Most astronomers agree that life is likely common throughout the universe. While Earth is the only world known to have life, we know that life arose early in our world, and the building blocks of life, including amino acids ...
Astrobiology
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Natural products are among the most promising candidates for the development of new drugs. However, due to their structural complexity, they are often difficult to access.
Biochemistry
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A team of physicists has uncovered a surprising new way to explore one of science's greatest challenges: uniting the two fundamental theories that explain how our universe works—Einstein's theory of gravity and quantum mechanics.
General Physics
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A new study led by Karel Kouba from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, reveals unprecedentedly high rates of legislative turnover in Latin America, raising concerns about democratic stability and governance quality ...
Political science
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A team of researchers from Brown University has developed a new nanotechnology-based approach that could improve treatment of fungal infections, particularly those caused by the increasingly drug-resistant Candida species.
Bio & Medicine
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If you want to do your best, most creative work, moving to a new place—or working from several places—can accelerate the process, according to a new study of Nobel Prize winners.
Social Sciences
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On its recent swing by Mars, NASA's Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The data will help mission scientists calibrate the spacecraft's thermal imaging instrument so they can ...
Planetary Sciences
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Gene therapy is at the cutting edge of medicine, with exciting new products being developed and used to treat a wide variety of genetic diseases. However, one major roadblock to delivering gene therapy quickly is the time-consuming ...
Biochemistry
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Microbial ecosystems—for example, in seawater, the soil or in the human gut—are astonishingly diverse, but researchers often struggle to reproduce this diversity in the lab: Many microorganisms die when attempts are made ...
Ecology
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Over the past decade, the Curiosity rover has repeatedly detected methane on the surface of Mars. This gas is often produced by microbes, so it could herald the presence of life on the red planet. But skeptics have postulated ...
Astrobiology
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