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To understand how Balinese rice farmers make their decisions for planting, a team of scientists led by Stephen Lansing (Nanyang Technological University) and Stefan Thurner (Medical University of Vienna, Complexity

Diseases caused by genetic mutations can be challenging to diagnose. Sequencing of a patient’s entire genome or exome — the part of the genome used to build proteins — now

Without sanitation facilities, human feces aren’t contained, and diseases are often spread when feces contaminate water, dirt, or food. Diarrheal diseases spread this way kill millions of children a year,

A new tool, developed by University of Washington and Microsoft researchers Maxim Grechkin, Hoifung Poon and Bill Howe, and described in a Community Page article publishing June 8 in the

“Increasing BMI is strongly associated with increased rates of revision surgical procedures and postoperative complications after shoulder arthroplasty,” write Eric R. Wagner, MD, and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester,

The finding — shedding light on a decades-long mystery about the source for some of this gas on Earth — could be important for understanding comets’ contribution of other materials,

Because clinical tests for the particular indicator defects identified here are widely available, these results could establish a new standard of care to test for them in tumors, the authors

A research team led by the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed magnetic signatures likely related to Majorana fermions — elusive particles that could be the basis

The experiments were performed with ultra-high quality graphene. To excite and image the ultra-slow ripples of light in the graphene (also called plasmons), the researchers used a special antenna for

While effective combination therapies have recently been developed, HCV can evolve to become resistant to these antiviral drugs, potentially resulting in treatment failures. Resistance is particularly important for one class

Lanthanides are a group of metals whose special electronic structure makes them attractive for use in optoelectronic applications. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based on lanthanides (Ln-MOFs) offer a wide range of

To combat these deficiencies, a team of human factors/ergonomics researchers led by Judy Edworthy is testing newly designed alarm sets with the goal of updating the current standard. Their findings