When it comes to testing drinking water for dangerous contaminants, such as heavy metals like lead or cadmium, continuous testing directly from faucets people drink from is important. Yet, very little of this kind of water ...
Biochemistry
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Recalling basic textbook chemistry has enabled RIKEN researchers to develop a better solid catalyst for producing important industrial chemicals known as esters. This advance promises to benefit the manufacture of fuels, ...
Materials Science
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A gigantic embryonic star is still getting bigger, even though it propels vast plumes of hot gas away from itself, RIKEN astronomers have found. The discovery could help to solve an enduring mystery about how massive stars ...
Astronomy
Feb 28, 2020
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Life is tough if you're a beetle.
Ecology
Feb 28, 2020
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On 26 February during her visit to Fiji, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced $2 million in New Zealand funding towards the relocation of the island's communities displaced by climate change.
Environment
Feb 28, 2020
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Errors during cell division can trigger the development of cancer. No wonder that this central process is controlled by multiple regulators and guards. Alex Bird's research group at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 28, 2020
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Andros Island, the largest island of the Bahamas, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. This image was processed in a way that included the near-infrared channel, which highlights ...
Environment
Feb 28, 2020
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A paper on animal biodiversity pattern by a team of researchers led by the Biology Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilos is featured in the February 28, 2020 issue of the journal Science.
Plants & Animals
Feb 28, 2020
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Why are there so many species of plants? Why do some plants thrive, while others don't?
Ecology
Feb 28, 2020
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Synthetic biology researchers at Northwestern University have developed a system that can rapidly create cell-free ribosomes in a test tube, then select the ribosome that can perform a certain function.
Biotechnology
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