Scientists identify microbe that could help degrade polyurethane-based plastics
There may be a small answer to one of the biggest problems on the planet.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 27, 2020
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Big brains or many babies: How birds can thrive in urban environments
A new study in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution suggests that birds have two alternative strategies for coping with the difficulties of humanity's increasingly chaotic cities—either by having large brains or through more ...
Evolution
Mar 25, 2020
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In Earth's largest extinction, land die-offs began long before ocean turnover
The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago—one of the great turnovers of life on Earth—appears to have played out differently and at different times on land and in the sea, according to ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 26, 2020
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Solar system acquired current configuration not long after its formation
The hypothesis that the solar system originated from a gigantic cloud of gas and dust was first floated in the second half of the 18th century by German philosopher Immanuel Kant and further developed by French mathematician ...
Astronomy
Mar 24, 2020
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Is nonlocality inherent in all identical particles in the universe?
What is interaction, and when does it occur? Intuition suggests that the necessary condition for the interaction of independently created particles is their direct touch or contact through physical force carriers. In quantum ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 25, 2020
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Scientists find a way to extract color from black
Scientists have developed a way of extracting a richer palette of colours from the available spectrum by harnessing disordered patterns inspired by nature that would typically be seen as black.
Optics & Photonics
Mar 27, 2020
1
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New feathered dinosaur was one of the last surviving raptors
A new feathered dinosaur that lived in New Mexico 67 million years ago is one of the last known surviving raptor species, according to a new publication in the journal Scientific Reports.
Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 26, 2020
1
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Advanced 'super-planckian' material exhibits LED-like light when heated
Could there be a new kind of light in the universe? Since the late 19th century, scientists have understood that, when heated, all materials emit light in a predictable spectrum of wavelengths. Research published today in ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 23, 2020
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Christmas Island discovery redraws map of life
The world's animal distribution map will need to be redrawn and textbooks updated, after researchers discovered the existence of "Australian' species on Christmas Island.
Earth Sciences
Mar 23, 2020
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Evidence for broken time-reversal symmetry in a topological superconductor
Chiral superconductors are unconventional superconducting materials with distinctive topological properties, in which time-reversal symmetry is broken. Two of the first materials to be identified as chiral superconductors ...
