Новости за 28.08.2019

Growing Chinese presence on campus has triggered concerns about cybersecurity, academic autonomy, and freedom of speech

Second gene linked to naturally short sleep affects wake-promoting brain cells

Nanoscale confinement triggers strong base reactivity in process that shuns stoichiometric consumption of resource intensive reagents

The UK police are monitoring hundreds of thousands of Twitter posts containing hate speech every day to try to predict spikes in hate crime in the run up to Brexit

Elanco has entered into a definitive agreement valued at US$ 7.6 billion

Drinking red wine may be better for your microbiome than drinking other types of alcohol, according to a study of 3000 people

First system to work at low temperatures that doesn’t generate nitrous oxide

Starhopper, SpaceX’s prototype of the spacecraft the firm plans to use to bring humans to Mars, has made its last flight its highest ever at 150 metres up

Thousands of hectares of Arctic forest is on fire and the effects on human health and the climate could be terrible. Why did this happen and how can we respond?

Energy-efficient solar photochemistry with luminescent solar concentrators

It’s good that it’s not easy to summarise a person

I’ve simplified my Imaging Storm “Mothematics” photo galleries. We now have – Butterflies, Hawk-moths, Macro Moths, and Micro Moths instead of dividing the macros between geometers, owlets, erebidae, notodontidae, lasiocampidae, drepanidae, and everything else. Peppered Moth – one of the geometers You can take a look at my detailed mothing records for 2019 here.

ChemRxiv is now co-owned by the Chinese and Japanese chemical societies, and their journals will be added to the free preprint server soon

Hoarding of electronic devices stores up problem for the future as demand for rare elements increases

Gaining innovation momentum through data analytics

Transparency proposal has been widely lambasted by research groups

Plants and animals acquire their microbial partners from organisms below them in food chain or from wider environment

Researchers reveal the 4-million-year-old face of key human ancestor

Seashell powder increases the mechanical strength and bioactivity of alginate bone scaffolds