Can bacteria help people to mine asteroids?
Luis Zea is investigating the possibility of mining metals from asteroids in space using an unlikely agent: bacteria.
Space Exploration
Aug 2, 2019
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02/08/2019
The original Love Island: how George Sand and Fryderyk Chopin put Mallorca on the romance map
More than four million Britons watched Amber Gill and Greg O'Shea being crowned the victors of Love Island 2019. Gill, a beauty therapist and model from Newcastle in the north of England, and O'Shea, a rugby player from Limerick ...
Other
Aug 2, 2019
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Turtle embryos can choose their own sex, shows new research – but why?
The animal world has many weird and wonderful ways of having sex. Some animals, such as snails, are hermaphrodites—able to make both eggs and sperm simultaneously. Some, such as wrasses and parrot-fish, initially hatch ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 2, 2019
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Finding signs of happiness in chickens could help us understand their lives in captivity
When animal welfare campaigner Ruth Harrison published a book in 1964 called Animal Machines, there was a public outcry. Her vivid descriptions of post-war intensive farming started a discussion about animal welfare that ...
Ecology
Aug 2, 2019
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Mapping the kinks in faulty DNA
Here is a challenge for you: copy letter-by-letter, word-for-word a document that is 1,200,000 pages long—that's a stack of paper higher than the Statue of Liberty. And don't make any typos or miss any punctuation.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 2, 2019
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Orchestrating development in the fly embryo
Most multicellular organisms on Earth—including you—begin as a single fertilized egg and then undergo a complex choreography of cellular growth to become a functioning adult composed of countless cells. Understanding ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 2, 2019
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NASA targets coastal ecosystems with new space sensor
NASA has selected a space-based instrument under its Earth Venture Instrument (EVI) portfolio that will make observations of coastal waters to help protect ecosystem sustainability, improve resource management, and enhance ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2019
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Researchers use machine learning technique to rapidly evaluate new transition metal compounds
In recent years, machine learning has been proving a valuable tool for identifying new materials with properties optimized for specific applications. Working with large, well-defined data sets, computers learn to perform ...
Materials Science
Aug 2, 2019
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Cutting pollution won't cause global warming spike, study finds
Fears that efforts to reduce air pollution could dramatically speed up the process of global warming have been allayed with the publication of a landmark new study.
Environment
Aug 2, 2019
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Study suggests economic growth benefits wildlife but growing human populations do not
In a world first, researchers at ZSL and UCL compared changes in bird and mammal populations with socio-economic trends in low- and lower-middle income countries over the past 20 years. Their results suggest that national-level ...
Environment
Aug 2, 2019
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