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Biotechnology Dec 4, 2023

Researchers characterize translation inhibition in CRISPR-Cas antiviral defense system

A recent study in Science uses bioinformatic analysis as well as biochemical and structural studies to characterize a novel family of effector proteins, named Cami1. The research shows that when a virus attacks a bacterium, ...

Materials Science Nov 23, 2023

Scientists finally succeed in growing dolomite in the lab by dissolving structural defects during growth

For 200 years, scientists have failed to grow a common mineral in the laboratory under the conditions believed to have formed it naturally. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Hokkaido University ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 22, 2023

New carbon material sets energy-storage record, likely to advance supercapacitors

Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material. ...

Cell & Microbiology Nov 21, 2023

Chlorine disinfectant is no more effective than water at killing off hospital superbug, new study shows

One of the primary chlorine disinfectants currently being used to clean hospital scrubs and surfaces does not kill off the most common cause of antibiotic-associated sickness in health care settings globally, according to ...

Earth Sciences Nov 21, 2023

Libyan desert's yellow glass: How we discovered the origin of these rare and mysterious shards

The Great Sand Sea Desert stretches over an area of 72,000km² linking Egypt and Libya. If you find yourself in a particular part of the desert in south-east Libya and south-western parts of Egypt, you'll spot pieces of yellow ...

Analytical Chemistry Nov 20, 2023

400-year-old mystery of why early explosive produces purple smoke solved by academics

Scientists at the University of Bristol have discovered why fulminating gold—the world's first known high explosive—produces a purple smoke when it detonates, solving a 400-year-old alchemy puzzle.

Analytical Chemistry Nov 10, 2023

What exposure to radiation does to glass on the moon over billions of years

A team of materials scientists at Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, working with colleagues from the China Academy of Space Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, all in China, has found that billions of years ...

Nanomaterials Nov 8, 2023

Scaling up nano for sustainable manufacturing with self-assembling nanosheets

A new self-assembling nanosheet could radically accelerate the development of functional and sustainable nanomaterials for electronics, energy storage, health and safety, and more.

Cell & Microbiology Nov 2, 2023

First-ever observation of a virus attaching to another virus

No one had ever seen one virus latching onto another virus, until anomalous sequencing results sent a UMBC team down a rabbit hole leading to a first-of-its-kind discovery.

Condensed Matter Nov 2, 2023

Solving a long-standing problem in transmission electron microscopy

For researchers wanting to understand the inner workings of magnetic materials, transmission electron microscopy is an indispensable tool. Because the wavelength of an electron is much shorter than the wavelength of visible ...

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