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Published on 13:20 GMT
Meet this super-spotter of duplicated images in science papers – Nature.com
February the fourteenth starts like most other days for Elisabeth Bik: checking her phone in bed, she scrolls through a slew of Twitter notifications and private messages from scientists seeking her detective services. Today’s first request is from a …
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Published on 10:28 GMT
Can ‘Team Science’ Yield a Covid-19 Treatment?
Xin Yin was excited to be visiting his parents in the Shandong Province of China last December. Yin, a researcher in the Immunity and Pathogenesis Program at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in California, hadn’t been home in five …
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Published on 14:15 GMT
Scientists Determine Plastic Emissions in Water Using High-Resolution Mapping
May 13, 2020 08:30 AM EDT While it may be true that plastic is indispensable and has an integral role in our daily life, its abundance and overutilization have caused a terrible burden on our environment. Huge volumes of plastic wastes continue to …
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Published on 06:05 GMT
Four Ghanaian Scientists Awarded FLAIR Fellowship
Mr Bismarck Dinko, a Scientist at the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mr Edem Mahu, and Mr John Kuumuori Ganle, a scientist at the University of Ghana, and Mr Philip Antwi-Agyei, a Scientist at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & …
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Published on 04:55 GMT
Unveiling ‘Warp Speed,’ the White House’s America-first push for a coronavirus vaccine – Science Magazine
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren By Jon CohenMay. 12, 2020 , 5:05 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. Conventional wisdom is that a vaccine for COVID-19 is at least 1 year away, but the organizers of a U.S. government push called …
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Published on 05:52 GMT
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Michelle Goldberg: We’re all casualties of the Republican war on science
In 2004, “60 Minutes” aired a segment on what it called “virus hunters,” scientists searching for bugs that can leap from animals to humans and cause pandemics. “What worries me the most is that we are going to miss the next emerging disease,” said a …
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Published on 09:09 GMT
People are catching hepatitis from rats in Hong Kong, but scientists don’t know how
A rat sniffs for food at Klong Toei wet market in Bangkok on April 10, 2020. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV / AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP via Getty Images) A new strain of the hepatitis E virus that usually only infects rats is now sickening people …
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Published on 13:13 GMT
‘Marsquakes’ lead scientists to recreate conditions thought to exist in the Martian core
‘Marsquakes’ measured by NASA’s InSight rover and an experiment to recreate the conditions thought to exist in the Martian core could reveal how the planet formed. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have been studying the seismic …
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Published on 05:42 GMT
UNR scientists take aim at wildfires in Nevada
View the full image Bureau of Land Management, Nevada firefighters burn brush to reduce fuel loads. RENO — With wildland fires eating up the forests and rangelands of Nevada each summer, and fire season now upon us, University of Nevada, Reno scientists …
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Published on 14:34 GMT
Scientists outline how to re-purpose research labs into COVID-19 testing centres
By PTI BOSTON: As the demand for COVID-19 diagnostic tests continues to soar, scientists have developed a blueprint to covert academic laboratories into facilities for testing patient samples for the novel coronavirus. “As with other basic biology …
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Published on 14:21 GMT
What’s Mars made of? Researchers simulate the core of Mars to investigate its composition and origin – Science Daily
Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to comprise the core of Mars reveal details about the planet’s seismic properties for the first time. This information will be compared to observations made by Martian space probes in the near …
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Published on 09:24 GMT
Scientists make fastest soft robots based on biomechanics of a cheetah
By: Tech Desk | New Delhi | Updated: May 13, 2020 12:51:05 pm Researchers have developed a new type of soft robot that is capable of moving more quickly on solid surfaces or in the water than previous generations of soft robots. (Image Credit: Jie Yin, NC …
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Published on 13:27 GMT
Scientists create tool to forecast where East Africa’s devastating locusts will land next
As a historic upsurge of desert locusts ravages East Africa, scientists are using a sophisticated air pollution model to anticipate where the destructive pests are being blown by the wind — and where they will strike next. Following extreme rainfall events …
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Published on 12:20 GMT
Bangladeshi scientists complete genome sequencing of virus causing Covid-19
A team from Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) has successfully completed the genome sequencing of the SARS Cov-2 virus in Bangladesh. The announcement came late last evening in a press release provided by CHRF. SARS Cov-2 is the coronavirus that …
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Published on 09:09 GMT
Early career African scientists awarded UK funding for postdoctoral research
South Africans are among the 29 early career African scientists who have been selected to receive research funding under the Future Leaders – African Independent Research (Flair) programme for 2020. Other recipients come from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, …
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Published on 10:13 GMT
Civil Science Poll: 14 Percent Won’t Take COVID-19 Vaccine
Fourteen percent of U.S. adults say they would opt not to receive a vaccine for COVID-19, according to a Civic Science survey released Tuesday. Sixty-nine percent said they would receive the vaccine if and when it becomes available, and another 17% said …
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Published on 10:17 GMT
Scientists are developing an app that could detect COVID-19 with a phone
How you could be diagnosed with coronavirus by your own PHONE: Scientists are developing an app that uses the device’s microphone to ‘measure changes in airway sounds linked to COVID-19’ The app would work by listening to breathing sounds and …
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Published on 13:17 GMT
Scientists warn some Covid-19 sufferers could develop psychosis
Coronavirus is known to be associated with a range of unpleasant signs, and now a new study has highlighted a lesser-known symptom – psychosis. Researchers at Orygen and La Trobe University in Australia have warned that the deadly virus is causing …
Source: Wales Online -
Published on 06:51 GMT
Election was ‘motivation’ for Adani mine, scientists claim
EXPERT groundwater advice in the Adani Carmichael mine approval process was “systematically ignored or dismissed”, a group of scientists has claimed. Authorities’ handling of the controversial mine were recently reviewed in the Nature Sustainability …
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