In an expanded, three-year clinical trial of 86 patients with colorectal and 11 other kinds of cancer that have so-called ‘mismatch repair’ genetic defects, scientists have found that half of …read more Source:: Science
Month: June 2017
Lost ecosystem found buried in mud of southern California coastal waters
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•Paleontologists investigating the sea bed off California have discovered a lost ecosystem that for thousands of years had nurtured communities of scallops and shelled marine organisms called brachiopods. They had …read more Source:: Science
Composition of Earth-size planets in TRAPPIST-1 system
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•An astrophysics researcher has identified the possible compositions of the seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Using thousands of numerical simulations to identify the planets stable for millions of years, …read more Source:: Science
Monkey see, monkey do, depending on age, experience and efficiency
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•Wild capuchin monkeys readily learn skills from each other — but that social learning is driven home by the payoff of learning a useful new skill. …read more Source:: Science
Developing fetuses react to face-like shapes from the womb
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•It’s well known that young babies are more interested in faces than other objects. Now, researchers have the first evidence that this preference for faces develops in the womb. By …read more Source:: Science
Brain imaging reveals neural roots of caring
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•When others suffer, we humans empathize. Our feelings of empathy take different forms, such as distress when we imagine and internalize someone’s pain and compassion as we sympathize with their …read more Source:: Science
Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows
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•Whales show surprisingly vast differences in hearing ability. Baleen whales tune into infrasonic sounds to communicate over long distances. Toothed whales do just the opposite, relying on ultrasonic frequencies too …read more Source:: Science
Sensitivity to inequity is in wolves’ and dogs’ blood
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•Not only dogs but also wolves react to inequity — similar to humans or primates, suggests new research. Wolves and dogs refused to cooperate in an experiment when only the …read more Source:: Science
Finding new homes won’t help emperor penguins cope with climate change
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•Unlike other species that migrate successfully to escape the wrath of climate change, a new study shows that dispersal may help sustain global Emperor penguin populations for a limited time, …read more Source:: Science
Celestial Boondocks: Study Supports the Idea We Live in a Void
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•A new study not only firms up the idea that we exist in one of the holes of the Swiss cheese structure of the cosmos, but helps ease the apparent …read more Source:: Science