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Evolution Mar 25, 2024

Researchers discover evolutionary 'tipping point' in fungi

Scientists have found a "tipping point" in the evolution of fungi that throttles their growth and sculpts their shapes. The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports, demonstrate how small changes in environmental factors ...

Space Exploration Mar 13, 2024

Study brings scientists a step closer to successfully growing plants in space

New, highly stretchable sensors can monitor and transmit plant growth information without human intervention, report University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers in the journal Device.

Plants & Animals Feb 26, 2024

Study provides rare glimpse of the ringtail, an important but poorly understood predator

Secretive species can pose special conservation challenges simply because they are so skilled at staying under the radar that researchers have uncovered comparatively little about their basic needs.

Cell & Microbiology Feb 23, 2024

Bacteria can develop resistance to drugs they haven't encountered before. Scientists figured this out decades ago

Do bacteria mutate randomly, or do they mutate for a purpose? Researchers have been puzzling over this conundrum for over a century.

Condensed Matter Jan 26, 2024

Turning glass into a 'transparent' light-energy harvester

What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That's the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in collaboration with Tokyo Tech scientists, ...

Paleontology & Fossils Jan 21, 2024

The Megalodon was more slender than depicted in movies, study shows

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists' understanding of Megalodon behavior, ancient ocean ...

Cell & Microbiology Jan 19, 2024

Exploding kamikaze bacteria: How a few 'soldier' cells confer virulence to a population by sacrificing themselves

You suddenly feel sick—pathogenic bacteria have managed to colonize and spread in your body. The weapons they use for their invasion are harmful toxins that target the host's defense mechanisms and vital cell functions. ...

Condensed Matter Dec 29, 2023

Molecules exhibit non-reciprocal interactions without external forces, new study finds

Researchers from the University of Maine and Penn State discovered that molecules experience non-reciprocal interactions without external forces.

Analytical Chemistry Dec 20, 2023

Meet 'Coscientist,' your AI lab partner: System succeeds in planning and carrying out real-world chemistry experiments

In less time than it will take you to read this article, an artificial intelligence-driven system was able to autonomously learn about certain Nobel Prize-winning chemical reactions and design a successful laboratory procedure ...

Earth Sciences Dec 6, 2023

Deep within an inhospitable desert, a window to first life on Earth

CU Boulder geologist Brian Hynek has helped to document what may be a unique kind of ecosystem on Earth—and a possible window into the earliest stages of life on this planet 3.5 billion years ago, and even life on ancient ...

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