As the world reels under the coronavirus crisis on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, might nature be trying to tell us something?
Plants & Animals
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Ruth Blasco, Taphonomy researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has participated in a study published in the journal PLOS ONE on one of the possible uses of the spheroids or ...
Archaeology
Apr 22, 2020
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A peptide renders older antibiotics effective again at doses 100 times lower than the common dosage, as shown by research from Örebro University.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 22, 2020
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Researchers in Germany identified the precise structural differences that determine if a protein becomes an active enzyme or an iron scaffold. This finding, reported in Nature Communications, provides deeper insight into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 22, 2020
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Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running dry – these events all demonstrate the consequences ...
Other
Apr 22, 2020
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Some plants are very successful in the competition for space, nutrients, and water. They inhibit the growth of their competitors by chemical signals that cause cells of the neighboring plant to die. Scientists of the Botanical ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 22, 2020
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Greta Thunberg galvanized masses of people across the world into advocating for climate change. But just as climate action seemed to be hitting a new peak globally, the COVID-19 outbreak abruptly brought the physical manifestations ...
Environment
Apr 22, 2020
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Today, on Earth Day 2020, Accenture, Intel and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation announced Project: CORaiL, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered solution to monitor, characterize and analyze coral reef resiliency. ...
Environment
Apr 22, 2020
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The homeless need to be in housing before winter sets in and the spread of COVID-19 worsens, UNSW history professor Anne O'Brien says.
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2020
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Researchers at CU Boulder are playing a major role in the next phase of a more than four decades-long campaign to take the temperature of the sun.
Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2020
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