A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and even found their significant ...
Archaeology
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The global water cycle—that is, the constant movement of freshwater between the clouds, land and the ocean—plays an important role in our daily lives. This delicate system transports water from the ocean to the land, ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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MIT physicists have discovered an exotic "multiferroic" state in a material that is as thin as a single layer of atoms. Their observation is the first to confirm that multiferroic properties can exist in a perfectly two-dimensional ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 23, 2022
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Supply chains around the world have experienced unprecedented disruption over the last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As leaders raced to order medical supplies to care for their country's sick, global demand shifted ...
Economics & Business
Feb 23, 2022
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Back in November 2019, before the pandemic began, would you have guessed how important videoconferencing like Zoom would be in people's lives just a few months later?
Environment
Feb 23, 2022
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Recently, scientists from the University of Tsukuba developed a novel CRISPR/Cas9-based genome-editing tool called Target activation-induced cytidine deaminase (Target-AID). They targeted SlDELLA and SlETR in the model ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Feb 23, 2022
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An international team of astronomers has performed long-term radio and X-ray observations of a recently detected young magnetar known as Swift J1818.0-1607. Results of the monitoring campaign, published February 15 on arXiv.org, ...
While carbon dioxide emissions have received most of the attention in the fight against global warming, there are other lesser-known greenhouses gases, including methane.
Environment
Feb 23, 2022
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The positive effects of scientist engagement with the general public are well documented, but most investigations have focused on the benefits to the public rather than on those performing engagement activities. Writing in ...
Social Sciences
Feb 23, 2022
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A dissertation from the University of Gothenburg, for which the author studied presidential elections around the world among other things, shows that the closer the race appeared to be in the opinion polls before the elections, ...
Political science
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