When police in Aurora, Colorado, handcuffed children and made them lie face down on the pavement after stopping an African-American family they mistakenly identified, they not only made headlines, they prompted city officials ...
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2020
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MIT engineers have designed a Velcro-like food sensor, made from an array of silk microneedles, that pierces through plastic packaging to sample food for signs of spoilage and bacterial contamination.
Biochemistry
Sep 9, 2020
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Voters with the highest risk of suffering COVID-19's worst effects say they're more likely to cast ballots by mail this November, even though many of them aren't sure how to do it, according to a new survey from Rice University.
Political science
Sep 9, 2020
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An international team of researchers were able visualize how orthoreovirus assembles inside infected cells, using cryo-electron tomography at the Electron Bio-Imaging Center (eBIC) at Diamond Light Source, the UK's national ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 9, 2020
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Ecologists and conservation experts in government, industry and universities are routinely constrained in communicating scientific evidence on threatened species, mining, logging and other threats to the environment, our ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2020
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Human impact can explain ninety-six percent of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years, according to a new study published in the scientific journal Science Advances.
Ecology
Sep 9, 2020
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Cronyism between the economic political elite is a threat to national prosperity, a Florida State University researcher argues in a new book.
Political science
Sep 9, 2020
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In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 9, 2020
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Mid-infrared lasers have been widely used in imaging, detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, medicine, industry, defense and others. For mid-infrared laser systems, low phonon energy gain materials are key factors.
Materials Science
Sep 9, 2020
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Scientists at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, develop a novel "heterostructured" photocatalyst using titanium and copper, two abundant and relatively inexpensive metals. Their cost-effective synthesis ...
Materials Science
Sep 9, 2020
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