In most cases, taking a break isn't the most efficient way of getting a job done. But in a study published this week in iScience, researchers from Japan's University of Tsukuba have uncovered the regulatory pathway governing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 23, 2020
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India's space organization, ISRO, launched Chandrayaan 2 to the moon last year in July. While its lander Vikram crashed on the lunar surface on September 7, the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter continues to orbit the moon.
Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2020
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NASA's Artemis Program is planning to land astronauts on the moon's south pole. To prepare for this, NASA's Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) is creating the Lunar South Pole Atlas (LSPA). As part ...
Space Exploration
Mar 6, 2020
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A recently published book on some aspects of the ecology of woody introducents in the Murmansk oblast of Russia provides the information on 19 species of plant-damaging insects out of which only 4 species are identified correctly. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2020
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A Russian icebreaker has made a successful supply run to exchange crew and deliver goods to an international expedition that's been adrift in the high Arctic for months trying to improve scientific understanding of climate ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 2, 2020
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Happy February 29! It doesn't come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it.
Other
Feb 28, 2020
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A "doomsday vault" nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles' cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world's agricultural bounty in case of global ...
Other
Feb 25, 2020
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Professor Clem Pryke and his group are on their way back to Minnesota from the South Pole in Antarctica after completing installation of the new BICEP Array Telescope. Over the next few years this specialized radio telescope ...
Astronomy
Feb 19, 2020
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For centuries, scientists have peered down the lens of a microscope and watched as bacteria – some circular, others rod-shaped – multiply before their eyes. Yet, much about the details of how cells grow and divide is ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 12, 2020
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Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have created artificial atoms in silicon chips that offer improved stability for quantum computing.
Quantum Physics
Feb 11, 2020
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