Fungi are a potential goldmine for the production of pharmaceuticals. This is shown by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, who have developed a method for finding new antibiotics from nature's own resources. ...
Cell & Microbiology
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Researches from Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, have focused their efforts on one of the major theoretical issues of modern astrophysical fluid dynamics, which is the stability of Keplerian ...
Astronomy
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In addition to solo stars like the sun, the universe contains binary systems comprising two massive stars that interact with each other. In many binaries, the two stars are close enough to exchange matter and may even merge, ...
Astronomy
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Using yeast cells as a model, scientists from the A.N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University investigated the mechanisms that allow cells to protect themselves from invasion of ...
Biochemistry
Apr 20, 2017
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Discovered more than 100 years ago, black phosphorus was soon forgotten when there was no apparent use for it. In what may prove to be one of the great comeback stories of electrical engineering, it now stands to play a crucial ...
Materials Science
Apr 20, 2017
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Educators could be doing more to address the challenges and obstacles faced by Muslim students in modern times, a new research report published today in the Journal of Language, Identity and Education suggests.The research ...
Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2017
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Researchers have uncovered molecular details of how pathogenic bacteria fight back against the human immune response to infection.
Cell & Microbiology
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The last orca has been born in captivity at a SeaWorld park in San Antonio just over a year after the theme park decided to stop breeding orcas following animal rights protests and declining ticket sales.
Plants & Animals
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Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or ...
Environment
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A Soyuz space capsule blasted off Thursday for the International Space Station, carrying an American astronaut making his first space flight and a veteran Russian cosmonaut.
Space Exploration
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