Form, function and a deadly fungus
In 2009, a microorganism known as Candida auris emerged seemingly from thin air.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 21, 2021
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New mini-satellite will measure howling winds high in Earth's atmosphere
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received $6.5 million in funding from NASA to launch a roughly shoebox-sized satellite into space carrying an instrument designed to measure the howling thermospheric ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 15, 2021
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Freely available protist culture collection supports deeper understanding of plant microbiomes
We are all closely associated with microorganisms. The most common example is the human gut, where bacteria are necessary for digestion and health or can be responsible for illness. The plant microbiome is similar. Depending ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2021
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Can defects turn inert materials into useful, active ones?
Demonstrating that a material thought to be always chemically inert, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), can be turned chemically active holds potential for a new class of catalysts with a wide range of applications, according ...
Materials Science
Nov 19, 2021
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Life experience shapes dogs' interaction with humans
It's an everyday scene. Pooch wants a tasty-looking piece of cake that's sitting on the table. What does he do? He gazes longingly at the titbit, ogles his master or mistress, and glances back at the cake. This "conversation" ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2021
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Satellites pinpoint communities at risk of permafrost thaw
Thawing permafrost in the Arctic is already unleashing methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, exacerbating global temperature rise. As well adding to the climate crisis, this ground, which has been frozen for thousands ...
Environment
Nov 9, 2021
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Next-Generation Very Large Array strongly endorsed by Decadal Survey
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey (Astro2020) of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has published its report and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) received high priority for new ground-based observatories ...
Astronomy
Nov 5, 2021
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Examining the 1,800-plus 'young' volcanoes in the US Southwest
They're born. They live once, erupting for a period that might last for days, years or decades. Then, they go dark and die.
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2021
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Journal study suggests forcing open peer review could lead to more bias
An entomologist at the University of Kentucky has found that requiring peer review reviewers to sign their names to their review comments could bias their results. In his paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
Gender gap revealed in academic journal submissions during first COVID-19 wave
A study of 2,329 academic journals has found that, during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer manuscripts were submitted by women than by men, and this gender gap was especially prominent in the medical field and ...
Social Sciences
Oct 20, 2021
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