Early in the pandemic, Víctor Ortega-Jiménez was exploring creeks near his home and observing springtails. The organisms are the most abundant non-insect hexapods on earth, and Ortega-Jiménez suspected their avoidance ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2022
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With a new model, AMOLF researchers reveal how single-celled organisms like bacteria coordinate growth, cell division and DNA replication. Bacteria reproduce via growth and cell division. During each cycle of growth and division, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2022
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Red tide is a global marine ecological disaster. Currently, the main remediation technology employed for red tide control on a large scale is to spray modified clay (MC) on the surface of red tide-affected water.
Biotechnology
Nov 2, 2022
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New research from the University of Oxford, Yellowstone National Park, and Penn State, published today in the journal Science, may have finally solved why wolves change color across the North American continent.
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2022
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Researchers developed a ground-breaking model to estimate bait vaccination effectiveness in wild animals based on the proportion of immunized animals in a population and the number of vaccine applications.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 18, 2022
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22
Facing starvation and stress conditions, some bacteria enter a dormant state in which life processes stop. Shutting down into a deep dormancy allows these cells, called spores, to withstand punishing extremes of heat, pressure ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2022
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Scientists have made a key breakthrough in the quest to accurately predict fluctuations in the rotation of the Earth and so the length of the day—potentially opening up new predictions for the effects of climate change.
Earth Sciences
Oct 3, 2022
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87
A research group led by Prof. Liu Zhaoping at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has proposed an analytical approach to quantitatively evaluate the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 3, 2022
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A new study reveals how Facebook communities were already intertwined with groups opposing best-science guidance long before COVID-19 vaccines
Social Sciences
Sep 29, 2022
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Using artificial intelligence, physicists have compressed a daunting quantum problem that until now required 100,000 equations into a bite-size task of as few as four equations—all without sacrificing accuracy. The work, ...
General Physics
Sep 26, 2022
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