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Can An Airline Affect The Direction Of Science?

Research collaborations often involve scientists from all over the world. A new study looks at plane ticket prices, and how they relate to the direction of science.

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Wild Wild West (London Skyline Sunset)

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Marwell 2016

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Another fantastic trip to Marwell Zoo. An ideal chance to experiment with my new Nikon D7200.
Amur Leopard Cubs. Endangered species. And my highlight of the visit.

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CITES COP soon...183 Countries Are Meeting to Discuss the Future of the World's Wildlife https://t.co/yVi6zgrMv8 via @TakePart
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Out There: Whatever We Dig Up, We'll End Up Buried
In our search for discovery and meaning, we always look up and out, while we hardly know anything about what is going on, or what went on, under our own feet.
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CITES explained: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is... https://t.co/TF7NjjgAej
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Five Minutes to Trump: Lies and Lapses on the US Campaign Trail

Donald Trump is a proven liar. But Hillary Clinton is a flawed candidate as well. With eight weeks to go until Americans go to the polls, the prospect of a notorious charlatan moving into the White House is looking more realistic than ever.
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Quality, not quantity, of diet is key to health of baby birds
In a new study that upends the way ornithologists think about a young bird's diet -- but won't shock parents used to scanning the nutritional profile of their children's food -- researchers have found that when it comes to what chicks eat, quality trumps quantity.
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Gut bacteria explain insects' tolerance to a toxic diet
The microbial communities of toxic plant feeders in the Albufera lake in Valencia, Spain have been the focus of recent research. Aside from explaining the insects' tolerance to a toxic diet, the findings may have applications in bioremediation: a waste management technique that involves the use of organisms to remove or neutralize pollutants from a contaminated materials.
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Better models to forecast effects of environmental change on food webs
Ppredator-feeding behavior, global warming, and nutrient enrichment affect the basic building blocks of food webs, says a new dissertation. Just a small increase in temperature or in the availability of a limited nutrient can theoretically push the populations of predators and their prey from stable coexistence at approximately constant densities to wild oscillations, or even to predator extinction. But how and when this happens is still debated by ecologists.
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Breaking Taboo, Swedish Scientist Seeks To Edit DNA Of Healthy Human Embryos

A Swedish biologist wants to change the genes of healthy human embryos to find ways to treat infertility and perhaps other diseases. The experiments intensify ethical questions genetic engineering.

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Kensington Palace

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One Billion Base Pairs Sequenced on the Space Station
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins checks a sample for air bubbles prior to loading it in the biomolecule sequencer. When Rubins' expedition began, zero base pairs of DNA had been sequenced in space. Within just a few weeks, she and the Biomolecule Sequencer team had sequenced their one billionth base of DNA aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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The oil and gas we have already tapped will take us past 1.5°C
Fossil fuels already being exploited will take us past the dangerous 2°C warming level, exceeding the cap agreed at the Paris climate summit
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Galactic fireworks illuminate monster hydrogen 'blob'

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An international team of researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and other telescopes has discovered the power source illuminating a so-called Lyman-alpha Blob -- a rare, brightly glowing, and enormous concentration of gas in the distant universe. Until now, astronomers wondered why these huge clouds of gas shined so brightly. The answer, in this example at least, appears to be two galaxies at the heart of the blob undergoing furious star formation and lighting up their surroundings. These large galaxies, which are destined to eventually merge into a single elliptical galaxy, are in the midst of a swarm of smaller galaxies. This appears to be an early phase in the formation of a massive cluster of galaxies.

Image credit: J.Geach/D.Narayanan/R.Crain

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Efficiency plus versatility: A new method of engineering polymer brush patterns

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Antimicrobial cutting boards. Flame-retardant carpets. Friction-resistant bearings. Engineered surfaces add value to the things we use, providing extra layers of safety, easing their operation, preserving their quality or adding utility. A new method of engineering polymer brush patterns developed at UC Santa Barbara promises to cut down processing time while adding versatility in design. Researchers are looking to greatly improve on the concept with a method of micron-scale surface chemical patterning that can not only decrease time and money spent in their manufacture, but also add versatility to their design.

Image credit: Christian Pester, UC Santa Barbara

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