Top-down projects for improving the lives of poor farmers were often unsuccessful because they didn't systematically consider the diverse rural households survive and thrive. To tap this local knowledge, scientists and development ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2020
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One of the hallmarks of cancer is cell immortality. A Northwestern University organic chemist and his team now have developed a promising molecular tool that targets and inhibits one of cell immortality's underlying gears: ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2020
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Tasmania's ancient rainforest faces a grim future as a warming climate and the way people used the land have brought significant changes to the island state off mainland Australia's southeastern coast, according to a new ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2020
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Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 3, 2020
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After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook began putting warning tags on news stories fact-checkers judged to be false. But there's a catch: Tagging some stories as false makes readers more willing to believe other ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2020
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After fourth-generation synchrotrons were invented (these are particle accelerators, which are, in fact, giant research facilities), there was an urgent need for a fundamentally new optics that could withstand high temperatures ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 3, 2020
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Scientists have identified a sub-atomic particle that could have formed the "dark matter" in the Universe during the Big Bang.
General Physics
Mar 3, 2020
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A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2020
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A new ocean protection plan sets out steps to safeguard California's coast against rising seas, while shoring up public access and building coastal economies.
Environment
Mar 3, 2020
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Magnetic (anti)skyrmions are microscopically small whirls that are found in special classes of magnetic materials. These nano-objects could be used to host digital data by their presence or absence in a sequence along a magnetic ...
Nanophysics
Mar 3, 2020
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