All great apes are considered severely endangered. It's possible that 100 years from now, species such as orangutans will be wiped off the planet entirely.
Ecology
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Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a mathematical model that has the potential to improve the performance of endovascular aneurysm sealing (EVAS), which is an innovative procedure to treat abdominal ...
Mathematics
Apr 9, 2018
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The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), an international committee headed by an EPFL professor, has just unveiled JPEG XS. With this new format, the image-compression process uses less energy, and higher-quality images ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 9, 2018
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The most dangerous snake you are likely to meet in northern Europe are vipers and grass snakes, which are generally only dangerous to children and dogs.
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2018
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The first comprehensive study of snowfall across Antarctica provides vital information in the study of future sea-level rise.
Earth Sciences
Apr 9, 2018
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Dr. Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye has warned of the risk of privacy attacks that happen through friends.
Internet
Apr 9, 2018
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A team of fire ecologists released a report this week titled "Everything You Wanted To Know About Wildland Fires" summarizing the state of knowledge about forest fires on public lands. This report comes just days after the ...
Environment
Apr 9, 2018
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A team of engineers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) recently discovered that a naturally occurring bacterium, Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum TG57, isolated from waste generated after harvesting ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2018
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The complex properties of water and ice are not well understood but a team from UCL and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source have revealed new information about a phase of ice called ice II.
Condensed Matter
Apr 9, 2018
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Stem cells have the ability to develop, or differentiate, into the many cell types in the body. They also serve as a repair system to replace aged or damaged cells. With their regenerative abilities, stem cells offer enormous ...
Cell & Microbiology
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