A member of the San Diego Zoo's African penguin colony has been fitted with orthopedic footwear to help it deal with a degenerative foot condition.
Plants & Animals
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Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted broad research interest owing to their excellent performance in light confinement, which can boost light-matter interaction. BICs can eliminate the radiation loss to theoretically ...
Optics & Photonics
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Gas prices now exceed 300 euros per megawatt hour—a record. The transition from fossil (natural gas, coal, oil) to renewable energy is needed and soon. But how do you get a society (and its citizens) to switch to sustainable ...
Social Sciences
Aug 29, 2022
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Honeybees are disappearing. Contributing factors include the pesticides of industrial agriculture and urban developments encroaching on habitats. Wildflowers and areas of plant abundance are in decline. The bees are losing ...
Social Sciences
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News headlines on extreme weather, melting ice caps, and threatened species are daily reminders of our changing environment. The profound scale and intensity of these challenges may leave one to wonder, "What should we do ...
Ecology
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Workplace burnout is costing the veterinary industry 2 billion dollars a year, according to research from the Cornell Center for Veterinary Business and Entrepreneurship.
Veterinary medicine
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Amoebae receive surprising support in defense against viruses: The bacteria they are infected with prevent them from being destroyed by giant viruses. A research team led by microbiologist Matthias Horn from the Center for ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 29, 2022
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Researchers looking to synthesize a brighter and more stable nanoparticle for optical applications found that their creation instead exhibited a more surprising property: bursts of superfluorescence that occurred at both ...
Optics & Photonics
Aug 29, 2022
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Male bottlenose dolphins form the largest known multi-level alliance network outside humans, an international team led by researchers at the University of Bristol have shown. These cooperative relationships between groups ...
Plants & Animals
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If you apply enough heat, at some point, most things melt, just like ice cream on a hot summer day.
Materials Science
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