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Method produces array of aligned, semiconducting carbon nanotubes for next-gen computer chips

Hungry bumblebees can make plants flower up to a month earlier than usual by cutting holes in their leaves, which may help them adapt to climate change

Hardy and resilient Welwitschia is unlike anything on Earth, but climate change appears to be pushing these plants past their limits

Poaching is up, zoos are running out of money, and conservation funding has been slashed. But there’s hope the pandemic could make biodiversity a higher priority

An estimated 2,000 premature births have been prevented by widespread HPV vaccination in Australia, possibly by protecting against damage to the cervix

Inoculating people with weakened parasites may generate stronger immune response than the current malaria vaccine

Global daily emissions fell 17% in early April

Administration mulls major changes to open-access policies

Injection of new funding will mean centre opens in 2021 as licensing deal also agreed to boost vaccine capabilities

A young chemistry professor in New York is trying to gain back lost research time and will likely request to add a year to her tenure clock

At the point of simulating bulk matter

A trans-Neptunian object known as 2002 TC302 appears to have a large moon at an unusually close orbit

UPDATE: The corn-cockle is yet to grow in our garden, the pictures are of another species entirely, something Borage like, apols. Part of “wilding” involves scattering seeds from wildflowers…and hoping they’ll germinate and grow, flower, be pollinated, and set seed for next year. I borrowed some corn-cockle seed from a fellow #AllotmentLife person, and it’s … Continue reading "Corn-cockle – Wilding an English country garden"

Catalent is adapting, focusing on employee safety and supply chain security

Digital contact tracing could help stop viral spread—but it has yet to prove its worth

A one-pot synthetic procedure turns lignin and fatty acid waste into a useful phase change material

Studies launching could pinpoint children most at risk

A chance greenhouse discovery reveals the insects have evolved a clever strategy to order up a meal

T cells with faulty mitochondria may help drive aging

On this week’s show: The enormous challenge of returning to research during a pandemic, and modeling the prevalence of arsenic around the world

If forests get too hot, they’ll release carbon, not store it, study finds

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Two area dams have failed, and Midland County is under a state of emergency

The gas is known to improve lung function, but can it also kill the virus?

The fiscal year was hit by slowing growth in China, poor automotive markets, and, of course, COVID-19