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Some mushrooms are sturdier than others, but it isn’t necessarily because of their chemistry – it’s how the filaments that ...
Years of American-led investment into AIDS programs has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest ...
I T IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate ...
Photo-induced force microscopy began as a concept in the mind of Kumar Wickramasinghe when he was employed by IBM in the ...
A new report by the U.N. AIDS agency says the sudden withdrawal of U.S. funding has caused a “systemic shock” to the global ...
Researchers found that Bacillus megaterium can turn over 94% of CO₂ into solid rock using a clean, non-ammonia process.
Blue sharks get their glow from hidden nanocrystals — and those same structures might let them subtly change color under ...
Recently, a research team from Chongqing Medical University, led by Prof. Wei Huang, Dr. Wei Bao, and Dr. Yiting Lei, has successfully developed a novel engineered extracellular matrix (eECM) to ...
From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal smugglers—one gorilla handprint at a time.
Radiation damage remains the principal limitation in achieving higher resolution in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), ...
The membrane-bound organelle appears to play a huge role in helping cells sort, discard, and recycle their contents. It's ...
This study explores the use of polarized second-harmonic generation (pSHG) to investigate myosin conformation in the relaxed state, differentiating between the actin-available, disordered (ON) state ...