In the midst of a global pandemic with COVID-19, it's hard to appreciate how lucky those outside of Africa have been to avoid the deadly Ebola virus disease. It incapacitates its victims soon after infection with massive ...
Biochemistry
Dec 21, 2020
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Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago.
Space Exploration
Dec 3, 2020
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Solving the equations of general relativity for colliding black holes is no simple matter.
Astronomy
Nov 6, 2020
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All cells with nuclei, from yeast to humans, are organized like cities, with a variety of small compartments—organelles—that serve as factories where various types of work are done. Some of those factories, like the ones ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 7, 2020
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Earth could have lost anywhere between ten and 60 percent of its atmosphere in the collision that is thought to have formed the Moon.
Astronomy
Sep 29, 2020
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Key proteins used by coronavirus for its reproduction being modeled on NSF-funded Frontera supercomputer by Andres Cisneros research group of the University of North Texas. Research goals include finding ways to improve on ...
Biochemistry
Sep 19, 2020
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The world inside the human cell has grown a bit more interesting in recent years as the role of a new biological structure became clearer.
Biochemistry
Sep 9, 2020
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They say you can't judge a book by its cover. But the human immune system does just that when it comes to finding and attacking harmful microbes such as the coronavirus. It relies on being able to recognize foreign intruders ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 13, 2020
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By combining data from telescopes with supercomputer simulations and virtual reality (VR), a new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the supermassive black hole at the center of the ...
Astronomy
Jun 2, 2020
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For most of the 20th century, astronomers have scoured the skies for supernovae—the explosive deaths of massive stars—and their remnants in search of clues about the progenitor, the mechanisms that caused it to explode, ...
Astronomy
Apr 27, 2020
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