Changes in atmospheric density after sunset can cause hot pockets of gas called 'plasma bubbles' to form over the Earth's equator, resulting in communication disruptions between satellites and the Ea… [+2266 chars]
The biomolecule diphthamide is essential for the proper formation of proteins in cells. When humans are infected with diphtheria, diphthamide is altered by the diphtheria toxin so that life-threateni… [+2918 chars]
Life in the Arctic is harsh. Arctic temperatures are punishing, making life difficult for many animals to survive. Yet lots of insects, including mosquitoes, manage to thrive in the frozen region. So… [+3810 chars]
In the fairy-tale landscape of the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland, the skull of one of the most ancient salamanders ever discovered to date was excavated from Jurassic limestones. … [+6259 chars]
The pump-modulated MOKE results (Fig. 1cf) show the evolution of magnetism in a Cr-BST/CrSb bilayer sample from a hard, homogenous ferromagnetic state, into apparently one composed of two distinct ma… [+11252 chars]
ByMIT Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringJuly 15, 2022 This image shows self-organized, spherical clusters of cells that decompose alginate. Differences in fluorescence indicate differ… [+4582 chars]
Groundwater that was recently discovered deep underground in a mine in South Africa is estimated to be 1.2 billion years old. Researchers suspect that the groundwater is some of the oldest on the pl… [+4767 chars]
Newswise — Did the boy bite the cat, or was it the other way around? When processing a sentence with several objects, one has to establish ‘who did what to whom’. When a sentence cannot be interpret… [+5102 chars]
A team of scientists in the Physical Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have combined robotics with biology by equipping E. coli bacteria with artificial comp… [+5823 chars]
IntroductionThe Role of Microbes in the EnvironmentHow Human Activity Affects Microbial PopulationsHow Do Microbes Respond and Adapt to Environmental Change?Adaptation of Marine Microbes to Climate C… [+6492 chars]
40 with 29 posters participating Slow-motion video of pecking by the pileated woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus). The original video was recorded at 1600 frames per second. Credit: Robert Shadwick &… [+4305 chars]
A supercomputer simulation shows massive stars forming (red) in a cloud of ancient gas. (Image credit: University of Portsmouth / Nature) Twinkling like cosmic lighthouses on a shore 13 billion ligh… [+3831 chars]
