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Plants & Animals Apr 18, 2024

Invasive species sound off about impending ecosystem changes

Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring?

Plants & Animals Apr 18, 2024

Team finds direct evidence of 'itinerant breeding' in East Coast shorebird species

Migration and reproduction are two of the most demanding events in a bird's annual cycle, so much so that the vast majority of migratory birds separate the two tasks into different times of the year.

Bio & Medicine Apr 18, 2024

Researchers create nanomembrane to increase reaction rate in chemical production

Flow-through reactors packed with enzymes can produce certain chemicals in a gentle and careful way. However, their performance has so far been limited. A research team from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and RWTH Aachen University ...

Astronomy Apr 18, 2024

Researchers investigate three star-forming regions, identify hundreds young stellar objects

Using data from various space telescopes and astronomical surveys, Armenian researchers have investigated three star-forming regions. The study identified hundreds of young stellar objects and provided important information ...

Biotechnology Apr 18, 2024

Researchers train a bank of AI models to identify memory formation signals in the brain

An international research collaboration between Vanderbilt University and the Madrid-based de la Prida lab in the Cajal Institute led to the development of AI models that detect and analyze hippocampal ripples, which are ...

Astronomy Apr 17, 2024

Astronauts to patch up NASA's NICER telescope

NASA is planning to repair NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer), an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station, during a spacewalk later this year. It will be the fourth science observatory in orbit ...

Political science Apr 17, 2024

Fracking the future: How Congolese oil extraction has shaped its history and its fate

In 1969, the recently independent Republic of Congo discovered an enormous oil field off its coast. The find represented both a rare opportunity for the burgeoning nation, and a potential threat—the revenue generated by ...

Social Sciences Apr 17, 2024

Researchers find lower grades given to students with surnames that come later in alphabetical order

Knowing your ABCs is essential to academic success, but having a last name starting with A, B or C might also help make the grade.

Condensed Matter Apr 17, 2024

A new spin on materials analysis: Benefits of probing electron spin states at much higher resolution and efficiency

Electron spin states can now be probed at much higher resolution and more efficiently, opening new opportunities in materials analysis and data processing technologies.

Biotechnology Apr 17, 2024

Arboviruses, mosquitoes and potential hosts tracked in real time in São Paulo city

The technology used to sequence SARS-CoV-2 at record speed early in the COVID-19 pandemic has been successfully tested as a technique to monitor arboviruses and diseases transmitted mainly by mosquitoes.

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