Natural resistance to malaria linked to variation in human red blood cell receptors
Researchers have discovered that protection from the most severe form of malaria is linked with natural variation in human red blood cell genes. A study has identified a genetic rearrangement of red blood cell glycophorin receptors that confers a 40 percent reduced risk from severe malaria. This opens a new avenue of research for malarial therapeutics. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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History of Titan's landscape resembles that of Mars, not Earth
In a paper published in Science, researchers report that Titan, like Mars but unlike Earth, has not undergone any active plate tectonics in its recent past. The upheaval of mountains by plate tectonics deflects the paths that rivers take. The team found that this telltale signature was missing from river networks on Mars and Titan. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Fake caterpillar study reveals global pattern in predation
A new study revealing the world ' s prime insect predation hotspots, achieved its landmark findings using an unusual aid: plasticine ' dummy caterpillars. ' The new study has revealed a global pattern of predation on insect herbivores. The trends observed were surprising, revealing that predatory behavior in the tropics is not driven by birds or mammals but by ants and other small arthropods. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Antarctic has seen widespread change in last 50 years, moss study reveals
In 2013, researchers studying mosses and microbes growing at the southern end of the Antarctic Peninsula documented unprecedented ecological change over the last 50 years, driven by warming temperatures. Now, the same research group has confirmed that those striking changes in the Antarctic are widespread, occurring all across the Peninsula. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Untangling the genetic legacy of tomato domestication
Favorable mutations that went along with increased fruit size and other beneficial traits in tomato plants do not always play well together. A study published in Cell found that natural mutations in two important tomato genes that were selected for different purposes in breeding can cause extreme branching and reduce fruit yield when they occur in the same plant. The researchers used those genes to create a tomato plant that grows more tomatoes. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Evolution in butterfly eye dependent on sex, scientists find
By analyzing both the genes that control color detecting photoreceptors and the structural components of the eye itself, evolutionary biologists have discovered male and female butterflies of one particular species have the unique ability to see the world differently from each another because of sex-related evolutionary traits. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Researchers create a T-shirt that monitors the wearer's breathing rate in real time
Researchers have created a smart T-shirt that monitors the wearer ' s respiratory rate in real time. This innovation paves the way for manufacturing clothing that could be used to diagnose respiratory illnesses or monitor people suffering from asthma, sleep apnea, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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NASA mission uncovers a dance of electrons in space
NASA ' s MMS mission studies how electrons spiral and dive around the planet in a complex dance dictated by the magnetic and electric fields, and a new study revealed a bizarre new type of motion exhibited by these electrons. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Moon orbits third largest dwarf planet in our solar system
Astronomers have uncovered a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, 2007 OR10, in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Cell mechanism that transforms electrical signals into chemical ones explained
Freiburg scientists explain the cell mechanism that transforms electrical signals into chemical ones. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Data sharing can offer help in science's reproducibility crisis
Criticism that researchers in the psychological and brain sciences are failing to reproduce studies -- a key step in the scientific method -- may have more to do with the complexity of managing data, rather than an attempt to hide methods and results, according to researchers. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Icy ring surrounds young planetary system
ALMA has made the first complete millimeter-wavelength image of the ring of dusty debris surrounding the young star Fomalhaut. This remarkably well-defined band of rubble and gas is likely the result of exocomets smashing together near the outer edges of a planetary system 25 light-years from Earth. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Recommendations for certifying emotional support animals
Little consensus exists when it comes to the certification of ' emotional support animals ' (ESAs). These animals usually have little or no specific training, which poses a challenge for mental health professionals who are asked to certify them. Now, researchers have conducted a survey to examine what techniques and instruments mental health professionals are using to aid in their determinations of whether certification of an ESA is appropriate. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Another reason to exercise: Burning bone fat a key to better bone health
It ' s a fat-burning secret anyone interested in bone health should know. For the first time, researchers show that exercising burns the fat found within bone marrow and offers evidence that this process improves bone quality and the amount of bone in a matter of weeks. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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Deconstructing osmosis provides insight for medical and industrial use
New research into osmosis-driven behavior now provides a more granular theoretical understanding of the deterministic mechanisms, report scientists in two new papers. The first paper deconstructs the molecular mechanics of osmosis with high concentrations, and generalizes the findings to predict behavior for arbitrary concentrations. The second piece of the study then simulates via molecular modeling two key forms of osmotic flow in a broadly utilizable way. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
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