In neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, proteins accumulate in the body's cells, fold incorrectly and clump together to form larger aggregates.
Cell & Microbiology
May 9, 2025
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A half-ton Soviet spacecraft that never made it to Venus 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.
Space Exploration
May 9, 2025
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A way to greatly enhance the efficiency of a method for correcting errors in quantum computers has been realized by theoretical physicists at RIKEN. This advance could help to develop larger, more reliable quantum computers ...
Quantum Physics
May 9, 2025
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A community garden in the heart of a city can be an oasis—an island of greenery where people can escape the sounds of traffic, sink their hands into the earth, and connect with the natural world. These spaces can be especially ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2025
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Digger wasps make a short burrow for each egg, stocking it with food and returning a few days later to provide more. A new study reveals that mother wasps can remember the locations of up to nine separate nests at once, rarely ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2025
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New research from a team of cognitive scientists and evolutionary biologists finds that chimpanzees drum rhythmically, using regular spacing between drum hits. Their results, published in Current Biology, show that eastern ...
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2025
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Antarctic krill not only react to external environmental influences such as light or food. They also use their internal clocks to adapt to the extreme conditions of the polar environment.
Plants & Animals
May 9, 2025
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In the quiet Vasse district of WA, the evening of 27 August 1883 must have felt like something out of a mystery novel.
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2025
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One chilly morning this past December, nine women awoke to the sight of a glacier looming before them, glowing orange in the rising sun. These scientists had spent their lives studying the cryosphere—the frozen part of ...
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2025
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Ferroelectrics are a class of materials that exhibit so-called spontaneous electric polarization, which is the separation of electric charges that can be reversed when an external electric field is applied to them. The dipole ...
