Google offers $250,000 for Flint research, local nonprofit
Google is offering $250,000 to help with the ongoing response efforts in Flint as the Michigan city reels from the effects of a lead-contaminated water supply.
Business
May 3, 2016
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Remains of Captain Cook's ship likely in Rhode Island harbor
Researchers believe they have found the ship that legendary explorer Captain James Cook used to sail to around the world submerged somewhere in Rhode Island's Newport Harbor.
Archaeology
May 3, 2016
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Team studies chromosome missegregation
A recent research study at The Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota is providing insight into the regulation of chromosome segregation and the mechanisms used by cells to prevent them from forming tumors.
Cell & Microbiology
May 3, 2016
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Bacteria use traffic-cop-like mechanism to infect gut
A study has found that a syringe-like device used to invade intestinal cells also acts as a traffic cop—directing bacteria where to go and thereby enabling them to efficiently carry out infection.
Cell & Microbiology
May 3, 2016
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Replication of colored 3-D models simplified
Researchers at ETH Zurich and Disney Research Zurich have developed a new technique called Computational Thermoforming. It enables them to manufacture plastic replicas of digital 3-D models, in which the shape and colour ...
Engineering
May 3, 2016
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Microbes make tubular microtunnels on Earth and perhaps on Mars
Tubular microtunnels believed to be the trace fossils formed by microbes inhabiting volcanic rock interiors have only been reported in oceanic and subglacial settings. This is the first observation of such features in basaltic ...
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2016
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Literature on cycads continues to accumulate
As traditional print journals merge with contemporary web-based journals, publishing scientists find themselves in a rapidly evolving transition. In order to understand how these changes in publishing culture have influenced ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2016
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Estimates of cheetah numbers are 'guesswork', say researchers
Current estimates of the number of cheetahs in the wild are 'guesswork', say the authors of a new study which finds that the population in the cheetah stronghold of Maasai Mara, Kenya, is lower than previously thought.
Ecology
May 3, 2016
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Supercooled cavities for particle acceleration
When you think about the coldest places on Earth, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at the DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory, ...
General Physics
May 3, 2016
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Researchers develop a method for cross-species comparison of biological surfaces
One thing is obvious: moth's eyes and snake's skin are entirely different. Researchers at Kiel University have taken a closer look, however, and have now brought the supposed 'apples and oranges' to a common denominator. ...
Nanophysics
May 3, 2016
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