How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal rules and more on the social norms surrounding the child. In the study, researchers examined…
Eradicating Child Marriage
Child marriage is a global issue affecting various countries, religions and ethnicities. In this Asia Research News 2018 feature article, researchers from Malaysia and UK spoke to 7,500 women to find out the causes and…
Enzyme from briny deep resurrected in the lab
Genomes of single microbial cells isolated from the Red Sea could yield a goldmine for biotechnology. [caption id="attachment_14186" align="alignnone" width="663"] The rosette sampler is used to collect the bacterial samples from the briny pool in…
Sahara snow
[caption id="attachment_14183" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO[/caption] The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission has captured rare snowfall in northwest Algeria, on the edge of the Sahara…
Radar adds technological twist to age-old cranberry counting…
[caption id="attachment_14164" align="alignnone" width="775"] A farmer harvests cranberries from a flooded marsh at Cranberry Creek Cranberries Inc. in Necedah, Wisconsin. UW–Madison engineers have invented a device that automates the process of counting cranberries on the…