To solve practical issues, sometimes all we have to do is study nature. An often quoted example is that of the gecko, a small animal known for the phenomenal adhesive strength in its feet, which allows it to walk on walls ...
Materials Science
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The year was 1969. A blow-out from Union Oil's offshore platform just six miles from the city of Santa Barbara leaked an estimated 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the Santa Barbara Channel, killing approximately ...
Environment
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Imagine discovering an animal species you thought had gone extinct was still living—without laying eyes on it. Such was the case with the Brazilian frog species Megaelosia bocainensis, whose complete disappearance in 1968 ...
Biotechnology
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A workplace showdown may be brewing over mandating vaccinations.
Social Sciences
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In the past year the world has been overwhelmed with rapidly emerging, important and fascinating information regarding SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The pace of learning has been astounding, not just for the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 21, 2021
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World history is often framed in terms of flows of people and migration: humans coming 'out of Africa," the spread of farmers in the Holocene, Phoenician and Greek diasporas over the ancient Mediterranean, the colonization ...
Archaeology
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Adult children concede to exploitative mums leading to the evolution of insect societies, new research led by the University of St Andrews has found.
Plants & Animals
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A study that appeared today in Current Biology sheds new light on the continental migrations which shaped the genetic background of all present Europeans. The research generates new ancient DNA evidence and direct dating ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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Scientists have spotted the largest flare ever recorded from the sun's nearest neighbor, the star Proxima Centauri.
Astronomy
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It isn't only myriads of currently unknown species that await discovery in the Amazon rainforests. As a new study by German scientists at the Ruhr-University (Bochum) and the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (Munich), ...
Plants & Animals
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