The transition from single-cell to multicellular organisms was a major step in the evolution of complex life forms. Multicellular organisms arose hundreds of millions of years ago, but the forces underlying this event remain ...
Evolution
Feb 24, 2021
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Does this image make you anxious or are you already tracking where all the wires go? If the latter, you might have what it takes to be an astronaut!
Space Exploration
Feb 24, 2021
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Having a memory of past events enables us to take smarter decisions about the future. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS) and Technical University of Munich (TUM) identify ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2021
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Cells of organisms are organized in subcellular compartments that consist of many individual molecules. How these single proteins are organized on the molecular level remains unclear, because suitable analytical methods are ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 16, 2021
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Just as plants and animals on land are keenly attuned to the hours of sunlight in the day, life in the oceans follows the rhythms of the day, the seasons and even the moon. A University of Washington study finds the biological ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2021
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Organelles continue to thrive after the cells within which they exist die, a team of University of Bristol scientists have found, overturning previous assumptions that organelles decay too quickly to be fossilized.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2021
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Environmentally friendly energy-conversion technologies, such as fuel cells and water-splitting systems, have attracted considerable attention. However, application of these electrochemical devices is hindered due to the ...
Materials Science
Jan 27, 2021
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Scientists have resolved a key climate change mystery, showing that the annual global temperature today is the warmest of the past 10,000 years—contrary to recent research, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 27, 2021
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The sea is full of microorganisms. Smaller than one millimeter and often composed of a single cell, they come in every shape and size imaginable, from bacteria and microalgae to protozoa. But there are also viruses—incomplete ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 26, 2021
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Corals, like all animals, must eat to live. The problem is that most corals grow in tropical waters that are poor in nutrients, sort of like ocean deserts; it's this lack of nutrients that makes the water around coral reefs ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2021
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