In visual memory, size matters
Every day we encounter images on the wall, in newspapers, books, and electronic devices. Some become etched in our memory ...
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Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet volume lag climate changes, such that today’s climate could still be affecting its size in thousands of years’ time
Editor's Note: The embargo will lift today at 2 PM ET as scheduled, so journalists are welcome to publish a ...
New study overturns popular theory on evolution of termite size
Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the head width of over 1500 species of termites and determined that their ...
CBD reduces glioblastoma’s size, supportive environment in experimental model
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 23, 2021) Inhaled CBD shrinks the size of the highly aggressive, lethal brain tumor glioblastoma in an animal ...
Watching the blink of a star to size up asteroids for NASA’s Lucy Mission
Gathering near Las Vegas recently, dozens of astronomers spread throughout the region, pointed their telescopes at the sky and waited ...
TESS discovers a planet the size of Mars but with the makeup of Mercury
Ultra-short-period planets are small, compact worlds that whip around their stars at close range, completing an orbit — and a ...
Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past ...
The secret to DNA packing to one-millionth its size
Threads or earphone cables placed in tight spaces get easily tangled. On the contrary, our body's long and loose DNA ...
Size matters for bee ‘superorganism’ colonies
Scientists have carefully studied the intricacies of how individual organisms live and act together in groups known as biological collectives. ...
Hagfishes break the cell size limit to make large slime threads
Researchers find large hagfishes grow extremely large cells in order to produce stronger threads that are used in their defensive ...
Birds’ eye size offers clues to coevolutionary arms race between brood parasites, hosts
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Eye size likely plays a role in the contest between avian brood parasites – birds that lay ...
Full color LEDs cut down to size
Micrometer-scale light-emitting diodes (μLEDs) are the ideal building block for next-generation microLED displays used in head-mounted monitors, mobile phones and ...
Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests
Water is essential for life on Earth and other planets, and scientists have found ample evidence of water in Mars’ ...
One size does not fit all in Antarctica: climate change will impact Antarctic seals differently
A New Zealand-led international study published today in Global Change Biology, reveals how climate change may impact seals in one ...
30 years of data reveals risk of poor prognosis increases with tumor size in liver cancer
OSAKA, Japan. Researchers at the Department of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine have shown that the ...
For good measure: A virtual ruler estimates the size of colorectal polyps
Colorectal polyps—fleshy growths occurring in the lining of the colon or rectum—are an important risk factor for colorectal cancer. Colonoscopy ...
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Changing the genetic “recipe” for protovertebrates
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NASA Emergency Beacons Save Lives in 2021
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From coil to globule
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Scientists find predictors of heart disease among Black Americans that are shared across ethnicities
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Tug of sun, moon could be driving plate motions on ‘imbalanced’ Earth
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Optical imaging highlights metabolic interactions that make pancreatic tumor cells grow