As sunset drew near on July 2, 2019, thousands along a ribbon of land stretching across Chile and Argentina looked to the skies, waiting for the Moon's shadow to cast them into momentary darkness. They knew a total solar ...
Space Exploration
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New analysis of the fossilized skull of an Upper Paleolithic man suggests that he died a violent death, according to a study published July 3, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by an international team from Greece, ...
Archaeology
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In a peer-reviewed report released today, researchers have identified more than 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forests—restoration hotspots—spread out across Central and South America, Africa and Southeast ...
Environment
Jul 3, 2019
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Mathematical analysis of online perfume data shows how the unique scent combinations found in different perfumes contribute to product popularity and consumer ratings. Vaiva Vasiliauskaite and Tim Evans of Imperial College ...
Mathematics
Jul 3, 2019
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DNA molecules are well known as carriers of huge amounts of biological information, and there is growing interest in using DNA in engineered data storage devices that can hold vastly more data than our current hard drives. ...
Biotechnology
Jul 3, 2019
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An international team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the Leon Levy Expedition have retrieved and analyzed genome-wide data from people who lived during the Bronze and ...
Archaeology
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Agitoxin-2 (AgTx2) from scorpion venom is a potent blocker of K+ channels. Researchers have now observed the binding dynamics of AgTx2 to the KcsA channel using high-speed atomic force microscopy. Single-molecule kinetic ...
Biochemistry
Jul 3, 2019
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There have been long periods of cooling in Earth's history. Temperatures had already fallen for more than 10 million years before the last ice age began about 2.5 million years ago. At that time, the northern hemisphere was ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 3, 2019
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In a study published online today in Nature, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an animal, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, used by ...
Biotechnology
Jul 3, 2019
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University College Cork (UCC) & University of Oxford Professor of Physics, Séamus Davis, has led a team of experimental physicists in the discovery of the magnetic noise generated by a fluid of magnetic monopoles.
General Physics
Jul 3, 2019
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