Forschungsteam der Universität Tübingen entdeckt in Hanoi, dass Bakterien bei der Freisetzung von Arsen Nahrungsquellen aus tiefen Gesteinsschichten nutzen
Giftiges Arsen im Grund- und Trinkwasser ist ein riesiges Problem für mehr als hundert Millionen Menschen weltweit, insbesondere in Ländern Südostasiens wie Bangladesch und Vietnam. Freigesetzt wird es durch die Aktivität von Mikroorganismen. (more…)
Hoarding is a mental disorder where someone struggles to throw away or get rid of anything. They could hoard anything from newspapers to cats. A lot of hoarders continue to hold onto items because they believe at some point these things will be useful or valuable. Another reason that people develop hoarding tendencies is that they have other mental health issues. Many doctors believe that depression, obsession-compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder all can lead to hoarding. If you have someone in your life that suffers from hoarding, there are ways that you can help them. (more…)
When consultant Sarah Kimmel sees families struggling to organize busy schedules – especially now, when across the world people are juggling work and school while at home – she can tell them to relax; it’s one of many problems she’s particularly well-qualified to solve. (more…)
Have you recently experienced a dip in your sales? Do you think you are losing your foothold in the market? Or you could be losing your clientele to your competitors. Have you thought why it is so? Let us see what is the cause behind this. It could be that poor digital marketing is the reason behind this. (more…)
Why do some people almost always drop $10 in the Salvation Army bucket and others routinely walk by? One answer may be found in an intricate and rhythmic neuronal dance between two specific brain regions, finds a new Yale University study published Feb. 24 in the journal Nature Neuroscience. (more…)
Computer models focused on current and potential policy decisions could help shed light on the future of migration caused by sea level rise, concluded a team of scholars that included Brown demographer Elizabeth Fussell. (more…)
Freiburger Forscher untersucht Ursprünge der Beschaffenheit von Oberflächen
Die meisten natürlichen und künstlichen Oberflächen sind rau: Metalle und selbst Gläser, die mit dem bloßen Auge glatt erscheinen, sehen unter dem Mikroskop aus wie Berglandschaften. Es gibt derzeit keine einheitliche Theorie über den Ursprung dieser Rauheit, die auf jeder Größenskala, von atomaren bis zu tektonischen Abständen, beobachtet wird. (more…)
Nearly 200 years ago, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow claimed that “Music is the universal language of mankind.” Over the past several years, an international team of researchers has explored music from around the world to determine whether that is true or merely cliché — and a Princetonian crunched the numbers. (more…)
