Life-extension zealots have championed many strategies aimed at prolonging our days here on Earth, and not all sound like much fun (I'm thinking specifically about caloric restriction). Supercentenarians - those rare humans ...
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Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) is developing a competitive solution for the production and use of up-to-date forest resource information in the Russian market. The development work combines Finnish forest planning ...
Environment
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The natural presence of fatty acids in the human body leads to increased resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to a class of antimicrobials that target bacterial fatty acid biosynthesis. This discovery, based on research by ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 7, 2016
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The rise of 3-D printing means it's now easy to create objects to any design we like from scratch, something that's already finding particular use in medicine, with 3-D printed customised prosthetics or even replacement bones ...
Materials Science
Oct 7, 2016
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Medieval cities – with their agrarian societies and simple market economies – seem very different from modern European urban centers. Life in 14th-century cities centered around hierarchical institutions such as the crown, ...
Social Sciences
Oct 7, 2016
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Chemical manufacturing is a huge industry that delivers much needed chemicals to a variety of industries. Almost all of the everyday things we buy or use have been made in part with man-made chemicals. Laws and regulations ...
Materials Science
Oct 7, 2016
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Frank Borman hasn't forgotten the view.
Space Exploration
Oct 7, 2016
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The key to overcoming antibacterial resistance could lie in our ability to detect biofilms—a structure formed by bacterial communities that protects them from antibacterial drugs. Scientists at A*STAR have developed the ...
Biochemistry
Oct 7, 2016
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Imagine you're a farmer whose crops are nearing their harvest time. You've just sprayed them with standard pesticides to keep the bugs away until the fruit is ready, and then you see a report that there will be huge storm ...
Ecology
Oct 7, 2016
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The first three-dimensional (3-D) structure of a human protein complex within intact mammalian cells has been obtained directly by A*STAR scientists. It could provide new opportunities in structural biology, in developing ...
Biochemistry
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