Ten years after producing the first sample of the now widely studied family of nanomaterials, called…
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Monty Python's silly walk: A gait analysis and wake-up call to peer review inefficiencies
Fifty years ago, Monty Python’s famous sketch, “The Ministry of Silly Walks,” first aired on BBC…
A new use for museum fish specimens
The discoloured fish that rest in glass jars in museums across the world are normally used…
Ocean acidification impacts oysters' memory of environmental stress
As oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, they are becoming increasingly acidic and shifting the delicate balance…
Computer model solves mystery of how gas bubbles build big methane hydrate deposits
New research from The University of Texas at Austin has explained an important mystery about natural…
Environmental DNA in rivers offers new tool for detecting wildlife communities
Ecologists in England and Scotland, collaborating with ecologists Christopher Sutherland and Joseph Drake at the University…
New book debunks myths about who causes crime and why
Forty years ago, Craig Haney was a young professor of psychology at UC Santa Cruz when…
New aflatoxin biocontrol product lowers contamination of groundnut and maize in Senegal
In Senegal, groundnut and maize are commonly contaminated with highly toxic, cancer-causing chemicals called aflatoxins, which…
Hero proteins are here to save other proteins
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new group of proteins, remarkable for their…
Perturbation-free studies of single molecules
Researchers of the University of Basel have developed a new method with which individual isolated molecules…