Making the benefits of different types of farming plain for the public could provide better protection for the British countryside, according to a new study. Led by a team at the University of Reading, the research says greater ...
Agriculture
Aug 28, 2024
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The origin of eukaryotes is considered one of the greatest enigmas in biology: according to current doctrine, two prokaryotes, a so-called Asgard archaeon and a bacterium, are believed to have merged. The bacterium is said ...
Evolution
Aug 28, 2024
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A pair of paleontologists, one with the Museum für Naturkunde, in Germany, the other from the Università degli Studi di Torino, in Italy, has found new evidence that an ancient fish, which has defied categorization for ...
A previously unknown mechanism of active matter self-organization essential for bacterial cell division follows the motto "dying to align": Misaligned filaments "die" spontaneously to form a ring structure at the center of ...
General Physics
Aug 12, 2024
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In the scorching heat of summer, anyone who spends time outside—athletes, landscapers, kids at the park or beachgoers—could benefit from a cooling fabric. While there are some textiles that reflect the sun's rays or transfer ...
Polymers
Aug 21, 2024
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A Danish amber collector's find upon a wild North Sea shore in the 1960's has proved to be of great and surprising significance. After having thoroughly examined the roughly 40-million-year-old piece of amber, University ...
Evolution
Aug 30, 2024
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Plastic waste in rivers and oceans is constantly releasing chemicals into the water. Until now, it was unknown how large these quantities are and which substances are released particularly strongly. In the large-scale P-LEACH ...
Polymers
Aug 12, 2024
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After the World Health Organization this week warned that a fast-spreading strain of mpox poses a global threat, Denmark has a potential solution and underscores its capacity to outshine traditional powerhouses in the U.S. ...
Economics & Business
Aug 19, 2024
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The global concentrations of one of the main air pollutants known to affect human health has been graphically illustrated for the first time by a team of scientists.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2024
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Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water on the red planet and even contain evidence for past life on Mars.
Astrobiology
Aug 14, 2024
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