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NEWS BY SUBJECT

MEDICINE & HEALTH

Bisphosphonates increasingly prescribed to the women most likely to benefit

THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY

In healthy young women, sleep quality varies throughout the menstrual cycle

THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY

More Medicine & Health

BIOLOGY

Study shows how electricity-eating microbes use electrons to fix carbon dioxide

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Like mountaineers, nerves need expert guidance to find their way

SALK INSTITUTE

More Biology

TECH & ENGINEERING

Ankle exoskeleton fits under clothes for potential broad adoption

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Energy monitor can find electrical failures before they happen

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

More Tech & Engineering

SOCIAL & BEHAVIOR

Teens who seek solitude may know what’s best for them, research suggests

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – SANTA CRUZ

How the ‘good feeling’ can influence the purchase of sustainable chocolate

UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN

More Social & Behavior

CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS

Breakthrough in air purification with a catalyst that works at room temperature

TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

Key evidence associating hydrophobicity with effective acid catalysis

TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

More Chemistry & Physics

ARCHAEOLOGY

Complex societies gave birth to big gods, not the other way around

COMPLEXITY SCIENCE HUB VIENNA

Researchers shed new light on the origins of modern humans

UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

More Archaeology

SPACE & PLANETARY

Jupiter’s unknown journey revealed

LUND UNIVERSITY

Giant X-ray ‘chimneys’ are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way’s center

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES

More Space & Planetary

AGRICULTURE

Natural plant defense genes provide clues to safener protection in grain sorghum

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL, CONSUMER AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Sustainable fisheries and conservation policy

FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN

More Agriculture

EARTH SCIENCE

Tall ice-cliffs may trigger big calving events — and fast sea-level rise

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Scientists argue for more comprehensive studies of Cascade volcanoes

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

More Earth Science

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Powerful Tropical Cyclone Veronica eyes Australia’s Pilbara Coast

NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

Tropical Cyclone Trevor fills Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria in NASA image

NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER

More Atmospheric Science

MATHEMATICS

Calling time on ‘statistical significance’ in science research

TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP

Mathematicians reveal secret to human sperm’s swimming prowess

UNIVERSITY OF YORK

More Mathematics

EDUCATION

Meditation enhances social-emotional learning in middle school students

CENTER FOR WELLNESS AND ACHIEVEMENT IN EDUCATION

Trials testing new educational methods in schools ‘often fail to produce useful evidence’

UNIVERSITY OF YORK

More Education

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

To stoke creativity, crank out ideas and then step away

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Gift card incentives connected to healthier outcomes in employee wellness programs

BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY

More Business & Economics

POLICY & ETHICS

Concerns regarding proposed changes to EPA’s causality framework

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

Asian-Americans do better at university, but face barriers in the workplace

TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP

More Policy & Ethics

SCIENCE BUSINESS NEWS

Danish biotech company announce the completion of a €5.5 million seed investment

TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK

Open source software helps researchers extract key insights from huge sensor datasets

SAARLAND UNIVERSITY

More Science Business News

GRANTS

Montana State professor wins NSF CAREER award for biosensor diagnostics

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Mechanical engineering professor collaborates on robot feasibility study

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON

More Grants

AWARDS

Julie Wayne named SIOP Fellow

SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Jeffrey Stanton named SIOP Fellow

SOCIETY FOR INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

More Awards

BOOKS

Brookhaven Lab publishes second edition of nuclear nonproliferation textbook

DOE/BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY

The story of nanotechnology and how size really does matter

WORLD SCIENTIFIC

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