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New test rapidly identifies antibiotic-resistant superbugs
When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to...
How geology tells the story of evolutionary bottlenecks and life on Earth
Evidence that catastrophic geological events could have created evolutionary bottlenecks that changed the course of life on Earth may be buried within ancient rocks...
Computer model for designing protein sequences optimized to bind to drug targets
Designing synthetic proteins that can act as drugs for cancer or other diseases can be a tedious process: It generally involves creating a library...
All in the family: Kin of gravitational wave source discovered
On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous detection of light and gravitational waves from the...
Climate models fail to simulate recent air-pressure changes over Greenland
Climatologists may be unable to accurately predict regional climate change over the North Atlantic because computer model simulations have failed to accurately include air...
Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis
Humans are exterminating animal and plant species so quickly that nature's built-in defence mechanism, evolution, cannot keep up. An Aarhus-led research team calculated that...
Two degrees decimated Puerto Rico’s insect populations
While temperatures in the tropical forests of northeastern Puerto Rico have climbed two degrees Celsius since the mid-1970s, the biomass of arthropods—invertebrate animals such...
Study shows what happens when ultrafast laser pulses, not heat, cause a material to...
The way that ordinary materials undergo a phase change, such as melting or freezing, has been studied in great detail. Now, a team of...
Biomaterials with ‘Frankenstein proteins’ help heal tissue
Biomedical engineers from Duke University and Washington University in St. Louis have demonstrated that, by injecting an artificial protein made from a solution of...
Beer supply threatened by future weather extremes
Severe climate events could cause shortages in the global beer supply, according to new research involving the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The study warns...
Oldest evidence for animals found
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have found the oldest clue yet of animal life, dating back at least 100 million years before...
