(SALT LAKE CITY) – “Coffee” was the most tweeted food in the continental U.S. between mid-2014 to mid-2015 followed by “beer” then “pizza”. Besides hinting at which foods are popular, tweets may reveal something about our health. Communities that expressed positive sentiments about healthy foods were more likely to be healthier overall. (more…)
Leaked Podesta emails from Wikileaks show Google’s all-the-way possible engagement in Hillary Clinton’s election campaign. Already in 2014 Google’s parent company Alphabet Chairman Dr. Eric Schmidt sent the Clinton team a draft outlining key programmes for the campaign. (more…)
Ions subjected to buffer gas cooling never truly reach the same temperature as the surrounding gas
According to the basic laws of thermodynamics, if you leave a warm apple pie in a winter window eventually the pie would cool down to the same temperature as the surrounding air. (more…)
ANN ARBOR — A new molecular gel recipe developed at the University of Michigan is at the core of a prototype for a more accurate lead paint test. (more…)
Wechselwirkung von Viren und Mikroorganismen entscheidend für Ökosystem
Ein internationales ForscherInnenteam unter der Leitung von Matthew Sullivan von der Ohio State University (USA) mit Beteiligung von Alexander Loy von der Universität Wien liefert einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Katalogisierung der genetischen Vielfalt der Viren in den Weltmeeren: Insgesamt fanden die WissenschafterInnen über 15.000 verschiedene Virustypen, dreimal mehr als bisher bekannt. Da diese Viren überraschend vielfältigen Einfluss auf die Meeresmikroben nehmen, die wiederum eine wichtige Rolle für das Ökosystem Ozean spielen, haben diese Wechselwirkungen zwischen Viren und Mikroben auch Konsequenzen für das Klima. Die Studie erscheint in der aktuellen Ausgabe der renommierten Fachzeitschrift “Nature”.
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Formerly known as 1999 RQ36, the space rock was chosen by process of elimination as the destination for the UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission, which will pick up a sample of its regolith and return it to Earth for analysis. Launch is little more than two months away. (more…)
AUSTIN, Texas — Some of the bacteria in our guts were passed down over millions of years, since before we were human, suggesting that evolution plays a larger role than previously known in people’s intestinal-microbe makeup, according to a new study in the journal Science. (more…)
UD researchers conduct consumer behavior studies in Washington
The University of Delaware’s Center for Experimental and Applied Economics (CEAE) rolled out its innovative tuk tuk at the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers Market on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sept. 30, conducting a study on consumers’ preferences for food produced with non-traditional irrigation water. (more…)
