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Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Stink Bug Threatens Texas Soybeans: Entomologists Respond

Entomologists in Texas got a whiff of a new stink bug doing economic damage to soybeans in Texas and are developing ways to help farmers combat it, according…

Earth Sciences

Danny the 'degenerate' followed by 2 lows

Satellite data from NOAA's GOES-East satellite at 14:45 UTC (10:45 a.m. EDT) on August 24, showed Danny had become stretched out into a trough of low pressure.

Social Sciences

Exploring Network Dynamics in Collaborative Coalitions

A team of researchers now used this approach to explore the development of large coalitions in a network of acquaintances, when cooperation promises the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fraunhofer IISB Unveils High Energy Density Automotive Battery

During the European Project AVTR “Optimal Electrical Powertrain via Adaptable Voltage and Transmission Ratio” Fraunhofer IISB was responsible for the entire…

Life & Chemistry

Soil Bacteria Community Boosts Plant Survival Against Root Rot

During field experiments in Utah, in the western USA, researchers discovered that the right mixture of soil microbiota directly influences the survival of…

Life & Chemistry

Flu Remedies Show Promise Against E. Coli Bacteria

Trillions of bacteria populate the human gut – which makes them more common than any other cells in our body. The composition of this bacterial population is…

Business and Finance

Container Throughput Index: World Trade Trends and Insights

However, this is not a statistically significant decrease. The average amplitude of revision over the past years was 0.6 points; the June value was revised…

Earth Sciences

S’No Water in Sierra Nevadas

Most of us have strong opinions about snow during the winter. For some, it’s a curse. Others enjoy the recreation heavy snowfall brings. Yet, once warmer…

Physics & Astronomy

Antarctic Detector Confirms Cosmic Neutrino Discovery

The evidence is important because it heralds a new form of astronomy using neutrinos, the nearly massless high-energy particles generated in nature’s…

Earth Sciences

Disruptive Space Weather Threatens Equatorial Regions, Study Reveals

Extreme space weather has long been seen as a threat to electrical grids in high-latitude regions of the northern and southern hemispheres. A new study finds…

Materials Sciences

Meteorite Impacts May Create DNA Building Blocks in Oceans

A new study shown that meteorite impacts on ancient oceans may have created nucleobases and amino acids. Researchers from Tohoku University, National Institute…

Life & Chemistry

Key Protein Identified in Cilia Assembly Breakthrough

The group led by ICREA Research Professor Cayetano Gonzalez at IRB Barcelona, in collaboration with the group of Professor Giuliano Callaini from the…

Materials Sciences

Inspired by venus flytrap, researchers develop folding 'snap' geometry

Inspired by natural “snapping” systems like Venus flytrap leaves and hummingbird beaks, a team led by physicist Christian Santangelo at the University of…

Health & Medicine

Weak Radiation Doses Linked to Longer Lifespan in Female Flies

Scientists at MIPT have revealed that weak doses of gamma radiation prolong the life of drosophila flies (fruit flies), and that the effect is stronger in…

Life & Chemistry

Activated Neurons Create Protein to Shield Nerve Cells

Activated neurons produce a protein that protects against nerve cell death. Prof. Dr. Hilmar Bading and his group at Heidelberg University’s Interdisciplinary…

Information Technology

'Magic' sphere for information transfer

In several years – maybe in one or two decades, but maybe sooner or never – one of the existing problems will be solved in an original way: our computers,…

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