South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic growth.
Social Sciences
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The peripheral endoplasmic reticulum (ER) forms a continuous, dynamic network of tubules that plays an important role in protein transport and quality control, cellular signaling, and stress response. Investigating how the ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2024
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Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs—the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art—by analyzing ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 30, 2024
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With the time traveling ability of archaeogenetic studies, it has become possible to shed light onto the dynamic past of human populations world-wide. Integrated with archaeological and anthropological data, it has been shown ...
Archaeology
Oct 30, 2024
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In rural Africa, where livelihoods are often tied directly to the land, environmental degradation poses a critical threat to both ecosystems and people's well-being. New research reveals ways to tackle the dual challenges ...
Environment
Oct 30, 2024
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A study in Nature finds that up to 215 million hectares of land (an area larger than Mexico) in humid tropical regions around the world has the potential to naturally regrow.
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2024
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Hydra are small, invertebrate, predatory animals that live in water. They're tubular, radially symmetric and up to 10 mm long, with a head (mostly a mouth), a single, adhesive foot, and tentacles.
In fire-prone areas, water isn't the only thing used to quell blazes. Wildland firefighters also apply chemical or synthetic suppressants. Researchers reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters explored whether ...
Environment
Oct 30, 2024
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A gene called COLD6 contributes to cold tolerance in rice, potentially offering a pathway to use molecular design to breed a rice variety with higher resistance to cold stress. This work appears October 30 in Molecular Cell.
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 30, 2024
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The Solar Ultraviolet Imager, or SUVI, onboard NOAA's GOES-19 satellite, which launched on June 25, 2024, began observing the sun on Sept. 24, 2024. SUVI monitors the sun in the extreme ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic ...
Astronomy
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