Distant exoplanets revealed by light from wobbling stars
Ask most folks what they would need to find planets orbiting distant stars, and very few will list a bottle of iodine.
Astronomy
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A new way to test body armor
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new way to investigate the high-performance fibers used in modern body armor. Described in the Journal of Polymer Science, the research ...
Polymers
Oct 17, 2017
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The importance of asymmetry in bacteria
New research published in Nature Microbiology has highlighted a protein that functions as a membrane vacuum cleaner and which could be a potential new target for antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2017
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The missing mass—what is causing a geoid low in the Indian Ocean?
The Earth's interior is still a mystery to us. While we have sent missions to probe the outer reaches of our Solar system, the deepest boreholes on Earth go down to only a few kilometres. The only way to learn what's going ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2017
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How far do invasive species travel?
Around the globe, an increasing number of plant and animal species are introduced into new regions through human activity. However, the global patterns of their distribution are only poorly understood to date. Researchers ...
Ecology
Oct 17, 2017
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Plastic between your toes
Plastic is everywhere. This is in short the key outcome of a study by bachelor's student Froukje Lots and her supervisor Thijs Bosker. They found that every kilogram of sand on European beaches contained on average 250 fragments ...
Environment
Oct 17, 2017
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Microbes leave 'fingerprints' on Martian rocks
Scientists around Tetyana Milojevic from the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna are in search of unique biosignatures, which are left on synthetic extraterrestrial minerals by microbial activity. The biochemist ...
Space Exploration
Oct 17, 2017
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This ingenious approach not only binds CO2, but also improves the soil
If 4,000 Norwegian farms and nurseries produced biochar and mixed it with the soil, we could halve CO2 emissions from the agricultural sector. This entirely natural approach also produces more robust and healthy plants.
Environment
Oct 17, 2017
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Early global greenhouse event gave rise to fire-adapted trees
Conifers that were living at the South Pole show an extreme adaptation to forest fires.
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2017
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California still under the throes of wildfire woes
Northern parts of California especially around the Napa and Somona Valley areas are still having major wildfire issues that continue to be exacerbated by weather conditions. Other areas of California are also in danger, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2017
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