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2023-03-15 18:35 |
Common sweetener suppresses mouse immune system — in high doses... Finding suggests that the sugar substitute sucralose could one day be used to treat autoimmune conditions.... |
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2023-03-15 18:31 |
How to build a virus-proof cell... A streamlined genome makes bacteria immune to viral infection, and designing mini-MRI scanners for low- and middle-income countries.... |
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2023-03-15 18:31 |
Asteroid collision shows how much amateur astronomers have to offer... Astronomy, like other scientific fields, continues to benefit from working scientists collaborating with amateur colleagues.... |
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2023-03-15 18:28 |
Powerful AI models, and more — this week’s best science graphics... Three charts from the world of research, selected by Nature editors.... |
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2023-03-15 18:26 |
Air pollution impairs successful mating of flies... A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, demonstrates that increased levels of ozone resulting from anthropogenic air pollution can degrade insect sex pheromones, which are crucial mating signals, and thus prevent... |
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2023-03-15 18:26 |
What the Silicon Valley Bank collapse means for science start-ups... Bailouts mean customers' deposits are safe, but the bank's demise has sparked concern about future investment in small tech companies.... |
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2023-03-15 18:26 |
China is mobilizing science to spur development — and self-reliance... The National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference have boosted science and technology in the national agenda.... |
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2023-03-15 18:24 |
Health: Mediterranean diet associated with decreased risk of dementia... Consumption of a traditional Mediterranean-type diet rich in foods such as seafood, fruit, and nuts is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, reports a study published in BMC Medicine.... |
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2023-03-15 18:23 |
Five steps to make MRI scanners more affordable to the world... Fifty years since the basis of magnetic resonance imaging was published, MRI scanners remain expensive — and impractical in many countries. Here's how we are making them smaller and less costly.... |
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2023-03-15 18:23 |
Global maternal Strep B vaccination program could save millions and prevent thousands of deaths worldwide... A global maternal immunization program for group B Streptococcus - strep B - would save millions in healthcare costs by reducing death and disability, but without tiered pricing, equitable access would likely not be achieved. Several vaccines are currentl... |
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2023-03-15 18:22 |
Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics - Nature... A frequency-tunable laser based on a hybrid silicon nitride and lithium niobate integrated photonic platform has a fast tuning rate and could be used for optical ranging applications.... |
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2023-03-15 18:22 |
Bow-tie particles boast a tunable twist... Chirality index for light-selective nanoparticles.... |
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2023-03-15 18:22 |
Chatbots shouldn’t use emojis... Artificial intelligence that can manipulate our emotions is a scandal waiting to happen.... |
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2023-03-15 18:20 |
Tasmanian devil whiskers may hold the key to protecting these super-scavengers... Despite the damage humans cause to the planet, in some cases wildlife can benefit from the presence of people. The Tasmanian devil, for example, frequently feeds on roadkill left by humans.... |
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2023-03-15 18:20 |
Fines for breaking US pollution laws can vary widely among states—the disparity may violate the Constitution... It's expensive to pollute the water in Colorado. The state's median fine for companies caught violating the federal Clean Water Act is over US$30,000, and violators can be charged much more. In Montana, however, most violators get barely a slap on... |
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2023-03-15 18:01 |
Notre Dame is held together by a first-of-its-kind 'iron skeleton,' catastrophic fire revealed... During its construction beginning in the 12th century, builders used iron staples to support Notre Dame's masonry.... |
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2023-03-15 18:00 |
Notre Dame fire revealed cathedral's innovative use of iron... The 2019 fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris unexpectedly led to discovery of the building's use of iron staple reinforcements throughout its structure. It's the first Gothic cathedral known to have used such a method... |
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2023-03-15 18:00 |
Uncovering the ritual past of an ancient stone monument in Saudi Arabia... A comprehensive analysis of an archaeological site in Saudi Arabia sheds new light on mustatils—ston |
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2023-03-15 18:00 |
Drones gather new and useful data for marine research, but they can disturb whales and dolphins... Drones have changed the way researchers study whales and dolphins. While we were once confined to the decks of boats and observation platforms, glimpsing the backs of surfacing animals, we can now watch them from above. Gaining a bird's eye view of wh... |
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2023-03-15 18:00 |
A volcano on Venus was spotted erupting in decades-old images... A new look at old data reveals an eruption on Venus in the 1990s that was probably similar to Hawaii's Kilauea eruption in 2018.... |
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2023-03-15 17:54 |
Future NASA moonwalkers to sport sleeker spacesuits... Moonwalking astronauts will have sleeker, more flexible spacesuits that come in different sizes when they step onto the lunar surface later this decade.... |
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2023-03-15 17:24 |
Mild fever helps clear infections faster, new study suggests... It may be better to let a mild fever run its course instead of automatically reaching for medication, new University of Alberta research suggests. Researchers found that untreated moderate fever helped fish clear their bodies of infection rapidly, control... |
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2023-03-15 17:24 |
Where did Earth's water come from? Not melted meteorites, according to scientists... A new study brings scientists one step closer to answering the question of where Earth's water came from.... |
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2023-03-15 17:24 |
Recovering tropical forests offset just one quarter of carbon emissions from new tropical deforestation and forest degradation... A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, such as fire and logging, are fast outstripping current rates of forest regrowth.... |
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2023-03-15 17:23 |
Designing more useful bacteria... In a step forward for genetic engineering and synthetic biology, researchers have modified a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria to be immune to natural viral infections while also minimizing the potential for the bacteria or their modified genes to escap... |
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2023-03-15 17:17 |
Researchers discover longest-necked dinosaur in China... A sauropod from China may have had the longest neck of any known dinosaur.... |
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2023-03-15 17:17 |
Even in small businesses, minimum wage hikes don't cause job losses, study finds... Restaurants, retail stores and other small businesses, long thought to be vulnerable to increases in the minimum wage, generally do not cut jobs and may actually benefit when governments raise minimum pay, according to a new study co-authored at UC Berkel... |
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2023-03-15 17:15 |
Spacesuit for return to the Moon unveiled... After 40 years Nasa's astronauts finally get a spacesuit upgrade for their next mission to the Moon.... |
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2023-03-15 17:14 |
UK food shortages: How growing more fruit and veg in cities could reduce the impact of empty supermarket shelves... British supermarkets are imposing limits on how many salad staples shoppers can buy as supply shortages leave shelves empty of some types of fruit and vegetables. The disappearance of fresh produce is said to be largely the result of adverse weather leadi... |
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2023-03-15 17:13 |
NASA's Fermi captures dynamic gamma-ray sky in new animation... Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which observes the sky in gamma rays, the highest-ener... |
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2023-03-15 17:11 |
NASA and Axiom Space Do a Partial Reveal of the Spacesuit That Will be Worn on the Moon... NASA and Axiom Space Inc. provided a first, limited look at the new spacesuits that will be worn by the next astronauts to land on the Moon. The Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit that will be worn for the Artemis missions was only parti... |
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2023-03-15 17:11 |
Honey bees receive flight instruction and vector source by following dance, shows study... In a study published in PNAS, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Freie Universitt Berlin and Rutgers University showed that the dance of the returning honeybee forager conveys the direct... |
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2023-03-15 17:11 |
Evolution of supersoft X-ray source WX Centauri is dominated by magnetic wind, find researchers... Researchers led by Ph.D. candidate Zang Lei and Prof. Qian Shengbang from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered that the orbital evolution of the supersoft X-ray source WX Centauri (WX Cen) is dominated by the angular... |
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2023-03-15 17:09 |
A crystal, but not as we know it... When we think of crystals, we think of ice, kitchen salt, quartz, and so on—hard solids whose shapes show a regular pattern.... |
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2023-03-15 17:07 |
Deadly cyclone 'Freddy' may be the longest-lived and most energetic storm ever recorded... Cyclone Freddy, which is finally dissipating after battering Southeast Africa, has crossed the entire Indian Ocean and made landfall three separate times.... |
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2023-03-15 17:00 |
Environmental and Indigenous Groups Sue over Willow Oil-Drilling Project... A coalition of environmental and Indigenous groups is suing the Biden administration over the approval of the Willow oil- and gas-drilling project in Alaska, arguing the government failed to consider the climate risks, as well as harm to wildlife and subs... |
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2023-03-15 16:59 |
NASA unveils new spacesuit for Artemis moon mission astronauts... A spacesuit designed for the Artemis moon missions is much lighter than those worn by the Apollo astronauts, and allows a greater range of motion... |
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2023-03-15 16:56 |
Quadsat raises $9.6 million for antenna-testing drones... Danish startup Quadsat said March 15 it has raised 9 million euros ($9.6 million) to expand a business that uses drones as stand-ins for satellites to test and calibrate antennas on the ground. The post Quadsat raises $9.6 million for antenna-testing dron... |
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2023-03-15 16:54 |
Galaxy may have eaten all its neighbours and now it's all alone... Astronomers have spotted an object with all the hallmarks of a galaxy cluster, but containing only one galaxy hinting it may have swallowed up all of its neighbours... |
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2023-03-15 16:53 |
Reaping the rewards of good corporate citizenship: Advice on how to generate lasting brand value from sustainability... Whether they like it or not, companies are increasingly judged by their impact on society and the planet, as well as their performance for customers and shareholders. Corporate social responsibility (CSR), therefore, is rapidly becoming a make-or-break el... |
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2023-03-15 16:50 |
When constructing conservation networks, it's best to have a plan... With increasing rates of extinction and biodiversity loss across the globe, scientists are debating whether we are living during the Earth's sixth mass extinction event, prompting a drive to accelerate our conservation efforts, with researchers workin... |
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2023-03-15 16:44 |
Scientists develop new lithium niobate laser technology... Scientists at EPFL and IBM have developed a new type of laser that could have a significant impact on optical ranging technology. The laser is based on a material called lithium niobate, often used in the field of optical modulators, which controls the fr... |
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2023-03-15 16:42 |
News coverage highlights some threats to deer conservation but may mislead or omit key information... A group of researchers supported by FAPESP analyzed 192 news reports published on the internet between 2011 and 2021 on Brazilian deer species (Cervidae) in order to find out whether news of threats to these animals matched the actual risk of their extinc... |
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2023-03-15 16:37 |
Floods, cyclones, thunderstorms: Is climate change to blame for New Zealand's summer of extreme weather?... The final months of New Zealand's summer carried a massive sting, bringing "unprecedented |
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2023-03-15 16:35 |
Opinion: Enduring democracy should encourage rather than discourage media criticism... Everyone seems to hate what they call "the media."... |
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2023-03-15 16:33 |
'Pantry porn' on TikTok and Instagram makes obsessively organized kitchens a new status symbol... Neatly aligned glass spice jars tagged with printed white labels. Wicker baskets filled with packages of pasta, crackers and snacks. Rows of flavored seltzer water stacked in double-decker plastic bins.... |
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2023-03-15 16:32 |
Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when trees leaf out above them... For short-lived spring wildflowers such as wood anemone (Anemone quinquefolia) and Dutchman's breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), timing is everything. These fleeting plants, known as ephemerals, grow in temperate forests around the world, leafing out and... |
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2023-03-15 16:30 |
Scientists create novel bandgap-tunable 2D nanosheets made from perovskite oxynitrides... Two-dimensional monolayer nanosheets made from layered perovskite have many desirable properties. However, it has been difficult to create them with tunable bandgaps in the visible region without adding oxygen defects. Recently, researchers from Japan wer... |
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2023-03-15 16:28 |
Heat waves in India set to intensify, says climate scientist... After its hottest February since 1901, the India Meteorological Department has issued an early heat wave warning and forecasts for higher-than-normal temperatures between March and May.... |
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2023-03-15 16:27 |
Australian unpaid social contributions valued at $287 billion: Report... Australians generated at least $287.86 billion in value through unpaid social contributions in 2021, according to a new report from the University of Sydney's Mental Wealth Initiative.... |