173 articles from TUESDAY 4.10.2022
On the fence: New research taps rancher expertise on living with carnivores
- ScienceDaily
- 22/10/4 23:58
In places like Wyoming and Idaho, ranchers have learned practical fencing strategies to help to reduce ill-fated encounters between hungry wildlife, vulnerable livestock and valuable produce. Researchers are learning to take advantage of this hard-won knowledge.
Microbiologists improve taste of beer
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- 22/10/4 23:58
Investigators have improved the flavor of contemporary beer by identifying and engineering a gene that is responsible for much of the flavor of beer and some other alcoholic drinks.
Great Salt Lake on path to hyper-salinity, mirroring Iranian lake
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- 22/10/4 23:58
The Great Salt Lake is getting saltier, creating a serious threat to the ecosystems and the economies that depend on it. New research examines the trajectory the two halves of the lake might take on a path to hyper-salinity.
Detailed observation of orcas hunting white sharks in South Africa
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- 22/10/4 23:58
A new article presents direct evidence of orcas killing white sharks in South Africa.
Great Salt Lake on path to hyper-salinity, mirroring Iranian lake, new research shows
Starved for freshwater, the Great Salt Lake is getting saltier. The lake is losing sources of freshwater input to agriculture, urban growth and drought, and the drawdown is causing salt concentrations to spike beyond even the tolerance of brine shrimp and brine flies, according to Wayne Wurtsbaugh from Watershed Sciences in the Quinney College of Natural Resources.
On the fence: New research taps rancher expertise on living with carnivores
They say that good fences make good neighbors, which is especially true when you share space with gray wolves and grizzly bears.
15 spectacular photos from the Dark Energy Camera
From high atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes, the Dark Energy Camera has snapped more than one million exposures of the southern sky. The images have captured around 2.5 billion astronomical objects, including galaxies and galaxy clusters, stars, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets and supernovae.
How the covid pop-up window is wreaking havoc on daily life in China
Welcome back! Hope you are not stuck in highway traffic if you are enjoying the National Day holiday in China.
Though maybe it’s still better than staying at home—after all, travel feels like such a luxury in China today. While the rest of the world drops its remaining covid-related travel restrictions, even a short trip in China is plagued by flight cancellations, mandatory...
Microbiologists improve taste of beer
Belgian investigators have improved the flavor of contemporary beer by identifying and engineering a gene that is responsible for much of the flavor of beer and some other alcoholic drinks. The research appears in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Testing: Space-bound US-European water mission passes finals
Before any NASA mission is launched, the spacecraft goes through weeks of harsh treatment. It's strapped to a big table that shakes as hard as the pounding of a rocket launch. It's bombarded with louder noise than a stadium rock concert. It's frozen, baked, and irradiated in a vacuum chamber that simulates the extremes of space. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT), a...
Video footage provides first detailed observation of orcas hunting white sharks in South Africa
The first direct evidence of orcas killing white sharks in South Africa has been captured by both a helicopter and drone pilot, and a new open-access paper published today in The Ecological Society of America's journal Ecology presents both sets of video footage, which provide new evidence that orcas are capable of pursuing, capturing and incapacitating white sharks. One predation event was filmed...
Spin flips show how galaxies grow from the cosmic web
The alignment between galaxy spins and the large-scale structure of the universe reveals the processes by which different components of galaxies form.
Join the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program invites you to take part in our upcoming NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate from Oct 11-Nov 11, 2022.
Learn...
Join the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate
Participate in the NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge from Oct 11-Nov 11, 2022! Join us on Oct. 11 for a kick-off webinar! (Credit: Heather Mortimer, NASA GLOBE Observer Team)
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program invites you to take part in our upcoming NASA GLOBE Trees Challenge 2022: Trees in a Changing Climate from Oct 11-Nov 11, 2022. Using the...
Research team introduces advance in automatic forest mapping technology
How lightning travels from the sky to the ground inspired the concept behind a new algorithmic approach to digitally separate individual trees from their forests in automatic forest mapping.
Laughing gas found in space could mean life
Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around other stars—laughing gas.
Coral select algae partnerships to ease environmental stress
Corals live symbiotically with a variety of microscopic algae that provide most of the energy corals require, and some algae can make coral more resilient to heat stress. In assessing one of the main reef builders in Hawai'i, Montipora capitata (rice coral), researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa found that the symbiont community in those corals varied significantly in different...
Dinner on Mars: How to grow food when humans colonize the red planet
Dinner on Mars? Two food security experts imagine what it would take to feed a human colony on Mars in the year 2080 if we colonized the red planet. Their research offers lessons on how to improve our battered food systems here on...
Coral select algae partnerships to ease environmental stress
- ScienceDaily
- 22/10/4 21:43
Corals live symbiotically with a variety of microscopic algae that provide most of the energy corals require, and some algae can make coral more resilient to heat stress. In assessing one of the main reef builders in Hawai'i, Montipora capitata or rice coral, researchers found that the symbiont community in those corals varied significantly in different parts of Kaneohe Bay.
Facebook posts seeking missing Black children get much less attention than posts of white kids
Social media could be an equalizer for finding missing children, highlighting posts about kids from all backgrounds without the filters of traditional media and police gatekeepers.
Laughing gas in space could mean life
- ScienceDaily
- 22/10/4 21:13
Scientists are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around other stars -- laughing gas.
Smoking increases the risk of illness and viral infection, including type of coronavirus
- ScienceDaily
- 22/10/4 21:13
New findings by tobacco researchers may lead to urgent recommendations for doctors to help patients quit smoking as a way of countering COVID-19.
Ancient chemistry may explain why living things use ATP as the universal energy currency
- ScienceDaily
- 22/10/4 21:12
A simple two-carbon compound may have been a crucial player in the evolution of metabolism before the advent of cells, according to a new study. The finding potentially sheds light on the earliest stages of prebiotic biochemistry, and suggests how ATP came to be the universal energy carrier of all cellular life today.
Decreased proteins, not amyloid plaques, tied to Alzheimer's disease
- ScienceDaily
- 22/10/4 21:12
New research supports the hypothesis that Alzheimer's disease is caused by a decline in levels of a protein called amyloid-beta.
Protein family shows how life adapted to oxygen
Cornell scientists have created an evolutionary model that connects organisms living in today's oxygen-rich atmosphere to a time, billions of years ago, when Earth's atmosphere had little oxygen—by analyzing ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs), a family of proteins used by all free-living organisms and many viruses to repair and replicate DNA.
Alain Aspect, Nobel-winning father of quantum entanglement
Alain Aspect, who won a long-expected Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday, not only helped prove the strange theory of quantum entanglement but also inspired a generation of physicists in his native France, according to former students and colleagues.
Smacked asteroid's debris trail more than 6,000 miles long
The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact.
New genetic variation from old and exotic varieties for environmentally friendly wheat cultivation
Gene banks worldwide make an important contribution to the conservation of biological diversity. In the Federal Ex situ Gene Bank at the IPK Leibniz Institute alone, more than 150,000 old varieties are preserved. In addition to negative traits, old and exotic varieties possess many valuable gene variants that have been lost in modern varieties but may be crucial for plant production in the future....
New online portal aims to improve parks and green spaces around the world
The Parks & Green Space Research Portal promotes collaboration and shared research between academics and parks professionals worldwide.