Conventional wastewater disinfection using chlorine could facilitate the spread of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria. Treating some types of wastewater with ultraviolet (UV) light instead could be part of the solution, ...
Environment
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Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists found benefits of insect leaf-wounding in fruit and vegetable production. Stress responses created in the fruits and vegetables initiated an increase in antioxidant compounds prior to ...
Plants & Animals
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In 2015, when researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum released the free Digital Atlas of Ancient Life app, they didn't know what kind of reception the smartphone-based field ...
Archaeology
Jan 8, 2020
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Earth is doomed—but not for 5 billion years. Our planet will be roasted as our sun expands and becomes a red giant, but the exoplanet WASP-12b, located 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga, has less than a thousandth ...
Astronomy
Jan 8, 2020
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A new study at the University of Georgia has found a way to attack cancer cells that is potentially less harmful to the patient. Sodium chloride nanoparticles—more commonly known as salt—are toxic to cancer cells and ...
Bio & Medicine
Jan 8, 2020
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When bacteria like salmonella infect and sicken people, they hijack a person's cell proteins to develop a defense against an immune response. Understanding how that works and developing methods for defending against these ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 8, 2020
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Smartphones are getting a bum rap. The common perception that as people become increasingly attached to their devices they are becoming less social is just wrong, according to Stanford communication scholar Gabriella Harari.
Social Sciences
Jan 8, 2020
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This novel "water drop" antenna lens design for directing radio wave signals was developed by a pair of antenna engineers from ESA and Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, KTH.
General Physics
Jan 8, 2020
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A breakthrough by ecologists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has implications for multiple fields of biology.
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2020
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Research by Trinity College Professor of Biology Kent Dunlap and two of his former students was published last month in one of the world's oldest scientific journals, the London-based Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Ecology
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