Teams from the Chair of Plant Physiology at Technische Universität Dresden and the Julius Kühn Institute in Braunschweig have been researching biological methods to better control the widespread plant disease 'clubroot' ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 4, 2021
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A small fungal enzyme could play a significant role in simplifying the development and manufacture of drugs, according to Rice University scientists.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 6, 2021
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A new type of collective behavior in ants has been revealed by an international team of scientists, headed by biologist Professor Iain Couzin, co-director of the Cluster of Excellence "Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 19, 2021
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Cyberbullying already accounts for one in four cases of bullying and, according to the latest UNICEF report issued on the occasion of Safer Internet Day, it affects at least two students per class in Spanish schools.
Social Sciences
Apr 8, 2021
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A new study reveals how bacteria control the chemicals produced from consuming 'food.' The insight could lead to organisms that are more efficient at converting plants into biofuels.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 3, 2020
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A change in perspective can work wonders. This has been especially true with respect to the paradigms for explaining material properties using the concept of topology, "ideas that are currently revolutionizing condensed matter ...
By examining how fruit flies use eye movements to enhance flight control with a staggeringly fast reaction speed—about 30 times faster than the blink of an eye—Penn State researchers have detailed a framework to mimic ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 1, 2020
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Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms promise to become the building blocks of a new generation of computers with unparalleled memory and processing power. But to realize ...
General Physics
May 11, 2020
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To develop futuristic technologies like quantum computers, scientists will need to find ways to control photons, the basic particles of light, just as precisely as they can already control electrons, the basic particles in ...
Quantum Physics
Feb 19, 2020
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Showcasing precise control at the quantum level, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for making an ion (electrically charged atom) display exact quantities of quantum-level ...
Quantum Physics
Jul 22, 2019
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