The long-lasting search and debate around the size and identity of the World's smallest free-living insect seems to have now been ended with the precise measurement and second record of the featherwing beetle species.
Plants & Animals
Oct 8, 2015
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Ecuador's Cotopaxi volcano, which began erupting in August after being dormant for 138 years, on Thursday coughed up a two-kilometer-high column of ash, officials said.
Earth Sciences
Oct 8, 2015
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A company formed to commercialize graphene research conducted at the University of Houston's Center for Advanced Materials has been listed on the Chinese stock exchange, an important step in the company's capitalization and ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 8, 2015
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A rocket carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government has successfully launched from the central California coast.
Space Exploration
Oct 8, 2015
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The first ancient human genome from Africa to be sequenced has revealed that a wave of migration back into Africa from Western Eurasia around 3,000 years ago was up to twice as significant as previously thought, and affected ...
Archaeology
Oct 8, 2015
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Toxic runoff from highways, parking lots and other developed surfaces is killing many of the adult coho salmon in urban streams along the West Coast, according to a new study that for the first time documents the fatal connection ...
Ecology
Oct 8, 2015
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Researchers have been able to watch the interior cells of a plant synthesize cellulose for the first time by tricking the cells into growing on the plant's surface.
Biotechnology
Oct 8, 2015
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Adding math talk to story time at home is a winning equation for children's math achievement, according to new research from the University of Chicago.
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2015
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One of biology's long-standing puzzles is how so many similar species can co-exist in nature. Do they really all fulfill a different role? Massive data on beetles now provide strong evidence for the idea that evolution can ...
Ecology
Oct 8, 2015
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Whitehead Institute scientists have at last answered the long-standing question of how the growth-regulating pathway known as mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) detects the presence of the amino acid leucine—itself ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 8, 2015
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