Partisan politics played a role in exacerbating public health challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new study suggests that partisan politics could also play a role in addressing those challenges—at least when it comes ...
Social Sciences
Jul 20, 2023
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Wayward asteroids present a real collision hazard to Earth. Scientists estimate that an asteroid measuring several miles across smashed into Earth 65 million years ago and wiped out the dinosaurs, among other forms of life, ...
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2023
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A new way to see details smaller than half the wavelength of light has revealed how nanoscale scaffolding inside cells bridges to the macroscale during cell division. Unlike earlier superresolution techniques, the one developed ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 20, 2023
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Bat activity falls as farms make the transition to organic agriculture, new research shows.
Ecology
Jul 20, 2023
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Poaching wild animals poses global environmental risks, from threatening the survival of keystones species to potentially spreading animal-borne diseases to humans. Technology like unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 20, 2023
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Extreme heat is now plaguing parts of the U.S., Europe, and Asia. A Virginia Tech expert explains what is making this one of the hottest summers on record.
Environment
Jul 20, 2023
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Some nitrogen fertilizer types spread on UK farmland are ending up in the atmosphere, with the worst offenders emitting on average 18% of the applied nitrogen fertilizer as ammonia gas into the air.
Ecology
Jul 20, 2023
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Paying more for clothes does not necessarily mean they will last longer, according to new research carried out by the School of Design.
Economics & Business
Jul 20, 2023
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From life-saving drugs and synthetic polymers to diverse advanced materials, the products containing organic compounds seem endless, thanks in part to regioselectivity, a feature in chemical reactions where a substituent ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 20, 2023
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Flexible spheres of the biomolecule chitosan, made from shrimp waste, can be used for catalysts that generate hydrogen gas from borohydride salts. In a paper in Green Chemistry, a research team at the University of Amsterdam ...
Biochemistry
Jul 20, 2023
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