The body's ability to respond to various types of stress is essential for maintaining health, and failure of such adaptive stress responses can trigger or worsen numerous diseases. New research led by investigators at Massachusetts ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2022
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What happens when a cat climbs onto a sunflower? The sunflower is unstable, will quickly bend, and the cat will fall to the ground. However, if the cat only needs a quick boost to catch a bird from there, then the sunflower ...
Analytical Chemistry
Apr 4, 2022
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Scientists at Yale's Microbial Sciences Institute have taken an important step in our understanding of how infection alters proteins in a way that promotes tumor growth.
Biochemistry
Mar 28, 2022
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Diamonds aren't just glittery, sparkly gems for jewelry. The smallest ones, only a few nanometers wide, are also crucial for drug delivery, sensors and quantum computer processors. Producing diamond nanoparticles that are ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 23, 2022
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While methane accounts for about 16% of the abundance in the atmosphere of greenhouse gases—which also include carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, water vapor—it is more than 25 times better than carbon dioxide at trapping ...
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2022
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44
A scientific team from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) and Leipzig University conducted a comparative analysis of lipid profiles of sperm to obtain insights into their susceptibility to damaging ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2022
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The formation of the greenhouse gas methane is based on a universal mechanism. Scientists at Heidelberg University and the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg have made this discovery. The interdisciplinary ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 10, 2022
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220
New UC Riverside research shows how, after it rains, microbes in desert soil convert one form of pollution into another—laughing gas.
Environment
Mar 9, 2022
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Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have advanced NASA technologies to develop a power suit for an electric car that is as strong as steel, lighter than aluminum and helps boosts ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 7, 2022
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One person's wastewater is another person's treasure. A new Stanford University study paves the way to mining sewage for valuable materials used in fertilizers and batteries that could someday power smartphones and airplanes. ...
Materials Science
Mar 2, 2022
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