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"Jeden Tag häuft Menschheit 3,5 Millionen Tonnen Abfall an und es wird stetig mehr. Wenn sich daran nichts ändert, wird sich die tägliche Menge bis zum Jahr 2025 verdoppelt haben. 2100 werden es pro Tag mehr als elf Millionen Tonnen feste Abfälle sein, schätzen Forscher um Daniel Hoornweg. Der Professor an der kanadischen Universität von Ontario hat bereits 2012 einen Weltbank-Bericht zum Thema Müll mitverfasst. Nun warnt er zusammen mit seinen Kollegen Perinaz Bhada-Tata und Chris Kennedy im Magazin Nature vor den Folgen des wachsenden Abfallbergs. "

"Quelle: Felix Liechti (Schweizer Ornithologisches Institut, Sempach) et al., Nature Communicataions, doi: 10.1038/ncomms3554"

"I chose S.thermophilus randomly of the two; I could as easily have chosen L.delbrueckii. Fortunately, I didn't, because Tuur Van Balen, syn-bio-artist extraordinaire, has given a practical demonstration for Next Nature on how to do so!"

"Versuchstiere im Labor können ganz unterschiedlich reagieren, je nachdem ob ein Mann oder eine Frau das Experiment durchführt. Das beeinflusst die Ergebnisse wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen, berichten kanadische Psychologen im Fachjournal „Nature Methods". Demnach erzeugt der Körpergeruch eines Mannes Stressreaktionen und verringert die Schmerzempfindlichkeit von Mäusen und Ratten"

"api.ai equips developers with a simple way to make their products listen, understand, and talk to users. The api.ai platform combines natural language understanding with speech recognition and synthesis, enabling speech interfaces to be easily added to any solution."

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

"(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to drop a toothpick on the head of one particular person standing among 100,000 people in a stadium. It sounds impossible, yet this degree of precision at the cellular level has been demonstrated by researchers affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University Institute for NanoBioTechnology. Their study was published online in June in Nature Nanotechnology."

From testicle size to our slutty ancestors, a new book explains what human history teaches us about sex and couples

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2010) - Why are tropical forests so biologically rich? Smithsonian researchers have new evidence that the answer to one of life's great unsolved mysteries lies underground, according to a study published in the journal, Nature.

Researchers have cracked the long-time mystery of how sex is determined in birds: A dose-dependent effect of a single gene on one of the sex chromosomes does the trick, according to a study published this week in Nature.

Based on a theory developed by Prof. Rosenberg and Dr. Ilana Zilber-Rosenberg, the scientists propose that the basic unit of natural selection is not the individual living organism, plant or animal, but rather a larger biological milieu called a holobiont. This milieu can include plant or animal life as well as their symbiotic partners. In the case of animals, these partners tend to be microorganisms like intestinal bacteria.

Researchers have regressed human stem cells to an embryonic state using just a single transcription factor, as opposed to the four factors previously needed to induce pluripotency in human cells, according to a study published online today (August 28) in Nature.

Is warfare really an immutable part of our nature, or is it something we can overcome? Some researchers now suspect the latter

In this week's edition of Nature, a cohort of researchers report the latest findings from two of the major players in this search for gravitational waves - The LIGO Scientific Collaboration located in the US and the Virgo Collaboration in France and Italy. The paper reports the latest data from these two experiments collected 2005 - 2007, and discusses the implication of these results for the standard picture of cosmology.

Interesting new paper coming out in Nature this week, presenting early scientific results from LIGO on the amplitude of stochastic gravitational radiation background of cosmological origin.

In embryos and induced pluripotent stem cells, Nanog sets the ground state of pluripotency Nanog, named after the fountain of eternal youth, is considered the key to pluripotency, but its role is puzzling: it can be deleted from embryonic stem cells without causing them to differentiate, and it is not among the collection of genes that can induce specialized cells to become pluripotent. Nonetheless, it does help human cells reprogram and can be used to separate incompletely reprogrammed cells from fully reprogrammed ones.

Differentiated human cells have been reprogrammed to an embryonic-like state with the addition of only one gene rather than the standard four. This should advance techniques for the efficient production of high-quality patient-specific stem cells.