The world's largest campodeid dipluran named after the mythological giant Daidarabotchi

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Machine learning identifies antibiotic resistance genes in tuberculosis-causing bacteria

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Video: feathers not included

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Ecolabelling no help in sustainable seafood sales

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Want to nudge others to install solar? Actions speak louder than words

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Chemists disprove the universal nature of the mercury test

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Why we need more than just data to create ethical driverless cars

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NASA's InSight will study Mars while standing still

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Geographers draw up an ice thickness map of Svalbard

Global sea levels are rising constantly. One factor contributing to this rise is the melting of the glaciers. Although the surface area of the glaciers has been well mapped, there is often no information regarding their thickness, making it impossible to calculate their volume. A … | Continue reading


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Natural material discovered that exhibits in-plane hyperbolicity

An international team of researchers has discovered a natural material that exhibits in-plane hyperbolicity. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes their work with molybdenum trioxide and what they found. Thomas Folland and Joshua Caldwell with Vander … | Continue reading


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Enhanced oil recovery with nanoparticles

A mixture of nanoparticles and water can be used in the nano-water alternating gas approach (NWAG) to enhance oil recovery from an oil field. Now, the wettability of rock, relative permeability curves, and the interfacial tension has been analysed by a team from Oman with a view … | Continue reading


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Wildebeests' super-efficient muscles allow them to walk for days without drinking

A team of researchers with the University of London, University College London and the University of Botswana has found that the wildebeest has extremely efficient muscles. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers describe their study of the migrating anima … | Continue reading


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Emissions-free hydrogen production edges closer with new pilot site in Denmark

An EU initiative will facilitate the production, storage and supply of hydrogen for a wide range of end users. It will help integrate green power into the energy system in a flexible way. | Continue reading


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MixedEmotions: open-source toolbox for emotion analysis

A European team of researchers, including Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, has developed an open-source toolbox to assess emotions in texts, audios and videos. | Continue reading


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New giant protocluster of galaxies discovered at high redshift

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new giant protocluster of galaxies. The newly found protocluster was identified at a redshift of 5.7, when the universe was about 1 billion years old. The finding is detailed in a paper published October 15 on the ar … | Continue reading


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A new process for full utilization of softwood bark

In the Finnish mechanical and chemical forestry industry, three million tonnes of softwood bark are produced annually, presently mainly used for energy production. Using a method developed by VTT, a high yield of pure tannins can be extracted from the bark for use as a raw materi … | Continue reading


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Invention opens the door to safer and less expensive X-ray imaging

Medical imaging, such as X-ray or computerised tomography (CT), may soon be cheaper and safer, thanks to a recent discovery made by chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS). | Continue reading


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Asian catfish genome decoded

The striped catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus makes its home in the legendary Mekong River, the longest river in Southeast Asia and largest inland fishery in the world. Vietnam stands as the leading producer of the species, culturing an estimated 1.1 million tons of the fish in … | Continue reading


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Crises can lead to new opportunities

Crises can have a positive outcome for companies. When they see the challenges and changes in the environment as a new normal, they can use it as an opportunity to engage in more ambitious innovation efforts. | Continue reading


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Why DNA tests for Indigenous heritage mean different things in Australia and the US

Last week, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren released a video strongly suggesting two things: she is running for US president in 2020, and she has Native American ancestry. | Continue reading


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Gut bacteria influence movement in flies

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Astronomers find a universal correlation that could unify the study of star formation

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Details of protein evolution investigated

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Using DNA technology to track marine life

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A closer look at antibiotic resistant genes in the air

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New study uncovers the interaction of calcium channels

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Antarctic Ocean carbon dioxide helped end the Ice Age

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The Big Bang–an eyewitness account

Once upon a time, almost 14 billion years ago, a spectacular event took place. | Continue reading


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Simple, effective Earth-system modeling

To assess long-range risks to food, water, energy and other critical natural resources, decision-makers often rely on Earth-system models capable of producing reliable projections of regional and global environmental changes spanning decades. | Continue reading


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Image: Cheops in the Maxwell chamber

ESA's exoplanet-characterising Cheops satellite being prepared for electromagnetic compatibility testing inside the Maxwell chamber at ESTEC, the Agency's technical heart in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. | Continue reading


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Research reveals secret shared by comets and sand crabs

Researchers at Nagoya University report a mechanical connection between sand crab burrow widths and widths of cometary pits using a simple granular experiment. | Continue reading


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Q&A: Finding Earth-like exoplanets requires new space telescopes

A new type of space telescope could help find life on other planets or discover other solar systems like ours, according to a report recently carried out by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine. | Continue reading


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A novel approach to recycling construction waste

The construction industry is one of the most resource-intensive sectors of the German economy. The nation's buildings constitute a vast store of raw materials, harboring some 100 billion metric tons of materials that could be recovered and returned to the material cycle at the en … | Continue reading


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Researchers develop small device that bends light to generate new radiation

University of Michigan physicists have led the development of a device the size of a match head that can bend light inside a crystal to generate synchrotron radiation in a lab. | Continue reading


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Greater diversity enhances public interest in marine habitats

Greater animal biodiversity can lead to heightened human interest in marine habitats, according to research published in Scientific Reports. | Continue reading


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Saturn's moon Dione covered by mysterious stripes

Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff. | Continue reading


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Researchers discover directional and long-lived nanolight in a 2-D material

An international research team reports that light confined in the nanoscale propagates only in specific directions along thin slabs of molybdenum trioxide, a natural anisotropic 2-D material. Besides its unique directional character, this nanolight propagates for an exceptionally … | Continue reading


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U.S. desert areas to become even more arid

Geologists from the University of Innsbruck study rainfall patterns in the distant past to better understand how deserts in the southwest United States will be impacted by future climate change. | Continue reading


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UK watchdog fines Facebook over users' data breach

British regulators on Thursday slapped Facebook with a fine of 500,000 pounds ($644,000)—the maximum possible—for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. | Continue reading


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Nokia to cut costs as it waits for 5G network demand to grow

Telecom networks provider Nokia reported Thursday lower third-quarter earnings and said it would start a new cost-cutting scheme as it waits for demand for the new 5G systems to pick up. | Continue reading


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Microsoft quarterly profit soars on cloud services

Microsoft on Wednesday said its profit in the recently ended quarter soared on the back of revenue from services hosted in the internet cloud and its career-focused social network LinkedIn. | Continue reading


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SK Hynix posts record profits on rising demand

South Korea's SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chipmaker, posted record profits in the third quarter, the company said Thursday, citing resilient global demand. | Continue reading


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Questions mount over delay after Cathay Pacific admits huge data leak

Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific came under pressure Thursday to explain why it had taken five months to admit it had been hacked and compromised the data of 9.4 million customers, including passport numbers and credit card details. | Continue reading


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Daimler profits hit by diesel scandal

German car giant Daimler reported Thursday a slump in third-quarter profits, confirming a weaker 2018 outlook as it suffered lower sales and shouldered costs for refits to polluting diesel cars. | Continue reading


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After 'historic' quarter, Tesla looks to Europe, China

Electric car maker Tesla on Wednesday reported an "historic" quarterly profit driven by demand for its mass market Model 3, as the company looks beyond its US home base to Europe and China. | Continue reading


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Hyundai Q3 profit plummets on slowing sales, currency swings

Hyundai Motor reported a 67 percent plunge in third-quarter net profit from the previous year after overseas sales slowed and currency swings hurt its bottom line in emerging markets. | Continue reading


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Ford earnings drop on weak China sales

Ford reported a drop in third-quarter profits Wednesday as weak sales in China and higher commodity costs countered the benefit of strong truck sales in North America. | Continue reading


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Aequatus—a free, open-source visualization tool enabling in-depth comparison of homologous genes

Aequatus—a new bioinformatics tool developed at Earlham Institute (EI) - is helping to give an in-depth view of syntenic information between different species, providing a system to better identify important, positively-selected, and evolutionarily-conserved regions of DNA. | Continue reading


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