The body size of a living creature has a direct impact on its fitness—from the simplest animal and plant organisms right up to human beings. The individual size or height is therefore an important criterion for the ability ...
Evolution
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In what could be a breakthrough for body sensor and navigation technologies, researchers at KTH have developed the smallest accelerometer yet reported, using the highly conductive nanomaterial, graphene.
Nanophysics
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Scientists at Linköping University have shown how a quantum computer really works and have managed to simulate quantum computer properties in a classical computer. "Our results should be highly significant in determining ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 3, 2019
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A global team including scientists from The University of Western Australia has assembled the first genome of the field pea, which provides insight into how the legume evolved and will help aid future improvements of the ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2019
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A University of Otago study investigating chemicals in New Zealand waterways has found evidence of pesticides banned in some European countries present in agricultural streams.
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2019
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The supply of dense Antarctic water from the bottom of the ocean to the Atlantic has declined in recent years. However, a new study explains for the first time how since 2014 this has stabilized and slightly recovered due ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 3, 2019
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New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian bird species, and southeastern Australia has been the worst affected.
Plants & Animals
Sep 3, 2019
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A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide and the Polish Academy of Sciences has found that there are, on average, many more male mammalian fossil specimens in museums than female. In their paper published in ...
A simple and sensitive urine test developed by Imperial and MIT engineers has produced a color change in urine to signal growing tumors in mice.
Bio & Medicine
Sep 3, 2019
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New research carried out in 12 countries shows most people believe achieving environmental sustainability could hinder quality of life but not the wider economy.
Environment
Sep 3, 2019
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