The phytoplankton that populate oceans are known to play a key role in marine ecosystems and climate regulation. Like terrestrial plants, they store atmospheric CO₂, and produce half of our planet's oxygen via photosynthesis. ...
Ecology
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Spanning more than 1,000 kilometers in length and up to 5,600 meters in height, the mountain ranges of the Caucasus stretch between the Black and Caspian Seas. What appears to be a huge natural barrier was actually an important ...
Archaeology
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A recent study led by researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University—Hadas Goldgeier, Dr. Antoine Muller, and Prof. Leore Grosman—introduces a new computational method to analyze the architectural ...
Archaeology
Dec 18, 2024
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While each cell contains the complete genetic blueprint of an organism, chemical marks on the DNA—so-called epigenetic modifications—control which genes are active when and where.
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 18, 2024
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Artificial intelligence (AI) based on machine learning offers opportunities for the life sciences. However, problems often arise in practice. One cause is data leakage, the illicit spillover of information from the training ...
Biotechnology
Dec 18, 2024
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Try taking a picture of each of North America's roughly 11,000 tree species, and you'll have a mere fraction of the millions of photos within nature image datasets. These massive collections of snapshots—ranging from butterflies ...
Ecology
Dec 18, 2024
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Recent advancements in understanding the molecular basis of the prostaglandin D2 receptor (DP2) have significant implications for developing new anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic therapeutics. DP2, as a G protein-coupled ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 18, 2024
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A fragment of "lost" music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago.
Archaeology
Dec 18, 2024
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Blowfly eggs and larvae can carry crucial evidence, like sperm, which could help in sexual assault investigations, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found.
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 18, 2024
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A new article published in Universe describes an approach that looks back from the deaths of stars to their births, allowing the so-called initial mass function (IMF), i.e. the way in which star masses are distributed after ...
Astronomy
Dec 18, 2024
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