ScienceDaily (Feb. 14, 2012) — Though cellphones are usually considered devices that connect people, they may make users less socially minded, finds a recent study from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Marketing professors Anastasiya Pocheptsova and Rosellina Ferraro, with graduate student, Ajay T. Abraham, conducted a series of experiments on […]
Giant Panda Genome Reveals New Insights Into the Bear’s Bamboo Diet
ScienceDaily (Mar. 6, 2010) — A Chinese-led team including international researchers with a scientist from Cardiff University, has shed new light on some of the giant panda’s unusual biological traits, including its famously restricted diet. The team has successfully sequenced the panda genome for the first time and now, the genetic insights gleaned from the […]
Polar Bears Unlikely to Survive in Warmer World, Biologists Say
ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2010) — Will polar bears survive in a warmer world? UCLA life scientists present new evidence that their numbers are likely to dwindle. As polar bears lose habitat due to global warming, these biologists say, they will be forced southward in search of alternative sources of food, where they will increasingly come […]