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[ad_1] Losing a few pounds of weight nearly halves people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. A large study, conducted by Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) and the University of East Anglia, found that providing support to help people with prediabetes make small changes to their …

[ad_1] The Great Barrier Reef has lost 50% of its coral populations over the past three decades, with climate change a key driver of the reef disturbance, a new study has found. Researchers from the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies in Queensland assessed coral communities and the …

[ad_1] The ancient basin, now under a mile of ice, is shaped like a cleaver. Image: Paxman et al., EPSL, 2020 Using radar and other ice-penetrating tools, scientists have detected a “fossil lake bed” preserved under the Greenland ice sheet, in what is the first discovery of its kind. Now …

[ad_1] Two vast facilities the size of a football field equipped with hundreds of large freezers in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Puurs, Belgium, will be the centers of the massive effort to ship the coronavirus vaccine developed by the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the company. German biotech BioNTech, around. the …

[ad_1] University of Hawaiʻi Aerial image of subsidence and crevasses on the Vatnajókull ice sheet on the western Skaftákatlar subglacial lake. (Photo credit: Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, Icelandic Meteorological Office) A long-standing mystery involving floods or “jökulhlaup” emerging suddenly and unpredictably from glaciers or ice caps was fortuitously solved by a …

[ad_1] Illustration: Jim Cooke Dark matter physicists may have one of the most frustrating jobs in science. Their work deals with something that, according to almost all models of the universe, must exist. But we have never found any direct evidence for dark matter. Where other scientists can capture their …

[ad_1] Scientists have developed an optical elastography technique that could revolutionize the accuracy and ease with which healthcare professionals can detect biomechanical changes in cells and tissues. A study derived from an international collaboration between the University of Exeter, the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Perugia (Italy) …

[ad_1] A fossil that had been languishing in a museum drawer in Brighton, wrongly labeled as a shark fin skeleton, has now been identified as an entirely new species of prehistoric flying reptile that soared majestically over what are now marshes of the Cambridgeshire. Roy Smith, a PhD student at …

[ad_1] pia23496 _-_ mav_launch.jpg This illustration shows a concept of how NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle, which carries pipes containing rock and soil samples, could be launched from the surface of Mars in one phase of the Mars sample return mission. Credits: NASA / JPL-Caltech NASA released an independent review report …

[ad_1] The artist’s interpretation of how microbial genome sequences from the GEM catalog can help fill knowledge gaps about the microbes that play key roles in Earth’s microbiomes. (Credit: Zosia Rostomian / Berkeley Lab) Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods over the past decade, researchers have discovered genomes …