In December, the academic publisher De Gruyter launched its new journal Open Statistics with an opening article by TU Dresden mathematician Dr. Björn Böttcher. The article presents the extension of the statistical measure ...
Mathematics
Feb 7, 2020
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Drastic interventions in an ecosystem, like deciding whether to eradicate an unwanted species, can have unforeseen, and sometimes even undesirable, consequences on the rest of the species present in that ecosystem.
Plants & Animals
Jan 28, 2020
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In recent years, our gut microbiome has expanded from the relative obscurity of a culture dish to become firmly established in popular culture.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 14, 2020
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Researchers at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel have demonstrated how bacteria coordinate cell division with the replication of their genetic material. In an interdisciplinary study they explain why the current concept ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 30, 2019
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Reproducibility is a major challenge in experimental biology, and with the increasing complexity of data generated by genomic-scale techniques this concern is immensely amplified. RNA-seq, one of the most widely used methods ...
Biotechnology
Nov 12, 2019
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In 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was among those who noticed a new bright object in the constellation Cassiopeia. Adding fuel to the intellectual fire that Copernicus started, Tycho showed this "new star" was far beyond ...
Astronomy
Oct 17, 2019
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Using a machine learning technique, a team of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço researchers constrained the radius of an exoplanet with known mass.
Astronomy
Oct 11, 2019
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Most of us know this phenomenon only too well: when it's hot outside, you feel the urge for a cooling ice cream. But would you have thought that mathematics could be involved?
Mathematics
Aug 9, 2019
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The news of a fatal dog-bite incident in Melbourne last night has shocked dog lovers around the country.
Plants & Animals
Jul 11, 2019
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Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the Earth. NEOs are consequently potential collision threats, but scientists are also interested in them because they offer ...
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2019
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