The world's largest shark fin industry lies in the heart of the Coral Triangle, a region of the Indian and Pacific Oceans home to the world's most diverse coral reefs and known as the Amazon of the seas. This idyllic-sounding ...
Ecology
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In phase transitions, for instance between water and water vapor, the motional energy competes with the attractive energy between neighboring molecules. Physicists at ETH Zurich have now studied quantum phase transitions ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 11, 2016
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The tree of life, which depicts how life has evolved and diversified on the planet, is getting a lot more complicated.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 11, 2016
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University of Delaware researchers have identified two novel molecular players necessary to regulate plasmodesmata—communication channels in plants that bridge individual cells with their neighboring cells for distribution ...
Biotechnology
Apr 11, 2016
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Researchers have shown that, outside of a few specific examples, antibiotics do not promote the spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance through genetic swapping, as previously assumed.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 11, 2016
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Island nations could be forgiven for feeling slighted. They already face the brunt of the effects of climate change: Rising sea levels, dwindling resources, threats to infrastructure and economic foundations. But to add insult ...
Environment
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An international research team has demonstrated that a new plant-derived drug can block the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS).
Biochemistry
Apr 11, 2016
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Following a hybrid competitive strategy leads to superior financial performance in the internationalisation of high-technology companies, shows a new Finnish study in the field of marketing. The study challenges the traditional ...
Economics & Business
Apr 11, 2016
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A JCU scientist has developed a hi-tech animation of millions of years of tectonic plate movements that could lead to new mineral discoveries and help predict volcanic eruptions.
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2016
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Insights from pure mathematics are lending new insights to material physics, which could aid in development of new devices and sensors. Now an international team of physicists has discovered that applying a magnetic field ...
General Physics
Apr 11, 2016
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