#Researchers accidentally breed sturddlefish

“#Researchers accidentally breed sturddlefish” Credit: Genes. DOI: 10.3390/genes11070753 A team of researchers working at Hungary’s National Agricultural Research and Innovation Centre, Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture, has accidentally bred a new kind of fish—dubbed the sturddlefish by some observers, it is a cross between an American Paddlefish and a Russian Sturgeon. In their paper…

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#Making comprehensive water resources modeling more accessible

“#Making comprehensive water resources modeling more accessible” Schematic figure of the processes included in the Community Water Model. Credit: IIASA The growing global population and continued economic development will likely cause a significant increase in water demand, especially in developing regions. At the same time, climate change is already having global, regional, and local impacts…

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#Through the nanoscale looking glass: Determining boson peak frequency in ultra-thin alumina

“#Through the nanoscale looking glass: Determining boson peak frequency in ultra-thin alumina” Credit: Martin Cyster There’s more to glass than meets the eye. Glasses, which are disordered materials with no long-range chemical order, have some mysterious properties that have remained enigmatic for several decades. Amongst these are the anomalous vibrational states that contribute to the…

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#A new directed evolution technique to unlock the potential of xeno-nucleic acids

“#A new directed evolution technique to unlock the potential of xeno-nucleic acids” Diagram showing the reverse transcriptase structure (white) with nascent cDNA strand (red), XNA template (green) and regions critical for reverse transcription of XNA templates (blue and purple). Credit: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology As well as being required for some of the core…

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#Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display on human skin

“#Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode display on human skin” The full-color AMOLED display with large-area MoS2-based backplane. (A) Schematic illustration of the high-performance MoS2-based backplane on a 4-inch carrier glass substrate, where an Al2O3 capping layer was applied for n-doping effects on the MoS2 film (top left), an active-matrix full-color display was applied to the ultrathin…

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#Bushfires could mean rise in threatened native species

“#Bushfires could mean rise in threatened native species” Sunrise at Trial Bay in NSW during the bushfires. Credit: Trevor McKinnon The damage caused by the catastrophic 2019-2020 Australian bushfires could lead to a dramatic jump in the number of native species at risk, according to new research. James Cook University’s Dr. Stewart Macdonald was part…

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#Stove, dome, and umbrella effects of atmospheric aerosol in planetary boundary layer

“#Stove, dome, and umbrella effects of atmospheric aerosol in planetary boundary layer” Fig. 1. Schematic description of aerosol-PBL interactions with absorption aerosol layer below RL, absorption aerosol layer above RL, purely scattering aerosol layer below RL, and purely scattering aerosol layer above RL. Credit: XIN Jinyuan Atmospheric planetary boundary layer (PBL), also called the atmospheric…

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#Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem

“#Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem” Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of scientists has collated all known bacterial genomes from the human gut microbiome into a single large database, allowing researchers to explore the links between bacterial genes and proteins, and their effects on human health. This project was led by EMBL’s…

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#Gamma-ray telescopes measure diameters of distant stars

“#Gamma-ray telescopes measure diameters of distant stars” Adding more telescopes at greater distances can improve the angular resolution of Stellar Intensity Interferometry up to the capability to image stellar surfaces (artist’s concept). Credit: CfA, M. Weiss By reviving a technique capable of combining specialized gamma-ray telescopes to one giant virtual instrument, scientists have measured the…

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