As Zika spreads throughout the world, the call for rapid development of therapeutics to treat Zika rings loud and clear. Taking a step further in identifying a possible therapeutic candidate, …read more Source:: Science
Day: November 24, 2016
Fault curvature may control where big earthquakes occur
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•The geometry of large faults has been the focus of recent research, which has found that the big earthquakes occur where faults are mostly flat. …read more Source:: Science
Upward mobility boosts immunity in monkeys
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•The richest and poorest Americans differ in life expectancy by more than a decade. Glaring health inequalities across the socioeconomic spectrum are often attributed to access to medical care and …read more Source:: Science
Fuel cells: For platinum catalysts, tiny squeeze gives big boost in performance
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•Squeezing a platinum catalyst a fraction of a nanometer nearly doubles its catalytic activity, say researchers, a finding that could lead to better fuel cells and other clean energy technologies. …read more Source:: Science
Depression in young people affects the stomach, anxiety the skin
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•Mental disorders and physical diseases frequently go hand in hand. For the first time, psychologists have identified temporal patterns in young people: arthritis and diseases of the digestive system are …read more Source:: Science
Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change
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•An international team of researchers has analyzed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct species to show that conservation sensitive Australasian marsupials are much older than previously thought. …read more Source:: Science