The Scandinavian wolf originally came from Finland and Russia, and unlike many other European wolf populations its genetic constitution is virtually free from dog admixture. In addition, individuals have migrated into and ...
Plants & Animals
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Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the past decade, researchers have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth's microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated ...
Ecology
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By analyzing data from astronomical surveys, Japanese astronomers have detected a new, extremely variable quasi-stellar object (QSO), or quasar. The newly found object, designated SDSS J125809.31+351943.0, brightened in optical ...
Trust is a crucial component of effective public health policy. It is also a two-way street. People need to trust the authorities—universities, employers, the government—that are asking them to behave in a certain way, ...
Social Sciences
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Over the summer, eating outdoors was a pleasant way to socialize more safely at pubs, restaurants and in gardens. But as temperatures drop and COVID restrictions remain in place, socializing outdoors becomes more tricky (even ...
Environment
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COVID has led to children spending more time on screens using social networks, communication apps, chat rooms and online gaming.
Social Sciences
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People in wealthy, industrialized countries are used to finding their supermarket shelves fully stocked. Yet for a brief period early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some of those shelves emptied out, as panic drove shoppers to ...
Environment
Nov 10, 2020
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Rodents such as house mice (Mus musculus) aren't just pests at home, they can cause serious damage to native ecosystems.
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2020
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In 2013, an inhabitant of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, found a land flatworm in his garden and had the good idea to send the photograph to a network of naturalists. We then launched a citizen science survey in France to learn ...
Plants & Animals
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Though we usually think of ethanol as fuel for the gas tank, it can also be transformed into valuable chemicals that could help replace a variety of petroleum-based products beyond just gasoline. However, evolving ethanol ...
Materials Science
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