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New papers posted dailyNovember 13, 2014
- Historical distribution of Sundaland’s Dipterocarp rainforests at Quaternary glacial maxima
- Human TRPA1 is intrinsically cold- and chemosensitive with and without its N-terminal ankyrin repeat domain
- Degradation of mouse locomotor pattern in the absence of proprioceptive sensory feedback
- Flexible and conductive MXene films and nanocomposites with high capacitance
- Transcriptional program of Kpna2/Importin-α2 regulates cellular differentiation-coupled circadian clock development in mammalian cells
- Sample processing obscures cancer-specific alterations in leukemic transcriptomes
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Modeling human population dynamics
Population control measures are unlikely to have a large impact on global human population size in the next century, a study suggests. -
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Oil fallout following the Deepwater Horizon spill
Much of the approximately 2 million barrels of oil released into underwater lateral plumes during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident may have settled on the ocean floor, according to a study. -
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Musical scale similarities in birds and humans
An analysis of song recordings of 14 hermit thrush birds reveals that most songs contain musical scales that are based on small-integer frequency ratios found in the same harmonic series commonly employed in human musical scales, and that the frequency selection does not arise from biological constraints, suggesting that scale determination is not unique to humans and may be at least partially culturally determined, according to a study. -
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