DNA Testing Identifies 9/11 Victims 17 Years After Terror Attacks
Almost 17 years after the United States of America’s worst terror attack, another victim of 9/11 has been finally identified, allowing his family to have…
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Monthly Archive: July 2018
Costs Of Dispersal To A New Habitat: Insights From A Translocation Experiment In A Wild Bird Population
Ongoing large-scale and dramatic human-induced environmental changes in climate and land use cause major challenges to the long-term survival of wildlife populations. One way for…
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Rock Storms, Jupiter Quakes, And The Future Of Giant Planet Seismology
Understanding the shrouded interior of Jupiter is a holy grail of planetary science and astrophysics. Jupiter has more than twice as much mass as all…
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The Importance Of Estimating Clay Mineral In Oilfields
Clay minerals consist of a fine-grained material which is classified according to their crystal structure into four major groups: kaolinite, chlorite, illite, and smectite. These…
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Gravity Science Investigation With NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission
The Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Science (EPSS) at UCLA has an impressive record of leadership or participation in NASA missions. For example, the…
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The Surface Roughness Of 433 Eros From The NEAR Laser Rangefinder
The Near-Earth (not hazardous to Earth) asteroid 433 Eros was explored by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft in 2000-2001. This mission, built and designed by the Johns…
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Novel Therapies From The World Of Biotechnology
By now, most of us know someone who has benefited from the wide range of protein therapeutics produced by the biopharmaceutical industry; someone who had…
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Chickadees Use Individual Search Sequences To Forage For Food
Black-capped chickadees are food-storing passerines that are able to keep track of thousands of stored food locations called caches (Sherry, 1984; Healy & Hurly, 2004)….
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Solar Pumps: Changing The Rural Agricultural Landscape
Solar pumps are transforming the agricultural landscape throughout the developing world. The availability of energy throughout the year, as well as government interest across the…
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Sexual Activity Increases One’s Mood And Sense Of Meaning In Life
Positive psychology focuses on the aspects of our psychology that make us happy, that gives us fulfillment, that makes life worth living, that give life…
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Those Who Use Alternative Medicines Over Traditional Medicines More Than Twice As Likely To Die Of Cancer
A recent study released in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Oncology has reported that cancer patients who choose to receive alternative medicine…
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