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“#More flowers and pollinator diversity could help protect bees from parasites” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Having more flowers and maintaining diverse bee communities could help reduce the spread of bee parasites, according to a new study. The research, conducted on more than 5,000 flowers and bees, reveals how bee parasites spread and what measures could…
“#Yes, women outnumber men at university. But they still earn less after they leave” Credit: Shutterstock In his best-selling book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell describes a tipping point as “that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips, and…
“#COVID-19 is a disaster for mothers’ employment. And no, working from home is not the solution” Credit: www.shutterstock.com When COVID-19 hit, some commentators hailed it as an opportunity to revolutionise gender roles in heterosexual couples. But as public life froze overnight and homes became schools, daycare centres and offices, mothers have been placed under more…
“#Hundreds of candidate galaxies identified in the protocluster D1UD01” Sky distributions of galaxies in D1UD01 with photometric redshifts between 2.9 and 3.3. Credit: Shi et al., 2020. Astronomers have conducted a detailed multiwavelength study of a distant protocluster of galaxies known as D1UD01. As a result, over 350 candidate galaxies have been detected in this…
“#South Korea’s first military satellite launched” The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the ANASIS-II satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida South Korea’s first-ever military communications satellite has been successfully launched by private operator SpaceX, Seoul said Tuesday, as it looks to build up its defence capabilities. The ANASIS-II is intended to…
“#An open-source data platform for researchers studying archaea” Biologists found that the archaea Haloferax volcanii grows in a honeycomb-like fashion under specialized conditions. They hope to gain more insights into the microbes through a new initiative, the Archaeal Proteome Project. Credit: Laboratory of Mecky Pohlschroder Bioinformatics and big data analyses can reap great rewards for…
“#Label-free imaging helps predict reproductive outcomes” Phase imaging with computational specificity applies artificial intelligence to label-free spatial light interference microscopy data to map subcellular compartments, as illustrated. Credit: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and the Department of Animal Sciences have collaborated to develop…
“#Restoration of the critically endangered seabird” Chinese crested tern. Credit: Dan Roby, OSU The global population of the critically endangered Chinese crested tern has more than doubled thanks to a historic, decade-long collaboration among Oregon State University researchers and scientists and conservationists in China, Taiwan and Japan. The project included OSU’s Dan Roby and Don…
“#Better wastewater treatment? It’s a wrap” Improved bacterial affinity and reactive oxygen species generation enhances antibacterial inactivation in wastewater by graphene oxide-wrapped nanospheres developed by scientists at Rice University and Tongji University, Shanghai. Antibiotic resistance genes (eARG) released by inactivated antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) in the vicinity of photocatalytic sites on the spheres facilitates their…
“#Socio-economic status predicts UK boys’ development of essential thinking skills” A comparison of children in Hong Kong, mainland China and the UK has found that British boys’ development of key thinking skills, known as ‘executive functions’, is unusually reliant on their socio-economic status. The findings emerged from an ongoing project which is exploring contrasts in…