The deadly hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii can live for a year on a hospital wall without food and water. Then, when it infects a vulnerable patient, it resists antibiotics as well as the body's built-in infection-fighting ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 16, 2023
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Scientists studying the supermassive black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy have revealed the origins of the monster's powerful jet and imaged the jet and its source together for the first time. What's more, the observations ...
Astronomy
Apr 26, 2023
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Human beings have massively changed the Earth system. Greenhouse-gas emissions produced by human activities have caused the global mean temperature to rise by more than 1.1°C compared to the preindustrial era. And every ...
Environment
Apr 20, 2023
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It epitomizes the Great Plains in spirit and in form: a 2,000-pound tank on hooves, cloaked in shaggy winter-tested coat, capped by horns acting as warning and weapon.
Plants & Animals
Apr 17, 2023
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If infected with the Ebola virus, less than 20% of endangered mountain gorillas living in Africa's Virunga Massif region would be expected to survive more than 100 days past the first confirmed case. That is according to ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 12, 2023
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As the climate changes, many species are expected to adjust where and how they live. Some are expected to seek cooler elevations as it warms, but what happens to species already at the top of a mountain? A study of squirrels ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 6, 2023
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University of Queensland researchers have led a national study on the four main bacteria that cause sepsis, providing new targets for developing antibiotics.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 28, 2023
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A group of natural history museums, organized by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., the American Museum of Natural History Museum in New York City, and the Natural History Museum in London, ...
Biotechnology
Mar 23, 2023
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A researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored how the gender gap has evolved in two American academies: the National Academy of Science (NAS) and the Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2023
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While the crowds swarm around Old Faithful to wait for its next eruption, a little pool just north of Yellowstone National Park's most famous geyser is quietly showing off its own unique activity, also at more-or-less regular ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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