Twenty-five years ago, French biophysicist Pascal Mayer had an idea that seemed nothing short of "crazy." Today, his research has paved the way for a rapid and inexpensive DNA sequencing technique used around the world in ...
Other
Sep 9, 2021
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Maria Fidalgo, an associate professor in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Missouri, and a team of students and international collaborators have come up with a way to use sensors and films to detect ...
Biotechnology
Sep 9, 2021
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Researchers from the Institute of Tribal Environmental Professionals this week launched the State of Tribes and Climate Change (STACC) report, which examines the disproportionate effect climate change has on Indigenous lands ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2021
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New research focused on college students training to become K-12 teachers emphasizes the need to recruit and enroll more diverse students in teacher education programs.
Education
Sep 9, 2021
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The story has a lot to recommend it: psychologist Dan Ariely, the author of a bestselling book on the behavioral science of dishonesty, retracts his study because the data was faked. No wonder it's been picked up by the world's ...
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was already in use in the 2nd Century CE, 300 years earlier than previously thought.
Archaeology
Sep 9, 2021
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During a disaster people with disability are often invisible. They are left out because systems set up before disasters make it hard for them to be involved.
Social Sciences
Sep 9, 2021
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Many scientists consider the "Cambrian explosion"—which occurred about 530–540 million years ago—as the first major appearance of many of the world's animal groups in the fossil record. Like adding pieces to a giant ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 9, 2021
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Citizen scientist volunteers known as the "storm squad" collected seagrass fragments to successfully rehabilitate populations of NSW's endangered Posidonia australis.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2021
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All hail the occulter: an orbiting starshade for ground-based telescopes.
Astronomy
Sep 9, 2021
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