Looking at the precise three-dimensional arrangement of atoms within a protein helps us to understand how it can perform its functions. Although electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) has developed rapidly as an important structural ...
Nanophysics
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There are arguably historic levels of anxiety leading up to the 2020 presidential election, and forthcoming UCR research holds the party faithful on one side are feeling it more than the other.
Political science
Oct 22, 2020
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A team of researchers from Canada and Peru has found evidence of Inca people burying llamas alive as part of ritualistic ceremonies approximately 600 years ago. In their paper published in the journal Antiquity, the group ...
Questions about the origin of nature have fascinated humans since the dawn of culture. One phenomenon of particular interest is the high diversity of forests in the tropics, relative to those in the temperate zone. Even Humboldt, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 22, 2020
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An official report admitting to toxic emissions being generated by three waste-to-energy (WtE) plants operating in the Indian capital has thrown a question mark on the future of WtE incinerators as a way to deal with the ...
Environment
Oct 22, 2020
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Walk into a quantum lab where scientists trap ions, and you'll find benchtops full of mirrors and lenses, all focusing lasers to hit an ion "trapped" in place above a chip. By using lasers to control ions, scientists have ...
Quantum Physics
Oct 22, 2020
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Holger Stark from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and his team have broken a crucial resolution barrier in cryo electron microscopy. For the first time, his group succeeded in observing individual ...
General Physics
Oct 22, 2020
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Measures of Earth's vibrations zigged and zagged across Mostafa Mousavi's screen one morning in Memphis, Tenn. As part of his Ph.D. studies in geophysics, he sat scanning earthquake signals recorded the night before, verifying ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2020
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The cloth masks many are sporting these days offer some protection against COVID-19. However, they typically provide much less than the professional N95 masks used by healthcare workers.
Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2020
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A Purdue University biochemist and her colleagues have pioneered new methods for increasing production of volatile compounds important for plant defenses and for use in biofuels, pharmaceuticals and other products. While ...
Biochemistry
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