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Pathogenic bacteria hitchhiking on tiny plastic particles to North and Baltic Seas?
With increasing water temperatures comes an increasing likelihood of potentially pathogenic bacteria appearing in the North and Baltic Seas. AWI scientists have now proven...
Researchers discover how rope was made 40,000 years ago
Close up of the rope making tool from mammoth ivory from Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, ca. 40,000 years old. Photo: Copyright University...
A new key to understanding molecular evolution in space
Ortho-hydrogen converts to para-hydrogen by releasing energy to the ice surface. The conversion rate differed depending on the ice temperature.Credit: Naoki Watanabe, Hokkaido University
Scientists...
NASA’s SDO Watches Bursts of Solar Material
Solar material repeatedly bursts from the sun in this close-up captured on July 9-10, 2016, by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO. The sun...
NASA’s GPM observes newly formed Tropical Storm Georgette
On July 22, NASA/JAXA's GPM found extremely heavy rain (red) falling at a rate of over 224 mm (8.8 inches) per hour and cloud...
Brain activity, response to food cues differ in severely obese women, study shows
Dr. Nancy Puzziferri, assisted by Dr. Atish Chopra, performs bariatric surgery on an obese patient. Dr. Puzziferri led a study in the journal Obesity...
Physicists discover a new approach for building quantum computers
A multi-level quantum system - ququart. Image courtesy of the authors of study
Physicists from MIPT and the Russian Quantum Center have developed a method...
Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road
These are 2,000-year-old personal hygiene sticks with remains of cloth, excavated from the latrine at Xuanquanzhi. Credit: Hui-Yuan Yeh. Reproduced from the Journal of Archaeological...
A recent pause in Antarctic Peninsula warming
The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula, which occurred from the early-1950s to the late 1990s, has paused. Stabilisation of the ozone hole along...
Novel compounds arrested epilepsy development in mice
A team led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of LSU Health New Orleans' Neuroscience Center of Excellence, has developed neuroprotective...
Rare wood bison calves born through IVF
University of Saskatchewan researchers have succeeded in producing wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) through in vitro fertilization.Credit: Caitlin Taylor
Veterinary researchers at the University of...
