How technology has changed the way we watch movies
WEBIndeed, the Internet and digital technology have changed the entire way studios have approached filmmaking and distribution. Social media is also a major trend that can be threatening or supportive of new films—word of mouth spreads quickly and worldwide at a pace never available before. Now if only they could figure out a way to stop piracy….
Archaeology: Early human landscape modifications discovered in …
WEBThe discovery supported Prof. William Balee´s (Tulane University) theory of early human impacts on the current Amazonian tropical forest composition that radically altered the notion of the pristine Amazon rainforest. Now, the team published an article in Antiquity demonstrating that the earthwork-building civilization had a much longer human ...
Archaeology: Denisovan DNA found in sediments of Baishiya Karst …
WEBPhoto: Baishiya Karst Cave view more . Credit Image: HAN Yuanyuan. One year after the publication of research on the Xiahe mandible, the first Denisovan fossil found outside of Denisova Cave, the same research team has now reported their findings of Denisovan DNA from sediments of the Baishiya Karst Cave (BKC) on the Tibetan Plateau where the Xiahe mandible was found.
Psychosocial programs shown to have high rate of conflict of …
WEBPsychosocial intervention programs are ostensibly developed by professionals to address a social problem like drug abuse. A new study conducted by Professor Manuel Eisner from The University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology found that 66 percent of the programs do not reveal a financial conflict of interest by the authors of …
Research: How cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
WEBThe Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. Animals need oxygen for the conversion of food into useful energy.
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WEBDrama Unfolds: Edmonton Oilers’ Latest Twist – Woodcroft Fired. Top News. The Edmonton Oilers' tumultuous narrative continues with a startling move made just after a triumphant 4-1 victory against the Seattle Kraken.
New images of solar system forming help explain Earth’s own …
WEBResearchers have released the first ever picture of a solar system like our own – a Sun-like star, orbited by multiple exoplanets. Scientists using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory have captured the very first image of a multi-planet system that revolves around a star much like our own Sun.
Chronic ear pain and tinnitus are caused by brain malfunction
WEBNew research conducted by Dr. Josef Rauschecker, director of the Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition at Georgetown University Medical Center, is the first to show that chronic ear pain and tinnitus are caused by brain abnormalities that were produced when the ear was first injured. Rauschecker fund that the brain reorganizes ...
Burrowing crabs reshaping salt marshes, with climate change to …
WEBIMAGE: A new study reveals how climate change has enabled a voracious crab species to dramatically alter salt marsh ecosystems across the southeastern U.S. The study, published in Proceedings of the… view more . Credit: Christine Angelini. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study reveals how climate change has enabled a voracious crab species to dramatically alter salt marsh ...
Researcher reconstructs skull of two million year-old giant …
WEBIMAGE: Artist’s impression of the giant dormouse (left) and its nearest living relative the garden dormouse (right). view more . Credit: Image credit: James Sadler, University of York. A PhD student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island of Sicily around two million years ago.
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