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Hranice Abyss finding could call into question origin of other deep caves

Cameroon study finds one malaria-carrying species can sometimes survive exposure to insecticide intended for spraying inside houses

I asked my twitter and facebook friends what phone app they used that they thought none of their friends would be using. There were some interesting answers. My app, Merlin (a tool for identifying bird species from a photo) These are the twitter folks in the order they tweeted: James on G – Speed Camalert … Continue reading "The app only you use"

DNA reveals highland wild dogs are almost identical to their captive cousins

São Paulo wants universities and a science foundation to hand over $180 million in reserve funds

Lego power

Nuclear energy is complex and even scary for some people. Lego playsets, however, are about as nonthreatening as it comes. Enter Catherine Riddle, a radiochemist and member of the science outreach team at Idaho National Laboratory. Riddle has been a Lego hobbyist since 2013. Early in her work on the team, she discovered that the Danish toymaker has an online tool that lets people design their own playsets. So she set to work and created “Atomic Town Power,” a model of Experimental Breeder Reactor I... Читать дальше...

Butadienyl diiron complexes with a metalla-aromatic system involving σ-type orbital overlap

Scientists want to understand how viruses like SARS-CoV-2 make these so-called zoonotic jumps to help spot the next big outbreak