Having daughters might not move politicians’ votes on women’s issues to the left, after all
Politicians who are the parents of daughters provide researchers with a “natural experiment” to test how personal circumstances influence legislators’ ...
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Using superconductors to move people, cargo and energy through one combined system
The promise of superconductivity for electrical power transmission and transportation has long been held back by high costs. Now researchers ...
Newborn chicks are attracted to objects that move upwards
From birth, animals can use their spontaneous preferences (predispositions that are not learned) to decide which stimuli to attend and ...
America on the move: How urban travel has changed over a decade
A new Florida Atlantic University study on America’s urban travel trends shows important variations in travel behaviors across income, home ...
Using cancer cells as logic gates to determine what makes them move
Cancer cells migrate through the body for multiple reasons; some are simply following the flow of a fluid, while others ...
Move over, mice: caterpillars could replace some mammals in the study of human disease
Rats and mice have been the backbone of biomedical research for decades — including research to understand cancer and pioneer ...
How does a cell move? ‘pull the plug’ on the electrical charge on the inner side of its membrane, say scientists
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Credit: Tatsat Banerjee and Peter N Devreotes, Johns Hopkins Medicine FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Scientists at Johns Hopkins ...
Researchers use ultrasound waves to move objects hands-free
University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers have discovered a new method to move objects using ultrasound waves. The research opens ...
Oregon State researchers move closer to better care for life-threatening pregnancy condition
PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon State University scientists have produced a proof of concept for a new and better way of ...
Farmers in China, Uganda move to high-yielding, cost-saving perennial rice
URBANA, Ill. – After more than 9,000 years in cultivation, annual paddy rice is now available as a long-lived perennial. ...
New VR system lets you share sights on the move without causing VR sickness
Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a virtual reality (VR) remote collaboration system which lets users ...
Cancer cells exposed to high viscosity move better and their metastatic potential increases
The human body is made up of more than a billion cells that join to form the tissues and organs ...
Physics of disaster: How mudslides move
In early December 2017, the Thomas Fire ravaged nearly 300,000 acres of Southern California. The intense heat of the flames ...
Fruit flies move their retinas much like humans move their eyes
Pick an object in front of you—a teacup, for example—and fix your gaze on it. You may think that you’re ...
Researchers discover how bacteria make pancreatic cancer cells grow and move
Virginia Tech researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics and the Department of Biochemistry have discovered a characteristic of a common oral ...
Ending a 50-year mystery, scientists reveal how bacteria can move
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers and their collaborators have solved a decades-old mystery about how E. coli and other bacteria ...
Does exercise drive development? In the sea anemone, the way you move matters
As humans, we know that an active lifestyle gives us some control over our form. When we hit the pavement, ...
New research shows how COVID-19 altered Americans’ intentions to move
Divorce. Changing jobs. Natural disasters. A change in financial resources. Going away to college. Wanting to be nearer to family ...
Microscopic color converters move small laser-based devices closer to reality
Lasers are everywhere. Devices that use them transmit information and enable the existence of long-distance communications and the internet; they ...
Study first to explore ‘walking’ sharks on the move in early life stages
A newly-discovered walking shark that breaks all of the rules for survival is the focus of a first-of-its-kind study by ...