ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/04/2020

SlingShot:  To prepare for the Slingshot deployer installation, the crew reviewed the big picture words, then…

Climate care: remote life, better life?

Video: 00:58:51 Replay of a live streamed conversation on 4 May 2020, with European experts on…

Dawn of good, fast and cheap human genome assembly

Researchers are driving advances in human genome assembly to make the process better, faster, and cheaper.…

Climate change increases risk of fisheries conflict

A team of experts examined how climate change is affecting the ocean environment and found that…

Viruses from feces can help combat obesity and diabetes

Fecal transplants are currently used to treat certain types of antibiotic-resistant diarrhea and has also been…

Chronic illness in childhood linked to higher rates of mental illness

Children with long-term health conditions may be more likely to experience mental illness in early adolescence…

Predators help prey adapt to an uncertain future

What effect does extinction of species have on the evolution of surviving species? Evolutionary biologists have…

Foraging Drosophila flies are open for new microbial partners

Scientists have found that vinegar flies do not necessarily prefer yeasts from their natural environments, but…

Arctic 'shorefast' sea ice threatened by climate change

A new study shows that coastal sea ice used by Arctic residents for hunting and fishing…

Smart use of genomic data needed in species conservation

A ‘step-change’ in conservation is needed in order to help save species from extinction in the…