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Environment Apr 11, 2024

Panama plans dry alternative to drought-hit canal

Panama on Wednesday unveiled plans for a "dry canal" to move cargo between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans due to low water levels in its century-old maritime channel.

Environment Apr 10, 2024

Microplastic 'hotspots' identified in Long Island Sound

Forensic and environmental experts have teamed up to develop a new scientific method to pinpoint microplastic pollution 'hotspots' in open waters. A study by Staffordshire University, The Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 15, 2024

Hormonally up-regulated neu-associated kinase (HUNK) unveils a new function in cellular transport regulation

Endocytosis is a crucial cellular process that facilitates cells to take up cargos by enclosing them in membrane-bound vesicles, which are transported to different parts of the cell via the endosomal system and deliver cargos ...

Ecology Mar 13, 2024

How climate change drives the spread of invasive plants

As the climate warms, the number of alien species on every continent is expected to increase 36% by 2050. Some alien species—that is, plants or animals that live outside their natural range—are invasive and can harm ecosystems ...

Cell & Microbiology Feb 27, 2024

Microbial comics: RNA as a common language, presented in extracellular speech-bubbles

Single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and archaea, have developed many ways to communicate with each other. For example, they might use tiny so-called extracellular vesicles (EVs)—membrane-enveloped packages smaller ...

Environment Feb 24, 2024

US warns of environmental disaster from cargo ship hit by Huthi rebels

A cargo ship abandoned in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by Yemeni rebels is taking on water and has left a huge oil slick, in an environmental disaster that US Central Command said Friday could get worse.

Cell & Microbiology Jan 25, 2024

How HIV smuggles its genetic material into the cell nucleus

Each year, about 1 million individuals worldwide become infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. To replicate and spread the infection, the virus must smuggle its genetic material into the cell nucleus and integrate ...

Social Sciences Dec 14, 2023

Seattle metro residents near Amazon delivery stations face more pollution but order fewer packages

While it is common to see Amazon Prime vans circling the city of Seattle year-round, there might be even more deliveries than usual right now, thanks to the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals that rang in the holiday season.

Earth Sciences Nov 17, 2023

Navigation on the Mississippi has worsened for decades, finds study

Shifting water levels have driven a significant decline in navigation conditions in recent decades along the Mississippi River, a primary engine of commerce in the United States, research from the federal government and Princeton ...

Cell & Microbiology Nov 15, 2023

Visualizing 'traffic jams' inside living cells

Researchers at the IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics (IBS CMSD), led by Director Cho Minhaeng and Professor Hong Seok-Cheol, have unveiled a revolutionary label-free microscopy technique—the Cargo-Localization ...

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