Models show natural swings in the Earth's climate contribute to Arctic sea ice loss
Arctic sea ice loss in the last 37 year is not due to humans alone.
Earth Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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Education not a factor for when women in Africa marry
Women in Africa with little formal education are delaying marriage—much like their better-educated peers, a new University of Michigan study indicates.
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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Elections forensics can enhance, challenge legitimacy of election outcome
Voters will have their voices heard during Tuesday's midterm elections. Walter Mebane, professor of political science and statistics at the University of Michigan, is an expert on election forensics, a field devoted to using ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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Small genetic differences turn plants into better teams
Diverse communities of plants and animals typically perform better than monocultures. However, the mechanisms that are responsible for this have so far been a mystery to science. Biologists at the University of Zurich have ...
Evolution
Nov 6, 2018
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Fluorescent 'breathalyzer' makes optimisation of catalysts much easier
A new test for industrial catalysts developed by chemists at Utrecht University uses fluorescent molecules to show which of three catalysts works better than the others. This makes it much easier to work on improving the ...
Materials Science
Nov 6, 2018
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Wealthier people do less in the struggle against climate change
A collective-risk dilemma experiment with members of the public in Barcelona shows that people are more or less likely to contribute money to fight climate change depending on their wealth. And the results indicate that participants ...
Social Sciences
Nov 6, 2018
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Scientists discover gene regulator that allows plant rehydration after drought
Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan have found that the protein NGA1 is critical for plants to have normal responses to dehydration. Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2018
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Coping with errors in the quantum age
Quantum systems can be manipulated with extremely high precision, but not perfectly. Researchers in the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich have now demonstrated how to monitor and correct errors that occur during such operations.
Quantum Physics
Nov 6, 2018
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Supermarket produce harbors antibiotic-resistance genes
Researchers from the Julius Kühn Institut, Germany have found that produce is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance genes that often escape traditional molecular detection methods. These antibiotic resistance ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 6, 2018
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Man killed in third shark attack in weeks on Great Barrier Reef
A man has died after being mauled by a shark in the third such attack in two months at a popular tourist site on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, authorities said Tuesday.
Ecology
Nov 6, 2018
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