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- Tree trunks take a licking as koalas source water
- Window to another world: Life is bubbling up to seafloor with petroleum from deep below
- Antibodies from llamas could help in fight against COVID-19, study suggests
- New timeline for ancient magnetic field on Mars
- During tough times, ancient 'tourists' sought solace in Florida oyster feasts
- 4-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian meteorites
| Tree trunks take a licking as koalas source water Posted: 03 May 2020 06:27 AM PDT A study published today in Ethology, led by a researcher from The University of Sydney, has captured koala drinking behaviour in the wild for the first time. The paper describes how koalas drink by licking water running down smooth tree trunks during rain. |
| Window to another world: Life is bubbling up to seafloor with petroleum from deep below Posted: 01 May 2020 03:43 PM PDT Microbial life is bubbling up to the ocean floor along with fluids from deeply buried petroleum reservoirs, reports a team of scientists. |
| Antibodies from llamas could help in fight against COVID-19, study suggests Posted: 01 May 2020 03:43 PM PDT Researchers linked two copies of a special kind of antibody produced by llamas to create a new antibody that binds tightly to a key protein on the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. This protein, called the spike protein, allows the virus to break into host cells. Initial tests indicate that the antibody blocks viruses that display this spike protein from infecting cells in culture. |
| New timeline for ancient magnetic field on Mars Posted: 01 May 2020 12:06 PM PDT Mars had a global magnetic field much earlier -- and much later -- than previously known. Analysis of new satellite data found clear evidence of a magnetic field coming from a lava flow that formed less than 3.7 billion years ago, half a billion years after many people thought the Martian dynamo had ceased. The researchers also detected low-intensity magnetic fields over the Borealis Basin, believed to be one of the oldest features on Mars. |
| During tough times, ancient 'tourists' sought solace in Florida oyster feasts Posted: 01 May 2020 12:06 PM PDT More than a thousand years ago, people from across the Southeast regularly traveled to a small island on Florida's Gulf Coast to bond over oysters, likely as a means of coping with climate change and social upheaval. |
| 4-billion-year-old nitrogen-containing organic molecules discovered in Martian meteorites Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:58 AM PDT Scientists exploring Mars and analysing Martian meteorite samples have found organic compounds essential for life: nitrogen-bearing organics in a 4-billion-year-old Martian meteorite. With a new high-spatial resolution in-situ N-chemical speciation technique, they found organic materials -- either synthesized locally or delivered during the Noachian -- preserved intact in carbonate minerals over a long geological period. Their presence requires abiotic or biotic N-fixation and ammonia storage, suggesting early Mars had a less oxidizing environment than today. |
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