Five amazing plants and the endangered animals that depend on them
If you've found yourself here because you googled 'why are plants important?', we hope you've blocked out the entire morning.
If you've found yourself here because you googled 'why are plants important?', we hope you've blocked out the entire morning.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2022
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In a forward-looking article, George Church, Ph.D., from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute, proposes the use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2022
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Researchers report new results from the NASA Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) technology demonstration project, which develops and tests new advanced laser sources for deep-space optical communication. The ability ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2022
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People in Germany and Australia are broadly supportive of efforts to decarbonize energy systems. However, opposition to the rollout of renewables is growing. In a new study, researchers show that community participation plays ...
Social Sciences
Dec 7, 2022
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CRISPR, the Nobel Prize-winning gene editing technology, is poised to have a profound impact on the fields of microbiology and medicine yet again.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 5, 2022
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In recent years, many ecologists have broadened their focus from "natural" systems to an understanding of landscapes that includes social factors alongside their biophysical counterparts.
Ecology
Nov 30, 2022
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The world's major writing systems have tended to simplify over time, with a notable exception: New research shows that the Chinese writing system has become increasingly complex over the course of its 3000-year history.
Other
Nov 23, 2022
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Researchers at Penn Engineering have created a chip that outstrips the security and robustness of existing quantum communications hardware. Their technology communicates in "qudits," doubling the quantum information space ...
Quantum Physics
Nov 21, 2022
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To reduce racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system, local, state, and federal government should explore ways to reduce police stops and searches, jail detention, prison admission, and long sentences, says a new ...
Social Sciences
Nov 15, 2022
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On Sept. 23, the United Nations Human Rights Committee found that the Australian government had violated the human rights of a group of Indigenous island residents known as "the Torres Strait 8" when it failed to adequately ...
Political science
Nov 8, 2022
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