Sleep restriction and sleep disturbances are increasingly common in modern industrialized societies, due to, for instance, work-related stress and atypical working hours. In addition, our…
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All soils harbor micro-aggregates. These micro-aggregates composed of smaller building units such as minerals or organic and biotic materials that become more complex with increasing…
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Spacecraft travel at high speeds and have to “brake” before landing onto a planet. When the planet has an atmosphere, aerodynamic drag can be utilized…
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How might cultural messages about group status influence our attitudes and behaviors? We are all constantly exposed to beliefs or ideas that we can recognize…
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Scroll through any social media feed and it won’t take more than a couple thumb swipes to see some selfies. For young people, social media…
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Aluminum ion batteries are being developed to meet high demand applications, such as electrically-powered vehicles for private, public, and commercial transport (cars, buses, trucks, etc.)….
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During the last century in medicine, much progress was made in controlling infectious diseases. The associated human mortality has considerably gone down and nowadays most…
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Type 2 diabetes is two to three times more prevalent among people with bipolar disorder than among the general population, with over half of all…
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We have many computer “hosts” in our lives, from personal computers to printers to cell phones to smart refrigerators. On these hosts are so-called “vulnerabilities” such…
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Hydrogen can be easily produced through water electrolysis (2H2O → 2H2 + O2), a process that makes use of electricity to break the bonds between constituent elements…
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Meiosis is the process which creates sex cells, or gametes. During the process of meiosis, chromosomes are divided by half in order to create haploid…
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