Jessica Irvine 
Although cows ingest plenty of sand and other bits of grit with their grass, their teeth are protected from being ground-down thanks to the way their first stomach “washes” their cud before they re-chew it. Credit: Jürgen Hummel Ruminants like cows have developed an unusual way of digesting their food: they ingest plants, give them …
Microplastics are enemies of living organisms. They penetrate the organs and bloodstream of living beings, disturbing every ecosystem on Earth. An average person eats several tens of thousands of microplastic particles every year. Credit: Source IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Polymer-based materials are almost everywhere, reaching even the deepest regions of the oceans, and their global …
center of the galaxy – milky way nightsky on a clear night wider shot many stars getty One of the latest scientific meetings of the European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) brought together around 250 researchers on La Palma, one of the volcanic Canary Islands. Astrobiology, which is the quest to understand how life arose on Earth …
The Invasive Plant Science and Management journal focuses on fundamental and applied research on invasive plant biology, ecology, management and restoration of invaded non-crop areas as well as the many other aspects relevant to invasive species, including educational activities, policy issues and case study reports. Credit: Weed Science Society of America Buffelgrass is a highly …
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the inefficiency of a “one-size-fits-all” approach in public and population health. The virus has affected individuals differently and the responses to the pandemic have been reliant on specific circumstances. The idea of “precision population health” takes into account these differences and tailors approaches more accurately with the individual in mind. …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One way to gauge a country’s attention to the environment may be measuring how much of its economy is devoted to protecting, rehabilitating, and preserving the natural environment. While the U.S. has made prior attempts at tracking “green jobs” and “green goods and services,” the U.S. government does not currently account …
Innes on the EMU beamline with the sample cell. Credit: University of Sheffield During his Ph.D. with TUoS, ISIS facility development student Innes McClelland developed a cell for testing battery materials during their operation using muon spectroscopy and used it to study an increasingly vital cathode material. Understanding what is happening inside a battery material …
An example of a gene that contains multiple possible start sites (TSS) and end sites (TES) is the gene stathmin. The black boxes in the gene model indicate sequences that will be translated into protein. Conventional short-read mRNA sequencing cannot differentiate between different molecules, but long-read sequencing can represent each mRNA molecule from beginning to …
Multivariate K-means clustering analysis results for 4 clusters. The clustering map shows spatial distribution, and (a) The clustering map shows spatial distribution, and (b) the column chart summarizes normalized indicators of displacement disparity for each cluster. c The separate clustering maps show the spatial distribution of each cluster. The clustering indicators are DOD (Difference of …
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The Rosalind Franklin rover is depicted in an artist’s rendition and is part of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars program. However, on March 17, 2022, ties between ESA and Russia’s space agency were suspended due to the invasion of Ukraine, causing the launch of the rover to be postponed indefinitely. The rover’s mission is to …