Beans are a key food at the dietary level, boasting high nutritional value and constituting the most directly consumed legume. They also have a "superpower" in the field: they are able to fix nitrogen to the soil, so they ...
Biotechnology
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The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet. It consumes enormous quantities of tiny, shrimp-like animals known as krill to support a body of up to 100 feet (30 meters) long. Blue whales and other baleen whales, which ...
Ecology
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A study of fruit flies shows some species are highly susceptible to a wide range of viruses. The paper, published in the journal Evolution Letters, is titled "Positive correlations in susceptibility to a diverse panel of ...
Plants & Animals
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When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an unlikely discovery. They ...
Astronomy
Feb 6, 2025
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Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse, not better, despite efforts to ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2025
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New research has revealed that a hairy crustacean—dubbed "The Hoff crab" when it was discovered in 2010—is the first species in its family to show different claw characteristics between sexes.
Plants & Animals
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AI transformational impact is well under way. But as AI technologies develop, so too does their power consumption. Further advancements will require AI chips that can process AI calculations with high energy efficiency. This ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 6, 2025
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How do bacteria—harmless ones living in our bodies, or those that cause disease—organize their activities? A new study, combining powerful genomic-scale microscopy with a technical innovation, captured which genes bacteria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 6, 2025
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Researchers have demonstrated, for the first time in the world using mice, the ability to overcome significant challenges in gene therapy using adeno-associated virus vectors (AAV), specifically "production of neutralizing ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 6, 2025
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Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using gravitational waves from their collisions. By analyzing the "long ringdown" phase—a pure-tone signal emitted ...
Astronomy
Feb 6, 2025
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