Cancer detection is a major public health challenge, and the methods currently available to achieve it, for example MRIs and mammograms, are often expensive and invasive. This limits their large-scale use. To bypass these ...
Plants & Animals
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The devastating floods in Queensland and New South Wales highlight, yet again, Australia's failure to plan for natural disasters. As we're seeing now in heartbreaking detail, everyday Australians bear the enormous cost of ...
Environment
Mar 9, 2022
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In an ancient shallow bay of what is now Montana, the body of an octopus-like creature the size of a fist was buried on the seafloor. Some 325–328 million years later, a new paper published in Nature Communications provides ...
Paleontology & Fossils
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Despite research and policy efforts, recycling initiatives have skidded on more complex materials like tires and mattresses, filling dumps and natural land across the country.
Polymers
Mar 9, 2022
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Have you ever found yourself unintentionally imitating how a friend, television character, or media personality talks after listening to them for a while? This is a well-established phenomenon that linguists call linguistic ...
Social Sciences
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A new study shows how knowledge of climate change threats could be better connected with conservation efforts to help protect seabirds and other at-risk species.
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2022
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It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was selected by public input as the "Image of the Week" for Week 54 (Feb. 20–26, 2022) of the ...
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2022
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A team led by scientists at the University of Birmingham has come a step closer to uncovering the purpose of a distinctive set of modifications found at the beginning of messenger RNA which have long remained a fundamental ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 9, 2022
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One of the world's most storied shipwrecks, Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking, explorers announced Wednesday.
Archaeology
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Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of the Southern Ocean.
Plants & Animals
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