Design work on ‘brain’ of world’s largest radio telescope completed

An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the 'brain'…

Ancient DNA suggests that some Northern Europeans got their languages from Siberia

Most Europeans descend from a combination of European hunter-gatherers, Anatolian early farmers, and Steppe herders. But…

Antarctic biodiversity hotspots exist wherever penguins and seals poop

Scientists have found that on the desolate Antarctic peninsula, nitrogen-rich poop from colonies of penguins and…

Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance

Most antibiotics work by interfering with critical functions such as DNA replication or construction of the…

Researchers discover ‘daywake,’ a siesta-suppressing gene

Rutgers researchers have identified a siesta-suppressing gene in fruit flies, which sheds light on the biology…

Smart drug design to prevent malaria treatment resistance

Malaria treatment resistance could be avoided by studying how resistance evolves during drug development, according to…

Peering into the past, scientists discover bacteria transformed a viral threat to survive

Researchers at Indiana University are reporting a previously unknown way that bacteria can develop new genes…

Novel molecular multi-step photoswitches caught in the act

Scientists at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, together…

Marcus regime in organic devices—interfacial charge transfer mechanism verified

Physicists from the Research Cluster Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) of the TU Dresden, together…

Why we always spill tea

Who has never spilled water, tea or wine while pouring it? Pouring liquids is difficult because…