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Ecology Nov 30, 2022

Large terrestrial mammals are more vulnerable to acoustic impact of drones than to visual impact

Large terrestrial mammals are vulnerable to the acoustic sounds of drones, technological systems which are increasingly used to study the wildlife in open habitats such as the savanna and marshes.

Ecology Nov 29, 2022

Heat waves could reduce survival of coral larvae and connectivity of coral populations in Mediterranean Sea

Global climate change and, in particular, the warming of the oceans has caused the frequency and severity of marine heat waves to increase every year, with serious consequences for the stability and resilience of coral populations.

Ecology Nov 11, 2022

New approach to assess health status of intermittent rivers

More than 50% of the world's river network is made of temporary or intermittent rivers: these are rivers that, during a certain time of the year, mainly summer, present dry riverbeds or some isolated ponds. These rivers show ...

Education Nov 10, 2022

Bibliometric study ranks world-leading institutions researching liver cirrhosis

The University of Barcelona is the institution with the most publications and number of bibliometric citations worldwide in research on liver cirrhosis, followed by the Virginia Commonwealth University (United States), the ...

Social Sciences Nov 8, 2022

Study reveals extent of gender inequality in start-up landscape

Women are significantly underrepresented in German and French start-ups, especially in technical industries. This applies to both founders and employees, as a study from TUM in collaboration with the Roland Berger Foundation ...

Earth Sciences Nov 7, 2022

Microplastic pollution threatens the world's coastal lagoons

Globally, the coastal lagoons of Lagos (Nigeria), Sakumo (Ghana) and Bizerte (Tunisia)—close to large urban centers and without waste and sewage treatment systems—are among the water ecosystems most affected by microplastic ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 3, 2022

Chemists stabilize hard-to-tame chloride compound

Molecular compounds containing chlorine atoms alongside another element are vital materials in chemical synthesis.

Nanophysics Nov 2, 2022

Magnetic molecules on surfaces: Advances and challenges in molecular nanoscience

In the field of molecular magnetism, the design of devices with technological applications at the nanoscale—quantum computing, molecular spintronics, magnetic cooling, nanomedicine, high-density information storage, etc.—requires ...

Evolution Oct 28, 2022

Finding unknown processes of evolutionary history in green lizards in the Mediterranean

The evolutionary clade and biodiversity of green lizards of the genera Lacerta and Timon—reptiles common in the Mediterranean basin and surrounding areas of the European continent, North Africa and Asia—have never been ...

Analytical Chemistry Oct 27, 2022

New material proposed for perovskite solar cells

A new type of material for solar cells was proposed by specialists of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and the Institute of Organic Synthesis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with their colleagues. ...

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