While rubbing up against a shark sounds like a risky move if you're a fish, a collaborative research team led by the University of Miami (UM) Shark Research and Conservation Program at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and ...
Plants & Animals
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Different countries face different risks and opportunities as the world switches from fossil fuels to renewable energy, researchers say.
Environment
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While biologists and chemists race to develop new antibiotics to combat constantly mutating bacteria, predicted to lead to 10 million deaths by 2050, engineers are approaching the problem through a different lens: finding ...
Biochemistry
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A new discovery is shedding light on how fluorine—an element found in bones and teeth as fluoride—is forged in the universe. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern ...
Astronomy
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Depending on the outcome of social conflicts, ants of the species Harpegnathos saltator do something unusual: they can switch from a worker to a queen-like status known as gamergate. Now, researchers reporting in the journal ...
Plants & Animals
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Persistent observations of large underwater animals are difficult to achieve without the help of electronic, multi-sensor tags. Data obtained from these sensors provide important insight into the biomechanics, activity patterns, ...
Plants & Animals
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Researchers from Virginia Tech and Cornell University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines why people object to bodily markets and how those objections differ for liberals and conservatives.
Social Sciences
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As governments face the challenge of delivering on their net-zero by 2050 commitments, a new OECD report says they must focus in parallel on reducing and managing the inevitable risk of further losses and damages from climate ...
Environment
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As a crucial part of spectrum analysis, solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors (SBPDs) are applied to many fields. Because of their specialized applications, they have to cope with harsh environments such as overabundant ...
Nanomaterials
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Spintronic devices, a class of architectures that can store or transfer information by leveraging the intrinsic spin of electrons, have been found to be highly promising, both in terms of speed and efficiency. So far, however, ...
