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Honey bee populations may collapse due to ineffective defenses
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the…
Face-down: Gravity's effects on cell movement
Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and colleagues in Japan have developed a…
Studying battery cycling on the beamline
During his Ph.D. with TUoS, ISIS facility development student Innes McClelland developed a cell for testing…
Report: Animals at risk as wildlife crime falls down the list of policing priorities
Despite being one of the highest value areas of crime globally, with links to organized and…
These giant 'drop bears' with opposable thumbs once scaled trees in Australia. But how did they grow so huge?
Although long dead, fossil skeletons provide an incredible window into the lifestyle and environment of an…
The beginning is the end: How promoters predefine where genes end
Each gene in our DNA has a beginning and an end. Defining the gene’s extremities properly…
A look inside stem cells helps create personalized regenerative medicine
Organelles—the bits and pieces of RNA and protein within a cell—play important roles in human health…
Third launch attempt scheduled for NASA super pressure balloon
NASA is targeting Saturday, May 13 (Friday, May 12 in U.S. EDT) to conduct a second…
Today's ocean models can only simulate less than 5% of the currents at 1,000-meter depth
Ocean motion plays a key role in the Earth’s energy and climate systems. In recent decades,…