Infectious viruses come in many shapes and sizes and use slightly different attack mechanisms to make humans and animals sick. But all viruses share something in common: They can only do damage by replicating inside the cells ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 22, 2020
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University of Wyoming researchers once again have advanced artificial intelligence technology to identify images of wild animals from camera-trap photographs in North America.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2020
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Solar storm analysis carried out by an army of citizen scientists has helped researchers devise a new and more accurate way of forecasting when Earth will be hit by harmful space weather.Scientists at the University of Reading ...
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2020
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Ice-sheet models are an essential tool in making predictions regarding the future of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets. Nevertheless, these models still have a number of weaknesses. In an international model comparison, ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 17, 2020
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Maerl beds stud the ocean floor like underwater brambles. They're pastel pink and, despite their knobbly appearance, made up of a red seaweed. This algae has a limestone skeleton which gives it a complex three-dimensional ...
Ecology
Sep 15, 2020
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QUT researchers are working to design faster, cheaper, and better ways to store food.
Materials Science
Sep 14, 2020
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"Was there a warm period in the Middle Ages that at least comes close to today's? Answers to such fundamental questions are largely sought from tree ring data," explains lead author Josef Ludescher of the Potsdam Institute ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2020
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Stone forests—pointed rock formations resembling trees that populate regions of China, Madagascar, and many other locations worldwide—are as majestic as they are mysterious, created by uncertain forces that give them ...
General Physics
Sep 7, 2020
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A supernova, the explosion of a white-dwarf or massive star, can create as much light as billions of normal stars. This transient astronomical phenomenon can occur at any point after a star has reached its final evolutionary ...
By tweaking the genes of microbes in the soil, it may be possible to make arid ecosystems more resilient to climate change and overgrazing, according to a new study. The research is in early stages, and currently consists ...
Ecology
Aug 26, 2020
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