Mangrove forests are found at the interface between oceans and land in tropical and subtropical coasts. Under-appreciated and severely degraded for centuries, these coastal ecosystems…
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Svaneti, a rugged highland region of northwestern Georgia, lies along one of the few ancient transit routes between the South and North Caucasus and thus…
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Malignant melanoma is a heterogeneous tumor, originated from the transformation of melanocytes, which are cells that normally produce melanin in the skin and distribute to…
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Coal mining is an economic activity. However, mining degrades the soil and water quality and adversely affects the ecology of surrounding area. The reclamation and…
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Undoubtedly, the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction is one of the most elegant and powerful tools for constructing Carbon-Carbon bonds. In the industrial arena, specifically, Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling…
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The effect of habitual physical activity on the human body is a fundamental research topic in bioarchaeology as well as human evolutionary studies. The hand,…
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It is well-known that galaxies rotate so fast that centrifugal forces should have long ago beaten the gravitational self-attraction of all the visible mass we…
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As a young boy, I have always had an innate curiosity to understand the world around me. From my time in academia I was able…
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Modern methods in medicine and synthetic biology require very long DNA strands, in particular with the advent of the increasingly popular CRISPR/Cas9 system in recent…
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Why do we not find polar bears in the tropics? Why are fewer insect species at higher latitudes (e.g., closer to the poles) or altitudes…
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Yolk/shell (Y–S) hybrid nanocrystals (HNCs) has become an emerging hot-spot material towards space-confined nanocatalysis, nanoreactors, drug release, and energy conversion, storage applications. The interior voids…
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