Like finding a needle in a haystack, Liviu Movileanu can find a single molecule in blood.…
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Uncovering the plastic brain of a fruitfly—new study
Genetic mechanisms that govern brain plasticity—the brain’s ability to change and adapt—have been uncovered by researchers…
Highly sensitive sensors show promise in enhancing human touch
People rely on a highly tuned sense of touch to manipulate objects, but injuries to the…
New high-throughput method to study gene splicing at an unprecedented scale
Genes are like instructions, but with options for building more than one thing. Daniel Larson, senior…
What induces sleep? For fruit flies it's stress at the cellular level
Sleep-deprived fruit flies helped reveal what induces sleep. University of Oxford researchers Anissa Kempf, Gero Miesenböck,…
Crops provide chimpanzees with more energy than wild foods
A University of Kent study has found that cultivated foods offer chimpanzees in West Africa more…
Environmental solutions to go global
New Australian technology that could fix some of the world’s biggest environmental pollution problems—oil spills, mercury…
Insects' ability to smell is phenomenally diverse, a new protein structure hints at how
Even though they don’t have conventional noses, insects have adapted to smell odors in nearly every…
Verifying forecasts for major stratospheric sudden warmings
A stratospheric sudden warming is perhaps one of the most radical changes of weather that is…
Feedback culture: When colleagues become competitors
Competitive behavior among employees may be triggered by the type of feedback they have received. These…