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Cars and chlamydia killing Queensland koalas
This is a Queensland koala.
Credit: Rachel Allavena
Being hit by cars and chlamydia were the top causes of a dramatic rise in south-east Queensland koala...
Koala study reveals clues about origins of the human genome
Professor of Animal Sciences Alfred Roca (left) with Alex Greenwood of the Leibnitz Institute, Berlin at the San Diego Zoo.
Credit: Image courtesy of Institute...
How the koala retrovirus genome evolved
Australian koala with her baby, Sydney, Australia.
Credit: © hotshotsworldwide / Fotolia
Retroviruses invaded the genome of koalas with strongly pathological effects: the viruses weaken the...
Scientists use gene editing to eliminate viruses in live pigs
Pigs.
Credit: © krumanop / Fotolia
Scientists have edited the pig genome to deactivate a family of retroviruses. The results hold important implications for transplant medicine...
Driver’s eye movements key to controlled curve driving
This is a driver inside the car. The inset shows his eye movement.
Credit: Otto Lappi
All drivers know from personal experience that they must keep...
Crank the AC, cut in-car pollution
After conducting a new research approach using actual commutes, a group of engineers at Washington University in St. Louis discovered a simple shift in...
Earth’s magnetosphere: Discovery of zebra stripes in space resolves a half-century...
The Earth's magnetosphere is home to the plasma waves being studied by Yuri Shprits and colleagues.
Credit: NASA
In the 1960s, NASA launched six satellites to...
Upper part of Earth’s magnetic field reveals details of a dramatic...
Magetic field model/Magnetic anomaly.
Credit: ESA
Satellites have been mapping the upper part of the Earth magnetic field by collecting data for three years and found...
Lunar dynamo’s lifetime extended by at least 1 billion years
The Apollo 15 moon rock sample, which was analyzed by MIT and Rutgers University researchers, consists of basalt fragments welded together by a dark...
Climate change mitigation: Turning carbon dioxide into rock
CarbFix I pilot CO2 injection site during wireline diamond drilling to recover a 150 m of core from the CO2 storage reservoir in 2014...
New NASA space observatory to study carbon conundrums
Artist's rendering of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of...
