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Scientific Frontline
SFL Educational News Service
Monday, November 28, 2022
Why steamed hay can lead to protein deficiency in horses
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Photo Credit: Manfred Richter Hay treated with hot steam is safer for horses but provides them with less protein. The horse forage is treate...
Mussel survey reveals alarming degradation of River Thames ecosystem since the 1960s
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Photo Credit: Gil Ndjouwou The detailed study measured the change in size and number of all species of mussel in a stretch of the River Tham...
Research shows ‘danger zones’ for wandering albatrosses
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A pair of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) courting at Bird Island, South Georgia. Source/Credit: British Antarctic Survey | NERC Ov...
Localizing BRCA gene mutations to better treat ovarian cancer
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Dr. Intidhar Labidi-Galy Researcher at the Translational Research Centre in Onco-hematology at the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine and a physician...
Saturday, November 26, 2022
Blood group can predict risk of contracting viral disease
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People with blood type Rh(D) have a higher risk of being infected by parvovirus Photo Credit: Bartek Kopała The risk of being infected by pa...
Rice lab’s catalyst could be key for hydrogen economy
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Rice University researchers have engineered a key light-activated nanomaterial for the hydrogen economy. Using only inexpensive raw material...
Friday, November 25, 2022
Improving AI training for edge sensor time series
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Engineers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have demonstrated a simple computational approach for improving the way artifici...
NIST Finds a Sweet New Way to Print Microchip Patterns on Curvy Surfaces
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Using sugar and corn syrup (i.e., candy), researcher Gary Zabow transferred the word "NIST" onto a human hair in gold letters, sho...
Protein Spheres Protect the Genome of Cancer Cells
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MYC proteins are colored green in this figure. In normally growing cells, they are homogeneously distributed in the cell nucleus (left). In ...
New CRISPR-based tool inserts large DNA sequences at desired sites in cells
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Building on the CRISPR gene-editing system, MIT researchers designed a new tool that can snip out faulty genes and replace them with new one...
Synthetic fibers discovered in Antarctic samples show the ‘pristine’ continent is now a sink for plastic pollution
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As nations prepare to meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, a new study has revealed the discovery of synthetic plastic...
The whole in a part: Synchronizing chaos through a narrow slice of spectrum
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Conceptual overview of the coupling scheme between a master and a slave chaotic oscillator via a band-pass filter, and the resulting complex...
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Overgrazing is threatening global drylands
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Sheep on Green Grass Field Photo Credit: Gökçe Gök The positive effects of grazing by livestock and wild herbivores can turn negative as te...
Physicist strikes gold, solving 50-year lightning mystery
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Photo Credit: Bogdan Radu The chances of being struck by lightning are less than one in a million, but those odds shortened considerably th...
A brain circuit underpinning locomotor speed control
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Zebrafish Photo Credit: Petr Kuznetsov Researchers at Karolinska have uncovered how brain circuits encode the start, duration and sudden ch...
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