The search for exoplanets—planets that orbit stars located beyond the borders of our solar system—is a hot topic in astrophysics. Of the various types of exoplanets, one is hot in the literal sense: hot Jupiters, a class ...
Astronomy
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Shane Denson is an associate professor of film and media studies at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. He's also a deep thinker about our data-rich world and the technologies driving it. Biosensing technologies, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 14, 2023
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National University of Singapore (NUS) pharmaceutical scientists have successfully applied all-hydrocarbon-stapling modification to improve the enzymatic stability of their previously reported β-hairpin antimicrobial peptides ...
Biochemistry
Aug 14, 2023
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Forensic researchers at UT Knoxville's famous Anthropological Research Facility, popularly known as the "Body Farm," have made headlines for decades in their discoveries of what happens to human bodies after death. Now, a ...
Other
Aug 11, 2023
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Getting to know planets or moons inside out isn't easy. Like Earth and its moon, many celestial bodies are multilayered and can contain anomalous internal features that reflect the complex history of their formation, collisions ...
Planetary Sciences
Aug 11, 2023
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The death of a lion in Kenya's picturesque savannas rarely tugs at people's hearts, even in a country where wildlife tourism is a key pillar of the nation's economy. But when one of the most tracked male lions in Kenya's ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2023
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International researchers, including Dr. Gabriel Ferreira of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, have compiled the most comprehensive data set to date on body ...
Evolution
Aug 8, 2023
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Engineers have developed nanoscale tattoos—dots and wires that adhere to live cells—in a breakthrough that puts researchers one step closer to tracking the health of individual cells.
Bio & Medicine
Aug 7, 2023
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A cheetah pouncing on a gazelle. A bear snatching a fish out of the water with its claws. And the most dangerous predator of them all? A human and their pet bird dancing to Gangnam Style.
Ecology
Aug 5, 2023
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Reducing methane emissions from livestock would benefit farmers and the environment. In a first step towards breeding low-methane-emitting cows, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine ...
Molecular & Computational biology
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