Throughout the last ice age, the climate changed repeatedly and rapidly during so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger events, where Greenland temperatures rose between 5 and 16 degrees Celsius in decades. When certain parts of the ...
Earth Sciences
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The properties of carbon-based nanomaterials can be altered and engineered through the deliberate introduction of certain structural "imperfections" or defects. The challenge, however, is to control the number and type of ...
Nanophysics
Apr 9, 2021
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School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford's Leverhulme Centre for ...
Education
Apr 9, 2021
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Chemists developed a method to detect changes in proteins that may signal the early stages of cancer, Alzheimer's, diabetes and other major diseases. Angewandte Chemie published the work, led by chemists at Emory University ...
Biochemistry
Apr 9, 2021
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Since 1993, 15 species of bird and mammal are thought to have gone extinct, including China's Yangtze river dolphin and the Pernambuco pygmy owl from Brazil. But these recent examples are a tiny fraction of what scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2021
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JPL's Lunar Crater Radio Telescope advanced concept is among the projects that have been selected for further research and development.
Space Exploration
Apr 9, 2021
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A team of researchers from Jinan University, the University of Colorado, Boulder, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, has found evidence indicating ...
A tiny protein of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that gives rise to COVID-19, may have big implications for future treatments, according to a team of Penn State researchers.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 9, 2021
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University of Otago research analyzing skeletal remains has found evidence of a range of ethnicities present on the Goldfields of Otago, proving some assumptions of the cultural make-up of early settler New Zealand to be ...
Archaeology
Apr 9, 2021
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Millions of gallons of water laced with fertilizer ingredients are being pumped into Florida's Tampa Bay from a leaking reservoir at an abandoned phosphate plant at Piney Point. As the water spreads into the bay, it carries ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 9, 2021
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