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Social Sciences Feb 27, 2023

School attendance rates in Australia are dropping: We need to ask students why

Today federal and state education ministers are meeting to talk about school attendance. Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has repeatedly flagged this as a key concern. As he told Channel 7's Sunrise last week:

Ecology Feb 21, 2023

Genomic study clarifies the diversity of brown bears across the entire species range

Brown bears are among the largest land-dwelling carnivores in the world. They are characterized by a muscular hump over their shoulders, which gives their front legs additional strength. All ten or so brown bear subspecies ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 18, 2023

Weaponizing part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein against itself to prevent infection

The virus that causes COVID-19, called SARS-CoV-2, uses its spike protein in order to stick to and infect our cells. The final step for the virus to enter our cells is for part of its spike protein to act like a twist tie, ...

Earth Sciences Feb 14, 2023

Acceleration of global sea level rise imminent past 1.8°C planetary warming, says study

A study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a corresponding rapid acceleration of sea level rise, may ...

Social Sciences Jan 16, 2023

Young start-up companies survive longer if they have a high proportion of women, says economist

Matthias Sutter has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn since mid-2017. He is one of the most prominent research-focused behavioral economists in the German-speaking world. He ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jan 12, 2023

The proteins that fix (almost) everything

Proteins can make any inventor green with envy. It is proteins that make the body work. But when these same super-substances make mistakes, we may get sick with things like cancer or Alzheimer's disease. The job of researchers ...

Ecology Jan 11, 2023

Digital advances to increase the sustainability of global fisheries and preserve marine ecosystems

Digital advances will increase the sustainability of global fisheries and preserve marine ecosystems.

Cell & Microbiology Dec 21, 2022

Metabolic hack makes ocean algae more resilient to 21st century climate change

A study published in Science Advances by an international team of scientists provides clear evidence that marine phytoplankton are much more resilient to future climate change than previously thought.

Biochemistry Nov 17, 2022

Effect of copper ions on the aggregation of the Alzheimer's-associated Aβ peptide

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet have reported new insights on how copper ions inhibit the aggregation of the amyloid-β peptide implicated in Alzheimer's disease. The study published in JACS Au presents molecular structures ...

Evolution Oct 11, 2022

A new way to make new species

The evolution of a new species by hybridization from two already described species without a change in chromosome number is very rare in the animal kingdom. So far, only a few accepted empirical examples exist for this spontaneous ...

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