For a variety of reasons 2020 has been stressful, frightening, and just plain exhausting. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, some of us have lost loved ones. Many are working from home, and others are unemployed. Wildfires ...
Social Sciences
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Fossilised dinosaur teeth uncovered at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, have offered fresh insight into how these giants co-existed and foraged.
Archaeology
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Our galaxy may be teeming with rogue planets, gravitationally unbound to any star. An international team of scientists, led by Polish astronomers, has announced the discovery of the smallest Earth-sized free-floating planet ...
Astronomy
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A team of researchers affiliated with both the University of California–Berkeley and the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute at UC, has developed a new covalent organic framework (COF) using boron and phosphorus—one that ...
MIT Media Lab researchers have discovered that shortened versions of immunity-related protein receptors, long written off as incomplete and therefore nonfunctional, can bind with their natural counterparts on the cell membrane ...
Biotechnology
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Education
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Pyrite, or fool's gold, is a common mineral that reacts quickly with oxygen when exposed to water or air, such as during mining operations, and can lead to acid mine drainage. Little is known, however, about the oxidation ...
Earth Sciences
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a biological pathway that the novel coronavirus appears to use to hijack and exit cells as it spreads through the body. A better understanding of this important ...
Cell & Microbiology
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A healthy diet means a healthier you, which also means a healthier planet, right? Well, it's complicated.
Environment
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It is currently challenging to directly observe the formation of intracellular nanostructures in the lab. In a new report, Miaomiao Zhang and a research team in chemistry, life sciences, medical engineering and science and ...
