<< Men and women react differently to stress. Animal studies suggest the root of the difference is messaging within the brain >>
<< But until recently, studies of people’s responses to such stress have focused primarily on men >>
Susan Gaidos. Scientists puzzle over why men and women react differently to pressure. 2:30PM, JANUARY 11, 2016
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/his-stress-not-her-stress
<< Flirting is a full-scale production for torrent frogs >>
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/torrent-frog-flirting-complicated
Fábio P. de Sá, Juliana Zina, Célio F. B. Haddad. Sophisticated Communication in the Brazilian Torrent Frog Hylodes japi. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145444. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0145444
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0145444
<< A highly efficient homogeneous catalyst system for the production of CH3OH from CO2 using pentaethylenehexamine and Ru-Macho-BH (1) at 125–165 °C in an ethereal solvent has been developed (initial turnover frequency = 70 h–1 at 145 °C) >>
<< Various sources of CO2 can be used for this reaction including air, despite its low CO2 concentration (400 ppm) >>
Jotheeswari Kothandaraman, Alain Goeppert, et al. Conversion of CO2 from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. December 29, 2015. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12354
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5b12354
Andy Extance. Carbon dioxide-to-methanol catalyst ignites ‘fuel from air’ debate. 14 January 2016
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/01/fuel-air-carbon-dioxide-capture-methanol-renewable-energy
https://twitter.com/ChemistryWorld/status/687852980238860288
<< for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds that people typically categorize as music, but not to speech or other environmental sounds >>
http://bioengineer.org/music-in-the-brain/
Sam Norman-Haignere, Nancy G. Kanwisher, Josh H. McDermott. Distinct Cortical Pathways for Music and Speech Revealed by Hypothesis-Free Voxel Decomposition. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.11.035 |
https://twitter.com/scienmag/status/687766927553499140
<< The statue stands six feet tall and sits near the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia >>
Artist Andrew Kharevich
http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/russian-scientists-build-monument-to-honor-lab-rats#.jx57kXklBm
<< we simply cannot live a life without encountering noise >>
Chen-Pang Yeang, Joan Lisa Bromberg. Understanding noise in twentieth-century physics and engineering. Perspective on Science, 2016, 24(1): 1-6
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/POSC_e_00188
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May RM. Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics. Nature. 1976 Jun 10;261(5560):459-67.
<< Among undiagnosed men who took regular aspirin, the risk of developing a lethal form of prostate cancer was reduced by 24 percent, and among those already diagnosed with the disease, regular aspirin use lowered their risk of dying from it by 39 percent >>
http://www.curetoday.com/articles/aspirin-use-may-lower-risk-of-developing-lethal-prostate-cancer
2016 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). San Francisco from January 7-9, 2016
http://meetinglibrary.asco.org/subcategories/2016%20Genitourinary%20Cancers%20Symposium
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