Cancer patients who are undergoing targeted therapy can look forward to a new blood test that could tell their doctors whether the treatment is working, within one day after the start of the treatment. This will significantly ...
Bio & Medicine
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Researchers in Lund, Copenhagen and Norwich have shown that harmful mutations present in the DNA play an important—yet neglected—role in the conservation and translocation programs of threatened species.
Evolution
Jun 7, 2021
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Physicists in Israel have created a quantum interferometer on an atom chip. This device can be used to explore the fundamentals of quantum theory by studying the interference pattern between two beams of atoms. University ...
Quantum Physics
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A research group of the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna analyzed more than 1 million SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences. This analysis led to the identification of a new variant that has been ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 7, 2021
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In the Kumano Sea, off the southeast coast of Japan, an evolutionary mystery lays in wait. Researchers have collected samples from the muddy sea floor, including hermit crabs, mollusks and discarded shells. Here, in and on ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2021
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In glaciers, well above sea level, algae thrive. Normally invisible to the naked eye, they are often spotted by hikers trekking through the mountains in late spring as strikingly colored stretches of snow, in shades of ochre, ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 7, 2021
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Many modern fitness trackers and smartwatches feature integrated LEDs. The green light emitted, whether continuous or pulsed, penetrates the skin and can be used to measure the wearer's heart rate during physical activity ...
Biotechnology
Jun 7, 2021
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MIT engineers have discovered a new way of generating electricity using tiny carbon particles that can create a current simply by interacting with liquid surrounding them.
Nanophysics
Jun 7, 2021
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The first double-blind experiment analyzing the role of human decision-making in climate reconstructions has found that it can lead to substantially different results.
Earth Sciences
Jun 7, 2021
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Just a few bacterial taxa found in ecosystems across the planet are responsible for more than half of carbon cycling in soils. These new findings, made by researchers at Northern Arizona University and published in Nature ...
Environment
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