"The winner takes it all, the loser standing small"—that's not just true in the famous ABBA song, but also in animal development. Frequently, a group of cells starts out all being the same. But then one cell puts the brake ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 15, 2019
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ESA's ultra-precise deep-space navigation technique – Delta-DOR – tells us where spacecraft are, accurate to within a few hundred metres, even at a distance of 100,000,000 km.
Space Exploration
Feb 8, 2019
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This intricate structure of an ancient river delta once carried liquid water across the surface of Mars.
Space Exploration
Feb 4, 2019
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The American blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) is an invasive voracious alien species, with no known predators and with high reproductive and survival rates, which has now spread throughout the Mediterranean. Since it appeared ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2019
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Taking up almost the entire southern tip of India, Tamil Nadu is the country's second-largest economy. Its delta region is considered to be the "rice bowl" of the state, also producing coconuts, bananas, nuts, spices and ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2019
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Autralopithecus sediba is not the missing link that connects modern man to its more primitive ancestors.
Archaeology
Jan 25, 2019
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Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered ancient tombs dating back to the Second Intermediate Period, 1782-1570 B.C., in the Nile Delta.
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2019
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A powerful Delta 4 Heavy rocket carrying a U.S. spy satellite lifted off Saturday from California.
Space Exploration
Jan 19, 2019
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Marking the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, new interactive data dashboards have been launched that visualise trends in forced labour, modern slavery, human trafficking, and child labour. For the first time, ...
Social Sciences
Dec 3, 2018
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Noise is a fundamental feature of any electrical measurement that calculates random and correlated signal fluctuations. Although noise is typically undesirable, noise can be used to probe quantum effects and thermodynamic ...
