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Finally, We Have Some Good Nature News: Tiger Numbers in India Are Rebounding
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Finally, We Have Some Good Nature News: Tiger Numbers in India Are Rebounding
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Finally, We Have Some Good Nature News: Tiger Numbers in India Are Rebounding
Indian tiger numbers are up, according to one of the most detailed wildlife surveys ever conducted. Tiger populations have risen by 6 percent, to roughly 3,000 animals.
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Mission Success Declared as Solar Sail Propels Itself From Earth Using Only Sunbeams
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Mission Success Declared as Solar Sail Propels Itself From Earth Using Only Sunbeams
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Mission Success Declared as Solar Sail Propels Itself From Earth Using Only Sunbeams
Back in 1976, the late Carl Sagan sat down on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to talk about a new form of space propulsion called solar sailing. Four decades later, and The Planetary Society has officially demonstrated this "tremendously exciti
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Scientists Just Discovered a New Structure in Gold That Only Exists at Extreme States
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Scientists Just Discovered a New Structure in Gold That Only Exists at Extreme States
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Bats Are More Badass Than We Knew, Using Leaves as 'Mirrors' to Find Camouflaged Prey
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Bats Are More Badass Than We Knew, Using Leaves as 'Mirrors' to Find Camouflaged Prey
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Bats Are More Badass Than We Knew, Using Leaves as 'Mirrors' to Find Camouflaged Prey
The way bats use sound to locate their prey is even more clever than we thought. It turns out that leaf-nosed bats can even find insects that hide themselves from echolocation.
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Scientists Have Built Synthetic Cells That React to External Cues, Just Like Real Ones
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Scientists Have Built Synthetic Cells That React to External Cues, Just Like Real Ones
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Scientists Have Built Synthetic Cells That React to External Cues, Just Like Real Ones
Researchers have developed artificial cells that can respond to external chemical forces, just like real ones do. This exciting step could get us closer to using synthetic biological structures in real-world situations, such as targeted drug delive
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Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brain Cells Work
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Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brain Cells Work
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Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption on How Brain Cells Work
The human brain contains a little over 80-odd billion neurons, each joining with other cells to create trillions of connections called synapses.
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The Oldest Freshwater Fish Ever Found Just Changed What We Know About Fish
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The Oldest Freshwater Fish Ever Found Just Changed What We Know About Fish
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The Oldest Freshwater Fish Ever Found Just Changed What We Know About Fish
When Grandma Fish was just a tiny fry, the Titanic was yet to set sail. Humans had yet to reach the South Pole. The First World War wasn't even a rumble on the horizon, the first public radio broadcast yet to spill its arias into New York City.
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Stunning New Map Finally Reveals How Ice Flows From Antarctica to The Sea
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Stunning New Map Finally Reveals How Ice Flows From Antarctica to The Sea
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Stunning New Map Finally Reveals How Ice Flows From Antarctica to The Sea
We all know that Antarctica's ice is melting into the ocean faster than ever, but we haven't had a lot of information on how exactly that ice makes its way across the continent.
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Astronomers Just Found an Absolutely Gargantuan Black Hole The Mass of 40 Billion Suns
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Astronomers Just Found an Absolutely Gargantuan Black Hole The Mass of 40 Billion Suns
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Astronomers Just Found an Absolutely Gargantuan Black Hole The Mass of 40 Billion Suns
Black holes can get pretty big, but there's a special class that is the biggest of the big, absolute yawning monster black holes. And astronomers seem to have identified an absolute specimen, clocking in at 40 billion times the mass of the Sun.
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Facebook Has Bad News For The 2 Million People Who Wanted to Storm Area 51
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Facebook Has Bad News For The 2 Million People Who Wanted to Storm Area 51
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Facebook Has Bad News For The 2 Million People Who Wanted to Storm Area 51
Facebook has removed a mega-viral event called "Storm Area 51", claiming it violated community standards.
On 16th and 17th of September in Gelendzhik (Russia) for the fourth time will take place on of the the most anticipated events in the field of biotechnology – BIOTECHMED forum.
The event will traditionally be supported by the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation, Rostec corporation, the administration of Krasnodar region. The forum will be attended by about 1,500 people.
The flagship theme of the forum will be the national project "Health care" and and provision of its needs. In particular, Federal projects "Fight against cancer", "Fight against cardiovascular diseases" and "Development of export of medical services"will be discussed. The program of the forum will focus on the development of digital health care, international cooperation and export of medical products, nuclear medicine, biomedical cell products, genetics.
The products of the largest Russian pharmaceutical and medical industry enterprises, research organizations, and regional expositions will be presented at the exhibition of the Forum.
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The event will traditionally be supported by the Ministry of health of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of industry and trade of the Russian Federation, Rostec corporation, the administration of Krasnodar region. The forum will be attended by about 1,500 people.
The flagship theme of the forum will be the national project "Health care" and and provision of its needs. In particular, Federal projects "Fight against cancer", "Fight against cardiovascular diseases" and "Development of export of medical services"will be discussed. The program of the forum will focus on the development of digital health care, international cooperation and export of medical products, nuclear medicine, biomedical cell products, genetics.
The products of the largest Russian pharmaceutical and medical industry enterprises, research organizations, and regional expositions will be presented at the exhibition of the Forum.
@science is official Telegram partner for this event
You can register as a participant and see the program here:
https://biotechmedconf.ru/home-eng/
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A Meteor Just Exploded on Jupiter, And One Photographer Actually Caught It on Video
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A Meteor Just Exploded on Jupiter, And One Photographer Actually Caught It on Video
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A Meteor Just Exploded On Jupiter, And A Photographer Actually Caught It On Video
With Jupiter currently gracing the northern sky at night, it's a great time to be pointing a telescope at our Solar System's colossus. But one astrophotographer got the sight of a lifetime - what appears to be the flash of an impact, as something e
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There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
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There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
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There Could Be a Bunch of Tardigrades Alive on The Moon Right Now
A horde of microscopic critters called tardigrades were passengers aboard the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, which crashed into the lunar surface nearly four months ago.
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These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
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These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
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These Sharks Produce an Eerie Glow Through a Mechanism Previously Unknown to Science
Glowing catsharks that lurk the briny depths have a fluorescence mechanism never seen before in another organism. And that glow could be conferring some serious perks - such as the ability to pick out other sharks among the many fluorescent things
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Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
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Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
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Scientists Successfully Turn Breast Cancer Cells Into Fat to Stop Them From Spreading
Researchers have been able to coax human breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells in a new proof-of-concept study in mice.
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Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
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Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
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Not All Viruses Are Bad For You. Here Are Some That Can Have a Protective Effect
Viruses are mostly known for their aggressive and infectious nature.
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Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
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Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
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Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Has Emitted a Mysteriously Bright Flare
The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is relatively quiet. It's not an active nucleus, spewing light and heat into the space around it; most of the time, the black hole's activity is low key, with minimal fluctu
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Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
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Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
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Astronomers Just Got Closer to Unravelling The Mystery of 'Glitching' Pulsars
A peculiar hiccup in the rotation speed of a dead star has turned out to be even more interesting than we thought. For the first time, astronomers have shown that the rotation of the Vela pulsar slowed down immediately before its 2016 glitch.
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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
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Women Are Not Better at Multitasking. They Just Do More Work, Studies Show
Multitasking has traditionally been perceived as a woman's domain. A woman, particularly one with children, will routinely be juggling a job and running a household – in itself a frantic mix of kids' lunch boxes, housework, and organising appoint
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Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
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Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
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Independent Data Just Confirmed July as Earth's Hottest Month Since Records Began
Data from thousands of surface monitoring stations worldwide, including ocean buoys in the Pacific and land-based thermometers dotting the continents, show that July 2019 was the warmest month on Earth since at least 1850.