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No Excess Baggage: Antarctic Insect’s Genome, Newly Sequenced, is Smallest to Date
Scientists who sequenced the genome of the Antarctic midge suspect the genome’s small size – the smallest in insects described…
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More than half of all patients with pre-existing dementia will experience delirium while hospitalized. Failing…
Underlying ocean melts ice shelf, speeds up glacier movement
Warm ocean water, not warm air, is melting the Pine Island Glacier's floating ice shelf…
Interlocking segments might be 3-D printed, assembled into parts
Purdue University researchers are working with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop a technology…