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NUS researcher wants to find ways to channel more finance into conserving nature
SINGAPORE – Having spent a decade in the environment sector, Ms Shakura Bashir has seen a whole spectrum of sustainability efforts take shape here, from the Republic’s efforts to bolster food security, to its continued investing in clean water technologies. But one particular area has since captured the attention of the PhD student – wielding…
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Record-breaking summer set to hit southern hemisphere
A similar combination of weather patterns in 2019-2020 resulted in Australia’s devastating ‘black summer’ bushfires.Credit: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg via Getty The southern hemisphere is facing a summer of extremes, say scientists, as climate change amplifies the effects of natural climate variability. This comes in the wake of a summer in the northern hemisphere that saw extreme…
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Proteomic association with age-dependent sex differences in Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in healthy Thai subjects
Abstract Sex differences in cognitive function exist, but they are not stable and undergo dynamic change during the lifespan. However, our understanding of how sex-related neural information transmission evolves with age is still in its infancy. This study utilized the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) and the label-free proteomics method with bioinformatic analysis to investigate…
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Seroprevalence and risk factors for Neospora spp. infection in equine in Egypt
Abstract Neospora infections in equine are associated with reproductive disorders and neurological diseases. Nevertheless, Egypt has no epidemiological information on this parasite in equine. This study determined the prevalence of Neospora spp. infection in 325 equines from three Egyptian governorates located at Northern Egypt using cELISA. The prevalence of antibodies against Neospora spp. was 19% (95%…
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LankaWeb – Greenwashing Bond Scams and Financializing Mother Nature: Climate Science Fiction versus Local Realities -Part I
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake Sri Lankan President unveils ambitious national green vision paving the way for a sustainable future Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 07:43 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. We live in a state of permanent emergency. Poly crisis’ is a fashionable term these days in United Nations (UN), and Bretton Woods circles that…
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Do whales have teeth?
November 19, 2023 Cosmos Cosmos is a quarterly science magazine. We aim to inspire curiosity in ‘The Science of Everything’ and make the world of science accessible to everyone. By Cosmos At the beginning of 2023, scientists made a surprise finding. The pygmy right whale (Caperea marginata), which is the smallest of the baleen whales,…
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How mating pufferfish created one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries
Several years ago, in the subtropical waters of southern Japan, divers spotted large geometric shapes sculpted in the sandy seabed. The circles were roughly two metres (6ft) across and formed of two concentric rings with spokes radiating from the centre. They were an aquatic version of unexplained crop circles. No one could work out what,…
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New study sheds light on how our brains perceive — or fail to perceive — what we see
Delving into the science of a mystifying optical illusion: visual masking By Rachel Tompa, Ph.D. / Allen Institute SEATTLE, Nov. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — A new study out today in Nature Neuroscience on visual masking sheds light on how we unsee things and points to how conscious perception is generated in the brain. In a phenomenon…
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Cancelled: Unforgiving Mother Nature Halts Women’s Downhill in Zermatt-Cervinia
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Mat Collishaw, Kew Gardens — nature’s unstable beauty; man’s destructive ingenuity
Christmas at Kew opened this week and — as has been the case every winter since its launch in 2013 — its light-and-nature show is the best spectacle in town. Lamps cascade from trees, candles flicker in mid-air, abstract neon flowers sprout, the Temperate House is a fiery cathedral, LED lights skim the lake and…