Exploring Leaf and Litter Traits in Decomposition
Leaf-litter decomposition is a vital process in forest environments: this is how nutrients stored in leaves are recycled, returning to the soil and becoming available…
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Sham (Placebo) Surgery: Fake News Or Snake Oil?
Testing a drug against a placebo in a randomized double-blinded trial is the gold standard in the development of new treatment options in medicine. If…
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Creepy And Crawly? Infants Are Stressed When Seeing A Spider Or A Snake
Many people experience a strong dislike of everything crawling or slithering. While not everybody is afraid of spiders and snakes, clinical fears of these animals…
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Poop Transfer – Past, Present, And (No) Future
The topic is delicate (although this already is a misnomer), as most people shiver if they are not disgusted hearing for the first time what…
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Whole Blood Assay – An Innovative Approach Targeting Research On Inflammasomes
The general idea that our immune system consists of an innate and adaptive part is well-known nowadays. Even though basic mechanisms and pathways of our…
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Food-Caching And Spatial Cognition: Harsher Winters Favor More Caching And Better Cognitive Abilities
One of the large questions in the study of the evolution of animal cognition is why there is large variation both among and within species…
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Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology: An Alternative To Costly Chemical Procedures
Industrial biotechnology aims to use bioprocessing of sustainable agriculture products, such as starch, fatty acids and/or cellulose, to produce bulk chemicals including polymeric materials and…
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Developments In Piezoelectric Nanogenerators
Acceleration sensors play a crucial and essential role in many fields, such as large mechanical structure testing, national defense, transportation, auto industry, biomedical devices, and…
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Antidepressant Discontinuation Syndrome
Depression is a highly prevalent, severely debilitating mental disorder that affects nearly 5% of the global population, and has a high risk of relapse. Commonly…
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Using Hansen Solubility Parameters To Reduce Permeation In Clay
Ancient humans have long used pottery as their main containers for storing food and as a cooking device even before the Neolithic period. These potteries…
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Policies And Market Uncertainty: Exploring The Impact On Renewables Adoption
There is a wide international consensus on the need to limit global warming. This is evident from the 195 countries who have adopted a binding…
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