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Like Language, Genomes Are Encoded by Grammar Rules

A study led by Assistant Professor Emma Farley and two graduate students has found that developing genomes not only follow a precise pattern of expression, but the process is governed by rules that are similar to the ways in which grammar systematically structures our languages.

Researchers Extract First Layered Lake-Sediment Sample from Subglacial Antarctica

For the first time, a team of researchers with the National Science Foundation-funded project Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) has successfully extracted layered sediments from beneath the modern Antarctic ice sheet.

Complex Learned Social Behavior Discovered in Bee’s ‘Waggle Dance’

Researchers have discovered early social learning in insects. They found signaling communicated by honey bees about food sources—transmitted through a “waggle dance”—is an intricate form of social learning and one of the most complex known examples of non-human spatial referential communication.

If You Think You Understand How Incentives Work, Think Again

How can people be incentivized to drive more fuel-efficient cars, be more innovative at work and get to the gym on a regular basis? Uri Gneezy, professor of economics and strategy at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego explains this in his new book “Mixed Signals."

Where Will a Fulbright Award Take You?

The Fulbright Award is a prestigious national scholarship that blends adventure with discovery and peacemaking, with a wide variety of opportunities for nearly all Tritons to travel the world and make an impact through teaching, studying, working or conducting research.