Scientists and engineers working at a major power plant in Iceland have shown for the first time that carbon dioxide emissions can be pumped into the earth and changed chemically to a solid within months—radically faster ...
Environment
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An isolated population of honeybees, the Cape bees, living in South Africa has evolved a strategy to reproduce without males. A research team from Uppsala University has sequenced the entire genomes of a sample of Cape bees ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2016
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Researchers report in PLOS Biology the mechanism by which streptomycin, one of the oldest and most widely used antibiotics, penetrates into bacterial cells. The study performed by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 9, 2016
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New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure, and will improve attempts to create artificial intelligence. The study, published ...
Computer Sciences
Jun 9, 2016
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Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "entangled" or linked together the properties of up to 219 beryllium ions (charged atoms) to create a quantum simulator. The simulator is designed ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 9, 2016
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Rutgers University scientists have discovered the three-dimensional structure of a gene-specific transcription activation complex, providing the first structural and mechanistic description of the process cells use to turn ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 9, 2016
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Tens of thousands of "citizen scientists" have volunteered some use of their personal computer time to help researchers create one of the most detailed, high resolution simulations of weather ever done in the Western United ...
Environment
Jun 9, 2016
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When you're trying to fathom a mangled relic of very old hi-tech, it helps to have the manufacturer's instructions.
Archaeology
Jun 9, 2016
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Researchers are resurrecting ancient bacterial protein complexes to determine how 3.5-billion-year-old cells functioned versus cells of today. Surprisingly, they are not that different, reports a study published June 9 in ...
Biochemistry
Jun 9, 2016
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A select group of garter snakes can thank their ancestors for the ability to chow down on a poisonous newt and live to tell the tale.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2016
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