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The international trade in elephant ivory has been illegal since 1989, yet African elephant numbers continue to decline. In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature cited ivory poaching as a primary reason ...

Sep 19, 2018 in Ecology

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The Gulf of St. Lawrence has warmed and lost oxygen faster than almost anywhere else in the global oceans. The broad, biologically rich waterway in Eastern Canada drains North America's Great Lakes and is popular with fishing ...

Sep 17, 2018 in Earth Sciences

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For the first time, scientists have created, entirely from scratch, a protein capable of binding to a small target molecule. Researchers from the University of Washington School of Medicine report the advance in the Sept. ...

Sep 12, 2018 in Biochemistry

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A region of West Antarctica is behaving differently from most of the continent's ice: A large patch of ice there is thickening, unlike other parts of West Antarctica that are losing ice. Whether this thickening trend will ...

Sep 06, 2018 in Earth Sciences

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Scientists have now developed an assay that concurrently profiles both the epigenome and transcriptome of each of thousands of single cells.

Aug 30, 2018 in Cell & Microbiology

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For years, a commonly used tactic for protecting threatened and endangered animals in Puget Sound was to cordon off areas to fishing. More than 100 marine protected areas exist around the Sound to protect shoreline critters ...

Aug 22, 2018 in Ecology

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While many Puget Sound residents have to choose between taking public transit or personal vehicles to work, Microsoft and Seattle Children's Hospital employees have an additional option: private commuter buses.

Aug 22, 2018 in Social Sciences

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The Carrizo Plain National Monument is a little-known ecological hotspot in Southern California. Though small, it explodes in wildflowers each spring and is full of threatened or endangered species.

Aug 20, 2018 in Ecology

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More than 100 oceanic floats are now diving and drifting in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica during the peak of winter. These instruments are gathering data from a place and season that remains very poorly studied, despite ...

Aug 14, 2018 in Earth Sciences

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The general public might think of the 21st century as an era of revolutionary technological platforms, such as smartphones or social media. But for many scientists, this century is the era of another type of platform: two-dimensional ...

Aug 09, 2018 in Condensed Matter

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