Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed a CO2 reduction method based only on commonly occurring elements. Achieving a 57 percent overall quantum yield of CO2 reduction products, it is the highest performing ...
Materials Science
Dec 3, 2018
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Almost 90 years ago on a freezing January morning, the keepers of the Stockholm Zoo in Sweden discovered a dead seal pup in their seal pond. The pup was immediately recognized as a bastard—a hybrid between species that ...
Ecology
Dec 3, 2018
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Curiosity woke up to Mr Rogers' "Please would you be my neighbour" this morning to welcome InSight, and then got busy at the Highfield drill site. Curiosity will dump the Highfield sample, which requires several MAHLI looks ...
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2018
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An increasing number of older Australians are living in share housing. A relatively new group to emerge on the share-housing scene, they are choosing to share for financial reasons, but finding unexpected social benefits.
Social Sciences
Dec 3, 2018
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Small animals at the base of the freshwater food chain can rapidly adapt to salt pollution—from sources like winter road deicing, agriculture, and mining—but at a price. In a special December edition of Philosophical ...
Ecology
Dec 3, 2018
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A ground-breaking study has shown it takes a matter of hours for billions of minute plastic nanoparticles to become embedded throughout the major organs of a marine organism.
Bio & Medicine
Dec 3, 2018
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Researchers from CIRAD and INRA recently showed that inactivating a gene, RECQ4, leads to a three-fold increase in recombination in crops such as rice, pea and tomato. The gene inhibits the exchange of genetic material via ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2018
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It has been difficult to simultaneously obtain micro- and macroscopic information in outer space. Global images of distant astrophysical phenomena provide macroscopic information, however local information is inaccessible. ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 3, 2018
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Three astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station, a successful launch that follows October's aborted mission.
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2018
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Scientists studying the digestive system of a curious wood-eating crustacean have discovered it may hold the key to sustainably converting wood into biofuel.
Materials Science
Dec 3, 2018
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