In the face of catastrophic events, scenes of property destruction give the first indications of economic loss for businesses. Interruptions to the companies' ability to produce goods and services, however, actually have ...
Economics & Business
May 24, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat variety from Bangladesh, they now have a wheat with ...
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2022
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A new study has found the distribution of females in 33 species of Australian rodents affects the evolution of testes size of males in these social species.
Plants & Animals
May 4, 2022
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With the extinction of large, non-flying dinosaurs 66 million years ago, large herbivores were missing on Earth for the subsequent 25 million years. Since plants and herbivorous animals influence each other, the question ...
Evolution
May 2, 2022
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An emerging type of material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) could help improve the delivery of genetic material for treating disease.
Biochemistry
Apr 11, 2022
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A new study from scientists at Uppsala University shows that it took more than 10 millennia from when the first spruces returned to Sweden after the glacial stage of the last Ice Age until the species became widespread. This ...
Ecology
Apr 11, 2022
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New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dollars, and their relatives, has been published today in the journal eLife.
Evolution
Mar 22, 2022
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Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the moon in 1972. The effort is part of NASA's ...
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2022
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Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Montreal (Canada) have discovered that a micro-protein, which they named Nrs1, supports cell division and proliferation when nutrients are scarce. This ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 4, 2022
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Following a major study of the effects of personality on job performance, researchers zoomed in on one personality trait—agreeableness—and found that it has a desirable effect on hundreds of physical, psychological and ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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