22 articles from SATURDAY 5.6.2021
Share vaccines or climate deal will fail, rich countries are told
Call for ‘solidarity’ in Covid fight as Boris Johnson calls on world leaders to help vaccinate global population by end of 2022Progress on climate change could be scuppered by developing nations if they are not given equitable access to vaccines, Boris Johnson has been warned, as rich nations come under new pressure to donate more doses.Figures compiled by the Observer show that the wealthiest...
Biden administration will restore key environmental protections
The administration of President Joe Biden on Friday announced it would restore protections under the Endangered Species Act, a law credited with saving iconic animals like the gray wolf and bald eagle, which were loosened by his predecessor Donald Trump.
Indonesian women take on plastic waste brick by brick
Alarmed by the mountains of plastic waste leaching into Indonesia's waters, two best friends are taking on the environmental menace by turning crisp bags and shampoo packets into paving bricks.
Mine-sniffing rat Magawa ends years of hard work in Cambodia
After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring.
How radar technology is used to discover unmarked graves at former residential schools
Ground-penetrating radar is one of the tools that led to the shocking revelation that there appear to be the remains of 215 children buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential...
Weatherwatch: how dust storms heighten risk of Valley fever
US scientists develop system using a cake tin and marbles to forecast areas posing biggest health threatThe Roman writer Vitruvius wrote of an unhealthy wind blowing off the city’s marshlands, bringing sickness. While this ancient miasmal theory of infection was superseded by germ theory, researchers have found that dust storms really can spread pathogens. Scientists from George Mason...
New marine scale worm species first to provide evidence of male dwarfism
Researchers recently found a new species of scale worms (Annelida: Polynoidae) living mostly in pairs with a striking difference compared to the almost 900 already known species of scale worms: one was a quarter the size of its mate.
Computer simulations of the brain can predict language recovery in stroke survivors
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- 21/6/5 03:36
Speech rehabilitation experts can predict how well a patient will recover from aphasia, a disorder caused by damage to the part of the brain responsible for producing language.
Study of past South Asian monsoons suggests stronger monsoon rainfall in the future
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- 21/6/5 03:36
New research finds that increases in monsoon rainfall over the past million years were linked with increases in atmospheric CO2 and the import of moisture from the southern hemisphere, which suggests stronger rains in the future as CO2 levels rise.
Soft tissue measurements critical to hominid reconstruction
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- 21/6/5 03:35
Accurate soft tissue measurements are critical when making reconstructions of human ancestors, a new study has found.
Why scientists want to solve an underground mystery about where microbes live
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- 21/6/5 03:35
A team of biologists revealed, for the first time, that it is possible to accurately predict the abundance of different species of soil microbes in different parts of the world.
Beyond synthetic biology, synthetic ecology boosts health by engineering the environment
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- 21/6/5 03:35
Researchers discovered that providing microbial communities with a broader variety of food sources didn't increase the variety of microbial species within their experiments, but more food did fuel more microbial growth. The team's ultimate goal is to learn how to direct microbiome behavior through environmental molecules like food sources.
Mining-related deforestation in the Amazon
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- 21/6/5 03:35
If you're wearing gold jewelry right now, there's a good chance it came from an illegal mining operation in the tropics and surfaced only after some rainforest was sacrificed, according to researchers who studied regulatory efforts to curb some of these environmentally damaging activities.
Fungus creates a fast track for carbon
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- 21/6/5 03:35
New research focused on interactions among microbes in water suggests fungal microparasites play a bigger than expected role in aquatic food webs and the global carbon cycle.
Magnetism drives metals to insulators in new experiment
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- 21/6/5 03:35
A new experiment offers the cleanest proof yet for magnetism-driven transitions of metals to insulators.
New form of silicon could enable next-gen electronic and energy devices
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- 21/6/5 03:35
A team developed a new method for synthesizing a novel crystalline form of silicon with a hexagonal structure that could potentially be used to create next-generation electronic and energy devices with enhanced properties that exceed those of the 'normal' cubic form of silicon used today.