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ScienceDaily: Top News

ScienceDaily: Top News

Digital media may be changing how you think

Posted: 08 May 2016 12:19 PM PDT

Tablet and laptop users beware. Using digital platforms such as tablets and laptops for reading may make you more inclined to focus on concrete details rather than interpreting information more abstractly, according to a new study. The findings serve as another wake-up call to how digital media may be affecting our likelihood of using abstract thought.

Birdcages source of dengue virus

Posted: 07 May 2016 06:21 AM PDT

Researchers in Malaysia and Japan have found that birdcages kept at home may be a breeding site for mosquitoes that transmit dengue virus to humans.

'Lab on a chip': Small devices make a big impact

Posted: 07 May 2016 06:21 AM PDT

Mass-produced microvalves are the key to scalable production of disposable, plug-and-play microfluidic devices, say scientists. The elusive 'lab on a chip' capable of shrinking and integrating operations normally performed in a chemical or medical laboratory on to a single chip smaller than a credit card, may soon be realized thanks to disposable, plug-and-play microfluidic devices.

How towers helped determine the impact of the 2012 U.S. drought on the carbon cycle

Posted: 07 May 2016 06:13 AM PDT

In 2012, the United States experienced the warmest spring on record followed by the most severe drought since the Dust Bowl. A team of scientists used a network of Ameriflux sites to map the carbon flux across the United States during the drought.

New device may provide rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections

Posted: 06 May 2016 01:01 PM PDT

A new device has been developed that has the potential of shortening the time required to rapidly diagnose pathogens responsible for health-care-associated infections from a couple of days to a matter of hours.
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