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Fish Getting ‘Drunk’ From High Carbon Dioxide Levels: Study
By 2100, marine life in half the world’s surface oceans are expected to be affected by carbon dioxide intoxication, which is a condition known as hypercapnia.
Coverage Of The Global Young Scientists Summit 2016
Here are some of the top stories from the Global Young Scientists Summit 2016.
Could More Acidic Oceans Mean Less Pearls?
Increasingly acidic sea conditions have been shown to weaken the shells of pearl oysters—but it appears these mollusks are pretty resilient creatures.
Of Cats And Cancers
In life as in quantum physics, we sometimes exist in a state of superposition. What happens when the wave function collapses?
Biological Evolution & Machine Learning Are Similar, Says Turing Award Winner Leslie Valiant
Can machine learning algorithms capture the complexity of the life that has evolved on Earth? Professor Leslie Valiant shares his views at the Global Young Scientists Summit 2016.
Cell Conversion? There’s An App For That
Mogrify is an algorithm that helps researchers predict the set of transcription factors required to convert one cell type into another.
Researchers Warn Of Little-Known Bacterial Disease
Melioidosis is likely to be present in most of the tropics, including 34 countries where it has never been reported, researchers say.
China Launches Its Own Million Dollar ‘Nobel’ Prize
From 2017, the privately funded Future Science Awards will recognize the achievements of Chinese scientists in the life sciences and materials science.
Singapore Needs To Nurture Curiosity, Says President Tan
At the closing ceremony of the Global Young Scientists Summit 2016 last Friday, President Tony Tan emphasized the need to nurture a sense of curiosity in future generations.
