Chronic poverty in the developing world can seem like an insoluble problem. But a long-term study…
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Climate change is pushing the pine beauty moth northward 50 years ahead of earlier predictions
In Finland, climate change is causing the pine pest Panolis flammea, or pine beauty moth, to…
Advancing transparency and building trust in biodefense
A team at King’s College London, led by Dr. Filippa Lentzos from the Department of War…
Novel species of pathogenic bacteria of onion identified in Texas
While conducting the survey of bacteria in onions, a team of Texas A&M AgriLife researchers in…
Book examines scope of political and social attitudes among devout Muslims
Public concerns about the influence of religion on politics have garnered much attention in recent years.…
Largest ever study of its kind reveals whales evolved in three rapid phases
A new study lead by Dr. Ellen Coombs, who studied her Ph.D. at The Natural History…
We can probably find supernovae enhanced by gravitational lensing, we just need to look
Gravitational lensing provides an opportunity to see supernovae and other transients much farther than we normally…
Animal research: Influence of experimenters on results less strong than expected
For more than ten years now, scientists have been discussing the so-called reproducibility crisis: often, scientific…
If there are Dyson spheres around white dwarfs, we should be able to detect them
Searching for Dyson spheres, rings or swarms remains a preoccupation of many astronomers. If there are…
New techniques for retrieving fingerprints from ivory to mitigate poaching
The use of new techniques for retrieving fingerprints from ivory has been validated for the first…