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Oyster deaths: American slipper limpet is innocent
Natural history collections are unique archives of biodiversity. They document how living things transform over time…
Scientists now know what DNA's chaperone looks like
It’s long been known that the proteins that package DNA, like students at a high school…
New Cretaceous mammal fossil sheds light on evolution of middle ear
Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences…
Nine climate tipping points now 'active,' warn scientists
More than half of the climate tipping points identified a decade ago are now “active”, a…
Scientists discover unpredicted stellar black hole
An international team headed by Professor LIU Jifeng of the National Astronomical Observatory of China of…
Europe faces up to new space challenges
European ministers met Wednesday in Spain aiming to defend its top space ranking against challenges from…
Black silicon can help detect explosives
Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU), Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,…
Photosynthesis: Living laboratories
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich biologists Marcel Dann and Dario Leister have demonstrated for the first time…
Transparent wood: the building material of the future?
When Timothée Boitouzet studied architecture in Japan, where buildings need to survive earthquakes, he realised the…