Scientists have directly measured the increasing greenhouse effect of methane at the Earth's surface for the first time. A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Earth Sciences
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A team of computational biologists has developed an algorithm that can 'align' multiple sequencing datasets with single-cell resolution. The new method, published today in the journal Nature Biotechnology, has implications ...
Biotechnology
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Cells comprising a tissue can pack into disorderly geometries much as do grains of sand in a sandcastle. In doing so they can freeze into a fixed shape—as in a sandcastle—or flow like sand poured from a beach bucket. ...
General Physics
Apr 2, 2018
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Not only can synthetic molecules mimic the structures of their biological models, they can also take on their functions and may even successfully compete with them, as an artificial DNA sequence designed by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ...
Biochemistry
Apr 2, 2018
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An international team of scientists, which includes the University of Bristol, have made a significant breakthrough in how we understand the first three-quarters of life on earth by creating new techniques for investigating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 2, 2018
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Antarctica's great ice sheet is losing ground as it is eroded by warm ocean water circulating beneath its floating edge, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
Apr 2, 2018
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A range of less than one degree Fahrenheit (or half a degree Celsius) of climate warming over the next century could make all the difference when it comes to the probability of future ice-free summers in the Arctic, new University ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2018
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Thanks to a rare cosmic alignment, astronomers have captured the most distant normal star ever observed, some 9 billion light years from Earth.
Astronomy
Apr 2, 2018
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Scientists have proposed a mechanism that explains the biggest-ever earthquake and how more than 50 years later, another large earthquake in the same region released some of the stress that had built up. Water pressure underground ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 2, 2018
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What do ballet and cell biology have in common? Perhaps more than you might think.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 2, 2018
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