Nearly 50 years since man first walked on the moon, the human race is once more pushing forward with attempts to land on the Earth's satellite. This year alone, China has landed a robotic spacecraft on the far side of the ...
Space Exploration
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For biologists everywhere, April 25 is auspicious. It is DNA Day and commemorates the date in 1953 when scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Maurice Wilkins published seminal scientific papers describing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2019
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A joint Mongol-Japanese research team from the National University of Mongolia and Kanazawa University conducted the first detailed study of organic air pollutants in Ulaanbaatar city. The polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ...
Environment
Apr 26, 2019
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In a study with implications for efforts to halt the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers at Princeton have identified a new, troubling path that some bacteria take toward resistance.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 26, 2019
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The complex inner workings of cells, from their architecture to their signaling, underlie much of multicellular organic life. How are they built? How do their proteins interact? And most crucially, how can understanding these ...
Biochemistry
Apr 26, 2019
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The back-to-back cyclones that have ravaged Mozambique are unprecedented in recorded history, the UN said Friday, as it planned to examine the country's defences against extreme weather in the light of climate change.
Environment
Apr 26, 2019
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Uber pulled back on its ambitious valuation target Friday for its Wall Street debut, while still pricing its share offering in a range that would make it one of the largest in recent years in the tech sector.
Business
Apr 26, 2019
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A new international study led by David Comas, principal investigator at UPFand at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE: CSIC-UPF), demonstrates for the first time using artificial intelligence that African populations ...
Evolution
Apr 26, 2019
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A group organized by the federal government is recommending reductions and changes for lobster gear off the East Coast to try to protect a rare species of whale.
Ecology
Apr 26, 2019
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The ICN2 Oxide Nanophysics Group, led by ICREA Prof. Gustau Catalán, has published in Physical Review Letters how, due to flexoelectricity, cracks in ferroelectrics (switchable polar materials) propagate more easily in the ...
Materials Science
Apr 26, 2019
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