For years, Mark Hager's job as an observer aboard New England fishing boats made him a marked man, seen as a meddling cop on the ocean, counting and scrutinizing every cod, haddock and flounder to help set crucial quotas.
Ecology
Dec 7, 2022
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China has used perovskite and quantum dots to build an ultraviolet radiation measurement device. The group describes their experiment in Matter.
On December 3, it was International Day of People with Disability, a day dedicated to understanding disability rights, issues and promotion of disability inclusion, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2022
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Have you found yourself altering how you speak when you find yourself in a more formal situation? Do you tone down your accent or stay away from words that may only be known in the area you are from? If so, you may already ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2022
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Scientists around the world are warning governments who will be gathering in Montreal this week for the United Nations biodiversity summit to not repeat past mistakes and are urging officials to "avoid trade-offs" between ...
Ecology
Dec 7, 2022
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New research shows that the closest bat virus relatives of the human Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus efficiently bind to bat ACE2 receptors as an entry point into these cells. These receptors have some ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 7, 2022
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A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by scientists to a neutron star merger.
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2022
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Two-million-year-old DNA has been identified for the first time—opening a 'game-changing' new chapter in the history of evolution.
Evolution
Dec 7, 2022
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There's a new branch on the tree of life and it's made up of predators that nibble their prey to death.
Evolution
Dec 7, 2022
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The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent astronomical observations, supported by theoretical modeling, reveal a new observational fingerprint of ...
Astronomy
Dec 7, 2022
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