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Silver lining: Australian researchers given $45m to study alternative solar panel materials
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The Albanese government has extended funding for Australia’s world-leading solar energy scientists as they race to increase panel efficiency and shift to more abundant materials, before constraints on silver and other...
Meet the rebellious researchers embracing rap, magic and circus acts
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Hip-hop poetry, magic and circus acts should be embraced by academics to make their work more effective and help them spread their findings among a wider audience, according to researchers calling for a “rebellion” ag...
Australian researchers uncover clue to rare and severe response to Covid in children
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In the first months after Covid emerged, doctors were baffled by rare and severe responses to the virus in some children, whose symptoms included lung disease, blood clotting and heart damage. Two years later and rese...
Lack of Covid testing leaves researchers blind to evolution patterns, Quien advierte
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A dramatic drop in testing for Covid-19 has left the world blind to the virus’s continuing rampage and its potentially dangerous mutations, the head of the World Health Organization has warned. The UN health agency sa...
Back from the dead? Elusive ivory-billed woodpecker not extinct, los investigadores dicen
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In terms of elusiveness, it is the Bigfoot or Loch Ness monster of the bird world, so rare and undetectable that the US government declared it extinct last year. But the ivory-billed woodpecker is, De hecho, still aliv...
Global melanoma rate to increase by 50% por 2040, researchers predict
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New cases of melanoma are set to increase by 50% globally by 2040, con un 68% increase in deaths, según una nueva investigación. An international team of researchers have analysed the global burden of melanoma, which acco...
Hundreds of mammal species still to be identified, predict researchers
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Hundreds of unidentified mammals are hiding in plain sight waiting to be discovered, according to a new study which predicts where to find so-called “cryptic” species across the tree of life. African elephants, lemurs...
Un raro fósil de "pájaro del trueno" da a los investigadores una pista sobre la desaparición de una especie australiana de megafauna
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Los investigadores de la Universidad de Flinders pueden haber descubierto lo que finalmente condujo a la extinción de la última de las aves gigantescas de Australia., genyornis newtoni. La pista vino con el descubrimiento de un fósil raro.. La aleta...
Primera evidencia de que las focas leopardo se alimentan de tiburones, los investigadores dicen
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En una primicia mundial, Se ha descubierto que las focas leopardo de Nueva Zelanda se alimentan de tiburones, haciéndolos parte de un pequeño y exclusivo club de depredadores marinos. El estudio, dirigido por Krista van der Linde o leopardseals.org, tiburón encontrado ...
Deep-sea mining may push hundreds of species to extinction, researchers warn
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Almost two-thirds of the hundreds of mollusc species that live in the deep sea are at risk of extinction, according to a new study that rings another alarm bell over the impact on biodiversity of mining the seabed. Th ...
La madre de un investigador egipcio "salta de alegría" tras la publicación de las órdenes judiciales
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Un tribunal egipcio ha ordenado la liberación del investigador Patrick Zaki, cuya detención en febrero del año pasado provocó la condena internacional, particularmente en Italia, donde había estado estudiando, su familia dijo. "Soy j ...
‘Like nothing in my lifetime’: researchers race to unravel the mystery of Australia’s dying frogs
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In the middle of Sydney’s lockdown, scientist Jodi Rowley has been retrieving frozen dead frogs from her doorstep. Occasionally one will arrive dried and shrivelled up in the post. She’ll pack them in ice in an esky ...
Israeli spyware firm targeted Apple devices via iMessage, los investigadores dicen
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Security researchers at Citizen Lab have discovered an exploit that they believe has been used by government clients of NSO Group, the Israeli spyware company, to silently hack into iPhones and other Apple devices sin...
Swiss researchers calculate pi to new record of 62.8tn figures
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Swiss researchers have calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude, hitting 62.8tn figures using a supercomputer. “The calculation took 108 days and nine hours,” the Graubuenden U...
Researchers reveal corrosive power of Trump’s lie of a stolen election
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Happy Thursday, Republicans across the country have embraced a similar refrain as they push for new restrictions on voting. A significant chunk of the American electorate doesn’t have confidence in the results of the ...
Ultra-thin film could one day turn regular glasses into night vision goggles, los investigadores dicen
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A transparent metallic film allowing a viewer to see in the dark could one day turn regular spectacles into night vision googles. The ultra-thin film, made of a semiconductor called gallium arsenide, could also be use...