British people tend to overestimate the prevalence of different minority demographics, beliefs, and behaviors among the public, according to a study publishing December 22 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
Social Sciences
Dec 22, 2021
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Scientists have developed a pioneering new technique to barcode individual cells more accurately and efficiently—which could help pave the way for quicker disease diagnosis.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 17, 2021
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Within complex tissues such as cancer tumors, individual cells can vary widely from each other. Internally, cancer cells can develop unique DNA mutations and genomic changes, potentially leading to drug resistance, metastasis, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 16, 2021
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In our digital age, companies need more than just a digital footprint to get ahead of the game. Increasingly, many companies—both large and small, established or start-ups—are implementing digital strategies. In implementing ...
Social Sciences
Dec 16, 2021
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Interactive online platform uses satellite images to display status of European forests. The output is based on the greenness of trees. With the latest functionality, users can also view and download data for individual countries ...
Ecology
Dec 15, 2021
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this 360-degree selfie using the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, at the end of its robotic arm. The selfie comprises 81 individual images taken on Nov. 20, 2021—the 3,303rd Martian day, ...
Space Exploration
Dec 2, 2021
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Archaeologists from the University of Gothenburg have concluded an excavation of two tombs in the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus. The finds include over 150 human skeletons and close to 500 objects—including ...
Archaeology
Dec 1, 2021
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Imagine going to hear your favorite orchestral piece played in a world-class venue—and only the woodwind and brass sections turning up. Whether we're aware of it or not, this sparse soundscape is similar to what we're often ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2021
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A trio of psychologists at Lund University has found via online questionnaire, that people who believe in astrology tend to be less intelligent than the norm and more narcissistic. In their paper published in the journal ...
Crowdsourcing is a method of problem solving that taps the intellectual potential and skills of a large number of people simultaneously, commonly by using the tools of social media and the internet. New research published ...
Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2021
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