Plausible steps toward the evolution of a key protein fold of RNA polymerases
A folded region lying deep inside enzymes that are central to all forms of life could have formed more easily than previously thought, biologists at RIKEN have found1.
A folded region lying deep inside enzymes that are central to all forms of life could have formed more easily than previously thought, biologists at RIKEN have found1.
Molecular & Computational biology
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Being a Black female might involve navigating two extremes: too little attention when you're older, and too much of the wrong kind of attention when you're young.
Social Sciences
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A team of researchers from Université libre de Bruxelles, Delft University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Brussel used AI technology to find meteorites hidden in Antarctic ice. The group describes how their AI system ...
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General Physics
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Plants & Animals
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Cell & Microbiology
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Plants & Animals
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Clouds in the southern hemisphere reflect more sunlight than those in the northern hemisphere. The reason is a more frequent occurrence of liquid water droplets, which results from an interplay between updrafts and a cleaner ...
Environment
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As temperature decreases, so does the electrical resistance of metals—most of the time. In metal with magnetic impurities, electrical resistance can increase as the temperature drops due to a strange phenomenon called the ...
Quantum Physics
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Plants & Animals
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