Like the tip of an iceberg, a plant sprouting from the soil barely hints at what lies beneath. At the nexus where roots and soil intersect are thriving microbial communities that play important roles in plant health and growth. ...
Biotechnology
Jul 16, 2015
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Researchers at the University of California, Merced, have taken another step toward unlocking the mysteries of the biological clock.
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 25, 2015
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A collaborative group of Japanese researchers has demonstrated that the Earth's daily rotation period (24 hours) is encoded in the KaiC protein at the atomic level, a small, 10 nm-diameter biomolecule expressed in cyanobacterial ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 25, 2015
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The relentless flow of a glacier may seem unstoppable, but a team of UK and US researchers have shown that during some calving events - when an iceberg breaks off into the ocean - the glacier moves rapidly backward and downward, ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 25, 2015
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Scientists at the University of York and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Australia have made a key genetic discovery in poppies, paving the way for more effective painkillers.
Biotechnology
Jun 25, 2015
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New ideas are bubbling up for more efficient computer memory.
General Physics
Jun 12, 2015
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Researchers in Japan have found, for the first time in vertebrates, a genetic switch that determines whether germ cells become sperm or eggs. The gene is named foxl3, and has been identified using a small fish called medaka ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 11, 2015
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Rosetta's target "Chury" and other comets observed by space missions show common evidence of layered structures and bi-lobed shapes. With 3D computer simulations Martin Jutzi of PlanetS at the University of Bern was able ...
Space Exploration
May 29, 2015
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Males aren't relevant—at least when it comes to disease transmission by mosquitoes.
Biotechnology
May 21, 2015
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A new study shows that it is possible to use an imaging technique called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to view, in near-atomic detail, the architecture of a metabolic enzyme bound to a drug that blocks its activity. ...
General Physics
May 7, 2015
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