Cell & Microbiology Aug 1, 2024

Hidden players in climate change: How microscopic proteins could shape our future

In the narrative about climate change, we often focus on the big and visible—like shrinking glaciers and churning hurricanes. But there's another world, microscopic and hidden, that's just as crucial and the focus of a ...

Archaeology Jul 31, 2024

Woman buried 12,000 years ago in Turkey may have been a shaman

A small team of archaeologists in the Republic of Türkiye has identified a woman who was buried approximately 12,000 years ago in a neolithic settlement now called Çemka Höyük as a possible shaman.

General Physics Aug 5, 2024

'Laser view' into the avocado: New method reveals cell interior

Checking whether an avocado is hard or soft by looking at it? This would require recognizing how the plant cells behave behind the skin. The same applies to all other cells on our planet: Despite more than 100 years of intensive ...

Plants & Animals 4 hours ago

Scientists equip Australian sea lions with cameras to explore previously unmapped ocean habitats

What lies deep beneath ocean surfaces is often a mystery. In Australia, many underwater habitats have not been mapped, and researchers know little about them. Now, scientists are working to change that by employing sea lions ...

Archaeology Jul 30, 2024

Environmental conditions and cultivation practices when agriculture first emerged in Western Europe

About 7,000 years ago, the first farmers in the western Mediterranean selected the most fertile land available, cultivated cereal varieties very similar to today's, and made sparing use of domestic animal feces, as they do ...

Nanophysics 18 hours ago

Understanding the forces that regulate crystallization by particle attachment

A complex interplay of energetics and dynamics governs the behavior of nanocrystals in solution. These dynamics are usually interpreted in terms of the theory developed by Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, and Overbeek (DVLO), and ...

Environment 20 hours ago

Satellite study shows cities across the world growing up more than out

A multi-institutional team of Earth scientists, environmental engineers and geomaticists has found via satellite study that modern cities around the world have been growing upward more than outward. In their research, published ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 1, 2024

Microscopy breakthrough promises better imaging for sensitive materials

An international team of scientists, led by Trinity College Dublin, has devised an innovative imaging method using state-of-the-art microscopes that significantly reduces the time and radiation required. Their work represents ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 5, 2024

High speed atomic force microscopy studies provide insights into influenza A viral replication

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, IMDEA Nanoscience (Madrid, Spain) and CNB-CSIC (Madrid, Spain) report in ACS Nano experiments that reveal a cycle of conformational stages that ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 2, 2024

Scientists reveal transport mechanism of norepinephrine transporter and binding mode of small molecule and peptide drugs

Noradrenaline (NA) is an important monoamine neurotransmitter in the nervous system. The noradrenaline transporter (NET) located on the presynaptic membrane can transport NA into presynaptic neurons.

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