A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be considerably ...
Astronomy
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Neighbors can be annoying. They may be loud or intrude on your space. But is it worth fighting with them? Parrotfish choose not to.
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2024
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The apparent weirdness of the quantum world is often exemplified by the paradox of Schrödinger's imaginary cat that exists in a limbo state of being both alive and dead until looked upon by an observer. But in the real world ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 9, 2024
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Conservation efforts directed towards just 0.7% of the world's land mass could help protect one third of the world's threatened and unique tetrapod (four-limbed vertebrate) species, new research by Imperial College London, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2024
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A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Ecology
Sep 7, 2024
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Small interfering RNA (siRNA) drugs are a class of therapeutic agents that silence specific genes associated with inherited diseases. However, siRNA drugs have challenges because siRNAs often silence genes other than the ...
Biotechnology
Sep 6, 2024
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Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Voxalytic GmbH have developed a new method that allows, for the first time, the elucidation of the chiral structure of molecules—the exact spatial arrangement ...
Biochemistry
Sep 10, 2024
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Student teams from three U.S. universities became the first to measure what scientists have long predicted: eclipses can generate ripples in Earth's atmosphere called atmospheric gravity waves. The waves' telltale signature ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 5, 2024
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Dr. Min-young Lee and Dr. Sung-gyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at KIMS have developed a technology that can detect cancer mutant genes in blood with the world's highest sensitivity ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 6, 2024
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Scientists have solved a decade-long question about the mechanism that preserves the centromere, the hub that ensures DNA divides correctly during cell division.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 6, 2024
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