A Florida State University research team has developed methods to manipulate polymers in a way that changes their fundamental structure, paving the way for potential applications in cargo delivery and release, recyclable ...
Polymers
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A new 3-D structure for growing cell cultures could enable doctors to test medications on model tumors grown from a patient's own cells, according to results from a team of engineers and cancer researchers at the University ...
Biochemistry
Oct 2, 2019
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A new way to calculate the interaction between a metal and its alloying material could speed the hunt for a new material that combines the hardness of ceramic with the resilience of metal.
Materials Science
Oct 2, 2019
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As the Earth's temperature warms, its hydrological cycle kicks into overdrive—wet years get wetter, and dry years get drier. According to a new University of Arizona-led study, these increased rainfall extremes could have ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2019
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An international team of researchers including limnologists from the University of Konstanz shows that rapid genomic changes during antagonistic species interactions are shaped by the reciprocal effects of ecology and evolution.
Evolution
Oct 2, 2019
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A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people—more than the death toll during all six years of World War II, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Oct 2, 2019
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Corals create potions that fight bacterial attackers, but warming appears to tip the scales against the potions as they battle a bacterium common in coral bleaching, according to a new study. Reef conservation may offer hope: ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2019
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Microliths—small stone tools—are often interpreted as being part of composite tools, including projectile weapons, and essential to efficient hunting strategies of Homo sapiens. In Europe and Africa, the earliest appearance ...
Archaeology
Oct 2, 2019
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Two reforms in the finance sector have the potential to accelerate action towards a sustainable seafood industry, according to new research published in the journal Science Advances. Compiling data on 160 publicly listed ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2019
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Sierra Nevada forests are losing plant diversity due to high-severity fires, according to a study from the University of California, Davis. These fires are turning patches of forest into shrub fields—indefinitely, in some ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2019
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