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Synthetic biologists hack bacterial sensors
Rice University synthetic biologists have hacked bacterial sensing with a plug-and-play system that could be used to mix-and-match tens of thousands of sensory inputs...
Eastern forests shaped more by Native Americans’ burning than climate change
Native Americans' use of fire to manage vegetation in what is now the Eastern United States was more profound than previously believed, according to...
Ammonium fertilized early life on Earth: study
A team of international scientists—including researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Syracuse University and Royal Holloway, University of London—have demonstrated a new source...
Mathematicians revive abandoned approach to the Riemann Hypothesis
Many ways to approach the Riemann Hypothesis have been proposed during the past 150 years, but none of them have led to conquering the...
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large...
Quantum communication: making two from one
In the future, quantum physics could become the guarantor of secure information technology. To achieve this, individual particles of light—photons—are used for secure transmission...
The return of the wolves
The current return of wolves to human-dominated landscapes poses a major challenge for the protection of this species, says conservation biologist and private lecturer...
Juno finds changes in Jupiter’s magnetic field
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an internal magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon...
Resilience of Yellowstone’s forests tested by unprecedented fire
In August 2016, areas of Yellowstone National Park that burned in 1988 burned again. Shortly after, in October 2016, ecologist Monica Turner and her...
Reverse-engineered computer model provides new insights into larval behavior
Scientists have developed a new approach to describe the behaviours of microscopic marine larvae, which will improve future predictions of how they disperse and...
Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course
It's not exactly the set of TV's "American Ninja Warrior," but a tiny obstacle course for bacteria has shown researchers how E. coli changes its behavior...
