Helping endangered koalas' health—and potentially humans' too
Did you hear the story of a koala that came into a hospital with chlamydia?
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2020
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How rape culture shapes whether a survivor is believed
A hallmark of the #MeToo movement has been to make plain the ubiquity of sexual violence against women and the impunity with which some perpetrators get away with it again and again. Rape is the nation's most underreported ...
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2020
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CRISPaper: Understanding gene-editing through art
To Sheng-Ying Pao, the power of reframing CRISPR lies in what is absolutely ordinary: paper. In CRISPaper, Pao revisited a cultural past in the ancient art of papermaking.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 26, 2020
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Forests scorched by wildfire unlikely to recover, may convert to grasslands
With flames racing across hundreds of square miles throughout Colorado and California this summer and a warming climate projected to boost wildfire activity across the West, residents can't help but wonder what our beloved ...
Ecology
Aug 26, 2020
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From cotton field to store rack, blue jeans leave a massive water footprint
The fact that blue jeans typically need only a passing acquaintance with the washing machine has always been a point in their favor. But even if they rarely see the inside of a laundromat, blue jeans have one of the largest ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2020
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New voting laws continue disenfranchisement, put elections administrators in difficult positions, study finds
In the years since a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, some states have passed laws that have made it more difficult for minority and low-income Americans to vote. ...
Political science
Aug 26, 2020
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Willie wagtails: The werewolves of the bird world
"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2020
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AstroSat observations detect thermonuclear X-ray bursts on Cygnus X-2
Using the AstroSat spacecraft, Indian astronomers have identified thermonuclear X-ray bursts on the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) Cygnus X-2. The finding, reported in a paper published August 17 on the arXiv preprint server, ...
What social media can teach us about human-environment relationships
Recent ecological research used Instagram posts to analyze the preferences of visitors to natural areas around the world. Researchers deduced the activities and feelings that people associated with different environments, ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2020
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School run: Cutting car use will take much more than educating children and parents
As the summer holidays come to an end and children return to school following lockdown, there couldn't be a better time for us to consider the school commute. Nowadays, many children in the UK commute to school by car. But ...
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2020
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