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Our Plastic Trash Form Giant Ocean Patches, Study

Our Plastic Trash Form Giant Ocean Patches, Study

New research shows that it doesn’t matter where in the world plastic garbage enters the ocean, it can end up in any of the five ocean basins.

January 21, 2013
Mutant HIV Protein Turns On Itself

Mutant HIV Protein Turns On Itself

Researchers in Australia have developed a way to use HIV to beat HIV in the laboratory.

January 21, 2013
Scientists Decode Genome Of Insecticide-Resistant, Cabbage-Eating Moth

Scientists Decode Genome Of Insecticide-Resistant, Cabbage-Eating Moth

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the diamondback moth, a pest that ravages important crops such as cabbage.

January 17, 2013
Black Holes Growing Faster Than We Thought, Study

Black Holes Growing Faster Than We Thought, Study

Astronomers from Australia have discovered that supermassive black holes are growing much faster than was expected.

January 17, 2013
Healing Blind Mice

Healing Blind Mice

Blind mice can see again, after researchers transplanted developing cells into their eyes and found they could reform the entire light-sensitive layer of the retina.

January 14, 2013
China’s One-Child Policy Linked To Oversensitive, Untrusting ‘Little Emperors’

China’s One-Child Policy Linked To Oversensitive, Untrusting ‘Little Emperors’

China’s radical one-child policy has produced a generation of untrusting and over-sensitive “Little Emperors,” new research has found.

January 14, 2013
Shark Embryos Play Dead When Predators Lurk

Shark Embryos Play Dead When Predators Lurk

Embryonic sharks can sense danger and avoid being detected by predators by staying still, says a new study.

January 14, 2013
China’s Corals Have Declined By 80 Percent, Study

China’s Corals Have Declined By 80 Percent, Study

China’s coral reefs have suffered a devastating 80 percent decline in recent decades, according to a new study.

January 14, 2013
Structure Of Insulin Bound To Receptor Revealed

Structure Of Insulin Bound To Receptor Revealed

Researchers have solved the structure of insulin bound to its receptor, the first time that this structure has been visualized.

January 14, 2013
Thinking Along Racial Lines Makes One Less Creative, Study

Thinking Along Racial Lines Makes One Less Creative, Study

New research suggests that racial stereotyping reduces creative thinking by making people more close-minded.

January 10, 2013
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