Chemists scouring Appalachia for exotic microorganisms that could yield blockbuster drugs have reported a unique find from the smoldering remains of a coal mine fire that's burned for nearly a decade in southeastern Kentucky.
Biochemistry
Feb 6, 2017
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Increasingly dangerous fire weather is forecast as the global footprint of extreme fires expands, according to the latest research.
Environment
Feb 6, 2017
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Scientists from the University of Bristol have uncovered a 480-million-year-old slug-like fossil in Morocco which sheds new light on the evolution of molluscs - a diverse group of invertebrates that includes clams, snails ...
Archaeology
Feb 6, 2017
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The ability of malaria parasites to persist in the body for years is linked to the expression of a set of genes from the pir gene family, scientists from the Francis Crick Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2017
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Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low-cost, real-time detection of methane gas leaks in pipelines and at oil and gas facilities. Leaks of methane, the primary component of natural ...
Optics & Photonics
Feb 6, 2017
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A grisly method by which bacteria dispatch their distant relatives also creates conditions in which the attackers can thrive, research has found.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2017
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Extractive industries affect Indigenous peoples in Sweden and Australia, and Indigenous group's perspectives are often ignored or trivialised, according to a PhD thesis from Umeå University in Sweden. Kristina Sehlin MacNeil ...
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2017
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A crop-destroying caterpillar native to the Americas is "spreading rapidly" in Africa and threatens farming worldwide, the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) warned on Monday.
Environment
Feb 6, 2017
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With as many as 120 recently discovered weevils placed in the genus Laparocerus, it now hosts a total of 237 known species and subspecies. They are all flightless beetles and most of them endemic (living exclusively in one ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 6, 2017
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A meteor over Lake Michigan lit up the sky Monday morning across several states in the Midwest.
Space Exploration
Feb 6, 2017
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