Ecosystem degradation could raise risk of pandemics
Environmental destruction may make pandemics more likely and less manageable, new research suggests.
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What do 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' 'Macbeth,' and a list of Facebook friends all have in common?
To an English scholar or avid reader, the Shakespeare Canon represents some of the greatest literary works of the English language. To a network scientist, Shakespeare's 37 plays and the 884,421 words they contain also represent ...
General Physics
Jun 16, 2020
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Astronomers find elusive target hiding behind dust
Astronomers acting on a hunch have likely resolved a mystery about young, still-forming stars and regions rich in organic molecules closely surrounding some of them. They used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky ...
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2020
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Ancient rocks show high oxygen levels on Earth two billion years ago
Earth may have been far more oxygen-rich early in its history than previously thought, setting the stage for the evolution of complex life, according to new research by scientists at the University of Alberta and the University ...
Earth Sciences
May 12, 2020
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Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer
,,Quantum computers are expected to offer tremendous computational power for complex problems –currently intractable even on supercomputers—in the areas of drug design, data science, astronomy and materials chemistry ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 17, 2020
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New insight into how dividing cells control the separation of their dna
A study published today in the journal eLife has shown that a protein called Astrin is important for the timely and even separation of chromosomes during cell division.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 27, 2019
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When human expertise improves the work of machines
Machine learning algorithms can sometimes do a better job with a little help from human expertise, at least in the field of materials science.
Materials Science
Aug 16, 2019
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Scientists develop methods to validate gene regulation networks
A team of biologists and computer scientists has mapped out a network of interactions for how plant genes coordinate their response to nitrogen, a crucial nutrient and the main component of fertilizer. The work, published ...
Biotechnology
Apr 5, 2019
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Machine learning identifies links between world's oceans
Oceanographers studying the physics of the global ocean have long found themselves facing a conundrum: Fluid dynamical balances can vary greatly from point to point, rendering it difficult to make global generalizations.
Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2019
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The science of knitting, unpicked
Dating back more than 3,000 years, knitting is an ancient form of manufacturing, but Elisabetta Matsumoto of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta believes that understanding how stitch types govern shape and stretchiness ...
General Physics
Mar 6, 2019
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