The theory that aquatic animals such as fish will shrink due to global warming has been called into question by a study published today in eLife.
Evolution
May 9, 2023
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Population sizes of bank voles are lower in the areas where radiation level in the environment is increased. In her dissertation at the University of Jyväskylä Kati Kivisaari studied the effects of ionizing radiation on ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2019
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Nestled deep in each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Like a long, thin string of genetic spaghetti, this DNA blueprint ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2018
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Everybody knows that cells are microscopic, but why? Why aren't cells bigger? The average animal cell is 10 microns across and the traditional explanation has been cells are the perfect size because if they were any bigger ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 5, 2014
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Researchers at Tomsk State University (Russia) and colleagues are developing measures to protect the Earth from potentially dangerous celestial bodies. With the help of the supercomputer SKIF Cyberia, the scientists simulated ...
Space Exploration
Jul 28, 2016
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Leonardo da Vinci once remarked "we know more about celestial bodies than the Earth underfoot", and in 500 years not a lot has changed - especially where most of our fresh water is concerned.
Environment
Jun 25, 2013
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Nestled deep in the nucleus of each of your cells is what seems like a magic trick: Six feet of DNA is packaged into a tiny space 50 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Like a long, thin string of genetic spaghetti, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 28, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers from Duke University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies has found a central part in the machinery that turns plants green when they sense light.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2010
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Scientists from TSU's Laboratory of Experimental High Energy Physics and their colleagues from the University of Bordeaux are studying new ways of modeling the effects of low doses of radiation at the cellular level. For ...
General Physics
May 16, 2019
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The SMNDC1 gene controls key functions in the human body and is linked to diseases such as diabetes and cancer. Scientists in Stefan Kubicek's research group at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2023
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