New research from Rutgers University provides a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of climate change, revealing that circulation of the ocean plays an important role in regulating the climate. Most of the concerns about climate change have focused on the amount of greenhouse gases that have been released into the atmosphere. But in a new study published in Science, a group of Rutgers...

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An international team of researchers has discovered a new signaling molecule capable of activating brown fat cells. The number of overweight persons is greatly increasing worldwide – and as a result is the risk of suffering a heart attack, stroke, diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease. For this reason, many people dream of an efficient method for losing weight. An international team of researchers led...

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Based on a rigorous comparative analysis of kangaroo anatomy, biologists at Brown University reveal that the ancient family of sthenurine kangaroos likely preferred walking to hopping. Imagine that a time machine has transported you to the Australian outback 100,000 years ago. As you emerge, you see a huge kangaroo with a round rabbit-like face foraging in a tall bush nearby. The animal’s surprising...

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White House officials say technicians recently noticed suspicious activity on the computer systems at the U.S. presidential mansion. They say the situation was dealt with immediately and work continues, although the response has led to temporary outages and loss of Internet connectivity for some White House employees. Officials gave no details about who might who have been responsible or when the activity occurred....

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An unmanned commercial rocket that was supposed to send a cargo ship to the International Space Station exploded Tuesday, six seconds after liftoff from a NASA launch pad in Virginia. The privately owned rocket barely got off the ground before it blew up just after sunset on Wallops Island, off the Atlantic coast. There was no one on board and no one on...

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