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Cell & Microbiology 3 hours ago

Scientists control daily biological clock of algae, advancing biomedicine

Carl H. Johnson, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences, along with a team of Vanderbilt scientists, have succeeded in adjusting the daily biological clock of cyanobacteria, making the blue-green algae a more ...

Ecology 4 hours ago

How neighboring whales learn each other's language

Researchers from Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and collaborating institutions have developed a method to investigate sperm whale communication by determining their vocal style, finding that groups living ...

Plants & Animals 4 hours ago

Climate change is most prominent threat to pollinators, study finds

A paper published in the CABI Reviews journal has found that climate change is the most prominent threat to pollinators—such as bumblebees, wasps, and butterflies—that are essential for biodiversity conservation, crop ...

Optics & Photonics 4 hours ago

Physicists demonstrate first metro-area quantum computer network in Boston

It's one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed in different quantum states. It's quite another to physically show it's possible.

Evolution 4 hours ago

Unwrapping the origin story of the baobab

The baobab (Adansonia) is a genus of trees with eight currently extant species and a long history of humans marveling at them. For as much admiration as the baobabs get, there is an equal amount of mystery surrounding their ...

Evolution 4 hours ago

First 'warm-blooded' dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago

The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago, suggests a new study led by UCL and University ...

Bio & Medicine 4 hours ago

Scientists from Prague are expanding the possibilities of using RNA in gene medicine

Dr. Petr Cígler and his collaborators are working on refining molecular systems for transporting ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules into cells. The question of how to effectively deliver RNA to a designated place in the body ...

Analytical Chemistry 4 hours ago

New research employs shutter speed analogies to validate 55-year-old theory about chemical reaction rates

Chemical reactions are commonly depicted as transitions from reactants to products. However, such reactions involve many molecules, and the individual molecules themselves undergo frequently-occurring structural changes as ...

Paleontology & Fossils 4 hours ago

Fossil found in Germany shows starfish relative engaged in clonal fragmentation 150 million years ago

A team of paleontologists from Germany and Austria reports that a brittle star fossil found in Germany shows evidence of clonal fragmentation 150 million years ago. Their paper is published in the journal Proceedings of the ...

Biochemistry 4 hours ago

Method accelerates the development of sustainable biomaterials from years to minutes

A study, published in Advanced Materials on May 6, 2024, led by VTT's researchers, introduces a transformative approach that integrates synthetic biology with advanced machine learning and computational techniques to significantly ...

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