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New Model Finds Best Sites for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a computational model that can be used to determine the optimal places for locating electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities, as well as how powerful the charging stations can be without placing an undue burden on the local power grid.

What’s In A Name? Glimmers Of Evolution In Naming Babies, Choosing A Dog, According To U-M Researcher

Maverick was first used as a baby name after a television show called “Maverick” aired in the 1950s, but its popularity rose meteorically in 1986 with the release of the movie “Top Gun.” Today, it is even used for baby girls.

New Long-Necked Dinosaur Helps Rewrite Evolutionary History Of Sauropods In South America

A medium-sized sauropod dinosaur inhabited the tropical lowland forested area of the Serranía del Perijá in northern Colombia approximately 175 million years ago, according to a new study by an international team of researchers published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

Famine And Disease Drove The Evolution Of Lactose Tolerance In Europe

Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults, finds a new study.

Out Of Tune: When Words Get In The Way

Ever notice when someone’s singing out of key? Like when you’re in a karaoke bar and your best friend belts out her favorite Adele track but woefully misses the mark?

Famine And Disease Drove The Evolution Of Lactose Tolerance In Europe

Prehistoric people in Europe were consuming milk thousands of years before humans evolved the genetic trait allowing us to digest the milk sugar lactose as adults.

Helping Autonomous Vehicles Navigate Tricky Highway Merges

If autonomous vehicles are ever going to achieve widespread adoption, we need to know they are capable of navigating complex traffic situations, such as merging into heavy traffic when lanes disappear on a highway.

Researchers Propose New Framework for Regulating Engineered Crops

A Policy Forum article published today in Science calls for a new approach to regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops, arguing that current approaches for triggering safety testing vary dramatically among countries and generally lack scientific merit –

Instructors Share Secrets for ‘Bichronous’ Teaching Online

A new study led by a North Carolina State University researcher reveals lessons about how award-winning instructors design and deliver online “bichronous” courses, which blend elements of real-time synchronous instruction, and self-paced, or asynchronous, activities.

Earliest Land Animals Had Fewer Skull Bones Than Fish – Restricting Their Evolution, Scientists Find

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study.

U. of Michigan researchers find 319 million-year-old brain in fossilized fish

Researchers at the University of Michigan reportedly have found the oldest well-preserved vertebrate brain to date, which was discovered in a fossilized fish skull from a specimen in England more than a century ago.

Stone Spheres Could Be From Ancient Greek Board Game

Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have suggested that mysterious stone spheres found at various ancient settlements across the Aegean and Mediterranean could be playing pieces from one of the earliest ever board games.

Gut Microbes And Humans On A Joint Evolutionary Journey

Researchers discover simultaneous evolutionary history of gut microbes with their human hosts over hundreds of thousands of years

U. of Michigan study: Red squirrels win gamble on evolutionary fitness

Red squirrels that gamble with their reproduction strategy outperform their counterparts in terms of Darwinian fitness, even if it costs them in the short term, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Family Ties Give Animals Reasons To 'Help Or Harm' As They Age

The structure of family groups gives animals an incentive to help or harm their social group as they age, new research shows.

How Evolution Overshot The Optimum Bone Structure In Hopping Rodents

Bones that are separate in small jerboas are fully fused in large ones, but the bone structures that are best at dissipating the stresses of jumping are only partially fused

Study Unlocks Clues to Naked Mole-Rats’ Exceptional Fertility

A new study sheds light on unique processes that bestow naked mole-rats with what seems like eternal fertility, findings that could eventually point to new therapies for people.

New Images Lead to Better Prediction of Shear Thickening

For the first time, researchers have been able capture images providing unprecedented details of how particles behave in a liquid suspension when the phenomenon known as shear thickening takes place.

What Big Teeth You Have: Tooth Root Surface Area Can Determine Primate Size

An often overlooked feature could give scientists new insight into the lives of ancient primate species.

Catnip And Pea Aphid Came Up With Different Ways To Make The Same Molecule

While the chemical steps for the biosynthesis of nepetalactone appear to be identical in the plants and insects, they use different enzymes to catalyze them.