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Content: Volume 7, Issue 1

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A missing ingredient in dark matter theories?

In 1933, Fritz Zwicky, observing the Coma galaxy cluster, noted that single galaxies were moving too fast for the cluster to remain bound, according to the measure of visible mass. Only a far more significant amount of invisible matter could explain the strong gravitational force... click to read more

  • Massimo Meneghetti | Researcher at Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Bologna, Italy
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published on Mar 31, 2021
Shining a light on first contact in tuberculosis

In the science fiction series Star Trek, first contact between species occurs on a galactic scale; a recurring theme whose consequences are richly developed and explored throughout the series. In infection biology, first contact of a susceptible host with an infectious agent, albeit on a... click to read more

  • Vivek V. Thacker | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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published on Mar 30, 2021
Go with the flow: dams could have a far-reaching impact on fisheries in tropical rivers

We need energy to sustain modern life. In most tropical developing countries, such as Brazil, energy is produced mainly through hydropower. This usually requires building dams, which negatively impacts the environmental and socioeconomic situation in the area. Many such dams are planned in tropical rivers, such... click to read more

  • Renato A. M. Silvano | Professor at PPG Ecology and Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Fisheries and Food Institute, UNISANTA, Santos SP, Brazil
  • Anne Runde | MSc. at PPG Ecology and Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Gustavo Hallwass | Professor at Fisheries and Food Institute, UNISANTA, Santos SP, Brazil; Federal University of Western Pará, Oriximiná, Brazil
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published on Mar 29, 2021
Diversity may save wines from climate change

Today's climate change is dramatically reshaping environments and threatening society, countless animal and plant species, and sustainable agriculture. Scientists foresee that global warming is going to bring unpleasant outcomes, such as reductions in crops' yield and quality. Today's farmers need a way to adapt to... click to read more

  • Ignacio Morales-Castilla | Distinguished Researcher Beatriz Galindo at Global Change Ecology and Evolution Group, Department of Life Sciences, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
  • Elizabeth M. Wolkovich | Professor at Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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published on Mar 26, 2021
Extending the genomic record of human diversity

The genetic material of any two humans is 99.9% identical, but the small differences that do exist between our genomes provide a record of the complex evolutionary history we have undergone as a species. Over the past decade, scientists have sequenced a large number of... click to read more

  • Anders Bergström | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK; The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK
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published on Mar 25, 2021