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Invasive mongooses altered leg length and endurance of endangered island frogsCredit: Hirotaka Komine/ TUAT Biodiversity is increasingly ruined by humanity's many impacts, a major aspect...

A new study by Novateur Ventures provides global analysis of COVID-19 vaccines

Credit: Novateur Ventures A new study by Novateur Ventures provides a comparative analysis of twelve COVID-19 Vaccines that had initiated or announced the Phase III...

Powerful stratospheric winds measured on Jupiter for the first time

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada & NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, a team of...

Size matters when it comes to atomic properties

Credit: Neuroncollective, Daniel Spacek, Pavel Travnicek A study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has yielded new answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between...

UNIST to develop new electrolyte additives for high-energy-density LIBs

Credit: UNIST A joint research team, affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel electrolyte additive that could enable a long lifespan and fast chargeability of...

TU Graz researchers identify chemical processes as key to understanding landslides

Credit: © Kieffer - TU Graz/DCNA Mass movements such as landslides and hill-slope debris flows cause billions of euros in economic damage around the world...

Harbour porpoises attracted to oil platforms when searching for food

A large gathering of fish tempts harbor porpoises to search for food around oil and gas platforms, even though the noise from these industrial plants...

Scientist gets $2 million grant to study how inflammation, gut microbiota promote metabolic syndrome

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Andrew Gewirtz, a professor in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University, has received a four-year federal grant...

A sturdier spike protein explains the faster spread of coronavirus variants

Cryo-EM study show how structural alterations in G614 variants stabilize the spikeCredit: Bing Chen, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital BOSTON - March 16, 2021 - The...

MSU scientists one million ‘hops’ closer to ending a disease endemic in cattle

Credit: Aretha Fiebig Many people have never heard of Brucellosis, but farmers and ranchers in the United States forced to cull animals that test positive...

Modernizing the naval selection process

UH psychologist to develop virtual reality personality assessmentCredit: University of Houston Recruiting and selecting the proper sailors for specific tasks in the U.S. Navy has...

Facial recognition ID with a twist: Smiles, winks and other facial movements for access

New algorithm makes ID verification more secure by tracking facial motionCredit: BYU Photo Using your face to unlock your phone is a pretty genius security...

Algae growing on dead coral could paint a falsely rosy portrait of reef health

New challenges to a once tried-and-true method for assessing reef healthCredit: Image courtesy of Ken Caldeira. Washington, DC-- Algae colonizing dead coral are upending scientists'...

The trouble of being tall

Credit: Mogens Trolle The giraffe is a truly puzzling animal. With its exceptional anatomy and suite of evolutionary adaptations, the giraffe is an outstanding case...

Feeding cattle seaweed reduces their greenhouse gas emissions 82 percent