When the University of California decided in early 2020 to stop using the ACT and SAT…
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"A liberal culture within the police force is something worth fighting for"
The police forces currently find themselves in the focus of public debate. This was triggered partly…
A view on climate change from the treetops of Western Africa
The tropical forest canopy is one of the Earth’s underexplored frontiers. To understand how these unique…
Conditions Ripe for Active Amazon Fire, Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
Warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the tropical North AtlanticOcean so far in 2020 have…
New report aims to prevent incels from turning to violence
Two political science students at the University of Alberta have written a background report to help…
VERITAS: exploring the deep truths of Venus
Imagine Earth. Now fill the skies with thick, sun-obscuring clouds of sulfuric acid; boil off the…
Structural analysis of COVID-19 spike protein provides insight into its evolution
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have characterised the structure of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein as…
New ways to keep proteins healthy outside the cell
With increasing age, and especially in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, proteins tend to misfold and…
The ups and downs of a mega-lake
Together with an international team, researchers of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at…
Living fossils: We mapped a half-billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests
If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped…