Do "Dear CEO" letters make a difference?
For several years now, large investment firms have used public proclamations, like BlackRock's "Dear CEO" letters, to signal their commitment to corporate social responsibility. New research shows the companies these firms invest in are picking up th.....»»
Scientists discover potential cause of Alzheimer’s Disease
In people with brain buildups, a key but difficult-to-detect difference in the form of tau protein allows scientists to distinguish people showing no outward signs of dementia from those who do......»»
The mobile version of Rocket League is now available globally on Android and iOS
It was earlier this year when Developer Psyonix announced that its incredibly popular game would be hitting mobile platforms in the form of Rocket League Sideswipe. The biggest difference in this version is that the 3D view changes to a 2D side-on pe.....»»
"Gangotri wave" connecting two of Milky Way"s spiral arms discovered
A team of researchers from Germany, France and the U.K. has discovered a long thin filament of dense gas connecting two of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms. In their paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the group describes their wo.....»»
Probing helium dimer by relativistic highly charged projectiles
In a recent theoretical work published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators suggested probing helium dimer by relativistic highly charged pro.....»»
QLED vs. OLED: Which TV technology is best?
OLED and QLED: Can one letter make such a big difference? Absolutely. Here's what you need to know about the two TV technologies before you spend your money......»»
Enlarging windows into understanding gene functions
In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. Yet the specific sequence of these four letters re.....»»
Newly improved quantum algorithm performs full configuration interaction calculations without controlled time evolutions
In a continuing effort to improve upon previous work, a research team at the Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, has applied its recently developed Bayesian phase difference estimation quantum algorithm to perform full configuration in.....»»
Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch
On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. The girl's family could not afford the cost of getting her a pr.....»»
Chromebooks vs. laptops: What’s the difference?
Chromebooks are similar to ordinary notebooks, but they run a different OS. Let's take a look at Chromebooks versus laptops to see what's different......»»
Vehicles are an under-recognized source of urban ammonia pollution
By disrupting normal societal activities, such as driving, COVID-19 lockdowns afforded a unique opportunity to study their impacts on the environment. Researchers now report in ACS' Environmental Science & Technology Letters that satellite data from.....»»
Scientists may need to rethink how genomics impacts risk for OCD
Both rare and commonly observed differences in the DNA letters strung along a person's chromosomes can explain about a third of the risk for being diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to a new study......»»
Keeping science reproducible in a world of custom code and data
Computer analysis is now a central part of science. Enlarge (credit: Degui Adil / Getty Images) It is often said that the difference between science and superstition is that science is reproducible. Unfortunately, many scienti.....»»
Bismuth isotopes found to change shape from spheres to rugby balls
Alternating from spheres to rugby balls is no longer the sole preserve of mercury isotopes, an international team at CERN's ISOLDE facility reports in a paper published in Physical Review Letters......»»
The next step in understanding the interaction among hadrons
In a recently published article in Physical Review Letters, the ALICE collaboration has used a method called femtoscopy to study the residual interaction between two-quark and three-quark particles. Through this measurement, an interaction between th.....»»
"Mountain Rain or Snow" project seeks citizen scientists and winter storm reports
During the winter, a few degrees can make all the difference between digging your car out of a snowbank and rushing rivers overtopping their banks. Why? Winter storms at near-freezing temperatures have notoriously fickle precipitation, with mixes of.....»»
Readers Respond to the July 2021 Issue
Letters to the editor from the July 2021 issue of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Costco Disclosed Data Breach After Finding Credit Card Skimmer
Costco Wholesale Corporation has warned customers in notification letters sent this month that their payment card information might have been stolen while recently shopping at one of its stores. BleepingComputer reports: Costco discovered the breach.....»»
Changing social inequality from first farmers to early states in Southeast Asia
What lies at the root of inequality in human communities? It is a question that has captivated human beings for millennia. Is there a scientific method to find out what makes all the difference?.....»»
Do You Need To Know The Difference Between Online Casino And Real Casino? Here Is A Break Through
It may not appear that there is much of a difference between an online casino and a traditional brick-and-mortar gambling … The post Do You Need To Know The Difference Between Online Casino And Real Casino? Here Is A Break Through appeared firs.....»»
Striking difference between neurons of humans and other mammals
Human neurons have a lower density of ion channels than expected, compared to neurons of other mammals, according to a new study. The researchers hypothesize that a lower channel density may have helped the human brain evolve to operate more efficien.....»»