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A trio of chemists at the University of Copenhagen has developed an AI application that can be used to figure out the phase of x-rays that crystals have diffracted as part of efforts to predict the structure of small molecules.
A team of food scientists at West Pomeranian University of Technology, in Poland, has found that using horse milk instead of cow milk to make ice cream is a viable food choice. In their study, published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, the group created four ice cream varieties using horse milk and different types of bacteria.
When it comes to predicting the abundance of a species, body size appears to be a fundamental and repeatable predictor, with smaller organisms occurring in greater numbers than larger ones. The caveat, known as Bermann's Rule, is that in polar regions larger bodied organisms predominate. Other factors that influence species abundance include light availability, food availability, competition and p
Phosphorus is a vital component of every organism and plays a key role, for example, in energy transfer in the body and within cell membranes, bones and teeth. Phosphorus is also special because it occurs in numerous different forms (allotropes). For example, there is the highly explosive, toxic white phosphorus, the more stable red phosphorus known from match heads, or the crystalline, semi-condu
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have achieved a significant milestone in the conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable fuels and chemicals, marking an important step towards a sustainable net-zero economy.
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany) have published new findings on how social norms evolve over time. They simulated how norms promote different social behavior, and how the norms themselves come and go. Because of the enormous number of possible norms, these simulations were run on RIKEN's Fugaku, one
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A rare cotton candy lobster was the catch of the day recently off the coast of New Castle, New Hampshire . This candy-colored crustaceans was caught by a local lobsterman and donated to the Seacoast Science Center , a marine science education organization in Rye, New Hampshire’s Odiorne Point State Park. The wild color does not mean that it actually tastes sweet or like candy. It’s the result of
Today is the first day of The Florida Python Challenge, where snake hunters will wade into the Everglades to track down invasive Burmese pythons . Up to $25,000 in prizes are up for grabs during this annual 10-day challenge from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. In 2000, Burmese pythons were first identified in Everglades National Park . According to the United States Geologi
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