Horseshoe Crabs Living Through A Crisis
Horseshoe crabs, or limulids, are some of the strangest of shoreline creatures. There are only four species today, three of them living in shallow waters…
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How Do Living Cells Survive When Skipping A Paycheck?
First, they cut expenses and then recycle hand-me-downs, but how do they know ahead of time that the money is running out? Recent research on…
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The Impact Of Insulin Resistance On The Course Of Bipolar Disorder
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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Climate Change Stressors Threaten Blue Crab Populations
Billions of larval blue crabs, or zoeae, are spawned each year into the many estuaries and bays of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the…
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The Differences In Relationships Formed Online Versus In The Physical World
There are two venerable rules about how relationships form. We like people who are physically and psychologically similar to us (homophily or propinquity), and we…
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A Novel Theory For Aging Including Cancer
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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Who Do Women Count As Allies In STEM?
People’s prototype for who scientists are is perhaps made most apparent in what has become a classic social science classroom experiment in which students of…
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Aluminum Ion Batteries For High-Demand Applications
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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Eosinophilic Inflammation In Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Agent Provocateur Or Innocent Bystander?
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD), defined as non-traumatic, non-iatrogenic dissociation of the coronary vessel wall, represents an important cause of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) among…
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How Commonly Do Women Post Sexualized Selfies On Social Media?
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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How Cultural Messages May Shape Individual Attitudes
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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