Plastics are ubiquitous in modern life; unfortunately, once they lose function, they pollute the environment. Now,…
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Decoded: The structure of the barrier between three cells
Organs in animals and in humans have one thing in common: they are bounded by so-called…
A chiral surprise in the rainforest
Forests such as the Amazon rainforest emit huge amounts of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) into…
Atlantic sturgeon in the king's pantry: Unique discovery in Baltic Sea wreck from 1495
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden can now reveal what the Danish King Hans had planned…
Early Cambrian fossil discovery gives new understanding into the origin of hemichordates
New research undertaken by scientists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum…
First 3D look at an embryonic sauropod dinosaur reveals unexpected facial features
About 25 years ago, researchers discovered the first dinosaur embryos in an enormous nesting ground of…
Ceramic cooking pots record history of ancient food practices
Analyzing three components of ceramic cooking pots—charred remains, inner surface residues and lipids absorbed within the…
How climate change may reshape pine plantations
Climate change is going to change a lot of things, which might include how we manage…
On the track of unconventional superconductivity, researchers are charting unknown territory
An international team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the Max Planck Institute for Chemical…
Scientists perfect knot-tying techniques with molecular string
A group of chemists from Manchester have successfully tied a series of microscopic knots using individual…