Yekaterina "Kate" Shulgina was a first year student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, looking for a short computational biology project so she could check the requirement off her program in systems biology. She ...
Biotechnology
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We know quite a lot about the past 200 years of history in Parramatta. Located in Sydney's geographical center, on the Parramatta River, it was the first township to be established outside Sydney Cove's penal colony after ...
Archaeology
Nov 9, 2021
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Robots are occupying an increasingly prominent place in our society. How do we deal with this, and what is it that determines whether or not we trust these robots to carry out certain tasks and assume certain responsibilities? ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2021
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Technology has given people more ways to connect, but has it also given them more opportunities to lie?
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2021
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There were four big announcements during the first week of COP26, the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow: on coal, finance, methane and deforestation. Of those four, the global methane pledge could have the most immediate ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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Mountain ecosystems provide vital services to human life. Mountains sequester CO2, clean water and the air and regulate floods. Worldwide, they provide for the livelihoods of more than half of human society.
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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With 20% of the world's forests, Russia has global forest-related potential in bioeconomy development, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. However, unsustainable forest management based on wood mining—vast ...
Ecology
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Coastal and dunefield experts from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) in Spain and Flinders University have studied a well-known sex tourism location in the Canary Islands to highlight the environmental ...
Ecology
Nov 9, 2021
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Chemists have been searching for efficient catalysts to convert methane—a major component of abundant natural gas—into methanol, an easily transported liquid fuel and building block for making other valuable chemicals. ...
Materials Science
Nov 9, 2021
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As the airplane tilted steeply upward, Mona Minkara experienced gravity like never before.
Space Exploration
Nov 9, 2021
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