DNA test kit saves thousands of Earth's most bizarre turtles
Using a rapid DNA testing toolkit developed by FIU researchers, Colombian officials stopped an illegal shipment of 2,200 Matamata turtles and returned them to the Orinoco river basin.
Using a rapid DNA testing toolkit developed by FIU researchers, Colombian officials stopped an illegal shipment of 2,200 Matamata turtles and returned them to the Orinoco river basin.
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2021
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After 17 years underground, swarms of cicadas are emerging across the eastern United States—and for one Washington chef, the rare bug invasion was his cue for a cookout, with a side of food ethics.
Other
May 25, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Hong Kong and one in Singapore has found that socioeconomic inequality is driving existing trade patterns in the global wildlife market. In their paper published ...
Biodiversity is of crucial importance to the marine ecosystem. The prohibition of trawling activities in the Hong Kong marine environment for two and a half years has significantly improved biodiversity, an inter-university ...
Ecology
May 5, 2021
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The human world is, increasingly, an urban one—and that means elevators. Hong Kong, the hometown of physicist Zhijie Feng (Boston University), adds new elevators at the rate of roughly 1500 every year...making vertical ...
Mathematics
May 3, 2021
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More than 70 million people live in China's Greater Bay Area, a booming megalopolis that includes Hong Kong, Macau, and nine other major cities. Air pollution is a major public health concern in this region and across China. ...
Environment
Apr 28, 2021
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To the usual list of foul trash left behind or washed up on beaches around the world, add these: masks and gloves used by people to avoid the coronavirus and then discarded on the sand.
Environment
Apr 7, 2021
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An international trade law expert at the University of Kansas argues in a pair of new articles that human rights and trade are now inextricably linked, as evidenced by U.S. and international reactions to actions in China, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2021
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The importance of a free press to a thriving democracy is well-known. But what is its importance to a thriving economy?
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2021
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Grain boundaries (GBs) in PSCs have been found to be detrimental to the photovoltaic performance of the devices. Numerous papers reported that the defects in perovskite GBs should be passivated by suitable materials, such ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 1, 2021
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