The recent introduction of the common Asian toad to Madagascar has led to fears that the toxic amphibian could wreak havoc on the island's already severely threatened fauna. Now, researchers report genetic evidence in the ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 4, 2018
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By comparing different types of remote atomic clocks, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have performed the most accurate test ever of a key principle underlying Albert Einstein's famous ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 4, 2018
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Because instruments were finally installed there, scientists can no longer say that East Antarctica is unusually seismically silent.
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2018
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By altering the genetic code in bacteria, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a method to make therapeutic proteins more stable, an advance that would improve the drugs' effectiveness and convenience, ...
Biotechnology
Jun 4, 2018
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Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists' understanding of the Universe.
Astronomy
Jun 4, 2018
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No one can predict when or where an earthquake will strike, but in 2011 scientists thought they had evidence that tiny underground tremors called foreshocks could provide important clues. If true, it suggested seismologists ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2018
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The invention of agriculture changed humans and the environment forever, and over several thousand years, the practice originated independently in a least a dozen different places. But why did agriculture begin in those places, ...
Archaeology
Jun 4, 2018
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Similar to the eye of a hurricane, physicists of research institute AMOLF, the University of Amsterdam and the University of Texas at Austin, have captured light in the eye of an optical vortex. The research will be published ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 4, 2018
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Fossil fuel stocks have long been a safe financial bet. With the International Energy Agency projecting price rises until 2040, and governments prevaricating or rowing back on the Paris Agreement, investor confidence is set ...
Environment
Jun 4, 2018
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Cheaper and more efficient photonic devices, such as lasers, optical fibers, and other light sources may be possible with confined light that is unaffected by imperfections in the material that confines it, according to new ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 4, 2018
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