A species of ant has been found able to identify cancerous cells in humans. Rainer Fuhrmann/Shutterstock pic via ETX Studio PARIS, March 9 You might have already heard about dogs sniffing out cancer… [+2400 chars]
image: From left to right: The green triangles mimic capsid proteins. In the absence of a viral genome, they assemble around smaller segments of RNA. However, the shell is stressed and can be easily … [+4566 chars]
Newswise — Researchers announced today that they have imaged the exciton’s electron and hole to produce the first full picture of this elusive quasiparticle, and showed how excitons can be trapped in… [+6437 chars]
The geological events we see on the surface of the Earth as mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes are expressions of processes that are happening deep in our planet. Here on the Earth's crust, we're p… [+7159 chars]
A herd of antelope feeds peacefully on a meadow. Suddenly, a lion shows up, and the herd flees. But how do they manage to do so collectively? Konstanz physicist Chun-Jen Chen and Professor Clemens Be… [+4446 chars]
Parenting is not the only way moms and dads impact the behavior of their offspring. Genes matter, too. And although most of our genes are inherited in pairsone copy from each parentmoms and dads exer… [+5742 chars]
While it had been assumed that unstable gliding was the key to agility in bird flight, a collaboration between aerospace engineers at the University of Michigan and biologists at the University of Br… [+4964 chars]
Computational biologists have created a neural network model capable of predicting how changes to non-coding DNA sequences in yeast affect gene expression. They also devised a unique way of represent… [+8613 chars]
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While our knowledge of dinosaurs and other extinct animals has dramatically increased during the last couple of decades, their gaits the order and timing of how animals move their legs have remained … [+5176 chars]
A ‘Kodiak’ Moment: This enhanced color image was acquired by the Mastcam-Z instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover on April 18, 2021 (sol 57). Kodiak, the prominent layered mound, stands app… [+2973 chars]
Earth's thin crust softens considerably when it dives down into the Earth attached to a tectonic plate. That is demonstrated by X-ray studies carried out using DESY's X-ray source PETRA III on a mine… [+3351 chars]
