Frozen sperm and assisted reproduction: time to pull out all stops to save the endangered koala
Australia's wildlife was hit hard by the 2019-20 Black Summer megafires.
Plants & Animals
Apr 13, 2022
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Store credit cards generate corporate profits and disgruntled workers
Clothing retailers sell their shoppers more than jeans and sweaters.
Economics & Business
Apr 13, 2022
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As kids' activities reopen, parents share insights about keeping families active during COVID-19 shutdowns
Organized play and sporting opportunities for children have finally started to resume after having just passed the two-year mark of the pandemic.
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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Archaeological site along the Nile reveals the Nubian civilization that flourished in ancient Sudan
Circular mounds of rocks dot the desert landscape at the archaeological site of Tombos in northern Sudan. They reveal tumuli—the underground burial tombs used at least as far back as 2500 B.C. by ancient inhabitants who ...
Archaeology
Apr 13, 2022
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Astronomers inspect outburst of X-ray binary Swift J1858.6−0814
Using the MeerKAT radio telescope and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager–Large Array (AMI-LA), astronomers have conducted a radio monitoring campaign of the outburst of a recently discovered X-ray binary known as Swift J1858.6−0814. ...
Use of metal-organic frameworks to degrade plastics
What if the life cycle of the plastic bottle was circular? Where a used plastic bottle was returned to its original components, ready to be made into a new plastic bottle instead of possibly ending up in a landfill.
Materials Science
Apr 13, 2022
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Thawing permafrost driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms
Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape.
Environment
Apr 13, 2022
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Tubulin inhibitor with a unique molecular mechanism of action
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Italian Institute of Technology IIT have developed a novel substance that disables a protein in the cell skeleton, leading to cell death. In this way, substances of this ...
Biochemistry
Apr 13, 2022
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Calculating the costs of multiple switchgrass gene copies
A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 13, 2022
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Has the monitoring of professional athletes' intimate information gone too far?
Over the past decade, the top end of sport has become saturated in data. Some of this is visible—such as match statistics, maximum speeds and distances covered—but a tremendous amount is invisible.
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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