Sure, cooking our food can make it safer to eat and more digestible. But let's be honest. We mainly cook to create something we enjoy—something delicious.
Biochemistry
Apr 8, 2024
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A Freie Universität Berlin research team headed by quantum physicist Professor Christiane Koch has demonstrated how hydrogen molecules behave when they collide with noble gas atoms such as helium or neon. In an article published ...
Quantum Physics
Jun 5, 2023
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Ecosystem ecology studies often focus on what's happening to plants above ground, for instance exploring photosynthesis or water loss in leaves. But what is happening below the ground in plant roots is equally important when ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2022
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Known to be fine regulators of gene expression, microRNAs are small molecules that remain particularly stable in biofluids—blood, urine, etc. In humans, these molecules have revealed great potential as prognostic or diagnostic ...
Ecology
Dec 10, 2021
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All modern life is composed of cells, from single-celled bacteria to more complex organisms such as humans, which may contain billions or even trillions of cells. But how life came to be cellular remains uncertain. New research ...
Evolution
May 13, 2021
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A new machine learning tool can calculate the energy required to make—or break—a molecule with higher accuracy than conventional methods. While the tool can currently only handle simple molecules, it paves the way for ...
Quantum Physics
May 12, 2020
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Antiparticles—subatomic particles that have exactly opposite properties to those that make up everyday matter—may seem like a concept out of science fiction, but they are real, and the study of matter-antimatter interactions ...
General Physics
Dec 13, 2019
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One of the most fundamental unexplained questions in modern science is how life began. Scientists generally believe that simple molecules present in early planetary environments were converted to more complex ones that could ...
Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2018
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(Phys.org)—Astronomers have detected about 180 molecules in interstellar space, from simple ones like carbon monoxide (one atom of carbon and one of oxygen) to complex species like buckminsterfullerene (sixty atoms of carbon) ...
Astronomy
Sep 10, 2012
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A cell's genome maintains its integrity by organizing some of its regions into a super-compressed form of DNA called heterochromatin. In the comparatively simple organism fission yeast, a cellular phenomenon known as RNA ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2011
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