In the centenary year of the publication of a seminal treatise on the physical and mathematical principles underpinning nature - On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson - a Cambridge physicist has led a study describing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2017
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A team of scientists has sequenced, for the first time, a tiny worm that belongs to a group of exclusively asexual species that originated approximately 18 million years ago—making it one of the oldest living lineages of ...
Biotechnology
Sep 21, 2017
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New insights into how our cells store and manage DNA during cell division could help point towards the causes of a rare developmental condition.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2017
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An automated teller machine. The cash machine. In Britain, a cashpoint. ATMs, known for spitting out $20 bills (and imposing fees if you pick the wrong one), turn 50 years old this year. They're ubiquitous—and possibly ...
Other
Sep 21, 2017
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The key to a thriving business may be the educational level of non-executive employees, according to new University of Georgia research.
Economics & Business
Sep 21, 2017
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The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won't play out like a Hollywood movie starring little green men. Rather, many scientists agree if there was life on the Red Planet, it probably will present itself as fossilized ...
Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2017
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Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts of the African tsetse fly as part of ongoing work on the animal diseases it carries.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 21, 2017
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Tropical Storm Jose continued to spin south of Massachusetts when NASA's Aqua satellite flew overhead from space and captured an image of the large storm that hasn't moved much.
Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2017
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The fight against poaching must be treated as a war, Africa's leading anti-poaching coalition said Thursday, as it called for the illicit wildlife trade to be monitored like global conflicts.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2017
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The world's cereal production is headed for a bumper 2017, with total output on track for a record, the United Nation's food agency said Thursday.
Environment
Sep 21, 2017
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