For the first time, scientists from CNRS, Institut Curie and Sorbonne Université have been able to act physically on chromosomes in living cells. By subjecting the chromosomes to different forces using magnets, they discovered ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 2, 2022
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Swiss researchers from ETH Zurich have been exploring the question of whether prejudices might be rational under certain conditions. Using game theory, they created various scenarios and played them fifteen ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2012
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The preservation of immovable historic relics displayed in large open spaces like China's world-renowned Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses requires air curtains and other modifications to recreate the primitive ...
Environment
Feb 6, 2013
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The division of labor is more efficient than a struggle through life without help from others – this is also true for microorganisms. Researchers from Research Group Experimental Ecology and Evolution at the Max Planck ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 2, 2013
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The discovery of potential environmental and human health effects from disposal of millions of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries each year has led scientists to recommend stronger government policies to encourage recovery, ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 22, 2013
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Most animals don't spend nearly as much time and energy defending nesting or mating sites against intruders outside the breeding season. That's a given.
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2012
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An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Bushveld Complex in South Africa functioned as a "big magma tank" ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 14, 2022
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Almost 80 percent of air pollution involving soot that spreads from China over large areas of East Asia—impacting human health and fostering global warming—comes from city traffic and other forms of fossil-fuel combustion, ...
Environment
Aug 21, 2013
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In traditional fruit production, formidable challenges arise from labor costs and shortages, prompting extensive research into agricultural automation and the use of intelligent robots for tasks like fruit picking and branch ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 29, 2023
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Closely related species consume the same resources less often than more remotely related species. In fact, it is the competition for resources, and not their kinship, which determines the food sources of the species of a ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2013
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