA, used current and predicted climate scenarios to examine the climate comfort of Asian Russia and work out the potential for human settlement throughout the 21st century. They published their results today in Environmental

CRISPR baby mutation significantly increases mortality: Two copies of mutated CCR5 gene associated with lower survivability

The researchers scanned more than 400,000 genomes and associated health records contained in a British database, UK Biobank, and found that people who had two mutated copies of the gene had a significantly higher death rate between ages 41 and 78 than those with one or no copies. Previous

How multi-celled animals developed: Evolutionary discovery to rewrite textbooks

Using new technology to investigate how multi-celled animals developed, their findings revealed a surprising truth.Professor Bernie Degnan said the results contradicted years of tradition.

Earth's heavy metals result of supernova explosion, research reveals

In a finding that may overthrow our understanding of where Earth's heavy elements such as gold and platinum come from, new research by a University of Guelph physicist suggests that most of them were spewed from a largely overlooked kind of star explosion far away in space and time from

Origin of life: A prebiotic route to DNA

How were the building-blocks of life first formed on the early Earth? As yet, only partially satisfactory answers to this question are available.