Beyond the average cell: An updated framework for understanding bacterial growth, replication, and division
Nobody wants to be average.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 9, 2023
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Washington University in St. Louis
Nanoplastics unexpectedly produce reactive oxidizing species when exposed to light
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society, found in packaging and bottles as well as making up more than 18% of solid waste in landfills. Many of these plastics also make their way into the oceans, where they take up to hundreds ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 6, 2023
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Physicists find that organelles grow in random bursts
Eukaryotic cells—the ones that make up most life as we know it, including all animals, plants and fungi—are highly structured objects.
General Physics
Jan 6, 2023
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Interfaces play important role in condensate behavior
Before mixing an oil-and-vinegar-based salad dressing, the individual drops of vinegar are easily seen suspended in the oil, each with a perfectly circular boundary that delineates the two liquids. In the same way, our cells ...
Biochemistry
Jan 6, 2023
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Experimentalists: Sorry, no oxygen required to make these minerals on Mars
When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet might have once had more oxygen in its atmosphere ...
Planetary Sciences
Dec 22, 2022
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Why New Year's resolutions fail, even though people know how they can succeed
More than 35% of Americans make a New Year's resolution, like losing weight, eating healthier or saving more money.
Social Sciences
Dec 15, 2022
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Telescope-inspired microscope sees molecules in 6D
A new technology, inspired in part by the design of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), uses mirror segments to sort and collect light on the microscopic scale, and capture images of molecules with a new level of resolution: ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 6, 2022
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How language impacts political opinions
Words have power, but so does the language in which they're spoken, according to Margit Tavits, the Dr. William Taussig Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2022
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Findings from 3,300-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
More than 3,000 years before the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean, another famous ship wrecked in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern shores of Uluburun—in present-day Turkey— carrying tons of rare metal. Since ...
Archaeology
Nov 30, 2022
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Thirsty wheat needed new water management strategy in ancient China
Research from Washington University in St. Louis shows that a practice of purposeful water management, or irrigation, was adopted in northern China about 4,000 years ago as part of an effort to grow new grains that had been ...
Archaeology
Nov 10, 2022
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