Human primordial germ cells (PGCs) are the early precursors of the eggs (oocytes) and sperm that are necessary to keep humankind alive and reproducing. Medical researchers attempt to study their function and development using ...
Cell & Microbiology
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People with lower incomes are exposed to heat waves for longer periods of time compared to their higher income counterparts due to a combination of location and access to heat adaptations like air conditioning. This inequality ...
Environment
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Electromagnetic (EM) waves and gravitational waves are the only available means to study the Universe on a large scale. For millennia, only the former could be used, in naked-eye astronomical observations by the ancients ...
General Physics
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New Yorkers entering their third year of COVID have bleak views of the near-term economy and a strong conviction that vaccines should be required for those seeking to participate in their city's indoor activities (69%), to ...
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2022
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A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and Sony Computer Science Laboratories has begun to search for life on other planets using a tool that analyzes statistical complexity. In their paper published ...
A new study led by Prof. Ding Lin from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the evolution of the Central Tibetan Valley, which may shed light on the formation of ...
Earth Sciences
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New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe.
Astronomy
Feb 10, 2022
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Synergy isn't always a good thing—take climate change and invasive plants.
Ecology
Feb 10, 2022
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A global team of climate risk and heritage experts, for which Dr. Nicholas Simpson from the University of Cape Town's (UCT) African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) was one of the leading contributors, has provided ...
Environment
Feb 10, 2022
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Whether Guard Cells (GCs) carry out photosynthesis has been debated for decades. Earlier studies suggested that guard cell chloroplasts (GCCs) cannot fix CO2 but later studies argued otherwise. Until recently, it has remained ...
Plants & Animals
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