Rice University researchers joined a team of scientists placing seismometers under the ocean off the coast of Hawaii, where the ongoing eruption of Kilauea has already claimed more than 700 homes and added to the island's ...
Environment
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Scientists have designed a type of translator that allows different types of bacteria to 'talk' to each other.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 24, 2018
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Life as we know it needs water to thrive. Even so, we see life persist in the driest environments on Earth. But how dry is too dry? At what point is an environment too extreme for even microorganisms, the smallest and often ...
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
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To understand fallout formation from a nuclear explosion, it's important to look at the gas phase of metal oxides within the device.
Materials Science
Jul 24, 2018
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A key challenge in the embryonic development of complex life forms is the correct specification of cell positions so that organs and limbs grow in the right places. To understand how cells arrange themselves at the earliest ...
General Physics
Jul 24, 2018
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A team of international researchers, led by scientists from the University of St Andrews and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, redefines alien detection scale.
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
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University of Adelaide researchers have uncovered fundamental new information about the malting characteristics of barley grains. They say their finding could pave the way to more stable brewing processes or new malts for ...
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2018
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New comprehensive mapping of the radiation pummeling Jupiter's icy moon Europa reveals where scientists should look—and how deep they'll have to go—when searching for signs of habitability and biosignatures.
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
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On March 11, 1998, asteroid astronomers around the world received an ominous message: new observational data on the recently discovered asteroid 1997 XF11 suggested there was a chance that the half-mile-wide (nearly one kilometer) ...
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2018
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Like small-scale Legos clicking into place, nature autonomously puts together microscopic building blocks. Living systems are biochemical machines that excel at building and moving their parts. Just as machines need energy ...
General Physics
Jul 24, 2018
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