natural sciences

Bacterial cell. Author/source: Pixabay
Assembling a living machine
The developers of a research-based start-up company discovered a molecule that can efficiently fix dye onto the surface of hair. Author/source: Pixabay
Cancer biologists are planning a revolution in the beauty industry
The sensor developed by researchers at the University of Tartu is located inside the small white box, which holds the sensor matrix. The sensor is also covered by a protective Teflon filter. Four sensors, each only half a square millimetre in size, are working simultaneously to collectively give information on air pollution. 
Photo by: Randel Kreitsberg
Future phone’s prototype is completed
Senior Researcher Kaarel Adamberg at work.  Photo by Signe Adamberg.
Estonian food scientists investigate the impact of food transit rate on human gut bacteria
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Flooding in cities increases pollution in the Baltic Sea
Author: Renee Altrov
Scientists are helping to put together the genetic data of people from three continents
If the relationship of mother and child after birth has already attracted researchers for a long time, now knowledge in different fields (e.g. neurobiology) increasingly stress on the importance to understand the interaction between a pregnant woman and her fetus. Source: pixabay.com
Motherhood Construction Based on Personal Experiences and Sociocultural Background
Scientists taking samples from an erratic.
Information about the retreat of the last Scandinavian Ice Sheet is hidden in erratic boulders
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Study confirms links between adverse drug effects and genetics
The extremely fast 5G data network will get its first christening in large cities. Author/source: Graphene Flagship
Wonder material graphene connects to a 5G network, coffee machines and self-driving cars
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The paleoecologists of Tallinn University of Technology evaluate global climate models
Percentage of Russian-speakers in Estonian rural and urban neighbourhoods
Doctoral thesis shows how the living environment can alter ethnic affiliation
The calculation method by Tartu’s scientists interests molecular biologists and geneticists who want a more detailed understanding of the reasons behind the development of resistance. Author/source: Fllicr/Nathan Meijer
Novel calculation method by scientists from Tartu identifies the “bad” genes of superbacteria
Volcanic islands offer a great opportunity for studying how the initially completely lifeless islands are populated by plant and animal species. The photo shows the lava fields in Tenerife that have not been populated by pine forests or herbaceous plants yet. Author/source: Madli Jõks
Computer simulation answers Darwin’s questions about the spread of island biota
Wallet made of gelatine-based ecotextile. Author/source: Gelatex Technologies
Estonian ecotextile offers a substitute to toxic imitation leather
Native speakers of the Uralic languages are geographically located in very different areas.
Does language relation equal actual relation? Genes provide the answer
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Scholars: Estonian soil is surprisingly rich in species
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Researchers have assembled Eurasian perch genome
Linnaea borealis, also known as twinflower, was Carl von Linné's favourite plant and is thus named after him. Author/source: CC/Flickr
DOI codes will be used parallel to species names
Closed and open stomata on the surface of a plant. Author: PS MicroGraphs
Research by scientists from Tartu explains how to influence the opening of a plant’s “mouth”
Fieldwork on Ellesmere Island, Canada: Measuring the size of individual plants. The study combines over 50,000 individual plant measurements with 30 years of plant community monitoring to understand how tundra ecosystems are responding to warmer temperatures. 
Photo: Anne Bjorkman, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany.
New plants on the block: Taller species are taking over in a warming Arctic
A Formica ant milking sweet nectar from a Plebejus idas caterpillar. Ants are willing to protect butterfly larvae for the sake of this juice. Author/source: Margus Vilbas
Butterflies that eat ants
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Silver nanoparticles for antibacterial use: an interplay between a noble metal and bacteria-particle interface
Tapeworm (Echinococcus granulosus). Author/source: Chelsea L. Wood/Flickr
Tapeworms cause global health problems and economic damage

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