Biotechnology is rapidly evolving through developments in genome editing and synthetic biology, giving birth to new forms of life.
Biotechnology
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Massachusetts is the latest state to vote on a ballot initiative to increase the amount of space that animals are allowed in industrial food production systems. It prohibits keeping pigs, cows and egg-laying hens in tight ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2016
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The hissing sound you hear in the background when you turn up the volume of your music player is called "noise". Most of this hiss is due to the thermal motion of electrons in the music-player circuitry. Just like molecules ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 10, 2016
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Much as Linux, Windows, and iOS coordinate the execution of computing applications, laws coordinate the execution of human society. When new kinds of interactions emerge – sharing our airspace with private drones, for example, ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 10, 2016
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Many wildfires have begun in the southern United States and NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of them raging in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. The fires that could easily be identified are noted ...
Earth Sciences
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The Waldbahn railway line near Welzheim is one of the most beautiful railway lines in South Germany and listed as a monument. Its viaducts, however, require restoration. The 100-year-old Laufenmühle viaduct, for instance, ...
Engineering
Nov 10, 2016
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An international team of researchers has revealed the intricate relation between how the systems remember their past and their complex energy landscapes.
General Physics
Nov 10, 2016
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Ozone is a troublesome pollutant at ground level and throughout the lower layer of the atmosphere. A statistical method developed by researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2016
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A study by the University of Liverpool has found that the diversity of marine worm species in the Antarctic Ocean has been vastly underestimated, and this finding could help to monitor climate change in this region.
Ecology
Nov 10, 2016
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SA Young Tall Poppy of the Year, Flinders University's Dr Justin Chalker, has been part of an international research effort which opens the door to new drug development and a range of other applications in biochemistry.
Biochemistry
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