[Psychology] Microaggression actions outpace evidence
Efforts to combat prejudice in workplaces and on campuses by targeting microaggressions lack solid foundations in psychological research. Lilienfeld, who supports microaggression research, – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Brad Wible Tags: Psychology Source Type: research
[Geophysics] Sand-driven magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field is due to convection of its liquid iron-nickel core, which also contains an unknown amount of lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, and sulfur. Hirose et – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Brent Grocholski Tags: Geophysics Source Type: research
[Agriculture] Remote sensing for analyzing smallholder farm yields
Smallholder farmers are key to local food security, but their productivity, or lack thereof, is buried when agricultural statistics are discussed at the scale of regions and nations. – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 15, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Pamela J. Hines Tags: Agriculture Source Type: research
[Optics] A time to polarize the unpolarized
Wavelength, intensity, and polarization are several parameters that define a light field. Light from most natural and many artificial light sources is unpolarized. However, an instantaneous – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Ian S. Osborne Tags: Optics Source Type: research
[Biophysics] The benefits of being young
In addition to chemical cues, the differentiation of stem cells can be influenced by mechanical forces, such as the stiffness of the underlying substrate, but these effects diminish – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Marc S. Lavine Tags: Biophysics Source Type: research
[Embryogenesis] Breaking embryo symmetry
For the first few cleavages, cells of the mammalian embryo are considered identical. Subsequently, symmetry is broken to generate the inner cell mass, which specifies the embryo proper, – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Beverly A. Purnell Tags: Embryogenesis Source Type: research
[Psychology] Sampling online workers globally
Historically, experimental psychologists have relied heavily on undergraduates for their subject pool; over the past decade, they have recruited subjects online, employing people colloquially – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Gilbert Chin Tags: Psychology Source Type: research
[Diversity] STEM = masculine + feminine
Gender inequalities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are well documented, but the underlying causes leading to these inequalities are less studied. To test – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Melissa McCartney Tags: Diversity Source Type: research
[Cancer Therapy] Exploiting cancer metabolism
Cancer-specific cell surface proteins can be targeted for the delivery of therapeutic agents. However, specific proteins may not always be expressed by a tumor. Wang et al. – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 9, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Lisa D. Chong Tags: Cancer Therapy Source Type: research
[Ebola] Superspreaders are local and disproportionate
Certain individuals, known as superspreaders, disproportionately infect more people with disease-causing organisms than the average infectious case. Lau et al. identified key – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 8, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Caroline Ash Tags: Ebola Source Type: research
[Organic Chemistry] Lighting the way to fluorine placement
Fluorination is a powerful strategy to fine-tune molecular properties in pharmaceutical research, but it is often difficult to place the F atoms exactly where you want them. Pitts et – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Jake Yeston Tags: Organic Chemistry Source Type: research
[Physics] Signatures of chiral anomaly multiply
Chiral anomaly is one of the most striking phenomena predicted to occur in Dirac and Weyl semimetals. One of its consequences, the decrease in electrical resistance with applied magnetic – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Jelena Stajic Tags: Physics Source Type: research
[Vertebrate Paleontology] Live birth in a new lineage
Live birth has evolved multiple times among vertebrates, most notably in mammals. Although live birth also occurs in some reptiles, including several extinct marine reptiles, it has – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Sacha Vignieri Tags: Vertebrate Paleontology Source Type: research
[Cancer] Immunotherapy —the forest and the trees
The clinical success of cancer immunotherapy has been both gratifying and perplexing to immunologists. One unsolved mystery is why fewer than 20% of cancer patients respond to this – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Paula A. Kiberstis Tags: Cancer Source Type: research
[Clean Energy] The PACE of clean energy development
The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program is a national initiative designed to promote investment in solar photovoltaics by commercial, nonprofit, and residential property owners. – [Read More] (Source: Editors' Choice)
Source: Editors' Choice - March 2, 2017 Category: Science Authors: H. Jesse Smith Tags: Clean Energy Source Type: research
