Proteins are the building blocks of life. They are produced by molecular machines, called ribosomes. A human ribosome contains some eighty ribosomal proteins….
The restrictive implementation of the Nagoya Protocol threatens to hinder basic microbiological research and is likely to achieve the exact opposite of the…
Ribosomes–macromolecular machines consisting of RNA and proteins that twist, fold and turn–are responsible for making all of the protein within a cell and…
Scientists have long debated how deep canyons and extensive valley networks — like the kinds carved by running water over millions of years on Earth — could…
Machine learning is a powerful tool used for a variety of tasks in modern life, from fraud detection and sorting spam in Google, to making movie…
A new scientific discovery may provide a future avenue for treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease.
Hydrogenation is a chemical process that transforms liquid vegetable oil to a solid or semisolid state – useful for creating food products like vegetable…
A new study by Lyle Hood, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), describes a new device that could…
The events triggered when sperm meets an egg are not only life changing for the parents but deeply fascinating from a scientific point of view, too.
In the digital age, business organizations can benefit from exploiting internal as well as external data. Smart utilization of insights from analyzing and…
A University of California, Riverside assistant professor has combined photosynthesis and physics to make a key discovery that could help make solar cells more…
Geographers from Dartmouth College and the University of Sheffield provide new insight into the economic geography of commuter megaregions in the U.S., by…
Tornadoes caused the deaths of at least five people in northern Alabama. Storms also took the lives of two people in Tennessee.
With two recent papers describing powerful new software and a way to track muscle contractions, XROMM can do even more than before. And as a result, so can the…
Researchers of the Sarcoma research group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Òscar Martínez-Tirado, have first described the…
Waseda University researchers have developed a new method for producing hydrogen, which is fast, irreversible, and takes place at much lower temperature using…