Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Small plastic particles are everywhere: in the soil where our food is grown, in the water we drink and in the air we breathe. They got there from the plastic we throw away, which ends up in landfill sites, rivers and seas. There the plastic waste slowly breaks down, releasing tiny … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Owning a home in Southern California isn’t just a dream for humans. Apparently, the bears want in on the market too. Just ask residents and city officials in Sierra Madre, who in the last few years have seen their furry, four-legged neighbors amble out of the forest and barge into their … Read more
The flurry of private contracts became part of a “kleptocratic” regime, according to one 2017 report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Nearly all of the ISDS claims have their roots in contracts, laws or other agreements made during this period. For the farmers and villagers being pushed off their land, or having their … Read more
Babies born via assisted reproductive technology such as IVF are far more likely to suffer major heart defects than those conceived naturally, with that risk blowing out to twice that of other babies if the infant was born as a part of a multiple birth. There are so far about 10 million people worldwide who … Read more
PAUcam camera installed in the primary focus of the William Herschel Telescope (WHT) in La Palma, Spain. Credit: PAUS team The Physics of the Accelerating Universe Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration across 14 institutions, has covered a sky area of 50 square degrees, similar to approximately 250 full moons. It was able to determine galaxy … Read more
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The sight of solar panels installed on rooftops and large energy farms has become commonplace in many regions around the world. Even in the gray and rainy UK, solar power is becoming a major player in electricity generation. This surge in solar is … Read more
Pesquet is a national icon in France for his missions to the International Space Station (ISS). Europe has embarked on the mission to put humans back on the moon with a new lunar simulator launched in Germany, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP. Pesquet was at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne on Wednesday … Read more
A juvenile hybrid langur in Rema-Kalenga Wildlife Sanctuary, Bangladesh. One can easily recognized the mixture of morphological characters. For examplethe white eye rings of the Phayre’s langurs and the golden-brown breast hair of the capped langurs. Credit: Auritro Sattar, Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH Research shows a threatening development for two endangered primate species in Bangladesh: Phayre’s … Read more
(a) The micro-examination and (b)–(e) SEM observations of the surface of MLI after collided by CE5 LS particles; (f) the micro-examination and (g)–(h) SEM observations of the surface of Aramid cloth after impacted by CE5 LS particles. Credit: Junping Gu et al. A study published in Engineering has shed new light on the behavior of … Read more
(a) Illustration of glucose metabolism. FADH2: flavin adenine dinucleotide (reduced form), FAD: flavin adenine dinucleotide, ATP: adenosine triphosphate, ADP: adenosine diphosphate; (b, c) KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of CWs during Stages (b) Ⅲ and (c) Ⅳ; (d, e) heatmap comparing abundance of genes related to carbon metabolism in CWs; (d, e) genes involved in (d) … Read more
