Timing and placement of wind and solar power facilities are critical factors for Texas electricity providers that juggle their output with other resources to provide a balanced flow of energy. Rice University researchers ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 5, 2018
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More than two centuries before initiatives to increase the number of women in STEM fields, 52-year-old Maria Sibylla Merian sailed across the Atlantic on a largely self-funded scientific expedition to document the animals ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Biomedical engineers at Duke University have shown experimentally that there is more than one flavor of antibiotic resistance and that it could—and should—be taken advantage of to keep first-line antibiotics in our medical ...
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2018
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Frogs that raise their young in tiny pools of water that collect on plant leaves must make a delicate trade-off between the risk of drying out and the risk of being eaten, according to a study publishing December 5 in the ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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Are you among the 400 million people around the world who have relegated an old mobile phone to the top drawer in the past year?
Environment
Dec 5, 2018
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What's a feast for the human eye may be a literal feast for microorganisms that colonize works of art, according to a new study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Elisabetta Caselli of the University of Ferrara, Italy, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 5, 2018
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A team of scientists from the University of Bern (Switzerland) and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and their partners have characterized multiple functions of benzoxazinoids in wheat: The toxic form of the substances ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 5, 2018
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New research suggests that people with a narcissistic self-view are more likely to demonstrate lower support for democracy.
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2018
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The conservation of animals relies heavily on estimates of their numbers. Without knowing how many individuals there are, it is impossible to know whether a population is thriving or dying out—and whether conservation efforts ...
Ecology
Dec 5, 2018
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In 2018, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 229 new plant and animal species to our family tree, enriching our understanding of Earth's complex web of life and strengthening our ability to make informed ...
Ecology
Dec 5, 2018
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