When an infected tsetse fly bites humans or other mammals to feed on their blood, microscopic parasites (African trypanosomes) in the fly's saliva are transferred. The unfortunate recipient of the bite, once infected, often ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 31, 2020
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A Northwestern University research team has revealed a new approach to conducting chemical reactions—one that doesn't require direct contact with a catalyst.
Materials Science
Jan 31, 2020
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The cosmic detector that required a series of difficult spacewalking repairs is back in action.
Space Exploration
Jan 31, 2020
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Chi Chen, a Boston University graduate researcher, and Ranga Myneni, a BU College of Arts & Sciences professor of earth and environment, released a new paper that reveals how humans are helping to increase the Earth's plant ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2020
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Scientists have found the wreckage of a cargo steamship that became associated with the Bermuda Triangle when it disappeared in 1925 off the Atlantic Coast of Florida.
Archaeology
Jan 31, 2020
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New research techniques are being adopted by scientists tackling the most visible impact of climate change—the so-called greening of Arctic regions.
Environment
Jan 31, 2020
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Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have proposed a way to use data from ultra-high energy neutrinos to study interactions beyond the standard model of particle physics. The 'Zee burst' model leverages new data ...
General Physics
Jan 31, 2020
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In the face of a changing climate, the process of accounting greenhouse gas emissions is becoming ever more critical. Governments around the world are striving to hit reduction targets using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Environment
Jan 31, 2020
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University of Groningen physicists have visualized hydrogen at the titanium/titanium hydride interface using a transmission electron microscope. Using a new technique, they succeeded in visualizing both the metal and the ...
Nanophysics
Jan 31, 2020
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Theoretical physicists from Trinity College Dublin have found a deep link between one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics—quantum entanglement—and thermalisation, which is the process in which something ...
Quantum Physics
Jan 31, 2020
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