The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans. Now, a new study published in the journal Science sheds light on how the islands were settled thousands of years ago.
Archaeology
Jun 4, 2020
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Humanity is creating huge amounts of data every day, billions of emails and social media updates, new websites, documents, images, and scientific and commercial big data amounting to petabytes of storage needs and beyond. ...
Bio & Medicine
May 29, 2020
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A new tool invented by University of Alberta biologists to sequence circular DNA will provide scientists with richer, more accurate data that could help advance research on viruses, agriculture and perhaps even cancer.
Biotechnology
May 14, 2020
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DNA data storage may become easier to read and write than before, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory in the U.K. They report on a technique that can also store encrypted data, as ...
Using a recently developed fluorescent imaging technique, researchers in the United States have developed high-resolution maps of microbial communities on the human tongue. The images, presented March 24 in the journal Cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 24, 2020
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For three years, anthropologist Alan Rogers has attempted to solve an evolutionary puzzle. His research untangles millions of years of human evolution by analyzing DNA strands from ancient human species known as hominins. ...
Archaeology
Feb 20, 2020
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Marine sediments cover more than two thirds of our planet's surface. Nevertheless, they are scarcely explored, especially in the deeper regions of the oceans. For their nutrition, the bacteria in the deep ocean are almost ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 18, 2020
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An international research team from ETH Zurich and French universities has studied genetic diversity among fish around the world for the first time. Their research produced a map that will serve as a tool in improving the ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 10, 2020
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In your cells, it's almost always spring. Or at least springy.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 30, 2020
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A doctor diagnosing a 50-year-old patient based on a blood test taken during the patient's infancy would be unthinkable.
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2020
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