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  Receptors for neuron communication in humans vital for reproduction in mosses

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  Glutamate receptors play a central role in the human nervous system. Scientists estimate 90 percent of the human brain's synapses, or connections between neurons, send signals using glutamate. The role of similar receptors ...

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  Evolutionary biologists solve puzzle of evolutionary relationships among vertebrates

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  Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic dataset ever analysed, evolutionary biologists were able to construct a new phylogenetic tree of jawed vertebrates. This new tree resolves several key relationships ...

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  Escherichia coli bacteria hijack copper, feed off it

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  Copper has long been known for its ability to kill bacteria and other microbes.

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  Team improves plant carbon-cycle models

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  In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had overlooked for 30 years. The students demonstrated that different plant species vary in how they take in carbon dioxide and ...

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  Allowable 'carbon budget' most likely overestimated

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  While most climate scientists, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, implicitly define "pre-industrial" to be in the late 1800's, a true non-industrially influenced baseline is probably further in the past, ...

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  Physics of bubbles could explain language patterns

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  Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found.

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  Quantum computing building blocks

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  For decades scientists have known that a quantum computer—a device that stores and manipulates information in quantum objects such as atoms or photons—could theoretically perform certain calculations far faster than today's ...

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  New Type Ia supernova discovered using gravitational lensing

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  (Phys.org)—Using gravitational lensing, an international team of astronomers has detected a new Type Ia supernova. The newly discovered lensed supernova was found behind the galaxy cluster known as MOO J1014+0038. The findings ...

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  Hunting molecules with the Murchison Widefield Array

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  Astronomers have used an Australian radio telescope to observe molecular signatures from stars, gas and dust in our galaxy, which could lead to the detection of complex molecules that are precursors to life.

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  Life evolves adaptions to microgravity

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  Life has found ways to overcome, and even thrive, in many extreme situations—from super saline pools to the high temperatures of hydrothermal vents. A new experiment has shown that the microgravity found in space is also ...