Your Personality Traits May Play a Major Role When Dealing With China
In the United States, business relationships are formal and typically based on contractual agreements, while in China, personality traits play a much bigger rol...
How Vulnerable Are Grazing Lands to Climate Change?
A study shows that grazing lands are vulnerable to climate change. Some 800 million people around the world depend on livestock that graze on natural vegetatio...
NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of ...
Why China Has 39 Football Statues, Yet No World Class Footballers
Despite China’s absence from this summer’s World Cup finals, the world’s most populous nation is challenging for the number one spot in one aspect of foot...
Did You Know That Some Black Holes Can Erase Your Past?
In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts out, he or she can calculate its future for all time ...
Here’s How You Can Teach Mosquitoes to Avoid Your Scent
Most of us surely don’t think of mosquitoes as being especially adept at learning. But that may not be the case. In a paper published on January 25 in Curr...
Using Light-Powered Wires to Modulate the Brain’s Electrical Signals
The human brain largely remains a black box. How the network of fast-moving electrical signals turns into thought, movement, and disease remains poorly understo...
New Approach to Targeted Chemotherapy Delivery
A team of scientists has demonstrated a novel technique for targeted chemotherapy delivery directly to tumor cells through gold nanoparticles that can be remote...
Why Is the Influenza Vaccine Only Modestly Effective?
New research on why the influenza vaccine has only been modestly effective in recent years shows that immune history with the flu influences a person’s respon...
Project Acoustic Kitty: The CIA and Their Cat Spy
During the height of the Cold War, officials in the CIA devised a covert plan to keep tabs on Russians in Washington, D.C. As part of a clandestine experiment, ...
