Новости за 05.06.2019

Koalas were once thought to get all the hydration they needed from eucalyptus leaves, but artifical water stations might be necessary for their survival in a warming climate

There’s a basic limit to how much energy our bodies can use over many months and it is determined by how much energy we can get from eating

DNA from a pair of 31,000 year old children’s teeth found near the Yana River has led to the discovery of a previously unknown group of ancient Siberians

"Landmark" Lord Howe Island project alarms some residents but will likely save local fauna

Smart cameras attached to animals record video only during certain activities, allowing extremely the extremely light device to work for longer and only capture the important bits

Presumed "bags of quarks" may actually be more like atomic nuclei

Dragonfish live in the deep sea and have transparent teeth sharper than a piranha’s. A study has now found what makes their teeth see-through

Scientific institution condemns government’s ‘extraordinarily harmful’ plan to gain more control over research programmes

Tiny nanocrystals stop the chompers from reflecting any light

A DNA-Encoded Library (DEL) case study and fragment-based DEL discovery insight from DyNAbind

If you walk the places I walk you will have passed noisy reed beds a lot recently. There are many birds that like to breed, nest, eat and play among the reeds. But, many of them are quite shy and don’t often show well. Have a listen to the “song” of the Reed Warbler here: … Continue reading "Warblers, Whitethroats, and Bunts"

Hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, The BMJ, and Yale University, medRxiv will invite clinical researchers to share unreviewed manuscripts

We need to start seeing carbon dioxide as as a valuable raw material to make chemicals, fuels and even food

Bangor may come to regret shutting its chemistry department

I have mentioned the Eurasian Collared Dove, Streptopelia decaocto, previously on the blog, describing it as an avian continuity error. It’s a sweet bird, familiar for its “coo-cooh-coo” call, which people sometimes (quite bizarrely) mistake for the call of the cuckoo. We hear this species of dove all year round in the UK and have … Continue reading "Saw it on the grapevine"

NIH staff projects killed, future university studies will get new ethics review

Pregnancy is as metabolically taxing as an ultramarathon

Study traces complex migrations tens of thousands of years ago

Watch your money glow

In 2016, hoping to decrease the amount of counterfeit money in their economy, the government of India began issuing new bank notes, like these ₹200 notes. They created the notes with some built-in anti-counterfeiting features. Bidyut Das, a PhD student at Cotton University in the lab of Abdul Wahab, usually uses the lab’s ultraviolet-light chamber to look at fluorescent dyes he’s studying for high-efficiency solar cells, but this time he chose to check out one of the notes’ security features... Читать дальше...

ATP and other nucleoside triphosphates inhibit a tumor-relevant transcription factor

Professor Emeritus at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, passed away