The ability to insert desirable genes into animal or human cells is the basis of modern life science research and of widespread biomedical applications. The methods used to date for this purpose are mostly non-specific, making ...
Biotechnology
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The giant rhino, Paraceratherium, is considered the largest land mammal that ever lived and was mainly found in Asia, especially China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan. How this genus dispersed across Asia was long a mystery, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2021
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Like the movie version of Spider-Man who shoots spider webs from holes in his wrists, a little alpine plant has been found to eject cobweb-like threads from tiny holes in specialized cells on its leaves. It's these tiny holes ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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New research presents over 300 new analyses of bronze objects, raising the total number to 550 in 'the archaeological fingerprint project.' This is roughly two thirds of the entire metal inventory of the early Bronze Age ...
Archaeology
Jun 17, 2021
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RUDN University mathematicians built a model of COVID-19 spreading based on two regression models. The mathematicians divided the countries into three groups, depending on the spreading rate and on the climatic conditions, ...
Mathematics
Jun 17, 2021
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In recent years, physical reservoir computing, one of the new information processing technologies, has attracted much attention. This is a physical implementation version of reservoir computing, which is a learning method ...
General Physics
Jun 17, 2021
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To help struggling college students before it is too late, more and more universities are adopting machine-learning models to identify students at risk of dropping out.
Education
Jun 17, 2021
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Once thought to be extinct, lobe-finned coelacanths are enormous fish that live deep in the ocean. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on June 17 have evidence that, in addition to their impressive size, ...
Evolution
Jun 17, 2021
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The most accurate distance measurement yet of ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 (DF2) confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that it is lacking in dark matter. The newly measured distance of 22.1 +/-1.2 megaparsecs was ...
Astronomy
Jun 17, 2021
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For more than two decades, Duane Chapman, a fish biologist with the United States Geological Survey (USGS), has been chasing the spread of invasive carp, a family of fish originally from Europe and Asia, which individually ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 17, 2021
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