Keeping wild animals is an important component of the mission of zoos to educate the public and preserve endangered species. When animals die, tracking the potential cause becomes an investigation of pathogens from around ...
Plants & Animals
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The UPV/EHU physicist Eneko Malatsetxebarria has explored, on a theoretical level, some quantum effects that take place in atoms at a very low temperature. Firstly, he has discovered that boson-type atoms and fermion-type ...
General Physics
Jan 3, 2014
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DNA carries out its activities "diluted" in the cell nucleus. In this state it synthesises proteins and, even though it looks like a messy tangle of thread, in actual fact its structure is governed by precise rules that are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 3, 2014
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As 2014 opens, most of the half dozen comets traversing the morning and evening sky are faint and require detailed charts and a good-sized telescope to see and appreciate. Except for Comet Lovejoy. This gift to beginner and ...
Space Exploration
Jan 3, 2014
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The status quo in space flight operations is no more. Private American rockets are leading the charge of overdue change into the innovative 'Commercial Space Race' by blasting 2014 open with a pair of 'Big Bang fireworks' ...
Space Exploration
Jan 3, 2014
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From the violence of Jupiter's Great Red Spot to Earth's own extreme weather, Pedram Hassanzadeh is investigating atmospheric vortices, those swirling air masses that make the weather go—and sometimes make it stop.
Earth Sciences
Jan 3, 2014
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Murdoch University marine scientists report a successful method for re-establishing the seagrass Amphibolis antarctica at Shoalwater Bay, off Rockingham.
Ecology
Jan 3, 2014
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Internet trolling is a matter of "moral panic", according to an assessment of this activity by Jonathan Bishop of the Centre for Research into Online Communities and E-Learning Systems in Brussels. Writing in the International ...
Social Sciences
Jan 3, 2014
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Some come to Idaho to travel the highways that lead to the Tetons, to Yellowstone, to small towns and big adventures. Idaho National Laboratory researcher Isabella van Rooyen came, all the way from South Africa, looking for ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 3, 2014
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(AP)—Ask Americans to imagine life in 2050, and you'll get some dreary visions.
Social Sciences
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