This tiny little creature is the Diamond-back Moth, Plutella xylostella. It’s just a few millimetres long, so snapped with a 30mm extension tube on a Tamron 90mm 1:1 macro lens on a Canon R7 to get as close as possible. The image was focus stacked, in camera, to improve depth of field and then denoised … Continue reading "Diamond-back Moth, Plutella xylostella"
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Foreign trainees seeking U.S. medical residencies pay hefty sums to build research resumes
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Chemists are calling for the science community to be ready to help colleagues hit by disaster
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First-ever analysis finds a method called differential privacy degrades data at smallest units and could jeopardize voting rights
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