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Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is nestled within a natural basin in China's remote and mountainous southwestern Guizhou province. Nicknamed Tianyan, or the...
Structure of UBC’s tall wood building now complete
UBC’s tall wood building, Brock Commons.Credit: Image courtesy of University of British Columbia
The mass wood structure and façade has been completed for UBC's Brock...
Current weak spots in Greenland’s ice sheet have been weak for thousands of years
Sarqardliup glacier in west Greenland.Image Credit: Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Earlier recent work has shown that the east, southeast and northwest regions of the Greenland ice...
Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems
Sediment samples taken from 17 marine locations around the world reveal a 2.5-million-year cool period beginning about 7 million years, a time of sweeping...
The first genome of a coral reef fish
Researchers at KAUST have sequenced the genome of a coral reef fish from the Red Sea, the blacktail butterflyfish, for the first time. Credit:...
Rushing to complete work on deadline could mean more mistakes
New management research from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University shows that when deadlines are in place workers, tend to...
3D printed fish fossil may reveal origin of human teeth
ANU PhD student Yuzhi Hu with a 3D print of the 400 million year old fish fossil that is six times the size of...
World’s deepest underwater cave found in the Czech Republic
In the flooded Hranicka Abyss in Czech Republic, Polish explorer Krzysztof Starnawski examines the limestone crevasse and prepares for a 2016 expedition to measure...
Details of mysterious Utah Zika-related death: Transmission by tears or sweat
The first Zika virus-related death in the continental U.S. occurred in June of this year, but even now, months later, two aspects of this...
First evidence of deep-sea animals ingesting microplastics
Microplastic fibre inside sea pen polyp.Credit: Michelle Taylor
Scientists working in the mid-Atlantic and south-west Indian Ocean have found evidence of microfibers ingested by deep...
Final descent image from Rosetta spacecraft
The OSIRIS narrow-angle camera aboard the Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft captured this image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on September 30, 2016, from an altitude of...
