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Webinar: Accepting animal-free bacterial endotoxin testing

June 15, 2020
News
European, US, Japanese and Chinese pharmacopeia will include a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in their next revisions, despite some initial concerns from US Pharmacopia experts in May. Lonza...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Drug Discovery, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Environment, Haematology, Health, Immunology, Life Sciences, Marine Biology, Pharma, Pharmaceutical, Pharmacology, Policy
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Survival of coronavirus in different cities, on different surfaces

June 11, 2020
News
One of the many questions researchers have about COVID-19 is how long the coronavirus causing the disease remains alive after someone infected with it coughs or sneezes. Once the droplets...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Medical/Health, Virology
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Researchers uncover a world of life on the back of a turtle

June 4, 2020
News
Much to the delight of all Hindu’s and fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, researchers have demonstrated that there is indeed a world of life on the backs of loggerhead...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Oceanography, Zoology
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Viable sodium-ion battery for sustainable energy storage

June 3, 2020
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Washington State University (WSU) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers have created a sodium-ion battery that holds as much energy and works as well as some commercial lithium-ion battery...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental, Materials, Physics & Engineering
Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Environmental Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Materials, Materials Science
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Oil-hungry smart sponge could restore our oceans

June 2, 2020
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A Northwestern University-led team has developed a highly porous smart sponge that selectively soaks up oil in water. With an ability to absorb more than 30 times its weight in...
Earth & Environmental, Materials
Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Materials, Materials Science, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Oceanography
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Deep earthquake simulation may unravel geophysical mystery (video)

May 29, 2020
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New computer modeling by Magali Billen, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis, offers new understanding of our planet's deepest earthquakes and could help unravel one of the...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental, Environment, Geology, Tectonics
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Plastic-eating superworms host biodegrading gut bacteria

May 29, 2020
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Resembling giant mealworms, superworms (Zophobas atratus) are beetle larvae that are often sold in pet stores as feed for reptiles, fish and birds. In addition to their relatively large size...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Molecular Biology
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Illegal wildlife trading threatens all creatures great and small

May 28, 2020
Insight
Besides being a major threat to biodiversity, the wildlife trade can be a cause of global public health issues and hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage around the...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biology, Comment And Analysis, Covid-19, Earth & Environmental, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environment, Environmental, Marine Biology, Zoology
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Listen to the song of the Arctic unicorn (video)

May 26, 2020
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With the help of Inuit hunters, geophysicists recently recorded the various calls, buzzes, clicks and whistles of narwhals as they summered in a Greenland fjord. The recordings help scientists better...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Biology, Earth & Environmental, Environment, Marine Biology, Oceanography
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Will our climate bounce back as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown?

May 19, 2020
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Stanford research study envisions energy and environment landscape after COVID-19, pinpointing reduced demand hotspots and estimating impact on annual emissions. Join the webinar on 21 May: ‘Post-Pandemic: Building Back Resiliently’
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences, Physics & Engineering
Covid-19, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Oceanography
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