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Safety on the International Space Station
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Six astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have returned to normal operations after a glitch on Jan. 14 indicated ammonia was leaking into the American module of the orbital research centre. It is...
Stopping Skynet
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The development of artificial intelligence technology has come into the spotlight in popular science as the result of a letter recently drafted by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a volunteer organization that aims...
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Baby talk
Researchers from Ireland have found that reading to your newborn may not be the only way to stimulate their brain. The study looked at how reading, along with other interactions like showing them...
Finding a new antibiotic
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After 30 years, teixobactin, a new type of antibiotic, has been found which may be the answer to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. This is wonderful news, but what is even more amazing...
Constant vigilance
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California ground squirrels have a difficult job of avoiding becoming snake food. Rather than running away, many prey animals will display a physical signal to indicate that they are aware of their predator or...
Making protein without nucleic acid
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Genetic information being transferred from DNA to RNA to protein – this is the central dogma of molecular biology. In the standard flow of information transfer, a protein cannot build a protein, and the...
Notes from Gnaraloo
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January 5, 2015
We’re officially midway through sea turtle nesting season and are currently recording up to 15 activities per day here at Gnaraloo Bay Rookery, a sea turtle conservation program in Western Australia. This...
