Science Square

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Science Square Jul 1, 2015

Science Square (Issue 106)

A New Blood Test Can Tell Every Virus You’ve Ever Had Engineers have developed a new tool which…

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Science Square May 1, 2015

Science Square (Issue 105)

Natural Antifreeze from Ticks Frostbite Protection in Mice Suggests an Antifreeze Glycoprotein Heisig M. et al. PLOS ONE,…

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Science Square Mar 1, 2015

Science Square (Issue 104)

Plants Tricked Into Drought Tolerance Agrochemical control of plant water use via engineered abscisic acid receptorsPark et al.…

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Science Square Jan 1, 2015

Science Square (Issue 103)

Earth’s most abundant mineral identified Tschauner O. et al. Discovery of bridgmanite, the most abundant mineral in Earth,…

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Science Square Nov 1, 2014

Science Square (Issue 102)

Newly Discovered Particle Is Both Matter and Antimatter Observing Majorana fermions in the ferromagnetic atomic chains on a…

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Science Square Sep 1, 2014

Science Square (Issue 101)

Planet with the longest orbit discovered Astronomers have discovered a planet with the longest known orbital period. Exoplanet…

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Science Square Jul 1, 2014

Science Square (Issue 100)

Supernova explosions generated in the lab Meinecke et al. Turbulent amplification of magnetic fields in laboratory laser-produced shock…

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Science Square May 1, 2014

Science Square (Issue 99)

Elephants can distinguish human languages Elephants can determine ethnicity, gender, and age from acoustic cues in human voices.…

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Science Square Mar 1, 2014

Science Square (Issue 98)

Sequence Integration in the Brain Basal ganglia subcircuits distinctively encode the parsing and concatenation of action sequences. Jin…

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Science Square Jan 1, 2014

Science Square (Issue 97)

A galaxy rapidly forming stars 700 million years after the Big Bang at redshift 7.51 Finkelstein S.L et…

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Science Square Sep 1, 2013

Science Square (Issue 95)

The Brain’s GPS Jacobs J. et al. Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature…

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Science Square Mar 1, 2013

Science Square (Issue 92)

Facing Aggression Gómez-Valdés et al. Lack of Support for the Association between Facial Shape and Aggression: A Reappraisal…

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Science Square Nov 1, 2012

Science Square (Issue 90)

Childhood environment leaves its mark on DNA Factors underlying variable DNA methylation in a human community cohort. L.L.…

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