Creating living embryos using artificial reproduction technologies provides a promising avenue to rescue mammalian species at risk of extinction. In order to grow in vitro a sufficient number of female gametes fit for fertilization, ...
Biotechnology
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The largest number of species named after a single person is often attributed to the German polymath and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt. The impressive list contains about 400 species and includes everything from penguins ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2021
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The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) is a gravitational-wave detector that monitors areas in the vicinity of Earth using a network of pulsars (i.e., clock-like stars). At the end of ...
On Friday, an anonymous letter was sent to the prime minister's office alleging a current federal cabinet minister raped a woman in 1988.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2021
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Using ground-based facilities and space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has conducted multiwavelength observations of a galaxy cluster known as CLJ1449+0856. The observational campaign detected multiple faint ...
The lists of Earth's endangered animals and plants are getting increasingly longer. But in order to stop this trend, we require more information. It is often difficult to find out exactly where the individual species can ...
Ecology
Mar 2, 2021
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A University of Melbourne led study has established how plants use their metabolism to tell time and know when to grow—a discovery that could help leverage growing crops in different environments, including different seasons, ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2021
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Comfort is a daily human experience central to the perception of our environment and the continuous processing of sensory input. Environmental factors such as smell, temperature and light can influence comfort, as can our ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2021
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Herd immunity, when a threshold proportion of a population becomes immune to a disease-causing organism, reducing or stopping further transmission, is very much in the news. Avian cholera much less so. But there is an intersection ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 2, 2021
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Higher education has long been associated with the promise of a good life. Participation, however, has no guarantees.
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2021
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