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Space science from home: Resources for children and adults
With many people across the world staying at home these days, we have curated a selection…
A left turn that kills: New mechanism triggering cell death and inflammation
Writing in Nature, researchers from Cologne, Texas and London describe their discovery of a new mechanism…
Understanding variable stability and mechanical resilience in streptavidin-biotin binding
Recent research by Rafael C. Bernardi at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign examines why a common…
Dig for artifacts confirms New Guinea's Neolithic period
It is well known that agriculture developed independently in New Guinea 7000 years ago, but evidence…
Revisiting decades-old Voyager 2 data, scientists find one more secret about Uranus
Eight and a half years into its grand tour of the solar system, NASA’s Voyager 2…
A new approach to achieving stable, high-repetition-rate laser pulses
High-repetition-rate pulsed lasers serve a wide range of applications, from optical communications to microwave photonics and…
Bats depend on teamwork when foraging over farmland
Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) have reported in a paper…
New carbon dot-based method for increasing the efficiency of solar cells and LEDs
An international group of scientists, including some from ITMO University, has proposed a method that allows…
In cellular biology, mistakes can be good
Mistakes are rarely rewarded. Intuitively, one would imagine that a shoddy typist at an office who…