As the planet continues to warm, people living in the world's most vulnerable regions—like arid or low-lying nations—must contend with the decision to stay in a place where livability is decreasing or leave for countries ...
Environment
Oct 12, 2020
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Ecologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that carnivores living near people can get more than half of their diets from human food sources, a major lifestyle disruption that could put North America's carnivore-dominated ...
Ecology
Oct 12, 2020
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Through a simple process of heating and cooling, New York University researchers have created a new crystal form of deltamethrin—a common insecticide used to control malaria—resulting in an insecticide that is up to 12 ...
Biochemistry
Oct 12, 2020
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A team led by scientists in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has engineered powerful new antimicrobial molecules from toxic proteins found in wasp venom. The team hopes to develop the molecules ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 12, 2020
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Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo sifted through experimental data to probe the possibility that supercooled water has a liquid-to-liquid phase transition between disordered and ...
Materials Science
Oct 12, 2020
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Climate change is largely to blame for a near doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years, the United Nations said on Monday.
Environment
Oct 12, 2020
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Returning to school in the nation's capital during the pandemic has proven to be an ongoing experiment in learning—and not just for students.
Education
Oct 12, 2020
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Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned by the United States, a Russian official said Monday, marking the probable end of the type of close cooperation seen for two decades on the International ...
Space Exploration
Oct 12, 2020
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As public interest and expanded research in human genome editing grows, many questions remain about ethical, legal and social implications of the technology. People who are seriously ill may overestimate the benefits of early ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 12, 2020
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A University of Adelaide-led research project will study the clinical data of koalas injured in last summer's devastating bushfires to give them the best possible chance of survival and recovery in future bushfires.
Ecology
Oct 12, 2020
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