Earth's health could benefit from space solar power, self-sustaining farms and your diet
What will it take to save this blue marble we call Earth?
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 13, 2018
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Indiana University
Technology on way to forecasting humanity's needs
Much as meteorologists predict the path and intensity of hurricanes, Indiana University's Alessandro Vespignani believes we will one day predict with unprecedented foresight, specificity and scale such things as the economic ...
Mathematics
Jul 23, 2009
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Polygamy hurt 19th century Mormon wives' evolutionary fitness
Polygamy practiced by some 19th century Mormon men had the curious effect of suppressing the overall offspring numbers of Mormon women in plural marriages, say scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other ...
Evolution
Feb 22, 2011
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Largest-ever analysis of microbial data reveals ecological law concluding 99.999 percent of species remain undiscovered
Earth could contain nearly 1 trillion species, with only one-thousandth of 1 percent now identified, according to a study from biologists at Indiana University.
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2016
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Tropics are widening as predicted by climate models, research finds
Scientists have observed for years that the Earth's tropics are widening in connection with complex changes in climate and weather patterns. But in recent years, it appeared the widening was outpacing what models predicted, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2018
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Insects resist genetic methods to control disease spread, study finds
Researchers are exploring the use of the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 to fight human disease and agricultural blight. But a study from Indiana University has found several challenges to the method's use in ...
Biotechnology
May 19, 2017
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Scientists watch bacteria 'harpoon' DNA to speed their evolution
Indiana University scientists have made the first direct observation of a key step in the process that bacteria use to rapidly evolve new traits, including antibiotic resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 11, 2018
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STAR TRAK for December
Venus will be at its dazzling brightest as December begins, appearing in the southwestern sky after sunset. This beautiful "evening star" will set two hours after the sun on Dec. 1 and an hour later at month's end.
Space Exploration
Dec 1, 2011
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Saturn only visible planet through the month of April
(PhysOrg.com) -- For those who enjoy viewing clusters of planets, the evening sky in April may be a bit disappointing. Saturn will be the only planet visible for most of the night, until the sky starts to brighten toward ...
Space Exploration
Apr 1, 2011
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Informatics students discover, alert Facebook to threat allowing access to private data, bogus messaging
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Facebook security vulnerability discovered by a pair of doctoral students at Indiana University Bloomington's School of Informatics and Computing that allowed malicious websites to uncover a visitor's real ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 3, 2011
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