Over the last decade, scientists have been scrambling to understand the impacts of microplastics. With the breakdown of plastic bottles, washing the world's seven billion fleece jackets, or the microbeads in face cleansers, ...
Environment
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A team of researchers from James Cook University (JCU), The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Canberra and Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, analyzed the genetic make-up of the greater glider—a ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2020
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Researchers in Japan, the US and China say they have found more concrete evidence of the volcanic cause of the largest mass extinction of life. Their research looked at two discrete eruption events: one that was previously ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2020
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Summer is usually horse trainer Amy Bowers' busy season, but Colorado's record-setting wildfires forced Bowers to deliberate hour-by-hour about whether she could safely train horses.
Ecology
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Working Australians, on average, lost 167 hours of work worth more than $5,000 each and $47 billion to the economy from the start of March to the end of October due to COVID-19, new research shows.
Economics & Business
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Australian schools are unfairly suspending and excluding students—particularly boys, Indigenous students, and students with a disability—according to new research from the University of South Australia.
Education
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New University of Montana research suggests recurring continent-spanning drought patterns set the tempo for forest recovery from wildfire.
Environment
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A team of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has invented an artificial olfactory system that mimics the mammalian nose to assess the freshness of meat accurately.
Analytical Chemistry
Nov 10, 2020
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Silicon has been the workhorse of electronics for decades because it is a common element, it's easy to process and has useful electronic properties. A limitation of silicon is that high temperatures damage it, which limits ...
Materials Science
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Bats excel in acoustic perception and detect objects as tiny as mosquitoes using sound waves. Echolocation permits them to calculate the three-dimensional location of both small and large objects, perceiving their shape, ...
Plants & Animals
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