Scientists discover viral 'Enigma machine'
Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by a major group of viruses including the common cold and polio.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 4, 2015
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Women and people with offspring are more prepared to pay for environmental improvements
When it comes to making public decisions with implications for the environment, it is important to bear in mind population preferences. For this purpose, one of the methodologies that has been spreading most worldwide in ...
Social Sciences
Feb 4, 2015
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Pigeon pageant for beautiful birds dispels 'rats with wings'
Dogs aren't the only animals that vie for best in show. Hundreds of breeds of pigeons compete in their own version of the Westminster show, strutting on long, thick legs or fluttering curly, lacy feathers in their bid to ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 4, 2015
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Study shows cockroaches have individual personalities that impact group dynamics
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at Université libre de Bruxelles has found that not only do cockroaches have unique individual personalities, but their differences can also have an impact on group dynamics. In ...
Inhospitable climate fosters gold ore formation
South Africa's Witwatersrand is the site of the world's largest and richest gold deposit. In order to explain its formation, ETH professor Christoph Heinrich took a look back into the Earth's early climatic history.
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2015
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Complete genomes from single cells still elusive
DOE Joint Genome Institute researchers review the status of single-cell genomics, and how close scientists are to being able to reconstruct an individual cell's genome.
Biotechnology
Feb 4, 2015
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New nanoparticle gene therapy strategy effectively treats deadly brain cancer in rats
Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist. New insights into specific gene mutations that arise in this often ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 4, 2015
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What was the impact that killed the dinosaurs?
What suddenly made the dinosaurs disappear 65 million or 66 million years ago? Whatever it was, all indications show that it was a massive extinction event. The fossil record not only shows dinosaurs disappearing, but also ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2015
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Ingenious fine-tuning of plant photosynthesis
Malgorzata Pietrzykowska has investigated the specific roles of the two most abundant membrane proteins on Earth, Lhcb1 and 2. Both of them are responsible for light harvesting which is the basis of photosynthesis, the process ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 4, 2015
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Bringing open source cameras to the film-making industry
What had started off as a handful of enthusiasts' bid to build the first open digital cinema, camera, AXIOM, from scratch has now become a platform for film-makers, creative industry professionals, artists and enthusiasts ...
Engineering
Feb 4, 2015
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