Research explores how the management of feral cats can protect native species
New Massey research hopes to improve the management of feral cats for the protection of native species.
Ecology
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Mangrove forests trap floating litter
Mangrove forests on the coasts of Saudi Arabia act as litter traps, accumulating plastic debris from the marine environment, according to new research from KAUST. The study offers an explanation for the fate of missing marine ...
Environment
May 13, 2019
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Opinion: Why Australia needs to kill cats
Introduced cats are a key threat to 123 of Australia's threatened species.
Ecology
May 9, 2019
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Several small steps: Elephant calves caught on camera in Cambodia
First, the good news. Footage from the 46 camera traps deployed by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) in Cambodia's Cardamom Mountains is giving us a privileged insight into the lives of the Asian elephants that roam through ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 30, 2019
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Coffee machine helps physicists to make more efficient ion traps
Scientists from ITMO University have developed and applied a new method for analyzing the electromagnetic field inside ion traps. For the first time, they explained the field deviations inside nonlinear radio-frequency traps. ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 26, 2019
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MicroRNA-like RNAs contribute to the lifestyle transition of Arthrobotrys oligospora
Lifestyle transition is a fundamental mechanism that fungi have evolved to survive and proliferate in different environments. As a typical nematode-trapping fungus, Arthrobotrys oligospora switches from saprophytes to predators ...
Biotechnology
Apr 19, 2019
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Folding an acoustic vortex on a flat holographic transducer to form miniaturized selective acoustic tweezers
Acoustic tweezers are based on focused acoustic vortices and hold promise to precisely manipulate microorganisms and cells from the millimeter scale down to the submicron scale, without contact, and with unprecedented selectivity ...
Study shows green roofs could reduce indoor air pollution
Green roofs – roofs that are planted with vegetation—may improve the indoor air quality of commercial buildings by cutting the amount of ozone coming into the buildings from the outside, according to new research from ...
Environment
Apr 10, 2019
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Permian volcanism contributed to atmospheric greenhouse gas content in Antarctica
The Choiyoi magmatic Province, with an estimated volume of ~1.3 million square kilometers, represents a voluminous Permian subduction-related volcanic episode that has thus far been described only from South America. In their ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 2, 2019
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Behavior of 'trapped' electrons in a one-dimensional world observed in the lab
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic scale. Electrons normally move almost freely through three-dimensional space. However, ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 2, 2019
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