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Healthcare Let Neanderthals 'Punch Above Their Weight'

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Christopher Intagliata — Mind, Behavior & Society, Cognition, The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

By caring for the sick and injured, Neanderthals were able to expand into more dangerous environments and pursue more deadly prey. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Health Care Let Neandertals "Punch above Their Weight"

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Christopher Intagliata — Mind, Behavior & Society, Cognition, The Sciences, Biology, Evolution

By caring for their sick and injured, Neandertals were able to expand into more dangerous environments and pursue more deadly prey. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Scientific American

Catalytic enantioconvergent coupling of secondary and tertiary electrophiles with olefins

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Zhaobin Wang, Haolin Yin, Gregory C. Fu

Catalytic enantioconvergent coupling of secondary and tertiary electrophiles with olefins Catalytic enantioconvergent coupling of secondary and tertiary electrophiles with olefins, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0669-yNickel-catalysed coupling of racemic alkyl (...)

Nature

Teach undergraduates that doing a PhD will require them to embrace failure

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Irini Topalidou

Teach undergraduates that doing a PhD will require them to embrace failure Teach undergraduates that doing a PhD will require them to embrace failure, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-06905-0Students must learn that a doctoral degree isn’t for everyone — and that not (...)

Nature

Gloomy 1970s predictions about Earth’s fate still hold true

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Quirin Schiermeier

Gloomy 1970s predictions about Earth’s fate still hold true Gloomy 1970s predictions about Earth’s fate still hold true, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07117-2Four decades ago, the Club of Rome predicted looming economic collapse in its iconic ‘Limits to Growth’ report. (...)

Nature

Toothless whale fossil fills gap in filter-feeding evolution

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par John Pickrell

Toothless whale fossil fills gap in filter-feeding evolution Toothless whale fossil fills gap in filter-feeding evolution, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07070-0Analysis of jawbones suggests early baleen whales used suction to vacuum up their (...)

Nature

NIH releases plan for determining whether sick research chimps should be moved to sanctuaries

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Sara Reardon

NIH releases plan for determining whether sick research chimps should be moved to sanctuaries NIH releases plan for determining whether sick research chimps should be moved to sanctuaries, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07122-5US National Institutes of Health (...)

Nature

Daily briefing: Top institutions get more grants (but deliver much less for the money)

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Flora Graham

Daily briefing: Top institutions get more grants (but deliver much less for the money) Daily briefing: Top institutions get more grants (but deliver much less for the money), Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07125-2“Lesser” institutions make grant money go further, a (...)

Nature

Double the fun: Mars scientists push NASA to send rock-harvesting rover to two sites

jeudi 18 octobre 2018 par Alexandra Witze

Double the fun: Mars scientists push NASA to send rock-harvesting rover to two sites Double the fun: Mars scientists push NASA to send rock-harvesting rover to two sites, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07064-yThe US$2.4-billion mission aims to collect the first (...)

Nature

When proteins stand on their heads for science

jeudi 18 octobre 2018

When proteins stand on their heads for science When proteins stand on their heads for science, Published online: 18 October 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-07102-9Bioengineered molecules promise to bolster optogenetics, a widely used approach for studying (...)

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