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Big egos, lack of staff training and policy enforcement are major barriers to island conservation
A new study led by the University of Oxford is the first to quantify the day-to-day…
Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome, but a discovery in spiny rats brings hope for humanity
The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the…
Exploring a warm water inflow below an Antarctic ice shelf
The cold, dense water circulating under Antarctica’s Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (FRIS) keeps under-ice melting there to…
Proposing a new idea for spacecraft propulsion that involves dynamic soaring
A team of researchers from McGill University and the Tau Zero Foundation is proposing a new…
Researchers compile ethnopharmacology of genus Veronicastrum
The genus Veronicastrum (Plantaginaceae) has about 20 species in the world with a distribution in eastern…
On-demand storage of photonic qubits at telecom wavelengths
In a recent study published in Physical Review Letters, a research team led by Prof. Guo…
NASA's Roman mission completes key optical components
Engineers at Ball Aerospace, one of the industrial partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope,…
Hubble observes an outstanding open cluster
A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this image. NGC 2002 is an open…
CRISPR insight: How to fine-tune Cas protein's grip on DNA
At the heart of every CRISPR reaction, whether naturally occurring in bacteria or harnessed by CRIPSR-Cas…