New image analysis method for time-lapse microscopy shows how giant viruses infect amoeba

Viruses are probably the most peculiar “life forms” known to us, with each species having unique…

Advancing the application of genomic sequences through 'Kmasker plants'

The development of next-generation-sequencing (NGS) has enabled researchers to investigate genomes that might previously have been…

Measuring the world of social phenomena

Economists working with Professor Marko Sarstedt from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg are demanding that the…

Budget battle hampers EU in space

Space is becoming increasingly militarised and European satellites are under-protected, experts warned Tuesday, voicing dismay at…

Banning food waste: Lessons for rural America

While Vermonters support banning food waste from landfills—and a whopping 72 percent already compost or feed…

The little auks that lived in the Pacific

Findings from a 700,000-year-old fossil bone indicate that a close relative of the most abundant seabird…

Let the europium shine brighter

A stacked nanocarbon antenna makes a rare earth element shine 5 times more brightly than previous…

Corals' partnership with microalgae helps in stressful times but there's a trade-off

In the warmer and brighter shallow waters of Kāne’ohe Bay, O’ahu, the Hawaiian rice coral (Montipora…

Solar Orbiter Earth flyby

Visualisation of Solar Orbiter making an Earth flyby. The spacecraft will make one Earth flyby during…

Solar Orbiter fairing separation

Visualisation of the Atlas V 411 fairing separation revealing Solar Orbiter attached to the rocket upper…