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Thursday, September 9, 2021

Mystery of icy plumes that may foretell deadly supercell storms

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  An Above Anvil Cirrus Plume emanates from the top of a storm. (Image credit: NASA) The most devastating tornadoes are often preceded by a ...

Ancient sea ice core sheds light on modern climate change

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  A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is yielding new ...

Moth wingtips an ‘acoustic decoy’ to thwart bat attack

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  The Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) has a strong anti-bat acoustic decoy at the tip of its forewings. Composite image with photograph on right ...

ESO captures best images yet of peculiar “dog-bone” asteroid

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  These eleven images are of the asteroid Kleopatra, viewed at different angles as it rotates. The images were taken at different times betw...

Biomarker predicts cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease

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top-down view of a tau PET and MRI from a participant in the Northwestern study. Warmer colors (red) indicate high Alzheimer's disease t...

Coral cryopreservation for breeding key to survival

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  Fragment of endangered Caribbean elkhorn coral grown from cryopreserved sperm. (Photo credit: Chris Page) Flash-frozen sperm collected fro...

A source of hope for coral reefs

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  A healthy coral reef in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in 2018. Photo credit: Michael Fox Some coral communities are becoming more hea...

Newly developed software unveils relationships between RNA modifications and cancers

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Researchers from CSI Singapore have developed a software called ModTect that identifies relationships between RNA modifications and the deve...
Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Nature’s archive reveals Atlantic tempests through time

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  The North Atlantic network of sites that preserve records of hurricanes stretches along the coast from Canada to Central America, but with...

Scientists observe cross-immunity against the coronavirus

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  Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and the Max Planck Institute for Mo...